SCA June Exhibitions and Events Launch
Sydney College of the Arts will host a series of exhibitions and events during June 2011. Highlights of the opening night on Wednesday 1 June, 6 to 8pm, include The David Harold Tribe Sculpture Award, Black & White, Scottie Wilson, Visual Imagery from Nonconscious Thought and Bite the Moon.
The David Harold Tribe Sculpture Award, an exhibition of work by finalists of the David Harold Tribe Sculpture Award 2011, valued at $12,000. The winner will be announced during the exhibition opening on Wednesday 1 June, 6.30pm. The David Harold Tribe Sculpture Award 2011 finalists are: Merryn Bowden, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Jason Christopher, Stephen Cramb, Kath Fries, Laura McLean, Sylvia Schwenk, Twana Sivan and Rolande Souliere.
Black & White and Scottie Wilson, curated by Colin Rhodes. Black & White, an exhibition of works by a selection of Outsider artists chosen to showcase a wide variety of expressions using only black and white. Artists include ‘classics’ Madge Gill and Malcolm McKesson, well-known Australians Phillip Heckenberg, Jodie Noble and Damian Michaels, and established and emerging international artists James Lancaster, Donald Mitchell, Damian LeBas, Kenneth Rasmussen and Gérard Sendrey. All of these works will be shown publicly for the first time in Sydney, many for the first time ever. Scottie Wilson, an exhibition of works by internationally famous Outsider artist, Scottie Wilson (1888 – 1972). The exhibition will feature two original hand-painted plates and a major drawing by Wilson, alongside a selection of his dinnerware designs, commissioned by Royal Worcester in the 1960s.
Visual Imagery from Nonconscious Thought, an exhibition by Master of Fine Arts candidate, Dell Walker, exploring the process of painting from mental imagery hidden from consciousness. The paintings in Walker’s exhibition come from a method of making the processes of the nonconscious thought visible.
Bite the Moon, an installation work with live music by SCA graduate, Maryke McGrath and Sydney Conservatorium of Music graduate, Rhia Parker. The exhibition will feature live music with electronics and projections, looking at the grotesque, disturbing and quirky side of nocturnal life.
Images: Scottie Wilson, acrylic paint on ceramic plate, C. 1960; Recipient of the David Harold Tribe Sculpture Award 2008, Angela Femia.