2011 BLACKTOWN CITY ART EXHIBITION - Blacktown Arts Centre, 78 Flushcombe Rd, Blacktown - 24 September-22 October 2011

I entered 'Flat Cube' into the 2011 Blacktown Art Award - here is a picture of it in the exhibition.

'Flat Cube', acrylic on cardboard with yarn, 80cm x 80cm, 2011

ONE & THE SAME - Factory 49, 49 Shepherd St, Marrickville - September 21-October 10, 2011

'One & the Same' was an exhibition of 15 paintings at Factory 49.  Each painting measured 101cm x 101cm  and they were hung as one continuous painting.  They were made up of 'Square' paintings, 'Circle' paintings and 'Circle Square' paintings.  The first of the works were painted in 2006 and the last in 2011.

CLICK HERE to see the catalogue for the show.

And CLICK HERE to see a 'Sixtoeight' video of the exhibition made by Fleur MacDonald

CLEAN - Index, 60 Hutchison St, St Peters - August 20-September 3, 2011

'Clean' was the second of two exhibitions - a response to the previous Index show, 'Crude'.  CLICK HERE to a link to the Index archive.

I exhibited 3 small paintings - 'Square Paintings, Yellow, Red & Blue' - clean and simple....

I can't seem to find an image of them - here is the image from the Index archive.

And here are some details from larger versions of the 'Square' paintings.

POSTE CONCRET - ParisCONCRET, 5 rue des Immeubles Industriels, Paris, France - 6 August 2011

'Poste Concret' was a fundraising exhibition for the gallery.  Each artist was invited to post a postcard work and all works were for sale for 50eu.  CLICK HERE for a link to the Paris Concret blog.  

I glued small multi-coloured squares of painted cardboard onto an existing postcard and sealed it with pva glue.

'post', cardboard, acrylic paint, pva glue, 11cm x 16cm, 2011

installation view by Marlene Sarroff

ANNUAL GROUP SHOW - Factory 49, 49 Shepherd St, Marrickville - 27 July-6 August 2011

The 'Annual Group Show' at Factory 49 was at the end of July.  I exhibited the 'Small Round Cube'.  CLICK HERE for a copy of the catalogue.

BOSTON ONLINE BIENNIAL - The Biennial Project - June 2011

The Mission Statement for the Biennial Project states - 'The Biennial Project is a collaborative project by artists Eric Hess, Anna Salmeron and our friends to explore the nature and understand the perception of biennial exhibits within the art world, and, in so doing, to develop a collective body of work that will be exhibited in as many biennial exhibits as possible especially the really cool ones.'

In 2011 they held the 'Inaugural Boston Online Biennial' and I got 2nd place.  CLICK HERE to see the work of all the artists chosen!

For a bit of extra fun I sent a press release to the local paper and they came to my studio and did a story - somehow they convinced me to put an artwork on my head....

FACTORY 49 DIVERSE KUNSTENAARS DIVERSE TECHNIEKEN - Galerie Bij De Boeken, Ulft, Netherlands - 4 April-14 May, 2011

A group of Factory 49 artists from Australia and Europe held an exhibition in Galerie Bij De Boeken in The Netherlands - 'Various Artists, Various Techniques'.  The artists involved were - Pam Aitken, Amarie Bergman, Mark Booth, Magda Cebokli, Sandra Curry, Lynne Eastaway, Franz Ehmann, Nicole Ellis, Jacky Ferrand, Catherine Gaillard-Remontet, Daniel Gottin, Michael Graeve, Barbara Halnan, Hiroshi Harada, Kendal Heyes, Wendy Kelly, Melanie E Khava, Alexandra Kennedy, Beth Kirkland, Gerda Maise, Francesca Mataraga, Rose Anne McGreevy, MAD, Roland Orepuk, Jacek Przybyszewski, Caitlin Reid, Margaret Roberts, Giles Ryder, Marlene Sarroff, Jacques Weyer and myself.  

I exhibited a wall piece made from cardboard and yarn.

'Small Flat Cube', 45cm x 45cm x 9cm, acrylic on cardboard with yarn, 2011

CIRCLE/SQUARE - Tin Sheds Gallery, Faculty of Architecture, 148 City Road, The University of Sydney - 18 March-2 April, 2011

'circle/square' at the Tin Sheds included work by Pam Aitken, Francesca Mataraga, Marlene Sarroff, Liz Shreeve and myself.

CLICK HERE to go to a separate blog that documents all of the works in the exhibition and includes many images of the works in development, a copy of the catalogue and a couple of videos of the show.

My work was a full-sized version of the 'Round Cube', of which I had only previously made a smaller prototype.  I hoped that it was going to translate to the larger size...and it did...whew!..... and a painting work consisting of four square canvases painted with circles - yellow, red, blue and coloured, hung together as one piece.

'Round Cube', acrylic paint on cardboard with yarn, 180cm cubed, 2011

'Round Cube' with 'Circle Painting' in background

'Round Cube' detail

'Circle Painting', oil on canvas, 4 pieces, 101cm x 101cm each, 2010-11

INTERSECTIONS - At The Vanishing Point, 565 King St Newtown - 4-20 February, 2011

'Intersections'  featured the work of Boni Cairncross, James Gatt, Joe Gilmore, Hayley Hill, Tom Isaacs, Melanie Khava, Kate Mackay, Francesca Mataraga, Lauren McCartney, Fernando Navarra, Georgie Pollard, Margaret Roberts, Marlene Sarroff, Lleah Smith, Kurt Sorensen, Goran Tomic and Alex Wisser.

It was (non) curated by Adrian Clement as explained in a review of the show by Alex Wisser.

"Intersections is intended to be experienced in its entirety as a single work, as opposed to a group show or a conglomerate of disparate works."  CLICK HERE for a full exposition of the exhibition.

My work was a free-standing curved wall of painted cardboard boxes.

'Curved Cube Wall', acrylic paint on cardboard with yarn, 2011

SMALL WORKS FOR A LARGE UNIVERSE - Index, 60 Hutchison St, St Peters - February 4-19, 2011

'Small Works for a Large Universe' included the work of about 19 artists.

From the Index website -

 An exhi­bi­tion of small art­works in our large project space as an exam­i­na­tion of the effects and sig­nif­i­cance of rel­a­tive scale on the mean­ing and pres­ence of the art­work and a reflec­tion upon our own place in a uni­verse so much larger than ourselves.

There is a great selection of photos of the show on the Index website -  CLICK HERE  - as well as a video of the show by Ariel Riveros.

I exhibited a single painted cardboard cube strung up by wool from the rafters.

'Suspended Cube', acrylic paint on cardboard with yarn, 17cm x 17cm x 18cm, 2011