Strange News from Another Star # 6 by Mina Young from the 2008 exhibition Money Myth
Call for Emerging Artists
Toyota Community Spirit Gallery is calling for submissions from emerging artists to exhibit in our 2012 Emerging Artist exhibition.
Successful applicants are eligible to apply for the $10,000 Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award. A broad range of contemporary and traditional works across all mediums is sought from artists from diverse social and cultural backgrounds. The focus is on local artists from the cities of Port Phillip and Hobsons Bay but the program is also open to regional and interstate artists.
There is no cost to exhibit and no commission charged on sales of work. Established in 2004, the Gallery runs a continuous program of exhibitions at Toyota’s corporate headquarters in Port Melbourne and has shown the works of over 700 artists.
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APPLICATIONS CLOSE 17 FEBRUARY 2012
Images above from previous emerging artist exhibitions Top row from left Jessica Honey, Jack Rowland, María Peña, Lucy Hardie & Bronwyn Hyde Bottom left: Amaya Iturri, part of the Toyota Communty Spirit Gallery, Bradley O’Connor
Toyota Community Spirit Gallery presents
Sculpture 2011 - Flourish
the seventh annual exhibition showcasing the diversity & excellence of sculpture practice in Victoria
NOW SHOWING UNTIL MARCH 17, 2012
Download invitation (pdf 343KB)
Exhibitors Julia M Anderson, Emma Anna, Helvi Apted, Marynes Avila, Terry Barclay, Lisa Barmby, Rachel Boymal, Claus Bredow, Annie Broadway, James Cattell, Jenny Zhe Chang, Lidia Cirianni, Julian Clavijo, Sean Diamond, Dilly Frank Duyker, Ilan El, Zoe Ellenberg, Eva Ermer, Veronique Ferrandon-Derville, Augustus Firestone, Kate Geck, Tanja George, Craig Haire, Tegan Hamilton, Peter Hannaford, Elizabeth Hone, Mary-Lou Howie,Cath Johnston,Kate Jones, Gaby Jung, Irianna Kanellopoulou, Danuta Karski, Hanif Khairi, Jennifer Ashley King, Anne-Marie Kuter, Ange Leech, Sandra Levin, Marco Luccio, David Marshall, Janice McCarthy, Nicola McClelland, Edit Meaklim, Annee Miron, Sarah Moore, Marlize Myburgh, Ilariu Norian Paicu, Marija Patterson, Luciana Perin, Kirsten Perry, Suzanne Playfoot, David Powell, Marisa Ramos, Tracy Sarroff, Tara Shackell, Shoso Shimbo, Jenny Steiner, Julie Stevens, Kerry Strauss, Rosa Tato, Brendon Taylor, The Winged Collective, Mary van den Broek, Liz Walker, Carmel Wallace, Cat Wilson Curator Ken Wong
Toyota Australia, 155 Bertie Street, Port Melbourne
[Mel Ref 2E B11] 109 Tram, Stop 127, North Port Station/Lightrail Port Melb
Open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm or by appointment
Exhibition continues until 17 March 2012
Inquiries Ken Wong 0419 570 846 or info@watcharts.com.au
Images from Left: Anne-Marie Kuter Warped Fire Place Tissue paper, pva glue, shelf, brackets, lights & cellophane 2011, Nicola McClelland Internal Geographies Maps & sculpting wax 2011 & Craig Haire, Lifelovers Resin & fibreglass 2011
Congratulations to Irianna Kanellopoulou, winner of the 2011 $10,000 Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award
Irianna proposed to study and explore world renowned German and Austrian 18th and 19th century porcelain collections and investigate methods and techniques of exceptional porcelain manufactories which are not available in Australia. Her participation in specialised workshops and courses offered by highly regarded craftmasters will form the basis of a new body of work to be exhibited in Sydney 2013.
Irianna’s practice is largely involved with the creation of individual ceramic forms that create a narrative and explore issues of identity, displacement, unity and movement.
Using images and objects of our popular culture, she is interested in investigating issues of our emotional associations with everyday objects and memories. Irianna uses a combination of handbuilding and slipcasting techniques to explore the sculptural and plastic qualities of clay in a contemporary context. She is interested in merging traditional hand crafted ceramic techniques with new inter-disciplinary methods and processes to achieve a fusion of techniques.
For more about Irianna and her works visit Brenda May Gallery and also Potier
Congratulations to James Tapscott, winner of the $2000 Toyota Community Spirit Encouragement Award
My current body of work explores the link between matter and energy, a fusion of subjective and objective reality, and the effect our perception has on the world around us. My works are essentially non-objective, functioning more like a conduit between the observer and the environment. By using simple, elegant forms and light I attempt to create a balance between displaying evidence of ritualistic artistic process, and purely natural phenomena - a balance that hopefully has some influence on the experience of the viewer / participant, as they themselves enter a state of cohesion with the environment. My work seeks to be energy efficient and environmentally sensitive. That, with its temporal, ephemeral nature tries to remind us of the similar traits our world expresses, something we are conditioned with ourselves also. It exists in time, perhaps more than in space, and lives on through its documentation. Like a memory of an event.
James Tapscott
Finalists announced for the 2011 $10,000 Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award
Congratulations to the 2011 finalists Santina Amato, Megan Evans, Irianna Kanellopoulou, James Tapscott and Rosa Tato.
All exhibitors in the Toyota Community Spirit Program are eligible to apply for the $10,000 Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award. The Artist Travel Award is an initiative designed to provide artists with an opportunity to advance their career and expand their horizons through travel. The award invites artists to conceive a project involving travel either interstate or overseas that they believe has the potential to significantly enhance the development of their artistic career. A $2000 Encouragement Award will also be presented to one of the finalists.
The winner will be announced at the opening of the 2011 Annual indoor outdoor sculpture exhibition on 8th November. For more details about the announcement Download invitation here
Find out more about the finalists projects and the award