Strange News from Another Star # 6 by Mina Young from the 2008 exhibition Money Myth
Calling for Entries - Toyota Community Spirit Gallery
for we are young & free - an inclusive exhibition exploring contemporary Australian life by artists living with or without disability, or social or cultural disadvantage
$3000 First Prize
$2000 Second Prize
$1000 Third Prize
The prizes will be awarded across all mediums for works which best interpret the theme.
Information & Entry Forms can be downloaded below (you must download both)
Information for Applicants (PDF 941KB) (can also be downloaded as a Word Doc (213KB)
Entry Form (word doc 129KB)
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Entries close 25 June 2012
Toyota Community Spirit Gallery
presents emerging artists from the cities of Hobsons Bay, Port Phillip and beyond
URBAN CREATURES
NOW SHOWING
Download Exhibition Catalogue (pdf 2.5MB)
Download Invitation (pdf 618KB).
Toyota Australia 155 Bertie Street Port Melbourne
[Mel Ref 2E B11] 109 Tram, Stop 127, Nth Port Station/Lightrail Port Melb
Open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm or by appointment
Exhibition continues until 20 July 2012
Inquiries Ken Wong 0419 570 846 or info@watcharts.com.au
Image above 23rd Key, The Elephant Vanishes, Aerosol on canvas, 2011
Exhibitors 23rd Key, Pamela Bain, Terry Barclay, Frances Brown, Ying Chi, Cathyann Coady, Marianne Diaz, Row Doyle, Andy Dudok, Emma Hamilton, Sinead Hanley, Sarah Hickey, Bob Hickman, Kim Hyun Ju, Elly Jolly,
Ehsia Lawrence , Philippe Le Miere, Larissa MacFarlane, Sue Manski, Karleena Mitchell, John Monro, Robert Moyses, Stephanie Neoh , Dan O’Donnell, Sarah Oxenham, Rachel Peters, Tracy Potts, Robyn Rich, Carmel Rogan, Hideaki Sakurai, Maria Simonelli, David Spencer, Anne Spudvilas, Marc Standing, Shasta Strauss , Emma Stuart, Ronak Taher, Anthony Tanner, Antonia Tatchell, Fiona Taylor, Janette Thompson, Marguerite Tierney, Elizabeth van der Linde, Hartmut Veit, Claire Anna Watson Curator Ken Wong
Image left, Sarah Oxenham Untitled 7 (from the series Subterranea) Photography, 2011. Image right, Marianne Diaz, Cherry Popped, Mixed media, 2011,
Some images from the opening night
Claire Anna Watson with her work, Untitled #1, Tree Study #1 Series
Type C Print, metallic paper (Edition 1 of 6), 91 x 122cm, 2010
Robyn Rich with her work, In The Clouds
Oil on canvas, 101 x 75cm, 2011
Sue Manski with her work, Completeness
Acrylic on antique mirror, 56 x 56 x 56cm, 2011
The Toyota Community Spirit Gallery project is mounted in consultation with Hobsons Bay City Council and the City of Port Phillip.
Congratulations to Irianna Kanellopoulou, winner of the 2011 $10,000 Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award
Irianna proposed to study and explore world renowned German and Austrian 18th and 19th century porcelain collections and investigate methods and techniques of exceptional porcelain manufactories which are not available in Australia. Her participation in specialised workshops and courses offered by highly regarded craftmasters will form the basis of a new body of work to be exhibited in Sydney 2013.
Irianna’s practice is largely involved with the creation of individual ceramic forms that create a narrative and explore issues of identity, displacement, unity and movement.
Using images and objects of our popular culture, she is interested in investigating issues of our emotional associations with everyday objects and memories. Irianna uses a combination of handbuilding and slipcasting techniques to explore the sculptural and plastic qualities of clay in a contemporary context. She is interested in merging traditional hand crafted ceramic techniques with new inter-disciplinary methods and processes to achieve a fusion of techniques.
For more about Irianna and her works visit Brenda May Gallery and also Potier
Congratulations to James Tapscott, winner of the $2000 Toyota Community Spirit Encouragement Award 2011
My current body of work explores the link between matter and energy, a fusion of subjective and objective reality, and the effect our perception has on the world around us. My works are essentially non-objective, functioning more like a conduit between the observer and the environment. By using simple, elegant forms and light I attempt to create a balance between displaying evidence of ritualistic artistic process, and purely natural phenomena - a balance that hopefully has some influence on the experience of the viewer / participant, as they themselves enter a state of cohesion with the environment. My work seeks to be energy efficient and environmentally sensitive. That, with its temporal, ephemeral nature tries to remind us of the similar traits our world expresses, something we are conditioned with ourselves also. It exists in time, perhaps more than in space, and lives on through its documentation. Like a memory of an event.
James Tapscott