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A new year in the art world: Debut
artists, spaces
1 February 2011
The art industry has reopened for 2011 with Debut VII at Blindside.
For the last 7 years, Blindside Artist Run Initiative has opened the new year with an exhibition titled Debut.
"Debut is in its seventh incarnation. Every year since 2005, a curator nominated by the Blindside committee visits the graduate exhibitions of Naarm / Melbourne's major art schools and invites artists to exhibit early the following year. This year's curators, Shae Nagorka and Julian White, have selected group that, if we are being overly simplistic, could be described as formalists. However, the methodical and prescribed practices displayed reveal a deep emotional understanding of the often-overlooked subtleties of our everyday experiences that, taken en masse, make up our lives."
In the 2010 exhibition I particularly enjoyed Ted Mckinlay's work and in 2011 standouts would have to be Alice Wormald and Jessica Honey.
Alice's beautiful oil painting of an intimidation pot plant is technically very sound and textural. The different tones of green emphasise the real being the hanging pot basket and the unreal being the pot plant itself.
Jessica's smaller images of "yacht-owning" children are also successful in representing a purely aesthetic level. The children's gaze and light colour scheme of white, baby blue and pink all successfully work in an exercise of formalism.
There are 8 artists in total:
- Mari Adams
- Sam Barbour
- Fiona Boyd
- Zoe Croggon
- Jessica Honey
- Adele Macer
- Esther Stewart
- Alice Wormald
Blindside Artist Run Initiative (view location on Google Maps)
Gallery One and Two
Level 7, Room 14, Nicholas Building
37 Swanston Street Melbourne 3000
Wednesday to Saturday, 12pm to 6pm
Until 5 February 2011