2022 Public Program

Allison Bennett
Vegetal/Digital

Kieran Butler
80 years from now

Exhibition Launch
Thursday 13 January 2022

Verge invited everyone to the opening of Alison Bennett vegetal/digital and Kieran Butler’s 80 years from now.

Close up, Kieran Butler, I will love you unconditionally, you're my priority, 2022. Digital image collage of a saturated beach sunset of yellow and pink, with floating cyan 3D block text.

Kieran Butler, I will love you unconditionally, you’re my priority, digital image detail. 2022.

 

Paul Williams
Recurring Motifs

Exhibition Launch
Thursday 17 February 2022

Verge invited everyone to the opening of Paul Williams’ Recurring Motifs.

Installation view, Paul Williams, Recurring Motifs, 2021. Small abstract wooden sculptures with colourful paint and square edges on top of a larger mdf board table.

Paul Williams, Recurring Motifs, 2021, installation view, dimensions variable. Photography by Zan Wimberley.

 

Music Performance: “Untitled” Chris Dolman & Paul Williams
Thursday 17 March 2022

Drinks and light refreshments served. 
Chris Dolman (drums) and Paul Williams (guitar) are UNTITLED. Long time collaborators, their musical style is largely improvisational.

UNTITLED make music that is indebted to the histories of minimal and post rock. Building on dark, exploratory, ambient and abstract soundscapes into structured and melodic riffs.

Low resolution photograph of two bearded figures standing side by side in nature. Left figure wears an orange hat and green zip up hoodie, right wears a blue hat, grey tshirt and white jacket.

UNTITLED, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist



Kirtika Kain & Sajan Mani
Earth 200 CE

Exhibition Launch
Thursday 31 March 2022

Verge invited everyone to the opening of Kirtika Kain and Sajan Mani’s ‘Earth 200 CE’.

Installation view, Kirtika Kain & Sajan Mani, 2022. Two wooden vitrines with open lids, housing many small sculptures. Towards the back, sculptures in a clear case on a plinth and paintings on the wall.

Kirtika Kain & Sajan Mani, 2022, installation view, dimensions variable. Photography by Jek Mauer.


Elise Hamsen & Nicola Smith
The empty room feels bigger

Joe Wilson & Chanelle Collier
Everything is ok :)

Exhibition Launch
Thursday 19th May

Verge invited everyone to the opening of Elise Harmsen & Nicola Smith, The empty room feels bigger and
Joe Wilson & Chanelle Collier, Everything is ok :).

Installation view, Joe Wilson & Chanelle Collier, Everything is ok :), 2022. 7 strips of fabric in brown, orange, yellow and beige are suspended from the ceiling and are attached to the wall, or other suspended sculptures.

Joe Wilson & Chanelle Collier, Everything is ok :), installation view, dimensions variable. Photography by Zan Wimberley.

 

EO Gill (Curator)
Screwball

Exhibition Launch
Thursday 22 June

Featuring works from: EO Gill, Frances Barrett, Archie Barry, Brian Fuata, Stanya Kahn & Harry Dodge, Sione Monu, Jimmy Nuttall, Nat Randall & Anna Breckon, Garden Reflexxx, P. Staff, Athena Thebus & Chloe Corkran

Verge invites everyone to the opening of EO Gill’s curated exhibition, ‘Screwball’

Installation view, Screwball, 2022. Left to right. A changing room bench of wood and steel in front of a dark blue wall. Projected video on screen of figure with jewelry lying on grass.

Screwball, 2022, installation view, dimensions variable. Photography by Jek Mauer.

 

Workshop with Katy Plummer: Collaborative Oracle Deck
Tuesday 23 August

Guided by artist Katy Plummer, participants worked intuitively with text and collage to create a useful and collaborative oracle deck.

Hand from right of image holding a paper card with handwritten text: "A sustained note sweetly held" with decorative drawn border. 2 stacks of similar cards and pink paper behind, on paint-stained wooden surface.
 

Anna May Kirk
Forecasting the Touch of Change

Shan Turner-Carroll
Bodies On A Rock

Exhibition Launch
Thursday 4 August

Verge invited everyone to the opening of Anna May Kirk’s ‘Forecasting the touch of change’ and Shan Turner-Carroll’s ‘Bodies on a Rock’.

Installation view, Shan Turner-Caroll, Bodies On A Rock, 2020. 7 boulders installed with technological material and found items such as projector, screen and wires in a gallery space with white walls and concrete floors.

Shan Turner-Carroll, Bodies On A Rock, 2016-2020, installation view, dimensions variable, MRAG, NSW. Image courtesy of the artist.


Thea Anamara Perkins
That Which Endures

Exhibition Launch
Thursday 15 September

Verge invited everyone to the opening of Thea Anamara Perkins’ ‘That Which Endures’.

Thea Anamara Perkins, FAAFAA4. Black framed grey scale painting in stylised brushstrokes of a man in a suit behind a microphone, standing in front of a crowd of people.

Thea Anamara Perkins, FAAFAA4, 2022, acrylic on board, 45.7 x 61 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and the Paul Ramsay Foundation Collection.



USU Creative Awards

Verge hosted a series of public programs showcasing the talents of the participating students in each category. Family and friends were welcome.

Spoken Word
Thursday 27 October 2022
5:30pm-7:30pm

Students read excerpts from their Word category submissions

LIVE MUSIC
Friday 28 October 2022
3:00pm-6:00pm

Live performances by students shortlisted for the Music category.

ARTIST TALKS
Saturday 29 October 2022
11:00am-2:00pm

An afternoon of talks, refreshments, and art.

Zuni Mendez, Still, 2022. 3 vertical film photographs. Left to right. Girl sitting on fold up chair, reading, in front of ocean view. Antenna of black car with pink flowers. View of ocean and mountain through window.

Zuni Mendez, Still, 2022, photographs on paper, (3) 297 x 420 mm. Image courtesy of the artist.

Tarik Ahlip
Phosphorus

Exhibition Launch
Thursday 17 November

Verge invited everyone to the opening of Tarik Ahlip ‘Phosphorus’

Close up, Tarik Ahlip If a City is a Mouth..., 2022. Right side, sandy sculpture with line textures on white background. Center top of sculpture, patch of white plaster with green stains and long patch of yellow.

Tarik Ahlip, If a City is a Mouth, the Country is a hollow Cheek, (detail), 2022, plaster, sand, pigment. Image courtesy of the artist.

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