ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: DAWNE FAHEY

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: DAWNE FAHEY
01 MAY - 27 MAY 2013

Dawne Fahey specialises in fine art portraiture, landscapes, documentary photography and writing. She works as a freelance photographer, writer, educator and consultant. She recently completed a Master of Documentary Photography at Sydney College of Arts, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. Her formal qualifications also include a Bachelor of Arts - Psychology; a Bachelor of Health Science - Nursing & a Diploma of Applied Science - Nursing.

Dawne's photographs have appeared locally, nationally, and internationally in awards, exhibitions and publications. She was the winner of the 2010 Nadar Award and the Nada Fine Art Category Award with the World Gala Photography Awards. In collaboration with FIER Institute, Dawne's design work  for the Contemporary Australian Family Photographic Book took out the prestigious - 2012 Canon AIPP APPA Photography Book of the Year, and a HP Asia/Pacific Japan Digital Consumer Photo book of the year - co-jointly with its printer Momento Pro.

Dawne is the founder FIER Institute's Contemporary Australian Family Photographic Project and the World Family Photography Project. Both projects ask photographers to engage deeply with the notion of family life and relationships to make new work for exhibition and book publications. The Contemporary Australian Family Photographic Project is currently on display at the Brisbane PowerHouse Museum - consisting of a print exhibition by 29 photographers across Australia.

Dawne's personal work highlights an intense curiosity between self and other, in an exploration of the intersection between cultural immersion, identity, landscape, personal meanings, time and sensIbility. She is currently working experimentally with textures and hand-made prints using gum bichromate and cyanotypes to create fine art photographs, which are rich and vibrant, mood and colour.

EXHIBITION:
17 MAY - 02 JUNE 2013

Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun 10am-4pm 

Picturing The Orchestral Family - Sydney Youth Orchestras is the result of Dawne Fahey's year-long residency with Sydney Youth Orchestras, capturing their musicians in rehearsal, on tour, at camps and performances. The resulting images depict the diversity of the Sydney Youth Orchestras community, and the important relationships which develop through intensive ensemble music making. This exhibition is touring concurrently with Sydney Youth Orchestras throughout their performances during 2013, to help them celebrate their 40th birthday. A book of the same name created by Dawne accompanies the exhibition.

OPENING EVENT:
FRIDAY 17 MAY 2013, 5.30PM

The opening of Picturing The Orchestral Family - Sydney Youth Orchestras will take place in The John Paynter Gallery.

ARTIST TALK:
SATURDAY 18 MAY 2013, 2.30PM - 3.30PM

Dawne Fahey will lead an informal presentation about her involvement with the World Family Photography Project and the making of Picturing The Orchestral Family - Sydney Youth Orchestras.

EXHIBITION: TOPOGRAPHY BY JOHANNA TRAINOR & PAOLA TALBERT

EXHIBITION: TOPOGRAPHY 

26 APRIL - 12 MAY 2013

Gallery hours: Wed-Sun, 10am -4pm. 

Topography is the work of two artists, Johanna Trainor & Paola Talbert, visually exploring the social significance of the natural and artificial physical features of an environment in diametrically opposite ways.

Through her dark urban landscapes of empty streets & vacant disheveled building sites, Johanna Trainor’s photographic series Australian Manufacturing, captures the surreal singularity and fading vigor of the once dynamic & working inner city industrial suburbs. Paired with disrobing figures, her images whisper the silent demise of manufacturing in Australia.

Paola Talbert’s captivating translucent assemblages of glass fragments, scavenged at low tide, are arranged in painterly constructions defining a topographic edge. Juxtaposed with underwater scenes that reveal and conceal the body in a diaphanous plastic, her photographic series Gyre exposes the fragile ecology of our oceans & foreshores

OPENING:

5.30PM - 7.30PM FRIDAY 26 APRIL 2013

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: KATE BROWN

Kate Brown. Oh So Quiet, 2013.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: KATE BROWN
03 APRIL - 29 APRIL 2013

The Lock-Up is proud to introduce our next Artist in Residence, Kate Brown, between 3- 29 April 2013.

Kate Brown is a Sydney based artist, writer and musician, who studied Bachelor of Visual Arts, Honours at Sydney College of the Arts. With video, performance, installation and sound as major components of her practice Kate analyses the functions of the body/object to explore ways of remapping space and time. While the themes that occupy her practice are vast, she strives to investigate surreal, subtle, ‘other worldly’ technical qualities in light, sound and movement. Kate has more recently been placing her own body in video performance works where she questions the body and its context as a machine or landscape. These working methods help to explore ideas of the body’s relationship, potential and extension in an environment outside of itself.

Kate Brown has exhibited at Firstdraft gallery, been in residence at PACT theatre, Gunyah Artist in Residence, Q Theatre, Anyplace Project Space, performed in 2011 PACT Ensemble production Beguiled and was a part of Stage Juice’s Freshly Squeezed production Island. Throughout 2011 and 2012 Kate has experimented with collaborative performances and installation where she began to intertwine her visual arts practice with contemporary performance methods. During these collaborations she has worked with an eclectic group of interdisciplinary practitioners to realise ambitious works while exploring multiple creative channels.

Kate's current work So You Wanna Be A Penny Fiddler is a process based experimental interactive performance project. Over three residencies in Sydney, Albury and now Newcastle, Kate has invited members of the public to come into the studio and create their ultimate  B-grade music video for the project. The aim of this project is to unpack ideas surrounding the rise of talent shows on television and to play with the essence of what is good and bad in this context.

On a larger scale Kate is interested in exploring ideas surrounding excessive behaviours, ritual, magic and mass persuasion and communication. This project will be shown as a larger scale public performance meshing prerecorded and live elements together. www.soyouwannabeapennyfiddler.wordpress.com

EXHIBITION:
26 APRIL - 12 MAY 2013

Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun 10am-4pm

Kate Brown will develop and record spontaneous performance with local collaborators during her residency that will be displayed as a single channel videos alongside live performance in the historic Cells of The Lock-Up to form So You Wanna Be A Penny Fiddler.

OPENING EVENT:
FRIDAY 26 APRIL 2013, 5.30PM

The opening of So You Wanna Be A Penny Fiddler will take place at the same time as the opening of an independant exhibition Topography by Johanna Trainor and Paola Talbert in The John Paynter Gallery.

IN CONVERSATION:
SATURDAY 27 APRIL 2013, 2.30PM - 3.30PM

Kate Brown in conversation with Brian Joyce (School of Creative Arts, University of Newcastle), discusses her influences, being an Artist in Resident at The Lock-Up, her exhibition So You Wanna Be A Penny Fiddler and where to from here.

EVENT: NEWCASTLE WRITERS FESTIVAL

After hosting Newcastle-born writer Marion Halligan in January this year as part of its Artist in Residence program, The Lock-Up Cultural Centre will continue its support of writers in the region and beyond as a principal venue for Newcastle Writers Festival (5-7 April) events.  A total of eleven sessions (eight of which are free) will take place in both the John Paynter Gallery and The Yard eight on Saturday 6 April.  

Marion Halligan will return as a panellist in Crossing Over: Why young adult fiction isn’t just for teens and the Festival makes use of the unique setting of the former prisoner’s exercise yard at The Lock-Up with a concurrent session True Crime: When fact is stranger than fiction. 

To view the full schedule and book tickets, head to www.newcastlewritersfestival.org.au

Full list of events being held at The Lock-Up Cultural Centre:

SATURDAY 06 APRIL 2013

10am - 11am

+ Getting To Know You  

with Courtney Collins, Patrick Cullen and Ryan O'Neill. John Paynter Gallery (free).

+ Plotting The Perfect Crime

with Barry Maitland, hosted by Megan Buxton. The Yard (free).

11.15am - 12.15pm

+ Crossing Over 

with Margo Lanagan, Alexa Moses and Felicity Pulman, hosted by Kaz Delaney. John Paynter Gallery (free). 

+ True Crime: When Fact Is Stranger Than Fiction 

with Mark Tedeschi, Dan Proudman, Andy Muir, facilitated by Dan Cox. The Yard ($17).

12.30pm - 1.30pm

+ A Banquet of Bastardry

with Steve Lewis & Chris Uhlmann, hosted by Bill Leak. John Paynter Gallery ($17).

+ Me, Myself & I: Writing Memoir

with Michael Sala, Marion Halligan, Pip Newling, hosted by Karen Crofts. The Yard (free).

2pm-3pm

+ The State of Australia Poetry 

with Jean Kent, Phillip Salom, Anna Kerdijk Nicholson, hosted by David Musgrave. John Paynter Gallery (free).

+ Great Southern Land 

with Jesse Blackadder, LA Larkin, Chris Turney, hosted by Phil Ashely-Brown. The Yard (free).

3.15pm - 4.15pm

+ How To Read A Poem

with Kate Middleton Alan Wearne, hosted by Fiona Wright. John Paynter Gallery (free).

+ Nightmare Australia - Writing Horror

with Kristyn McDermott, Jason Nahrung, hosted by Jenny Blackford. The Yard (free).

4.30pm - 5.30pm

+ Robert Drewe In Conversation 

John Paynter Gallery ($17).

EXHIBITION: THIN AIR by CECILIA WHITE

CECILIA WHITE, THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER

EXHIBITION:

05 APRIL - 21 APRIL 2013

Gallery hours: Wed-Sun, 10am -4pm. 

Thin Air by Cecilia White is a series of installations and performance within the cells of The Lock-Up. Each cell, with its air and objects, interrogates the (un)known, the (un)space, the nothingness of (being) ‘thin air’... perhaps as the incarcerated once did not so long ago.  

Performance will take place between 11am -4pm on Saturday 6 April & Sunday 7 April. Public engagement is welcome.

OPENING:

5.30PM - 7.30PM FRIDAY 05 APRIL 2013

ABOUT CECILIA WHITE

Cecilia White is an interdisciplinary artist, whose work has been described as creating wondrous non-dualistic oscillations between the profound, the courageous and the free. Her multilingual, text-infused performances and installations evoke a poetic, haunting space where breathing is the creative embodiment of a sense of 'self' in a shifting world. Her works architecture a physical, spiritual and psychological space that challenges the drive for certitude, definition, knowing. Her art explores other ways of becoming through dislocation, release, wonder and stillness. She is creator and director of 'the breathing space projects', widely performed in Australia and internationally, engaging text, voice, body, improvised and traditional sound and a range of visual installations. These projects are part of her current PhD research at the College of Fine Arts, Sydney begun in 2010. Cecilia has exhibited, performed and studied in Australia, Europe, Asia and the UK. Her work is in public and private collections. She has won a range of awards, prizes and scholarships. Her most recent publication is the chapbook 'N THING IS SET IN ST NE' (Picaro 2012), based on her artwork of the same name. Cecilia White's work is widely regarded as profoundly rich, evocative and revelatory.