Jugglers Art Space Inc

Brisbane Artists Run Initiatives (BARI) Festival 2010
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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