Exhibition Opening April 7th

From the outside looking into Gallery One, the lights glared through the window of Seventh spilling out onto the street. The large crowd gathered inside and out to enjoy the exhibition opening night, mingling, drinking and craving the artwork.

It was a tight squeeze into Gallery One which is now showing the Safari Team's 'Safari Team Dig to China Part II', exploring the childhood myth of digging to China. The colourful, circular collages of work provide an insight into this wild adventure of danger and uncertainty.



The Project Space, containing the work of Amy-Jo Jory, drew inquisitive eyes sparked by static noise, making for a creepy, warm and mesmerising experience.

Gallery Two contains the work of Greg Penn, 'In Silent Mode'. This intriguing installation requires a closer look.
While Candice Cramner's 'Drill' played on the Night Screen, the crowd was also entertained by the tunes of Freddy Fudd Pucker, rounding up another great night at Seventh.
Come down to the gallery for an intimate look and hope to see you all at our next opening on April 28.

MARCH 17 - APRIL 4

GALLERY ONE - KEN SHIMIZU

THEY TOOK AWAY THE TREES
They took away the trees
They came through after the storm
With their giant machines
And where the poplar turned into a hill
We slept together
It was warm on the hill
No one saw us

I can't make you live outside of this mess

I took away the trees
After the storm
With a tiny machine




PROJECT SPACE - LOU HUBBARD

SINK is a team of soccer figurines drowning in time and circumstance. This work continues Lou's investigation into the nature of training, submission and subordination and the disciplinary spaces in which subjectivity and knowledge are formed.

It is Lou's practice to perform operations on everyday materials, manipulating them into new relationships according to set, formal rules that she invents. Her process is DIY, low-fi and positively domestic. Sometimes these strategies are witnessed and captured through a camera lens, resulting in videos that play on photography’s power to index untenable actions. Sometimes the actions become sculptural assemblages that are fitted and measured and precariously balanced.




GALLERY TWO - SOPHIE LAVENCE

Primarily working with video, and incorporating elements of photography, digital collage and installation within her practice, artist Sophie Lavence's work explores thresholds in perception, through cinematic space and visual symbolism. Her current exhibition at Seventh is paired with sounds by Grant Nimmo and Ryan Caesar of dynamic new collective Pilgrim Dance.


NIGHT SCREEN - KIERAN STEWART

SMALLER FORCES presents proxies for standard hand tools that are intrinsically brittle and fractured; imperfectly made and hardly a durable implement for labour. Like a badly made product produced en-masse, they also possess a limited usefulness and inbuilt expiry due to the medium of their construction. These flawed tools over emphasise the inherent fragility of the human body.

Feb - March @ SEVENTH

Here's a few [less blurry] images of our current show:

Gallery One, with Bianca Durrant's inquiry into natural history museums. These models are so lifelike they scared the bejezus out of the cat upstairs...

It's not the best shot, but it gives you an idea of the detail involved in this enormous drawing. Note the 70's pin & string folk-art technique around the edges...

The Project Space has been transformed into a broom-closet/art office, complete with rotting fruit in the fridge and a regular radio update on the horses - by Jess and Jordy from Hell Gallery. Take the time to peruse the scrawled notes on the notice board and savour the delicate aromas wafting from the open fridge.

In Gallery Two, Natasha Carrington's photographic works present the bleak and eerie world of institutional spaces: prisons, asylums etc.

These ones are of Pentridge prison.

Despite the sterile or authoritarian feel of the spaces presented here, there is certainly a sense of a very human history; the absence of people in the images incites the mind to create narratives of poor souls wandering the corridoors, scribbling confessions on the walls...

I am yet to get some shots of Andrew Liversidge's Counting the Waves which is currently on show in the Night Screen. Stay tuned...

[Of course, none of this is any substitute for a visit to the gallery.]

Exhibition Opening 24th of February: Bianca Durrant, Natasha Carrington, Hell Gallery and Andrew Liversidge

Art Crowd with Andrew Liversidge's Night Screen video playing in the background. Video still from aforementioned video by Andrew Liversidge: "Counting The Waves"

Art Crowd enjoying Bianca Durrant's Gallery 1 work: "Cat and Bird: The European Collection"

Blurry shot from Hell Gallery's Project Space installation "Who Cut The Cheese? Two Giants of Contemporary Art Speak Frankly of Monumental Tasks". Sorry it's blurry, it was dark and my camera is pretty crap...

'Twas another great opening at Seventh. Thanks everyone, see you on Tuesday the 17th of March for the next opening with Ken Shimizu, Sophie Lavence, Lou Hubbard and Kieron Stewart!

FEBRUARY 3 -21, 2009

For all of you who missed the show at Seventh Gallery, here are some installation shots of the show.



Gallery One was Mila Faranov with 'The Phantasmic Forest'.



Gallery Two was Vittoria Di Stephano with 'Voyager'.



The Project Space was Christo Crockers self-portrait titled 'Aprocryphal'.



And projected on the Night Screen was Andrew Phillips, 'Ambition and Self-Loathing Drink Together'.

Just a reminder that SEVENTH is always seeking art enthusiasts who want to get some hands on experience in the week to week running of an artist run space. Level of involvement is totally flexible and could involve a range of possible responsibilities from assisting artists with the install/de-install of their shows, sitting the gallery during opening hours, providing support for openings and fundraising events. If that sounds like something you would like to get involved with, email: emmaseventhgallery@gmail.com.

See you all at the next opening!

January @ SEVENTH

Our first full gallery for the year; with great art work and a great turnout to the opening! The warm weather always helps to bring out the art-lover in everyone...

Stephanie Hick's combination of playful collages, wall drawing and sculpture, titled Caught between all that was and all that must be, comfortably fills Gallery One.


In the project space is Isaac Greener's intimate video installation, Jacob, in which two versions of the artist are interrogated by an unseen questioner about the purpose of his 'experiment'.

Ieuan Weinman's Diagrams of the Abhayagirya Stupa, in Gallery Two, takes the form of a makeshift bamboo and hemp scaffold; a shrine-like assemblage upon which a plethora of images of this monumental structure are presented, executed in various media.

Fiona Williams' Photograph Videos occupy the night screen. Watch these picturesque landscapes emerging from the milky surface of the polaroid, presumably positioned on the ground where they were taken. The background often appears slightly at odds with the image that emerges each time...

Our next opening is this Tuesday, the 3rd of February, from 6 - 9pm or so. [Apologies about the flyers, which incorrectly stated the opening was on the 2nd.] The next round of artists include: Mila Faranov, Vittoria Di Stefano, Christo Crocker & Andrew Phillips. See you there!