Remembrance can be the act of showing respect for the dead: rosemary sprigs for the ANZACs; Day-of-the-Dead ceremonies to honour the spirits, a riot of candy-coloured skulls atop candle-strewn altars, and mesmeric death masks adorned with flowers and insects; warnings that Indigenous images, voices and names might be present.

But it is the simple act of remembering, too, as richly patterned as it is leveraged, causing jolts of recognition, or that warm glow of a happy childhood memory. It can be a flash of understanding between strangers, or hazy flecks of last-night’s fun, a shiver of déjà vu, or Pavlov’s-dog salivation in anticipation of the sharp tang of taste.

The smell of oil paint and cedar redolent of the warm wood of a grandmother’s studio, rich in endeavour and love; an old hurt bubbling to the surface like acid; the pride we feel in the face of valour – be it shadowed nostalgia or visceral recollection, remembrance is defined by its perspective and contextualised by experience.

It is unique.

In a show designed to evoke powerful emotion, over 20 artists exhibit what remembrance means to them. It will feature the work of Will Coles, Dillon MacEwan, Jasmine Poole, Andrea Davies, Christie Torrington, Pierre Cavalan, Terry Archer, Onur Ka, Azelia Maynard, Robert Maxwell, Chris Lego, Paul Irving, BUNKWAA, Gemma Lark, Andrew Jones, Nikki McLennan, Lu Campbell-Smith, Sasha Wild, Alli Sebastian Wolf, Victoria Waghorn, H Morgan-Harris and more to be announced.

Opening Night: 6pm 25th November 2022

[image credit: Seven Sisters Songline 1994, Josephine Mick, Ninuku Arts]

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Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th March 11am-4pm

The Fertile Imagination Captive Breeding Program at Tortuga Studios has exceeded all expectations with warm, dark corners cultivating fertile creation like mould…

The net result is a crew of wildly imaginative artists in residence and an unnervingly large swarm of scribbly eyed creatures with well-drawn proportions and domination on the mind.

These cardboard captains of quirk are the product of the most fertile of imaginations, that of street artist BUNKWAA. Spilling furiously from the brink of his mind they continue to fill the cracks between reality and idealism that crackle through the corners of Tortuga.

The carpet, sticky with creative juice, is out and the little people are waiting… come on down to meet them and all the artists in residence at Tortuga as part of the Marrickville Open Studio Tour and ART MONTH SYDNEY.

ART MONTH SYDNEY
Marrickville Open Studio Tour
Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th March
11am-4pm
www.tortugastudios.org.au
http://bunkwaa.blogspot.com.au/
http://www.artmonthsydney.com.au/

interact with our facebook event page

http://www.artmonthsydney.com.au/explore/marrickville-open-studio-trail-most/

see also

http://www.artmonthsydney.com.au/see/skein/

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
Denis Mizzi
BUNKWAA
Dan Lovallo
Philippe Vincent – PV1
Douglas Mitchell
Terra Incognita
Chris Fox
Pete Strong
Giles Morgan
Cheungha Lim
Andros
Lu Campbell Smith
Ivan Smith
Cameron Stanton
Edward Horne
Alex Holver
H Morgan-Harris

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