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31 Days of Practice | End of Week Four

 

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31 Days of Practice | End of Week Three

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31 Days of Practice | End of Week Two.

 

 

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'Multi-Grip' | Articulate project space

I'm currently in a group show at Articulate project space.


Open 11am - 5pm, Fri - Sun, July 12 to July 28 at Articulate project space 
497 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt. NSW 2040. Australia.

MULTI_GRIP is an exhibition of work by artists Connie Anthes, Sue Callanan, Lynne Eastaway, Jane Gavan, Beata Geyer, Lesley Giovanelli, Adrian Hall, Georgina Pollard, Alicia Poppett, Margaret Roberts, Tania Rollond, Kathryn Ryan, Kelley Stapleton, Skye Wagner, Emma Wise and Ling Yuen.

'While the works come from whatever is currently happening in each artist's practice, the exhibition also reflects Articulate's focus on relationships artworks construct with their location. The spatial and physical nature of artworks mean they attach to their physical location in one way or another, and it is this physical relationship, as well as the expected multiplicity of those 'gripping' methods, that is acknowledged in the title.' (Articulate project space) 

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 Finger Grips for Stairs

 Finger Grips for Wall

Finger Grips for Floor

31 Days of Practice | End of Week One

 31 Days of Practice

31 Days of Practice

For the month of July I'll be partaking in Gallery Red's 31 Days | Blur the Lines project. The concept and exhibition 'is about the artistic process, the ebb and flow of ideas and the resultant daily outcomes. This year’s theme, Blur the Lines reflects the interlude between the process and the final artwork. Blur the Lines refers to the loss of sight and the overlap of days as the ideas of one day bleed into the next, influencing and evolving the work until it becomes clear and reaches a resolution.' (Gallery Red).

Each day I'll be posting what I've made at 31 Days of Practice. While it may seem strange to deviate from Pieces of Practice, the intensive nature of the project and its enclosed time frame made another space seem more fitting.

New Website

When I started Pieces of Practice I saw it as a means to emulate what occurred in the studio; To capture the haphazard, accidental, and constructed arrangements that took place there. With the absence of a studio at the present, I find myself drawn to outside exhibition spaces in order to develop work. While I don't mind those developments sitting here, I felt that they too needed their own different, formalised, space. This goes by way of saying I've made a new website to complement Pieces of Practice.

www.kathrynryan.net

Pieces of Practice | Articulate Project Space Project | Lodz Art and Documentation Festival

Booklet of drawings from my time working in the Articulate Project Space. As part of Articulate's Project Space Project documentation was sent to the Lodz Art and Documentation Festival in Poland in April 2012. The book has since returned.

 

 

Cardboard, Paper, Pen, Cotton, Label

See previous post on Articulate's Project Space Project here

Paper. Sound. Fable | Sound Object Collaboration

Alex and I have been working on a new set of objects and sound pieces during our time at 107 Projects. We've co-authored a blog to document our process/progress.

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'Melting Ice, Hanging Net' (details) | 107 Projects, Redfern

From Top: 'Domesticity', 'Melting Ice, Hanging Net' (details) File Boxes, Speakers, Wires, Masking Tape, Labels.

Domesticity

Domesticity is a fragment work that hangs somewhere between the exhibition and studio space. Inspired by the left over objects of Melting Ice, Hanging Net, and conversations with other artists on domestic chores, Alexandra's sounds of washing dishes, overhead aeroplanes, ukulele and washing machine evoke a space that is personal, commonplace and meditative, and links it to the sensibility of art works that are invariably 'left over'.

Domesticity audio by Alexandra Spence
 

Aeroplane, A washing machine cycle, Ukulele, Washing and stacking the dishes.

'Melting Ice, Hanging Net' | 107 Projects Redfern

Alex Spence and I will be installing our sound and object installation Melting Ice, Hanging Net at 107 Projects in Redfern.

Opens Thursday 2nd May at 6.00pm and goes to Sunday 12th May 2013. We will also be using some of the alcove as a studio to develop a new work.

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Melting Ice, Hanging Net audio: Alexandra Spence

Clarinet, Ice melting and amp clicking in a cup of water, Mbira (thumb piano), A man in Varanasi (India) reciting a Hindu text, Fish frying in a pan.

'Melting Ice, Hanging Net' | de-installation details

Linen thread, found doilies, speakers, sea objects, cotton thread, hooks, sinkers, wire, Articulate floor boards.

'BLEND' | Articulate Project Space

'BLEND' | Alexander Jackson Wyatt, Ida Lawrence, Kathryn Ryan and Alexandra Spence

Open 11am - 5pm Fri 22nd - Sun 24th February 2013

6 - 8pm Friday 22 | Opening Party
Performances begin 6:30pm

2pm Sunday 24 | Public discussion between the exhibiting artists, their mentors/collaborators, Alison Clouston and Boyd, Christine Olsen and Alan Schacher, Articulate artists and the public.

BLEND is an exhibition and discussion of the cross-artform project at Articulate Project Space in 2012-13. Where by, young and emerging artists teamed up with established artists from other artistic fields to produce site specific works for the project space.

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Photo: Peter Murphy

Melting Ice, Hanging Net

Kathryn's objects and Alex's sounds combine to form the installation Melting Ice, Hanging Net. Mentored by collaborators, visual artist Alison Clouston and musician Boyd, Alex and Kathryn were given the opportunity not only to work with a different artform but to partake in a collaborative process. Because of this Alex and Kathryn also benefited from the experience of the artist from their own field.

The work took shape from conversations on landscape, process, and materials, hooking into the similarities between the watery sounds of Alex and the sea objects of Kathryn, and the elongated beamed hanging space of Articulate. A defining part of the process was reflecting on the physical object elements of the the sound components (the wires and speakers) and integrating  them within the body of the work.

Alex has captured and manipulated the found sounds of fish frying, ice melting and the overheard recitation of the Ramayana (a Hindu epic) by a man in Varanasi, and joined them with Clarinet and Mbrina samples. Kathryn has used found sea objects, and re-worked found doilies  to catch and cradle the speakers for Alex's ephemeral sounds. the 'live' wires fall and snake along the floor imagining the space's desire to be both under the sea, fisherman's shack, and collector's curio study.

This project  is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.