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®artspace Sydney
The National Grid Gallery. 24 Chard Road, Brookvale NSW 2100 Sydney. Australia
talk: +61 2 9905 9332 online: www.thenationalgrid.com.au
A multifunctional creative art space in Brookvale, Sydney.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 09.00h to 17.00h. Saturday from 12.00h to 15.00h.
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26.03.2010 - 30.04.2010
Analogue celebrates medium format film photography - a collection of traditionally enlarged Black and White images taken with vintage and toy cameras by three Australian based fine art photographers. Analogue intends to show people the amazing world of film photography with images that defy digital commercial photography. It's aim is to prove that film is still a relevant style of photography and to help keep the film photography and darkroom techniques alive as a form of collectable and fine art.
artists: Melissa Ramirez, Dax Pointon, Stuart Frossell.
In association with:
26.02.2010 - 19.03.2010
"Expression is a powerful tool, to express yourself is to bare your soul and show the true beauty that can often lay dormant behind the facade of life. I use personal experience to express myself in my art form and am not afraid to show the many facets of the female form - sensuality, vulnerability, selfishness, pride, despair, adoration... Being self taught artist, I found that my creativity was set alight when working in an experimental environment, free of the constraints of conventional ideas and ways of thinking." - Asha Eve
In association with:
23.10.2009 - 19.11.2009
Ben Brown was born with super thermo x-ray vision which, naturally enough, lead to an obsessive relationship with skulls & bones. He has worked for a mixed variety of clients for over twenty years. His commissions range across publishing, clothing apparel and the music industry. He has designed an extensive range of music posters for performers like Silverchair, nirvana, fat boy slim, Frenzal rhomb and the hoodoo gurus, as well as events including the Big Day Out, Good Vibrations Festival, Homebake, the falls festival and others. He contributes a regular comic strip to notorious surfing publication ‘stab’, and provides illustration for many other titles. Ben also creates graphics to cover all manner of clothing for clients like Insight, Mambo, Globe, O’Neill, Rip Curl, Ocean & Earth, Nice produce and Supply
In association with:
25.09.2009 - 16.10.2009
Simon Degroot’s work was seeded in the margins of his childhood school books. Animals, people, shapes composed the delicious naivety of those scribbles. Art in the margin. Today the texta and pencil’s have switched to paints. There are no more classes or exercise books, but his imagination is still alive. His scribbling now runs wild in the colourful pages of his blackbook, and the vibrant surfaces of his canvas.
In association with:
25.07.2009 - 14.08.2009
"I’ve spent the last few years refining printing techniques that allow me to create ghostly, ethereal layered images using mostly botanical sources. As well as the native flora, I use non-native plant forms, as these gently affirm the migratory patterns (and adventurous yearnings!) of many life forms. With my work, I am trying to capture a moment of beauty. This moment is just one aspect of the cycle of life preceding the sadness of decay, return to the ether and regeneration of all organic matter. The majority of the pieces are originals, as I’m favouring the uniqueness of monotype, where the image exists for a single print only, again capturing the ephemeral nature of life. I hope to offer a sense of aesthetic balance and harmony that stimulates the observer and offers a chance to examine their own personal dialogue and achieve a sense of equilibrium."
In association with:
26.06.2009 - 17.07.2009
Ben Voorderhake is an interior designer for the Sydney office of Cunsolo Architects. His ability to see things so differently has enabled him to develop an incredible gift for photography. His upcoming solo show at The National Grid Gallery demonstrates his ability to covert the ordinary into the extraordinary with just one click. Ben's talents have been recognized when he was short-listed in two competitions last year: the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize and the National Trust (NSW) Photography Competition.
In association with:
22.05.2009 - 25.05.2009
‘Intrinsic Nature’ is an exhibition of paintings by Sydney based artist Beastman (Brad Eastman). Using acrylic and ink on wood, his new intricately detailed, tight and colourfully patterned artworks further explore a parallel world of scaly skinned, bold outlined, beast-like characters gripped by fear, anger, stress, lust, jealousy, confusion and paranoia. Heraldry, symmetry, folklore, nature and the ocean are themes which are becoming more and more evident in his latest work. This is Beastman’s third solo exhibition, he has also exhibited artwork in Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne, New Zealand, London and Germany over the last few years.
In association with:
24.04.2009 - 14.05.2009
Featuring: Caspian De Looze, Bec Crockett, Bengal Rose, Nicky Crowley and Luke Morrell.
In association with:
20.03.2009 - 16.04.2009
Fumi Hails from Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan and currently resides in New York. An illustrator of much note and growing reputation, Fumi has completed illustrations for clients and private collectors, around the world.
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