November October 22 November 2014

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1 31 October 22 FRONT GALLERY & MIDDLE GALLERY 2014 RACT Insurance Tasmanian Portraiture Prize Vote for the People s Choice Award for your chance to win an IPAD

2 31 October 22 PROJECT GALLERY The Waiting Room Josh Foley and Gillian Marsden (TAS) So, what are we waiting for? BOOK LAUNCH OF MENTAL CONVULSIONS 5 BY PETER WOLFGANG GABRIEL DOWNSTAIRS AT 6.42PM MUSIC BY COURTYARD OF LUNATICS (XYDEP, DIRTY LITTLE STAR, DEATH, KARL, CALIGULA)

3 31 October 22 NEW MEDIA GALLERY Monsieur Ghost Astrid Joyce (TAS) This work is apart of my ongoing interest in pre-modern ideas of magic and the occult and the role these concepts play in discussions of modernity and contemporary culture. The footage is taken from a performance done while on residency in Paris in 2013, it has since been edited for a non-live audiences. The performance was prompted by old stories and myths from occultists claiming that Notre Dame has hidden and secret meaning. From lay-lines, water labyrinths and esoteric symbols, the Cathedral was a source of mysteries which not only revealed the meaning of the space itself, but the city around it. However, when a vital connection between city and the mysteries of the cathedral become disconnected, such as when the water ceases to flow and connect outside with in, it prevents the magic from operating. Considering this aspect of the spaces, the performance uses key themes found in gothic literature, namely the loop and the edifice, and considers themes of meaning as something to do with connection and disconnection. Together, the architectural features, combined with the idea of the loss of connectedness, cause a crisis in the protagonist. The rupture between locales, between inner and outer, between memory and meaning, causes the state in which we see the protagonist who is now aimlessly wandering the grounds of Notre Dame searching for a way back inside, a way back to an old life. Unfortunately he is trapped outside of the energies which once gave him meaning and is now forced to watch life unfold around him, unsure of whether these events are meaningful or not. Slightly irritated by how things have changed around him Ghost struggles to re-enter, like many characters in gothic fiction he is caught up in a repetitive journey with no real end, eventually becoming a parody of himself as he becomes doomed to repeat the rituals of his life, but now, increasingly, he has lost touch with the original memory that drove him to wander and seek. Stuck in a perpetual state of eternally returning; becoming mere repetition. The corresponding text follows ghost on his journey, the internal monologue gives the extended narrative shape, however it is also caught in an eternally dull and drawn out loop that ultimately questions the vitality of contemporary drives and ambitions. Astrid Joyce art practice focuses on the failures inherent in everyday communication through open-ended performative action, moving image, and transcribed dialogues. Through the use of video, sound and sculpture, Joyce embraces impassioned commands by employing hokey notions such as ESP, telepathic gesture and rudimentary, outdated technologies. Joyce has exhibited throughout Tasmania and nationally including Constance, CAT, Brisbane Festival and This Is Not Art, Newcastle. Image: Ghost (2013) Still from live performance

4 31 October POP-UP #EXHIBITION Tall tales, terse little lies- an exhibition of small works Frank Burgers (VIC) - Artist in Resident, Kings Cottage, Cataract Gorge Tall tales, terse little lies: an exhibition of small works by Frank Burgers is a selection of pictures that seek out ideas. All are abstract in that they were contrived and invented images, evolved out of responses to the interaction of materials, composition, imagination and whatever the subconscious stirred up. The figurative works were about trying to find images with stories to tell using the figure, as I was doing a lot of life drawing at the time. The abstract paintings (oil on linen) are Day paintings. I attempted to resolve a painting in a day or otherwise scrape off the paint to try again next time. These are little studies that resulted in a number of larger works. I am hoping to develop some of these ideas further during my time as resident artist at the Kings Bridge Cottage, Cataract Gorge, Launceston.

5 31 October 22 Catalogue of works Facing wall as you come up the stairs and left wall as you turn right into the gallery: 1 Figure with structure gouache on paper 140x200mm 2 Studio figure dreaming gouache on paper 140x200mm 3 Painting red gouache on paper 100x200mm 4 Hanging girl (flood) gouache on paper 220x135mm 5 Face gouache on paper 110x210mm 6 Man chasing bush gouache and pastel on paper 190x220 7 Figure with wing gouache on paper 130x180mm 8 Figure with structure gouache on paper 140x200mm 9 Figure in studio gouache on paper 145x205mm 10 Untitled (green field) oil on linen 255x355mm 11 Untitled 1 oil on linen 252x305mm 12 Untitled 3 oil on linen 205x255mm 13 Untitled # 10 oil on linen 260x310mm 14 Untitled 2 oil on linen 300x600mm The right wall (toilet door side): 15 Figure with decorative border gouache on paper 148x207mm 16 The Red Room gouache on paper 92x215mm 17 Louise-after a life drawing gouache on paper 212x Louise-after a life drawing gouache on paper 255x Louise-after a life drawing (leg up) gouache on paper 255x Man with Fire gouache on AS Suede paper 198x136mm 21 Figure by plane wreck gouache on paper 140x215mm 22 Hanging girl gouache on paper 200x90mm 23 Swan gouache on paper 120x210mm 24 The wait gouache on paper 100x207mm 25 Studio figure gouache on paper 130x190mm 26 Martha and the burning bush gouache on paper 137x214mm 27 Wasteland gouache on paper 115x205mm 28 Figure by the river gouache on paper 145x205mm The hallway leading into the main gallery: 29 Structure 1 (yellow) gouache on paper 100x200mm 30 Painting blue gouache on paper 100x200mm 31 Three figures gouache on paper 140x190mm 32 Figure (K) gouache on paper 145x206mm 33 Couple 2009 gouache on paper 150x212mm All work is for sale. In fact, it would help reduce The Spirit of Tasmania s load upon return to the mainland. The Gouaches are $350 and the Paintings (oil on linen) $450. Frank Burgers will be Artist in Residence at the Kings Bridge Cottage during November. Please make an appointment for a visit or if interested in purchasing art work. All enquiries for purchase of works can be directed to Frank burgers.franciscus.a@edumail.vic.gov.au, or faburgers@gmail.com