Setting up for opening of Darwin on a Whim

Friday March 2 will see an experimental opening take place at DVAA's Woods Street Gallery. Local band Green Stone Garden are collaborating with Digital artist Leanne Waterhouse.

Friday March 2
Woods St Gallery- Darwin On A Whim
An experimental collaboration with local band Green Stone Garden and local digital media artists. This exhibition will be a performance that combines music with photographic projections!
Green Stone Garden is one of those bands whose name couldn’t be more fitting. Their songs grow stories; like the dense and rapid growth of the Darwin wet season around them. Bass, drums, synth and guitar underwrite Mike Meston’s lyrical narratives.



DEAF Space – iPhonography 101
Marie-Lise lavioltte is one of DVAA’s artist in residence and her latest exhibition includes 101 photographs, exclusively taken & edited through iphone.
Documenting Darwin, the Stuart Hwy, South Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory.
She works with the mediums of photography, painting, printmaking & Installation.
marieliselaviolette.blogspot.com



Saturday & Sunday 10 &11
Basil Hall printing workshop Saturday & Sunday March 10 & 11, email DVAA if you are interested for more details.


Also throughout March
Watercolours – Alison Worsnop is offering tuition in traditional watercolour techniques to small groups at her home in Humpty Doo, during March. If you are interested, please email her direct on art@alisonworsnop.com. The cost is $60 per day plus materials (byo or buy) One course of 4 sessions will run on Thursdays, another at weekends. Examples of Alison’s watercolours are on her website: www.alisonworsnop.com

Friday March 30
Woods St Gallery – Artist @ Work annual Exhibition
It’s inevitable. We all have to earn a wage. Sometimes, it’s not the way we’d like too.
DVAA has challenged local Art educators to use their workplace to inspire their creativity. All we ask is as much time and materials as they can get away with.


DEAF Space – Emily Hearn



Saturday March 31
Don Whyte’s Off Cuts show opens...Pop in and grab a canvas now!


Also

Wednesday March 7
A Fine Line- Opening 6pm at The Chan Contemporary Art Space


Thursday March 8
Kris Keogh Exhibition 1000 Monsters at Happy Yess



Saturday March 10
The Knit Happens workshop is taking place at the Chan Art Gallery on Saturday March 10th from 1 - 3pm.


Important dates and Exhibition opportunities in 2012

DVAA will be providing a few opportunities to take part in group shows during the first half of 2012.

April 27- May 18 – Landscapes in miniature (artworks responding to Michael Giacometti poem in collaboration with NT Writers Centre Word Storm Festival) Please see poem below.
Works must be at DVAA by Tuesday 24th and entry is $20

May 25 – June 16 – The Angry Show (DVAA members show)
Works must be at DVAA by Tuesday 22nd May

We will also have the Artist @ Work Exhibition March 30 – April 21. In 2012 DVAA are inviting arts educators to take part in this group show, therefore if you are an arts educator or know someone please pass on this opportunity and ask them to contact DVAA for more details.
Work must be at DVAA by 26th March and entry will be $15.

Togart Contemporary Art Award 2012– The closing date for receipt of entry forms is COB Friday 13 April 2012.
Please find information kit and application forms at the following link
http://www.togartaward.com.au/

ArtStart Grants - The ArtStart program has been created to give financial assistance to recent arts graduates, helping you make the challenging transition from studying to having a professional career in the arts. Round 1 2012 closes on March 2.
http://artstartgrant.com.au/Information

Cricket Art Prize 2012 – Please find details and entry form attached to this email.

Call for Proposals - un Magazine volume 6 issue 1
Deadline: 5 March 2012
For submission guidelines and application form, visit: http://www.unmagazine.org/?page_id=33
All submissions and editorial enquiries should be emailed to the Editor of un 6.1, Lisa Radford Lisa@unmagazine.org.


Check out our blog http://darwinvisualartsassociation.blogspot.com/
And our new web site www.dvaa.net.au
And join us on Facebook: Darwin Visual Arts


Landscapes in miniature
1. Orogeny
Crush this mile thick sand
then tilt fold fuse — the scarp screams
silent syllables
2. Saddle
This ridge reclines
It climbs and declines
Strata and syncline
3. Scale
Miniature euros
bound pads unmarked on paper
topographies
4. Implied
These lines of contour
suggest landscapes of abstract
possibilities
5. Here
The existence of
here depends on those peaks by
bearing grid backward

Proposals for DVAA’s exhibition program 2012

Proposals for DVAA’s exhibition program 2012

Darwin Visual Arts Association Inc. is a community based organisation dedicated to supporting the production, promotion and appreciation of Visual Art by local artists in all media, as well as increasing public awareness and audience participation in contemporary visual art in Darwin. As an Artists Run Initiative (ARI), DVAA provides young and emerging artists affordable exhibition space and promotional support through local and national art networks.

Proposals for Woods Street and DEAF Space Galleries

Exhibitions will occur each calendar month and will run for 3 weeks (Wed – Sat) and 4 weekends (Sat only) allowing for one week installation time (Tue – Fri) opening on the first Friday of each month.

1. Woods Street Gallery hire cost is $150 + GST Per Wk, plus $100 bond refundable after gallery has been returned to its original condition and the keys have been returned. Total payable on signing of agreement $595
2. DEAF Space Gallery hire cost is $80 + GST Per Wk, plus $100 bond refundable after the gallery has been returned ti it’s original condition and the keys have been returned. Total payable on signing of agreement $364

Artists are responsible for the following costs

1. Design, printing and postage of invitations. NOTE - Administrator can assist with design work if given enough notice.

2. Food for opening night (DVAA will provide all bar facilities)

· Once accepted, you will be required to meet with the administrator to discuss costs and responsibilities. A gallery agreement and timeline will be prepared for each exhibition.

· The artist must sit the gallery on Saturdays 10am-3pm

Selection Criteria:
1. Preference is given to DVAA members.
2. Preference is given to young and/or emerging artists.
3. Exhibitions should have a sound conceptual basis.
4. Work should demonstrate originality, innovation and have strong artistic merit.
5. DVAA supports community based exhibitions that have strong artistic merit.

6. Experimental works are encouraged.
7. Works in progress are considered especially for DEAF Space.

To Apply You Must Submit The Following

1. A description of the work intended for exhibition (This should be a concise outline of the conceptual premise, no more than 1 A4 page)

2. 4 quality images (preferably jpegs either by email or on cd) of the work to be shown or relevant previous work with Title, media, dimensions, date

3. A one – two page CV

4. Preferred gallery and a choice of 2 preferred time slots

Send Your Proposal To

The Administrator

Darwin Visual Arts Association

GPO Box 1618, Darwin NT 0801

Hand Deliver To

Darwin Visual Arts Association

56 Woods Street

Darwin between the hours of 12 – 5pm Wed - Fri

Email to info@dvaa.net.au

For further enquiries contact Leanne p/f 8981 9351 or info@dvaa.net.au

Check out the website for information/inspiration www.dvaa.net.au

Inclination - Leanne Waterhouse

Tricky Terrain -Talitha Kennedy

Curitorial Workshop with Geraldine Barlow

Geraldine Barlow Senior Curator / Collection Manager at Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA held a workshop at DVAA.

February 2012

Tonight
Woods St Gallery – Tricky Terrain

Talitha Kennedy sets up residence in DVAA using the gallery as an active research space into human relationships with nature. Showing recent drawing, sculpture and works in progress. Four public events present concepts in contemporary art relevant to environmental concerns and informal discussion.

Public events will take place on Thursdays Feb 16 & 23 5.30 – 8.30pm

There will be more detailed information to come in the following weeks.
http://talithakennedy.blogspot.com.au/



DEAF Space – Inclination

Leanne Waterhouse's latest solo exhibition Inclination is an experimental installation which explores the different habits of the mind.
http://leannewaterhouse.blogspot.com.au/

Important dates and Exhibition opportunities in 2012

DVAA will be providing a few opportunities to take part in group shows during the first half of 2012.

April 27- May 18 – Landscapes in miniature (artworks responding to Michael Giacometti poem in collaboration with NT Writers Centre Word Storm Festival) Please see poem below.
Works must be at DVAA by Tuesday 24th and entry is $20

May 25 – June 16 – The Angry Show (DVAA members show)
Works must be at DVAA by Tuesday 22nd May

We will also have the Artist @ Work Exhibition March 30 – April 21. In 2012 DVAA are inviting arts educators to take part in this group show, therefore if you are an arts educator or know someone please pass on this opportunity and ask them to contact DVAA for more details.
Work must be at DVAA by 26th March and entry will be $15.

Togart Contemporary Art Award 2012– The closing date for receipt of entry forms is COB Friday 13 April 2012.
Please find information kit and application forms at the following link
http://www.togartaward.com.au/

Art Start Grants - The ArtStart program has been created to give financial assistance to recent arts graduates, helping you make the challenging transition from studying to having a professional career in the arts. Round 1 2012 closes on March 2.
http://artstartgrant.com.au/Information



Check out our blog http://darwinvisualartsassociation.blogspot.com/
And our new web site www.dvaa.net.au
And join us on Facebook: Darwin Visual Arts


Landscapes in miniature
1. Orogeny
Crush this mile thick sand
then tilt fold fuse — the scarp screams
silent syllables
2. Saddle
This ridge reclines
It climbs and declines
Strata and syncline
3. Scale
Miniature euros
bound pads unmarked on paper
topographies
4. Implied
These lines of contour
suggest landscapes of abstract
possibilities
5. Here
The existence of
here depends on those peaks by
bearing grid backward