The Madding Crowd

Ragtime at Global Gallery.  I’m not a big fan of Global.  I find their shows are usually a mish mash of neo pop hipsterism mixed with the saleable end of painterly abstraction.   There is usually one or two good artists amongst it though.  This time there were three.  Peta Moris, Gilbert Grace, and Cigdem  Ayedemir.

It was a wet and woolly night at Alpha House last Saturday.  Great party Wendy!

Kate Mackay’s beautiful work at Factory49 combines materially emphatic discrete forms and crowds them into such close array that relationships of color loose all discretion, bleeding into one another to produce modulated effects.  Someone suggested it was like looking at magnified pointillist detail.  

Last Friday at our very own St. Peter’s Triangle, The Night Garden bloomed in all its glory.  A brilliant, low key festival of light that flowed up and down our street in convulsing waves of illumination, and currents of passers-by hypnotised by the horticulture of the eye.    Thanks to all the amazing creative spaces and people that live in the shadows in order to bring things to light.  You know who you are.

Congratulations to my beloved Georgie Pollard and good friend Diego Bonetto  for winning The Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize!!  Also congrats to Kurt and Mareika for taking out the highly commendeds.  What a night.

Georgie had her first solo exhibition eva!  Through Lines was a massive hit with all the luminaries from all over the scene converging on A-M gallery for a repulsive festival of insincerity and compulsive networking.  Way to go Georgie!

Melanie E. Khava looking brilliant in her brilliant exhibition at F49.  Eric Neihbur was so impressed, he attempted to pass himself off as one of her works.  Sorry Eric, try less representation next time, though the shirt is wins you a ‘good try’.

I.M.B.A.B.A.B.I.T.S is well known for it’s obtuse, absurdly long acronym, but last Thursday night they took the war between theory and praxis to absurd heights.

A-M gallery opened last Saturday and Art Posse was there to quietly sip the free beverages and pass judgement.  And we judged it to be an exciting new addition to the Sydney scene. We’re looking forward to seeing even more fantastic art in our neighborhood.  Welcome A-M.  After that it was down to Tortuga to support our good friends there, which included the effervescent mizz Fleur McDonald.  I think the pictures prove it.  She’s officially possified.  As for the rest of us, all I can think for a caption is “a bucketful of suss”.

Contested Territories at ATVP offered a number of distracting amusements.  You could take a ride on the hajibacycle, or begin a revolution with Gilbert Grace.  For the more adventurous there was an opportunity to enter the mind of Christopher T. Virtue.  It was almost scandalous how people seemed to be angry about politics.

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