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    Boom Gallery is a vibrant and active contemporary art gallery. We represent a cross section of work – from emerging and established artists, with a strong regional bias.

    We exhibit most media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, photography, design and small objects. We give artists a platform to exhibit and sell their work and provide information about art investment.

17.5.13

Alex Game – New Bestiarum

Alex Game

Human history is filled with conflict over race, ideology and environment. It seems to be an almost inevitable part of human relationships and the world we live in.

I have an avid interest in history, particularly military history; and as much as I don’t advocate violence, I am fascinated by the resources and time humans have devoted to warfare and the art of killing each other.

My work references the historical archetypes of the warrior, but placed within an ambiguous timeframe and location; this could be an alternative history, a post apocalyptic future where humanity continues to fight each other in a world decimated by chemical and nuclear warfare. Or is it a mythological battleground, a kind of dystopian Valhalla where humanity is condemned to eternal warfare with a demonic enemy?

Juxtaposing natural flora and fauna with industrial and urban elements; I find both equally fascinating from an aesthetic point of view, but land that has been ‘developed’ by humans seems to lack something we find in an untouched natural environment. As we plunder the land for resources it becomes denuded and is turned into a wasteland, devoid of life.

Traditional forms of storytelling from Assyrian sculpture, to the Bayeux tapestry inform my work, with the use of multiple panels and long scrolls used to build a sense of an epic narrative or a grand adventure. 

New Bestiarum is a group exhibition of printmaking and drawing by Alex Game, kyoko Imazu and Emmet O’Dwyer. The show runs from May 2-25, 2013.

Alex Game   Fall of the U.A.C Crusader   intaglio & aquatint

 

 

 

Alex Game   Fall of the U.A.C Crusader (detail)  intaglio & aquatint

 

 

 

Alex Game   Passage to Arcadia   intaglio & aquatint

 

Alex Game   The Wellspring   intaglio & aquatint

 

 

 

Alex Game   The Wellspring (detail)    intaglio & aquatint

 

 

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12.4.13

Eight Women – Artist / TRUDY WHITE

Now that I have half the time in the world

I will state that as an artist I start out with

Nothing to see

Nothing to hear

 

So I put on an apron made of magnets

Pick up a satchel of wire

And climb into the place where pictures live

Find a way through

Covering and uncovering

Pinning through the middle

Flags and a sky boat soaring

His dream again that his teeth fell out

Catching memories before they fade

Steps leading into still water

Nests that are places of refuge if you are small

Clouds floating by again

 

There was once a typewriter that knew what you were thinking

But only if you were thinking about typing

 

Between page 34 and page 35 someone had left a note:

The author would like to reassure the reader that

Some names of some days have been changed

This I know to be true

 

Trudy White likes to work with paper, pencils, watercolour, lines, ink, nib pens, texture, words, brushes, biro, fabric, sticks, a computer, collage, acrylic paint, clay, string, coloured paper squares, plasticine, gouache, wire, and textas, in books, on small pages, on large rolls of paper, on canvas, on wood and on old printed pages.

She has had five solo exhibitions of artwork, been in many group shows and had three illustrated books of fiction published (by Allen & Unwin and Curriculum Press).

Trudy also illustrates other people’s work for books, print media, and design.  She created a book within a book for the beautiful novel ‘The Book Thief’ by Markus Zusak.

As well as making pictures and writing, Trudy teaches drawing and writing workshops to both adults and children and people in between, at schools, libraries and universities, including Monash Universtiy, RMIT, Victorian College of the Arts, Centre for Adult Education, ArtPlay, the State Library of Victoria, NMIT, TAFE colleges, and, one wonderful time, to children at the Cirque du Soleil traveling school.  She has been a Creative Fellow at the State Library of Victoria, and a recipient of some Australia Council and Arts Victoria arts grants to create work.

 

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12.4.13

Eight Women – Artist / CHELSEA GUSTAFSSON

Chelsea Gustafsson is an artist and graphic designer from Barwon Heads. Chelsea‘s most recent series of paintings include an embellishment of embroidery. The cross stitching adds a tactile quality and a graphic element to the work. Her subjects often involve a character or scene designed with some sort of quirk and whimsy to it: Goldfish swimming outside their bowl, a deer fleeing from a glass display dome, a hot air balloon coming in to land on a grassy knoll that grows from a pot plant, or dinosaur roaming the small confines of a mossy terrarium.

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11.4.13

Eight Women – Artist / Jackie Sleight

Jacqueline is an English born visual artist living in the coastal town of Ocean Grove in Victoria, having migrated with her family to Australia in the 1960’s.  Her work deals with place, identity and belonging. The way that the past influences the present and how things are passed from one generation to the next. Jacqueline has an ongoing interest in the human condition and in the traditions and customs that persist through the ages that determine how we interact as social animals.

The technique she adopts in keeping with her interest is also a mixture of the old and the new. Her preferred medium is printmaking and mixed medium with an emphasis on combining digital prints with traditional methods to create a hybrid of the two.

“In the series that I am working on at the moment “Cat’s cradle” I have used images of children, being representative of the future, and the dog (the companion of humans since civilizations began), being a representation of the old traditions/customs. I have placed them in fantasy landscapes reminiscent of the fairytales told to us as children to teach us society’s codes.  I draw on the surrealists method of the accidental by pouring ink and paint onto a substrate which then blends, giving me an image to scan into the computer to be printed as an archival digital print. The overlaying of new technology (computer generated print) with the traditional methods of papercuts, ink, acrylic paint and metal leaf creates a hybrid of the two, epitomizing the influence of the past on the future and the persistence of traditions to subvert the new.”

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10.4.13

Eight Women – Artist / Cricket Saleh

Cricket is a photographer based in Newtown, Geelong.  From her studio, she works with a cross section of fashion based businesses photographing campaign imagery.  Cricket has continued to exhibit her photographic artwork over the course of 20 years.

‘This body of work is a continuation of my last project – Immersed. It is also a prequel to the next project,’ the Butcher.’

I am interested in a conversation in how we source our food. This body of work begins to create a framework for this discussion, through the study of light and texture in the still life.  Within this space foodstuff comes and goes.  The abode in which this frame exists, houses the collected food and the space in which it is consumed.  The time of day changes and is indicated by the quality and temperature of the light, the clean light of mid morning through a small Dutch window, the racked warm tungsten light through the slit of an open door after sun down. Through the still life, or vignette if you will, human consumption is the focus.  I look forward to continuing this study over the coming year.’

Cricket’s photographs are part of our current show “Eight Women” which continues through to 27 April

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