Future Exhibitions

Workshop Term 4 Student Show | Batteries Not Included | Angry Black Snake | Big Butch Billboard

Batteries Not Included

Friday 30 January to Saturday 7 March 2009
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm

Gallery 1 & 2

Ben Barretto, Martin Bell, The Changes, Marley Dawson, Ross Manning, Spat + Loogie, Jonathan Zawada and filmmaker Paul Winkler

Curated by Joseph Allen and Malcolm Smith

Part art exhibition and part Frankenstein's laboratory, Batteries Not Included gives a heart-starting jolt to contemporary photocollage. Splicing photographs with performance, re-animating found images or mechanising the moving picture, the artists in this exhibition embrace experimentation, creating vigorous new hybrids from unlikely unions. With backgrounds and influences as diverse as fashion, street culture, new and old technologies and ... er ... telemarketing, these artists come from the fringes of contemporary visual art practice. Selected for their ability to take risks and disregard convention, the exhibition lineup includes the fresh and playful works of emerging artists and the groundbreaking work of legendary avant guard filmmaker Paul Winkler.

IMAGES © Jonathan Zawada, 2008
IMAGES © Paul Winkler Pop Kitsch 2006
IMAGES © Spat + Loogie Sadphone 2008
IMAGES © The Changes The Times they are The Changes 2008

Michael Corridore: Angry Black Snake

Friday 30 January to Saturday 7 March 2009
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm

Gallery 3

Shrouded by thick, toxic-looking smoke, spectators at a racetrack endure an alarming, post apocalyptic world devoid of trees, blue skies or clean air to pursue their passion for racing. While their bodies struggle to deal with the uncomfortable conditions, their faces remain transfixed by the events going on just beyond the frame. For Corridore, the race itself is unimportant: "I did not wish to document or comment on those events. I was interested in the spectator's responses to the shifting conditions of their environments, their moments of unease when they lose connection to a tangible landscape." Michael Corridore lives in Sydney and New York and has exhibited widely in Australia. Angry Black Snake forms part of an ongoing body of work which he has been documenting for more than five years.

IMAGE © Michael Corridore Untitled 1 2005
IMAGE © Michael Corridore Untitled 1 3 2005
IMAGE © Michael Corridore Untitled 1 5 2005
IMAGE © Michael Corridore Untitled 1 28 2005

Deborah Kelly: Big Butch Billboard

Friday 30 January to Saturday 7 March 2009
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm

Gallery 4

Big Butch Billboard is a bold public art project showing both at the ACP and as a mobile billboard touring metro and Western Sydney as part of the 2009 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival. A wry homage to the iconic 1989 billboard, Maria Kozic is Bitch, the new version features a local lesbian tomboy, playing with the vexed issues of representation of women and queer people. Renowned internationally for her socially engaged artworks, Deborah Kelly has been exhibiting for 25 years and most recently headlined at the 2008 Singapore Biennale. The Big Butch Billboard was photographed by Tina Fiveash, with whom Kelly collaborated on the prize-winning public artwork series, Hey, hetero!

IMAGES © Deborah Kelly Big Butch Billboard 2008

Sandy Nicholson: 2nd Place

Friday 13 March to Saturday 25 April 2009
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm

Gallery 1 & 2

Dennis Darzacq: Hyper

Friday 13 March to Sunday 12 April 2009
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm

Gallery 3

Kate Bernauer: I'll Be Home in Time for Dinner

Friday 13 March to Saturday 25 April 2009
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm

Gallery 4