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Exhibitions at ESP Gallery

228 Illawarra Rd Marrickville NSW 2044 Australia

Opening hours: Thur and Fri 3pm–6pm, Sat and Sun 11am–4pm info@esprojects.com.au

 

Current show ...

"DinoWars"

Artists interpret dinosaurs through playing cards. Straight from Jurassic Lounge at the Australian Museum.

Exhibition: Saturday 2 March to Sunday 17 March 2013
 

Opening night: Saturday  2 March, from 4pm to 6pm, all welcome.

Saturday 9 March - artist demonstrations + Matchbox Girls
Sunday 10 March - artist demonstrations + ArtCycle


"DinoWars" is an official event for ArtMonth, and for MOST.

ArtMonth celebrates Sydney's galleries for the month of March. See http://www.artmonthsydney.com.au/

Marrickville Open Studio Trail (MOST) celebrates artist studios & galleries in Marrickville all weekend of Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 March.
See http://www.marrickville.nsw.gov.au/community/arts/most.html 
 

Make the most of MOST 2013 at ESP Gallery & party with ESP all weekend!

You will see our fab Art Month Exhibition, "Dino Wars",
PLUS Behind the Studio Door Demonstrations ...
Woodblock Printing (Cassandra Daw), Chinese Interpretative Ink (Jane Trethewey), Fabric Printing (Lou Steer) and Live Poetry Performance (Lou Steer and others). 

PLUS The Matchbox Girls walking tour visits ESP on Saturday 9th at 1.15.

PLUS ArtCycle rolls into ESP on Sunday 10th

Past shows ...


Ann Gregory & friends - "Are We Halfway There Yet ?"

31 Jan - 17 Feb

In January 2013, Ann Theresa Gregory reached her half century (not out).

Who is she, who are we, as we journey to an unknown destination?
This collection of diverse works from childhood to the present reveals lodestones along the way.
Ann Theresa Gregory  celebrates with her friends: 
Lyndal Campbell, Simon Marcus Clarke, Elizabeth Cowell, Amelia Daher, Calandra George, Peta Gischus, Michael Gregory, Teresa Krystyna Gregory, Rew Hanks, Cassandra Hard Lawrie, Elizabeth Harriott, Jean Hartman, Lyndsey Hatchwell, Robert Hynard, Tony McDonald, Lesley Nixon, Swe Nyo, Caterina Pacialeo, Zoe Rodriguez, Jenny Shaw, Philippa Shaw, Rona Sissons, Marie Townsend, Tori Wade, Julie Yip
 

Guest speaker: Elin Howe, Art History, Sydney Gallery School


 

Amber Reid  -  "Geometricks"

Rachael Hallinan -  "Above Shadowed Doorways"

15 Nov to 2 Dec 2012 - Opening Night 17 Nov 4pm to 6pm

Amber Reid's vibrant paintings reference Islamic mosaic designs. While adhering to the rigid rules of geometry, on closer inspection they express a sense of freedom through forms & patterns that suggest the possibility of infinite growth.

Rachael Hallinan's layered photographic works inhabit the shadow world between the public facade & the family reality and explore the weight of things unsaid & shames unshared.  Ambiguous layers of light, form and texture depict calmness & self-validation as much as isolation & loss.

 

 

 

Volunteer Exhibition - 20 Oct to 4 Nov 2012

ESP's Volunteer show is an annual tradition where we give credit to our team of volunteers with a free exhibition putting their talents under the spotlight. Our ESP volunteers are all talented artists themselves, most are studying at TAFE, COFA, NAS or similar, several doing Honours degrees. We are very lucky to have such a well-qualified team.

This exhibition features volunteers Swe Nyo, Sophie Metcalfe, Peter McGuinness, Carl Anderson, Marika Petrie, Olivia Gubala, Ann Gregory, Maureen Craig, and directors Lou Steer, Cassie Dawe, & Brian Martin. Also featuring works by Tony B. Conscious.

 

Aziz Ulas - Memorial Tribute - 6 to 14 Oct 2012

ESP celebrated the life and work of much loved Marrickville artist Aziz Ulas, with special guest artist Suede Fransisco, curated by artist, poet & radio presenter Angela Stretch.
Opening night featured spoken word performances in tribute by Angela Stretch and Lou Steer, both well known performance poets.
Aziz Ulas (1952 - 2012) was a local Marrickville artist, who lived only a few blocks from ESP Gallery.
He was born in Turkey, came to Australia as a young child, later studied at the National Art School, & at Alexander Mackie College in the 1970's. He live his life as an artist & had studios & exhibited in Sydney, Turkey, Berlin, and Wiesbaden.
Aziz invented a unique process using polymer resins & pigments & embedded objects to produce works that transcend both painting & sculpture, creating a vibrant new genre which he called "sculpicts", part sculpture, part picture. His works are stunningly beautiful & totally unique, and photos are a poor reflection of the quality of his techniques perfected over a lifetime. He revelled in the variations of raw materials and pigments, and the effects created, and he continued to perfect the medium that he had invented, until the end.
ESP presents this show at no charge, in tribute to his life & his works, with all proceeds going to his teenage son Joscha in Berlin.

Our special guest Suede Fransisco is an award winning Marrickville artist who works in resin in a very different way to Aziz. Suede held his successful solo exhibition, Masalai, in ESP Gallery in August 2012 and was also featured in MCAP2012 -  "The Rest of the Best"  at ESP Gallery.

 

MCAP 2012 + Sydney Canvas Company Prize - 8 Sep - 23 Sep 2012

ESP Gallery is co-hosting the Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize 2012, in conjunction with Chrissie Cotter Gallery and ATVP Gallery. After 6 years MCAP has grown so big it needs 3 galleries.

Sydney Canvas Company is sponsoring a prize of $400 worth of premium imported canvas, for the best painting on show at ESP during MCAP. The prize will be judged & awarded by Rowan Robertson, director of Sydney Canvas Company, and also an artist himself. The prize will be awarded on opening night at ESP.

ESP is showing 32 artists in all media - painting, sculpture, video, film, installations.

Artists :  Barbara Wulff, Peter McGuiness, Suede, Paola Talbert, Maggie Stein, Angela Butler, Anne-Laure Druais, Caryn Griffin, Catriona Secker, Eddie Botha, Elizabeth Rankin, Erin Keys, Frazer Bull-Clark & Kieran Gilfeather, Kassandra Bossell, Kate Deacock, Katherine Corcoran, Lisa Kotoulas, Melissa Harvey, Miriam Cabello, Niki McDonald, Patrick O'Rourke, Pennie Pomroy, Peter Strong, Rebecca Geddes, Sarah O'Connell, Tasman Miller, Teena McCarthy, Tom Eager, Yvonne Levenston, Ahmed Khalidi and Rua Hashlamoun.

http://www.thesydneycanvascompany.com.au

"Masalai" - by Suede - 16 August -  2 September 2012

Suede's paintings,  in resin, varnish & enamel, show swirling and seductive organic forms describing his childhood night terrors in the deep undergrowth of the Papua New Guinea jungles.
Pursued by imagined spirits and the dreaded "Masalai".
Exhibition runs from Thursday 16 August - Sunday 2 September 2012
Opening night - Saturday 18 August - 4pm - 6pm

 

"2X BIG BAD / BIG BAD X2" - Barbara Wulff + Kay Wulff - 19 July - 5 August 2012

The 2  Big Bad Wulffs are mother and daughter artists! Their works are remarkably diverse ranging from bronze sculptures to seed pod installations and covering a diverse range of Yoga and Zen inspired paintings and drawings about the natural world.  Guest speaker:  Zen teacher Susan Murphy 
Barbara Wulff shows traditional Zen inspired ink and wash illustrations over bronze horses affected by grass-sickness and Hendra virus, colourful expressionist nudes and roofscapes, cast crystal ‘merfolk.’
Barbara  tends towards the figurative and is strongly influenced by German expressionism and a strong nostalgia for her original language and culture.  She attended Wendy Sharpe’s multiple model drawing marathons in the 1980’s, later moving to Melbourne to study Sculpture, In 1992, Barbara was a resident artist at the Paris studio of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council in 1992. Her work explores scientific visualisation and motherhood as well as reflecting her wide employment experience as laboratory assistant, texture artist for animation and gaming as well as Visual Arts/Special Education teacher
Kay Wulff makes textural explorations of burnt out trees and enlarged and lovingly studied ceramic seedpods. Kay  studied at the National Art School (then East Sydney Tech College). Initially she  painted large abstracts inspired partly be Aboriginal Landscapes and partly by inner organic forms  motherly, vegetable and animal. The ovoid has been a strong theme and Easter egg decoration both a fun and intensely competitive time. Now in her early 70’s,  Kay Wulff  still relentlessly pursues new forms of art, including  studying Ceramics at Hornsby TAFE (one of only 3 Sydney TAFES specialising in ceramics). 
She documents the ever changing aspects of the Bush near her home and the microcosm and macrocosm are reflected almost as if from the viewpoint of a scribbly gum larva with its crazy doodlings that almost but not quite convey in writing what Nature has to tell us about slowing down and taking in. 
 
Susan Murphy is a well-known Buddhist teacher and Author of  ‘Upside Down Zen’ 2004 and a forthcoming book on ecology and species extinction called ‘The Whole World is Medicine’. Ever inspiring and fun and mischievous she provokes ever-deepening awareness of interconnectedness and the ground of being. Her voice may be heard in radio, drama workshops and cinema criticism as well as in academic and literary circles. 

"Seen Unseen" - Masters of Drawing - 21 June - 8 July 2012

JASON FOOTE, SARAH PARK, CAMERON HOLLANDS AND STEPHANIE KENTWELL
The works focus on tone to create illusion and ambiguity. Through the use of tone and the interplay of the light and dark planes on the painted and drawn surface,  the artists create space in their work for both the seen and unseen.

Head On Photography - 24 May - 10 June 2012

Christopher Tovo, Innocenza Toritto, Matt Gordon Winch

Chris Tovo "Sleeping Giants" -  reveals the poetic amid the pragmatic, in a visual journey through the industrial streetscapes, set against the menacing backbone of Java's sleeping volcanoes. His intimate vision captures the utter dignity of slumber, enjoyed in the most makeshift and abject of environments. He leaves us asking who are the sleeping giants amongst us ?

Innocenza Toritto "Pulse" - everything in our lives passes so quickly, time, memories, moments. I believe them to be not only the small breaths we take, but also linked to our heartbeat and linked to the earth. I believe it could have a sound and definitely a pulse. We travel with it. Slow or fast, it doesn’t matter. The journey is individual and exclusive to all. Mine, yesterday was blue. Today, who knows.

Matt Gordon Winch  "Cry Wolf" - "SO WISE SO YOUNG, THEY SAY, DO NEVER LIVE LONG” W.S. Within this series lies the story of a young drifter. Missed by those who remember. Remembered by those who can’t forget. The evidence of a life.

Head On Photography - Nicola Bailey, Rachael Ireland, Marijke Loosjes - May 2012

3 photographers, 3 dramatically different viewpoints.

Nicola presents the poems of Candy Royalle projected onto the bodies of Sydney roller derby skaters, contrasting sensuality with physicality

Rachael explores the built environment in a dark dramatic landscape

Marijke shows bold images that challenge our senses

Tony B Conscious - the Ghetto Van-Go - April 2012

Featuring Tony B Conscious aka the "Ghetto Van-Go".

 

Tony is a spray painter & stencil artist, rapper, poet & busker, from Venice Beach Boardwalk in Los Angeles, USA, touring Australia and appearing in Melbourne, Adelaide Arts Festival, Byron Bay Bluesfest, and exclusively at ESP as our featured artist for April 2012.

http://venicebeachartists.com/artists/tony-b-conscious-the-ghetto-van-go/

Tony B Conscious also performed spoken word, poetry & rap at The Blue Space, Petersham Bowling Club in association with ESP Gallery.

Selected T-shirts, books, paintings available by request.

"LoveDeath - Liebestod" - 25 Feb 2012 to 18 Mar 2012

Love and death are the two opposing forces in life. We long for love, we fear death. Our lives are lived between. What choice do we have? 

ESP GALLERY artists interpreted the themes of LOVE AND DEATH.

Featured : Lou Steer, Cassandra Daw, Anita Shirley, Clarissa Regan, Joy Bye, Patrick O'Rourke, Swe Nyo, Ari Zainal, Patrick Cremin, Cory Thomas, Jason Foote, Eddie Botha, Sara Sweet, Tyrone Jandey, Yang-En Hume, Nadia De Ceglie, Niki McDonald, Kirsten Smith, Anna Hien, Nahomi Yoshizawa, Sairi Yoshizawa and others.

"Extended" - 3 Dec 2011 to 18 Dec 2011

ESP's final show for 2011 featured the works of new director Robert Bayliss and long time director Chris McKendry, presenting paintings, sculptures & textile works of art.

Opening night featured an authentic Thai food stall where Rob's partner Pravit cooked up a storm, presenting food preparation as performance art.

"Celebration" - 12 Nov 2011 to 20 Nov 2011

ESP presents a group show by National Art School honours graduating students : Jenny Herbert Smith, Bui Ponchiangdee, Tienne Simons, Fiona Lannigan, Caroline Karlsson, Adam Galea

Ceramics, Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture, Mixed Media

"Volunteers" - 22 Oct 2011 to  Nov 2011

 

ESP Gallery is celebrating our awesome volunteers with the ESP Volunteers Exhibition.

This show is by & for our tireless volunteers, to show our appreciation of their work.