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lisa-sharp · 1 year

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Repost from @articulateprojectspace • We are open tonight! 6-9pm‼️ ARTICULATE TURNS 12 #AT12 Dec 3 until Dec 18 Thu 6-9pm & Fri, Sat & Sun 11am -5pm CLOSING DRINKS SUNDAY 18 Dec 3-5pm 🥂🥂 Andrew Simms, Anke Stäcker, Anya Pesce, Aude Parichot, Beata Geyer, Billy Gruner, Brenton Schwab, Carlos Velasquez, David Helmers, Dell Walker, Diane McCarthy, Elizabeth Day, Elke-Wohlfahrt, Ira Ferris+11 others, Isobel Johnston, Jan Handel, Jennifer Chua, Jo Rankine, Juliet Fowler Smith, Kendal Heyes, Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger, Lesley Giovanelli, Lindy Yoannidis, Lisa Pang, Lisa Stonham, Lynn Godfree, Maria Constantinescu, Molly Wagner, Murray&Burgess, Noelene Lucas, Paul Sutton&Steve Simpson, Ro Murray, Steven Fasan, Sue Callanan, Sue Murray, Wai Ting Daisy Ng, Zorica Purlija Articulate celebrates twelve years of spatial, experimental and project work in art under a new board and collective. More info +online room sheet on our website 👆🏻link in bio 👆🏻 #opentonight #articulateprojectspace #turns #12 #groupexhibition #annual #sydney #sydneygallery #contemporaryartist #contemporaryart #notforprofit #thursdaynight #art #artists #community #AT12 #experimental #innerwestsydney #gallery #projectspace #twelveyears #celebrate https://www.instagram.com/p/CmKuB86Bbyv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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ekatsky · 3 years

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Night Time Diary 2021 Synthetic polymer paint on plastic paper 700 x 90 cm

ARTIST STATEMENT sometimes I write while dreaming the night rushes through along my ceiling a thought comes pouring as a flood, no stopping turning inside me like an animal that writes like I would do sometimes

Exhibited as part of BLUE TOO at Wayout, Kandos

27 February - 11 April 2021

MAPBM artists explore notions of blue through painting, drawing, video, photography, sculpture, installations and performance. Artists: Susan Andrews, M Bozzec, Sarah Breen Lovett, Cinzia Cremona, Tom Isaacs, Beata Geyer, Lynn Godfree, Anne Graham, Yvette Hamilton, Kenneth Lambert, Tom Loveday, Fleur MacDonald, Ro Murray and Mandy Burgess, Naomi Oliver, Katya Petetskaya, Janet Reinhardt, Alan Schacher, Ebony Secombe, Regine Wagner, Rebecca Waterstone, Miriam Williamson and Brad Allen-Waters Curated by Beata Geyer

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lavideenrose · 4 years

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Pietà

So, after discussing my ideas with the curator of BLUE, I came up with an idea for the performance and I’ve spent the last few days putting together a quick response grant application to pay for materials and documentation costs.

Here’s my description of the project for the grant application:

For this project I will be working with a long piece of blue felt (1.6m x 9m) and a chaise longue to develop a new performance that explores the themes of spirituality and depression represented by the colour blue and expresses my desire for a nurturing connection and care which could provide healing.

In the development of this performance I will experiment with wrapping and shrouding my body with the fabric while seated or reclining on the chaise. These actions will be documented on video and exhibited in BLUE (curated by Beata Geyer) at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre. This work is informed by depictions of the Virgin Mary cloaked in blue, symbolically represented in this work by the blue cloth, and by the Pietà, a religious scene that depicts Mary cradling the body of her son Jesus after his death by crucifixion, but before his resurrection. The wrapping and veiling of the body in cloth refers to the idea of depression as deathly, but also to the hope of resurrection or remission. The chaise is a reference to psychoanalysis, both the theory and practice, which inform my artistic practice and play an important role in my mental health.

Another important influence is Johanna Adriana Ader-Appels’ poem From the Deep Waters of Sleep, which she wrote after experiencing a premonition of the death of her son Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader. Bas Jan Ader was lost at sea in 1975 attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean alone as part of a performance titled In Search of the Miraculous.

Other influences include the blue sky as a common religious motif for the infinite and heavenly, Romain Rolland’s ‘oceanic feeling’, Yves Klein’s invention and use of International Klein Blue, and Joseph Beuys’ use of felt to represent warmth and healing.

I’m pretty happy with this idea as a starting place for the development of a new work. I think the blue fabric is a really great way to refer to the Virgin Mary and the Pietà without assuming one of the traditional poses from religious art. It has the added benefit of being a particularly ambiguous symbol which can also be read as a reference to the sky, or the ocean, or a shroud for a dead body.

I’m also glad to have abandoned my half-formed ideas about full immersion in water. I was not looking forward to the logistics of sourcing or building a tank and then transporting it to the gallery. Fabric is much easier to work with!

The other upside of this work, is that it could potentially reuse some of the fabric to make a Pietà-themed quilt. Whether I would make another small quilt, or a series of small quilts, or a large quilt, or all of the above, remains to be seen.

The only downside of this work (and it is self-inflicted) is my choice to use 100% wool (as opposed to acrylic) felt from now. It is conceptually more pure, but prohibitively expensive, hence the quick response funding. Fingers crossed my application is successful!

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tom-isaacs · 2 years

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Cementa22 is just around the corner and the emergency blankets are nearly ready. Here are some detail shots of each blanket and one detail shot of the mylar backing. I will be exhibiting these blankets and performing live at Combamalong Studios as part of my Emergency Blankets project for Carnivale Catastrophe @carnivale_catastrophe, presented by Modern Art Projects Blue Mountains @modernartprojects at Cementa22 @cementafestival 19-22 May, 2022. Carnivale Catastrophe is proudly assisted by the Australian Government @ausgov through the Festivals Australia program, Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal @frrr_aus, and NAB Foundation @nab. Emergency Blankets is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW @creatensw. Curator: Fiona Davies Exhibition Manager: Lizzy Marshall Invited Artists: Fiona Davies, Rhonda Dee, Beata Geyer, Anne Graham, Tom Isaacs, Kenneth Lambert, Sean O’Keeffe, Ebony Secombe. @fionahilarydavies @lizzy.marshall.779 @kenneth_lambert_artist @beatageyer @annegrahamart @tom_isaacs_art @rhonda_dee_artist @secombe_works_it @seanokeeffe00

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tom-isaacs · 2 years

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I recently exhibited three quilts, collectively titled Emergency Blankets, and delivered a performance of the same name as part of Carnivale Catastrophe @carnivale_catastrophe, presented by Modern Art Projects Blue Mountains @modernartprojects at Cementa22 @cementafestival 19-22 May, 2022.

There are many professional photos to come, but here's a few amateur shots in the meantime. There’s also a great review of Cementa22 by Anastasia Murney at MeMO Review (and my work gets a mention!).

Carnivale Catastrophe is proudly assisted by the Australian Government @ausgov through the Festivals Australia program, Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal @frrr_aus, and NAB Foundation @nab. Emergency Blankets is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW @creatensw.

Curator: Fiona Davies Exhibition Manager: Lizzy Marshall Invited Artists: Fiona Davies, Rhonda Dee, Beata Geyer, Anne Graham, Tom Isaacs, Kenneth Lambert, Sean O’Keeffe, Ebony Secombe.

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tom-isaacs · 3 years

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Pietà - Tom Isaacs Photography: Alex Wisser MAPBM members' exhibition BLUE TOO (curated by Beata Geyer) at WAYOUT ArtSpace in Kandos until 11 April 2021.

#art #art installation #installation art #video art #performance art #documentation #performance documentation #blue too #mapbm #modern art projects blue mountains #tom isaacs #Pietà #beata geyer #cementa #kandos #wayout artspace

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tom-isaacs · 3 years

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#art #WAYOUT ArtSpace #cementa #kandos #alex wisser #beata geyer #tom isaacs #pietà #art exhibition #exhibition #BLUE TOO #mapbm #modern art projects blue mountains

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tom-isaacs · 4 years

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Here's a sneak peak at documentation in progress for my new work Pietà which will be exhibited in BLUE, curated by Beata Geyer, opening Saturday, 1 August at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre.

(Videography by Danica Knezevic)

#art #performance art #pietà #tom isaacs #danica knezevic #beata geyer #mapbm #modern art projects blue mountains #bmcc #blue mountains cultural centre #exhibitionBLUE #BLUE #documentation #work in progress #sneak peak

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tom-isaacs · 2 years

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This is the third post in a series documenting the creation of my new work Emergency Blankets for the MAPBM event ‘Carnivale Catastrophe’ (curated by Dr Fiona Davies) as part of Cementa22. ‘Carnivale Catastrophe’ is supported by Festivals Australia and NAB and Emergency Blankets is additionally supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.

In the first post I shared the process involved in creating test quilts for the first emergency blanket. In the second post I discussed the creation of the wagga blanket and some problems we encountered. In this installment I will provide some insight into the creation of the second emergency blanket.

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tom-isaacs · 2 years

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This is the second post in a series documenting the creation of my new work Emergency Blankets for the MAPBM event ‘Carnivale Catastrophe’ (curated by Dr Fiona Davies) as part of Cementa22. ‘Carnivale Catastrophe’ is supported by Festivals Australia and NAB and Emergency Blankets is additionally supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.

In this first post I discussed the process involved in creating test quilts for the wagga. In this installment I will provide some insight into the creation of the wagga itself.

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tom-isaacs · 3 years

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Fall - Beata Geyer

Photography: Alex Gooding

#art #blue too #blue #abstract art #site specific art #site responsive art #painting #abstract painting #expanded painting #mapbm #modern art projects blue mountains #kandos #wayout artspace #installation #installation art #site specific installation

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tom-isaacs · 4 years

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Pietà - Tom Isaacs

(Videography by Danica Knezevic)

Here are some more images of my upcoming work for BLUE, curated by Beata Geyer, at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre which opens Saturday, 1 August.

And here is the short version of my artist’s statement:

Pietà is a performance art piece of variable length in which the artist explores different positions and poses with a long piece of blue felt. The colour blue has long held spiritual significance for different religious traditions thanks to its association with the vast expanse of sky and the unfathomable depths of the ocean. Blue is also commonly associated with sadness and depression, typified by the expression: ‘feeling blue’. On a personal level Pietà combines these two themes, mental health and spirituality, to evoke a desire for healing or resurrection from an experience of depression which feels deathly. Pietà also addresses the broader problems of alienation and fragmentation which, according to French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, are an inevitable effect of the development of the ego and the acquisition of language. Pietà draws from the fields of ritual, psychoanalysis and art making, which have all been proposed, at one time or another, as solutions to these problems.

#art #performance art #Pietà #blue #blue felt #exhibitionBLUE #MAPBM #modern art projects blue mountains #blue mountains cultural centre #bmcc #tom isaacs

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tom-isaacs · 4 years

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Pietà - Tom Isaacs

Blue - Rebecca Waterstone

(Photography by Cathrine Isaacs)

BLUE curated by Beata Geyer at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre.

#exhibitionBLUE #blue mountains cultural centre #mapbm #mapbm artist #modern art projects blue mountains #tom isaacs #contemporary art #performance art #live performance #exhibition #art #abstract art #abstract painting #non-objective art #non-objective painting #rebecca waterstone #blue

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tom-isaacs · 4 years

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Homes for Earth Dwellers (Ultramarine Blue) - Beata Geyer

#art #abstract art #monochrome #monochrome painting #abstract painting #expanded painting #ultramarine blue #blue #mapbm #mapbm artist #modern art projects blue mountains

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ekatsky · 4 years

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Idols 2020

Synthetic polymer paint on plastic paper (triptych)

180 x 90 cm x 3 panel

My apartment has just one window. It is large, old, with many windowpanes. There is a big tree right outside the window and there is not much you can see apart from its many branches. The window, tree, and blue shadows that these both cast on my walls at times had been my only connection to the outside world. In the time of isolation, I was reminded of Plato’s cave. In a cave-like dwelling, chained and removed from direct light, looking at only things that can be seen of the world outside – the shadows casted on the wall. Perhaps it takes isolation and being removed from light to be able to disassociate ourselves from the illusion of constructed reality. Now withdrawn and put on hold, we look at its shadows, we contemplate, we reflect. In The Allegory Of The Cave, Socrates asks Glaucon, “do you not think that they would regard that which they saw on the wall as beings?” to which Glaucon replies “They would have to”. With this sadden pause at last we have an opportunity to reimagine, remembering once again that our reality is made of imagination. It is not surprising that Plato starts his Allegory with Socrates saying, “Imagine this…” In 2020, the blue of shadows becomes the colour of imagination.

Installation view @ Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

Photo: Silversalt Photography

MAPBM: BLUE

1 August – 20 September 2020

Blue is the most popular colour in contemporary Western societies, a colour with profound social and historical associations and symbolism that resonates throughout art, language, history, religion, gender, science, psychology and more. The exhibition BLUE presents the works of MAPBM artists exploring the notions of blue through a variety of media – painting, video, photograph , sculpture, installation art and performance art.

A Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Exposé Program exhibition curated by Beata Geyer

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