Jugglers Art Space Inc

Exquisite Corpse Homage to David (Attenborough that is)
Group Collaborative Show
Opening Reception from 6pm Friday 3 September 2010
Exhibition from 3 – 24 September 2010

The Exquisite Corpse concept is one by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled, in this case by a group of artists….
Invented by the Surrealists, created here by 36 local artists and curated by the team at Jugglers, expect 9 eclectic works exploring the themes of flora, fauna and nature’s hero David Attenborough.

Jonathan Cajepe, Louise Wruck. Aaron Hill, Ben Havenaar, Angus Whelan, Anastasia Booth, Jane Parker, Benjamin Paskins, Travis D Hendrix, Kiera Kavestsky, Jaclyn Bates, Britanie Fuller, Gregg Greinke, Luke Kidd, Maxine Stibbe, James Alley, Natalie Symonds, Nic Plowman, Michelle Roberts, Mariam Arcilla, Sam Eyles, Eugene Von Nagy, Joel Doherty, Bridie Gillman, Cath Chui, Erica Gray, Shevaun Wright, Renee Rossini, Danielle O’Brien, Lucinda Wolber, Peter Breen, Fiona Kennedy-Altoft, Sue-Ching Lascelles, Douglas St Clair, Terry Summers and Anthony Ryan

— Jugglers 18/08/10

Baklavic Nevakov & the Contextual Confusion
Angela Hughes
Opening Reception from 6pm Friday 3 September 2010
Exhibition from 3 – 24 September 2010

Angela Hughes work embraces similar notions of how humans relate to animals. Working in multi media to create her works, Hughes describes her practice as having “very personal aspect, sometimes bordering on the embarrassing”. Her works initiates a personal approach to alter the human relationship with animals in an attempt to create a deeper understanding of the importance of animals in our lives and in art.

Hughes holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts Honours and is currently completing her Doctor of Visual Arts. Baklavic Nevakov & the Contextual Confusion is the third solo exhibition from this young Brisbane based artist.

— Jugglers 18/08/10

About Birds
Dee Hutton
Opening Reception from 6pm Friday 3 September 2010
Exhibition from 3 – 24 September 2010

Born in 1983 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Dee Hutton now lives and works in Brisbane. In 2007, she graduated from the University of Southern Queensland with a Bachelor of Visual Art majoring in Painting and has since completed a Postgraduate Diploma of Education majoring in Senior Year Visual Arts.

Her last body of work explored the nature and beauty of birds and bucks and illustrated the emotional connections we have as humans with these animals. ‘About Birds’ examines more closely the human-like behaviour and characteristics of birds, and their ability to modify their behaviour and improve themselves as much as people might.

— Jugglers 18/08/10

Brisbane Artists Run Initiatives (BARI) Festival 2010
BARI Web BARI BLOG BARI Facebook

About:
The BARI Festival is an initiative founded by the crew at Jugglers Art Space in 2008, aimed at celebrating and acknowledging the creative and cultural contribution that is often harbored by Artist Run Initiatives (ARI’s) within a city.

Brisbane is now home to several well established Artist Run Initiatives each working within their own unique artistic frameworks and services for artists and members of the public. This year BARI will be host to a variety of events between the 1st – 30th of October staged at several Artist Run Initiatives throughout Brisbane, each providing workshops, forums, open studios, live entertainment and art exhibitions showcasing Brisbane emerging artists.

BARI is committed to developing programs, supporting Brisbane Artist Run Initiatives and identifies the need for opportunities for emerging artists via creative and cultural avenues + spaces. By staging and facilitating an annual festival BARI seeks to maintain a critical and ongoing dialogue between Brisbane Artist Run Initiatives and aims to cultivate awareness of the vital role Artist Run Spaces contribute to a city like Brisbane.

Events During BARI:
This year the BARI festival will host a program jam packed of events that will occur over the month of October and will accessible to the wider public.
Events that take place during BARI are unique to the nature of each space, they often range form specialized workshops, open studios, forums, critical discussions, performance + installation/site specific works all run/staged by innovative arts practitioners.

Brisbane Artist Run Spaces:
Brisbane is now home to approximately 17 visual arts focused ARI’s each engaging in critical dialogue with each other and working within their unique conceptual frameworks. All of these spaces are located within 4km of the Brisbane CBD and occupy warehouses, conventional gallery spaces, window displays & converted Queenslanders.

Brisbane ARI’s 2010:
Boxcopy, proppaNOW, Jugglers Art Space, Accidentally Annie Street, Flipbook, Nine Lives, Love Love Studios, Brisbane City Studios, The Wandering Room, InBetweenSpaces, No Frills*, MSSR, Old Space, The Fort, The Tidy, Level ARI, Spec Cepts

Contact:
If you are interested in supporting BARI Festival please do not hesitate to contact BARI 2010 Creative Director Megan Cope

W: BARI Web BARI BLOG E: BARI EMAIL Post: 103 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006

— Jugglers 30/06/10

Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing
Presented by Jugglers Art Space Inc.
supported by the Hopkins-Weise Family
Finalists Exhibition Friday 6th August from 6pm
Winners Announced at the Opening Reception

The Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing encourages but is not limited to, artists whose approach to this medium is inherently innovative and not restricted by traditional notions of illustration. In keeping with the spirit of namesake Marie Ellis OAM, this prize aims at showcasing the work of applicants who engage with the medium honestly, passionately and beyond the boundaries of what is conventionally expected.

In 2010, we are proud for the first time to be able to offer three prizes for excellence in drawing. Judged by renowned artist Vernon Ah Kee, Jugglers Artist in Residence Nic Plowman, and Jeff Hopkins-Weise whom without, this prize would not have been possible, the total value reaches $5000 in acquisitive and non-acquisitive awards. Importantly this annual prize also celebrates the history of Jugglers Art Space Inc and the significance of the 103 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley address.
Marie Corella Ellis OAM (1918-2003) was a long-term resident and dressmaker in Fortitude Valley, Queensland for most of her life. Marie was named after the Victorian-period celebrity author Marie Corelli after being born in the Valley in February 1918. For 60 or more years she lived at the address 101-103 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, where Jugglers Art Space is now situated.

Throughout her life Marie’s love of the Girl Guide movement, children and arts & crafts saw her contributing to the greater community through a lifetime of service. Among many awards throughout her life, in 1979 Marie was recognised for services to handicapped children through the Girl Guide Association of Queensland by the award of the Order of Australia Medal. She passed away in March 2003, and this prize has since been established to help perpetuate Marie’s memory and her love of art and helping others.

— Jugglers 30/06/10

TWO NEEDLES ONE YARN
SUE-CHING LASCELLES and NIC PLOWMAN

Opening Reception from 6pm FRIDAY 2nd July 2010
Exhibition runs from 2 – 30 July 2010

Jugglers Art Space Inc. is proud to present two of Brisbane’s most exciting and prolific young artists in the much-anticipated exhibition, Two Needles One Yarn.
Sue-Ching Lascelles and Nic Plowman’s paths first crossed over a decade ago studying Visual Art at The University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba. Since then they have been busy carving their singular paths in their chosen areas of media with both national recognition and international acclaim. Lascelles and Plowman, both Jugglers Art Space Artists in Residence come together for the very first time, presenting new work for this must see show.

Lascelles is a Brisbane-based soft sculpture artist specialising in the creation of everyday objects from felt. Her collections of soft sculptures are inspired by a playful, childlike vision of the world around us, rejecting so-called ‘grown-up’ forms of aesthetic naturalism. A keen sense of novelty resonates in Lascelles desire to transform the banal into the fantastic.

Plowman’s expert draftsmanship keys his paintings, creating visual intriguing work that is anchored by personal experience and a bold use of space. It draws on his personal thoughts about Art as both symptom and remedy. Plowman’s work can be found in collections worldwide.

— Jugglers 16/06/10

Opening Reception from 6pm Friday 4th June, 2010
Jugglers Street level space

Peter Breen is a Brisbane based artist and radiographer. In his work as both artist and medical professional he has been drawn to the beauty and starkness of the x-ray image and the experiences of patients during the x-ray process. In this Peter’s first solo show, The Space Between represents these aspects of the medical diagnostic process and invites you to reflect on your own experiences as either patient or medical professional.

Breen works primarily on paper, using graphite, charcoal and employing linocut to interpret radiography imaging and equipment, as well as the feelings, fears and anxieties that patients might experience in that “space between”, at the moment before exposure in the x-ray room.

This body of work also encapsulates a personal response from the artist as he reflects upon his own experiences of vulnerability faced during moments of unfamiliar circumstances. Through his considerations he asks what it is like to be a patient on the receiving end of the command “Breathe in, breathe out, stop breathing, now breathe away.”

— Jugglers 28/05/10

Forehead
Opening reception from 6pm Friday 4th June, 2010
Jugglers LEVEL 1 Space

An exhibition of recent works by four local emerging artists, Carmen Spencer, Ben Paskins, Kadir Kariz and Barton Worthington.

— Jugglers 28/05/10

Bad Pixel
Opening Reception from 6pm Friday 4th June
Jugglers Alleyway Space

Our visual language is changing! The moving image, such as film and the internet are becoming more relatable to a contemporary audience

Bad Pixel is a two-day contemporary art exhibition showcasing fresh new Video Art and Experimental Film. The event will exhibit works by emerging video artists from the Queensland College of Art. Plus, they are under the mentorship of professional video artist Chris Bennie. These artists recognize the cultural shift into New-Media. The artists and Bennie have been working closely together to create a new language for contemporary life. Women kitchen meditating, circus men throwing confetti and intergalactic space ships are some of the many highlights within the exhibition! These new video artists are Brisbane based and come from diverse backgrounds. They are a new breed of digital-savvy artists emerging from Brisbane’s most traditional art institution.

— Jugglers 28/05/10

Perseverance: A journey in Construction, Deconstruction, Reduction & Abstraction emerges in 2010 as the latest body of work from Brisbane based artist Sam Eyles. Through a considered process based methodology the artist deconstructs his original collection of drawings to produce this body of works on canvas.

The paintings offer a minimal aesthetic obscuring an underlying complexity in both concept and structure. With fluid drawing and gestural mark making the underpinning strengths of his practice, Eyles creates surfaces that evolve and multiply as sedimentary layers to reveal his inner most experiences. Flowing dark lines dissect largely concealed areas of paint and his emotional reflections, the underlying history of the work.

“He works as though aspiring to an understanding and enlightenment of the original concept, that through deconstruction of an artwork he will work towards a more absolute resolution of the idea”. Abigael Whittaker

Late in 2008 EYLES reduced his artistic approach to drawing in exploration of the six recurring themes that have flowed throughout his work to date. The universal principles of Suffering, Perseverance, Character, Faith, Hope and Love were interpreted via the image of the passionflower. Large-scale renderings on watercolour paper individually explored each subject through the use of text, black pastel, and eraser.

After the success of this body of drawings entitled ‘1/6’ and careful consideration and exploration of the individual ideas, EYLES decided to pursue ‘Perseverance’, at the time an overwhelmingly persistent concept both personally and in the collective conscious of those around him. 2009 saw the production of ‘Perseverance’ (The Drawings), which emerged as large scale, abstracted contour renderings on paper. In these works the Koi Fish was used as a point of reference for it’s strong iconography as a symbol of Perseverance.

Sam EYLES graduated from USQ with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting) in 2000. Since then he has exhibited in countless group exhibitions throughout Australia and Solo shows in both Queensland and New South Wales. His work is held in private collections nationally.

— Jugglers 21/04/10