KINGS ARTIST-RUN 26 – 28 Oct 2018 FUNDRAISER KINGS Gallery Fundraiser 2018 Catalogue published by KINGS Artist-Run KINGS Artist-Run Level 1/171 King Street Melbourne 3000 Artists Ali McCann, Andrew Atchison, Annabelle Kingston, Brie Trenerry, Briony Galligan, Camila Galaz, Dalton Stewart, Glenn Walls, Guy Grabowsky, Hannah Raisin, Jake Preval, Josephine Mead, Julian Day, Katie Sfetkidis, Lou Hubbard, Lynette Smith, Nina Gilbert, Olga Bennett, Oliver Hull, Paul Handley, Paula Hunt, Ro Noonan, Ross Coulter, Samuel Szwarcbord, Sanja Pahoki, Sean Peoples, Siri Hayes, Siying Zhou, We would like to thank all of the artists Sophie Neate, Tony Garifalakis, Tracey Lamb, Uri Auerbach, Zainab Hikmet for their generous donations which will Curatorial Committee support the KINGS Artist-Run 2019 Jeremy Eaton William Heathcote exhibition program Megan Kennedy Georgia Mill Jessica Row 2018 KINGS Committee Jeremy Eaton, William Heathcote, Megan Kennedy, Georgia Mill, Tara O’Conal, Ashley Perry, Jessica Row and Katie Ryan Photographic documentation by Chris Bowes For all purchases and artwork enquiries email Jeremy at [email protected] Gallery volunteer Tiffany Blaise Acknowledgement of Country We would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people who are the Traditional Custodians of the Land on which our space is situated. We pay respect to the Elders of the Kulin Nation, past, present and future. ALI McCANN ANDREW ATCHISON ANNABELLE KINGSTON Untitled 10 (An Introduction to Ideal #3, 2013 Liminal Aesthetics), 2017 595 x 905 x 20mm 320 x 480 mm Melamine, MDF, Paint Digital C-Type print $400 Waterfall (on tour with mum), 2018 $650 450 x 300 mm Acrylic on board Ali McCann is a Melbourne-based Andrew Atchison is an artist, writer and $200 artist. Recent solo exhibitions include, educator currently based in Melbourne. He Masks for Magicians (2018) at Caves, completed a Master of Fine Arts (research) Polytechnic (2018) at Tristian Koenig, at MADA, Monash University in 2018. Annabelle Kingston is a Filipinx-Australian artist and musician. In addition to her An Introduction to Liminal Aesthetics He has exhibited extensively including painting practice, Annabelle is one half of art/design duo Paradise Structures, makes (2017) at c3 Contemporary Art Space at Testing Grounds, Greenwood Street experimental pop music under the name Waterfall Person, and co-runs a shop called and Trowing Off Te Hump (2017) at Projects, Light Projects, West Space, Kings Perfect Splash. Her recent solo shows include “Fart or Flight” and “Annabelle’s Kings Artist-Run. ARI, Seventh, First Site Gallery, and Next F*r*i*e*n*d”. Her painting “Waterfall (on tour with Mum)” is based on a true Wave and Midsumma Festivals. In addition, story. he has completed several artworks for public space, including a public art commission for The City of Melbourne. He currently holds the position of Artist Educator at The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. BRIE TRENERRY BRIONY GALLIGAN CAMILA GALAZ Haema Chroma alternate edit, 2018 the crowd, 2017 the snowman is following a border, 1920x1080 Paper: 700 x 1000mm 2018 Single channel HD video, colour, sound Print: 430 x 630mm 250 x 300mm 4:30 mins Screenprint of rag paper Card, inkjet print on wood panel $150 Edition 1/3 $330 $300 Brie Trenerry is a local artist who has worked primarily with video and multi- Camila Galaz lives and works in media for the past 16 years and has exhibited extensively both in Australia and Briony Galligan – an emerging artist Melbourne, where she completed internationally. She co-founded Kings ARI in Melbourne whilst working as a working in Narrm/Melbourne – works Honours in Fine Art at RMIT. In her freelance video consultant and as a lecturer at VCA, RMIT and VUT. Recent with drawing, textiles, installation drawing and video-based practice, she exhibitions include, Very Unco, collaborating with Kieran Boland, curated by Ian and video to consider points where uses repetition and reperformance Haig at the Torrance Museum, LA, 2017, Double Blind, with Kieran Boland, First personal, social and art histories to explore memory, place and the Site gallery RMIT, Melbourne, Total Field, Australian Experimental Art Foundation overlap. Recent exhibitions include construction of identity. In 2018 she (AEAF), Adelaide 2015, Nervous Tension at Careof, Milan curated by Anabelle ‘We are here’ State Library of Victoria was awarded the MECCA M-Power Lacroix, One Hour Glass and Something’s trying to Tell us Some Things at Five (2018), ‘Haul Body’ Westspace (2017) Mentoring Scholarship from the Walls, Melbourne, curated by Kieran Boland and Ganzfeld I, at MARS, Melbourne. Jogja Calling’, 4A Centre for Asian Art, National Gallery of Victoria. Trenerry is currently the recipient of an RMIT scholarship undertaking a PhD in Sydney; ‘She imagines a City’ Heide, Screen Cultures at the RMIT School of Media and Communication. Trenerry is Melbourne (2016). also the curator of the video black box at MARS gallery in Windsor. DALTON STEWART GLENN WALLS I am Australian , 2018 Diptych 420 x 297mm Perspex on board $995 Glenn Walls is an Australian artist, writer and curator based in Melbourne. Walls’ work has been exhibited at a number of artist run spaces and galleries including Westspace, TCB Inc, Platform INC, Seventh, Exit Art (New York), Fehily Contemporary, Monash Gallery of Art, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and many others. Walls has held Scene, 2018 solo shows at RMIT Project Space and Spare Room, Spacement, Carlton 440 mm x 590 mm Hotel & Studios and John Buckley Gallery and others. His work has Phototech print been reviewed and published in a number of art magazines including $500 Un magazine, Art in Australia, Artlink, Eyeline, Art Monthly, The Age Newspaper, Monument Magazine, Artichoke and Vanguardred. Walls is B. Johannesburg, 1996, Dalton Stewart is a multidisciplinary artist the recipient of a number of awards and grants including the $40,000 working from Melbourne. Stewart completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts Roche Contemporary Award and an Australian Post Graduate Award. from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2016 and has exhibited at Collections: National Gallery of Australia, University of Sydney, RMIT Firstdraft, Fort Delta, KINGS Artist-Run, Margaret Lawrence Gallery University Union, City of Melbourne, Grafton Regional Gallery and PCA and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. archives. GUY GRABOWSKY Flux 1, 2016 HANNAH RAISIN 1290 x 870 mm Custom framed hand printed c type analogue photograph $2000 Guy Grabowsky is a Melbourne-based artist working predominantly in photography. Guy graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2017 and is currently completing Honours at the VCA. Guy has been a recipient of a number of prizes, including the Fiona Myer Award and Mount Buller Residency Award. Selected exhibitions include: Beyond the Veil - Blindside Gallery, Untitled Spaces - KINGS Artist-Run, “Yet Another Image” - Bus Projects, Nine - Red Gallery, Transit - Seventh Gallery, past/present - Trocadero Art Space, Majlis Travelling Scholarship - Margaret Lawrence Gallery. Guy’s work is held in numerous private collections. JAKE PREVAL Sculpture the same length as my erect Foxy Chicks, 2011 penis made using a broken nail brush, 500 x 700 mm eclipse mints, tube of toothpaste, inkjet pigment print plasticine and rubber bands from my Edition 4/5 + 2 Artist proofs backpack created whilst watching an Courtesy of the artist and MARS Gallery episode of Grand Designs. Revisited on $770 my laptop on the 18th of April 2014 at 2:31am, With a bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the VCA (2007, 2012), Raisin has 800 x 1150 x 400 mm exhibited and performed throughout Australia and internationally at ACMI, ACCA, Inkjet Print, plywood Gippsland Art Gallery, Linden, Substation, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, MARS Gallery $750 and Westspace, NCCA, Metro Arts and UQ Museum. In 2016 Hannah was the Asialink resident at 1Shanthiroad Studios in Bangalore, India. In 2013 she received Jake Preval is a New Zealand artist living and both the Australia Council for the Arts ArtStart and New Work Grants for a self- working in Narrm/Melbourne. His practice directed arts residency throughout parts of regional and remote Australia. Raisin spans sculpture, photography, installation features in a number of private and public collections and is represented by MARS and performance. He received a BA from Gallery. the Victorian College of the Arts. Recent solo exhibitions include slowtrade at the Warrnambool Art Gallery, A Warm Body To Hold at Fort Delta and Haiku for a Honey Girl at Blindside. He was a finalist in the BalletLab McMahon Contemporary Art Award 2018 and the John Fries Award in 2016. JOSEPHINE MEAD KATIE SFETKIDIS Sin Puertas Visibles / No Visible Doors, 2018 275 x 420 mm Digital inkjet print on 310gsm Ilford Smooth Pearl paper in custom-made frame Edition 1/3 $340 Josephine Mead is a visual artist and writer. She has exhibited at Bus Projects, Blindside, KINGS Artist-Run, Seventh, Craft and Blue Oyster Space. In 2018 she was shortlisted for the John Fries Award; was published by Art+Australia and un; undertook the Arquetopia Residency (Mexico) and participated in the KINGS Emerging Writers’ Program. She is currently undertaking the MacFarlane Fund Residency. JULIAN DAY Self Portirat; age 35, 2018 420 x 594mm Photographic Print Edition 1/5 $200 Poles, 2016 Katie Sfetkidis is a contemporary artist and lighting designer living and working in Single channel video, 1 min Melbourne. She recently graduated from her Masters of Contemporary Art at the Alaska Projects, Sydney Victorian College of the Arts where she was the recipient of the National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association Prize. She has exhibited and performed in artist Courtesy Dominik Mersch Gallery run spaces and festivals across Australia including; Trocadero Artspace, Footscray, $900 Festival of Live Art, Melbourne, Underbelly Arts Festival, Sydney, Metro Arts!, Julian Day has presented work at Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, MASS MoCA, Brisbane and BLINDSIDE Gallery, Melbourne.