MARGARET LAWRENCE GALLERIES AT VCA

EXHIBITION PROGRAM - February to July

10 February to 5 March	Transition
Penelope Aitken, Lorraine Austin, Peter Grziwotz, Simon Horsburgh, Pauline Lavoipierrie, Brendon Pitts, Anne Riggs, Hugit Rubinstein, Pip Stokes
11 March to 2 April	Slave
The Slave exhibition is a continuation from previous Slave projects (the publications Slave Fashion and Slave Bless Cover and a one-day show and launch at Club Projects, Melbourne). This exhibition will be a chance to group together a community of ideas and activities that the Slave entity functions within. Organised by Kain Picken, Nick Selenitsch, Christopher L.G Hill and Rob McKenzie, it is an exhibition and an event. It will consist of wall drawings and a floor piece by the four organising artists as well as a large group exhibition, which will bring together a range of artists that are working with ideas that seem urgent, different or unknown. The group exhibition includes work by Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, Scott Redford, A Constructed World, Michelle Ussher, Bianca Hester, Scott Mitchell, Raf Ishaak, Ruark Lewis, Spiro Panigrakis, Mike Brown, Trevor Vickers, Ian Burn, James Lynch, Kate Daw, Tim Hoey, Kelly Murphy, Helen Johnson, James Deutscher, Nathan Grey, Ying Lan Dan, Nick Mangan, Natural Selection plus more. Accompanying this will be a table of publications as well as the latest issue of Slave, a split publication produced with European design duo Bless (Ines Kaag and Desiree Heiss). The launch and opening of the exhibition will take place on Tuesday March 15, 6-8pm. Kastel Mice and ice like beans will play at the opening.
8 to 23 April	Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship
29 April to 14 May	International Digital Art Awards
19 May to 11 June	Stephen Haley After Reflection
17 June to 16 July	Family First
Rachel Howe, Tony Garifilakis, Shaun Gladwell, Matthew Griffin, Marco Roso, Blair Trethowan

10 February to 5 March
Transition
Penelope Aitken, Lorraine Austin, Peter Grziwotz, Simon Horsburgh
Pauline Lavoipierre, Brendon Pitts, Anne Riggs, Hugit Rubinstein, Pip Stokes

This exhibition features the work of recent MFA graduates from the VCA School of Art, and is designed to present an overview of cultural and artistic production emerging from the School over the period. Though not attempting to align this group of artists in any theoretical or formal way, the exhibition does acknowledge that the artists have been producing work, from within political, cultural and institutional milieux that are in a constant state of flux. And it is this context of change and ambiguity, and particularly the processes and outcomes devolving from change and passage, which is highlighted in the exhibition. The title Transition allows for an investigation of some of the key themes of contemporary life (transformation, transgression, alienation, perception, duration among others) and the diverse ways that contemporary artists address some of these ideas in their work.

11 March to 2 April
Slave
Chris LG Hill, Rob McKenzie, Kain Picken, Nick Selenitsch and friends

8 to 23 April
2005 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship

29 April to 14 May
International Digital Art Awards

19 May to 11 June
Stephen Haley After Reflection
The operations and mechanisms of the mirror are central to metaphors of Western thought, artistic representation and general culture. So fundamental are these reflective metaphors they are often seen as 'natural' rather than cultural structures. Ensnared as we are within their poetics, this exhibition considers the relevance and the role of the mirror in contemporary culture. In a time where philosophical objections to the paradigm mesh with new imaging technologies that allow a photography of non-existent, virtual spaces, the exhibition plays with the possibility of representation beyond the mirror, after the image.

17 June to 16 July
Family First
Rachel Howe, Tony Garifilakis, Shaun Gladwell, Matthew Griffin, Marco Roso, Blair Trethowan