West Space

A Matter of Factory

Humans like to bend the universe to their will. Curiosity leads to experimentation, invention and eventually enterprise. As the dominant species humans can create new life forms, shape and design specialised pets, guide ‘natural selection’ in farm animals. Humans are constantly breeding in the profitable traits (or defects) without too much thought for the repercussions.

Isobel Knowles Cat Rabbit

Friday 13 September 2013 to Saturday 12 October 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Life in Space

Pursuing an obsession for objects with mystery and purpose – or least suggested purpose and potential mystery – creates a series of curious gatherings with ritualistic possibilities. The exhibition will allow both the artist and the audience to entertain the promise of a suggested, unspoken narrative.

Dell Stewart

Thursday 20 September 2012 to Saturday 13 October 2012
Opening: Thursday 20 September 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

2 collections

Woman Vs Wild: Tai Snaith

Woman Vs Wild is a site-specific installation of new collage and drawings on found books and paper. Based around ideas of the creative self being akin to a wild animal; a beast that is put through various degrees of taming, compromise and process before publishing or presenting an acceptable outcome, Woman Vs Wild is a playful and wry look at women that have trusted this wild part of their psyche.

Tai Snaith

Friday 01 June 2012 to Saturday 23 June 2012
Opening: Thursday 31 May 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Domestic Death Rattle Adam Cruickshank

A project featuring transitional objects of domestic origin. Supported by a City of Melbourne arts project grant.

Thursday 03 June 2010 to Saturday 26 June 2010
Opening: Thursday 03 June 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

An Ordinary Kind of OrnamentHanna Bertram

An Ordinary Kind of Ornament is an installation which transforms dust into an ornamental carpet. The work explores the possibility of preciousness within the incidental. By symbolically using the language of ornament - which simultaneously adds value and is functionally superfluous - it seeks to highlight the ambiguities of preciousness.

Friday 12 October 2007 to Saturday 03 November 2007
Art exhibition in Australia.

Deep CutsEllequa Martin

Deep Cuts is an installation observing destructive and hostile deeds towards fragile environments. A mood of seizure and infestation dominates a peaceful place of habitation, from which an awkward overtaking emerges. Seemingly endless pillage and plunder is further morphed and manipulated to an irksome moment, in which things are forevermore left looking not quite right.

Friday 12 October 2007 to Saturday 03 November 2007
Art exhibition in Australia.

GulliverMelanie Velarde and Wang Changcun

Wang Changcun and Melanie Velarde first met while performing together in Shanghai, China in 2006. Both are interested in electro-acoustical compositions that take their origins in phonography. In opposing different field recordings they aim to create abstract soundscapes and to generate artificial sonic landscapes within a new environment.

Friday 12 October 2007 to Saturday 03 November 2007
Art exhibition in Australia.

All Flesh is GrassBrie Trenerry

All Flesh is Grass is the second installment in a series of video works which explore fear and control in mankinds uneasy relationship with the natural world. In her video works, Trenerry's characters are furtive, fugitive and trapped in hostile environments where they are subjected to recurrent physical manifestations of their anxieties.

Friday 14 September 2007 to Saturday 06 October 2007
Art exhibition in Australia.

Arterial EmbolismAnna-Maria O'Keeffe

Arterial Embolism is a sculptural scenario of a seemingly dislodged and relocated urban landscape. This room sized installation sees the spatial confines of gallery 3 tightly house a ruptured chunk of runway/highway, as though it were violently removed from some exterior scene and reconstructed within the gallery.

Friday 14 September 2007 to Saturday 06 October 2007
Art exhibition in Australia.

The Lost City of AdelaideJames Kenyon

What if Adelaide was a lost city? An Atlantis, an Ur, a Pompeii? A city and society so advanced and evolved that its people could communicate with a complexity, efficiency and poetry that carried meaning too great for the written word? What if these Adeladians developed a script with an added dimension; the third dimension...

Friday 14 September 2007 to Saturday 06 October 2007
Art exhibition in Australia.

Screen Test (Australiana) John A. Douglas

In these works, John A. Douglas juxtapositions two rural suicides from the films Walkabout and Wake in Fright. These video performances are a reflective synthesis between the two characters; one trying to get out of Sydney, and committing a sacrificial suicide, the other attempting to take his own life after a binge on alcohol.

Friday 17 August 2007 to Saturday 08 September 2007
Art exhibition in Australia.

Studied NaturesKirsten Bradley

Studied Natures is a suite of projection works resulting from a recent residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts, in the Canadian Rockies. Kirsten Bradley’s time within the national park resulted in the creation of a series of simplified parallel natures, which in their creation adhere to a range of systems, patterns and rates of change as found in nature.

Friday 17 August 2007 to Saturday 08 September 2007
Art exhibition in Australia.

UntitledSoo-Joo Yoo

Soo-Joo Yoo’s work is concerned with the anxiety and unsettling feelings experienced in her everyday life. Through her work, she seeks to question where this anxiety arises from and what the forces are that she attempts to resist, namely the confusion, loss and desire within her life.

Friday 17 August 2007 to Saturday 08 September 2007
Art exhibition in Australia.