FUTURE / PAST
ASSEMBLAGE | Ren Burton
Fri, Jul 12, 2019 6:30 PM 18:30 Fri, Jul 19, 2019 5:00 PM 17:00
neon parlour (map)
Opening: Friday 12th July 6.30-8.30pm
Exhibition: 12th July - 21st July
Translating her observations into an architectural assemblage of concrete sculptures, the artist depicts a static ground of what has gone before.
An intimate topography of shapes, voids and textures construct a framework of deconstruction and reconstruction of urban form.
Employing construction technics to fabricate a collective that explores the notion of space and materiality.
Ren Burton is a Melbourne based artist and jeweller whose work centres around materiality, space, and ideals around socialist architecture.
FORM | Patrick Belford & Aviva Reed
Fri, Jul 26, 2019 6:30 PM 18:30 Sun, Aug 11, 2019 5:00 PM 17:00
Exhibition: 26th July - 11th August
FORM is an exhibition exploring ideas of shape, energy and practice through ceramic sculpture, installation and works on paper. The space moves from celestial to singular, acknowledging that the singular is never alone, always a part of the whole. Installations are animated by performance that inspires a meditation on the more mysterious aspects of our natural world and the energies and patterns that create us. This show questions what our own FORM is, asking us to be reflective and activated.
Exhibition program:
Tuesday 30th | 7.30 - 9.00 pm - Chi Gong session with Paul Mac. 7.30-9pm
Saturday 3rd August | 2.00 - 4.00 pm - Eco Philosophy Reading and discussion
Tuesday 6th August | 6.00 -8.00 pm - Japanese Tea vigil in recognition of Hiroshima anniversary
Saturday 10th August | 2.00 - 4.00 pm - Japanese Tea
Contributions By:
Becky Andrews
Lien Yeomans
Richard Belford
Unearthed Ceramics
@innercitynature
@aviva_reed
www.innercitynature.com.au
www.avivareed.com
THE ORIGINAL WOMAN | Artist Supporting Women & Choice
Join us at Neon Parlour, Friday the 5th of July for The Original Woman – an all female group show celebrating womanhood and choice, co-curated by Melbourne creatives Jess Brohier + Loren Stevanja.
Showcasing a mixed medium of works that have been generously donated by artists – the show will gather painters, writers, installation artists and photographers.
Featuring works from:
Abbey Rich
Kim Kim Kim
Claudia Smith
Carmel Jenkin
Brooke Van Der Linden
Angela Thirlwell
Yasmin Suteja
Madison Pawle
Amelia Dowling
Kasey Curmi
Kara Mandel
Caitlin Murphy
Emme Orbach
Claudia Chew
Victoria Hermitage
Emily Raubenheimer
Fifteen artists will present work that expresses their own original experience and understanding of what it means to be a woman, in a show that aims to educate and empower women and their right to choose alternatives.
The purpose behind this show is inspired by Loren Stevanja, a young woman who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.
Purchasing a ticket, beverage or artwork on the night, will support Loren with means for choice in alternative treatment and therapies, which currently have no government assistance or subsidy.
We also hope to encourage discussion around the importance of individual experience within a system where woman are often faced with limitation and treated collectively.
We look forward to seeing you.
Opening night: 6-9PM
$10 DONATION ENTRY, online, or cash on door
Tickets purchase here:
eventbrite.com.au/e/63555962595
*All proceeds, donations and art sales will support non-subsidised breast cancer treatment options for women and any funds raised in excess of our target will be donated to The Gawler Cancer Foundation and Yarra Valley Living Centre.
SOFT POWER: THE PINK PROJECT | Jessie Adams
Fri, Jun 14, 2019 6:00 PM 18:00 Sun, Jun 23, 2019 5:00 PM 17:00
Jessie Adams | Penn (The Kiss)
Opening: Friday 14th June 6.00-9.00pm Including a performance by NQW at 7.30 pm
Exhibition: 14th June - 23rd June
Pink: a colour once used to enforce gender conformity, now reclaimed as soft power. Moving away from simplistic, capitalist stereotypes such as princesses and Barbie dolls, the colour pink is being utilised as a method of resistance.
The subjects of this photoseries use pink as a tool to express themselves and, for some, a tactic to display their queerness. Pink is becoming a way for everyone on the gender spectrum to push back against oppressive expectations.
Cee, one of the exhibition's subjects, is a queer non-binary writer, researcher and performance artist. They use pink to interrogate gender "I don't remember consciously seeing somebody dressed head to toe in pink and thinking, 'that's how I want to present,'" they said, "but when I dyed my hair pink for the first time something clicked into place. It felt like a bit of a 'fuck you' to all of the preconceived notions people have of my gender. The pink colour blocking came pretty soon after that. The more thought I put into curating my outfits around the colour, the more powerful I felt."
Pink is pretty, pink is punk.
Pink is visibility - it is a means to take power, tell our stories and represent our community. Pink is a banner.
Soft Power is a print-based exhibition of digital inkjet portraits and a corresponding risograph zine by emerging Melbourne artist Jessie Adams. The prints and the zine explore the psychological, political and personal interpretations of the colour pink, as used by a diverse group of individuals.
Come to the show, wear pink,
and get your pink portrait taken.
Jessie Adams | Hazel and Julianne (The Pink House)
Jessie Adams | Lauren Stardust
Jessie Adams | Asli
GOOD CONDUCT, WELL CHASTISED | Sarah Mary Chadwick
Fri, May 31, 2019 6:30 PM 18:30 Sun, Jun 9, 2019 5:00 PM 17:00
Opening: Friday 31st March | 6.45pm Sarah Mary Chadwick performing
Closing: Sunday 9th June | 4.00pm Sarah Mary Chadwick performing
Opening: 31st May 6.30-8.30pm
Exhibition: 31st May - 9th June
Sarah Mary Chadwick's Good Conduct, Well Chastised explores the role of jousissance and its relation to the subject. Her graphic images are inspired by her vested interest in contemporary psychoanalytic theory that explore how subjects are at a deadlock with their own enjoyment. Standing in front of Chadwick's work positions the viewer to conceive pleasure as deriving from the Other. It further illustrates how a subject's only way to maintain and imagine an unfluctuating jousissance is to apprehend it as the Other's jousissance. Since the inner core of a person's joy eludes them, we in turn experience the Other's jousissance as a threat to our own identity and something to be discarded or even obliterated.
The dysmorphic subjects in her work is thus not an attempt to shock the audience or to give us a cheap thrill but to recognise how this deadlock is shared. Chadwicks' gestural and sweeping brushwork is a further accentuation of how this collective disavowelling is not governed by any pleasure principles governed by the id but by our shared rejection of the Other's pleasure.
Sarah Mary Chadwick is a Melbourne based artist predominantly known for her musical career. Her haunting melodies and intimate vocals has taken her across the globe. Her unflinching approach to songwriting allows her to introduce complex, often difficult subject matter into her work in a way that is as vivid as it is organic, an approach that can also be seen in her visual works.
www.riceisnice.net/posts/sarah-mary-chadwick
Sarah Mary Chadwick - The Queen Who Stole The Sky | New Album Out Now
ABSTRACT HOUSE | Sean Samon
Thu, May 16, 2019 12:00 PM 12:00 Sun, May 26, 2019 5:00 PM 17:00
Opening: 17th May 6.30-8.30pm
Exhibition: 16th May - 26th May
Sean Samon's Abstract House explores the fragility of the card house motif with a gallery audience through an interactive installation. Through multimodal re-presentations of card houses Sean engages the viewer to explore the range of visual angles and viewpoints in construction.
The multimodal articulation of Sean's works reifies how re-presentations are based on constructions from particular subject positions. Sean positions the audience to explore how meaning, in a singular mode of articulation, is left to the symbolic world of representational systems, however, through offering his audience differing modes of presentation of the same object, Sean offers us an insight into the finer nuances of an artist's intentionality. Seen in this framework, the audience is left to question the force of the aesthetic against the constructivist approach.
Sean Samon is a Melbourne based artist who received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts. He has exhibited works across Victoria and has been involved in several collaborations both interstate and internationally.
@seansamonartist
Of the Earth | Tone Mathews
Fri, May 3, 2019 6:30 PM 18:30 Sun, May 12, 2019 5:00 PM 17:00
Opening: 3rd May 6.30-9pm
Exhibition: 3rd May - 12th May
Of the Earth is a pictorial and theoretical experiment where expressive and symbolic use of colour combine with the formal elements to create form and narrative. Tone's paintings are an exploration of the extension of colour as a semiotic resource - to grasp the manifold Of the Earth into communication. Tone's use of saturation, modulation, value, composition and hue, highlight the complex relationship between the signifier and the signified.
Colour forms and schemes, as represented by Tone's works, demonstrate both the adherence and deviation of maintained conventions of the language of colour and the earth. For such language to exist, we must view the composition by the interests and motivations of the maker of the sign and realise that they are not arbitrary or anarchic. To come to understand the differential motivations of Tone is to forgo direct imagery in search for meaning.
Tone Mathews is a Melbourne based artist who has exhibited both locally and internationally. Tone studied at Bradford Art College and Lanchester Polytechnic and has works in many private collections around Australia and overseas.
tonemathewsart.com
FORAGE | Tenfold Textile Collective
Fri, Apr 12, 2019 12:00 PM 12:00 Sun, Apr 28, 2019 5:00 PM 17:00
Opening: 12th April 6-9pm
Exhibition: 12th-28th April
Tenfold Textile Collective has created a series of works that explore the possibilities of materials that can be foraged from the urban environment. In contemporary society our instincts to forage are redirected, leaving us disconnected from our local environment. Here, the artists have searched their own surroundings and utilised naturally grown, locally produced or found discarded objects, from which to create their art.
Forage prompts the artists to interrogate what survives, transforms, thrives or perishes in our local urban ecosystem, redirecting and re-sharpening our sensitivities to our world. The pieces demonstrate how a textile-based practice evokes an acute alertness to the frailties of modern life – over-production, over-consumption and a throwaway culture.
Forage invites the viewer to take a closer look at their own environment – to see what is being grown locally or made on a small scale, what materials can be used in a new way – to mourn what is lost and stand in awe at what endures.
Tenfold Textile Collective is a group of ten emerging artists who draw inspiration from encouraging, challenging and supporting each other's practices.
Some, or all, of the group exhibits together on a regular basis amplifying their voices and inviting others into their stories.
Each artist brings different aesthetics, techniques and life experiences to their shared love of textiles and commitment to social justice and sustainability – themes that recur in their groups shows. The group's work is process driven – where the acts of making and exploring, and the experience of creating are outcomes in themselves.
Tenfold Textile Collective's aim is to continue to learn and develop together, alongside their individual practices, and to be part of the movement bringing contemporary textile art to a wider audience.
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Claire Munnings | Heartwood Detail | 2019)
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Jem Olsen | For her age nullipara | 2019
Korina Leoncio-Once-before_©2019
Korina Leoncio | Once-before |©2019
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Tara Glastonbury | corporate life | 2019
to Apr 7
FIXED NOT FORGOTTEN | Noah Spivak
Fri, Mar 22, 2019 12:00 PM 12:00 Sun, Apr 7, 2019 5:00 PM 17:00
Opening: Friday March 22nd 6.30 - 9 pm
Exhibition: 22nd March - 7th April
Noah Spivak's Fixed Not Forgotten offers no personal autobiography. His current processes isolate, break and reconstitute the materials that compose photographs, producing versions of the photographic that present audiences with the distance that can exist between a physical object and a study of visual re-presentation. The artist's fascination with the human senses, the ambiguity of the everyday and the space in which the art experience occurs culminate in a body of work that explore how we experience the small phenomena of the reality we inhabit.
Rather than presenting pictures, Spivak presents "objects" that revel in chemical photography's elusive nuances. Despite the popularity of the camera today and the influx of photographs being taken on a daily basis, there seems to be an almost ignorance to the medium's history. It is this unfamiliarity that Spivak aims to explore and highlight.
Spivak is a Melbourne based artist who has exhibited locally and internationally. Spivak studied at the Cooper Union School of Art, New York and receive a Bachelor of Fine Art from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver in 2015.
www.noahspivak.com
Artist Call Out 2019.02
Sun, Mar 17, 2019 6:00 PM 18:00 Fri, Apr 19, 2019 11:59 AM 11:59
Applications are open until Friday 19th April 2019 for exhibitions from August to December.
Click here to view the proposal guide lines or contact us below for more information
IMPERCEPTIONS | Tansy McNally
Fri, Mar 8, 2019 12:00 PM 12:00 Sun, Mar 17, 2019 6:00 PM 18:00
Opening: 8th March 6-9pm
Exhibition: 8-17th March
My paintings explore ideas of representation and our altered visual culture in an age of digital technology and imagery. Modern life is continuously bombarded by visual information relayed by screens, digital media and technology.
This information is reflected back at us, usually in small glimpses, revealing a shattered and splintered view of reality. We consume this reality through our eyes as we survey the limitless geometry of the screen and the flattened image
We are unaware of the effect that the myriad of images has on our ability to perceive and discern our way through the accumulated, visual detritus. Instead we are caught in the midst of this wave and blinded by our insatiable desire for visual stimulation.
This visual detritus is akin to the notion of jouissance as a political factor. Whereby, the imposed ideology does not operate as a mere system of representation, but as visceral gratification - an ideology enjoyed despite what the subject morally claims.
My paintings respond to this state in a fragmented, almost schizophrenic way, while subverting the notions of representation and perception. These graphic images thus portray how jouissance returns to the subject not as discourse or as system of representation but rather by associating itself with the locus of the Other.
The intensity of my response is heightened by painting's ability to reject the recognizable tropes of digital media while still appropriating its visual language.
Glitches, split-screen images and saturated colour are liberated from the screen and relocated into paintings, which provide a somewhat disjointed interpretation of our current visual engagement and preoccupation.
to Mar 4
re:CREATE | graduate show from the NCAT CREATE course 2018
Sat, Feb 16, 2019 4:00 AM 04:00 Mon, Mar 4, 2019 9:00 AM 09:00
Opening: Friday 15 February 6-8pm
Exhibition: 15 February - 3rd March
re:CREATE
The graduate show from the NCAT Create (2018) Certificate III in Visual Arts.
The show features 29 artists ranging in age and experience who employ a variety of genres and mediums. The work represents the personal creative journey of each artist over the duration of the course.
re: CREATE attempts to bring these individual creative journeys together into a cohesive show around personal experience and the similarities and differences that lie within each artistic journey, and how are personal experiences shape our art.
Andrea McLoughlin
Ange Kelly
Ange Stock
Ann-Maree Gentile
Bec Yule
Briar Jasper-Batson
Celia Roberts
Daniela Zimmermann
Deb Ladd
Deb Parfitt
Donna Broadbent
Emma Fulgenzi
Gina Grant
Janece Callaway
Jo Shanahan
Kirsten Dunkley
Lynne Patatsos
Marcia Rolfs
Mary-Lou Pittard
Meg Fennessy
Megan Tsen
Nicky Cross
Natalie Soo
Sarah Anthony
Sarah Doyle
Susan Davies
Tash Bailey
Vair Buchanan
Yumi McKey
Asides | Neil Keith Baker
Sat, Feb 2, 2019 4:00 AM 04:00 Mon, Feb 11, 2019 9:00 AM 09:00
Opening - Friday 1st February 6-8pm
Exhibition - Friday 1st February - Sunday 10th February
Asides takes a retrospective look at Neil Keith Baker's art encompassing works from the last twenty years. It is also a personal examination of where The Work was really taking place within his studio practice. Baker explores his practice and the shifts in his work via the things created peripherally whilst working on what he previously perceived The (real) Work to be.
"whilst working on what I thought should be "The Work" I have always made asides and it is these asides that have gradually taken centre stage. I've always known that these incidental pieces of paper and card and these collections of small objects (both found and made) have had more life than what I was focusing on as The Work and my challenge has been to gradually shift the light onto these shy entities without them knowing that that was what I was doing."
Baker's intent for the exhibition is to question the persistence of these incidental works, and their hold on his current practice. Referring to them as asides presents us as the viewers with access to the inner monologue of the artist, whereby, a dialogical approach to the viewing of The Work presents a retrospective ontology hitherto unknown to both the artist and audience.
Neil Keith Baker was born in Luton, England and gained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Norwich School of Art and Design in 1999. After a period of independent practice he returned to study at The Slade School of Art, London where he completed an MA in Fine Art in 2007. Baker has since lived and worked in Germany and now lives and works in Melbourne where he is represented by Block Projects Gallery, Richmond. He has exhibited internationally prior to being based in Melbourne.
www.neilkeithbaker.com
www.blockprojectsgallery.com
Cathedral 2007
to Jan 28
Neon Parlour Collective
Sat, Jan 19, 2019 10:00 AM 10:00 Mon, Jan 28, 2019 9:00 AM 09:00
Neon Parlour is proud to present Neon Parlour Collective a group exhibition featuring works from Neon Parlours Volunteers and Studio Artist.
Alex Sinclair | @alex.sinclair.art
Luke King | @lukeduncanking
Matthew Watts | @mattthemodernist
Nicola P. Armstrong | @le_gough
Orla Gilheany | @orlagilheany
Rose Scutella | @Rose Scutella
Shannon Mary | @shannonmaryart
Travis Vella | @travisvellathepainter
Vatche Solakian | @vatchesolakian
Zennie McLoughlin | @ze.n1e
OPENING NIGHT: Fri 18th January | 6-8 pm
EXHIBITION: 18th - 27th January 2019
Luke King, Clear, Ambiguous, 2018
Alex Sinclair, September Night
Shannon Mary, Empaths Attract Narcissists, 2018
Call Out 2019
Sun, Dec 23, 2018 9:00 AM 09:00 Thu, Jan 10, 2019 10:00 AM 10:00
Applications for 2019 exhibitions are open.
Click here to apply +
to Oct 30
On a Clear Day, Aylsa McHugh, Daniella Ruffino, Sarah Lynch
Sun, Oct 28, 2018 2:00 AM 02:00 Tue, Oct 30, 2018 5:30 PM 17:30
On a Clear Day Exhibition
"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have eyes to see them" John Ruskin
On a Clear Day is an exhibition featuring new work by Aylsa McHugh, Daniella Ruffino & Sarah Lynch. Through photography, collage and sculpture On a Clear Day aims to provide a space in which to investigate and ruminate on relationships with external and internal environments. Informed by the cataclysmic and exponential changes happening upon familiar landscapes the artists are interested in the effect these changes have on psychological territory. Aylsa, Daniella and Sarah provide an artistic and historical documentation of what might seem to be viewed but is fundamentally overlooked. Exploring notions of destruction, transformation and regeneration the artists make the familiar strange and the strange awe inspiring.
The Pythia I by Aylsa McHugh
A Thousand Radiant Days by Sarah Lynch
Roman Concrete by Daniella Ruffino
Shamanic Rehab II
Thu, Oct 4, 2018 1:00 PM 13:00 Mon, Oct 22, 2018 8:00 AM 08:00
An Exhibition by René Sinkjaér and Vatche Solakian
"Look at any inspired painting, it's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation." - Phillip Guston
Neon Parlour is very proud to present the return of René Sinkjaér and Vatche Solakian in 'Shamanic Rehab II'. It will leave you in no doubt that René Sinkjaér and Vatche Solakian are inspired painters.
These are powerful paintings by serious painters that are certain to delight and engage. These are painters who are referencing many of the great artists and yet finding new ground to lead the viewer into new places with a sense of familiarity.
These paintings can seem to be playing but it is not to be taken for granted that this is the most serious concerns that are at the heart of these works. It is apparent that death is at the door as there always seems to be an overwhelming sense of looming darkness. However there is something easily overlooked in these notions of fear, which is the presence of a light. The heavily laden symbolism is crafted with a the unexpected choices that can only be given to true creativity.
There is something deeply moving to be surprised by an image that you see in the modern world as we have become accustomed to the proliferation of so many accessible images constantly. Our world has oversaturated of eyes with a barrarge that we cannot keep all contained in the consousness. In doing so it waters down our elementary view of images and the genuine finding of something new, we sense that we have seen it all already. To make 'new' paintings in this visual environment is some kind of obsurd notion as we cannot even detect the regurgitations from our sub-conscious as they put versions of the same into our formations. Rene and Vatche embrace the works of painters in such open signifiers that it is easy to overlook the intense position of taking the visual language further. And yet they are pushing and toying with imagery to push the viewers around until you see what they are pointing at or perhaps what they are pointing you away from.
'Shamanic Rehab II'
reassures the notion that painting is alive. They must be seen in the flesh to experience their full potency and are a gift to the viewer that is transcendental.
to Oct 1
September Community Month!
Thu, Sep 6, 2018 1:00 AM 01:00 Mon, Oct 1, 2018 7:00 AM 07:00
Neon Parlour is very pleased to announce our first official community month this September 2018!
We are welcoming four community groups to exhibit a week long show over the month of September, accompanied by a program of workshops, talks and performances with the goal to educate and engage with the students, organisers and mentors of these outreach programs and encourage further connection with the winder arts community and beyond.
A strong part of our ethos is to foster a rich, diverse and inclusive community and be supporters of the individuals and organisations which work towards positive social change.
Community is such an important part of the Gallery and its focus of engaging community at a local level, Although the program thus far has had a healthy input and inclusion of community, in 2018 Neon Parlour has decided to devote an entire Month of the programming to celebrate the Community, hence Neon Parlour Community Month 2018 starts this September.
The four groups Neon Parlour will be working with represent a beautiful cross section of the community in Art Access Australia, VACCA, NCAT and Strathmore Secondary College.
Look out for the September newsletter for full details. Through the exhibitions and workshops during our community month we aim to give each and every individual involved valuable skills and opportunity through mentoring, and hands on experience.
The first exhibition, Picture in My Head running September 5th - 9th 2018, comes from the students at Art Access Victoria.
Image: Gabor Varadi
Arts Access Victoria operates ten SRS studio art programs across the Northern and Western suburbs of Melbourne. Over 50 local artists regularly attend our workshops throughout the year. Our workshops are a model of inclusive arts practice, where artists work collaboratively to explore, develop and produce new work. Established in 1974, Arts Access Victoria is the peak body for disability in the arts. It is the mission of AAV to advocate for all artists who have lived experience of disability and mental health to be included in the arts. Our studio program is supported by funding from the Australian and Victorian Governments HACC and CHSP program.
'Picture in my head'is a group exhibition that showcases the work of artists from the Arts Access Victoria SRS Studio Arts Program. This exhibition brings together a unique and idiosyncratic collection of portraits, sculpture, abstract paintings, sound and film.
OPENING NIGHT: Thursday 6th September 1:30 -4pm
From Strathmore Secondary College
Second to exhibit for community month is Strathmore Secondary College, with their exhibition Major Arcana, showing 12th - 16th September 2018 and opening on Friday the 14th 6 - 9pm. Strathmore Secondary Collage is a large high school in Melbourne's inner-northern suburbs. Since 1996, in a co-operative venture between students, teachers, parents and the wider school community, it has provided a launching pad for its senior students as they contemplate careers or further their studies in the arts.
There is an annual external exhibition of the students' works that now has a history of 22 years and proves a mainstay event in the school's calendar. It highlights and celebrates the students' hard work and gains them vital experience in the art scene. This entry point into the arts builds confidence in the students and drives the school's inspiring teaching staff to a unifying and rewarding experience.
A rare opportunity to exhibit and perform brings together arts practice from all areas in the school, with the celebration night directly engaging the community of which it is a part. This year's guest speaker will be Godwin Bradbeer, distinguished artist and past student of Strathmore Secondary College.
EXHIBTION: 12th - 16th September 2018
OPENING NIGHT: Friday 14th September 6 - 9pm.
NCAT Folio Preparation
Exhibition runs 19th - 23rd September
Opening on Wed 19th 6 - 8pm
Led by an experienced staff of dedicated artists and designers, NCAT Folio Preparation is widely respected across the creative industries in supporting adult students with portfolio guidance and a proven pathway for entry into tertiary courses. NCAT Folio Preparation sits alongside the NCAT Create program as part of the post-secondary offerings at NCAT, and offers a supportive, encouraging and impactful opportunity for individuals pursuing careers in the creative industries. The program has been operating for 30 years and in that time has built an outstanding reputation in Arts education. This has been duly rewarded with recognition from Universities and TAFEs, in the form of scholarship programs and formal MOU's, giving NCAT Folio Preparation students preferred entry pathways across the visual arts and design fields.
After a year of specialised and dedicated learning, students graduate with excellent skills and portfolios. This exhibition will prove a vibrant and compelling showcase of local emerging artists and designers.
Exhibition: 19th - 23rd September
Opening: Wed 19thSeptember 6 - 8pm
Official Opening - Heritage Program
Heritage by Art celebrates the work of six young people exploring their cultural knowledge and identity through various art mediums. This exhibition is open from Wednesday 26 September through to Saturday 29 September.
You are invited to our opening night event on Thursday 27 September from 6pm - 9pm. Light refreshments and snacks are available.
RSVP by 20 September for catering purposes to 9287 8806 or brettl@vacca.org
Heritage by Art celebrates the work of six young people exploring their cultural knowledge and identity through various art mediums. Inspired and mentored by teh stories, experiences and practices of Artists' Maree Clarke (Muti Mutti / Yorta and Boon Wurrung / Wemba Wemba), Peter Waples Crowe (Ngarigio) and James Henry (Yorta Yorta and Kamilaroi), the young people have created a body of work that expresses their personal cultural journey. Heritage by Art is proudly presented by the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency as an outcome of their 2018 Art Mentoring Program.
Exhibition is open from 26 September through to 29 September 2018 from 10am - 6pm
As part of community month we will be running FREE and ticketed workshops, tutored by three highly skilled local artists.
Free Workshop #1
Introduction to Oil Painting - With Travis Vella
Learn the essentials of painting with oil paints as Travis makes it safe and easy for all levels. This workshop breaks down the daunting barriers and shows simple techniques to make painting with oils a wonderful experience. This is an entry point or refresher for anyone wishing to know where to start.
Travis will show you his practice and why oil painting is so interesting and wonderful. You will go on to cover safe practice, differences between oils and acrylics, working with mediums (what to paint to paint with), viscosity (paint mixing) and grounds (what to paint on). This workshop will allow you to go home or return to the studio with a confident understanding of the fundamentals to start painting with oils.
WHEN: Thurs 20th September 11 - 2pm
WHERE: Neon Parlour 791 - 793 High St, Thornbury. The Gallery will be open so feel free to come early and check out the NCAT exhibition. Once the workshop has begun please use the back entrance/exit.
WHAT to bring: Materials are provided, wear appropriate clothing you don't mind getting messy. Covered shoes. Snacks if you think you'll get hungry - we'll have a 15 min break with tea and coffee available.
Skills you will gain:
IMPORTANT SAFE practice around oil paints
HOW to mix oil paint and mediums 1,2 and 3.
WHAT to paint on and HOW to prepare at least one type of ground
HOW to clean up after using oil paint.
WHERE to look for further resources.
What you will take home:
sample of medium 1
sample of 3 grounds
Info and fact SHEET handout outlining WHAT is covered.
This is a free workshop.
Please email us at neonpalour@gmail.com to make a booking.
Beginners Life Drawing Skills
With a little direction and some inspiration, drawing in a friendly environment becomes a relaxing skill to build on. Tutor, Travis Vella, gently guides the class through a series of exercises to enhance and build confidence in drawing with different mediums and allows an entry point to all skill levels. Students find a starting point to develop from and encouragement to keep improving as they find enjoyment in its exercise.
WHEN: Friday 21st September 1 - 4pm
Ticketed Workshops are available to the public with reserved places for some of the mentors.
Sunday 16th September 11 - 2pm
Ceramics Workshop
With Eva Giannoulidis
from Ceramica Mechanica
In this 3hr workshop students will learn a variety of clay making techniques, including pinch pot making, slab forming and coil building. Experienced artists and tutor Eva Gainnoulidis will demonstrate joining and assembly, decorative and mark making methods, appropriate tool use as well as painting and sculpting. This is the entry point for new comers and an inspiration for those who have returned. Eva will run through the essentials and guide students to have fun developing their own piece to take home.
WHEN: Sunday 16th September 11 - 2pm.
WHERE: Neon Parlour Project Space 791 - 793 High St Thornbury. The Gallery will be open, so feel free to stroll through gallery and check out the exhibition Major Arcana. Please come via the back door once the workshop has started.
WHAT to bring: All materials are provided, just wear something you don't mind getting a little messy. You're welcome to bring snacks, tea and coffee is provided.
WHAT you will take home: Eva will take your ceramics pieces to be kiln fired, and we will contact you when they are ready to pick up from Neon Parlour - Approx 1 month.
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to Sep 3
Paper - A Group Exhibition
Thu, Aug 23, 2018 1:00 AM 01:00 Mon, Sep 3, 2018 7:00 AM 07:00
Artists: Irene Ferguson /James Riches / Shannon Mary / Matthew Watts / Ted Mckinlay / Dylan Vella / Travis Vella / Seb Ingram / Abbey Rich / Luisa Cavalieri / Savina Hopkins / Simon Deere / Zennie McLoughlin /Lin Tobias / Alexandra Thornton
Neon Parlour presents the group show Paper running 22nd August - 2nd September. This exhibition displays the work of 14 Melbourne artists, linked together by the medium of paper in a sample of its many incarnations to gently remind us of its timeless relevance to art practice.
As long as time has presented the ability for mark making to exist there has been a need for the ease of transporting its communication. As humanity finds almost any surface to make its marks on, it is paper that proves one of the most productive and seductive mediums. In all its permutations, paper has the range to stand up as the beginning for creative endeavours in almost all forms. Whether it be an architect, poet, composer or artisan, it is paper that the artist has reached for. Paper offers much to the dichotomous relationships of art, from simplicity and complexity to man and nature.
Paper holds an integral role in shifting art practices for time past, present and future.
As technologies rapid developments and increasingly intelligent tools of assistance become dominant parts of art practice, Neon Parlour pays tribute to this age old base.
EXHIBITION: 22 August - 2 September 2018
OPENING NIGHT: Fri 24 August 2018
@ireneferg / @jriches1 / Shannon Mary Art / Ted Mckinlay / @travisvellathepainter / @_clone_nt_ / @abbey_rich / @myki.declined / @savinahopkins / @simondeereart / @ze.n1e / @lin_tobias
Irene Ferguson, Lisa 2, 2014, ink on paper, 841mm x 1189.
Simon Deere, Araucaria.
Abbey Abbey Rich, My Spine Curved, my Mind Wandered.
Thornwitch - An Exhibition by Orla Mary Gilheany
Thu, Aug 2, 2018 1:00 AM 01:00 Mon, Aug 20, 2018 7:00 AM 07:00
Neon Parlour is proud to present the engaging work of one of our studio artists and Irish Shamanic Therapist, Orla Gilheany.
The exhibition Thornwitch runs 1st - 19th of August, with opening celebrations on Friday 3rd of August, featuring a Mongolian throat singing performance by Sage Pbbbt and Oz Kesik, followed by some Drum and Base beats by DJ Pharisee Nain.
A basis for the exhibition narrative is found in Orla's recent migrant journey from Ireland to Australia and forms part of her ongoing search to depict imagery and information rising from the unconscious.
The exhibition Thornwhitch at Neon Parlour is a wonderful insight into Orla Gilheany's multi-disciplinary engagement with materials in her art practice. Orla is a painter and holistic therapist who beautifully describes her practice as 'a physiological need', and the imagery as 'a primal response to a life lived'.
Her practice provides a spiritual framework with which to live ethically in communication with the earth. A basis for the exhibition narrative is found in Orla's recent migrant journey from Ireland to Australia, and forms part of her ongoing search to depict imagery and information rising from the unconscious. The exhibition features a selection of paintings on a variety of materials including calico, found canvas and wooden panels. To connect to her new locality, some of the calico pieces were left outside to absorb elemental energy – rain, sun, beer, earth, thunderstorm, cats walking over it, wine, tears and bodily fluids. The materials mirror Gilheany's state of flux, including the use of cheap and found objects when she had little resources upon moving to Melbourne.
This process leads to the engaging notion Orla makes, that "the act of painting alone has resulted in personal psychological processing and the prediction of life events."
EXHIBITION: 1 - 19 Aug 2018
OPENING NIGHT: 3 Aug / 6 - 9pm
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Keys When You Need Codes
Thu, Jul 12, 2018 1:00 AM 01:00 Mon, Jul 30, 2018 7:00 AM 07:00
Artists: Jack Barrueto, Darsh Seneviratne, Rhys Pope, Maddison Kellie, Kazuya Yoshino, Bella Head-Gray, Gareth Owens, Kim Phan, Tim Salisbury, Ruby Parker, Harry Pullar, Elli Webb, Olly Main
There is something inviting about the crumbling sign of an old milk bar, or the way a hedge has been shaped to stand out on an otherwise ordinary street. Old cars that never leave their driveways appear to hang on for dear life while roadside debris becomes a sculptural treasure. These curiosities into the mundane scenes of suburbia are explored in the group exhibition Keys When You Need Codes, curated by Elli Webb. Fascinated with the images of strange suburban discoveries that flood her feed each day, Elli Webb joins 12 artists from along the East Coast in asking why and how these strangely ordinary moments can be so compelling.
"Is it purely visual? Colour palettes, interesting forms, pattern in unexpected places; or could it be something to do with the unexpected emotive quality of seemingly lifeless objects? A lonely, broken chair, a briefcase with lost documents pouring out all over the curb…
How do these things relate to our changing notion of 'suburbia'? Are they subtle signs of gentrification? Are they the product of a growing population with growing needs? Do we feel the need to take photos and make art as a way to document our changing environment?
More often than not, people are only talking about the ugly of 'the suburb' - why is the discussion never around beauty? This is an exhibition of works that look at all these ideas and more, meanwhile showcasing the work of many young artists who have each developed their own unique style of suburban 'portraiture'."
Opening Night Sat July 14th / 6 - 9pm.
Keys When You Need Codes is showing at Neon Parlour from July 11- 29.
to Jul 9
Matter Arts 1. Exhibition and Fundraiser.
Thu, Jul 5, 2018 1:00 AM 01:00 Mon, Jul 9, 2018 7:00 AM 07:00
Matter Arts: ARTISTS FIGHTING INEQUALITY
> Te' Claire
> Mashara Wachjudy
> Nic Plowman
> Madison Griffiths
> Abbey Rich
> Shaun Tan
> Miranda Jill Millen
> Felix Atkinson
> James Bugg
> Minna Leunig
> Beci Orpin
> Gina Nero
> Myles Pedlar
> Serwah Attafuah
> Almost Iris
> Yasmin Nebenfuhr
> Michael Mitsas
> Mark Romei
> Sarah Gosling
> Thanh Vuong
> Jaclyn Paterson
> Jamie Lee O'Shea
> Sam Biddle
Take part in the first show of Matter Arts – a new arts initiative dedicated to fighting inequality through finding new and creative ways to fund, and learn, about highly effective charities.
On Thursday the 5th of July, Matter Arts will be aiming to raise $10,000 for the Fistula Foundation. Over 20 artists have generously donated their works for this exhibition and 100% of proceeds will be donated to the Fistula Foundation. Come see this collection of wonderful artists and make your contribution with a $10 entry donation.
The Fistula Foundation helps women who have been affected by obstetric fistula to get the appropriate surgery. With $10,000, twelve women will be provided with medical care assisting in restoring the injuries experienced during childbirth. A fistula is a hole between the vagina wall and the bladder or rectum. It is caused by a prolonged labor, usually of three days or longer, in which the baby typically does not survive. This sort of prolonged labour is all too common when there is no access to even the most basic forms of maternal healthcare. The constant and uncontrollable leaking of urine forms a horribly pungent and pervasive smell. The odour is so foul that women are usually socially ostracised. Losing their friends, their community and their dignity, most women live out the rest of their lives in social isolation. But treatment is simple, frustratingly simple: just a one-hour surgery, and two weeks of recovery in hospital. It is estimated that for every one woman who receives help another 50, at least go untreated and continue to suffer.
This event takes place on stolen lands of the Wurundjeri in Naarm. The sovereignty of this land was never ceded. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
Opening night: Thurs 5 July / 6 - 9pm.
Exhibition: 4 - 9 July 2018
See more on instagram: @matterarts
Ritual Face - An Exhibition by Jacquie Ingram
Thu, Jun 14, 2018 1:00 AM 01:00 Mon, Jul 2, 2018 7:00 AM 07:00
Join us on Friday 15 June for Opening Night of 'Ritual Face' a painting show by Jacquie Ingram.
Jacquie Ingram's solo exhibition 'Ritual Face' was intended to run alongside the release of an ABC mini-series "Unboxed". The episode following Ingram and her artistic practice, touches on gender diversity and how being transgender has informed her art and life as a whole. The works exhibited will include a series of notebooks created before and during the documentary series, and a range of portraits painted in oils and gouache.
Ingram is a self-taught artist from Melbourne. Her style developed over many years of mistakes and art battles in high school. Born in 1994, drawing since she could pick up sticks, Ingram's artworks have grown from crayon faces with legs and arms carelessly attached to carefully considered, loosely styled portraits. Her artworks have explored themes surrounding femininity, strength in vulnerability, and mental health.
Right now Ingram can most likely be found sitting sprawled out on the floor, painting anything that she can get her hands on. Her artworks are often given away, traded, or painted over. This exhibition is intended to show the developing style and practice of Jacquie Ingram as an emerging artist. She is a painter for painting's sake, allowing meaning to be described by the viewer.
She has often said she will paint until she's physically unable, or if passion runs out, she'll turn her hand to something else.
EXHIBITION: 13th June - 1st July 2018
OPENING NIGHT: 15th June / 6 - 9pm.
I DON'T BELEIVE IN GHOSTS - PART 2 - By Travis Vella
Sat, Jun 2, 2018 8:00 AM 08:00 Mon, Jun 11, 2018 10:00 AM 10:00
Travis Vella's Newest Painting show is the next instalment in the "I don't believe in Ghosts" series, with the apt addition of "part 2".
This is his obsession with 'paint' and the question of 'belief' at the core.
Belief is explored constantly, as both the ends of truth and deception are mixed in the images. 21 ghost stories were collected as a trade for paintings in the first incarnation of the 'Ghost' shows and they now form the basis of "I Don't Believe in Ghosts, part 2".
Travis has sourced imagery from family photos on film that have been translated into digital and now appear as paintings. Light transmutes the images all along their journey from the photograph to screens, projection and the use of pigments. Travis is exploring the qualities of the paint as they change in different light wave lengths. Perception and reality are constantly being toyed with to make the viewer disorientate their vision.
The 'real' stories are mixed with fakes to leave all perceived truth as questionable. In turn Travis asks whether truth exits or if belief alone is enough? Travis is trying to make the viewer think of what they believe as he tries to simultaneously reject and embrace the mystic. There is the sense that Travis is feigning his disbelief in paintings that force us to suspend some disbelief as we do with all paintings.
Travis is creating the totem and the icon to test its power, as if to ask if we can create the 'spiritual' where there was none, and whether this becomes equally valid. The use of personal and commonly believable stories embedded in non-truths are used to tempt the viewer to believe as it also draws out the desires of belief. Travis is asking if we need to believe in some existence of the mystic? Does this give us a beneficial emotional response? or does it burden us? These paintings acknowledge that as humanity seeks to worship, understand death and explain life, it looks for the divine or mystic in some way that may allow for the deception. Travis' paintings
intentionally disrupt the eye and brain to conjure an emotional response to your beliefs. The family and nostalgia is woven through all the images to find a similarity with each individual viewer. Travis' paintings make you to feel when you see.
The opening night on June 1st will be a special event, incorporating mystic performance, and will give a unique understanding to the works. They want to make you respond emotively and consider existence itself.
"I DON'T BELIEVE IN GHOSTS - PART 2" will be open from 6pm on June 1st– 10th. The exhibition will be open from 5-8pm each night after the opening. The opening event will be an experience in the investigation into the mystic and one not to be missed. You will have to see it, to believe it!
OPENING NIGHT June 1 / 6 - 9pm
EXHIBITION: 1 - 10 June / 5 - 8pm
EON. Illustrated adventure in Time.
Thu, May 17, 2018 1:00 AM 01:00 Mon, May 21, 2018 8:00 AM 08:00
Oekologie Studio presents the fantastic work of Aviva Reed at Neon Parlour. Aviva Reed is an interdisciplinary visual ecologist. She explores the ecologies of nature, humans and our place in the Earth; the ecosphere. Aviva works as an artist, consultant, writer, illustrator, educator and scientist. Her practice explores scientific theories from philosophical and ontological perspectives.
From 16 - 20 May, Aviva exhibits her work as an interdisciplinary visual ecologist and formally launches her book EON. The Story of Fossils. This timely book combines exquisite illustrations with scientific prose to explore the current theory of evolution.
EON. The Story of the Fossils is a groundbreaking art/ science book created by visual ecologist, Aviva Reed. This book provides a blueprint for ecosystems thinking, a simple tool for gaining perspective into interconnection and biological growth. It tells the story of every living thing on the planet. It explores microbes as our ancestors and long life collaborators, creating atmospheres and geology. EON asks "What we can learn from billions of years of being part of an evolving ecosystem?" The EON book is a culmination of decades worth of research, art making and study by artist/ scientist, Aviva Reed. It is has been edited by prominent palaeontologist and ethicist, Professor John Buckeridge (RMIT) and is suitable for ages 8 to 800. The book launch will be a Fri – Sunday program, combining a limited edition print gallery with live storytelling, a children's program and an academic panel discussion.
Join us for Opening night on FRIDAY 18th MAY / 6 - 9 pm to celebrate the launch of this fantastical book and Aviva's work as an artist, scientist, and writer.
The Children's Art/ Science workshop, Exploring the BIG questions, takes place on SATURDAY 19th MAY featuring storytelling, Q/A and water colour drawing session of evolution.
Times : 9 -11am and 1 - 3pm
The Panel discussion 'What is the Anthropocene? ', will take place on SUNDAY 20th MAY, where a panel of thinkers within the field of environmental ethics explore multiple perspectives on how humans are changing the face of the earth and what that means for the future.
Guest speakers TBA
Price: Gold coin donation
Materials - An Exhibition by Tom Crago
Thu, May 3, 2018 1:00 AM 01:00 Mon, May 7, 2018 7:00 AM 07:00
Recently exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria as part of the inaugural NGV Triennial, Materials by Tom Crago uses virtual reality systems to create a new kind of interactive experience at the intersection of art and design. Materials engages players in a poetic investigation of the human psyche; a journey of isolation, self discover, agency and creativity.
This exclusive 5 day exhibition at Neon Parlour showcases the work of Crago's collaborating artists. While their marks are made strongly in the project as exhibited at the NGV, this is the first time their individual contributions have been exhibited together.
The artists represented are:
Mark Rodda
Viv Miller
Kate Tucker
Indigo O'Rourke
William Mackinnon
David Shea
Join us for Opening Night of this special show on 4th May / 6 -9pm
Exhibition runs: 2nd - 6th May 2018
See the interview with Tom Crago, on Materials shown at NGV Triennial
Thu, Apr 12, 2018 1:00 AM 01:00 Tue, May 1, 2018 7:00 AM 07:00
Every year just before the Melbourne Cup I plant tomatoes, and other tomatoes spout from the compost in various unplanned locations around the garden.
One year the crop of tomatoes I picked over summer amazed me with their variety of colour and shape.
I placed them on a blue plate with a few home-grown chillies, I found myself taking numerous photos of them, my fingers were itching, so the next obvious step was to weave them. So, I started on a series of works based on my vegetable garden, and the idea kept growing…
Joy Smith is a master weaver who had been exhibiting for more than 30 years. The everyday is the subject of her art practice and these experiences are uniquely caught in this time honoured tradition.
Joy consistently makes light of the mediums most complex abilities that she possesses, so a viewer can forget the time it takes to work on each piece. However, Joy's playful and confident use of colour displays there is a deep respect for the beauty and rare displays of such a practice.
Exhibition: Wed 11 - Sun 29 April
Opening Night: Fri 13 April / 6-9pm
Image Credit: Joy Smith, Pomegranates #2, 2017, 10.5 x 22.5
Shocking Melbourne
Thu, Mar 29, 2018 2:00 AM 02:00 Sun, Apr 8, 2018 8:00 PM 20:00
OPENING NIGHT: Thurs 29 Mar / 6 - 9pm
EXHIBITION DATES: Wed 28 Mar - Sun 8 April
Damien Lawlor was the comedian, broadcaster, writer and creative weirdo behind 3RRR's dark sketch show Lime Champions. He's also been responsible for a number of irresponsible festival shows, including the psychedelic comedy horror of The Hugh Jackman Diaries, the absurdistopian sci-fi comedy Low Status Update, and has in recent years applied his total lack of animation skills to create works that can't be unseen. He now brings his twisted sensibility to the art world.
Shocking Melbourne is an exhibition that will blow minds, spin heads and turn tummies. Forget the Museum of Old and New Art, this is art made by Melbourne's biggest Controversial Underground New Talents. Featuring original works from the painters, illustrators, animators and video artists that are so subversive they refuse to exist.
Opening night on Thursday 29th of March will be one to remember. Shocking Melbourne is open Wed 28 March - Sun 8 April.
Self-guided and mis-guided tours available daily. It'll be absolutely shocking. And free.
'Dark, funny, clever.' Herald Sun
'Crazy, manic... a lot of really funny ideas.' Beat Magazine
GALLERY HOURS: Wed - Fri 11 - 6 / Sat - Sun 11 -5
SUBMERSIVE #1
Sun, Mar 25, 2018 11:30 AM 11:30 Mon, Mar 26, 2018 2:30 PM 14:30
A night of music and visual art presented by violinist beatsmith ORCHA, in collaboration with musician Juice Webster and multimedia artist and digital drummer HYPER REELIST.
light and GLOOM
Thu, Mar 8, 2018 3:00 AM 03:00 Mon, Mar 26, 2018 8:00 AM 08:00
For many decades Clive Jones has worked behind the scenes as a Film and TV art
director and scenic artist, creating the artifice and illusion that illustrate our cultural
narratives. With light and GLOOM, his first public exhibition since 2010, he turns his
focus to personal reflections on the modern world.
For Clive, the continued appeal of traditional painting is its ability to represent imagined
subjective narratives to a wider audience. These paintings are an invitation into the
private theatre of the artist's mind.
light and GLOOM explores what it means to be human in a fast moving technological age,
provoking us to consider the importance of painting in a world of instant
Exhibition: Wednesday 7 March – Sunday 25 March 2018
Opening night: Thursday 8 March / 6-9pm with Performance by Cookin' on 3 Burners and Captain Ruin.
Clive Jones, 'Desolation Row', 1375 x 920
Clive Jones, 'Sakamoto Ryoma', 1375 x 920
Clive Jones, 'Peawick Lake Corra', 1370 x 920
Clive Jones, 'Three Trees Kyoto', 1375 x 915
GREENS FUNDRAISER - Art For Alex Art Auction
Wed, Feb 28, 2018 3:00 PM 15:00 Mon, Mar 5, 2018 1:00 PM 13:00
The Greens Party present the return of The Art for Alex Art Auction on Saturday 3 March 6 - 9pm.
This show is a one week event raising funds for the Greens candidate Alex Bhathal's campaign for the Federal seat of Batman. Artists are invited to contribute a piece of work which will then be auctioned on a special closing night event, taking place Sat 3rd March/ 6 - 9pm.
We are calling on artists and indeed anyone who owns art to help make a difference in Batman through the contribution of artworks to this key campaign event.
The success of the 2016 campaign was helped largely by the amazing generosity
of the many artists and art owners who donated to the Art for Alex Art Auction.
The record breaking event raised over $35,000, adding much needed funds to
help fight the cashed up Labor machine.
Let's make 2018 one to remember and get Alex elected. Donate your art now, and join us for the art auction on closing night!
Also running within this week long show is Equalitaria, a curated exhibition from various artists touching on themes of equality and social justice.
Deadline for artwork submissions: Wednesday 21 February
Submit your application HERE
EXHIBITION: Tues 27 Feb - Sat 3 Mar 2018
AUCTION NIGHT: Sat 3 Mar / 6 - 9pm
Image: Hilary Jackman, Still Life, 71 x 92cm
DRAWATHON
Neon Parlour presents Melbourne's first annual drawing marathon!!!