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These two new exhibitions bring together Olympic construction related photographs and memorabilia with specially commissioned artworks on the themes of construction and sustainable development.
Accompanying the digital projection is a set of murals on concrete slabs again showing building and other workers at work during the Olympics - referring to the more human and humane side of the process of change. When: 23 June to 30 September 2007, Weekends Only 10am to 4pm Where: Armory Gallery,Building 18, Newington Armory,Jamieson Street, NSW     
In this exciting project that I am currently involved in for the Harris Community Centre in Ultimo, NSW, I am painting a large-scale - 7.5m x 3.5x - outdoor mural with community input in it. The mural is based on a sun mandala pattern and I suppose it's going to look really great and add immensely to the visual stimulus of the Centre front and its surroundings when executed.
Inspired by histories of dissent – histories with numerous and various trajectories - this exhibition project was initiated by the struggles of the peoples of the Asia Pacific region that are challenging the dominant trade and economic policies promoted by forums such as APEC. Trajectories of Dissent encourages people to draw their own trajectories. 24th August: Exhibition Launch - Drinks & Music 6pm Tooth Studios 67 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville Exhibition open 24th Aug.- 16th Sept. Thurs. - Sun. 10am – 5pm 25th August: Exhibition Benefit Gig Extravaganza ($7 on the door) 7pm Tooth Studios 67 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville 29th August: Artist/Community Response Opening 6pm Little Fish Gallery, 22 Enmore Rd, Enmore Exhibition open 29th Aug - 9th Sept. Thurs. - Sun. 11am – 5pm 5th September: Opening/Community and Activist Dialogue 6pm Mori Gallery, 168 Day Street, City Joined by members from the Asia Pacific Research Network. Exhibition open 5th Sept. - 8th Sept. 11am - 6pm View the flyer for Trajectories of Dissent. 100 International & Australian artists + 100 skateboard decks = 100% contribution to The Cancer Council NSW Across the Board is a charity auction art exhibition is taking place between 3 to 10 August 2007 at Wallspace Gallery, Surry Hills, NSW. For those of you who missed to check it out at Windsor, this is a second opportunity to do so. Previous posting: Synthetic Spaces, Western Front 2007 Group exhibition of visual arts with a site-specific focus in non-gallery spaces from 8 June to 22 July 2007 at the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW. Artists participating in Synthetic Spaces are: Jo Ersten, Glenda Ewin, Fida Haq, Alan Jones and Robyn Ryan.
I'll update this space with more info as I keep working on the video based artworks I'm preparing for Synthetic Spaces. Here are a few images from the display that took place on 31st May 2007 at the Auburn Council Exhibitions Gallery by participants of the MiA workshops.     Photo: Fida Haq Top left: Objects on table, Top and bottom right:Objects displayed on wall, Bottom left: A hanging sculpture, All made of recycled materials Previous posting: I am the artist facilitator carrying out a series of workshops for Made in Auburn - a Sustainable Arts and Recycling Pilot Program undertaken by the Auburn Council between March and June 2007. Here is the MiA workshop program that has been unfolding for a few weeks now and will keep going till June culminating in an exhgibition of objects and crafts made by the participants. Information Session for Participants at the Regents Park Scout Hall. 10am-11am Friday 2 March 2007 Workshop 1 10am-1pm 16 March 2007 Material covered: Plastic Bottles Workshop 2 - EXCURSION Waste disposal demonstration and trip to VISY. 10am-1pm 23 March 2007 Workshop 3 10am-1pm 30 March 2007 Material covered: Plastic Bags, Chips packets Workshop 4 - EXCURSION Trip to Reverse Garbage and M.A.D Sustainable Art and Design Centre. 10am-2pm (4hours) 5 April 2007 ONLY THURSDAY Workshop 5 10am-1pm 13 April 2007 Material covered: Paper and Newspaper Workshop 6 10am-1pm 20 April 2007 Material covered: Other Stuff Workshop 7 10am-1pm 27 April 2007 Material covered: Jewellery Workshop 8 10am-1pm 4 May 2007 Material covered: Jewellery Workshop 9 10am-1pm 11 May 2007 Material covered: Jewellery Workshop 10 -EXCURSION Trip to the Newington Armory - Pilot project finalisation and evaluation with participants. 10am-2pm (4 hours) 18 May 2007 Launch of products produced June 2007 Eco-Art workshop on Sunday 17 June from 9am-12noon. Venue: Annangrove Park, Currie Avenue, Annangrove. I had a wonderful time with participants of all ages in this workshop. The focus was on art using recycled media and here are a few images of the terrific works the participants did in the workshop.   Photo: Evie Roberts Images of a few wonderful works done by the participants at the workshop at Annangrove
I could locate it at a few places: in front of the Council Headquarters at the intersection of Showground and Carrington Roads, in fromt of Castle Grand and at the intersection of Old Windsor Road and M2. Let me know if you spot it anywhere else. Also read more about it on the Council website.
And just to prove that they are worthy, they performed both at the kids' stage and the main stage. Here is a photo from their performance on that sun-drenched day for you to see. Previous posting: Here are details of the performance: What: We [Dhakai] are [Jamdani] Animals at the Ultimo Pyrmont Uptown Festival 2007 is taking place on 31st March When: 11:25 – 11:30, Saturday 31st March 2007 Where: Children's and Youth Stage, Quarry Green, Quarry Strret Off Harris Strret, Ultimo, NSW So be there to enjoy the performance and many other fun activities at the UPTown Festival which runs between 11am and 5:30pm. Affordable Australian Art has created quite a stir in the heart of Parramatta’s Shopping district and they are pleased to continue to do so. Located at the front of Westfield, opposite the railway station at Parramatta the gallery presents Art in the Round- New Works the works of over 30 Western Sydney based artists. The exhibition and sale opens on February 23 with new works from the artists and is sure to continue to stop pedestrian traffic. The artists who all reside in Sydney (and mostly Western Sydney) have provided new work for this exhibition. The range of styles and the diversity of the artists backgrounds and cultures has once again provided for fascinating collection of works. Affordable Australian Art presents: 23 Feb-21 Mar Art in the Round- New Works. The diverse and unique works of over 30 Western Sydney Artists. Thurs 1 March In-store demonstation by pastel artist Taryn Malzard (11am- 2pm) Thurs 15 March In-store demonstration by oil painter Elena Parashko (4-9pm) 23 Mar-14 Apr Art in the Round- Indigenous Artists. Modern and traditional influences result in an interesting range of works. Art in the Round is located at front of Westfield Parramatta - cnr Church and Argyle Streets. (Opposite the train station and below Greater Union Cinemas). Parking in Westfield carpark (from Campbell St) gives easy access to level 4 in Westfield will lead you to Borders and cinemas, just take the escalators at the cinemas down to street level and Art in the Round Open Wed-Sat 10-5pm (9pm Thurs) or by appointment
In this exhibition that peeks at the less glamourous industrial past of the Sydney Olympic Park as an abattoir and brickworks facility, I'm displaying a video work named Deep as a brickpit based on the Wentworth Common brickpit - the venue for the beautiful Ring Walk today. The exhibition is on at the gallery at Building 18, Newington Armory, Jamieson Street, Sydney Olympic Park and runs from the 24th Sept 2006 to 14th Jan 2007 (excepting Christmas Eve 24th Dec and New Years Eve 31st Dec) and will be open on Sundays only from 11am to 4pm as part of the Explore the Armory program. Entry to the exhibition is free.
Details about the work:
Brick is frontier grade material. Want to build a civilisation? Build brick. Want to found a city? Found a brickpit.
Want to raise walls so that you can have different rooms for putting your different emotions to rest? Make brick.
Brick is all too heavily laden with meaning: from being a metaphor for civilisation to being a symbol of the status-quo, the socio-anthropological connotation of brick as a building-block that lends itself to the creation of something greater is ingrained in our awareness.
In the video work Deep as a brickpit, I've tried capturing a few of these symbolic significance of brick and its manufacturing process by investigating the past glory and then the abandonment and the eventual beatification of the Wentworth Common brickpit at the Sydney Olympic Park. Images in the video are at times accompanied by sounds from SOPA archive and chants by brickbreaking women from my native Bangladesh where brick is not only made but also broken into small pebbles by these women so that they can be used in concrete structures. I believe traditional dance moves by an African Australian dancer incorporated in the video adds yet another layer to the pesky concepts of new frontiers, forced or unforced migration and the price paid for built environments in this post-colonial era.
Greenpeace ART4ACT!ON art exhibition and auction.Venue: The Gallery at Darling Park, 201 Sussex Street, Sydney Exhibition: 13-30 November 2006 Changing Nature 06 Gala Auction: 22 Nov 2006 at 7pm Online Auction: 20-30 November. Check it out at www.greenpeace.org.au/changing-nature My entry for the exhibition is named Six Seasons.  .
Affordable Australian Art now represents around 30 talented Sydney (mostly Western Sydney) based artists. Just so you know I'm one of those 30 artists, probably the least talented one :) They are excited to announce the launch of a new website www.affordableozart.com.au -making it even easier to purchase high quality affordable art and support local artists. The web site is being launched with an exhibition at Parramatta Westfield, the Round Store. The exhibition runs for two weeks only 20/11- 3/12/06. 9am -5pm Daily (till 9pm on Thurs) The Round Store is at the front of Westfield on the corner of Argyle and Church Streets, Parramatta.
Here is the penultimate video for dizzy@Marrickville that you can watch on YouTube here.
With a duration of 1'35'', the video profiles - literally - about 60 people who came to Marrickville Festival throughout the day in it.
The Best Of SNAP! 2006 is a showcase of artists, activities and future prospects which relate to SNAP! (Skills –Navigation Art Projects), an Arts Training and Infrastructure Development Program initiated by Fairfield Community Resource Centre in September 2005.
The Best of SNAP! 2006 represents twenty artists from Fairfield and South West Sydney who participated in project’s development through SNAP! Gallery, Artists Assistance Program and other Art Mentorship programs in 2006.
As the public artist/facilitator for the Living Streets - Hart Park Community Garden project undertaken by the Liverpool City Council,
I'm going to conduct a series of workshops with residents living by Hart Park in Warwick Farm.
This is what the flyer prepared by the Liverpool City Council says:
Where: HART PARK, Hart Street, Warwick Farm
When: 7 to 22 October 2006 Watch the promotional comedy made by Squeaky Wheel for WtSo6 on You Tube or on the Squeaky Wheel page.
Announcement and opening of exhibition: Thursday 24 August Exhibition dates: 25 August to 12 November Animals brush teeth in front of river/mirror 2 is a finalist for the exhibition. You can find a list of all the finalists here.
After making the rounds at 'Of Angels and Chariots' at Chrissie Cotter and at the WSN Launch, Rhythm of Life is being displayed at the Parramatta Council Library from 20th July 2006 and is expected to be on display there for a couple of months. It's also going to be unveiled one of these days and I'll put up the time and date when I come to know of it. Previous posting: WSN Environmental Solutions Grass Roots Sponsorship Program 
Well, finally managed to finish Rhythm of Life for WSN. It turned out to be even a bigger work than 'Scenes from Idyll' and a very different
one in terms of content and mood though both draw from the tradition of Islamic art quite heavily. Finding the realm of Islamic Art quite fascinating as it seems there is an absolutely limitless traditions and schools to delve into.Will put in info about the display schedule of the work at the Parramatta Library, WSN festival and possibly even at 'Of Angels and Chariots' as it becomes clear to me. So, please keep checking. Previous posting:
Ode to Pentagonia, photomedia, pentagon with sides of 61.5cm, 2006
21 June - 1 July 2006
Gala Presentation Night Saturday 3rd June 5-7pm Well this time it's a small indoor installation of a mandala recycling all the junk, unused or used-by-date-expired material that I amassed during an autumn clean-up of computer room and a bedroom at my place.
Artspace Gallery, Upper Level Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, King William Street, Adelaide, SA MAY 3 - 19, 2006 Auction May 19 2006 Work donated: Mughal 1
24 March - 6 April 2006 Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts House 275 (F), Road 27 (old) Dhanmondi, Dhaka 120900 Bangladesh This exhibition, my first ever in Bangladesh, will be a survey of existing and new works executed with recycled material that draws its inspiration from the tradition of decorative Rickshaw art. Also, there will be a display of all the photomedia works to date, probably for the first time so far, that I've carried out based on the 'Animals behaving like human beings' theme of narrative rickshaw art.
16th February - 2nd March 2006SNAP! Gallery, FCRC Level 1/25 Barbara Street, Fairfield NSW 2165 One of my entries in the exhibition named U Bring Us Rain (thumbnail on right) was an installation made of cardboard, newspaper and strings that I hung from the gallery ceiling. Click on the image to view the installation.
Here is 'Re-Mandala : How long is forever?' - the mandala that I made at the 12th Asian Biennale using roadside junk and knick knacks hawked by street peddlers.
Previous posting: Good news! Got accepted at the 12th Asian Art Biennale Dhaka, Bangladesh for my installation
'Re-Mandala'.
Just completed the humongous project that was Scenes From Idyll. Easily my most ambitious work so far in the 'drink-can' media - well if there is such a thing. Liverpool Hospital, NSW commissioned the work through Affordable Art Australia for the ambulatory waiting area of its Mental Health wing.Scenes From Idyll is a triptych with each pane measuring 60cms by 1.2m. The work is again inspired by motifs and patterns of ceramic tiles emanating from 16th/17th century Syria and Turkey and executed with the technique and riotous colours of Rickshaw art of Bangladesh. View each individual panel and the whole work on the Scenes From Idyll page. And see Geometric Beauties : Patterns of Islam for examples of other works belomging to this genre.
The exhibition aspires to shock viewers into consciousness about their stance on environment, sustainability and - oh yes - art. Hours: Wed 11am to 5.30pm Thurs 11am to 7pm Fri 11am to 5.30pm Sat 10-6pm Sunday 11-4pm
Monday 12 - Saturday 17 December Artists Against Sedition Laws Exhibition Venue: Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 1 Casula Road, Casula, NSW
When: 10am to 4pm on Saturday October 22 and Sunday 23, 2005
Where: Campbelltown Art Centre, cnr Camden and Appin Rds, Campbelltown, NSW
August 3 to September 4 Albury Regional Art Gallery 546 Dean Street, Albury NSW 2640 Works displayed at Albury are:
May 4 to 15, 2005 at the Addison Rd Gallery, 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville, NSW 2204
May 6 to July 31 2005, Parramatta Heritage Centre, 346A Church Street (beside Lennox Bridge), Parramatta, NSW 2150 Curator: Melissa Gilbert
I became interested in a circa 1850's wooden toothbrush - now broken in two with all the bristles missing - and a cracked fine china tooth-powder case which were found in the now-extinct 'Babe in the Woods' pub in Parramatta. So expect to see some really mischievous photographic works that these 'artefacts' inspired. Here's a sample.
Saturday 19th February 2005 at the Tantric Turtle “magical” rural property, 633 Old Northern Road, Round Corner, Dural (located just across the street from the Steiner School) Commencing at 3.00pm Organised by: Lena Puglisi from Artists Writers & Performers Coop This is an event/exhibition that will present the viewer a reverent or irreverent look at the Australian way of life.
Mori Gallery, 168 Day Street, Sydney NSW 26 January - 12 February 2005
Curator: Fida Haq with support from Gay Hendrikson, Curator, Parramatta Heritage Centre Click on the image below to view the online catalogue of the exhibition.
Blacktown Mall, Cnr Warrick Lane and Main Street, Blacktown, NSW Curator: Adnan Begic, Blacktown Arts Centre We Are Animals: A series of six digital prints of saree-clad animal-masked beings, exhibited at public commercial location and accompanied by one day public performance based on the 'animals behaving as human beings' sub genre of Rickshaw art from Bangladesh. Dimensions variable. Blacktown Mall, Cnr Warrick Lane and Main Street, Blacktown, NSW.
Dhakai Jamdani: A set of drink-can jewellery with Jamdani motifs and collection of sarees woven in Jamdani
tradition of Dhaka, Bangladesh, exhibited at public commercial location.
More info and images on We are animals - Dhakai Jamdani
26 July - 20 August 2004, Mon - Fri, 9:00am - 4:30pm Curator: Anne Gaulton, Cultural Officer - Programs, Holroyd City Council Press release The project was about painting a couple of traffic control boxes in Merrylands and Westmead areas of Western Sydney. The project was quite interesting for me as the ideas for the works came out of a workshop I held with year 11 art students of Catherine McAuley, Westmead. I guess it is interesting to see that in the kids' minds, apparently complicated concepts like religion, spirituality and multiculturalism can reside side by side without much fuss. Here are a couple of photos of the works:
Mondrian of Merrylands You can see the works at the intersections of
Anyone intereted in this mad project? Let me know. Mondrian of Westmead vandalised!
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Recently (sometime in February 2005), Mondrian of Westmead suffered an act of mindless vandalism.
The left side panel with the aboriginal flag and the front panel, especially the octagonal Islamic flower pattern and the paisley patterns by its side, got severely smeared by black paint from vandals' spray.