Dance Piece (2016) by Melbourne based artist Stephanie Hicks is currently on show at Wide Open Road Art. Using digital and traditional collage techniques Hicks creates an underwater dream scape.
Under the sea
Tomb
Multimedia artist Selby Ginn launched her show, Tomb, at Wide Open Road on Friday evening.
For more information, contact helen@wideopenroadart.com
Organic Plastic
Organic Plastic (2016) by Melbourne artist Carolyn Cardinet is currently installed at Wide Open Road. We opened Cardinet’s show on Saturday 12 March in conjunction with Castlemaine Arts Open.
Cardinet’s sculptural work is created from everyday man-made objects and materials from nature collected from her surroundings. The artist’s interest lays in reconnecting societies to the way we handle waste in our precious environment.
For more information, contact helen@wideopenroadart.com
Clare Davies launch
Artist Clare Davies launched her show Rocks and Sky, Castlemaine (2016) on Saturday 6 February.
Clare’s work consists of laboriously constructed hand-made beads, a decorative element that contrasts with her semi-abstract photographs.
Humble Sausage
Humble sausage features recent works by local artist Simon Disler.
The humble sausage occupies Australians’ consciousness and valuable bbq real estate virtually every summer day – nobody really knows what’s in them and we silently agree it’s probably better not to ask. The work explores this symbol of food production, resources-use and ritual time-spending.
For more information, please contact helen@wideopenroadart.com.
Josie and the Constellations
Last Saturday saw the launch of Melbourne-based mixed-media artist and academic Clare McCracken’s Josie and the Constellations (2015) at the Wide Open Road window boxes.
For thousands of years cultures have looked at the night sky, drawing lines between the stars to create constellations. For each culture these shapes have shifted and changed to reflect both the objects in their immediate surroundings and the myths that dominate their identity. In Josie and the Constellations, McCracken playfully looks at the constellations of the past, while imagining both the observation deck, and constellations, of contemporary Australia. The work explores place and identity through narrative, images and installations, as part of McCracken’s ongoing project to interrogate our connection to place as well as finding ways to encourage communities to develop a relationship with their local milieu.
For more information, contact helen@wideopenroadart.com or call 0425 878 075.
Luceo non Uro (I Shine, Not Burn)
Luceo non Uro (I Shine, Not Burn) by Brenna Jenson is our latest installation at Wide Open Road Art.
These knitted cocoons are inspired by delicate woven structures found in nature, specifically the Urodid moth cocoon and incorporate fine threads of silk, linen, wool, copper and stainless steel. The golden cocooons are wild-harvested silk cocoons of the Cricula silk moth which has been spun onto silk spindles.
Like many floating wombs, these life-giving vessels, interwoven from a continuous thread, represent fate and destiny. They are reminiscent of Victorian gas mantles with their metallic impregnated fibres that glowed to light the path. The title refers to the motto of the blacksmiths who desire to fashion metal to the point of shining.
For more information, contact Wide Open Road Art at helen@wideopenroadart.com or 0425 878 075.
Launched!
Castlemaine’s new and compact art space, Wide Open Road Art, was launched on Friday evening to coincide with the opening of the Castlemaine State Festival.
Our 2015 program has been kicked off with works by Wide Open Road Art curators and Helen Mathwin and Susie Elliott
For more information please contact helen@wideopenroadart.com or 0425 878 075
Wide Open Road Art
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Contact helen@wideopenroadart.com. Wide Open Road Art, corner of Mostyn and Hargraves Streets, Castlemaine Victoria 3450
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