18 March 2013


REGIMES OF VALUE


March 14  until April 13
at The Substation  1 Market Street, Newport VIC

An exhibition over two venues curated by Elizabeth Gower investigating the appropriation of urban detritus as a contemporary art strategy.
Featuring works by: Lauren Berkowitz, Ryan Foote, Michael Georgetti, Elizabeth Gower, Nathan Gray, Lou Hubbard, Christopher Lg Hill, Matt Hinkley, Melanie Irwin, Ash Keating, Nicholas Mangan, Rowan Mcnaught, John Nixon, Louise Paramor, Simon Pericich, Joshua Petherick, Caroline Phillips, Elvis Richardson, Stuart Ringholt, Ilia Rosli, Julie Shiels, Slow Art Collective, Kate Smith, Charlie Sofo, Masato Takasaka, Alex Vivian The 

Substation  1 Market Street, Newport VIC 301 www.thesubstation.org.au 

Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA
40 Dodds Street Southbank VIC 3006 www.vca.unimelb.edu.au/gallery

11 February 2013

Forum: Melbourne Now @NGVForum: Melbourne Now @NGV
Sunday 17th Feb 2013, at NGV international,  auditorium

REDUCE REUSE REAPPROPRIATE: 17 FebThe trend of recycling in art & design today will be explored – literally in terms of sustainability and recycling of materials, but also conceptually with regard to recycling trends and movements, as well as genres and reappropriating them.
Speakers include Katie Somerville (Curator, Australian Fashion & Textiles, NGV), Chaco Kato (Artist & representing Slow Art Collective) Simone LeAmon (Designer & Artist),  James Legge (Director, Six Degrees) and Penny Byrne (Artist)
Presenter Amanda Smith, Radio National

YouTube: KAERU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k0s4xIenlc

26 July 2012

 Arts Centre Melbourne presents

Kaeru - Environmental Public Art Project


 A large scale, cross-cultural community art project - to create a secret garden on the Upper Terrace at Hamer Hall!

During the month of August, renowned Japanese installation artist Hiroshi Fuji will be taking up residency at Arts Centre Melbourne to collaborate with Melbourne's Slow Art Collective and the people of Victoria.
The KAERU project is about renewal, transformation, sustainability and collaborative art - themes that celebrate Art Centre Melbourne's new Hamer Hall. Working with all kinds of recycled and organic materials Fujisan and the Collective extend an open invitation to local artists, students, and all the people of Melbourne to join them in creating an interactive garden installation on the upper terrace of the new Hamer Hall.
Structured workshops for school groups are available but anyone with a passion for creativity and sustainable, community driven art is encouraged to join us at our open studio!
So drop in for an hour, a day or come back regularly throughout August to contribute to a piece of public art that celebrates the rejuvenation of Hamer Hall and will inhabit a prominent place in Melbourne for months afterwards.

Dates and Times: 1 - 25 August

Drop-in open studio: Wednesday - Sunday, 12.30pm - 4.30pm
Structured workshops: By Arrangement
Venue: Arts Centre Melbourne, Main Lawn
Cost: Free
For more information:
Email: participation@artscentremelbourne.com.au
Ph: 9281 8714

http://www.hamerhallopening.com.au/opening-celebrations/kaeru-environmental-public-art-project-(japan).aspx

 









 

 

 





 



16 July 2012

Double Happiness B&B
@ Gertrude Contemporary
2012 April-May

as a part of the exhibition"Bellowing Echoes" curated by Bronwyn Jean Bailey-Charteris and Marcel Cooper



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RAWART workshop 
@Artplay, 2012 April 






8 February 2012

Slow Art Collective (Tony Adams, Chaco Kato and Dylan Martorell) is going to give a great fun school workshop 'RAW ART'.
School teachers, please check it out!
http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/artplay/schools/Pages/schoolsprogram.aspx


ArtPlay schools program
Our 2011 schools program is choc-a-block with creative arts workshops and performances for children in grades K to 7.

Workshops currently available for bookings are listed below.

For more information about school bookings please contact Bobby Napier on (03) 9664 7900 or email artplay@melbourne.vic.gov.au

Raw Art
With Slow Art Collective artists Chaco Kato, Tony Adams and Dylan Martorell.

Raw Art is a collaborative art project with an environmental focus that merges elements of food preparation, drawing, sculpture, design and performance. Through these interconnected activities, students will have the opportunity to investigate their lifestyles and learn a healthy, innovative approach to food, food waste and recycled materials.

Students will engage in a one-day full immersion workshop with artists from the Slow Art Collective, an artistic collective that focuses on creative practices and ethics relating to environmental sustainability, material ethics, DIY culture and collaboration. These artists are: Chaco Kato, Tony Adams and Dylan Martorell. Each is a well-established artist in their own right as well as a member of this process-focused art group.

In addition to working alongside artists and recognising the role of an artist, students will work both individually and collaboratively. There will be time to reflect, evaluate and discuss their works and processes.

Although there is an emphasis on process, not outcome, in these workshops, each day will culminate in a mini exhibition/performance as well as feeding into a larger interactive installation which will be central to the exhibition held at ArtPlay on 31 March and 1 April.

Participants will also take home a photo (or image on a disc) of themselves involved in the process of creating the large-scale interactive installation.

16 October 2011

Degavlas @ Object gallery, Sydney

'Try This at Home' @ OBJECT GALLERY , Sydney

8 OCTOBER 2011 – 8 JANUARY 2012



Utilising abandoned objects left by local residents for council pick-up, "Degavlas" fostered the practice of re-using and recycling. From these eclectic collecting trips, SAC created a moving body of work from gleaning and gleaners alike.