Artspace

2014 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging)

Agatha Gothe-Snape, Baden Pailthorpe, Jason Wing, Jonny Niesche, Justine Varga, Leyla Stevens, Lillian O’Neil, Marian Tubbs, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Sarah Contos, Tessa Zettel and Tim Bruniges

Curatorium: Alexie Glass-Kantor, Curator with Sam Zammit, Co-curator and Sandra Di Palma, Curatorial Liaison

Exhibition Dates
24 October - 13 December 2014

Exhibition Opening & Winner Announced
Thursday 23 October, 6pm

Floortalks
When | Saturday 15 November & Saturday 22 November, 2pm
Location | Artspace, Ground Floor

Artspace End of Year Finissage
When | Saturday 13 December, 12pm
Location | Artspace, Ground Floor and Level 2, Seminar Room

Overview

The 2014 presentation of the NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) sees the exhibition transformed from a presentation of individual works to an exhibition supported by curatorial development and dialogue. In her inaugural curatorial role at Artspace, Executive Director Alexie Glass-Kantor has co-curated the exhibition in collaboration with Sam Zammit, former Curator of Programs and curator of the 2013 iteration of the NSW Fellowship. The 2014 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship is Artspace’s key exhibition for profiling the dynamism and breadth of emerging contemporary artistic practice in NSW.

Glass-Kantor has worked closely with each of the 12 finalists to further develop their work for the exhibition. Rather than presenting a constellation of discrete projects, the 2014 Fellowship offers the Artspace galleries as an environment in which relationships between works unfold to offer an in-depth encounter with emerging contemporary art in NSW.

2014 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship Recipient: Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran

Leyla Stevens, 'Signalmasters II', 2013, 2-channel HD video projection, installation view, 2014 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Zan Wimberley.
Baden Pailthorpe, 'MQ-9 Reaper', 2014, single-channel HD video, installation view, 2014 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Zan Wimberley.
Lillian O’Neil, 'The Lonely Isle', 2014, collage on Dibond, installation view, 2014 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Zan Wimberley.
Tessa Zettel, 'Making Time', 2012-ongoing, installation and series of public workshops, installation view, Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Zan Wimberley.
(Left): Sarah Contos, 'Just Another Manic Monday', 2014, screen prints on cotton, plastic and metal chains, oil on linen, upholstery tacks, various fabrics, polyfil, hydrocal plaster, chicken wire, wood, light fixtures, globes, LED lights, clay, fimo, found shoes and gloves, tom drum, copper, plastic, lava lamps, shells, unglazed stoneware and artists own mood rings. Installation view, 2014 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Zan Wimberley. (Right): Tim Bruniges, 'PIANO', 2014, upright piano, electromagnets, infinite duration. Commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney. Courtesy of the artist.
Marian Tubbs, 'new hunger', 2014; plasterboard, found objects, latex, digital prints on silk, jelly emollient, digital print on micro-georgette, marble, digital prints on SAV clear, galvanised steel, fibreglass, tubing; installation view, 2014 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Zan Wimberley.
Agatha Gothe-Snape, 'Powerpoint Catalogue', 2008-ongoing, selection of 6 Microsoft PowerPoint files, installation view, 2014 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Zan Wimberley.
Jonny Niesche, 'We refer to a thing, but there is no name for the smell', 2014, wood and acrylic mirror, installation view, 2014 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Zan Wimberley.
2014 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), installation view, Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Zan Wimberley.
Justine Varga, Installation view, 2014 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Artspace, Sydney. Left to right: 'Sounding Silence #6'; 'Sounding Silence #3'; 'Sounding Silence #5'; 'Sounding Silence #4'; 'Sounding Silence #1'; 'Toothpaste; 6 Months, 2 Weeks'. All 2014, C type prints. Photo: Zan Wimberley.
Installation view, 2014 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Artspace, Sydney. Left to right: 'Jason Wing', Sublime, 2014, fibreglass and polyurethane; Jonny Niesche, 'We refer to a thing, but there is no name for the smell', 2014, wood and acrylic mirror. Photo: Zan Wimberley.
2014 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) recipient, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, 'Elephant Island', 2014, earthenware, red terracotta, glaze, platinum and gold lustre, raw earth, ceramic tiles, marble, concrete, chains, perspex, cardboard and styrofoam, installation view, Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Zan Wimberley.