“The Zero Dollar Show”
Sean Bailey, Zanny Begg, Dan Bell, Vivienne Binns, Christopher Carmody, Nathan Gray, Bababa International, Karena Keys, Charlie Sofo, Mary MacDougall, Taree Mackenzie, Rowan McNaught, Lisa Radford, Trish Roan, Helen Shelley and Brie Trenerry
11 Jan → 16 Jan 2011
In the current climate of financial turmoil we are all supposedly strapped for cash. Thank god for the struggling artist who can turn shit to gold.
The Zero Dollar Show addresses contemporary artists’ relationship to materials when there is a question over the concept of value. All artworks in the show were made without a single dollar spent. Found, given, stolen and borrowed materials dictate the construction of each artwork.
How does the artist define zero dollars in terms of making? Where exactly does worth lay?
Sean Bailey's paintings and sculptures are focused on material process, using modelling paste, pumice stone and sand to build sculptural surfaces, his mark making is intuitive. Bailey draws from his personal lexicon of formal, organic and symbolic imagery referencing both the industrial and natural world. Interested in the strict confines and parameters of the painting surface, Bailey investigates what can be conjured within the pictorial space, the process and chance of his practice, its limitations and also its potential to extend beyond the border of the picture frame.
Zanny Begg is an artist based in Naarm/Melbourne.
Dan Bell
Vivienne Binns is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Nathan Gray is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Karena Keys is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Charlie Sofo holds a BA (Honours) from the Australian National University School of Art, Canberra, 2005 and and an MFA from the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne, 2013. He has recently completed a studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary, in Melbourne, Victoria, (2013-2015), where he also served as a board member.
Over the past 5 years Sofo has exhibited nationally and internationally, presented talks and classes and occaisionally written for publications.
Recent exhibitions include; ( ), Gertrude Contemporary, Studio 12, Melbourne, 2014; The Small Infinite, John Hansard Gallery, Southhampton, UK 2014; Melbourne NOW, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2013; Everyday Magic, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2013; Reinventing the Wheel: Ready-made Century, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2013; Desire Lines, curated by Juliana Engberg, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2012; NEW12, curated by Jeff Khan, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2012; Volume One, curated by Glenn Barkley, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2012; Experimenta: Speak to Me, 4th Biennale of Media Art, curated by Abigail Moncrief, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2012; Unguided Tours: Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts, curated by Justin Paton, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2011; Tell Me, Tell Me: Australian and Korean Art 1976-2011, curated by Glenn Barkley and Inhye Kim, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea and National Art School Gallery, Sydney, 2011.
Through video and installation, Taree Mackenzie explores the perceptual effects of colour, light and space using simple tricks and abstract forms.
Rowan McNaught is an artist and designer in Naarm/Melbourne. Rowan is co-founder of West Space Journal, and a PhD candidate at Melbourne University's Victorian College of the Arts.
Lisa Radford is an artist who writes and teaches. In 2016, West Space published Aesthetic nonsense makes commonsense, thanks X, a book presenting a collection of her writings.
Trish Roan
Brie Trenerry is a Naarm/Melbourne based artist working with video and digital media.