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190913 ADS Band - John Debbie Katina

The title of this piece is ‘Welcome Home’. It is made by my self, Emma Holt. This painting is an oil and collage on canvas on a medium sized canvas. The prominent colours are: cream, white, blue, pink and red. In the middle of the canvas, there is a white van with the words: ‘Fuck this Shit’, written on the side of it. There is an image of a woman looking confused, peering out of the van. In the bottom left of the canvas, there are the words ‘Welcome to my Brain’, written in typography with offcuts of magazines surrounding the van.

WelcomeHome - Emma Holt

‘Stormy Atmosphere’ Painting done by Fiona Taylor
Different colour, moving around
Trying to get a stormy look
The colours blending in, and moving them around
Yellows, reds, orange, pinks, light greens, dark greens, different blues, little bit of purple
Soft looking pattern that flows

Stormy Atmosphere - Fiona Taylor

My name is Judy Amad. I make predominantly lino prints and dry etching prints. My antelope picture (also named ‘The Antelope’) is a dry etching. My inspiration is a picture I found in National Geographic. The antelope’s fur is quite detailed and meticulously etched, bit by bit. The intensity of the process is heightened, applying a rubbing back of the ink, leaving a quite bold, final print.

The Antelope - Judy Amad

This piece is called the Grampians, this is quite a large work on an A1 size sheet of paper. I’ve used different coloured graphite, charcoal and water soluble crayons, all good artist quality materials. It’s one of the pieces I have been working on, taking photos and feelings of the Grampians and translating them into works mainly concentrating on line, form, mark making and pulling out the great swirly shapes and rock formations unique to the Grampians in Victoria. They look like ancient ruins or old Celtic rock walls that are breaking down, and sometimes it really does look like you are witnessing a lost civilisation but it’s all natural. Anyway, I’ve concentrated on this one particular cluster of rocks or monoliths, emphasising the looming majestic presence it has. It’s a large mushroom shape and I’ve brought out the blues and pinks I could see in the greys of the rocks, it was midday so there is a bold shadow cast.

Grampians - Jay

Chris’s hair undulates like a mountain range. The sandy right eyebrow settles over a small eye that squints into the distance. He has not two but three nostrils looped through the nose. A red tongue floats between his thin lips and a round dolloping line forms an angular chin.

Chris AD

Stezzo’s head is drawn with a gently rounded line without colour accents that suggests a bald head. The edge of every other line is coloured to varying degrees — dark earthen colours for the eye and nose, vibrant yellows and greens for the ear and chin. The carefully drawn outcrop of the left eyebrow and the wide white pupil gives Stezzo a suspicious expression. The single line that veers from the nose towards his left cheek then hooks back to form the negative space of a white gruff moustache.

Stezzo AD

Ewelina has a heavy brow over a small right eye that is behind a clear glasses lens. Her head is shadowed by fiery coloured shape while her lips reach across her face like the fingers of a mythical creature. The drawn line frames her face with a firm oblong chin.

Ewelina AD

Guler has a multi-coloured beard and a strong square chin. The white space where his mouth would be is turned up into a smile. His red left eye is bordered by green and the gentle droop of his brown eyebrow gives him a gentle, sympathetic expression.

Guler AD

Within a large circle framed by a thick black border of darkness is a portion of the famous historic South Melbourne landmark St. Peter’s and Paul’s Catholic Church. The building fills the entire image, but for a small patch of clear white sky; top left of the church’s pointed peak.
The forefront face of the building appears lit up by sun, with the signature bluestone bricks the church is built of rendered entirely white, but for faint darker marks across each showing roughness of texture. 

Standing out in the centre is an elaborate circular rose window with a thick black frame around it. The decorative sections of the glass are a clear white, starting with a small centre circle, flowering out into glass petals. Tracing these petals are the straight raised black lines of the stone frame, extended out from the middle like wheel spokes, before curving into four leaf clover shapes. 

While flat fronted, the building features layered dimensions. Beneath the central window, the decorative entranceway extends forward. While mostly out of frame, the triangular peaked bluestone roof of the entrance also appears sunlit, while the hint of the archway’s curved peak beneath is shadowed with thick dark grooves growing darker beyond the reach of the sunlight. On the left side of the image, the flat front of the building extends out into a bluestone tower-like cylinder feature followed by a sharp rectangular prism. Here, a strong black and white contrast is used to show depth, dimension, and shade, as the white front facing bluestones of the side extension are met by the black faces of inward curving edges.

St. Peter’s and Paul’s Catholic Church

A large wavy circle in the centre of this work is surrounded by pitch blackness. The deeply carved white background of the circle gives way to another central circle; a dark rimmed magnifying glass hovering over a historical South Melbourne map. The handle of the magnifying glass is cradled between a forefinger and thumb, which are black but for the wrinkles of the skin rendered with white lines. These fingers are the only human presence in both this work, and the full series of artworks. 

In the central wavy circle is a sprawling historical map of the South Melbourne area, being brought into deeply detailed focus beneath the gaze of the magnifying glass. The map background is black, with street and place names, street divisions, and buildings cutting into the darkness in intricate, thin white lines. Notable local landmarks depicted in the map are the Town Hall, the South Melbourne Market, and St. Peter’s and Paul’s Catholic Church, all still standing today. The streets traversing horizontally across the map are Montague Street at the bottom, Cecil Street in the middle, and Clarendon and Moray Street respectively towards the top. From left to right, the intersecting vertical streets are Grant Street, Market Street, York Street, Coventry Street, Dorcas Street, and Bank Street. As with the heritage landmarks, these streets on the map are current. The title of the map, “South Melbourne”, is splashed across the middle in capitalised print. Between the grid of streets are squares of land, each home to finely detailed carvings - some resembling buildings, some abstract lines and dots evoking texture. 

Obscuring the map north of the title are two accessories that rest atop the paper. The first, a pair of white framed glasses in the top left, and the second, top right, is a black covered book on the history of the area. The bottom of the book sticks out from the frame of the magnifying glass, and thus is slightly skewed and less enlarged: alluding to the difference in depth. On the spine of the book, the words “SOUTH MELBOURNE” are magnified, and the tail of the spine features a small white label with the numbers ‘01’.

South Melbourne Historical Map

Paula Whiting: Killer Whale (duo)

Jonathan Thompson: 2BT

John Eslick: Happy Go Lucky (Tiffany)

Debbie-Anne Lissek: Colours

Jonathan Thompson - Robot

Jonathan Thompson - Untitled

Larissa MacFarlane: Managing The Day AD

Larissa MacFarlane: Handstands As Queer

Larissa MacFarlane: Close Encounters Of The Vestibular Kind

Larissa MacFarlane: An Accessible Future Has A Disabled Past

Larissa MacFarlane: A Handstand On BoonWurrung Country

Still Life - Julie

Audio Description By Teague Leigh - All Artworks

Vincent Gamon: Female Magpie

Peter Strang: Angry Eye

Dean Rizkalla: The Time Tree

The Windmill

Simpson And His Donkey (1)

Sea With Pebbles

Out West

Morticia

Inner City At Night

Tony Dowling Outback

'Untitled' by Roslyn Simmons

'Untitled' by Tess McDonald

'Bobby' by Roslyn Simmons

Untitled' by Michael Gelsi

'Horse' by Linda Harman

'Blue' by Linda Harman

'Boy Toy' by Jonathan Thomson

'Dad' by Heather White

'Untitled' by David Donnison

'Hand' by Correne Lucida

Artie Dee 'It’s been so long'

Compilation of tracks for the SRS Exhibition at Neon Parlour in Thornbury, 2018

Mark Foster

Playlist compiled for Visible/Invisible
Visible/Invisible aimed to raise awareness of invisible disability and was produced by Moreland City Council with Arts Access Victoria, Newlands and East Coburg Community Houses Open Studio and Brotherhood of St Laurence NDIS.

Tracks in playing order:

sound design recordings (Queens group)
Jing Erhu song (Queens)
Yve - Dolphins with Eyes Like Pandas (Artstop)
Vincent Gamon - (Footscray)
Ross - Deer Park Rap (Royal Ave)
Sibe - The Big Boss (Greenhaven)
Barbara and Raymond - Horror Track (Royal Ave)
Enzo - Wasting all my time (Footscray)
Irene - Hard Days Night (Willows)
Tony Dowling - Living on the Government Money (Fusion)
Vincent - Motorbikes (Greenhaven)
Barry - Creatures in the Deep (Artstop)
Nico, Arty D (Arthur), - Whistling piece
Matthew - bird whistles (Willows)
Puthea - Khmer song (Greenhaven)
Robert - Once I was A Human Face (Sydenham Grace)
Kevin Bowtell - There Was Choices (Sydenham Grace)
John - Guitar (Northern Terrace)
Valma - Alison I Love You (Northern Terrace)
Stefano - Piano improvisation (Brunswick Lodge)
- Guitar and Voice (Brunswick Lodge)
Northern Terrace group composition - Tropical Mist and Carribean Island
Queens Lodge group composition - Walking piece

Enjoy!

Visible/Invisible Exhibition Playlist Dec 2019

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