Thursday 12 March 2015

Tea mapping // Mei Jing // 16 Mar to 30 Mar 2015 // Opening 7-8pm Tues 17 Mar 2015

Mei Jing’s Master of Arts (Art in Public Space) major research project utilises the traditional beverage tea as a medium in which to explore people’s daily life and social relationships. Tea originated in China and spread to other countries through its trade routes. Tea evokes memories of the sights, sounds, scents and taste of the moment.

Mei’s work addresses relationships between tea, jewelry and nature. Mei has made and placed intricately constructed jewelry within public space, choosing sites where her work is camouflaged within the natural environment. Mei has mapped these different locations throughout Melbourne and presents the photographic record of her project. Tea mapping asks audiences to think about their relationship and presence within public space.


Please join Mei, the artist for a traditional Chinese tea ceremony 7-8pm Tues 17 March 2015.  A tradition with a long history the Chinese tea ceremony will share tea tasting techniques while creating a unique way to engage tea with art.
For more information please visit: http://mei08jing.wix.com/jing

PS50 is housed within the windows of the RMIT Art in Public Space building 50 on Orr St, Carlton.

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Image Mei Jing ©

Thursday 29 January 2015

White Nights // Carolyn Cardinet & Season Poem // Wilson Yeung & Wong Weng // 2 Feb 2015 to 15 Mar 2015

Carolyn Cardinet’s arts project White Nights reflects on the mass production of plastic packaging and the impact single use detritus has on our environment and our future. Her work is a byproduct of human consumption, the stuff we use or are in contact with in our city daily. Discarded packaging lies in our back lanes, overflows from our bins and flies through our city streets, to finally wash up on our seashores. Carolyn’s collects this packaging and creates stunning assembled sculptural works. Carolyn is a graduate of the Master of Fine Art RMIT program.

Season Poem by Wong Weng lo and Wilson Yeung is a kinetic light based installation that evokes the cycle of the four seasons: from Spring, Summer, Autumn through to Winter. Their work has strong connects to Chinese ink painting, Chinese calligraphy and the traditional Chinese scroll.

For more information please visit:

Carolyn Cardinet: www.carolyncardinet.com

Wong Weng lo: www.yoyowongwengio.wordpress.com
Wilson Yeung: www.wilsonyeung.co

PS50 is housed within the windows of the RMIT Art in Public Space building 50 on Orr St, Carlton.
e: ps50.arts@gmail.com
f: www.facebook.com/ps50.arts
w: www.rmit.edu.au/art/gallery/ps50

Image left: Wong Weng lo and Wilson Yeung Untitled III, 2014 and right: Carolyn Cardinet Foam bean, 2014 detail © 

Wednesday 10 December 2014

Travelling Lines // Carolina Facelli and Ainslie Macaulay // 1 Dec 2014 to 2 Feb 2015

Carolina Facelli’s work deals with people and society through seemingly insignificant objects and details of the urban complex. Presenting her work in a site responsive manner within nine PS50 project boxes on Orr St she uses historical analytical drawing as a format and basis for her current Master of Arts (Art in Public Space) research. Carolina endeavours to investigate the use of drawing as a way of exploring and understanding the world we live in. The work draws attention onto the ubiquitous unseen, such as electricity poles in which she finds beauty and metaphor for society, community and urban functionality.

Ainslie Macaulay’s practice explores fleeting memories of place through a range of media. Filling twelve PS50 project boxes with mixed media works including sculpture, projection, sound and installation she responds to the facing laneway site. Ainslie’s work is process based as she gathers, interprets, constructs and compiles shared memories derived from places in Victoria and showcases the collection as part of her Master of Arts (Art in Public Space) major research project.

For more information please visit:

Ainslie: http://museumofmemoriesan.wix.com/passingthrough

PS50 is housed within the windows of the RMIT Art in Public Space building 50 on Orr St, Carlton.
e: ps50.arts@gmail.com
f: www.facebook.com/ps50.arts
w: www.rmit.edu.au/art/gallery/ps50


Image C. Facelli, Travelling Lines ©

Friday 31 October 2014

Shanghai SkypeLab // RMIT University and East China Normal University // 7 Nov to 1 Dec 2014

Shanghai SkypeLab PS50 exhibiting artists: Esther Konings, Ben Lamason, Susan Rice-Bellman, Sally Richmond, Rose Hawker.

Shanghai SkypeLab
curatorial team: Maggie McCormick (RMIT University, Australia), Henning Eichinger (Reutlingen University, Germany) and Yonglei Ma (ECNU University, China).

Shanghai SkypeLab
is a transcontinental ‘portrait’ of faces and places that maps a specific point in time on the Asian continent: 15-19 September 2014. Shanghai SkypeLab investigates perceptions of identity mediated through Blind Contour Drawing via digital screens. The project was undertaken as the 2014 Art in Public Space field trip in collaboration with the School of Design at East China Normal University in Shanghai.


For more information please visit: www.rmit.edu.au/Shanghai SkypeLab2014

PS50 is housed within the windows of the RMIT Art in Public Space building 50 on Orr St, Carlton.

e: ps50.arts@gmail.com
f: www.facebook.com/ps50.arts
w: www.rmit.edu.au/art/gallery/ps50

Image Ben Lamason © 

Tuesday 30 September 2014

Seasonal Stillness // Public Art Collective // 3 Oct to 3 Nov 2014

RMIT Link Arts & Culture's Public Art Collective present the group arts project Seasonal Stillness. The artists’ present individual series of works within the mediums of assemblage, animation, projected imagery, resin and kinetic sculpture. Seasonal Stillness encapsulates works that aim to inspire viewers to stop within the bustle of their daily lives and reflect in the stillness of spring.

Artists: Chris Dalvean, Hema Veeramohan, Natasha Home, Rachel Prince, Simon Warlond and Rebecca Claire Edwards.

Supported by RMIT Link Arts & Culture arts funding. 


For more information please contact: www.facebook.com/PublicArtCollective

PS50 is housed within the windows of the RMIT Art in Public Space building 50 on Orr St, Carlton.
e: ps50.arts@gmail.com
f: www.facebook.com/ps50.arts
w: www.rmit.edu.au/art/gallery/ps50


Image Rebecca Claire Edwards ©


Monday 25 August 2014

The In-between // Julie Andrews // 1 Sept to 1 Oct 2014

RMIT University Master of Art in Public Space student Julie Andrews presents The in-between space: mapping the liminal psychogeography of the everyday, as part of her major research project. Julie’s investigation includes the psychological terrain of the liminal: the in-between space, of the everyday trance, a place for noticing, escaping and contemplation: the move to the world in our heads, the imaginary, and a space from which memories and feeling seduce us.

Julie Andrews (1962, Melbourne, Australia) creates mixed media artworks, painting, drawings, ceramics, glass sculptures, assemblage and video installations. Andrews lives and works as an artist in Bendigo, Central Victoria, and received her Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2012 at Latrobe University, Bendigo and is currently completing a Master of Arts (Art in Public Space) at RMIT.


For more information please contact: http://julieandrews-artist.blogspot.com.au

PS50 is housed within the windows of the RMIT Art in Public Space building 50 on Orr St, Carlton.
e: ps50.arts@gmail.com
f: www.facebook.com/ps50.arts
w: www.rmit.edu.au/art/gallery/ps50


Image Julie Andrews © 



Wednesday 30 July 2014

We Are Made Of Lines // Georgia Mill // 2 Aug to 1 Sept 2014

RMIT University, Master of Art in Public Space student Georgia Mill presents We Are Made Of Lines as part of her major research project. Georgia’s methodology is centered around the individual body: its interpretation and navigation of space and time, how we recall the journeys we’ve taken, and the invisible thoughts and memories which form part of our navigation experience and personal narrative.

We Are Made Of Lines is an investigation into line, story telling, portraiture and mapping; a series of illuminated linear works which chart peoples’ journeys around Melbourne city, accompanied by corresponding written descriptions about the individual movements.

Georgia Mill is a visual artist based in Melbourne. In 2011 she graduated with a Bachelor of Creative Arts from the University of Melbourne. She has worked as a sculptor, performer and designer in Melbourne and internationally. During 2012 she worked as a set designer on St Martins Youth Theatre’s production, Accidentally Ugly and as an Artist in Residence at Emmy Monash Aged Care Facility in Caulfield, Melbourne. Georgia was the designer for The Hide, a live art project in the 2012 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Most recently Georgia received 2013 Punctum Seedpod sponsorship to develop her live art work titled Lines We Might Have Walked. She is currently undertaking Stage C of the Master of Arts (Art in Public Space) program at RMIT University.

For more information please contact: www.georgia-mill.com

PS50 is housed within the windows of the RMIT Art in Public Space building 50 on Orr St, Carlton.
e: ps50.arts@gmail.com
f: www.facebook.com/ps50.arts
w: www.rmit.edu.au/art/gallery/ps50


Image Georgia Mill ©