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9 December 08 to 25 January 09
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Opening: 6-8pm Thursday 11 December?
Guest Speaker: Rolf de Heer, Film Director and AFI winner
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Gallery 139 139 Magill Road, Stepney
Gallery Hours 11am‐5pm Tuesday to Saturday. The gallery is closed 24 December to 20 January, artwork can be viewed throughout January by appointment: 0402 095 355.
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. Albert Camus
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The beauty in nature and death unite in new photographic works by CJ Taylor for his first solo exhibition, flight, light.
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The large-scale photographs are concerned with the nature of beauty through the beauty of nature. They touch on the inherent beauty contained within familiar forms.
Strong yet fragile, the colourful wings of discarded birds are suspended on black backgrounds, drawing the viewer in and reminding them of the objects unyielding natural beauty.
The images are unique yet detached from their original purpose, at once beautiful in their natural repose yet grotesque in their deposed state.
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In life there is beauty, but there is also a beauty in death, says CJ Taylor. Equally, in everything beautiful there is grotesqueness, a death not far away that defines a beautiful life.
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Captured using a large-format camera the works are hand printed using the traditional Cibachrome process to present finished images that are finely detailed, technically accomplished and saturated with colour.
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In 2007 CJ Taylor was the stills photographer and project manager for the multimedia project 12 Canoes. Directed by Rolf de Heer and Molly Reynolds, the project of 12 short films follows on from the movie Ten Canoes to present the culture of the Yolngu peoples of the Arafura Swamp. A portrait by Taylor from this project was shortlisted for the 2008 Moran Photographic Portrait Prize.
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CJ Taylor is a currently studying a Bachelor of Visual Art (Photography) at the South Australian School of Art, UniSA. flight, light exhibition is supported by a grant from the Helpmann Academy.
To acknowledge the United Nation's International Day of Peace, Thebarton Senior College (TSC) held a day of celebration. What better learning provider to do so; the diversity at TSC is quite remarkable. People from all over the world, new arrivals, attend TSC to do bridging courses. This enables them to seek and find employment in a new country. A new world.
The image above is the product of a assignment at TSC from my Digital Photography Class. The task was to create some kind of promotional poster.
One of my tasks on the actual day was to collect some images of the various things that were happening; including the barbecue and performances from students from surrounding schools as well our own student faculty.
Obviously I have done a little work on some of these. The one with the multiple person for example. I had a great time taking the photos. I'll put more up later.
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'The files from my cabinet'
TEASER
Here is my first ever animation; its riddled with mistakes Ill have to fix (I was in such a hurry to save it and make it available on a medium apart from the computer it was created on
) and I will fix them, but I just enjoy looking at it in a context where its out there - for other people to have a look at as well
I hope you find it a fun 30 odd seconds
and I certainly hope youll get to see the rest of it as it all unfolds over the next while.
The files from my cabinet TEASER is the opening credits of Nicholby Hardup (Private Detective) and his Hardup Crack Teams adventures. A 20 part season of mad and surreal animations based on the radio series with special guests including Steve Bisley, Kate Fitzpatrick, Steve O, Holly Hunter, Basil Brush, Harvey Peakar and Ian McKellen.
It started as a radio series a few years ago, in the mid-2000s. I produced it based on some original concepts and just had a bit of fun with it
The show would air on 2SER FM on a Friday morning during the Breakfast program (hosted by Daz & Antony. It was all bit of fun. Nicholby would do a phone spot for a few months, informing people of what was on for free around town; and then it just seemed like a fun thing to put him into a sort of silly radio serial based more or less on those old mystery 1950s Private Dick type things
I compiled a special as well The Hardup Crack Team with spots from Bob Downe and Prunella Scales among others.
So anyway when I needed to create my first animation for an assessment task at school this last semester, I figured Id bring the radio material to life.
Give it a second life. After all its just sitting there doing nothing. It wouldnt be possible to complete the whole series in the time allocated for the assessment, so I created what would potentially be the opening credits. A bit of foolishness, silly and surreal in its own way. Something to make me laugh, which is what The Hardup Crack Team was all about. A laugh.
Heres the link to check out the whole 37 seconds. Hope you enjoy.
As part of the HipNote Spring sessions , COMA ( Creative Original Music Adelaide ) & Shivnakaun Productions presents for you
Sentient Machinery Provokheatre
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As part of the HipNote Spring sessions , COMA ( Creative Original Music Adelaide ) & Shivnakaun Productions presents for you
Sentient Machinery Provokheatre
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As part of the HipNote Spring sessions , COMA ( Creative Original Music Adelaide ) & Shivnakaun Productions presents for you
Sentient Machinery Provokheatre
[ Click here to read more ]
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The short play & other performance works provide arts practitioners with a wealth of experience; in the act of fine-tuning abilities required to create new works of performative art. Short Performance Works aims to explore the field-of-play concerning short works of corporeal performance. The ten minute play, performance art, cabaret... whatever form it takes within the context of entertainment.
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Yes, Pat and Adrian are an extremely talented couple and you'd have to go a very long way to find anyone with the talent to string lyrics and music together in the way Miss Pat can!