Grid Gallery

image courtesy of Aram Dulyan and Leo Burnett

Grid Gallery

This month's brief | Crossing Cultures

By July 2010 the 17th Biennale of Sydney will be in full swing and the Grid Gallery is calling for works that resonate with the theme of what is being called “the most ambitious Biennale programme in 37 years.” Interested in social equality in the face of diversity, Biennale curator  David Elliot describes the focal element of this Biennale, titled THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age,as an exhibition that “aims to present diverse cultures on the equal playing field of contemporary art, where no culture can assume superiority over any other.” (Biennale of Sydney Press Release – 12 May 2010).

For the month of July, Grid Gallery is celebrating artists Ian Gwilt's concern with contemporary Japanese objects aesthetic and Chris Bowman's dgital memory of indigenous Australian river systems; to echo the sentiment of reducing cross cultural division.

About the project | EnergyAustralia will launch Grid Gallery, Sydney’s first permanent and public media-based gallery space dedicated solely to the exhibition of media art. Leo Burnett and New Media Curation have been commissioned to manage the gallery space and work with the community to display art.

Director of New Media Curation, Deborah Turnbull, says: This project is intriguing because it is physically, architecturally and virtually situated; and has been conceived this way from the structure’s preliminary planning 10 years ago. The architectural structure of EnergyAustralia’s Substation 4 houses the physical component at the corner of Erskine and Sussex Streets. The web portal at www.gridgallery.com.au is also a key component; allowing a visitor the chance to view the online gallery, while an artist can submit works.

Each month, a new brief with a unique theme will be released for media artists from across Australia to respond to. Artists will be provided with a specific time frame to submit an idea via sketch synopsis. Feedback will be provided to selected artists, with the opportunity to revise and further develop their final artwork for upload onto Grid Gallery’s 15 metre x 1 metre LED screen, powered by 100% GreenPower.

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Fashioning Now: Touring Exhibition

Image courtesy of Romance Was Born

Romance Was Born, 2009 Collection

Fashion is often perceived negatively in terms of sustainability and yet one of its inherent qualities is innovation, the search for new solutions. This exhibition explores various ways in which fashion designers, artists and companies are refashioning the act of making clothes for a sustainable future where ‘fashion’ is an inherently positive facet of culture.

The scope of the exhibition extends from high fashion to mass manufacturing, and from products to systems. It attempts to highlight alternate modes of sustainable fashion in addition to the popular options of fashion produced with organic materials or recycled vintage fabrics. Some pieces are not wearable in the traditional sense, but make strong cases for new, improved practices.

Fashioning Now draws on research projects from international creators who are investigating solutions in various areas of the ‘closed loop’ system of production.  This exhibition objects are divided into four main categories: source, make, use and last.

Amongst the exhibition objects will be fashion garments and textile objects, digital print photographs / illustrations / drawings and time-based media.

Energy Australia's Smart Home

Image courtesy of Energy Australia

Smart Home

Invited by the Commercial sector Smart Grid at Energy Australia, New Media Curation has been contracted to curate an installation of smart art.  The selection of work will boast artistic vision with a relationship to the reduction of waste, the celebration of industrial materials for their sustainable qualities, and their dedication to the tennents of contemporary and emergent design practice.