5 - 20 OCTOBER 2013
CATALOGUE & SITE MAP
Artists in Transit (in collaboration with Warren Armstrong)
Anthea Boesenberg Mary Boland Meredith Brice Jane Burton
Taylor Kerry Cannon Gary Christian Janine Clark Sally
Clarke Stephen Coburn Simon Alexander Cook Suzanne
Davey Brenda Factor Ruth Feeney Todd Fuller Angela
Griffiths Hana Mai Chiew Hoogedeure Erica Izard Kimie
Kitamura Neil Laredo Kelly-Ann Lees Barbara Licha Ad
Long Vivienne Lowe Match Box Projects Fiona Meller Kelly
Milton Ainslie Murray Ro Murray Sarah Nolan Donna Page
Penny Philpott Catriona Pollard Kate Rae Carolyn Rendle
Sharon Ridsdale Margaret Roberts Mandy Schöne-Salter
Liz Shreeve Jane Théau and Joseph Zekanovic Peter Tilley
Mary van den Berk Cecilia White Samantha Whittingham
: ARTISTS
SCULPTURE
Sandy Bliim
Anthea Boesenberg
Mary Boland
Meredith Brice
Jane Burton
Kerry Cannon
Gary Christian
Stephen Coburn
Angela Griffiths
Erica Izard
Neil Laredo
Kelly-Ann Lees
Barbara Licha
Ad Long
Vivienne Lowe
Fiona Meller
Catriona Pollard
Carolyn Rendle
Sharon Ridsdale
Liz Shreeve
Peter Tilley
Cecilia White
Samantha Whittingham
INSTALLATION
Artists in Transit
(in collaboration with Warren Armstrong)
Janine Clark
Sally Clarke
Simon Alexander Cook
Suzanne Davey
Brenda Factor
Ruth Feeney
Todd Fuller
Hana Mai Chiew Hoogedeure
Erica Izard
Kimie Kitamura
Kelly Milton
Ainslie Murray
Ro Murray
Sarah Nolan
Donna Page
Penny Philpott
Kate Rae
Margaret Roberts
Mandy Schöne-Salter
Leanne Shedlezski and Naomi Shedlezski
Jane Théau and Joseph Zekanovic
Mary van den Berk
JUDGE
Monica McMahon (Art Curator, University of Western Sydney)
CURATORIAL PANEL
Cassandra Hard Lawrie (Curator, In Situ 2013)
John Cheeseman (Director, Mosman Art Gallery)
Katrina Cashman (Assistant Director/ Senior Curator, Mosman Art Gallery)
CATALOGUE DESIGNER - Judi MacLaren
DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD
Welcome to In Situ 13 – Mosman Festival of Sculpture and Installation.
In Situ is one of Australia’s most innovative art trails with over fifty works by Australia’s
leading sculptors and installation artists, set in Mosman’s Military Road shopping
precinct. It is a key event within the 2013 Festival of Mosman.
In Situ is a biennial event organised by Mosman Art Gallery in cooperation with the
businesses of Mosman. In Situ 13 will build on the success of its inaugural event, held
in 2011, as well as extending the work done for many years by the Mosman Village
Business Association in its previous management of the Mosman Festival of Sculpture.
Mosman Art Gallery is pleased to build upon the strengths of these past exhibitions to
bring the best possible experience to all visitors.
In Situ 13 is a collaborative sculpture exhibition that will run from 5 – 20 October
2013 featuring both traditional sculptural works and contemporary installations or
3D works that respond to place, in shops and venues along Military Road, Mosman.
It provides a unique opportunity to link the best sculptural practices of the past with
contemporary approaches to interpreting and enhancing public spaces.
Prizes are awarded in two categories - Sculpture ($5,000) and Installation ($5,000).
In Situ provides a fabulous environment for the public to view art. The exhibition
starts at Mosman Art Gallery and then trails through one of Sydney’s finest shopping
and café districts. Visitors have the opportunity to view outstanding artworks, enjoy
a coffee and buy that something special - all at the same time. For those who want a
greater understanding of the artists and their practices, a series of guided tours has
been scheduled throughout the event.
In Situ is part of Mosman Council’s commitment to providing high quality arts
experiences for its residents and visitors. We congratulate all the artists chosen for
this year’s exhibition and we look forward to our residents and visitors to the Mosman
community enjoying some of the best contemporary art Australia has to offer.
John Cheeseman
Director Mosman Art Gallery and Festival of Mosman
ABOUT THE CURATOR ...
Cassandra Hard Lawrie is a Curator, Sculptor and Installation
Artist who has exhibited at the Tin Sheds, Incinerator Art
Space, UWS Gallery, SCA Galleries, Penrith Regional Gallery,
Government House and Laperouse Museum. She has been
a finalist in the Willoughby Sculpture Prize 09, the UWS
Sculpture Award 08 and the Fishers Ghost Award 2012. She
has been awarded Highly Commended and the Arts Reference
Group First Prize in the Blacktown City Art Prize 2012. In
2010, Cassandra graduated with a Master of Visual of Arts
(Sculpture) from the University of Sydney.
Cassandra has been the curator of Sculpture in the Vineyards
(2009-11) - a large annual outdoor sculpture exhibition across
six venues in the Wollombi Valley. She is the current curator of
Hidden; A Rookwood Sculpture Walk (2011, 2012 and 2013) an
annual outdoor exhibition in Rookwood Cemetery. Cassandra
has recently been the Artistic Director of the Hungry for Art
Festival 2012/2013 - a cultural event partnering the City of
Ryde, FAIM, Top Ryde City shopping centre and the Northern
Sydney Institute part of TAFE NSW.
Earlier this year, Cassandra curated the International Women’s
Day Art Prize for the City of Ryde. In 2012 she curated two
themed exhibitions; Langue at the Peacock Gallery for Auburn
City Council and Commodified at See Street Gallery as part of
Hungry for Art. In 2013 she curated the exhibition Animalised
at See Street Gallery, which explored the theme of the animal
motif in contemporary art.
Cassandra was the inaugural curator of In Situ in 2011, working
with the shops along Military Road and Mosman Council to
develop the Mosman Festival of Sculpture into a site-specific
exhibition that included the discipline of installation.
Cassandra Hard Lawrie
In Situ 2013 Curator
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Jane Burton Taylor
Fanny’s Dress
Mosman Art Gallery
Cnr Art Gallery Way & Myahgah Rd
Muslin
1500 x 1000 x 60 mm
$770
The 1829 depiction of Fanny Hardwick was
the inspiration for the creation of this muslin
dress. Many hand-me-downs were passed on to
Aboriginal people when they worked as domestic
servants for early settlers. This dress is a fantasy
about what it would have been like if, instead of
liberty print cottons, the dresses were printed
with images of the local people’s totem animals.
Biography
Currently I am nearing completion of a Master
of Art at COFA and am working in the mediums
of film, installation, sculpture and photography.
I am interested in time, architectural structures
and their relationship to the individual and
larger community, also the personal and social
impact of history and memory. In 2012, I was
artist in residence at Primrose Park, Cammeray.
One resulting work, First Contact, was highly
commended at the Blacktown Art Award. Other
recent works were chosen for the Director’s Cut
of the Blake Prize 2012. My photographic work
has been widely exhibited, most recently in 2013
at the Queensland Centre for Photography. I am
currently showing Clean Washing, at Hidden,
Rookwood Sculpture Walk.
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Sally Clarke
Mop Work, 2012
Mosman Art Gallery
Cnr Art Gallery Way & Myahgah Rd
Mop heads
Dimensions variable
$2,500
Informed by both social sciences and visual
arts, Sally Clarke critiques hierarchical and
gendered constructions of space and the way
spaces, materials and bodies are defined through
social and cultural codes. She considers the
power relations generated through processes of
inclusion and exclusion in artistic representations
and how these can be re-versioned. Her work
has largely been preoccupied with material and
visual significations of domestic space. More
recently she has engaged with the aesthetics of
power and how power manifests within societies.
She explores how low-status materials, forms
and representations can take their position within
discourses of high modernism, master narratives
of landscape painting and conceptual art.
Biography
Dr Sally Clarke teaches at the College of Fine
Arts, UNSW. She has exhibited her work in a
range of commercial and public galleries around
Australia. In 2012 she presented Seduction and
Possession: The Power of the Erotic in Australian
Landscape Painting at an Interdisciplinary.net
conference in Oxford. Her most recent exhibition,
Break Down at Factory 49, emerged from a
Redgate residency in Beijing.
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Simon Alexander Cook
Terms of Trade (in black
and white)
Mosman Art Gallery
Cnr Art Gallery Way & Myahgah Rd
UPVC polypipe, acrylic paint, native mint,
plants and plastic flowers
Dimensions variable
$2,222 each
This sculptural installation activates text and
language into 3D forms to give presence and
personality to calligraphic form and thought. The
oversize character (syllabograms) in common
between Chinese and Japanese script interrogate
notions ‘to buy (or sell) and being in the ‘black’
(as in black ink and coal) and references the word
‘car’ as key hydrocarbon dependence (crude oil)
that underpins much of our world’s economic
construct to highlight our vulnerable civilisation.
Offset with floral décor both live (carbohydrate)
and plastic the issue is in effect ‘written on the
wall’ in common building components.
Biography
Simon holds a Design BA from Sydney College of
the Arts. He was selected for the North Sydney
Art Prize, SXS & Hidden in 2013. He has also been
selected several times for the Fisher’s Ghost Art
Prize, the UWS Sculpture Award and Sculpture
On The Greens. In 2010 he was awarded the
People’s Choice in the UWS Sculpture Award. He
has exhibited at the South Australia Museum and
the Gallery of Australian Design in ACT, as well as
at galleries in Munich and Zurich.
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Mary van den Berk
Mosman Tribute
Kaye Gartner’s Health
Shop 5a, 3-5 Myahgah Mews
Digital artwork on 5mm PVC
polyester and plywood
1000 x 1050 mm
$225 or $1,800 for installation
(Shops 4, 25, 26, 33, 37 & 48)
I create Tribute Art which celebrates people and
places. Mosman Tribute images are of Mosman
people sourced from old photographs held in
Mosman Library Digital Archives and the Phillippa
Poole collection as well as recent photographs of
locals and Mosman landscapes, which are placed
in a new context/place. The works are presented
as puzzle pieces symbolising the meshing of past
and present. Events held at different times and
places are connected in each artwork.
Biography
Mary van den Berk BSW Hons PhD graduating
MArt from COFA in 2010, has a background
in social work, human genetics and research.
She received an ArtStart grant and had a solo
exhibition at Yuga gallery in 2011 and has
participated in group shows at Kaleidoscope
gallery, Art Est, COFA, Made in Sydney, Waverley
Woollhara Art Centre and Tap Gallery. This year
Mary has been a finalist in the Chippendale New
World Art Prize, Cliftons Art Prize and Hidden
Rookwood Cemetery sculpture walk.
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Mandy Schöne-Salter
Deeper Realities
Mosman Square
573 Military Rd
B/W Photograph on paper
Dimensions variable
NFS
It is difficult for a face to hide a feeling. As
with all gestures, what your face reveals is
going to be believed more than the words you
say. Expressions of happiness for example
are universally and easily recognised, we use
these to convey enjoyment, pleasure, positivity
and friendliness. My work engages with the
complex and ongoing enquiry into human social
behaviour. In this series of photographs my aim
is to capture some of these expressions to give
insights into how deeper emotion is revealed
through the face.
Biography
Mandy Schöne-Salter studied photography
at the Nepean Arts and Design Centre and
participated in an intensive Public Art workshop
lead by New York Artist Kendal Henry. Mandy has
won prizes including the Portraiture category
of the inaugural Oxford Art Prize in 2010, the
International Women’s Day Exhibition in 2011 and
Photo Review’s Challenge 55 in 2013. She was a
Finalist for the BIFB Fringe Artist Prize and the
North Sydney Art Prize. In 2013 the International
Emerging Artist Award in Dubai selected her
photography for an online gallery.
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Ro Murray
Sirius
Mosman Council, Mosman Square
573 Military Rd
Glass and crayon
Dimensions variable
POA
Sierra, India, Romeo, India, Uniform, Sierra.
International maritime signal flags are used
globally by ocean vessels to communicate in 19
languages. HMS Sirius was the naval flagship
for the First Fleet which arrived in Sydney in
1788, named after the sky’s brightest star, used
for navigation. Ironically this is the 100 year
anniversary of the Australian Navy entering
Sydney, which protects 27,000 kilometres of
coastline of this remote island.
Biography
Since completing BFA Hons Sculpture from the
National Art School in 2010, Murray has had
solo exhibitions at the Incinerator Willoughby
and Jean Bellette Gallery Hill End. She has won
Sculptures in the Gaol, Artist in Residence at
Hill End with BRAG, Works on Paper and the
Art Reference Group Prize in Blacktown City Art
Prize. She has been a selected finalist in Adelaide
Perry Drawing Prize, Sculptures in the Vineyards,
Willoughby Sculpture Prize, North Sydney Art
Prize, Hidden: Rookwood, Middle Head Mosman
Art Gallery, Harbour Sculpture Woolwich, UWS
Sculpture Prize, Sculpture at Saw Millers and
Hunters Hill Art Prize.
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Liz Shreeve
Coriolis
Pond
583 Military Road
Torn and curled paper on
constructed paper form
490 x 490 x 490 mm
$3,500
I work with simple paper units arranged in
predetermined sequence to investigate the play of
light and colour on surfaces. Astonishingly, when
those simple sequences were applied to threedimensional surfaces, recognisable structures
appeared. A simple geometric sequence on a
three dimensional form can produce the visually
complex structure of matter or can even evoke
the shape of a living thing. Is this Pythagorean
evidence for the underlying mathematical
structure of nature and the cosmos?
Biography
8
Todd Fuller
Anamorphic Study: Rotating
Skull
La Lou Hair
Shop 4, Library Walk, 597-599 Military Rd
Mixed media animation on skull
Dimensions variable
$1,200
Anamorphosis is a technique emerging from the
15th Century in which Renaissance artists applied
illusionary optics and mathematics to images.
In the case of Holbein’s The Ambassadors, what
at first appears as a grey accidental streak of
paint, reveals itself to be a chilling skull. It is a
concealed momenti mori which can only be seen
from an ideal vantage point. This method can
also be applied to the moving image. Utilising
projection, the illusion can be re invented - it is
a 21st Century reminder of the same vanitas that
has been fluent in art for thousands of years.
I began my art practice after a long career as a
scientist in teaching and in research. Inevitably,
this experience informs my art practice. I believe
there are many parallels between art and science.
The skills of observation and imaginative
thinking and the drive to pursue an idea through
experimentation are essential in art and science.
And a sense of wonder is at the heart of both.
Biography
Represented by Stella Downer Fine Art
Represented by Brenda May Gallery
Todd Fuller is a 25 year old artist who works
across drawing, sculpture, performance and
animation. Fuller has recently returned from
the William Fletcher travelling fellowship at
the British School at Rome. He has represented
Australia at the 15th Asian Art Biennale and also
completed a residency at the Cité Des Arts in
Paris and exhibited in Korea, England and the
USA. He has exhibited across Australia and also
works as a curator and educator. His work can be
seen at www.toddfuller.com.au.
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Erica Izard
Wave Particle Duality
Silhouette Skin & Beauty
Shop 6, Library Walk, 597-599 Military Rd
Glass, paper and tape
Dimensions variable
POA
All around us there are movements that are
invisible to the eye as particles move like waves
through the space that surrounds us. The viewer
is able to depict these particles and waves as
they move through the space and see through
the lens.
Biography
Erica is currently an Honours candidate at Sydney
College of the Arts where she majors in glass. In
June 2013 she received a scholarship to attend
Pilchuck Glass School for a summer intensive
course. Erica has participated in Sydney Design
Week shows Utility 2013 and also in 2010 where
she won the prize for glass. She was also one of
eight students to be selected to showcase the
Visual Arts Faculty at the launch of the Sydney
University’s fundraising gala evening in May 2013.
Erica has also been selected for Hidden 2013 and
Sculpture in the Vineyards 2013.
10 Angela Griffiths
Ballpoint I
Silhouette Skin & Beauty
Shop 6, Library Walk, 597-599 Military Rd
Southern ice porcelain, LEDs and acrylic
1000 x 1000 x 100 mm
$3,500
This work reflects a re-occurring theme that runs
through much of my work. The theme is one of
contradiction. The viewer is drawn into this work
through the hypnotic patterning of cones and
the soft glow of translucent white porcelain while
the hard sharpness of these same elements can
leave the viewer also with an unsettling feeling
of danger.
Biography
Angela Griffiths is a sculptor and furniture
designer. Her recent exhibitions include a light
installation at MONA (Museum of Old and New
Art) in Hobart, Dank Street’s Kaleidoscope
Gallery and Topography 1 at Gallery 8 in the
Rocks, exploring various layers of history, place,
uses and misuses of the Rocks area. In 2011,
Angela exhibited a site-specific installation in
Bondi’s Sculpture by the Sea. She is a recipient of
the Delta Sculpture Award (Kooindah Acquisitive
Sculpture Prize), an exhibitor in Sculpture in the
Vineyards (Hunter Valley) and was selected for
the Artist-in-Residence program by North Sydney
Council. After a successful exhibition hosted by
the Council, a major work was acquired for the
historic Coal Loader site at Balls Head, Waverton.
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Barbara Licha
Configuration
Nashi
Shop 9, Library Walk, 609 Military Rd
Galvanised wire
900 x 200 x 200 mm each
$5,500
The complexity of people’s behaviour has always
intrigued me, and inspired me to visually express
the range of emotions we see in the human
condition. Contrasting moments and emotion
draw me to create more vivid lines, and shapes,
or the converse, to create static forms.
12 Erica Izard
Landscape of the Black Dog
Time Outlet Store
611 Military Rd
Glass
1200 x 200 x 400 mm
POA
The black dog follows me round and round like
an ever faithful diligent hound. Through the
landscape long and wide the black dog is never
far from my side.
Biography
See details No. 9
Biography
Born in Rawa-Mazowiecka, Poland 1957; Studied
Painting, Graphics, Sculpture, 1979-81 Academy
of Fine Arts Wroclaw, Poland; Arrived in Australia,
1982; BA, City Art Institute, Sydney, 1985-88;
Grad Diploma Fine Art, City Art Institute, Sydney,
1989. In 1982 settled in Australia. Her works are
represented in several international public and
private art collections.
Represented by Charles Hewitt Gallery
Shedlezski
13 Leanne
and Naomi Shedlezski
Match Box Projects - People
Make Places: Mosman
Empty shop
Shop 10, Library Walk, 601-611 Military Rd
Multimedia installation
Dimensions variable
NFS
For In Situ Leanne and Naomi have created a
multifaceted portrait of Mosman in collaboration
with the people of the area. Immersing
themselves in daily life in Mosman, the Shedlezki
sisters invited locals they randomly encountered
to consider their own identity and relationship to
the region by creating an impression of Mosman
in a matchbox. The outcome is a fascinating
insight into Mosman from multiple perspectives.
Match Box Projects - People Make Places is a
series Leanne and Naomi are developing across
diverse global regions. This Mosman Portrait
will join their Sydney Portrait and tour with them
globally. To participate or follow the project visit
www.matchboxprojects.com
Biography
Artist-duo, Leanne Shedlezki and Naomi
Shedlezki use public space as a site of enquiry
and research to create site-specific participatory
works exploring notions of identity, perception
and sense of place. Their work has been
presented across Australia, Asia and the USA.
Both UNSW COFA Graduates, their projects
have been supported by various grants and
organisations including Arts NSW, the City of
Sydney, the Japan Foundation and NAVA.
14 Sarah Nolan
NEARLYTHERE
Empty shop
Shop 10, Library Walk, 601-611 Military Rd
Plywood, beads, various fabrics and
threads
1300 x 600 x 900 mm
POA
Our urban landscape is full of words, be it through
advertising, signage or graffiti, text permeates
our conscious through its repetition and banal
presence. Sarah Nolan plays on these ideas with
this installation, the slope reminiscent of the
drag of lights as one passes quickly in the traffic,
reduced to trails of colour, and yet upon closer
inspection, the letterforms are meticulously
treated with fabric remnants, beading and
sequins. The process in making this work is not
unlike a piece of intricate embroidery.
Biography
Sarah Nolan’s most recent exhibition is an
installation at Marrickville Garage in July 2013.
She has held solo shows at Gaffa Gallery (2011)
and Harrison Galleries, Paddington (2007-10).
She has been included in many group shows
including Cementa13 Contemporary Art Festival,
Topographic 1 at galleryeight in 2012, CRUDE
at Index Space in 2011 and HANDS ON Craft in
Contemporary Art at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery.
She has also exhibited at NG Art Gallery and The
Brick Lane Gallery in London. Sarah has been
a finalist in The Blake Director’s Cut, 2012 and
Hidden, A Rookwood Sculpture Walk, 2012.
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Jane Théau and
Jacob Zekanovic
E=C+G+I+X
Mosman Library
605 Military Rd
Business cards, thread and spray paint
2300 x 2300 mm
$1,500
We’ve used graffiti, a dissident medium, over a
grid of corporate business cards, and our tag is
E = C + G + I + X. This is the equation taught to
every first year economics student. It describes
the economy as being the sum of consumption,
government spending, investment and net
exports. The continual growth of consumption is
the holy grail of government policy.
But continual growth is not sustainable in a finite
world, and it might be a good idea to question
whether economic growth is the only way to
judge the success of society.
Biography
Jacob Zekanovic is 19, and started to get into
graffiti in high school. He was fascinated by the
raw expression and style, and its amazing culture
and history. Jacob feels that graffiti has helped
him grow as an artist and has furthered his
studies as a graphic designer.
Jane Théau works in sculpture, installation and
printmaking. She won the Hidden Sculpture Prize
in 2012, the CRAG Exhibition Prize in 2011, and the
Ewart Drawing Prize in 2010. Jane has a B.App.
SC (UTS), a Masters of Intl. Affairs (Columbia
University), and is completing a M. Art (UNSW).
16 Carolyn Rendle
Arden Dairy and Fresh Milk
Accoutrement, 611 Military Rd
Antique doilies (re-inforced)
acrylic paint and found metal crate
300 x 450 x 220 mm
$1,500 each
My art practice is influenced by members of my
family who have been seamstresses and milliners
and wonderful embroiders and crocheters. For
some time I have been making three-dimensional
objects from textiles and other redundant and
recycled materials. Recently this has included
doilies which have been passed down through
generations.
Biography
Carolyn lives and works in Sydney. She studied
sculpture at Sydney College of the Arts. She
was recently selected for Harbour Sculpture.
She regularly exhibits using found and recycled
material.
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Neil Laredo
Bridge to Cross
Henry Bucks
627 Military Rd
Laminated Tasmanian oak and MDF
1600 x 400 x 2300 mm
$2,400
Constantly we are reminded of life’s journey,
whether it be on the news, a song or a story
between friends or whatever it is not so
important, but it is what brought me to the idea
for my new work Bridge to Cross. In this work I
wanted to interpret how life’s decisions start
off with a first step, once taken the journey can
take many forms with no idea of how or when it
might end. I would like to think that through line
and form the sculpture gives us a bridge to our
thoughts, allowing us a moment to reflect and
ponder our future.
Biography
Born in Melbourne, I have travelled and lived
throughout Australia, Asia, and the USA, finally
settling down in the Blue Mountains of NSW
where I began my formal studies in the Arts. My
recent works exhibited include paintings in the
Gallipoli Art Prize in 2010 and 2012, Sculptures
at the 2012 UWS Sculpture Prize Campbelltown
and at Sculpture in the Vineyards 2012. My
work at UWS Campbelltown is now part of
their permanent collection and I also have two
major works commissioned by Landcom which
are in the final stages of approval for the Bunya
Residential Development, Doonside NSW.
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Ruth Feeney
Stock Standard
2XU Performance Centre
629 Military Rd
Polyethylene
2000 x 900 x 100 mm
POA
This display of folded plastic grocery bags
takes its cue from the quiet routines and inbetween actions that assist in the functioning of
individuals. Sometimes deliberate and at other
times completely mindless, these repetitive
actions transform disorder to order and have the
capacity to achieve immense satisfaction and
even beauty. The experience of domestic rituals
will be different for everyone and what may be
meditative, aesthetically calming or restorative
to some is likely to be considered unnecessary
to others. This work continues my practice of
acknowledging and appreciating the objects,
actions and spaces that are often overlooked
because of their familiarity.
Biography
Ruth Feeney is based in Newcastle, NSW.
Ruth’s practice consists primarily of temporary
installations. After completing a Bachelor of
Fine Art Honours in 2010, Ruth was selected for
Hatched; a national graduate exhibition at the
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. Ruth has a
solo exhibition planned with Maitland Regional
Art Gallery in 2015.
19 Kimie Kitamura
Connecting
Von Troska
631 Military Rd
Ceramic
Dimensions variable
$2,000 or $20 each
As people, we’re all individual. However, we
are also connected to many different things
at different times—family, friends, colleges,
communities… Meeting new people and
sometimes we need to say goodbye too. Your
surrounding keeps changing and the connection
affects the situation.
Like humans, each ceramic piece is small and
can seem unimportant, but when connected
the pieces become bigger, longer and will keep
changing the shape of the work like our societies.
Biography
Kimie Kitamura graduated with a Certificate II
in Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft at NSW
TAFE Hornsby campus (2011) and Certificate IV
(2010) and Certificate III (2008) in Ceramics. She
received the Highest Achievement award at two
ceramic courses. From September to December
in 2011, she did an assistantship at Guldagergaard
- International Ceramic Research Centre in
Denmark, also joined the program: Project
Network. The exhibition of Project Network was
held at Danmarks Keramikmuseum, Denmark
in 2012 after the exhibition at Guldagergaard in
2011. Kimie has lived in Australia since 1997.
20 Vivienne Lowe
Etude
Dossier
637 Military Rd
Ceramic
700 x 2200 x 800 mm
$380 Edition 3/9
The female figure can be admired in many
different forms and angles. Etude is a figure
developed from a study of a life model. The
work’s angularity accentuates the lines and
recesses of the figure in repose. The simplicity of
line and form in Etude implies a calm and restful
ambience.
Biography
Vivienne has been sculpting for over fifteen
years and has studied under the tuition of many
renown sculptors such as Tom Bass, Ingrid
Morley, Alan Somerville, Marguerite Derricourt,
Michael Christie, Barbara Campbell-Allen, Margo
Gabsy, Michael Vaynman and Dave Horton.
Her recent focus has been in the public art realm
where meeting a particular brief not only brings
a new challenge, it combines her experience in
sculpture with her background as a landscape
architect. She has been both winner and
finalist in several public art projects and has
received prizes and commendations in many art
exhibitions throughout her career.
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Fiona Meller
Wishboat
M Jewellery 643 Military Rd
Cast and patinated bronze, sterling
silver, copper, wood, bone and fabric
Dimensions variable
$1,800 Wishboat, $130 Wishbones
I have long held a fascination with bones and
found objects, and now with my training in
jewellery I try to combine the metal elements
with these collected pieces. For me, bone has
strong symbolism held deep within the psyche.
The wishbone, especially, has long been a symbol
of hope and the possibility of a wish come true.
Wishboat is my response to the plight of asylum
seekers both past and present, it is a sculptural
flotilla of bones. A wish to address their frustrated
hopes and dreams in their search for a better life.
Biography
Through experimentation I try to understand the
properties inherent to the materials and extend
their function beyond the accepted norm. This
often leads to serendipitous results, creating
objects that are imbued with a visceral and
evocative meaning. I find inspiration in forming
new dialogues and narratives that deviate from
the expected. I trained first in Sculpture then
in Jewellery and Object Design at the Central
Institute of Technology, Perth. I returned to
Sydney and continued Jewellery and Object
Design Studies at the Design Centre Enmore in
2011. I am currently a full-time resident at Square
Peg Studios in Newtown.
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Peter Tilley
The Pilot
Herringbone
Shop 3/647 Military Rd
Cast iron and corten steel
1710 x 600 x 400 mm
$6,000
The pilot is responsible for navigating the
vessel and safely delivering all who sail in her
through uncertain and dangerous waters. My
work continues the theme of utilising my own
experience as a raw material, and the basis for the
narrative in what I refer to as ‘still life tableaux’.
I try to achieve a simplicity that is incisive and
intuitively accepted yet capable of complex
layers of meaning. There are many possible
interpretations depending on the viewer’s own
journey through life.
Biography
Peter has studied Art and Ceramics at Newcastle
School of Art and Design and was privately
trained as a sculptor. He has a received Master of
Philosophy (Fine Art) Newcastle University. Peter
has participated in over 70 group shows and 30
solo exhibitions, inlcuding SxS Bondi 2004-12
and SxS Cottesloe 2007-12, SxS Aarhus Denmark
2009-11. Sculpture in the Vineyards 2010,
2011, 2012, In Situ 11 and Hidden at Rookwood
Cemetery in 2011. He has had many solo shows
at Brenda May Gallery, Sydney and Gallery East,
Perth.
Represented by Brenda May Gallery
23 Stephen Coburn
The Ringmaster
Catimini
Shop 1/647 Military Rd
Stainless steel and mild steel
500 x 500 x 300 mm
$2,400
This pelican is from an on going series called
The Balance of Nature. It is a highly animated
and volatile pelican, wings extended for flight,
perched on a solid wharf bollard. The tension
between the heavy inanimate object and the
vigorous alive creature creates a dynamic in the
sculpture, and accentuates the qualities in both.
Biography
Since 2000, Stephen Coburn’s work has been
exhibited in Sculpture by the Sea Bondi in 2002,
2007 and 2009 as well as many other group
sculpture exhibitions. In 2005 he exhibited
sculptures in a solo exhibition at Depot Gallery,
Danks Street, Waterloo. His theme was the
Hawkesbury River called the Deerubbin Series.
Since then he has won the Northbridge Art
Prize for sculpture 2009. He achieved a Highly
Commended Award at Sawmillers Sculpture
Prize, North Sydney 2010 and won the Most
Extraordinary Sculpture Award for the Spirit of
the Land sculpture prize Lockhart NSW 2011.
He has also won the McWilliams Sculpture Prize
2011. In 2012 Stephen preparing his second
solo exhibition Notes from the Opus at the Milk
Factory Gallery, Bowral.
24 Ainslie Murray
Remedy (study)
Silva Guanta
681a Military Rd
Tyvek, nylon, cotton, needles
Dimensions variable
$2,500
This is a work of the outskirts – the landscapes
of hard, shimmering heat and hostile scrub. The
fragility of life on the urban fringes is revealed in
a range of absences – blank surfaces, dead ends,
darkness. On a nondescript plain a dilapidated
billboard is restored with fields of gold
threadwork. The thread is a moment of attention,
an offering; the work is a gesture, a thought, an
exchange. This work is made in collaboration
with photojournalist Alkis Konstantinidis, whose
compelling images of recent unrest in Athens
triggered a dialogue between us as strangers.
The photojournalistic process moves beyond
the dispassionate registration of images – it recontextualises a moment in time and humanises
both subject matter and image-maker.
Biography
Ainslie Murray is an interdisciplinary artist,
architect and academic. She holds a PhD (Visual
Arts) from Sydney College of the Arts. She has
had solo exhibitions at RMIT Gallery, the Japan
Foundation and the Tin Sheds Gallery. She was
recently selected for the North Sydney Art Prize.
Photograph by EPA/Alkis Konstantinidis,
Courtesy of EPA European Pressphoto Agency
25, 26 Mary van den Berk 27 Sharon Ridsdale
Mosman Tribute
Mosman Prescription Centre
685 Military Rd
1000 x 1450 mm
$333 or $1,800 for installation
(Shops 4, 25, 26, 33, 37 & 48)
The Dragon’s Lair Series - Life
Cycle
Rosemoo, Shop 4, 732 Military Rd
Ceramic
600 x 200 x 200 mm each
NFS
Pottery for me is an addiction and inspiration. The
still of the night can bring the sharpest clarity to
the creative mind that otherwise might struggle
in the fog of daylight and all its distractions.
My love is sculptural ceramics and the creation
of miniature fantasy worlds that encapsulate
strange magic and fanciful creatures who might
reside in them. My main inspiration is Walt Disney
and The House of Faberge. My ‘dragon pots’
show that we must never lose our curiosity or the
childlike ability to ‘make believe’ and simply lose
ourselves in a magical moment.
Biography
Mosman Tribute
Savoir Faire
762 Military Rd
1000 x 1450 mm
$337 or $1,800 for installation
(Shops 4, 25, 26, 33, 37 & 48)
I commenced my studies in Ceramics at Hornsby
Tafe. I have completed Certificate 3 and 4 and
the Diploma in Ceramics graduating each with
Awards of Merit. I am currently studying for my
Advanced Diploma in Visual Arts. Since 2012 I
have entered several competitions, gaining a
3rd Place Award and Highly Commended Award
in the Sydney Royal Easter Show, receiving
the Bendigo Bank Award and Stipend at
Kooindah Waters Sculptures on the Green, and a
Commended at the Hunters Hill Art Festival.
28 Donna Page
Desir(ing)(able) object/subject #1
O Salon
Shop 3, 701 Military Rd
Plaster, satin and found objects
Dimensions variable
$350 freestanding, $80 small wall
pieces, $150 large wall pieces
Desir(ing)(able) object/subject suite #1 is part of
a large ongoing body of work that is the result of
my exploration of the contemporary experience
of desire. I believe that in contemporary society
desire no longer resides within a subject or object
but is constantly shifting according to what is
considered desirable at any given time. This work
is an attempt to give this experience of desire a
physical presence, for if it exists regardless of the
desired object or subject itself it has a life, and
therefore form of its own. It is both desirable and
desiring.
Biography
Donna Page is a Sydney based artist who works
in sculpture and installation incorporating a wide
range of media. She received her Master of Fine
Arts majoring in Sculpture and Installation from
the College of Fine Arts, UNSW in 2010. She has
exhibited extensively throughout Australia in
group and solo exhibitions, in galleries including
Gaffa Gallery, Frameworkgallery and threefootsquare. She has been selected as a finalist in the
Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize in 2012.
29 Mary Boland
Oops!
Hopscotch Toys & Furniture
Shop 1/701-703 Military Rd
Metal, plastic and found objects
580 x 350 x 550 mm
$250
This work is part of the On The Road series. You
need to be careful when you are on the road
because things are not always as they seem.
Remember to look right, left and right again
before you cross the road because you never
know what you will see.
Biography
Mary has completed a Diploma in Fine Arts at the
Sydney Gallery School, Meadowbank TAFE. She
has exhibited in group shows at Kimbriki (2009),
Carriageworks (2009), See Street Gallery
(2009, 2010, 2011, 2012), Mudgee Sculptures in
the Garden (2011, 2012) and the Palm House,
Botanical Gardens (2011).
Committed to
recycling, she works in discarded materials and
found objects. This year she has spent a lot of
time cutting up broken plastic cars found on
suburban streets. Her work focuses on the notion
that things are rarely what they seem.
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Mosman Art Gallery
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Mosman Square
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Mosman Council
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Pond
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Todd Fuller
La Lou Hair
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Erica Izard
Silhouette Skin & Beauty
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Silhouette Skin & Beauty
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Time Outlet Store
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Empty shop
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Sarah Nolan
Empty shop
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Jane Théau &
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Dossier
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Herringbone
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Catimini
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Silva Guanta
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Mosman Prescription Centre
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Savoir Faire
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Mosman Newsagency
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Husk
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Mary Boland
Hopscotch Toys & Furniture
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Design Mosman
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Adams & Adams
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Penny Philpott
The Cheese Shop
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Bonza Brats
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Janine Clark
The Cheese Shop
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Mary van den Berk
Mosman RSL Club
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Mary van den Berk
Da Calvino
Artists in Transit (in collaboration with
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Peter Hewitt Optometrist
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Kerry Cannon
Mosman Village Vet
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Kelly Milton
Zebra Clothing
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Ewen’s Hardware - Thrifty Link
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Rustique Bakery Patisserie Café
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Suzanne Davey
Harmony Pharmacy
Ad Long
Pages & Pages
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Mary van den Berk
Commonwealth Bank
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Sandy Bliim
Travel Specialists Mosman
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Gary Christian
Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery
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Vernon Partners
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Lululemon Athletica
30 Margaret Roberts
Architectural Composition
with Salon
Adams & Adams
Shop 6, 713-715 Military Rd
Window texta and tape
1400 x 2300 x 1400 mm
POA
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Cecilia White
Girl in the Sea
Bonza Brats
Shop 1-3, 713-715 Military Rd
Perspex
600 x 300 x 60 mm
$600
Architectural Composition with Salon 2013
separates the two parts of Wladyslaw
Strzeminski’s 1927 Architectural Composition 13a,
drawn on the front window of the Salon and the
other on the adjacent inside wall. Each is located
so that if the physical space separating them is
deleted again, the two shapes would collapse
back into (a drawing of) Strzeminski’s image. The
purpose of inserting the actual space of the Salon
into the earlier composition is to collapse some
of the temporal gulf we have with early spatial
artists such as Strzeminski, while expanding the
urgency that their spatial concerns now have.
The Australian urban lifestyle is imbued with an
iconic sense of connection to water – in particular
the sea. Gods and Goddesses enjoy strong
presence in world mythologies and imaginings of
the sea. Yet childhood, that time of wonder and
shared connection with the elements, remains
an untold tale. In this work, Cecilia White, once
a resident in Mosman for over a decade, draws
on tides of Sunday memories of Balmoral Beach
to create an Australian tale of the ‘girl in the sea’,
childhood buoyed on the breath of wonder.
Biography
Cecilia White is an interdisciplinary artist, poet
and PhD researcher at CoFA. She is creator
and director of ‘the breathing space projects’,
installed and performed internationally. Her
work interrogates self, space and the drive for
certitude, definition, knowing. Focusing on the
breath and wonder, White explores other ways of
being through dislocation, release, stillness and
communion. Currently exhibiting in Hidden 2013
and Art & About Sydney, her most recent award
is a CoFA UNSW three month residency in 2014
at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris.
Margaret Roberts is an installation artist working
with relationships between actual and abstract
space. She is co-director of Articulate project
space in Leichhardt, founded in 2010 to support
installation and related spatial practices. She
lectures in Drawing at the National Art School
in Darlinghurst. Her work can be seen on www.
margaretroberts.org
Image caption: Władysław Strzemiński,
Architectural Composition 3 a, 1927 (oil on
canvas 62 x 62 cm)
Biography
32, 33 Mary van den Berk 34 Kerry Cannon
Mosman Tribute
Mosman RSL Club, 719 Military Rd
Digital artwork on 5mm PVC
polyester and plywood
1250 x 900 mm
$300
See details No. 4
The squirrels
Mosman Village Vet
733 Military Rd
Bronze and paint with marble base
600 x 400 x 300 mm
$7,500
Three squirrels work as a team to pull a baby up a
tree. Where is the mother? And why isn’t society
doing something about this ‘squirrel menace’?
The composition is a pathetic commentary about
the nanny state.
Biography
Mosman Tribute
Da Calvino, 731 Military Rd
1000 x 1050 mm
$225 or $1,800 for installation
(Shops 4, 25, 26, 33, 37 & 48)
I’m hopelessly optimistic with a sincere desire
to do something genteel. My work is narrative
and figurative with a medieval flair. I started
sculpting in bronze in 1996. My big project is
Ceramic Break Sculpture Park which opened in
2003, where I try to install two sculptures per
year in the park. I recently completed two A4
publications of my bronze series - Alchemy and
The Frost Giants. I show annually in NSW, VIC,
QLD and overseas. The best exhibition I’ve had
in the last six months was showing the Alchemy
series at The Boulder Museum of Contemporary
Art (BMoCA) in Colorado.
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Kelly Milton
Penal Colonies with Mossy
Rocks
Zebra Clothing, Shop 2, 743 Military Rd
Limestone, found objects and mixed
media
Dimensions variable
$99 small (cloth), $425 medium
(metal) $995 (large)
Penal Colonies with Mossy Rocks opens another
envelope of the artist’s ongoing themes of art
patronage, collectability, prestige and glitz. This
work incorporates sentimental notions of our
glorified penal history, interpretations and reinterpretations of colonisation and impact. Visual
reference points include sceptres, bags filled with
loot, introduced species, objects of antiquity and
weapons of power and control.
Biography
Kelly graduated from the University of S.A.
in 1991 and was represented in Adelaide by
Kensington Gallery. She has shown at RMIT
Faculty Gallery, Australian Experimental Art
Foundation, Contemporary Art Centre of SA
and Mildura Arts Centre. She has a background
in facilitating independent projects, particularly
with Aboriginal people. She was selected for the
Artists at the Armory Award, for her inclusion
in Hidden 2013. Her work is collected in Croatia,
Sydney, Melbourne, and numerous Adelaide
collections.
Photo: Courtesy of Huckleberry Lain
36 Hana Mai Chiew
Hoogedeure
‘Fire’ Works
Westpac 743 Military Rd
Fabric, polyester stuffing and
acrylic paint
Dimensions Variable
$3,000
Mundane objects, with little aesthetic merit or
design. Each unit of the work is representational
of standard issued safety equipment, found in
institutions and public places by the everyday
person, reflecting on the personal and public
relationships we have with common social
artifacts.
Biography
I am an emerging artist based in Sydney,
interested in soft architectural forms. I am
currently completing my final year at Sydney
College of the Arts, majoring in the studio of
sculpture, performance and installation. I have
participated in group exhibitions at Verge Gallery
and Hub Gallery. I have recently had my first solo
exhibition at Dead Space, Sydney College of the
Arts.
37 Mary van den Berk
Mosman Tribute
P Leahy Pty Ltd
771 Military Rd
1000 x 1450 mm
$333 or $1,800 for installation
(Shops 4, 25, 26, 33, 37 & 48)
Biography
See details No.4
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Meredith Brice
Nature in Transit-Cultural Flows
Design Mosman, 791 Military Rd
Mixed textile, glass beads, cotton
thread, sea sponge, wire and perspex
350 x 400 x 80 mm each
$3,000 each
Nature in Transit – Cultural Flows is an
environmental statement about global warming
and the consequential warming of the world’s
ocean temperatures. Observed changes in marine
habitats, impairment to systems of equilibrium
and loss of biodiversity place marine species
on the risk agenda. Correspondences between
micro-macro views in the interdependent spaces
between land and sea are evoked. The imagined,
representational and nano-scale marine ‘lifeforms’ are showcased as a cabinet of curiosities;
replicas of transient, gone extinct or future
marine species.
Biography
Meredith Brice is an interdisciplinary artist whose
practice crosses between art making and curating.
She has a BA Fine Arts from The University of
Newcastle. She has exhibited extensively at
galleries including Macquarie University Art
Gallery and galleries at the following universities;
Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar,
Canakkle Onsekiz Mart University in Turkey, the
University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, and
Purdue University in Indiana, United States. She
has been selected for The Blake Prize and the
World Year of Physics Art Prize.
39 Penny Philpott
The Family Portrait
The Cheese Shop
797 Military Rd
Ceramic
Dimensions variable
$5,000 installation or $250 each
The family portrait is all about my family – three
generations – two parents, four sons, five wives,
ten grandchildren, and three dogs. It is a portrait
in ceramic Toby jugs. My surname, Philpott, has
an association with the Toby Jug, the origin of
which goes back to the Eighteenth Century
potteries in Staffordshire, England. Legend has it
that the Toby Jug was based on a jovial drinker
of ale – Toby Fillpot – probably fictitious, but
Fillpot is an uncanny derivation of Philpott, and
the original Toby Jug holds a distinct physical
resemblance to several family members.
Biography
Emerging from a long career in publishing I
retired to study a DipFA at Northern Beaches
TAFE and BVA (Hons) at Sydney College of the
Arts. I am completing a Master of Fine Arts, also at
SCA this year. Over the past year I have exhibited
several installations and single works including
Hidden at Rookwood Cemetery, Sculpture in the
Vineyards, Sculpture at Scenic World, Woman’s
Day International Art Prize and a group show at
Cessnock Regional Gallery.
40 Janine Clark
A’cupaletta
The Cheese Shop 797 Military Rd
Biodegradable paper cups, acrylic paint
and plastic-coated wire trace line
2500 x 1200 x 100 mm
$600
Janine often uses text in her work, with the
genesis being her own prose or found text. Using
the coffee cup as the everyday object she has cut
letters into them to form prose she has written.
Assembled tightly, the prose is not immediately
visible, just a mass of letters and random words,
as the European attempts to read from left to
right. The prose is deciphered when read from
top to bottom, strand by strand. The installation
plays with natural light and depending on the
time of day it appears to glow, or cast shadows.
Biography
Sydney based emerging artist, Janine Clark, is
currently studying 2nd year Bachelor of Visual
Arts at Sydney College of the Arts. From 2010 to
2012 she completed the Diploma and Advanced
Diploma of Fine Arts at the Sydney Gallery
School, Meadowbank College of TAFE. In 2013
Janine has been selected to exhibit in Harbour
Sculpture, Sculpture on the Greens, Hunters Hill
Art Exhibition and International Women’s Day
Exhibition. In 2012 Janine was selected to exhibit
in Sculpture in the Vineyards and Blacktown City
Art Prize. Her work has been exhibited in Sydney
at Pine Street Gallery and Gaffa Gallery.
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Artists in Transit (collaboration with Warren Armstrong)
Sounds of Silence (Mosman)
Peter Hewitt Optometrist
799 Military Rd
Coloured tape, glass, synthetic grass
and smart phone
Dimensions variable
POA
This work records the urban environment of
the corner of Raglan Street and Military Road
Mosman, at the time of installation. It forms
part of a wider, continued investigation into
translating site-specific sounds into soundspecific installations. This investigation will form
a creative map that draws across time frames
and felt spaces throughout Sydney and beyond.
Biography
Since formation in late 2012, Artists in Transit
(Ro Murray and Susie Williams) both recent
National Art School graduates, have undertaken
site specific experimental installations, often
in collaboration with new media artist Warren
Armstrong. They have been selected finalists for
Hidden 2013, North Sydney Art Prize, Artisans
Sculpture Walk RBG, Chippendale New World
Art Prize. They have been awarded residencies
with Kandos Projects, Peacock Gallery Auburn
Botanical Gardens to participate in the exhibition
Life, Ambush Gallery, Waterloo; SLOT Space
Redfern. AIT was commissioned for Cementa13
Contemporary Arts Festival, Kandos, Middle
Head: On Site with Mosman Art Gallery.
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Kelly-Ann Lees
Three Slices of Pi
Rustique Bakery Patisserie Café
920 Military Rd
Welded recycled steel
440 x 500 x 100 mm each
$2,500
These works are about the construction of
negative space, of the containment of volume
and the idea that sculpture is as much about
what is not present.
Biography
Graduated from SCA in 2000 majoring in
Ceramics. Began steel sculpting in 2003. Many
solo and group shows including a recent solo
show, Infitialis tractus at Brenda May Gallery, SXS
in 2008 and 2009, Willoughby Sculpture 2009,
2011 and 2013. Completion of a recent permanent
public commission for Newcastle City Council
Caught at Honeysuckle.
Supported by Brenda May Gallery
43 Suzanne Davey
Bitter Pills
Harmony Pharmacy
912 Military Rd
Wooden sticks, ceramic, plaster, paint
1200 x 1200 x 400 mm
$1,600
Bitter Pills is a response to the notion of
harmony and dis-harmony. Harmony Pharmacy
dispenses conventional pharmacy medicines as
well as natural and complementary medicine.
It practices an integrative approach to health,
including body, mind and spirit. In Bitter Pills
nature is transformed and re-configured by the
application of various pressures (squashing,
twisting, squeezing), the results encapsulated
in plastic pill casings. The work reflects our
everyday experiences of stresses and strains, and
the sometimes catastrophic results to our fragile
health when things get out of balance.
Biography
Suzanne Davey holds a BA Fine Arts from
the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. She recently
exhibited with Art in Odd Places and her work
was included in Unfurl at Eramboo Artist
Environment. Her work is currently on display
in Hidden 2013 at Rookwood Cemetery. She
has been selected for the 2013 North Sydney Art
Prize, Sculpture at Scenic World 2013, Hidden
2012 and Sculpture in the Vineyards 2012. This
year she participated in the SEE Public Art
Project.
44 Kate Rae
1914-2014
Mosman Newsagency
890 Military Rd
Polyurethane, mild steel and silk
Dimensions variable
POA
The figures of the WW1 Infantry man and Army
nurse is an interpretation from the logo for the
Anzac Centenary Mosman Local Studies program
Doing Our Bit.
Biography
Kate received a BA of Visual Art from the City Art
Institute in 1989. She has produced several public
commissions. She has been selected for the Coffs
Harbour Art Prize, the Salon des Refuses at
S H Ervin Gallery and the Tweed Heads Biennale
for Sculpture. She has exhibited at the Palm
House in the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens.
Kate also has a long career as a model maker in
the film industry.
45 Catriona Pollard
It Takes Two
Husk, 880 Military Rd
Palm inflorescences, Gymea lily and hand
dyed rattan using bark from gum leaves
680 x 400 x 200 mm
$650
It Takes Two represents the connection and
relationship we have with each other and the
world around us. Both pieces are the same, yet
different. Like all of us. We are surrounded by
unique beauty – which often we don’t notice.
Maybe it’s time we did.
Biography
Catriona Pollard has been exploring creative
expression for most of her life and when she
discovered contemporary basketry and fibre
sculpture she was hooked. The medium allows her
to explore her desire for “colouring outside the
lines”. The material she uses are always found,
not bought. She mostly uses organic material –
leaves and seeds that fall from trees and plants
people throw away on green waste day. Her
work has been selected for many exhibitions
including North Sydney Art Prize 2013, Basketry
NSW exhibition 2013, Mosman 2088 exhibition
2011 & 2013, In Situ: Mosman Festival of Sculpture
& Installation 2011 & 2013, Breathing Colours 2012.
She had her own exhibition, Common Threads in
October 2012.
Read about and see Catriona’s work at
www.TheArtofWeaving.com.au
46 Ad Long
Take me to your Leader
Pages & Pages
878 Military Rd
Vintage 8mm movie camera, magic
sculpt, resin, plywood and acrylic paint
170 x 200 x 200 mm
$900
Take Me to Your Leader is a small diorama built
around an old home-movie camera. It’s a device
that enabled anyone to take part in the great art
form of the 20th century: film-making. There is
a magic in the spring-wound mechanism. It’s
inspired by old B-grade Science Fiction flicksthe intrigue, and the fear, of other worlds and
other races.
Biography
Ad has worked for years as a freelance commercial
artist, mural painter, storyboard artist, illustrator,
writer and cartoonist. He has illustrated books,
and has drawn for a large number of magazines
as well as commercial work. He has held two
solo exhibitions at Frances Keevil Gallery and
has been selected for Sculpture in the Vineyards
2010, Hidden; A Rookwood Sculpture Walk in
2011 and 2013 and In Situ 11.
47 Brenda Factor
Pinkish and Hookish
Ewen’s Hardware - Thrifty Link
874 Military Rd
Silicone and screws
Dimensions variable
$2,200
There is nothing remotely humorous about a coat
hook. Or is there?
In this work I use the transformative power of
colour, material and repetition to create a virtual
forest of silicone coat hooks that is so much more
than the sum of its parts.
Biography
Brenda Factor is a Sydney based visual artist and
designer. Moving from large-scale inflatables to
installations of small multiples, Brenda’s practice
is very broad and defies categorisation. Brenda
completed a Master of Fine Arts at the College
of Fine Arts (UNSW) in 2009, before working
as a sessional lecturer in CoFA’s Jewellery
Department. In 2011 she set up SquarePeg
Studios in Newtown and achieved a long held
dream to develop a supportive, creative and
vibrant space for contemporary jewellers and
designers in Sydney.
48 Mary van den Berk
Mosman Tribute
Commonwealth Bank
862 Military Rd
1000 x 1500 mm
$337 or $1,800 for installation
(Shops 4, 25, 26, 33, 37 & 48)
See details No.4
49 Sandy Bliim
Little Billy Cart
Travel Specialists Mosman
860 Military Rd
Bronze and wood
160 x 190 x 130 mm
$1,200
Recalling the thrill of speed and the unrestrained
joys of vigorous play, my Billycart series consists
of bronze figures of children riding billycarts.
Made, like the originals, of found objects I have
sought to express those simple feelings of
childish joy in creative and unrestrained play.
Hand modelled in wax and cast in bronze the
figures have been tailored to fit each uniquely
constructed racing machine.
50 Gary Christian
Traveller I
Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery
842 Military Rd
Stainless steel
640 x 650 x 140 mm
$6,600
Traveller I tells a story of a journey through time.
Our present experience is always understood
within the context of past events and future
dreams. In life, we set off on a path, loop left,
turn right, check around this corner, get led down
one path, take off to explore another. However, as
time ticks over, we begin to see the patterns and
connections of our existence.
Biography
Biography
Sandy graduated from the National Art School in
2011 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts hons. This year
she is exhibiting at Hidden; Rookwood Cemetery
and Keeping Company with the collection at the
Manly Art Gallery & Museum. In 2012 she was
a finalist in Sculpture by the Sea and at Saint
Vincents Hospital. She was a finalist in In Situ
2011 and in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
in 2007.
Gary Christian, a distinguished sculptor and
painter with twenty years experience, has had 17
solo exhibitions - in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane,
Canberra and Hobart. Recent sculptural works
include: Figures in the Landscape 2012, for Mount
Annan Botanic Gardens; The Atomic Family 2012,
for University of Western Sydney; Furnace 2012,
for Corrimal Cokeworks Hundred Year Centenary.
In 2009 The Travellers, a five-piece laser cut
sculpture, won the Santos Sculpture Award. That
same year Christian installed a wall sculpture,
commissioned by Multiplex, at No 1 Shelley
Street, Darling Harbour.
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Anthea Boesenberg
Some Houses: Memories,
Dreams, Reflections
Vernon Partners
Shop 1/836 Military Rd
Polymer intaglio prints, monotypes on
paper, encaustic, timber and light fittings
300 x 200 x 200 mm each
$650 each
Our houses hold our memories and dreams.
These are just some of my houses. Each one
reflects a period in my life, the people in my life,
my feelings and preoccupations. The windows
are covered and they are lit from within. There
are secrets here.
Biography
Anthea Boesenberg is a printmaker who lives in
Sydney. In 2010 Anthea was a finalist in the Dobell
Prize for drawing. She has exhibited regularly
both nationally and internationally, including in
the United States, China, Korea, New Zealand and
Germany. Anthea has also participated in many
group shows with Warringah Printmakers and
Sydney Printmakers. Anthea has a strong interest
in safer technologies and new developments in
printmaking, and was involved in setting up and
managing the community printmaking facility
Warringah Printmakers Studio. She also enjoys
teaching, and has held workshops in Canada,
the United States and New Zealand as well as
Australia.
52 Samantha Whittingham
Stranded
Lululemon Athletica
814-816 Military Rd
Metal, plastic and fabric
Dimensions variable
$850
Stranded is distorting the form in covering each
of the figures in different materials such as
plastic, Lycra and cotton. The variation of colour
and materials used allows the viewer to recognise
or associate with something of themselves. Each
work is as much introspective as transformative,
with the figures appearing to be levitating as if
not really present.
Biography
Samantha Whittingham has received BA of Fine
Art from the National Art School in 2000 and
a BA of Art Education from COFA in 2009. She
has exhibited at SxS Bondi, 2000, 2003, 2010
and 2012. She is a recipient of the Clitheroe
Foundation Emerging Artist Mentor Program,
2012. In 2011 Samantha was awarded the
Willoughby Sculpture Encouragement Prize.
IN SITU 13 CURATOR TALKS
Art Installations in Shared
Spaces: Curator led tour
of In Situ 2013
Meet at Mosman Art Gallery
Cnr Art Gallery Way & Myahgah Rd
Saturday 12 October, 11am
FREE
Bookings: www.trybooking.com/60065
In Situ 2013 is a collaborative sculpture exhibition
between Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman businesses
and participating artists. Meet in the foyer of
the Mosman Art Gallery for an introduction to
the growing trend of art installations in shared
spaces.
Join curator Cassandra Hard Lawrie along the
streets of Mosman which feature the creative
store sculptures and installations of 48 In Situ
artists and meet a selection of participating
artists along the way.
IN SITU 13 GUIDED TOURS
In Situ 13: Gallery guided
tour
Meet at Mosman Art Gallery
Cnr Art Gallery Way & Myahgah Rd
Thursday 17 October, 2pm - 3.30pm
FREE
Bookings: www.trybooking.com/64088
Join Mosman Art Gallery Guides as they take
you to some of the highlights in the In Situ
2013 exhibition.
In Situ 2013 is a collaborative sculpture
exhibition between Mosman Art Gallery,
Mosman businesses and participating artists.
Meet in the foyer of Mosman Art Gallery to
join a tour of Insitu presented by Mosman
Art Gallery Guides where you will gain insight
into the creative sculptures and installations
featured in participating stores along the
streets of Mosman.
For artwork sales please contact
Mosman Art Gallery
on (02) 9978 4178
For details on the Viewers’ Choice Award go to
www.festivalofmosman.net
Window shopping takes on a
new meaning as 46 artists from
In Situ take over the Mosman
shopping precinct with their
sculptures
and
installations.
Follow the art trail with the
catalogue available at the Mosman
Art Gallery and in selected stores.
For artwork sales contact Mosman Art Gallery
on (02) 9978 4178
www.festivalofmosman.net
A cultural event presented by Mosman Council
as part of the 2013 Festival of Mosman