ARTICULATE TURNS 14 - Articulate project space, 497 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt - November 30 to December 15, 2024

Articulate turns 14 was the final show for 2024 celebrating the 14th year of Articulate project space. The show included work by Angharad Evans, Anke Stäcker, Antonio Khouri, Anya Pesce, Beata Geyer, Billy Gruner, Brenton Schwab, Carla Danelutti, Dell Walker, Eleanor Er and Barbara Aroney, Elisabeth Bodey, Gary Warner, Glenn Locklee, Isobel Johnston, Jamie Jude Smith, Jan Handel, Jerry Doherty, Joshua Copland-Nielsen, Juliet Fowler Smith, Karen Benton, Kate Mackay, Kendal Heyes, Lesley Giovanelli, Lhaleska Urdanivia, Linden Braye, Louise Owen, Luna Gui, Margaret Roberts, Natasha Leona Allen, Nicole Ellis, Noelene Lucas, Philip Senior, Pia Larsen, Ro Murray, Sarah Fitzgerald, Sarah Keighery, Shelley O’Keefe, Steven Fasan, Steven Tonkin, Sue Callanan, Sue Murray, Sujata Khadka, Susan Andrews, Szilvia Gyorgy and Vilma Bader.

My work was 16 small gouache on paper called "Everything at Once". They are the shapes that are created when the letter stencils are laid randomly on top of each other.

"Articulate is turning fourteen! This year we celebrate our birthday with 45 artists making a wondrous array collection of artworks that delight across mediums and genres"

"Everything at Once", gouache on primed paper, 16 pieces, 21cm x 21cm each, 2024

GROUP EXHIBITION - 80:20 Artists Agency, 377 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt, Sydney - October 5 to November 17, 2024

80:20 artist agency held a Group Exhibition in October - New concept: New space: New work including works by Vilma Bader, Lionel Doolan, Adrian Hall, Sibylle Hofter, Kate Mackay, Adam Sebire, Kevin Sheehan, Liz Shreeve and Elke Wohlfahrt.

My work was a gouache on paper called "Because My Work Is Naturally Non-Meaningful, The Meaning Found In It Will Remain Doubtful And Inconsistent - Claes Oldenburg". This work was the first in which the circles that represented letters in the "Nothing To Say Series' was replaced by other geometric shapes.

Gouache on paper (4 panels), 84cm x 84cm overall, 2024

PAPER FORM - Articulate project space, 497 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt - August 31 to September 22, 2024

PAPER FORM at Articulate project space featured the work of Amber Johnston, Angharad Evans, Anna Russell, Arthur Koutoulas, Beata Geyer, Constantine Nicholas, Daniel Lopez Lomeli, Dell Walker, Isobel Johnston, Jamie Jude Smith, Kate Mackay, Lisa Jones, Liz Shreeve, Mark Gowing, Marlene Sarroff, Matti Matti, Michael Thomson, Natalie O'Connor, Paul Cooper, Phong Le, Pia Larsen, Rhonda Nelson, Sue Callanan, Vanessa Wright and Audrey Egan.

From the Articulate website - 

PAPER FORM group exhibition presents the artworks that invite us to consider the materiality of paper in space. Stacked, folded, moulded, built, inscribed and moving. Paper is mutable and has a memory that indelibly records its engagement with the environment, from finger prints, to sun and wind, to the form it is made to take. 

I contributed 2 towers.  The 4.5m tall Tatlins Tower made from painted cardboard tied together with yarn, and the 50cm tall Tiny Tatlin of small timber blocks covered with coloured paper and PVA.  

EVERY COLOUR - Articulate project space, 497 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt - August 3 to August 25, 2024

EVERY COLOUR at Articulate project space included work by - Angharad Evans, Annelies Jahn, Anthea Boesenberg, Anya Pesce, Beata Geyer, Billy Gruner, Brigitta Summers, Chris Packer, Daniel Lopez Lomeli, Elizabeth Day, Gary Warner, Isobel Johnston, Jan Handel, Karen Benton, Kate Mackay, Kenneth Lambert, Lisa Pang, Lisa Stonham, Liz Shreeve, Luna Gui, Lynne Eastway, Mark Ryan, Michelle Le Dain, Pia Larsen, Pollyxenia Joannou, Ro Murray, Rox De Luca, Samantha Jade, Sarah Keighery, Sarah Robson, Sue Callanan, Susan Andrews, Szilvia Gyorgy, Wendy Cohen and was curated by Beata Geyer.

From the Articulate website - 

The conceptual possibilities of colour in art are boundless. EVERY COLOUR exhibition explores colour and its potential, presenting works by artists whose practices revolve around colour as a fundamental and integral component. EVERY COLOUR celebrates the diversity and complexity inherent in the chromatic spectrum.

I contributed a four panel work from the "Nothing To Say Here" series. Each painting is 42.5cm x 42.5cm, oil on canvas.

COLOUR TIME - Clarence Regional Library exhibition space, Pound St, Grafton - May 6 to June 3, 2024

The Clarence Regional Library in Grafton, NSW, has a great little exhibition space that they make available for free to local artists and craftspeople. I proposed a mini survey show of my work, with paintings from 1999 to the present.  It included a work from the "Same Paintings" series, one from the "Circle Square" series, a number from the "Nothing To Say Here" series, and a new cube work installed around a column in the exhibition space.

COLOUR TIME

LIST OF WORKS (left to right)

 1. Same Painting- Orange Oil on canvas, 167cm x 167cm, 1999

2. If You Look At A Thing Long Enough It Loses All Its Meaning – Andy Warhol Oil on canvas on board, 51cm x 51cm, 2018

3. Art Is Art, Everything Else Is Everything Else – Ad Reinhardt Oil on canvas on board, 47cm x 47cm, 2019

4. The Aim Of Art Is To Represent Not The Outward Appearance Of Things But Their Inward Significance - Aristotle Oil on canvas on board, 68cm x 68cm, 2020

5. No Artist Tolerates Reality - Nietzsche Oil on canvas on board, 42.5cm x 42.5cm, 2019

6. No Great Artist Ever Sees Things As They Really Are – Oscar Wilde  Oil on canvas on board, 51cm x 51cm, 2018

7. Art Is Everything You Don’t Have To Do – Brian Eno Oil on canvas on board, 47cm x 47cm, 2019

8. The Task Of Art Is To Bring Chaos Into Order – Theodor Adorno Oil on canvas on board, 47cm x 47cm, 2019

9. Painting Is By Nature A Luminous Language – Robert Delaunay Oil on canvas on board, 42.5cm x 42.5cm, 2019

10. An Artist Discovers His Genius The Day He Dares Not To Please – Andre Malraux Oil on canvas on board, 51cm x 51cm, 2018

11. A Line Is A Dot That Went For A Walk – Paul Klee Oil on canvas on board, 42.5cm x 42.5cm, 2019

12. One and the Same- Yellow Dot Oil on canvas, 101cm x 101cm, 2011

13. Column Cube Acrylic on cardboard with yarn, 2024

EARTH - Articulate project space, 497 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt - April 6 to April 28, 2024

Articulate project space curated the exhibition "Earth" to celebrate Earth month.  It included work by Alexander Bebbington, Anke Stacker, Anna Russell, Beata Geyer, Brenton Schwab, Carrie Fraser, Christian Bonett, Dell Walker, Diane McCarthy, Elizabeth Rankin, Elke Wohlfahrt, Isobel Johnston, Jill Carter- Hansen, Joshua Chek, Jude Crawford, Juliet Fowler Smith, Justine Roche, Karen Benton, Kate Riley, Kate TD, Kirsten Drewes, Laurens Tan, Louise Owen, Maria Constantinescu, Noelene Lucas, Paraskevy Begetis, Patricia Wilson-Adams, Ro Murray, Sonja Karl, Steven Fasan, Studio 29B (Anna Russell, Anthea Boesenberg & Rhonda Nelson), Sue Callanan, Sue Murray, Vilma Bader and myself.

From the ARTICULATE website -

 Articulate celebrates Earth Month. We all need to be reinvigorated in our resolve to make behavioural changes: to drive less, acquire less, and plant more. Being open-ended, art has been shown to be effective in stimulating and expanding minds as well as influencing behaviour.

My work was a crocheted wall piece called "Accumulated Landscape" created from the yarn that is left after one of my cardboard cube sculptures are dissassembled.  

Accumulated Landscape, woolen and acrylic yarn, 100cm x 125cm approx., 2024

image supplied by Articulate project space

AGENCY ARTISTS EXHIBITION - 80:20 Artists Agency, 377 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt, Sydney - opened March 16, 2024

The Agency Artists exhibition at 80:20 Artists Agency opened Saturday the 16th of March.  It included the work of Lionel Doolan, Adrian Hall, Barbara Halnan, Sibylle Hofter, Chris Packer, Adam Sebire, Kevin Sheehan, Liz Shreeve and myself.

I created a cardboard cube work "Box on Box" where the work wrapped itself around the strange architectural feature that juts into the exhibition space.  I also had 3 paintings from my "Nothing To Say Here"series as well as a crocheted cube work, which is constructed from the leftover yarn after a cardboard cube work has been deconstructed.