“I am looking forward to exploring with Greg his ideas about the sublime in the Australian landscape and to ask the question, how does he achieve that sense of presence in his work whilst denying the overt representation of the human figure? And also, do the colours he uses have a special symbolic value?” – Joe Pascoe.

Disseminating their spatial practice, Pedisic and Hurst work with a range of architectural and non-architectural conventions and materials. Utilising a conceptual system of binary opposites such as solid/void, expansion/compression and alternating dimensionalities, the various drawings, paintings and plaster pieces explore the patterns established in everyday spaces, at the same time examining the nature of representational media.

Image: Tabulation by Rachel Hurst, plaster & mixed media relief castings, 75 x 75 x 40mm; the minutes, the hours (detail) by Katica Pedisic, ink on arches paper mounted on plywood panel, 420 x 300mm.

Violin for 2 is the collaboration of two talented performers, Anne Harvey-Nagl and Susannah Ng, exploring the joys of the violin duo repertoire. From the charm of Boccherini to the strange allure of Honnegger, take a musical journey culminating in Prokofiev’s Sonata in C for 2 Violins.

Program:
Boccherini – Trois Duo’s for 2 violins Op.5
Honegger- Sonatine for Two Violins in G Major
I:  Allegro non tanto
II:  Andantino
III:  Allegro moderato
Werner Pirchner – Concerto for Two Violins PWV 33
Schnittke – Moz-Art (based on KV 416d) for 2 Violins
Prokofiev - Sonata in C for 2 Violins, Op.56
I: Andante cantabile
II:  Allegro
III: Commodo (quasi Allegretto)
IV: Allegro con brio

Images: Susannah Ng; Anne Harvey-Nagl.

Language is her salvation and her release – it is also her entrapment: the clock ticks away her final moments while the storm rages outside and in.

Lee and Strangio “invite audiences into unfamiliar landscapes where we may experience new ways of seeing, examine the fissures and fractures of our own inner lives, and chart the seldom mapped interiority of strangers.”  - Peta Murray, Playwright.

Image credit: Oscar Strangio

Crossings is a body of congested compositions; highlighting a world swamped with information, digital communication and structural design accompanied by a drift of people and a rich evocation of colour. Ysabelle’s phantom figures move in and out of her pictures, alluding to a greater sense of energy when present, that parallels the fragmentation of a city.

Ysabelle Dauguet is a Mauritian born artist living and working in Melbourne. Since graduating from Monash in 2011, she has received the Langridge Painting Award 2012 and was nominated and selected to be part of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) national exhibition.

Image: Building block near work and Italian church (orange), 2013, acrylic and oil on canvas, 800 x 800mm; Disperse, 2013, acrylic and oil on canvas, 400 x 300mm.

When refugees settle in Australia there is an emphasis on taking care of the essentials – food, housing, education and employment. Yet refugees also need resilience, courage and hope to face the challenges of settlement.

Melbourne Playback Theatre actors draw on these themes to create a unique performance from the stories of audience members. These actors and musicians bring the audience’s stories of hope and resilience in a way that is entertaining, surprising, and transformative.

RSVP here or email cnunes@eccv.org.au.

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Tribes Theatre presents five great female actors in a rehearsed reading for one performance only. Carmelina Di Guglielmo is a highly respected actor who is well known to Melbourne audiences. She is joined by Maria Theodorakis, an AFI award winning actor, Maureen Edwards (well known to many for her long-standing leading role in A Country Practice), Melbourne actor, director and teacher Annie Fiume and emerging Melbourne based actor Stephanie Morrell.

Writer and Director Chris Dickins is a veteran of Australian Theatre whose work has been produced across Australia and internationally.

In this exhibition Greg Ades draws upon the places he has journeyed to over recent years. He explores the interaction between natural structures, their surrounding space and neighbouring objects to create a series of narratives around Australian landscape.

The roots of a strangler fig engulf the tree upon which it dwells. Interlacing, they coalesce and thicken, depriving the host tree of life until it rots away revealing the elongated cage that once engulfed the host.

Within the entanglement of mangrove roots and branches a singular tree loses itself amidst its neighbours.

A myrtle and a fern germinate next to each other. As they grow the roots of the myrtle become attached to the fern. Eventually the myrtle is growing on the fern, its roots taking hold, engulfing its neighbour. As the two grow the weight of the myrtle forces its neighbour ever closer to its eventual collapse. – Greg Ades

Funded with assistance from Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

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Image: Mangroves, 2012, oil on linen, 1070 x 910mm

As a result Stephen’s works developed an architectural vocabulary. The paintings themselves function as architectural sketches as a means of planning and imagining new built environments. Stephen presents these forms within an imaginative space so his structures and objects take on a new meaning, allowing the viewer to actively participate within the space and discover new meanings in things that are normally familiar to us in our everyday lives.

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Image: House and Garden, 2013, oil on canvas, 1120 x 1220mm; The Neighbours, 2013, oil on canvas, 770 x 1120mm

They’ll be playing some Haydn and Ravel for approx 45 mins. Entry is free, and you are welcome to bring your lunch.

Stay tuned for news about future open rehearsals later in the year at fortyfivedownstairs. For those who loved ‘Behind Closed Doors’, here is your chance to witness the real thing.