No Forum*
Ruth McConchie, Danielle Clej and Kathleen Connellan
6pm Tuesday 16th of February 2010 //
No Frills* Gallery: Studio 3.10 109 Edward Street
Join special guest Kathleen Connellan (Lecturer in design and craft history/ theory at the South Australian School of Art), Brisbane based artist Ruth McConchie (Master of Arts by Research at QUT) and Danielle Clej (PhD candidate in practice-led research at QUT) for a discussion generated by McConchie’s object based arrangement For Cuckold Culottes; the Certainity of Cynosure. The panel will explore Kathleen’s research interests in domesticity, gender, craft identities and economics, ritual and appropriation in design in connection to Ruth’s practice-led research on the relationships between objects, memories, space, ritual and fetishism.
Journey to Arcardia, nsw
Sean Rafferty
Opening 6pm // 26th of February 2010 // Preceded by an artist talk at 5:30 pm
No Frills* Gallery: Studio 3.10 109 Edward Street Continuing until13th March 2010
In Journey to Arcadia, nsw Rafferty explores the relationship of agriculture to the theatres of representation. His project develops from the glorified pastoral traditions embedded in the history of Australian Art and examines the mythologies of abundance that pervade images of the primary industries in Australia. For his exhibition with No Frills* Rafferty ambitiously composes an indoor landscape in the style of cardboard fruit boxes.
Rafferty lives and works in Sydney and is currently undertaking a residency at Artspace. He gained his Masters degree at College of Fine Arts in 2008 and has shown extensively in Sydney and Melbourne. He is on the board of Runway magazine and is a former co-director of Firstdraft gallery.
