CAST’s annual three-into-one format, in which the gallery is divided into three discrete exhibition spaces, allows three emerging artists to present a solo exhibition. This year’s presents work with an underlying repetitive design element, each artist revealing an acute sensibility to the materials they use. These artists use recycled motifs and/or materials, formulating techniques and creating patterns that act as everyday historical anchors

Judith Abell
Untitled 2007 (detail)
Mixed media
image courtesy of the artist

Penny Malone
Coral cow design 2007 (detail)
image courtesy of the artist

The CAST Curatorial Mentorship Exhibition is a professional development opportunity for an aspiring curator to develop their skills under the guidance and mentorship of CAST. From the suburban street to the urban thoroughfare, Companion Planting is an exhibition that explores the relationship between people and plants; focusing on our proximity to nature and the residual areas between the spaces we create.

INDECO - workshop detail
Photograph: Peter Anderson

REPEAT BUSINESS

Curator: Peter Anderson

28 June – 27 July 2008

This is the third major exhibition of Tasmanian craft and design held at CAST Gallery since 2006. The funding brief from Arts Tasmania is for an ‘outsider’ to curate an exhibition of Tasmanian craft and design based on the outcomes of their exploration of the State and the existing design/craft landscape.

Peter Anderson’s exhibition looks at the production of multiples, either by designer makers or designers. He has chosen work that sits at the 'production' end of craft/design practice focusing on practices that are clearly defined as businesses. They engage with issues of market and product, pushing to the edge of what contemporary art spaces might ordinarily deal with; ‘…some of the exhibitors have practices that retail as brands rather than names, while others are names that work like brands.’

(l) Colin Langridge
Untitled (detail) 2008
Cotton fabric, enamel paint

(r) Ellie Ray
Fold (detail) 2008
Colour photograph

The photographs of Ellie Ray and sculptural forms of Colin Langridge are brought together under formal and conceptual expressions of the ‘fold’. Both are concerned with extending the boundaries of their medium, folding it back on itself in the act of redefining it and both use formal devices of reflection and bending. The often unfamiliar forms that result combine matter with the virtual, left for the viewer to unfurl.

Fiona Macdonald brings together artists from Melbourne, Sydney, Canada and the UK to consider the concept of drawing as a temporal, rather than an illustrative, one. Redefining and extending ‘drawing’ as a durational event, crossing media boundaries, Re:drawing creates a dialogue between differing artistic procedures. Drawing, sculpture, video and audio works articulate alternative models for drawing ‘…through ideas of repetition and translation of media, materials and process.’

In this site specific performance, spread over the entire exhibition period, the function of the gallery as a place to contemplate finished work is turned upside down; the end of the exhibition becoming its opening. Starting with an empty gallery, the artists will proceed to sew three-dimensional forms from fabric that relate to the space, later inflating them and arranging them, redesigning the landscape of the gallery.