Call for Loose Threads

Loose threads are one of life's little problems.
Left unattended our buttons fall off,
our seams unravel,
our pants fall down.
Loose threads symbolise all that is unfinished in the world - that which has come undone.
I want to do something about it and I need your help
Send me a loose thread, textile is best - it can be extracted or found
I will tie it up, along with others, crafting a collective solution to an old problem.
Feel free to send this request on to your family, a friend, an acquaintance, or friends of friends.

Please take the time to contribute by sending your loose thread to
PO BOX 741, Newlands Estate LPO, Coburg, Victoria 3058 Australia
By May 29th 2008
Include an email contact address if you wish to be kept informed.

Roseanne Bartley (mailto:roseannebartley@hotmail.com)

Working with a wide range of materials and processes Roseanne creates jewellery and objects that offer a meditation upon the journey of material substances and their relationship to us, to time, space and place. Roseanne's projects often involve some form of social process or community participation. In a side street in Barcelona she initiated the 'Link Up' project – a collective drawing of a necklace, in Santiago she began documenting the extraction of a single hair from occupants along the lateral line of the Southern hemisphere, and her second Human Necklace performance project, Teardrop was held at the Southern Cross Station in Melbourne. A mother of two young children, Roseanne is temporarily unable to travel the world (or go out at night) but she allows this to shape her work rather than to limit it. To view her work

http://picasaweb.google.com.au/bartleybila/RoseanneBartley
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/bartleybila/LinkUp
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/bartleybila/HumanNecklace
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/bartleybila/CanYouSpareAHair

Queensland Photographer in From the Cold!

JUDY PARROTT, Moulting Elephant seals in their wallow beside Davis Station., 2006, silver gelatin photograph from Antarctica - A Place in the Wilderness

Having spent several months on an Australian Antarctic Division Arts Fellowship, Brisbane artist Judy Parrott’s exhibition of photographic works Antarctica - A Place in the Wilderness presents a rare and exhilarating glimpse of life on Australia’s most remote research stations. With the support of Museum and Gallery Services Queensland the exhibition is touring to venues throughout Queensland and interstate.

Malihom Artist-in-Residence- Call for Artists

ABN AMRO – Malihom Artist-in-Residence (“AiR”) Program of the Wawasan Open University Penang, Malaysia Call for Artists Session 1, 2009 (5th January to 30th June 2009)

Application deadline: 30th June 2008

At Balik Pulau, Penang, Malaysia.

The art in ABN AMRO-Malihom Artist in Residence Program (“AiR” Program) is intended to bring new inspiration, perception and understanding to the artists by providing uninterrupted time for work, deliberation, and collegial interaction with the environment and the communities within. We invite visual artists to explore the natural world in varicolored ways.

Residencies are awarded without prejudice, at no cost, to national and international artists in the disciplines of visual arts. Those selected are offered a preparatory allowance, monthly stipend, living and studio space for up to six months with an organized exhibition hosted by AMB AMRO Bank Berhad, Malihom Sdn Bhd and Wawasan Open University at the end of the Program to showcase the Artists’ works.

We seek applications from professional visual artists with national and/or international distinction, to create artwork and/or installation that can augment medium to large-scale thematically-based exhibitions.

For more information please visit :www.malihom-air.org

John Mateer Book Launch

(click on image to enlarge) for more information see: http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844712755.htm

Nonsites/Image Worlds at TCB

Nonsites/Image Worlds

Kate Woods

Curated by Andrea Bell

12 March - 29 March 2008                                                                                                                              

What do you get when you cross 1970s Land art with kitsch pastel-hued landscapes? One artist’s fragmented fantasy of the crystalline sublime. Kate Woods’ works are made up of two elements. The first is a kitsch second-hand landscape, the second, a geometric cardboard model based on the photographic documentation of Land Art. Paying tribute to Land Art pioneers Carl Andre and Robert Smithson (among others), these models are then placed over the found landscapes and photographed, to create floating multifaceted and refracted forms in the context of sites than will never exist.

Whirlpool (Oppenheim, White's Aviation), 2007, image courtesy of the artist

TCB art inc. artist run space

Level 1/12 Waratah Place Melbourne VIC 3000 AUSTRALIA
Phone +613 96638233 Email info@tcbartinc.org.au
Web www.tcbartinc.org.au Gallery hours wed - sat 12-6pm