'The Wall' is an exciting new initiative offered at Langford 120. Running alongside our main exhibition programs it will feature a diverse range of artists for one week shows running twice per month. Situated at the front of the Gallery and visible from the street, The Wall is a unique space that can accommodate 2D, Installation and Video based works.
Paul Dew 'On The Clock'
August 29 - Sep 2
A continued personal exploration into work and life balance, this floor/wall industrial based assemblage will consider various points in time through a structured day. Utilising figurative silhouette and framework, the work hours are compared with family life and leisure time, and offset to express the balance or the overload.
Richard Collins 'Port Melbourne Paintings'
August 15 - 24th
This exhibition shows work from a year of weekly excursions with an artist friend to paint at Port Melbourne, which offers a vast and variously lit stage of bay and sky upon which the maritime behemoths of global trade come and go, as massive floating sculptures. The plein air oils, watercolours and monoprints are my attempts to accomplish the traditional aim of such painting: to capture that day's particular light, colour and mood. This is always a challenge because often you get four seasons in an hour, let alone a day.
In the larger studio painting I adopted a more abstract idiom to fuse memories of multiple painting sessions with a feeling for the structure of the location, dominated as it is by strong horizontals.
In both the plein air and the studio work I am trying to make strong compositions that will express both my feeling for the motif, and for the qualities of the particular medium.
Installation shots from 'Port Melbourne Paintings' 2012
Michael Carolan
'...can it just be between you and me?'
Aug 01st - 12th
This painting installation explores the role of semantics, pragmatics and semiotics as part of a broader investigation into the hierarchy of values present in the systems and structures surrounding language and signs.
With so much noise in the world perhaps it's time to hear what we see. But if so… can it just be between you and me?
Deanna Hitti 'The Green Line'
July 18th - 27th
The Green Line is part of a series of works referencing the Australian $100 note, overlayed with subtle and harmonious arabic typography. The work provides a platform to discuss the long history of unrealistic representations of Middle Eastern customs and beliefs we have come to learn through art, literature, music, film, television and advertising.
Yuria Okamura 'Shifting'
July 4th -14th
Shifting presents a series of works on paper, which explores transition and movement created through the interplay between colour, plane and perspective.
Generve Becker 'The Harpyaia'
June 20th - 29th
The Harpyaia installation was inspired by a mythological tale. The harpyaia are winged figures linked to the destructive nature of wind and storms, often associated with death, fate and the execution of divine ordeals on the human race. The composition of two female mythological spirits exhaling a series of autumn leaves, reflects the seasonal decay in nature.
Sophia Errey 'Private Views'
From the ex-centric perspective of the observer, irrelated except through the camera screen, distant and near views of urban environments unexpectedly reveal the eye-catching, compelling beauty of apparently haphazard detritus.
Sophia Errey 'Pyramids' 2011
'Private Views' Installation Shot
Mandy Gunn 'Patterns of Speech'
May 23rd - June 01st
Mandy Gunn has been been working with recycled paper and Text for many years, mostly the sort that is discarded in the bin once it has been used -tram tickets, telephone books, catalogues, advertising, wrapping material, office left overs and so on. To this she has added recycled books, generally well known classics and frequently used books such as dictionaries.
In Patterns of Speech, she has chosen 6 of the best known plays, collaged them on to cardboard and reconstructed them in 3D repeating patterns reminiscent of sound waves.
Mandy trained at the College of the Arts where she completed a Master's degree in 2000 and has shown extensively in galleries around Australia as well as being involved with outdoor environmental sculpture events such as The Floating Land at Noosa and Palimpsest at Mildura.
'Patterns of Speech' Installation Shot
Max White 'Chromatic Supports'
May 9th - 17th
Through an abstract/non-representational painting practice, these works focus on the material properties of surface, the support and paint. These aspects play a major role through-out the process of the creation of the works, informing the artist's decisions and direction of each piece.The palette of colours used is sweet but full of tension. The pairing of light hues with glowing primary colours creates combinations that push and pull against one another. Through these interests, the artist constructs a dialogue between traditional and contemporary notions of painting.
Max White finished his Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) in 2011 at RMIT. Max is currently studying a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) at Victorian College of the Arts (VCA).
'Chromatic Supports' (detail)
'Chromatic Supports' Installation Shot
Victoria Howlett 'Geometric Abstraction Installation'
March 18th - April 01st
Andre Liew 'Punch Drunk Love'
March 08th - 18th
Punch Drunk Love presents a selection of works that celebrate the sophistication and ridiculous nature of human ingenuity and vision.