Shakespeare Grove Artist Studios | Exhibition And Open Studios
Presented by Shakespeare Grove Artist Studios, City of Port Phillip
DETAILS
Free, no booking required
Shakespeare Grove Artist Studios
2 Spenser Street, St Kilda VIC, Australia
DATES
Fri 16 May 10am – 3pm
Sat 17 May 10am – 3pm
Come and meet the creatives at Shakespeare Grove Artist Studios in St Kilda. The resident artists and designers will showcase their work in a group exhibition and will welcome visitors into their studios to chat about their working process. Their practices span costume design, jewellery, photography, glass, craft, digital design, as well as fine art practices.
Set in the tranquil VegOut Community Gardens in one of Melbourne’s busiest urban environments and tourist precincts, come along and experience the synergy between artists and nature.
Enter through the VegOut Community Gardens main gate on Chaucer Street, St Kilda. Walk straight down the main path, past the chickens, to the end of the gardens.
Participants
Lisa Anderson
Dr. Lisa Anderson’s projects and international residencies explore our connection to the stewardship of the planet through histories and stories found in folklore and superstition around the world.
Dan Bowran
A Royal College of Art graduate, Dan has over twenty years’ experience working with glass, as an artist, technician, and teacher.
Carolyn Cardinet
Carolyn Cardinet is an ARTivist that engages with society's waste and challenge hyper-consumerism. Through environmental art, she transforms found materials, emphasising the importance of sustainability within her art installation.
Isabella Darcy
Isabella Darcy is an early-career cross-media artist living and working on the lands of the Kulin Nation. Darcy works across a diverse range of media, including installation, photography, printmaking, textiles, and expanded painting. Her practice follows an interest in the systems and flux of value within consumable objects and design.
Kubota Fumikazu
Kubota Fumikazu is a painter from Japan. His hard-edged abstract paintings are geometric blocks of colour on raw linen. He studied at the Victorian College of the Arts and is also the frontman of local punk band, Krul.
Howard Kimber
Howard Kimber is a Melbourne-based visual artist, favouring a Modernist style. Most of Howard's imagery depicts sparse and sparsely populated urban scenes, referencing familiar life motifs while filling the empty spaces with desolate beauty and the viewer's experiences.
Salvatori Lolicato
An ANU graduate in ceramic sculpture, Sal has worked as a professional artist in Melbourne for over thirty years. Sal’s clay and plaster works are created to look like aged bronze, thousands of years old, dug up from an archaeological site
Luciano
LUCIANO has a deep interest in the embedded history of found, recycled and passed down materials as well as the interwoven relationship between society and fibre. He seeks to intertwine the stories, symbolism, and memories of pre-loved textiles into new forms, building on the layers of existing materiality.
Jonny Reding
Jonny Reding’s arts practice utilises physical performance, digital photography, dance, sculpture, collage, AI and fashion to anecdote personal, spiritual and domestic experience in the context of the male human landscape.
Betty Sargeant
Dr. Betty Sargeant is an internationally acclaimed media artist whose practice operates at the intersection of art, technology and environmental science. Sargeant creates immersive environments and public art.
Tania (Lou) Smith
Tania Lou Smith’s work is part vaudeville, part feminist ennui. She works with video, photography and live performance to perform autobiographical concerns. Playing with costume, props and gesture, she finds the comedic in the tools of drudgery.
Jarra Karalinar Steel
Jarra Karalinar Steel is a multidisciplinary artist and the curator of Rising’s Art Trams. Jarra’s work explores themes of black futurism, identity, memory and ways to insert contemporary cultural visual language into the urban and digital landscape by reclaiming space and belonging.
Clarine Wilmar
Clarine Wilmar’s multidisciplinary practice explores the human-animal connection and hybrid identities, drawing inspiration from nocturnal coastal habitats, man-made suburbia and beyond.