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Artlist - Image by Madeleine Preston. The photo installation is being viewed by Kelly Robson, Initiative Director/Artist (Programs, Projects & Operations) GAFFA gallery Sydney
(Source: madeleinepreston.com.au)
Jun 05 2011
Do you exclude your DOB because you’re vain?
“From their CVs one might believe that a remarkable number of female artists were not born at all, merely educated, presumably attending art school as child prodigies.” J.McDonald SMH Spectrum May 21
Did you consider yourself a child prodigy?
As J.M. states are you “vanity free” and include your DOB on your CV?
Don’t include your DOB because you’re afraid of being judged, or don’t care?
Do you think it’s that important to include your DOB?
Do male artists have to put up with these kinds of statements?
May 14 2011
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Preston’s work evokes a natural comparison of strangers, with those of our own past and present existence. She allows us to understand that it is our ability to place ourselves inside the image - inside the experience of others that enables us to make sense of our experience of the present.
Nell Greco, Arts writer & presenter FBI’s Canvas
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“In Nolan’s latest series of work, the artist presents the viewer with a sardonic and sceptical take on the machinations of the art world, not through an obvious and literal critique, but by taking the modernist grid and remaking it in domestic fabric. On the individual material squares of ‘Sincerely’, for example, are stitched fragments of text taken from rejection letters from galleries and arts organisations: ‘I’m sorry to inform you’…This is a continuation of Nolan’s ongoing desire to question the status quo of the art world – “a means of trying to understand and make sense of how the ‘art world’ functions and to highlight the forms of communication and language that is used”, as she puts it.”
Carrie Miller is a freelance arts writer and social commentator. She is a regular contributor to Australian Art Collector magazine and The Art Life website and has a weekly column in The Spectator.
Apr 27 2011
PRESTON NOLAN ARTLIST
PRESTON NOLAN Artlist is a collaborative project that is a nod and a wink to the surnames of Madeleine Preston and Sarah Nolan.
When asked what do you do? The answer “I am an artist” invariably elicits the response, are you related to Margaret Preston or Sidney Nolan?
PRESTON NOLAN Artlist#1 generates work through call outs on Facebook, Twitter and posts on the Artlist blog. The responses accumulated form the research for PRESTON NOLAN works of text based art.
Apr 27 2011
PRESTON NOLAN ARTLIST#1
ARTLIST IMAGE ARTLIST TEXT ARTLIST COLLABORATE
Opening night Thursday May 19 6-8pm
Exhibition dates May 19-31 2011
Two solo shows and introducing the inaugural collaborative work of:
MADELEINE PRESTON ARTLIST IMAGE
Preston’s work evokes a natural comparison of strangers, with those of our own past and present existence. She allows us to understand that it is our ability to place ourselves inside the image - inside the experience of others that enables us to make sense of our experience of the present.
Nell Greco, Arts writer & presenter FBI’s Canvas
SARAH NOLAN ARTLIST TEXT
Nolan’s work is much closer in its aims to those artists who incorporate text in their work in order to question dominant cultural assumptions and reveal the ambiguity of language through humour, rather than direct confrontation. She challenges us… but with a playful wit that belies the subversiveness of what she is saying.
Carrie Miller, Arts writer and social commentator
gaffa gallery
Mon-Fri 10-6 Sat 11-5 Closed Sun and holidays
281 Clarence Street Sydney CBD NSW 2000
02 9283 4273 www.gaffa.com.au
Apr 27 2011
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GOINGTHROUGHTHEMOTIONS 2011 Sarah Nolan
One of a series of six. Canvas, acrylic paint, ink various fabrics on board.30x20cm
