Curated by Darryn Ansted and Simon Cox
March 24 - April 22, 2012
Darryn Ansted
Nathan Beard
Ogi Naidansuren
Hitesh Natalwala
Fran Rhodes
Caitlin Woods
Exploring the transformation of identity in the globalised, post-national world. Seven artists – Hoda Afshar, Darryn Ansted, Nathan Beard, Ogi Naidansuren, Hitesh Natalwala, Fran Rhodes and Caitlin Woods – install artworks that respond to the pressing contemporary questions of migratory experiences, diasporic identities and postcolonial and post-communist legacies. Utilising a variety of contemporary approaches to painting, photography and installation, this geographically diverse collection of artists interrogate the ethical dimensions of the trans-national flows of people and cultures that increasingly define our globalised world.
image: Wall in Amman, photographic print, Darryn Ansted
Boom
Feb 25 – March 18 2012
Jill Ansell
Clare Bestow
Vanessa Bradley
Louise Carre
Beba Hall
Georgina Moss
Diana Papenfus
Geraldine Pillinger
Sandra Perry
Tineke Van der Eecke
Image: Waiting for Gold, Tineke van der Eecken, emerald, gold & silver
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Christmas P-Arty
December 4th - December 24th
A group exhibition of selected artists featuring works by Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Shelley Brookland, Zoe Chong-Seng, Cynthia Ellis, Peter Ellis, Richard Foulds, Beba Hall, Maria Hildrick, Naomi Hunter, Matthew Jackson, David Ledger, Jeffrey Turner and Rizzy.
Image: Red Heifer, bronze & acrylic lacquer, Abdul- Rahman Abdullah
Skin- An Imperfect Coat
Naomi Hunter
November 5th - November 27th
Navigating the space between the internal body and the world. Metaphoric amour protects the fragile balance between the internal and external self and light reveals what is normally unseen.
Incorporating installation, film and sculpture, Hunter’s practice provides an insight into the experimental and experiential process of glass making which is often sequestered from public view. These sculptural installations rely on the synergy of steel, glass and light. Steel skin, metaphoric armour, protecting the fragile balance of the internal and external self. The steel is perforated like the skin that leaks and ingests, rarely its’ idealised self – light revealing what is normally unseen.
The work encapsulates a flow of glass – like the flow of blood. Red staining abstracts the notion of bodily juices. Mucus oozes, it is viscous and tactile and like glass, can be dangerous to handle without protection.
Beast For Thee
Claire Bushby, Claire Canham, Maria Hildrick & William Wernham.
October 8th - October 30th
Animals can equally inspire our love and our fear. They act as our companions, protectors, labourers and provide us with sport. We have caged them, cooked them and we have worshipped them. We associate some human behaviours with the animal, often behaviours we would prefer to see as 'other' than human... and some behaviours that we long to allow in ourselves forgetting that we are part of that same 'kingdom'.
The Oats factory is pleased to present Beast for Thee. Featuring work by four artists currently based in Western Australia; Claire Bushby, Claire Canham, Maria Hildrick and William Wernham. The artists came together to explore this many layered relationship between humans and animals, from their own individual viewpoints and through a variety of artistic mediums including painting, drawing, collage and small scale 3d works.
Rumble
Recent Paintings by David Ledger
Sept 10th - Sept 30th
The Oats Factory is pleased to present ‘Rumble’ an exhibition by David Ledger.’ David is the inaugural recipient of The Oats Factory’s ‘Hotshot Award’. Rumble is David's first solo exhibition since recently graduating from Curtin University. This exhibition is an explosion of colour and form; tanks fly through the air and shards of imaginary worlds implode and scatter themselves throughout his canvasses.
David’s practice revolves around the need to make concrete an exploration of a place that exists in only in his imagination; a lush jungle, dense and overwhelming. This place is the amalgam of longed for experience; a collation of imagery collected from far off places, magazine clippings, travel programs, nature documentaries and war films. David’s paintings are like a stage or a virtual realm, anticipating an action; waiting to be animated within the viewer’s mind.
Love, Honour & Obey
Gemma Ben-Ary & Rizzy
Aug 20th - Sept 4th
An exhibition exploring notions of feminine identity & the occasion of marriage. Gemma & Rizzy’s practice challenges conventional notions of femininity while referencing identity markers from popular culture. This exhibition is the culmination of Gemma and Rizzy’s collaborative investigations in to the darker side of the institution of marriage. Featuring a life size sugar sculpture of a bride immersed in the throws of a bridezilla moment, floor to ceiling installations, almond paste horse riding attire adapted for the modern bride and colourful short stories revolving around the art of cake decoration; this exhibition has something to tempt even the fussiest of brides planning their big day.
narratives of debris July 29th - Aug 14th Shelley Brookland, Melanie Diss & Connla Kerr. An exhibition exploring the memories of places & objects. Sculpture, ceramics and painting by three emerging artists.
narratives of debris
July 29th - Aug 14th
Shelley Brookland, Melanie Diss & Connla Kerr.
An exhibition exploring the memories of places & objects.
Sculpture, ceramics and painting by three emerging artists.
us, them & me
Matthew Jackson
July 9th - July 24th
View film of opening night 'Us, Them & Me' by Ashley Porter
View documentary 'Living in The Black' by Baz Harvey
verisimilitude
Roxanne Cox
June 3rd - June 19th 2011
Fleeting moments caught by the camera are transferred onto the canvas through paint. The act of transfer disassociates the moments from their temporal context. The moments can only be represented as a historical fiction, as being unreal in their re-representation of reality, and real in their acknowledgment as artifice, leaving space for the articulation of multiple truths.
drawn
may 13th - may 29th
An exhibition of contemporary drawing featuring works by Marie- Annick Burridge, Claire Canham, Jenna Downing, Zoe Chong-Seng, Connla Kerr, Cynthia Ellis, Donovan Fisher, Deborah Haslam, Rebecca Morgan, Rebecca Orchard, Tanisha Percival, Melody Smith, Bill Wernham & Ian Williams.
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating,”
- Salvador Dali.
The artists selected for ‘Drawn’ share a common passion for materials and process; their practices encompass a variety of approaches to the subject of drawing.
smoke in the ether
Sarah Booth
April 27th - May 8th
A group exhibition featuring works by Bill Wernham, Cherish Marrington, Cynthia Ellis, David Ledger,
Johl Dwyer, Kate Jarman, Maria Hildrick, Melanie Diss, Meldijana Hozanovic, Rebecca Morgan and Richard Foulds
Exhibition continues until 20th March
Please contact melody.smith@theoatsfactory.com.au for further details
Exhibition Opens 9th October
An exhibition of emerging contemporary artists featuring works by Zoe Barry, Vanessa Bradley, Rizzy, Claire Bushby, Claire Canham, Lorraine Corker, Melanie Diss, Johl Dwyer, Donovan Fisher, Beba Hall, Amber Harries, Mandy Harwood, Deborah Haslam, Maria Hildrick, Elizabeth Marple, Cherish Marrington, Benjamin Mitchell, Rebecca Morgan, Melody Smith, Jennifer Sulaj, Laura Williams & Ian Williams.
Exhibition continues until 10th November
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