BUS Projects
August Opening Events | 14 August 2014
AMPLIFIED
Philippe Vranjes
Opening event Wednesday 14 August 6-8pm
14 – 31 August
Gallery 1
AMPLIFIED furthers an ongoing investigation of the subject of expansion. Expansion calls instantaneously for dissemination, space, acceleration, transformation and change and this exhibition explores the vocabularies of qualities, the methodologies, the techniques and even the colours that permeate the three-dimensional object and the image with movement and articulate a doing in its form. Notions of contact, noise, amplification, emergence, leaky optics, interference and discord sign the context of the exhibition.
Philippe Vranjes works across painting, sculpture and photography. Expansion, transformation and change are recurring themes across his practice. Vranjes’ work makes use of different vocabularies of vision, light and traditions to create relationships with a range of varied sources and contexts. His disparate body of work which encompasses traditional, poetical, abstract and futuristic manifestations presents itself as a long visual sentence of crisis after crisis, adventure after adventure and incident after incident and enables the artist to affirm, in the context of the exhibition, the possibility of a body that is plural, multiple, open and generative; a body in forward motion, anchored in traditions and histories that cannot be reduced nor subjugated by a given hierarchy; a body in movement and expansion and which lives in intensity.
Philippe graduated from a Master of Fine Arts, Monash University, 2011. Recent solo and joint exhibitions include AMPLIFIED, Trocadero Art Space, 2012; AMPLIFIED, Monash University Masters Gallery, 2011 and GREATER THAN ONE, curated by Alicia Renew, MADA, 2010.Philippe is currently a finalist in the HOBART ART PRIZE, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. His works were previously selected for the SUBSTATION ART PRIZE, The Substation, 2011 and the REDLANDS WESTPAC ART PRIZE (emerging artist category), 2010.
‘Concrete Joke’
Sarah Byrne
Opening event Wednesday 14 August 6-8pm
14 – 31 August 2013
Gallery 2
‘Concrete Joke’ is an ongoing exploration into the construction and deconstruction of meaning making, through confused language and re-appropriated word association. Caught in an ever collapsing state of ‘trying to make sense’, four fractured conversations direct and diverge awkward utterings and throwaway verse through cyclic and psychotic patterns of video assemblage.
Sarah Byrne is a Brisbane-based artist interested in the cross-pollination of video, sound, and performative installation practice tainted by cringe culture and pop critique. Through modes of appropriated video manipulation, Byrne investigates conceptual and material forms of distortion, video poetics, and the disruption of psychological, physical, and screen space. Playing emphasis upon repetition and nonsensical dialectics; Sarah creates alienated spaces for the uncomfortable and off-kilter, utilizing Thought Vaccum dialogues and scratch video methods to explore abstract reflective deconstructions of contemporary identity.
Sarah graduated Fine Arts with Honours from the Queensland University of Technology in 2008.
Recent developments in Sarah’s practice currently focus upon the dissection of VHS materials and media artifacts. Such materials have been primarily explored within multi-screen installation works included in exhibitions such as; Artists’ Proof #1, Monash University Museum of Art, 2012; Time Machine, Serial Space, 2012; GHOSTHOUSE, Boxcopy, 2011; Psycho Subtropics, OtherFilm 2010; and Fresh Cut, Institute of Modern Art, 2009.
‘Singular, Plural’
Kate Meakin, Noriko Nakamura & Virginia Overell
Opening event Wednesday 14 August 6-8pm
14 – 31 August
Gallery 3
The ‘working’ of materials maintains a certain precedence in our sculptural practises, found and acquired objects undergo varying degrees of alteration ranging from the subtle arrangement of textiles to the alchemical melting of rocks, yet always maintain an important relation to their original form or function. Materials are worked with rather than mastered – engaged with for their associative qualities rather then for their characteristic autonomy.
Continuing a dialogue which has spanned several exhibitions - Because We are All Animals Disco Beans Art Space 2011,Mainly Everything TCB Art Inc. 2011 & Consultancy NGV Studio 2011 – this collection of individual sculptural and assemblage works, places our work in an intimate spatial dialogue in which separate materials converge, diverge, layer and overlap.
This meeting of diverse objects will enhance articulation of their multiple ambiences – aesthetic, metaphysical & spiritual- whilst emphasising the singular ways in which they have been worked.
August Opening Events | 14 August 2014
AMPLIFIED
Philippe Vranjes
Opening event Wednesday 14 August 6-8pm
14 – 31 August
Gallery 1
AMPLIFIED furthers an ongoing investigation of the subject of expansion. Expansion calls instantaneously for dissemination, space, acceleration, transformation and change and this exhibition explores the vocabularies of qualities, the methodologies, the techniques and even the colours that permeate the three-dimensional object and the image with movement and articulate a doing in its form. Notions of contact, noise, amplification, emergence, leaky optics, interference and discord sign the context of the exhibition.
Philippe Vranjes works across painting, sculpture and photography. Expansion, transformation and change are recurring themes across his practice. Vranjes’ work makes use of different vocabularies of vision, light and traditions to create relationships with a range of varied sources and contexts. His disparate body of work which encompasses traditional, poetical, abstract and futuristic manifestations presents itself as a long visual sentence of crisis after crisis, adventure after adventure and incident after incident and enables the artist to affirm, in the context of the exhibition, the possibility of a body that is plural, multiple, open and generative; a body in forward motion, anchored in traditions and histories that cannot be reduced nor subjugated by a given hierarchy; a body in movement and expansion and which lives in intensity.
Philippe graduated from a Master of Fine Arts, Monash University, 2011. Recent solo and joint exhibitions include AMPLIFIED, Trocadero Art Space, 2012; AMPLIFIED, Monash University Masters Gallery, 2011 and GREATER THAN ONE, curated by Alicia Renew, MADA, 2010.Philippe is currently a finalist in the HOBART ART PRIZE, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. His works were previously selected for the SUBSTATION ART PRIZE, The Substation, 2011 and the REDLANDS WESTPAC ART PRIZE (emerging artist category), 2010.
‘Concrete Joke’
Sarah Byrne
Opening event Wednesday 14 August 6-8pm
14 – 31 August 2013
Gallery 2
‘Concrete Joke’ is an ongoing exploration into the construction and deconstruction of meaning making, through confused language and re-appropriated word association. Caught in an ever collapsing state of ‘trying to make sense’, four fractured conversations direct and diverge awkward utterings and throwaway verse through cyclic and psychotic patterns of video assemblage.
Sarah Byrne is a Brisbane-based artist interested in the cross-pollination of video, sound, and performative installation practice tainted by cringe culture and pop critique. Through modes of appropriated video manipulation, Byrne investigates conceptual and material forms of distortion, video poetics, and the disruption of psychological, physical, and screen space. Playing emphasis upon repetition and nonsensical dialectics; Sarah creates alienated spaces for the uncomfortable and off-kilter, utilizing Thought Vaccum dialogues and scratch video methods to explore abstract reflective deconstructions of contemporary identity.
Sarah graduated Fine Arts with Honours from the Queensland University of Technology in 2008.
Recent developments in Sarah’s practice currently focus upon the dissection of VHS materials and media artifacts. Such materials have been primarily explored within multi-screen installation works included in exhibitions such as; Artists’ Proof #1, Monash University Museum of Art, 2012; Time Machine, Serial Space, 2012; GHOSTHOUSE, Boxcopy, 2011; Psycho Subtropics, OtherFilm 2010; and Fresh Cut, Institute of Modern Art, 2009.
‘Singular, Plural’
Kate Meakin, Noriko Nakamura & Virginia Overell
Opening event Wednesday 14 August 6-8pm
14 – 31 August
Gallery 3
The ‘working’ of materials maintains a certain precedence in our sculptural practises, found and acquired objects undergo varying degrees of alteration ranging from the subtle arrangement of textiles to the alchemical melting of rocks, yet always maintain an important relation to their original form or function. Materials are worked with rather than mastered – engaged with for their associative qualities rather then for their characteristic autonomy.
Continuing a dialogue which has spanned several exhibitions - Because We are All Animals Disco Beans Art Space 2011,Mainly Everything TCB Art Inc. 2011 & Consultancy NGV Studio 2011 – this collection of individual sculptural and assemblage works, places our work in an intimate spatial dialogue in which separate materials converge, diverge, layer and overlap.
This meeting of diverse objects will enhance articulation of their multiple ambiences – aesthetic, metaphysical & spiritual- whilst emphasising the singular ways in which they have been worked.