Upcoming
October 2020 at Wellington St Projects
House Hold Me
Sally Anderson
Exhibition Opening
Wednesday October 14th
Exhibition continues
October 15th – 25th
Gallery hours
Thursday to Sunday 11-5 pm
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There are many ways we remember, occupy space and anticipate situations. House Hold Me uses dualities (foreground/background, floating/falling, verity/mendacity, interior/exterior, remembering/forgetting) to reinterpret understandings of familiar spaces and situations.
These painterly works use intuitive colour-play and suggestive architectural motifs within abstracted landscapes to destabilise rational delineation of space, perspective, emotion and association. Deliberate metaphoric reference to still-life and landscape, both experienced and anticipated, are suggestive of language and thought, presence and absence.
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September 2020 at Wellington St Projects
Sealed Earth
Harriet Body
Exhibition Opening
Wednesday September 16th
Exhibition continues
September 17th – 27th
Gallery hours
Thursday to Sunday 11-5 pm
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Beginning On 1 July, 2020 and finishing on 30 June, 2020 I underwent a daily task of repeatedly grasping clay within my hand. The resulting ceramic installation titledSealed Earth consists of 2020 individual ‘grasps’ and behaves as a catalogued index of the movement of my creative body through a time period of one financial year.
Creating Sealed Earth was never intended as an imposition. It was not meant as a test of endurance, nor to enslave me to my own creative process. Rather, the task became a gentle accompaniment to my every day routine – a log book was kept and days missed were acknowledged and recorded.
My art practice often involves me imposing sets of rules and parameters upon my creative process. The parameter of one financial year for Sealed Earth allowed me to examine how my art-work, being concept-based, can exist in a “real-life” economy and thus the resulting ceramic installation also becomes a survey of my productivity as an artist.
I will also be exhibiting two new paintings, Sticks and Stones One and Two, made from hand-made pigment from porcelanite rocks on washi paper, also hand-made during a recent masterclass at the Awagami Papermaking Factory in Tokushima, Japan.
There will be an essay written by Chloé Wolifson available at the exhibition opening.
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August 2020 at Wellington St Projects
Laminate
James Leiutenant
Exhibition Opening
Wednesday August 19th
Exhibition continues
August 20th – August 30th
Gallery hours
Thursday to Sunday 11-5 pm
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The exhibition Laminate is a product of collecting, archiving and translating. This new series of paintings and screen prints by James Lieutenant grew from the process of collecting litter. Tiny pieces of indiscernible debris become large, highly detailed images that sit somewhere between abstraction and figuration. Scale becomes disorientating and distorted, offering no solid reference to place these objects in reality. The surface and texture of these highly detailed works becomes the focus, with specks of dust and dirt enlarged to an unearthly size.
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Image:
Found Black Rubber with Dirt Pattern, 2020
Acrylic on Canvas
80x80cm
July 2020 at Wellington St Projects
UGLY ANGRY
Rafaela Pandolfini
Exhibition Opening
Wednesday July 22nd 6-8pm
Exhibition continues
July 23rd – August 2nd
Gallery hours
Thursday to Sunday 11-5 pm
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Ugly Angry is the second part of a three-part series. Through photographic, video and sound installation the work focuses on latent anger that lies beneath the surface. Because of my complex relationship to anger I look at Jo Spence and Rosy Martins’ ideas of phototherapy and reconstruction when defining my methodology in Ugly Angry. I continue to look to the approach of reconstruction through an examination of Mike Kelley’s work, in particular through his large–scale piece Day is Done (2020/05) and his reimagining of events via sound and video installations. I also refer to Jean Luc Godard’s editing techniques to explore ideas of audience interactivity. I employ stereotypical representations of femininity to depict women and anger, and compare this technique to Monika Tichacek and her work Lineage of the Divine (2020). Ugly Angry sees a very different style of movement used to convey emotion, which is inspired by Yvonne Rainer and her seminal piece Trio A. While I am physically present in this work, I still use the camera, costume and a subject to create distance and remove myself from focus.
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Image info – Ugly Angry #9, 2020/14, 26.5 x 40cm, semi gloss photo paper, ed of 3 + AP
June 2020 at Wellington St Projects
The View
Eleanor Louise Butt
Ellen Dahl
Lydia Dowman
David Manley
Scott Morrison
Naomi Riddle
Talia Smith
Exhibition Opening
Wednesday June 24th 6-8pm
Exhibition continues
June 25th – July 5th
Gallery hours
Thursday to Sunday 11-5 pm
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Curated by Talia Smith
“The landscape functions as a mirror and a lens: in it we see the space we occupy and ourselves as we occupy it.”
Joachim Koester
The View brings together seven emerging artists whose practices examine the often-tenuous relationship between man and the land we inhabit. Belonging, comfort, home, a resource – the landscape and our relationship to it can be interpreted in many ways, with the passing of time it has come to bear these physical and psychological marks. The marks of what has come before and what will come after.
From explorations of the unexplored neighbourhood to modern day ruins to the tension within the landscape, this exhibition aims to present seven different ‘views’ of the landscape that each of these artists experience.
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Image details: Lydia Dowman, 34° South, Pigment print on photo rag paper, 2020
May 2020 at Wellington St Projects
BIG DAMN TRAGEDIAN
JONATHAN MCBURNIE
Exhibition Opening
Wednesday May 27th 6-8pm
Exhibition continues
May 28th – June 7th
Gallery hours
Thursday to Sunday 11-5 pm
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Statement
In McBurnie’s latest works, the melodramas unfolding appear to be imitating the melodramas of life. Or are these apparent parallels merely coincidence? The art gallery is transformed from a site of cultural significance and veneration into an arena of heaving, steroidal masculine bravado and genetically-modified, cosmetically-enhanced vulgarity of the commodified feminine, all clashing for the top spot in the next art ‘event’. Here, the art event closes in on the narrative absurdity of the comic book event, which tends to feature a more robust, end-of-the world crossover appeal than its more cultured, but depraved uncle, the fine arts. Big Damn Tragedian is narrative voyeurism for a vacuous, doomed generation.
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Image details: Flex Low, Sweet Charriot (get ze Chopair)2020, Ink, watercolour and gauche on paper, 575 x 440 mm
April 2020 at Wellington St Projects
UNIFICATION
Bruce Reynolds
Exhibition Opening
Wednesday April 29th 6-8pm
Exhibition continues
April 30th – May 10th
Gallery hours
Thursday to Sunday 11-5 pm
Exhibition Statement
March 2020 at Wellington St Projects
Some Rocky Socket
Deb Mansfield
Exhibition Opening
Wednesday March 4th 6-8pm
Exhibition continues
March 5th – 19th
Special event
March 19th
Artmonth 2020 Chippendale precinct artbar hosted by Wellington St Projects
Gallery hours
Thursday to Sunday 11-5 pm
Exhibition Statement
Some Rocky Socket is a project that brings to light the artist’s and her family’s sea-faring history. Mansfield, who worked as a sailor between 2020-2020, has created with Some Rocky Socket a body of work about her Grandfather, who was a Captain in the British Navy dismantling ocean mines post-WWII, and in later years, designing sea craft.
Using photographs from the family archive, Mansfield has crafted three hand-woven photo-tapestries, replicating an ocean-mine being destroyed/detonated at sea, a portrait of her Grandfather (who bears a striking resemblance to the artist herself), and a design for a submarine launched MiG-25 Foxbat – a fantastical idea that did not get realised until well after the Captain’s death.
Some Rocky Socket continues Mansfield’s research into island and ocean geographies – as a way of investigating the nature of boundaries and exploratory travel.
Its also Wellington St Projects 2nd Birthday! come and celebrate with us!
Wellington St Projects
studio 8, 19-25 Wellington St
Chippendale, 2020
November 2020 at Wellington St Projects
RETRIEVAL
Jack Banduch and Nichola Palazzi.
Exhibition Opening
6 – 8 pm Wednesday November 12th
Exhibition continues
14th – 16th October
Gallery hours
Fri 12-6pm
Sat 12-6pm
Sun 12- 6pm
RETRIEVAL seeks to navigate the imposed line of division situated between subjectivity and objectivity. An exploration of the relative, interconnected nature of condition and consequence, what it is to seek, perceive and retrieve form and value through experience and the photographic image.
Wellington St Projects
studio 8, 19-25 Wellington St
Chippendale, 2020
October 2020 at Wellington St Projects
Save As
GENEVIEVE REYNOLDS
Exhibition Opening
6 – 8 pm Wednesday October 15th
Exhibition continues
17th – 19th October
Gallery hours
Fri 12-6pm
Sat 12-6pm
Sun 12- 6pm
Overlapping layers of translucent paint obscure and reveal earlier compositions, forming tunnels leading into the work’s history. The resulting forms protrude and recede, oscillating between reading as positive objects and holes. Each work is based on a preliminary photoshop drawing, software that mimics the process of layering paint. Translating the compositions from intangible, infinitely reproducible, virtual jpegs into physical, handmade objects is an attempt to reclaim visual experience for the material and three dimensional.
Wellington St Projects
studio 8, 19-25 Wellington St
Chippendale, 2020
September 2020 at Wellington St Projects
Chinese Checking
MATT BROMHEAD
Exhibition Opening
6 – 8 pm Wednesday September 17th
Exhibition continues
19th – 28th September
Gallery hours
Fri 12-6pm
Sat 12-6pm
Sun 12- 6pm
You are invited to attend Matt Bromhead’s solo show ‘Chinese Checking’. An exhibition of new painting and sculptural works at Wellington St Projects.
Chinese Checking is built on the premise of positive tension; it aims to achieve a certain posture through inherently opposing forces and materials. It chronicles a relationship between attraction and repulsion, distance and sameness, and follows the dance of two entities that swirl around each other in order to achieve victory in the game.
Wellington St Projects
studio 8, 19-25 Wellington St
Chippendale, 2020
August 2020 at Wellington St Projects
Empty Vessels, Awkward Advances
CHRIS DOLMAN
Opening night
6-8pm Thursday 28th August
Exhibition continues
29th – 31st August
Gallery hours
Friday 12-6pm
Saturday 12-6pm
Sunday 12-6pm
A durry butted out in a perfectly cooked egg. A black and white stripped pot with a name of Beetlejuice. A painting of a geometric void with a garden hose nose. Enter the world of Chris Dolman.
Wellington St Projects is pleased to present Empty Vessels, Awkward Advances, an exhibition of new works by the Artist formerly known as Christopher.
The opening night will double as a launch for Dolman’s new website, www.chrisdolman.com with a small visual publication on the Artists recent practice, and accompanying essay by Chloe Wolifson.
Wellington St Projects
studio 8, 19-25 Wellington St
Chippendale, 2020
July 2020 at Wellington St Projects
Uncanny Residues
TULLY ARNOT
Exhibition opens
WEDNESDAY July 23rd
6-8pm
Exhibition continues
July 25th – 27th
Gallery Hours
Friday – Sunday
12-6pm
Through subtle alchemical shifts, Tully Arnot produces works which reinterpret existing understandings of everyday objects, their functions and our relationships with them.
By disturbing the familiar, he creates what he calls an Uncanny Residue. This manipulation of the quotidian, of objects that are known to the audience, disrupts our perception of everyday forms, vaguely but permanently altering how we see them.
The exhibition presents a number of sculptural experiments investigating the creation of an Uncanny Residue.
Wellington St Projects
studio 8, 19-25 Wellington St
Chippendale
May 2020 at Wellington St Projects
Fixed Object
PAUL ADAIR
KATE BECKINGHAM
DANICA CHAPPELL
KATE ROBERTSON
Exhibition opens
WEDNESDAY MAY 28th
6-8pm
Exhibition continues
May 30th – June 1st
Gallery Hours
Friday – Sunday
12-6pm
In ‘Fixed Object’ Paul Adair, Kate Beckingham, Danica Chappell and Kate Robertson explore contemporary iterations surrounding the ‘photographic’.
Following on from their exhibition This Has Been at c3 Contemporary in Melbourne last year, the group further investigates the logic of photography, through their independent practices, which span sculpture and photography.
Wellington St Projects
studio 8, 19-25 Wellington St
Chippendale
March 2020 at Wellington St Projects
SafARI 2020 at Wellington St Projects
Wellington St Projects are proud to present the work of:
James Carey
Penelope Benton & Alex Clapham
OK YEAH COOL GREAT
Opening Friday March 14th
Exhibition continues 15 March – 4 April
Gallery hours
Wed- Sunday 12-6pm
Curated by Liz Nowell and Christiane Keys-Statham, SafARI exists as the fringe event for
the Biennale of Sydney, presenting new work by emerging artists across 7 diverse spaces.
The Chippendale art precinct will come alive on Friday 14 March, with combined openings at DNA Projects, The Corner Co-operative and Wellington St Projects
For full details and performance times visit the SafARI 2020 website
Please see the opening night program below
Introducing the Artists’
Wellington St Projects are proud to introduce our SafARI 2020 Artists’ Penelope Benton and Alexandra Clapham, James Carey and Ok Yeah Cool Great.
Join us in Chippendale for the opening night of SafARI 2020 on March 14th from 6-9pm at Wellington St Projects, DNA Projects and The Corner.
December 2020 at Wellington St Projects
Opening Wednesday December 4th
Exhibition Continues
November 6th – 8th
Gallery Hours
Wednesday 6-8pm
Friday 12 – 6pm
Saturday 12 – 6pm
Sunday 1 – 6pm
Greedy Hen is a multi-disciplinary art collective, housing the collaborative works of Katherine Brickman and Kate Mitchell. They create imagery eluding to a playful black humour, unwritten fables, and subtle off-kilter sinister elements lurking amongst a kinder-esq beauty.
November 2020 at Wellington St Projects
Passing Through has been curated by Gallery Co-Director Katherine Brickman.
Passing Through
Maz Dixon
Emily Ferretti
Marita Fraser
Amanda Van Gils
Samuel Hodge
Opening Thursday November 14th
Exhibition Continues
November 15th – 17th
Gallery Hours
Thursday 6 – 8pm
Friday 12 – 6pm
Saturday 12 – 6pm
Sunday 1 – 6pm
Like the feeling of deja-vu some artworks have a hint of pre-knowing without knowing them at all. There is something simultaneously familiar and disconcerting, a sense of wanting to discover the greater story when only being presented with the tip of the iceberg. Crucial elements of the narrative are left undisclosed. The open gaps leave a space for the viewer to fill in details and come to their own conclusions, hint at action as having taken or about to take place, a questioning of what has or is about to pass. This implication of stilled time allows for a contemplation of the transient nature of the image itself.
September 2020 at Wellington St Projects
Curated by Katherine Brickman and Belem Lett.
‘Face Off’
Matthew Hopkins
Emily Hunt
Kate Mitchell
Tom Polo
Vivian Cooper Smith
Opening night
6-8pm September 12th
Exhibition Continues
September 13th – 15th
Gallery Hours
Thursday 6 – 8pm
Friday 12 – 6pm
Saturday 12 – 6pm
Sunday 12 – 6pm
Contemporary portraiture engages with not simply a likeness of physical being but rather the potential of the psychological to be personified in various material forms. Face Off revels in the awkward portraits created when the concern for a likeness of a specific individual is removed. The portrait then can assume the position of being an experimental representation rather than a literal one, which questions our assumptions of what it means to create or to be a portrait. The abstract, disguised or masked subject can reveal often hidden human characteristics. In stripping back the portrait subject, whether real or invented, these artists playfully reveal the unhinged, sinister oddities of our relationship towards the face and the psychology it contains.
July 2020 at Wellington St Projects
The next exhibition at Wellington St has been curated by Co-Director Belem Lett
Space is the place
Alex Clapham
Mike Hewson
Deb Mansfield
Opening
6-8pm Thursday July 11th
Exhibition continues
12th – 14th July
Gallery Hours
Thursday 6 – 8pm
Friday 12 – 6pm
Saturday 12 – 6pm
Sunday 12 – 6pm
Exploring site specific intervention and spatial interaction as modes of artistic production ‘Space is the place’ brings together the work of Alexandra Clapham, Mike Hewson and Deb Mansfield. These artists explore their individual practices through the adoption and interaction with the gallery space. Through mediated documentation, architectural intervention and structural illusion these artists reflect upon the exhibition space as being inherently present within the work rather than a space into which their work is placed.
May 2020 at Wellington St Projects
The next exhibition at Wellington St Projects, curated by the Directors Belem Lett and Katherine Brickman is:
Oi!
Sarah Contos
Will French
William Mackinnon
Julian Meagher
Joan Ross
Opening
6-8pm Thursday May 9th
Exhibition Continues
10th – 12th May
Gallery Hours
Thursday 6-8pm
Friday 12-6pm
Saturday 12-6pm
Sunday 12-6pm
‘Oi!’ explores a pop colonial landscape in Australia today. Each artist has been selected due to their multidisciplinary approach to engaging with depictions of “Australianess”. ‘Oi!’ playfully balances imagery delving into post-colonial critic, nostalgia and isolation with a prevailing sense of wry optimism and humour.
March 2020 at Wellington St Projects
Wellington St Projects launches it’s program with the exhibition:
Rumble
Greedy Hen
Gregory Hodge
Kirra Jamison
Belem Lett
Dane Lovett
Tara Marynowsky
Opening
6-8pm Friday 15th March
Exhibition Continues
15th – 17th March
Gallery Hours
Fri 6-8pm
Sat 12-6pm
Sun 12-6pm
Rumble explores the cross over between representation and abstraction within contemporary artistic practice. The artworks within this exhibition bring together six artists based in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne.
Wellington St Projects initiates it’s founding principle to foster creative exchange between a local, national and
international audience. We aim to build upon and sustain a vibrant and supportive artistic community.
