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.
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Image C. Facelli, Travelling Lines ©

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.
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w: www.rmit.edu.au/art/gallery/ps50

Image Ben Lamason © 

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 ©

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 © 

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 ©  

Sarah Brownlow ‘The Idea was to Disguise Oneself’ 18th May 2014

Artist Statement:

‘The Idea was to Disguise Oneself’ is a series of images that explore of the mask as a means of assuming an alternate identity. The photographic self-portraits reveal the transformative nature of wearing a mask, and how this affects the way the wearer relates to, and appears within public space. The thirty-four backlit images intend to raise questions around representation of self in the public sphere, the transparent nature of the print stock further emphasises the opaque layers we cloak our true selves in when presenting ourselves to others.

Putting the Public Back into Public Transport - A Journey Through Public Space 30th April- 16th May 2014

Students have been tasked with picking a train line that they have never been on before and traveling on it for thirty minutes. At the thirty-minute mark they must disembark at the next station and explore the local area. The works displayed at PS50 respond to these unknown encounters, documenting a moment or series of events from each individual journey.

Exhibiting students: Julie Barnhill, Eliza Bell, Ellana Bobenko, Rossi Childs, Jay Curtis, Stephanie Cutler, Lauren Di Lorenzo, Brooke Everett, Nicole Goodwin, Henry Henry, Thomas MacAllan, Simon Massey di Vallazza, Josephine Mead, Christiaan Moes, Catherine Motschall, Nina Portail, Kirsty Quinn, Jordan Robertson, Zamara Robison, Kit Scott, Jacqueline Sidney, Anastaszia Ward, Michael Barrett, Courtney Blackney, Chris Dalvean, Emah Fox, Tobias Grice, Maeve Holmes, James Henderson, Alya Khan, Rhys Addinsall, Marek Reid, Aurora van Zoelen Cortes, Christian Vine, Kate Angus, Vishnu Hazell, Larissa MacFarlane, Alexander Morton, James Henderson, Naomi Richmond, Perring Jon, Portail Nina, Storm Smith-Peterson, Monty Ryan.

Incidental 9th- 28th April 2014

The Advanced Diploma of Visual Art presents a series of works as 'incidental engagements' at PS50. Students participating in the program have worked individually and in groups to create works that are intended to engage audiences as they wander through the street on their daily journey.

Exhibiting students:

Elizabeth Hooker, Lillian Bell, Gerardo Godinez, Andrea Sinclair, Sayward Barone, William Kosky, Harry Hughes, Caleb Tierney, Katja Povske, Susana Rivas, Bryce Bradbury-Flint, Caitlin Campbell, Angelica Rush, Amy Gray, Miranda Tomlinson, Chris Hearn, Andrea Hughes,Fiona Kennett, Kate Bailey, Jake Clover, Christina Smith & Gab Lewis.

The Advanced Diploma of Visual Art is a new program in the School of Art that offers students the opportunity to develop their artistic skills and knowledge. More information about the program can be found on the RMIT website.

Deb Bain-King "finding your way: aids to a personal migration" March 7th- April 3rd 2014

Currently showing is Finding Your Way:aids to a personal migration by Deb Bain-King who works primarily with photography, video, and installation to create situations that engage with how people share space with each other. Deb’s experience of working with refugees and her own life’s journey has expanded this to focus on the experience of displacement and of how people move toward a sense of finding home.

Artist Statement:

The work finding your way: aids to a personal migration is a series of nine duratrans prints measuring 675mm x 382 mm. The prints are set into the PS50 boxes with internal lighting to create a functioning light box space.

The work reflects upon the aspects that affect the journeys we make to finding place and home. The ephemeral things such as the hopes and beliefs we carry, the passing of time, and the idea of justice and fairness as a value to uphold. It also draws upon the more physical aspects of journey such as the landmarks we pass, the stars that guide us, and the sense of finally finding the warmth and comfort of home. 

Artist Biography:

Deb has been working as a collaborative and solo artist for over 10 years. She is a founding member of the collaborative artist group ‘Space Pork Adventures’ which between 2003-2007 created numerous performative, site specific and ephemeral works. 'Space Pork Adventures' participated in ‘Multiple Miscellaneous Alliances’ at CLUBSproject in 2004 and were commissioned by ACCA to create a series of works for +Factors as part of the 2006 Commonwealth games. A residency with Red Gate Galleries in 2007 produced a projection work, People Who Don’t Know Each Other, which was shown at the Beijing Olympics Cultural Exhibition in 2008 and the Big Screen at Federation Square. Her 2009 visit to Israel inspired a number of videos and installations responding to the Bethlehem Wall. In 2011 she travelled to Xian Yang as part of a public art project with the Masters program for RMIT Art in Public Place, making links with Chinese families that have in part inspired her latest work, Finding Your Way.

Deb has a Masters in Fine Art from Monash University and a Graduate Diploma in Art in Public Space from RMIT.  She been on the committee of Trocadero Art Space in Footscray and has curated shows at the Incinerator Gallery and C3 Contemporary Art Space. She is currently the convenor and curator at The Front Art Space at Docklands where she continues her interest in collaborative ventures