Front Gallery:

"Butchers Wives"
Sarah Berners
August 8 – September 5, 2008
Opening Night Friday 8th August 6pm-9pm

An intersection of desires and anxieties regarding notions of the ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’ body as it is advertised within popular culture have led to, ‘Butchers Wives’. A combination of elements, of glamour and guts, which simultaneously seduce and repel, incite curiosity and disgust are above all, an exercise in the erotics of surface. These surfaces, which luxuriate in both veneer and viscera, pulsate between idealizations of the crafted and abject body.

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"Perceive.identify.archive."
Kristina Sundstrom
August 8 – September 5, 2008
Opening Night Friday 8th August 6pm-9pm

perceive.identify.archive, a time-based installation project examining constructed space, memory and the body. Regular interventions to the space will occur through  a series of two-dimensional screen prints that have been hand shredded and twisted to make three-dimensional thread-like ropes and knots that map events contained within the body. This process of growth and mass represents the temporal relationship with how we perceive, identify and archive sensory information.
The rhythms and patterns that inform the structures of identity and experience are key. The work is premised on the concept that humans receive sensory information through the body as patterns: therefore everything has a pattern. The artist is interested in investigating how these existing patterns build, develop and change over time, and in turn, how they determine our cognitive response to environment by providing parameters for our sense of self and connection to place. While the work references personal history it also investigates peoples need for pattern recognition and manufacture as a means of understanding and controlling their environment.

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“Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”
Alex Papanastasiou
August 8 – September 5, 2008
Opening Night Friday 8th August 6pm-9pm

"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" comments on the emotional isolation of the individual in society. The collages and dioramas show lone heroes wandering through lurid kitschscapes, where the line between the cute and the disturbing becomes blurred. In "Happy Valley," a band of soft sculpture mutant creatures in pastel colours wander through an idyllic miniature vale. The artist’s short film "In the Pink" follows a young woman through a series of hypothetical travels, showing her potential elevator companions should she arrive home after an hour, an hour and five minutes, an hour and twenty...

"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" will be Alex Papanastasiou’s debut solo show.

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