“Selekta 2005”
Arlo Mountford, Cate Consandine, Chantal Faust, Haydn Salmon, Natasha Frisch, Jennifer Sochackyj, Rosemary Dean, Geoff Robinson, Brett Jones, Patrick Pound, Tim Silver, Hayden Fowler, Kate Rohde, Lara Merrett, Jacqui Stockdale, Yvette Coppersmith, Kate Cotching, Narinda Cook, Gabby O’Connor, Sandra Schmidt, Paul Magin, Luke Doyle, Jack Sweetman, Andrew McLaughlin, Lynette Smith, Chris Bond, Geoff Newton, David Keating, Kate Just, Jan Murray, Elizabeth Newman, Cherie McNair, Juan Ford, Darren Wardle, Kate Shaw, Cass Matthews, Rowen Matthews, Stuart Boggs, Kerry Gulliver, Simon Maidment, Paul Shephard, Simone Nelson, Pat Foster, Warren Taylor, Tristian Ceddia and Adam Willett
29 July → 13 Aug 2005
West Space's Selekta is an exhibition with a unique structure that encourages mutation, inclusivity and guilt by association.
The West Space Committee have each selected a piece of work by an artist that engages with this year’s theme: the real and the unreal.
In turn those artists have selected another artist’s work to be added in the second week of the show, and those artists have selected another round of artists to join them for the third, as Selekta literally expands in scope and meaning.
Is it a study in aesthetic and conceptual influence, an expression of fandom, or an inquiry into where art-making stops and curation begins? Or simply a roller coaster we now can’t get off!
West Space Committee Member, Round One Artist, Round Two Artist, Round Three Artist
Arlo Mountford, Cate Consandine, Chantal Faust, Haydn Salmon
Natasha Frisch, Jennifer Sochackyj, Rosemary Dean, Geoff Robinson
Brett Jones, Patrick Pound, Tim Silver, Hayden Fowler
Kate Rohde, Lara Merrett, Jacqui Stockdale, Yvette Coppersmith
Kate Cotching, Narinda Cook ,Gabby O’Connor, Sandra Schmidt
Paul Magin, Luke Doyle, Jack Sweetman, Andrew McLaughlin
Lyn Smith, Chris Bond, Geoff Newton, David Keating
Kate Just, Jan Murray, Elizabeth Newman, Bianca Hester
Cherie McNair, Juan Ford, Darren Wardle, Kate Shaw
Cass Matthews, Rowen Matthews, Stuart Boggs, Kerry Gulliver
Simon Maidmen, Paul Shephard, Simone Nelson, Pat Foster
Arlo Mountford completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Melbourne University's Victorian College of the Arts in 2002, and in 2003 undertook a studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary.
Cate Consandine is a Naarm/Melbourne based artist working across sculpture, film and performance. She works with the body as a material for her practice and is particularly interested in the physical expression of emotional and psychological states, centring on the relationships between bodies and their contingent registers.
Chantal Faust
Haydn Salmon is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Natasha Frisch employs modest materials to construct models and installations that closely approximate everyday objects and sites. Inspired by crime mythologies, suburban folklore, and forgotten architecture, Natasha’s meticulous constructions aim to challenge our reading of the built environment, and interrogate the slippage between the real and the unreal.
Jennifer Sochackyj is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Rosemary Dean is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Geoff Robinson
Brett Jones works with ideas around the copy and the original. Using various reproduction mediums including casting, photography, video and sound he is concerned with creating opportunities for displacing and unburdening the referent. He co-founded West Space in 1993 where he was centrally involved until 2008.
Aotearoa/New Zealand born, Naarm/Melbourne based artist Patrick Pound is an avid collector, equally interested in systems and the ordering of objects: an attempt, perhaps, to make things coherent. As he says, ‘to collect is to gather your thoughts through things’.
Tim Silver is a Tasmania born artist based in New York, USA.
Hayden Fowler is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Kate Rohde is a Naarm/Melbourne based artist known for her intensely colourful jewellery and sculptural object based practice, nowadays working predominately with resin and hand casting techniques.
Lara Merrett is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Jacqui Stockdale is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Yvette Coppersmith is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Kate Cotching works primarily with paper, ink and a very sharp knife making intricate paper sculptures and installations.
Narinda Cook is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Gabby O’Connor is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Sandra Schmidt is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Paul Magin is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Luke Doyle
Jack Sweetman is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Andrew McLaughlin is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Lynette Smith completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT University in 1995 and went on to do postgraduate study in linguistics and philosophy in the mid-2000s at the University of Melbourne. She has exhibited in public, private and artist-run galleries since 2000 and in 2004-2005 she was on the board of West Space. Her work is in private collections in Australia, the United States and in Europe. She divides her time between Melbourne and Berlin.
Chris Bond studied Fine Art at RMIT and has exhibited since 2000. He undertook a studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces in 2001, and has since featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including being selected for ACCA’s annual New exhibition in 2008. He is currently studying Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art) at the Victorian College of the Arts, and is a recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award.
Geoff Newton is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
David Keating
Kate Just is a feminist artist known for her inventive and political use of knitting. In addition to her solo practice, Just often works socially and collaboratively within communities to create large scale, public or textile based art projects that tackle significant social issues including gender-based violence, reproductive freedom, LGBTQIA rights and political protest.
Jan Murray is a Naarm/Melbourne based artist who has exhibited across Australia, Germany, France and the United States of America.
Elizabeth Newman is an artist living in Melbourne, and has been making work since the 1980s. Elizabeth Newman is represented by Neon Parc gallery.
Cherie McNair is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Juan Ford is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Darren Wardle
Kate Shaw is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Cass Matthews is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Rowen Matthews is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Stuart Boggs
Kerry Gulliver
Simon Maidment is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Paul Shephard is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Simone Nelson is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Pat Foster is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Warren Taylor is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Tristian Ceddia
Adam Willett is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.