“West Space 2014 Annual Fundraiser”
Adam Cruickshank, Adam John Cullen, Akira Akira, Alasdair McLuckie, Alex Vivian, Amy May Stuart, Anastasia Klose, Andre Piguet, Andrew Hazewinkel, Andy Hutson, Anna Higgins, Annie Wu, Arlo Mountford, Avni Dauti, Baden Pailthorpe, Benjamin Sheppard, Benjamin Lichtenstein, Brigit Ryan, Bryan Spier, Charlie Sofo, Christopher LG Hill, Christian Capurro, Christopher Sciuto, Colleen Ahern, Damiano Bertoli, Dan Moynihan, Danae Valenza, Daniel Price, Daniel Stephen Miller, Darren Sylvester, David Van Royen, Dell Stewart, Dominic Redfern, Drew Pettifer, Elizabeth Newman, Emily Ferretti, Emily Floyd, Eric Demetriou, Esther Stewart, Fleur Summers, Geoff Robinson, George Egerton-Warburton, Glenn Walls, Glenn Walls, Hamishi Farah, Helen Johnson, Holly Willson, Ieuan Weinman, Irene Hanenbergh, Isadora Vaughan, Jacqui Shelton, Jess Johnson, Jessie Bullivant, John Nixon, Jon Campbell, Jonas Ropponen, Jordan Marani, Joshua Stevens, Julian Aubrey Smith, Kain Picken, Kate Daw, Kate Just, Kay Abude, Kenny Pittock, Kerrie Poliness, Kez Hughes, Kiera Brew Kurec, Kieran Boland, Kieran Stewart, Kiron Robinson, Kirra Jamison, Kit Wise, Laith McGregor, Lane Cormick, Laura Delaney, Leanne Hermosilla, Linda Tegg, Lisa Radford, Louise Hubbard, Lyndal Walker, Madeline Kidd, Masato Takasaka, Meredith Turnbull, Merryn Lloyd, Michael Graeve, Michael Prior, Michelle James, Minna Gilligan, Natalie Thomas, Natalie Ryan, Nathan Gray, Nick Selenitsch, Nick Waddell, Nicole Breedon, Oscar Perry, Oscar Yanez, Patrick Pound, Peter Tyndall, Pip Ryan, Raafat Ishak, Renee Cosgrave, Richard Giblett, Richard Lewer, Rohan Schwartz, Ross Coulter, Rowan McNaught, Ry Haskings, Salote Tawale, Sam George, Sangeeta Sandrasegar, Sanné Mestrom, Sarah crowEST, Saskia Doherty, Scarlett Rowe, Scott Miles, Scott Mitchell, Saskia Schut, Sean Bailey, Sean Peoples, Sharon Goodwin, Simon MacEwan, Stephen Giblett, Sue Dodd, Susan Jacobs, Tai Snaith, Taree Mackenzie, Ronen Becker, Tim Hillier, Toby Pola, Tom Nicholson, Tom Polo, Tony Garifalakis, Torie Nimmervoll, Tully Moore, Veronica Kent, Vivienne Miller, Vivian Cooper Smith, Zoë Croggon and Lillian O'Neil
17 June → 21 June 2014

Adam Cruickshank

Adam John Cullen is a Melbourne based artist producing mixed media works. He has a Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art RMIT University and Fine Arts Honours from Monash University. Since 2007 Adam has exhibited in group and solo shows at West Space, TCB art, Firstdraft Gallery, Seventh Gallery, Platform, Rearview and Stockroom, Kyneton among others. In 2012 Adam undertook an artist residency at KUNCI, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Akira Akira

Alasdair McLuckie

Alex Vivian

Amy May Stuart

Anastasia Klose

Andre Piguet

Andrew Hazewinkel

Anna Higgins’ current sculptural practice takes existing imagery and forms and abstracts and re-contextualizes them into ‘alien’ or new perspectives. Higgins completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honors) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013. Notable recent solo exhibitions include Higgs Boson, TCB art inc (2013)Nausea, Seventh Gallery (2012) and I Remember Everyday, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne (2011). Higgins is currently based in Melbourne interning at TCB art inc.

Annie Wu

Arlo Mountford

Avni Dauti is a multidisciplinary artist based in Melbourne. Dauti completed an Honors degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts at Monash University in 2013. In 2019 he has undertaken a residency with Rebecca Vaughn at Rupert in Lithuania, and has previously exhibited at West Space, TCB Art Inc., Living Museum of the West, TRAMA Centro, Seventh Gallery, Kings ARI, MADA Gallery, and Kingston Art Centre.

Baden Pailthorpe

Benjamin Sheppard

Benjamin Lichtenstein

Brigit Ryan

Bryan Spier

Charlie Sofo holds a BA (Honours) from the Australian National University School of Art, Canberra, 2005 and and an MFA from the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne, 2013. He has recently completed a studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary, in Melbourne, Victoria, (2013-2015), where he also served as a board member.

Over the past 5 years Sofo has exhibited nationally and internationally, presented talks and classes and occaisionally written for publications.

Recent exhibitions include; ( ), Gertrude Contemporary, Studio 12, Melbourne, 2014; The Small Infinite, John Hansard Gallery, Southhampton, UK 2014; Melbourne NOW, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2013; Everyday Magic, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2013; Reinventing the Wheel: Ready-made Century, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2013; Desire Lines, curated by Juliana Engberg, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2012; NEW12, curated by Jeff Khan, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2012; Volume One, curated by Glenn Barkley, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2012; Experimenta: Speak to Me, 4th Biennale of Media Art, curated by Abigail Moncrief, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2012; Unguided Tours: Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts, curated by Justin Paton, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2011; Tell Me, Tell Me: Australian and Korean Art 1976-2011, curated by Glenn Barkley and Inhye Kim, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea and National Art School Gallery, Sydney, 2011.

Christopher LG Hill is an artist, poet, anarchist, ignorant teacher, collaborator, facilitator, curator, lover, friend, publisher of Endless Lonely Planet, noise wall proprietor, gardener, label boss, traveller, homebody, dancer, considerate participator, dishwasher, graffiti bencher, fine food eater, DJ, retired gallerist Y3K, conversationalist who represents them self and others, born Melbourne 1980c.e, lives World.

Christian Capurro

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.

Colleen Ahern was born in Leeton, NSW, and lives and works in Melbourne. She completed a Bachelor of Arts (Painting) from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1999. She is represented by Neon Parc, Melbourne.

Damiano Bertoli

Dan Moynihan

Danae Valenza

Daniel Price

Daniel Stephen Miller

Darren Sylvester

David Van Royen

Dell Stewart

Dominic Redfern

Drew Pettifer

Elizabeth Newman is an artist living in Melbourne, and has been making work since the 1980s. Elizabeth Newman is represented by Neon Parc gallery.

Emily Ferretti

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

Eric Demetriou

Esther Stewart is a Melbourne-based artist who creates paintings and sculptures using geometric designs derived from the architecture and domestic interiors of vernacular suburban houses. Stewart uses these and other references from display homes, pop-up books, theatre sets and dolls houses to create a personalised, abstract language.

Fleur Summers

Geoff Robinson

George Egerton-Warburton

Glenn Walls

Glenn Walls

Hamishi Farah

Helen Johnson

Holly Willson

Ieuan Weinman

Irene Hanenbergh

Isadora Vaughan is a Melbourne based artist working in sculpture. Her practice unpacks and experiments with material as geological, temporal, associative and emotional. Her works manifest out of a chaotic exploratory process into basic states of matter and a desire to personalise, dislocate, and disrupt traditional material hierarchies.

Jacqui Shelton is a visual artist, researcher, and photographer working in Naarm (Melbourne) who holds a PhD from Monash University.

Jess Johnson

Jessie Bullivant is a practitioner from Melbourne. She produces work that draws on histories of conceptual art and institutional critique in dialogue with social and feminist practices. Her works interrogate the operation of power structures, by engaging with systems of communication, bureaucracy and interpersonal dynamics.

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.

Jon Campbell

Jonas Ropponen

Jordan Marani

Joshua Stevens

Julian Aubrey Smith

Kain Picken

Kate Daw

Kate Just

Kay Abude

Kenny Pittock

Kerrie Poliness co-founded the artist-run gallery Store 5 and is the Chair of Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West where she works to produce projects about cultural heritage and the environment. She is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery and completed a PhD with the Centre for Ideas, at the VCA, University of Melbourne (2019).

Kez Hughes

Kiera Brew Kurec

Kieran Boland

Kieran Stewart

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

Kirra Jamison

Kit Wise graduated from Oxford University and the Royal College of Art with an MFA in Sculpture. He moved permanently to Australia in 2002, and completed a PhD at Monash University in 2012.

Laith McGregor

Lane Cormick

Laura Delaney

Leanne Hermosilla graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from Elam School of Fine Art at the University of Auckland, NZ, in 2007 and Master of Visual Art, from the Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne in 2011. She is currently continuing her research at the VCA as a Ph.D. candidate.

Linda Tegg

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.

Louise Hubbard

Lyndal Walker

Madeline Kidd

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.

Meredith Turnbull

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.

Michael Graeve works across painting and sound disciplines. He is the chair of Liquid Architecture, was program manager at West Space (2000-04), and lectures at RMIT University. He has been a Samstag Scholar and exhibits and performs internationally.

Michael Prior

Michelle James

Minna Gilligan

Natalie Thomas is a Melbourne-based artist and writer. Thomas maintains a diverse and independent practice that considers storytelling as the basis of culture. Her work engages with the mass media and its role in the how we see each other and the world. nat&ali (1999–2005) was a collaboration that riffed with riot grrrl strategies. nattysolo (one woman, one camera, no film) is an ongoing endurance performance project with an online outcome. The widely read project uses the form of the social page and social archive and fuses gossip and innuendo with scathing cultural criticism.

Natalie Ryan

Nathan Gray

Nick Selenitsch

Nick Waddell

Nicole Breedon

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.

Oscar Yanez

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.

Peter Tyndall

Pip Ryan

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.

Renee Cosgrave

Richard Giblett

Richard Lewer

Rohan Schwartz

Ross Coulter

Rowan McNaught is an artist and designer in Melbourne; secretary of Darpa press; former co-founder of West Space Journal; co-manager of the artist-run record label BSR; PhD candidate at Victorian College of the Arts.

Working across performance, moving image, painting and installation, Salote Tawale probes ideas of self-representation, humorously challenging stereotypes and presenting nuanced articulations of the complex negotiations around identity as a Fijian woman living in Australia. Tawale’s recent works expand these concerns, acknowledging the growing significance of indigenous knowledge systems to individuals living in the diaspora in navigating this particular time and space.

Sam George

Sangeeta Sandrasegar

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.

Sarah crowEST

Saskia Doherty is an artist and writer whose work takes form primarily as sculpture, drawing, text, and sound. Saskia has participated in exhibitions and events at organisations including Monash University Museum of Art, Tophane-i Amire Arts and Culture Centre [Istanbul], the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Art School [Sydney], TarraWarra Museum of Modern Art and West Space. Saskia lives and works in Naarm Melbourne on the unceded sovereign land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.

Scarlett Rowe

Scott Miles

Scott Mitchell

Saskia Schut

Sean Bailey

Sean Peoples

Sharon Goodwin

Simon MacEwan

Stephen Giblett

Sue Dodd

Susan Jacobs

Tai Snaith

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.

Ronen Becker

Tim Hillier

Toby Pola

Tom Nicholson

Tom Polo

Tony Garifalakis

Torie Nimmervoll

Tully Moore

Veronica Kent

Vivienne Miller

Vivian Cooper Smith

Zoë Croggon

Lillian O'Neil