Slot - 2009 Slot Exhibitions

2009 Slot Exhibitions

We start 2009 with SLOTs most ambitious project to date – a suite of satellite windows that re-create exhibitions from the past five years in vacant shops along Regent Street, between Redfern Street and Henderson Road. While celebrating its neighbourhood, SLOT turns from Redern to the region once again with exhibitions by Filipinos Juni Salvador and Vienna Parreña as well as a look at Filipino Modernism. SLOT is also delighted to announce it will show installations by Jumaadi, Pat Hoffie and Gabrielle Bates during the year. For more on SLOTs programming contact anything@slot.net.au

SLOT: 5 Years 50 Windows 19 January – 21 February 2009 SLOT has presented in excess of 50 art exhibitions since 2003, viewed from the street 24 hours a day. To celebrate its fifth anniversary, SLOT will re-create 11 of those installations in empty shop windows along Regent Street, stretching from Wells Street to Henderson Road and creating an art walk of about one kilometre during a 5-week period. This project celebrates that ground roots revitalisation of the city’s edges caught in flux. The artists presented are The Anonymous Signwriter of South Sydney, Marina Dearnley, Merilyn Fairskye, Junyee (Philippines), Ruark Lewis, Mai Long, Tracy Luff, Ian Milliss, Constantine Nicholas, Sculptors of Iloilo (Philippines) and Tony Twigg. It is a stellar line-up. Additional to SLOTs window, other neighbourhood galleries are supporting this project with Rita Bila presented at Medium Rare, Cash Brown in Grant Pirrie’s window and the Locksmith Project Space. This project has been supported by The City of Sydney, InnerCity Arts and Art Monthly Australia. Most important, however, is the support of the artists for their generous contribution and Redfern’s shop owners who have lent their space. Click for more ...

Match Box Projects 1 – 29 March 2009 Leanne and Naomi Shedlezki have been touring their Match Box Gallery since 2006, integrating with the general public whilst exploring different cities across Australia and Japan. Using transparent cases they exhibit their own artwork and works created/curated by artists and curators, literally taking their ‘gallery’ to the street. This kind of urban interaction connects with SLOTs vision, and we are delighted to come together on a project. For more visit http://www.matchboxprojects.com Click for more ...

Goran Tomic 30 March – 3 May SLOT presents the work of Goran Tomic in April - a new body of decolatages that are constructed by removing posters from telegraphs poles, gig wraps and advertising, injecting them with new work. They have the energy and vibrancy of the city. This exhibition has been facilitated by Mai Long. Click for more ...

Juni Salvador “ANONYMOUS” 4 May – 7 June Filipino conceptual artist Juni Salvador recently migrated to Sydney. His work has long offered a rigorous and probing intellect, pushing spatial relationships and a socialising of the object. SLOT is delighted to introduce his work to Australia with a new installation of paintings he has collected from ‘op shops’ in a searching definition of the Australian landscape tradition. Click for more ...

Jumaadi + Mawarini “Cerita” 8 June – 12 July Sydney-based Indonesian artist Jumaadi and Adelaide-based Mawarini have collaborated on this drawing ‘cerita’ – which simply means story. Weaving personal histories and a dialogue of change, place and memory between these two artists, this sensitive drawing uses the jellyfish as a metaphor for the complexity of beautiful edged with danger. Jumaadi is represented by Legge Gallery. Click for more ...

"A-17P: a new Collective" Golding, Long and Rudd 13 July 16 August 2009 The artist Mai Long has curated our mid-year show exploring notions of multi-cultural framing in Australia, sighting her own work alongside that of Melbourne artists Van Rudd and Dominic Golding. Named after new collective formed this year - "Artists of the 17th Parallel" - its title speaks to the demarcation that split Vietnam to create North and South Vietnam and contributed to the Vietnam War. Psychologically it represents a rift in self...a will to find the middle path between political extremes, a recognition of sameness and difference?in this space of absence. This exhibition will pose an interesting dialogue between the frictions of self-perception and art-world labels of multi-cultural Australia. Click for more ...

Gabrielle Bates 17 August – 20 September Bates spent a few months during 2008 in the SLOT studio sketching out a body of work, before heading to Penang in Malaysia for a residency. This exhibition is a result of that journey – a suite of paintings drawing on Malay superstitions concerning spirit-objects and their constriction within contemporary Islamic Malaysia. Click for more ...

Vienna Parreno 21 September – 25 October Filipina cross-media artist Vienna Parreno will transform SLOT with a site-specific work. Parreno’s work intuitive and poetically connects materiality with place and cultural reading. Her recent work has explored random photography and as with this image here, gouache on Braille paper with the series ‘Beyond Retinal Titillation’ (2002). SLOT is delighted to show a new work by Sydney-based Parreno. Click for more ... www.viennaparreno.net

Pat Hoffie 26 October – 29 November SLOT is delighted to presented the work of the renowned Pat Hoffie, educator and artist. Hoffie’s work draws on her collaborations with the Philippines, social activism and injustices and is usually very layered and alert to the world around her. This will be a new body of work. Click for more ...

Loris Quantock 30 November – January 2010 Loris Quantock makes wall-based installations using found sticks. What is remarkable about these sculptures is their intimate scale and obsessive fabrication of delicate twigs in constellation like arrangements named after the location from which they were lovely collected. For SLOT Loris will create a site-specific work that will stretch wall to wall as a horizon or minimal zip with the shimmer of an organic line. Click for more ...