DECEMBER 2018
Exhibition Dates: 6 - 18 Dec
Opening Celebration: Thurs 6 Dec, 6-8 pm

BOX HILL INSTITUTE - CAE CAMPUS
A selection of new works by the Visual Art students at Box Hill Institute - CAE Campus
Artist: Tony O'Connor

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NOVEMBER 2018

Exhibition Dates: 16 Nov - 2 Dec
Opening Celebration: Fri 16 Nov, 6-8 pm

PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIES COLLEGE
​The culmination of four years of study, Fresh 18 is an exhibition of photography from students graduating in the Advanced Diploma, Art Major.
Photographer: Peter Bratuskins

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NOVEMBER 2018

Exhibition Dates: November 1 - 11
Closing Celebration: Sun 11 November, 2 - 4 pm

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COALESCE (RMIT Master of Fine Arts)
​With the desire to pull back the veil and bring to you the next generation of artistry and discourse, Coalesce ARI in collaboration with Julian Cobb, have curated an exhibition to invite you to glimpse into the world and breeding ground of the fine art student.  By the re-creation of RMIT artist studio spaces, see how the institution can create a sense of community and comradery not often shared outside the walls of a University fine arts program.

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OCTOBER 2018

Exhibition Dates: October 6 - 28
Opening: Sun 7 October, 2 - 4 pm
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BONANZA showcased new works and ideas in spatial arts practice from the members of the Contemporary Sculpture Association (CSA). 
Curated by Lee-Ann Joy
Artists:
Penny Algar, Louis Balis, Oliver Ashworth-Martin, Heinz Boeck, Cliff Burtt, Giordano Biondi, Helen Braun,
Katy Bowman, Aneta Bozic, Phillipa Byrne, Kerry Cannon, Betty Collier, Veronique Derville, Tanja George,
Andrea Hughes, Lee-Ann Joy, Monique Lacey, Julian Di Martino, Rebecca Monaghan, Rachel Mackay,
Donal Molloy-Drum, Linda Oy Ho, Sarina Lirosi, Amanda Page, Anna Prifti, Cetta Pilati, Milos Pelikan,
Kerrie Warren, Pamela Rataj, Andrew Smith, Cezary Stulgis, ​Robert Waghorn 
Judges: Rebbecca Daff, Anouska Phizacklea, Ewan Jarvis and Faddy Hachem
This years BONANZA also doubled as a farewell party for our much admired Helen Braun, who has stood down as the Chair of Yarra Sculpture Gallery after ten years involvement with the CSA and YSG.

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SEPTEMBER 2018

Exhibition Dates: September 13 - 30​
Opening: Sat 15 September, 4 - 6 pm
​Opening address: Jill Morgan - CEO of Multicultural Arts Victoria and Sarah Randall - Curator.

​'The Message'
Annette Chang, Senye Shen, Pimpisa Tinpalit, Avan Anwa. Curated by Sarah Randall

The Yarra Sculpture Gallery with the Melbourne Fringe Festival invites you to the opening exhibition of the 'The Message;' an exhibition of immersive installations from artists who unite to transform language into visible and physical forms.

Curated by Sarah Randall, this exhibition features the work of Annette Chang, Senye Shen, Pimpisa Tinpalit and Avan Anwar; four women who have moved from across the sea and have had their own, everyday language entirely transformed in a new cultural context.

Through their experience and studio practice, they carry a message to their new home and nurture our understanding of each other through the conversation of contemporary art.

Image: 'Dancing Letters,' by Avan Anwar

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​AUGUST 2018

Exhibition Dates: August 17 - September 2
Opening: Sunday 19 August 4 - 6 pm
​Opening address: David McAllister, the Artistic Director of the Australian Ballet.

'Alice in Venice'
Margarita Krivitsky

Artist, Margarita Krivitsky is taking Alice to the wonderland of her beloved Italy. Together they are dreaming of saving the most precious masterpiece in the world - Venice. Come and witness the dream unfurl.
A portion of the sale proceeds will be donated to the Save Venice Fund which is an organisation that saves and restores classic masterpieces.​

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JUNE 2018

Exhibition Dates: 1 - 24 June
Opening: Saturday, 2 June, 2-4pm

Gallery 1 
AMANDA PAGE
'Falling Away'

Amanda Page creates works about transformation, in capturing and recording changes of state in materials and processes. While the works reference ecology and climate and can be positioned within the framework of environmental art, they also reference change as a universal condition that connects all matter. Works develop from observing transformative processes in natural systems and phenomena, such as weather patterns, temperature, erosion, the interaction between organisms, metamorphosis, growth, and decay, where organic substances break down into simpler forms of matter, and how matter and energy change under varying circumstances. Casts of eroded housing stumps shown in stages of decay capture their disintegrating structure as they are eroded by elemental forces of water, compressed earth and time.

Projection Room 
MARCUS ENCEL
'The Demagogue'

An exploration of oration and demagoguery; the extension of power remotely as expressed through digital media.
Using video montage to create the hybrid character of a totalitarian demagogue using documentation of artists.

Gallery 2
JULIAN DI MARTINO
'In Otherwords'

In other words, presents almost exactly one year of sculptures by Julian Di Martino. The sculptures range from bowls of fruit to broken bollards. Found wood continues to be the primary medium used, but in a series of perhaps ten works showing tumbled street signs, broken bollards, and damaged safety barriers, concrete has been added to the mix.

Gallery 3
KERRIE WARREN
'The Last Supper'

A poetic composition that plays with the idea of ‘The Last Supper,’ in this case the final meal is provided by and shared with Mother Nature who plays a starring role at the table...
Elements of the installation include paintings on linen, wheel-thrown ceramics, artist-designed wallpaper, inherited items, the found and the ready-made. An intuitive and sensitive approach to a widely popular and controversial subject.
This complex composition evokes a sense of pause, and the spectator is invited in to experience (and thereby be part of) life’s delicate balance, its vulnerable fragility, and sublime impermanence.

MAY 2018

Exhibition Dates: 4- 27 May
Opening: Sat 5 May, 2-4pm

Gallery 1 + Projection Room

CHARLES-ANDRE` LEMIRE
'A Conversation #1'

“We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

This installation instigates a reflection about space – the space we share, the space we take, the space we can access or not. By filling the gallery with sculptures, the installation aims to question our relationship with the space we live in, how we respect it (or not) and the consequence of our presence in it. But not only this installation talks about space, it also invites the visitors to witness a conversation that doesn't happen, or will? 

Gallery 2

MILA POBLETE
'Santiago to Melbourne'

[Santiago to Melbourne] shows the artistic development, over the last 4 years, of Chilean artist Mila Poblete. Utilising sculpture and art installation as mediums, these works reflect her artistic research and evolution throughout her experience living in Australia.
Colour and geometry are combined to reflect the process of making and the state of immersion when fully absorbed in one individual action. A diverse range of materials are transformed into abstract shapes focusing the attention on what it is in front us: merely colour, texture, shape, design, light, hue and form... nothing more and nothing less. 

Gallery 3

ANETA BOZIC
'Convoluted Creations' 

Convoluted Creations is a continuance of an ongoing series of over the past few years, under the conceptual title of unNatural Hybrids.
This series explores the broad concept of the deconstructing, combining and merging elements from the animal, vegetable and mineral worlds to create unique hybridized creations. Predominately organic materials of bones, feathers, shells, branches, seed pods, leaves, stems and flowers combine with wire, glitter and metallic paint. These elements are scavenged and brought together in an organic way, allowing for unique combinations to emerge.These works will endeavour to question current boundaries, limitations and resilience of the natural world. It will allow the viewer’s preconceptions and imagination to be playfully challenged and stretched.

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April 2018

HUW VAUGHAN
'CONSTRUCTS'

SOLO EXHIBITION

Opening: Sat, 7 April, 2 - 4pm
Exhibition Dates: 6 - 29 April

My artist practice repurposes discarded materials, utilizing the natural faults found in objects to construct new narratives. There is an element of chance with the sculptures, working with the natural forms to add connection points and form personification.

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March 2018

Opening: Sat, 3 March, 2 - 4pm
Exhibition Dates: 2- 25 March

Amanda Clark 
'Seeing through a glass, darkly'
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Amanda Clark is a Melbourne-based visual artist working across mediums of painting, digital imagery and large-scale projection and light-based installation. Her work explores the transient moments of life, the people and events that touch us and leave their mark. Her use of light and projected images embodies the elusive nature of those memories.

Vanessa White
'BUDGIEMANIA: A fanciers folly'
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Paintings inspired by the luxuriant plumage of the oversized European exhibition budgerigar. These mutant birds evolved from the Australian wild budgies exported in the mid 1850’s. This series of paintings is a response to their luscious feather texture, through thickly applied paint and the application of fluid visceral painting techniques.

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February 2018

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December 2017

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November 2017

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October - November 2017

BONANZA
​YSG Members Exhibition
26 October - 12 November 2017

​Opening Celebration - Sat 28 October 3-5 pm
​Gallery Viewing - Thurs to Sun 11-4 pm

2017 Artists
Andrew Smith, Anne-Marie Kuter, Betty Collier, Carolyn Cardinet, Cetta Pilati, Cliff Burtt, Dave Waters, Faustus Sadouskas , Gayle Humphrey, Heinz Boeck, Huw Vaughan, Jackie Ralf, Jane Track,  Julian Di Martino, Kerry Buckland, Kerry Strauss, Leah Philpott, Lesley Walsh, Linda Oy Ho, Louis Balis, Lis Johnson, Liz Walker, Maggie brown, Michael Porter, Mitchell Jones, Oliver Ashworth-Martin, Rachel Mackay, Robert Waghorn, Stefanie Robinson, Suzanne Kaldor, Veronique Derville

Image: Artwork by Cetta Pilati "The Nexus"

Winners Bonanza

• Yarra Sculpture Gallery $500 Cash Prize - Helen Braun
• Contemporary Sculpture Association $500 Cash Prize - Oliver Ashworth-Martin
• BONANZA Incentive Award $250 Cash Prize - Lesley Walsh
• Solo Exhibition at YSG in 2018 - Heinz Boeck
• Yering Sculpture Prize 2018 entry - Cliff Burtt
• West End Art Space - Veronique Derville
• 6 month subscription to Art Almanac - Martin Heatherich
• Highly Recommended - Oonagh McGowan

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Judges
Anouska Phizacklea - Director of Monash Gallery of Art
Lisa Roet - Artist - www.lisaroet.com/biography

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October 2017

SCHEME 5 GARDEN

Liliana Barbieri, Susan Knight, Sarina Lirosi, Trevor Mein, Wilma Tabacco
 
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​5 October - 22 October 2017

​Opening Celebration - Sat 7 October 3-5 pm
​Gallery Viewing - Thurs to Sun 11-4 pm

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​The history of art is redolent with examples of gardens as places for
inspiration and as subject matter for art itself. Think Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh.
This exhibition is part of an ongoing series of collaborative projects that
commenced in 2005 and in this instance the artists have considered the
continued importance of the garden within the built environment.
Gardens and backyard sheds have been long established features of
Melbourne’s domestic architecture. However, with the continued proliferation
of high-rise apartment dwellings in both the inner city and outer suburbs
Melbourne is at risk of becoming less verdant. Charming old gardens and
sheds are being demolished at a furious rate to make way for new
developments and car spaces.
In ‘Scheme 5 Garden’ the individual artists have responded to the nature of
the garden as a site/sight for reflection and creativity.
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September 2017

TWENTY
Yarra Sculpture Gallery 20 Year Celebration
​in collaboration with

​14 September - 1 October, 2017

​Opening Celebration - Sat 16 September 3-5 pm
​Opening Address - Julie Collins founding member of CSA
​Music by the Stoneflower Trio
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Gallery Viewing - Thurs to Sun 11-4 pm

  20 years is a major achievement for Yarra Sculpture Gallery and to celebrate we have invited past and present committee members to exhibit their works in celebration of their volunteering and dedication to the YSG Gallery over the last two decades. 

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Sue Boucher, Helen Braun, Cliff Burt, Julie Collins, Julian Di Martino, Sonia Donnellan, Jodie Goldring, Martin Hodge, Kathy Holowko, Lee-Ann Joy, Forest Keegle, Van Komis, Oonagh McGowan, John Marshall, Anne Mirron, Marija Patterson, Anna Prifti, Jackie Ralph, Steven Rendall, Kerry Strauss, David Waters