“2017 West Space Fundraiser”
Simon Zoric, Nick Austin, Glenn Barkley, Jack Brown, Lauren Burrow, Trevelyan Clay, Georgina Cue, Hana Earles, Clementine Edwards, Emily Floyd, Briony Galligan, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Ry Haskings, Greatest Hits, Heidi Holmes, Raafat Ishak, Lucina Lane, Merryn Lloyd, Alex Martinis Roe, Kym Maxwell, Sanné Mestrom, John Nixon, Ruth O'Leary, Taree Mackenzie, Nicholas Mangan, Nikos Pantazopoulos, Nell Pearson, Oscar Perry, Joshua Petherick, Jason Phu, Patrick Pound, Lisa Radford, Masato Takasaka, Ander Rennick, Kiron Robinson, Christopher Sciuto, David Sequeira, Kieren Seymour, Nicholas Smith, Peter Tyndall, Grace Wood and Vittoria Di Stefano
23 Nov → 9 Dec 2017

Simon Zoric completed a Master of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2014 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2009. He has exhibited at TCB Art Inc, West Space, Neon Parc, Deakin Gallery Burwood, The Centre for Contemporary Photography and Orgy Park in New York.

Nick Austin lives in Dunedin and holds an MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland and a BVA from Auckland University of Technology. He was a member of the artist-run gallery Gambia Castle which operated in Auckland from 2007 – 2010. In 2012 he was the Frances Hodgkins Fellow at the University of Otago, Dunedin.

Glenn Barkley is an artist, curator, writer and gardener based in Sydney and Berry, NSW. He is Co-founder and Co-Director of The Curators Department and of kil.n.it experimental ceramics studio Glebe, Sydney.

Jack Brown is a Melbourne-based artist who graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a BFA Honors in 2014.

Lauren Burrow is a Melbourne-based artist. Recent solo exhibitions include: Lose the Language, Bus Projects; Weeping Glass Stool (with George Egerton-Warburton), Pansy, and Dry Touch, Platform. Last year she contributed to Un Magazine issues 9.1 and 9.2, undertook a residency at The Physics Room in Christchurch, and started back-yard gallery Pansy with David Egan.

Trevelyan Clay was born in Cornwall, United Kingdom in 1982, and relocated to Australia soon after. He grew up on the Mid-North Coast, New South Wales. Trevelyan completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting) with First Class Honours at the Australian National University, 2001-2004.

Hana Earles is an artist who has been featured by numerous key galleries and museums.

Clementine Edwards is an artist, jeweller and editor.

Emily Floyd’s work engages with a wide range of fields including educational models, political ideologies, typography and community participation.

Briony Galligan is an artist living on Wurundjeri and Boon wurrung Country of the Kulin Nation, working with textiles, installation, performance, and video.

Agatha Gothe-Snape’s work engages with the politics and poetics of language and other embodied knowledge as it is performed interpersonally and is creative of our relationships with each other, with art and architecture and other histories. Rooted in performance, her work operates intuitively and is generated via improvisation and collaboration.

Greatest Hits a.k.a Gavin Bell, Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn have been in collaboration since 2008 and are currently Gertrude Contemporary studio artists (2017-2019).

Heidi Holmes recently completed an Honours year in the Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) course at The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). She is a current member of the SEVENTH Gallery board.

Raafat Ishak was born in Egypt and lives and works in Melbourne. He has an undergraduate degree in fine arts from the Victorian College of the Arts, a post-graduate degree in architecture history and conservation practice from the University of Melbourne, and a PhD from Monash University.

Lucina Lane is an artist from Melbourne. Select recent exhibitions include: Pleasure is a guiding principle, 215 Flemington Rd (curated with assistance from Nic Tammens); Sydney Van Tour, Punk Café x Centre for Style; Hugs and Quiche, Elizabeth Studios (curated with Nellie Reinhard); and Read, TCB artinc. In 2015, Lane participated in The Expanding and contracting universe of Painting at Gertrude Contemporary. She is a board member of Melbourne artist-run gallery TCB art. inc.

Merryn Lloyd investigates the irregularities of using beeswax as a painting medium, and the possibilities of undirected experimentation in the studio. She employs creative iterations in the studio as a way to move through making, occupied with material play and process rather than personal expression.

Merryn Lloyd investigates the irregularities of using beeswax as a painting medium, and the possibilities of undirected experimentation in the studio. She employs creative iterations in the studio as a way to move through making, occupied with material play and process rather than personal expression.

Alex Martinis Roe is an artist and researcher focused on feminist genealogies, seeking to foster specific and productive relations between different generations as a way of participating in the construction of feminist histories and futures.

Alex Martinis Roe is an artist and researcher focused on feminist genealogies, seeking to foster specific and productive relations between different generations as a way of participating in the construction of feminist histories and futures.

Kym Maxwell is an artist, teacher, curator and writer whose work across these fields concerns notions of education and social spaces. She takes an interest in the intersection of social relations, installation and art presentation within public and institutional settings. Maxwell challenges motorised response to art through context with humanistic inquiry a central concern.

Sanné Mestrom is an Australian experimental and conceptual artist who works mainly in the mediums of installation and sculpture. Mestrom has a research-based practice and incorporates notions of "play" into social aspects of urban design.

John Nixon was one of Australia's most respected abstract artists. Commencing his practice in 1968, his first exhibition was held at Melbourne's Pinacotheca gallery in 1973.

John Nixon was one of Australia's most respected abstract artists. Commencing his practice in 1968, his first exhibition was held at Melbourne's Pinacotheca gallery in 1973.

Ruth O'Leary is a Melbourne based artist who works primarily with performance, video and painting.

Taree Mackenzie works across video and installation, exploring the perceptual effects of colour, light and space.

Taree Mackenzie works across video and installation, exploring the perceptual effects of colour, light and space.

Nicholas Mangan is an artist living and working in Melbourne. He lectures at Monash University, where he completed a practice-based PhD in 2013.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Limits to Growth, Monash Museum of Art, Melbourne, and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2016; Ancient Lights, Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2015; and Other Currents, Artspace Sydney 2015. Recent group shows include: The Eight Climate, The 11th Gwangju Biannual, 2016; and NERIRI KIRURU HARARA, SeMA Biannual Media City, Seoul, 2016.

Nikos Pantazopoulos is a Melbourne-based artist and Lecturer in the School of Art at RMIT. He situates his work in post-minimalism and abstraction.

Nell Pearson is a Byron Bay based artist who works across painting, sculpture, ceramics and performance. Through her work, she likes to explore what she calls the 'theatre of the unconscious' which is reflected in her often dream-like compositions. She won a full year scholarship to the Julian Ashton School of Art for Drawing in Sydney and the Victorian College of Art in Melbourne.

Oscar Perry is a Melbourne-based artist whose energetic studio practice focuses primarily on abstract painting.

Oscar Perry is a Melbourne-based artist whose energetic studio practice focuses primarily on abstract painting.

Joshua Petherick work spans a variety of mediums (sculpture, assemblage, collage, drawing, video, audio) that regularly take the form of installations in the gallery space.

Jason Phu graduated from COFA with honours in 2011. He has presented numerous solo exhibitions across Australia, including at Nicholas Projects, CCAS Gorman Arts Centre, Alaska Projects and Ray Hughes Gallery. In 2015 he won the Sulman Prize and received a Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship, which has allowed him to base his practice between China, Thailand and Australia. Jason is represented by Alaska Projects.

Patrick Pound challenges notions of singular authorship by creating works using found material from his personal archives, which have been amassed from years of obsessive and meticulous searching.

Patrick Pound challenges notions of singular authorship by creating works using found material from his personal archives, which have been amassed from years of obsessive and meticulous searching.

Lisa Radford is an artist who writes and teaches. Lisa lectures at the Victorian College of the Arts.In conjunction with the exhibition, West Space and Surpllus also launched Aesthetic nonsense makes commonsense, thanks X, a book presenting a collection of her writings.

Masato Takasaka works with a diverse array of found objects and materials. His installations form boisterous spaces where art and design interact together to create multiple, nuanced, levels of chaos and control—not entirely unlike Masato himself.

Ander Rennick is a queer graphic artist working across drawing, type and print media. His work explores the moderation, refinement and stratification of bodies under consumer culture and industry influence. He investigates the role of aesthetics in the contemporary gay imaginary: archival fetishism, HIV/AIDS romanticism, club ‘liberation’, bodily preference, editorial living, ‘staunchness’, etc. and questions why all queers are forced to improvise their own modes of sociological inquiry in order to survive.

Kiron Robinson is a Lecturer in Art at the Victorian College of the Arts and practising visual artist.

Christopher Sciuto is a mixed-media visual artist whose work engages with contemporary cultural and social issues; in particular polarised subcultures and issues of sexuality.

David Sequeira

Kieren Seymour (born London, UK) is an artist based in Melbourne, Australia and works across multiple mediums including video, digital painting and photography. Fragments of politics, economics and personal experiences shape the predominantly image based studio practice. Using absurdity and humour as a narrative device in his work, Pip Wallis states in her 2013 essay, Hi, here I am, that must be enough, "The conceptual strategies of Seymour's video (artworks) are comically encumbered with humanism".
Seymour's work has been exhibited in Australia, Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland and UK, with his work held in collections in Australia, Hong Kong, London and UK.

Nicholas Smith is a Melbourne-based artist. He graduated with an Honours degree in Fine Art from Monash University in 2013. Recent solo exhibitions include: Feint understanding, Tcb Art Inc, and Searching for Something, Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #10. Nicholas will be exhibiting at Firstdraft in August 2017.

Peter Tyndall

Grace Wood is an artist living and working in Melbourne. In 2014, she graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Art: Honours. Grace is a current Board member at Seventh Gallery.

Vittoria Di Stefano (b. 1971) lives and works in Melbourne. In 2012 she completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) in Sculpture, Sound and Spacial Practice at RMIT University. Di Stefano's sculptural practice explores the poetic relationships between materiality and the self, and the psychological implications of the material encounter. She employs processes that are temporal, conjectural and provisional using a materiality that is mutable and sometimes volatile including soap, wax, animal and plant fibre, plaster, concrete and clay.