Art & Film

artSPACE
Opening Night & Film Screening: 2nd April 6-9pm
With film screenings 7:30-8:30 pm
runs from 1st to the 20th of April

smARTarts: SPACE is a unique art exhibition dedicated to showcasing the next wave of artistic talent in the City of Sydney.
Fine art submissions in the mediums of Painting, Printmaking, Drawing, Sculpture & photography are welcome. This year,
the smARTarts: SPACE exhibition will also feature a youth film screening at the opening night on April 2nd.

SMARTARTS: SPACE EXHIBITION

Bianca Jane
Age: 20
My name is Bianca Jane. I'm twenty-years old, I grew up in the Southern Highlands and have lived in Newtown for two years.
These pieces are part of a suite of ten, all relating directly to me. The works were personal confessions, portraying my secrets
in a simple and honest way. The images are uncomplicated and minimal, and evoke a sense of a child-like view of the world.


Clamity
Age: 24
Clamity is a 24 year old female street artist living under the flight path. She is inspired to make people question the situation
that we live in everyday, our response and involvement in this, and what that could possibly be. Entropy looks at how homeless
people are seen as an eyesore, when they are beautiful in their own right. Entropy is a natural thing, and isn’t something that
can be buffed or repainted or shipped out to the country. People need to stop fighting it and start doing what’s natural. Sales
will be donated to Wesley Mission.


Melanie Boreham
Age: 19
The figure is a recurrent theme in my work, as I find that its portrayal communicates powerfully. I have used anonymous figures
for my subjects as I wish to explore how we interact with a human representation which is void of any prior relation. They have
blank faces however their gaze is confronting, but not threatening. I want to expose the feminine psyche which is fragile yet
confident as well engage the audience to arrive at a self-realisation of who they are, through meditating on my strangers.

Chantal Labbé
Age: 23
My name is Chantal Labbé, I am 23 years old and I just finished my Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) at Sydney College of the
Arts. When something fills my mind with sensation, I easily become obsessed. Most of the time, there is no initial idea or reason
for my drawing escapades; I draw for the sakes of drawing. A pen or pencil is like a magic wand to me as from its tip; a conjured
world emerges onto the page that did not exist there moments before.


Sarj Hada
Age: 24
I'm a Sydney based artist and a chef by profession so I pretty much juggle between the two, or more accurately I would say I paint
during my free time. I mainly do oil paintings of abstract or minimal nature, to be honest not quite sure how to define my self except
to say I go with my head and that’s pretty much what I do. I just love painting and have to do it every chance I get, I've had no formal
training or lessons or anything of that nature, however I've been painting for year now.


Stephenie Kanhukamwe
Age: I am in my twenties - c'mon do I have to tell my exact age? Where's the intrigue? Words, images, experiences and tastes
all combine to create my works. It can be one simple word that catches my fancy, and I become obsessed with it until I have
captured it in design like a firefly in a jar. I like my works to be a compilation of photos, vector shapes, textures, and words -
a mish-mash or ingredients just like my life and my heritage. I also try never to spend more than one day (physically) on any
artwork as I get stale and start to think of it as "work" instead of passion. I no longer seek perfection and beauty in every work
like I used to, now I just try to express my thoughts clearly and honestly.


Michelle Heldon
Age: 22
My name is Michelle Heldon from Loftus, Sydney. I'm 22 years old and completed my BFA in Honours at the National Art School
last year. I am passionate about the environment and the effect it can have on us - it's light, beauty and power, its detail. Whether
it be the large seascapes or the humble stick or shell. Currently my artwork is focused on depicting space and memory inspired
by the natural landscape. Through surface texture and colour my works quietly sit to provide a space to rest and contemplate.
In a society that's increasingly getting busier and busier art provides a space to slow down; to think or notice things we may
normally pass over.

Jessie Dang
Age: 19
I was born in NSW and I am currently 19 years old. I first developed an interest in photography at the age of 15 and this quickly
grew into a passion. I currently undertaking a bachelor degree of Visual Communication and sub-major in photography at UTS.
Photography is a medium for expression; to express human emotion, to express the inner mind, to express an opinion, to express
the issues of the world, to express oneself. This is what I aspire to convey through my work.


Jessica Hodgkinson
Age: 20
I print the landscape I see in our country. It is dry, and inhospitable yet still remarkably beautiful. The ambiguous organic shapes
in my work represent nature as being constantly overlapped in form. My art is therefore universally relevant to more than one
specific place

Kimberly Bryant
Age: 17
This is the marriage of the grotesque and the beloved; the conditioned liaison of companionship, loyalty and blood.

Paula Gabriela do Prado
Age: 28
I am concerned with subverting and challenging dominant mainstream views on race, gender and cultural identity. I often use
myself in the work as a way to explore and attempt to come to terms with my own problematic racial, social and cultural status
as an immigrant living on stolen land.

Heidi Axelsen
Age: 24
These assemblages suggest the internal workings of the body: fluids, bone, muscle and seeks to imply the fragility and
temporal nature of our bodies and how our bodies are also transformed by the force of internal and external influences.

Samuel Chimon – Cockroft
Age: 25
My name is Samuel. I have grown up as a street artist, and since adapted my style toward graphic canvas, fabric printing
and one-off homewares. I have just held an exhibition and am currently working on my next one.
"I have never seen the inside of an emergency room... except for on the TV. But most nights for me, well after the sun has
gone down I experience a rush or an emergency of a different kind. The buzz and the left lobe of my brain take over, but
instead of hitting the streets, in-search of the perfect location in which to operate on the condition; I urge toward capturing
an ideology on a sterile canvas... My next collection combines colour-ways and concepts of the alternative street and club
styles, embodied by my old-school, masculine, hoodlum approach"


Rocket Weijers & Cash Weijers
Age: 15 & 17
We make guitars & play them!



Rebecca Murphy
Age: 25
El dia de los muertos (Day of the dead) is a vibrant celebration honouring the souls of our dead. Dating back to the Aztecs,
many believe that on this day it is easier for the departed souls to visit the living, bringing joy & comfort. The use of the owl
is symbolic of the wisdom in celebrating the time we have had together, rather than mourning that these times will never
come again.


Meghan Brewster
Age: 20
Marek Pluskiewicz
Age: 26
Born and raised in an industrial city of south-central Poland, Marek Pluskiewicz’s
interest in belonging began when he moved to Switzerland in 2001 to study Media. He has subsequently lived in France and
recently moved to Australia, where he is working on several film and photographic projects. The placed, displaced, and
misplaced all play a part in his work. Tchendukua, co-produced and made in Switzerland and Colombia in late 2007, is a
comparative exploration of one mountain dweller from each country.


Claire Nakazawa
Age: 24


Duygu Beykal
Age:
Emerging from a struggle between the past & contemporary, my works root from Ottoman patterns that once decorated the
tiled walls of brilliant architecture. Abstracting them from ceramic tiles to canvases, I kept the real ottoman palette of red,
blue & green. As a continuum, by using the same colour palette I painted three other canvases, turning them back into three
tiles with contemporary abstract patterns.

Irma Gustiatyte – Calabrese
Age:
These ink on canvas works are a way of relaxation and concentration at the same time. The inspiration comes from shadow
puppet theatre and geometry.

Michelle Briones
Age:
the two artworks represent the moments in everyone’s lives when they find themselves confused, afraid and not knowing which
way to go when they come across two unfamiliar paths.

Tina Tran
Age:
My style is abstract with a hint of surrealism. Inspiration comes from nature, such as tree trunks, flowers & the human body.
I have developed my practice from my study of artists such as James Gleeson & Georgia O’Keefe.

Michael Chick
Age:
These two works are really the contrast of positive and negative influences and them mixing together. But I prefer having the
viewers decide the meaning of the work and how they think it relates to themselves and how it makes them feel.