Until Never presents
ARTISTS TALKS by
MARCOS DAVIDSON
THE HOUSE OF HALLMARCOS
Saturday 24th and 31st of October at 2pm
TALK 1
The Age of the Plastiquarian - Bakelite the first 3D man-made material
Saturday 24.10.09 2PM
Marcos pays respect to the incredible capacity this material endows in each piece of bakelite he transforms into an object of beauty through his jewellery pieces. In connection to his exhibition The House of Hallmarcos, Until Never invites you to a 30-minute artist talk with Marcos Davidson to learn about this historical and now antique material, known as the first 3D synthetic material, and its role in his work over the span of his 30 year career.
TALK 2
The street-based origin of the hallmarks of Marcos Davidson and their application in his works
Saturday 31.10.09 2PM
In the recent publication Kings Way - The Beginning of Australian Graffiti: Melbourne 1983-1992, Marcos Davidson is celebrated as one of Melbourne’s first street artists. Throughout the 80s and early 90s Marcos’ characters were ubiquitous on the streets of Melbourne and uniquely recognizable due to their distinctiveness from traditional tags. Join Marcos for a 30-minute talk as he discusses the street based origins of his hallmarks and their evolution and use in his practice as a jeweller and artist.
MARCOS DAVIDSONTHE HOUSE OF HALLMARCOS
OCTOBER 14 – NOVEMBER 15 2009
Now Showing at Until Never
wed to Sat 12 to 6pm
OCTOBER 14 – NOVEMBER 15 2009
Now Showing at Until Never
wed to Sat 12 to 6pm
MARCOS DAVIDSONTHE HOUSE OF HALLMARCOS
OCTOBER 14 – NOVEMBER 15 2009
THE HOUSE OF HALLMARCOS
14 October, 2009 - 15 November, 2009
Celebrating thirty years of continual practice, from 1979-2009.
Featuring three major bodies of works:
Sonic Selectors 2001-2009, Head Takers 2009 & Lapidem 2006.
The exhibition will also include an installation of paintings acknowledging and illuminating the street origins of the Marcos Davidson family tree of Hallmarks - The House of Hallmarcos.
Objet trouve from Marcos' workshop will be transplanted to the gallery, like a ice-core sample from Antarctica, providing a glimpse into the world of the artists muses and appreciations.
An audio work by Joyce Hinterding, recorded in the workshop via antenna, of the electronic fields therein, will provide sonic ambience so required by the House of Hallmarcos.
Head Takers & Sonic Selectors 2001-9
Head Takers 2009
Lapidem 2006
Hallmark SlabGold and Silversmith, Gem-Hunter, Metallurgist & Plastiquairian .
Marcos Davidson founded his studio Au-Gusto Inc, in 1979, as a Bespoke Jeweller & Conservationist .
Au Gusto StudioA true city denizen, Marcos' work has been deeply involved with city culture, both inspired by it, and influencing it.
Au Gusto Studio
the bench"Colin Brealy and Marcos Davidson gained popularity throughout Melbourne with their strange illustrated characters. They were inspired by German expressionism, cave painting, the Maya Codices, and the inspirational light of the New York street and subway artist Keith Haring, who they teamed up with on his visit to Melbourne.
Their work was highly visible along the train lines and on the yellow signage of the tram network, on almost every corner of the city center. The duo were Melbourne's first street artists to actually get up, and during the 80's their work could be seen everywhere across the city and into the inner suburbs.
Kings Way - The Beginnings of Australian Graffiti 1983-1992. Cubrillo, Harvey & Stamers.
Megunyah Press. 2009
Tutankaman Bee
Topical Tankmarcosdavidson.com/
Photography: Amac, James Widdowson, Colin Brealy & Zak Caley
Enogu Buto（Painting Dance）
UNTIL NEVER presents
IKKO TANIUCHI (Osaka)
ENOGU BUTO
SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 6 2009
OPENING :: UNTIL NEVER
6PM to 9PM :: Wednesday September 30 :: 2009 (until October 6)
Featuring live accompanying performance by PIG & MACHINE (Osaka/Melbourne).
Gallery hours :: 12 - 6pmUntil Never will be open everyday for this special exhibition By Ikko Taniuchi, until October 6.
2nd flr 3-5 Hosier Lane
Enter from Rutledge Lane
Melbourne 3000 AUSTRALIA
My original performance. pouring colors over my body with all my energy and concentration, absorbing them into my body as if they are air and dancing in harmony with the atmosphere there. This performance causes the spectators to laugh and shed tears.
This produces different works of performance than those of fine arts.
My life changed greatly when i first met an activity of live painting. At that time I felt the wonder of painting: I can paint. I am under the condition where I can paint, and now I am living. Feeling happy with it, I meant to be true to myself.
One day I found a being "painting" in myself. I asked him. "May I paint?" and he answered, “Of course you may” Since then he let me continue to paint, gratefully to him.
Ikko Taniuchi
ABOUT IKKO TANIUCHI
Painter and painting dancer, who lives in Osaka, Japan
. Born in 1984.
I began painting when I lived in Hong Kong for a year as young boy.
Even now I remember the scenes I saw and the happenings I had.
Since 2005, when I was a college student, started a solo exhibition “Taniuchi Ikko Jidai"（the Age of Ikko Taniuchi.. at many galleries (Gallery Marya, Disco Beans and others) and showed acrylic, water-color and hundreds of crayon paintings.
Now I give my exhibition abroad in Melbourne. My passionate strong style attracts various fans such as film directors, photographers, musicians, and persons of old age and the same generation. I have held frequent parties with them as I like meeting and chatting with them.
Ikko Taniuchi
Pig & Machine
Disco Beans
Until Never
OPENING NIGHT
On September 30 Until Never will host a special live performance by Ikko Taniuchi, from 6 to 9pm.
SPECIAL OPENING HOURS:
Until Never will be open every day between September 30 and October 6, from 12 to 6pm for this special exhibition.
Special Thank you to Disco Beans Gallery for exhibition and artist support!
OPENING :: UNTIL NEVER6PM to 8PM :: Wednesday June 17 :: 2009 (until July 25)
2nd flr 3-5 Hosier Lane :: Enter from Rutledge Lane :: Melbourne AUSTRALIA
2nd flr 3-5 Hosier Lane :: Enter from Rutledge Lane :: Melbourne AUSTRALIA
Who are these people depicted in Richard B-B's eponymous exhibition?
Their names are not mentioned they are given only titles like 'The Heiress' and 'The Princess'. Are they true likenesses of real persons or are they characters in an as yet unwritten novel or drama? Or do they perhaps inhabit a netherworld of semi-fictionality ?
Their names are not mentioned they are given only titles like 'The Heiress' and 'The Princess'. Are they true likenesses of real persons or are they characters in an as yet unwritten novel or drama? Or do they perhaps inhabit a netherworld of semi-fictionality ?
The Temptress oil on canvas 2008In post-Pharaonic Egypt the wealthy members of the population lived lives culturally influenced by their colonisers the Romans. Like much of the civilised world at that time Egypt had become a satellite of Rome. These worthy citizens commissioned local Greek artisans to paint funerary portraits of themselves which were attached to mummies of the person portrayed when he or she died. The populace still indulged in the pre-colonial customs of their ancestors. Maintaining their indigenous Egyptianess these portraits served a dual purpose : They became identikit passport photos recognised by Anubis the jackal-headed death god on their journey to the Kingdom of Osiris and secondly they served as mementoes of the departed for the bereaved family.
Samson oil on canvas 2008
These so-called Faiyum portraits are the earliest painted portraits to have survived and their seemingly contemporary vitality are a product of the culturally hybrid society of their origin. The portraits presented by the artist here and now in Melbourne 2009 have resonance with these works executed two millennia ago.
The Gallerist oil on canvas 2008In a style which somehow manages to combine the atavistic vibrational energy-fields of indigenous Australian art with the sparse brevity of classical Arabic grammar and the unease/dis-ease of Japanese horror masters such as Takashi Miike - Richard Butler-Bowdon has executed a suite of portrait paintings which overtly and subvertly allude to issues such as Immortality, Race, and questions of Truth and character portrayal in literary fiction.
The Christian 2 oil on canvas 2008Richard Butler-Bowdon has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Gallery 4A, Experimental Art Foundation, First Floor, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Centre for Contemporary Photography, BUS, Citylights, Temple Bar-Dublin, ROOM Project-Rotterdam Netherlands and HOME-Prague Czech Republic. Richard is a co-founder of Citylights Projects and co-directer from 1996 to 2001. This is his second solo show at Until Never.
An exhibition of solo works by Sydney composer ALAN HOLLEY
4PM :: SUNDAYS in MAY :: 2009
UNTIL NEVER :: 2nd flr 3-5 Hosier Lane :: Enter from Rutledge Lane :: Melbourne CBD :: AUSTRALIA
UNTIL NEVER :: 2nd flr 3-5 Hosier Lane :: Enter from Rutledge Lane :: Melbourne CBD :: AUSTRALIA
featuring
Jason Xanthoudakis saxophone and clarinet
Paul Goodchild Associate Principal Trumpet, Sydney Symphony
Elizabeth Hamilton flute
Chlöe Smith double bass
Gregory van der Struik Principal Trombone, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Sydney
Jyoti Brunsdon writer/story-teller
PROGRAM
May 10 at 4 pm
Jason Xanthoudakis
Elizabeth Hamilton
Chlöe Smith
Jyoti Brunsdon
May 17 at 4 pm
Jason Xanthoudakis
Elizabeth Hamilton
(program includes two works by Barry Cockcroft)
May 24 at 4 pm
Paul Goodchild
Jason Xanthoudakis
Chlöe Smith Gregory van der Struik
May 31 at 4 pm
Jason Xanthoudakis
Elizabeth Hamilton
Gregory van der Struik
May 10 at 4 pm
Jason Xanthoudakis
Elizabeth Hamilton
Chlöe Smith
Jyoti Brunsdon
May 17 at 4 pm
Jason Xanthoudakis
Elizabeth Hamilton
(program includes two works by Barry Cockcroft)
May 24 at 4 pm
Paul Goodchild
Jason Xanthoudakis
Chlöe Smith Gregory van der Struik
May 31 at 4 pm
Jason Xanthoudakis
Elizabeth Hamilton
Gregory van der Struik
Until Never is proud to present four Sunday afternoon concerts of solo works by Sydney composer Alan Holley. Well-known in his home town as director of The Gallery Players, a group who have presented contemporary music events for over 20 years, Holley’s works have also been performed by the Sydney Symphony and the Queensland Orchestra. Regularly broadcast by the ABC, this will be the first time his virtuosic works will be heard live in Melbourne.
The series begins on Sunday, May 10 at 4 pm and features prominent Melbourne saxophonist Jason Xanthoudakis in three works, including the world premiere of King Street, inspired by fragments of sound Holley heard one summer evening from open doors in busy King Street, Newtown. The program includes flautist Elizabeth Hamilton and double bassist Chloe Smith with River Song and Dome Music and also writer/story-teller Jyoti Brunsdon.
The 4 pm series continues on May 17, 24 and 31, and features Paul Goodchild, Sydney Symphony Associate Principal Trumpet and Gregory van der Struik, Principal Trombone of Sydney’s Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, together with Xanthoudakis, Hamilton and Smith.
The series begins on Sunday, May 10 at 4 pm and features prominent Melbourne saxophonist Jason Xanthoudakis in three works, including the world premiere of King Street, inspired by fragments of sound Holley heard one summer evening from open doors in busy King Street, Newtown. The program includes flautist Elizabeth Hamilton and double bassist Chloe Smith with River Song and Dome Music and also writer/story-teller Jyoti Brunsdon.
The 4 pm series continues on May 17, 24 and 31, and features Paul Goodchild, Sydney Symphony Associate Principal Trumpet and Gregory van der Struik, Principal Trombone of Sydney’s Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, together with Xanthoudakis, Hamilton and Smith.
$15/$10 tickets will be on sale at the door from 3.30 pm
Telephone bookings: 9663 0442
Until Never, 2nd floor, 3-5 Hosier Lane (enter from Rutledge Lane), Melbourne
http://until-never.blogspot.com
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Sydney-born ALAN HOLLEY (b.1954) began composing in 1974. Regularly performed and broadcast in Australia since the mid-1970s, in the past decade Alan’s music has become increasingly well-known in America and Europe.
Compositions include the opera Dorothea (1988), five song cycles, and numerous works for small ensembles and solo instruments. Larger-scale compositions include Chamber Symphony (2003), The Winged Viola (2004) for solo viola and ensemble, together with the trumpet concerto Doppler’s Web (2005) and A Line of Stars (2007), both works commissioned and performed in the Concert Hall of the Opera House by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Keenly interested in instrumentation, Holley’s music is characterised by the exploration of intense textures, simple structures and melodic fragments. Holley also teaches trumpet and composition, and his flute and trumpet works are included in the Australian Music Examinations Board syllabus. EMI Australia have published two collections: Summer Bird and other pieces for trumpet and Birds of Opal and other pieces for flute. CDs of chamber and vocal music include Ophelia and Masquerade on the MBS label.
Alan may be contacted on email: jbrunsdon@unwired.com.au
Compositions include the opera Dorothea (1988), five song cycles, and numerous works for small ensembles and solo instruments. Larger-scale compositions include Chamber Symphony (2003), The Winged Viola (2004) for solo viola and ensemble, together with the trumpet concerto Doppler’s Web (2005) and A Line of Stars (2007), both works commissioned and performed in the Concert Hall of the Opera House by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Keenly interested in instrumentation, Holley’s music is characterised by the exploration of intense textures, simple structures and melodic fragments. Holley also teaches trumpet and composition, and his flute and trumpet works are included in the Australian Music Examinations Board syllabus. EMI Australia have published two collections: Summer Bird and other pieces for trumpet and Birds of Opal and other pieces for flute. CDs of chamber and vocal music include Ophelia and Masquerade on the MBS label.
Alan may be contacted on email: jbrunsdon@unwired.com.au
OPENING :: UNTIL NEVER6PM to 8PM Saturday May 9 2009 (until June 13)
Gallery hours : Wednesday to Saturday 12-6pm
2nd Floor 3-5 Hosier Lane (Enter from Rutledge Lane) Melbourne AUSTRALIA
Michael Porter is perhaps the best recognised, though most elusive and enigmatic artist to emerge from the Melbourne street art scene over the last 5 years. His obsessive, emotionally charged heads and figures can be seen all over Melbourne on walls, train lines and subterranean tunnels. Highly original and idiosyncratic, Michael’s street paintings distinguish themselves from popular styles both in subject and technique, deriving neither from graffiti writing nor the graphic-driven stencil movement. Michael has pioneered the use of paint rollers and extension poles to create highly detailed public works that are both deeply personal and universal.
Reductivistic in his approach, Michael has said that he looks for the image of the face in the chaos rather than making it. Lusty, anguished, grimacing, laughing, critical, malevolent, impish – Michael Porter’s heads and figures often feature both male and female characteristics, expressing ambiguous states of human nature and frailty that defy simplistic reading but are instinctively understood. Morality is not straight-forward, carnality is easily descended into. We are vulnerable to dark tendencies.
Alongside his prolific legacy of street painting, for the last three years Michael has worked with increasingly ambitious bronze alongside his passion for found materials. Michael has previously shown at Until Never as part of the Trouble With Boys exhibition in 2007, and his first solo show brings together paintings, bronze, ceramics, wood, and paper works.
Paul McNeil Prey for Surfacrylic on canvas banner 91 x 101cm
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Paul McNeil M.D Shoes resin tint, fiberglass 64 x 64cm
