3 x 3 equals 6 degrees of separation

two good souls

2006-11-18T23:43:00.000+11:00

for tara love hayley
23.43 CST 18.11.06

furry litter

2006-11-14T16:37:00.000+11:00

For Hayley love Tara 14.11.06

jetlag singapore

2006-11-01T22:52:00.000+11:00

for tara love hayley
22.15 CST 01.11.06

Tiger tiger burning bright

Tassie tigeress

Mirror ball in the hippie fields of daylesford

mirror and mud

mad masked mirror wrestling

long legs extended - fun fair mirror

sister ascending medieval staircase

2006-11-01T12:15:00.000+11:00

for tara love hayley
19.15 CST 13.09.06

light project one to six - return to Tasmania in October.

'run like a race for a family when you heal like your alone, rusted years of boredom and faceless busy phones, the ground we run in circles but the shape we are meant to make is gone.

Love is a tired symphony that you hum when you are awake, love is a crying baby mum warned you not to shake, love is the best sensation i remember lions make ....

so i will clear the road of the gravel and the thorn bush in your back and burn the scented oil that i drip into your back. the waters there to warm you and the earth is warmer when you laugh.

Love is a scene I render when you catch me wide wake, love is a dream you enter though i shake and shake and shake you, love is the best endevour when you enter the lions mane ............

'Lion's Mane' - The Creek Drank The Cradle - Iron & Wine.(apologies if i have got some words wrong??)

hello sailor

2006-11-01T00:17:00.000+11:00

For Hayley love Tara - November 1st 2006.

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Darwin trip postponed...

2006-10-04T12:09:00.000+10:00

due to unforseen circumstances (see photos of tara below!) the Darwin exhibition has been postponed until next year, dates tbc.

tara, you're a trooper! xh

Now i know i am not in Kansas!

2006-09-06T13:36:00.000+10:00

Oh my toto, there is no place like home , when youve been diverted through a hospital instead of enjoying a brief holiday in Tassie.

oh this is serious, think i will lie down with the poppies now and have a sleep.

Oh my toto how did i end up here ......

nurse more drugs!!!!!

well i suppose i have my own scar that is like a map of tassie, arrows too .... phew ten days on an island was no festival for me.

nice view to recover to out of hospital ........

LOBSTAR - July 22,29 & August 5,12

2006-07-31T09:32:00.000+10:00

for tara love hayley
0937 CST 31.07.06

Rozzi George and myself are making site specific works with materials found in an old chinese restaurant in Parap which hasn't been operational for five years.
the restaurant was called 'Tai Hung Tol' or 'High Death Toll' by the locals. It's now an occasional band venue called 'Kung Fu Sing'.

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buddha with crazy eye @ new china restaurant Bendigo 7.8.06

love the lurid 7.8.06

and the carpet 7.8.06

fixing things up

2006-07-15T00:42:00.000+10:00

sorry for the delays, heres one of the great commonwealth protests that i saw the other day!

For Hayley love Tara 15.7.07

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the party

2006-07-01T21:19:00.000+10:00

for tara love hayley
21.19 CST 01.07.06

today is Territory Day
all night people are allowed to set off fireworks
in the streets, on the beach, on the oval, in the parks, on roof tops
lassie is inside scared shitless and asha can't sleep
just for 5 hours once a year (legally)

just before the soccerro demise

alices mushroom, she definantly wont sleep!

Party dress, my favourite summer number as photographed by my Asha. No street parties here!
03.07.06 10:58

lines of contemplation on the many trips to melbourne of late, less parties.

old file

ambulance building, abstracted in the night

head out on the highway

2006-06-30T21:34:00.000+10:00

For Hayley love Tara 30.06.06

because i remember trucks are so synonymous with the red centre. Ps love your drawings!!!

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my reflection last year

2006-06-14T15:27:00.000+10:00

for tara love hayley
14.54 CST 14.06.06

ghosts in the mirror

astral travelling, a reflection on the childs energy

ashas eye for detail

bathing landscape

ashas perception of mummy

rusty crevice

2006-06-12T22:07:00.000+10:00

For Hayley love Tara

Queens 80th 12.06.06
(when your finished drawing)

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i couldn't wait!

rusty 1
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rusty 2
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18.00 CST 25.06.06
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rusty 3
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18.07 CST 26.06.06
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rusty 4
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16.31 CST 28.06.06
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rusty 5
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16.52 CST 29.06.06
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INNER LANDSCAPES

2006-06-08T15:47:00.000+10:00

This blog was featured in INNER LANDSCAPES curated by Yolande Pickett and Catherine Gomersall, Perth Centre for Photography, WA. June 2006.

Contemporary photographic explorations of relationships between inner and outer worlds.

Kate Massola - Melbourne, Vic. Felicia Lloyd - Brisbane, Qld. Kelly Scurr - Darwin, N.T. Hayley West - Darwin, N.T. Tara Gilbee - Fryerstown, Vic. Franca Barraclough - Alice Springs, N.T. Thomas Larsen - Perth, W.A. Amanda de Simone -Melbourne, Vic.

a little something about us for you mob in perth!

Hayley West - has been the Administrator of the Artist Run Initiative - DVAA (Darwin Visual Arts Association Inc.) since May 2004. Hayley is also a successful practising artist exhibiting in artist run spaces, public art spaces and contemporary art spaces throughout Australia since 1998 in solo, group and collaborative shows. In Melbourne Hayley was one of the original committee members responsible for establishing the ARI Seventh Gallery Inc. (2000-2003). In 1998 she graduated with a BFA (sculpture) from RMIT. Her most recent award was as a 2004-05 recipient of the Australia Council ‘New Work’ emerging artists grant. In 2005 she had a solo show at 24HR Art Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, had work on loan to the Museum and Art Gallery NT, participated in a group show at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, collaborated with Tobias Richardson to exhibit work in a empty shop front during the Darwin Festival, and participated in a cross cultural performance ‘Fusion Strength ‘05’(Singaporean artists) at 24HR Art in September. So far in 2006 Hayley has had her fourth solo show in an empty shop front in the Darwin City Mall, been invited to exhibit in a group show at g&A Studios in Sydney, and travelled to Bendigo for the 3x3=6° of separation exchange.

Tara Gilbee - is an independant photomedia artist represented by Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne. She has been an active artist working in diverse settings since graduating from VCA Melbourne in 1996. She initiated an artist residency at Royal Melbourne Hospital that allowed a collaboration within the radiology department and with the sculptor Lauren Berkowitz. Culminating in the co -curation of a group exhibition at the hospital for the Melbourne International Arts Festival in 1998. She has been awarded a number of grants to create work in 2004 then attend an artistic residency in France 2004/05. She has written articles for Real Time and un magazine and has lectured about her work at RMIT, VCA and VU. Currently Tara is employed as the Arts Officer for Mount Alexander Shire Council part time. She has recently resigned from a posiiton on the artistic directorate at Allans Walk ARI and is currently a member of the funding panel for Arts Innovation within Arts Victoria.

getting back...

2006-06-07T14:56:00.000+10:00

i have been in melbourne for three weeks, explaining the obvious lack of entries from myself! however the project is still very much alive - if you would like to see it's progression so far, start at the very bottom, and move your way up slowly and carefully, there is much to see...
x hayley

3x3 = 6 degrees of seperation (exhibit 1)

2006-05-27T16:05:00.000+10:00

What: Exhibition of artworks @ allans walk
Artists: Hayley West, Mark Misic, Elka Kerkhofs and Catriona Stanton.
When: 2 May – 27th May 2006.

Artist Talk: 24th May 12pm

During May, Allan’s Walk was home to Darwin Visual Arts Association showcasing NT artists. Hayley West, the Association’s coordinator, visited for one week and presented an engaging discussion regarding collaborative practice and art residencies.

Tara Gilbee, head of artist group, is to take artist's work on exchange from Central Victorian to the Darwin Visual Arts Association in October 2006.

Both these artists are curating an exchange which explores and ideas around 'degrees of association'.

This blog journals individual and collaborative relationships between the differing environments the artists live within and the manner in which they interpret the world.

Review of allans walk show: Tara Gilbee

Fragile:

This review is to some degree sited in my process of engagement with the art works as much as the actual artist’s intention. Responding to the works arrival, my personal experience and then the works as a whole installation. Fragile – imagine the sticker on the package you receive, imagine the nature of personal engagement, imagine the tentative relationship we have with memory, imagine the liminal space of beginnings and endings. These are some of the thoughts that I found bound together the group of works.

I requested Hayley West a member of artist group to work with me on the language of our association and/or separation as individuals as well as artists practicing in two distinct environments. Living at opposites ends of our country. Hayley curated three works around the theme of the artist groups title and the particular motive ‘degrees of separation’. We also opened an online studio, keeping a blog journal that explored visual exchange and personal language. We opened this space to look at how we might influence and respond to our visual landscapes - externally and internally, what is particular or similar within each other. We did this as a month long experiment which we have now embraced to continue.

Fragility was very present in the nature of the art works, the language of interpersonal connection and cultural understanding.

Catriona Stanton sent her work to me on a thin time line, would it arrive in time to be installed, where was it, would it be lost in transit and when I did receive it - would it be intact? Catriona’s work is made out of toothpicks you see, delicately constructed pieces which made a sublime installation. I had pictures to cause this trepidation, as a sculptor I recognized the lyrical construction as resting on a very (delicate?) need to balance lightly. It was then my task to reconstruct this very light touch from the pieces couriered to me. In doing this I enjoyed my role in her works conceptual ideas. Catriona’s work was titled “staircase” and the artist outlines its intention as being concerned with topophilia; the affective bond between people and place
Catriona explains in her statement ‘The staircase has come to represent a conduit into my creative reservoir and the bond between me and my childhood home’. Then finally asks ‘How can memory and imagination be articulated by delicate constructions?’

To me the work was very much an involvement in reinterpreting its past incarnation, staying truthful to the intention not necessarily so much to its form. As in every construction, something shifts and has to be negotiated. In this way I also felt a strong connection to the psychological metaphor of the language of intimacy, the staircase and bridge structure working much as our language may in negotiating connection or separation. The individual steps lightly in places, or in a blithe action, falls between the cracks, slips on the precipice or has no dexterity to make it from the lofty heights into the basement of desire.

(excuse poor reproduction - no still available)

The DVD ‘a hot one-day blind date affair in the bedroom’ by Mark Misic and Elka Kerkhofs was the result of a curatorial project – ‘Blind Date’. Hayley West had designed this project in order to pair up artists from across the NT (unknown to each other) for a weekend of collaborative practice in Tenant Creek. The work on first impression created a sense to me of a couple who are emotionally removed though intimately familiar. This actually seemed an indictment of love turned sour, the rift and divide that is created when couples continue to cohabitate but have lost respect or trust. I recalled a friend’s comment to me once, ” I have never felt so alone as when I was in the end of that relationship”. The metaphorical arctic divide of the double bed between the male and female, each on a single bed, lying death-like, surrendered and naked spoke to me of a disjuncture in intimacy. There was a sense of mortal exposure rather than any connection. With the cheesy motel bedspread and colours aggravating rather than imbuing any reason to look for long. However this is the point where I expose my personal reading, as on reading the title and artists emails, I realized that prior to the ‘Blind Date’ and in making the work they were remarking on there own experience of not knowing each other and how making work with another artist can make you feel naked. The emails are a real addition to the piece with the humour in which they explored the nuisances of their own appearance. I would never have thought to describe my ears to anyone, but this added reflection by Elka and Marks description of legs like Gumby are quite funny in that self-deprecatory way we analyse ourselves.

Hayley works with the remnants of others lives or thoughts, found notes and photos, in the crevices of a flat or on footpaths. The work for this exhibition consisted of numerous red plastic prayer fans with white Burmese text printed on them. Arriving with instructions to install with, the construction of the work in allan's walk reiterated to me a sense of interpretation and language. The text on the work was written in Burmese and would be a mystery to most passing the installation, it was a beautiful surface with enigmatic code. The title was a faithful transcription of a found love letter. 'one month ago we started to love each other. we find it hard to speak to each other. we don't declare our love openly. I don't know how you feel'. In observing and engaging with the work you sensed the transience we have around others lives, how a persons words or life can be picked up by one and passed by many. How does something filled with such pathos find its way into the mix of public life, then into the hands of a stranger attuned to working with the poetics of others? Hayley's work mixes materials adeptly with text. Following her own artistic language and engaging with the culture of the site rather than just reconstructing the text. 

There is synergy between all the titles and work, with the couple in beds divided by an expanse, alongside a miniature bridge made out of the instruments in which we remove detritus from our mouth. An exhibition of shadow play by a precarious sculpture exposed to destruction by any inconsiderate outside force, naked people not for enlarged public viewing and coded feelings suspended with strings attached, these are all the relationships that swam between the work and exemplified the fragility of human relationships at large.

up and down

2006-05-10T20:11:00.000+10:00

for tara love hayley
19.39 CST 10.05.06

response - melbourne wet energy from May 5th
11.05.06

response - wet signs from May 5th
12.05.06

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13.05.06

frosty phone calls 14.05.06

a frosty wait 06.06

a delicate web made of sinister twine and foreign growth

ink

2006-05-09T19:33:00.000+10:00

For Hayley love Tara
09.05.06

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ink in myanmar
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23.31 CST 29.06.06
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adult or childs play?

2006-05-03T22:43:00.000+10:00

For Hayley love Tara 03.05.06

This is a thing i came across on top of a
commemoration stone in castlemaine last year
i photgraphed it because it was so spooky and
i could not figure out whose mind it came from
child or adult?

i can't work out it's size? - h

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bush toy
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21.44 CST 04.05.06
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asha's sculpture
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17.09 CST 05.05.06
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child labour
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16.52 CST 06.05.06
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rozzi's snowman
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0945 CST 07.05.06
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play things
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1553 CST 08.05.06
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play thing
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1621 CST 09.05.06
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is it about rubbish, vampires or love?

2006-05-03T21:09:00.000+10:00

for tara love hayley
20.44 CST 03.05.06

response
03.05.06 22:47

above allans walk is a whole lost world of the past
ruined and being repaired
i will keep you posted with some images i took

response - allans continued
04.05.06 21:27

response - allans continued
05.05.06

response - allans continued
- opps missed sitting the show sick!!!
06.05.06

response from night out while down in Melbourne
(hence the allans series above)
There was this guy with a mask on at this club i went to, acting very spooky
in this club where you have to get a swipe card to get in!!!
Most of the time i have been going to these creative practice workshops
the theme of the mask came up, then i had this creepy experience
while waiting for my sister this guy walked past, he looked familiar,
distinguished and good looking, he loitered then surreptiously put up this poster
Creepy ...... he seemed like a psychic vampire!!!!
07.05.06

dirty deeds
response 08.05.06

strange in a stranger place

2006-04-27T01:18:00.000+10:00

natural history museum - yangon, myanmar, jan. 2006

for tara love hayley
00.48 CST 27.04.06

i feel like a chicken head, the red wine has gloved me

28.4.06

i am a cocky

29.4.06

i am morphing half, bird half witch,
please no more animal pictures its too hard to extract from!!

30.4.06

common criminals, masked in percieved freedom,
we negotiate the dark self relfected

01.05.06

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insight

2006-04-26T23:40:00.000+10:00

for Hayley love Tara

11:37 26.04.06

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the online studio continues

2006-04-26T23:36:00.000+10:00

Due to the great sense of interaction that Hayley and Tara have gained from this process we have decided to continue the project and see how long we can continue to enjoy our online studio. We have shared this space like artists passing each others work in a combined studio setting, stimulating a shared vision of the world and art making, sometimes finding synergy, sometimes slipping into abstract and banal worlds to slip back into other things.

the repeating shadow

2006-04-19T22:32:00.000+10:00

A shadow weighs the etherial, binds it to the
world.
light bends or is broken by substance.
substances sustain or subsume

For hayley Love Tara

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week4day3
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week4day4
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20.44 CST 23.04.06
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week4day6
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18.04 CST 24.04.06

monica is chasing larry

2006-04-19T21:56:00.000+10:00

everyone loves a system

for tara love hayley

week 4 day 2
Response by Tara Gilbee

chasing the autumn freeze
22:03 20.04.06

week 4 day 3
Response by Tara Gilbee
20:43 21.04.06

week 4 day 4
Step it up Ladies and Gents
Response by Tara Gilbee
23:43 22.04.06

week 4 day 5
'when you walk into your memories
you are opening a door to the past,
the road within has many branches,
and the route is different everytime'
Xinran - 'The good women of china'
Response by Tara Gilbee
22:45 23.04.06

week 4 day 6
Response by Tara Gilbee
21:25 24.04.06