Opportunities for Artists, Bookmakers, Zinesters & Photographers

Gallery Lane Cove has some new opportunities for artist coming up.  We are opening up some public submissions so please read and think about submitting if your interested.

1. Call to Artists and Bookmakers

Submissions Deadline 31^st July 2012

PRINT STITCH STAPLE is an exhibition of artist’s books and zines that examines the relationship between art and the book, to be held at Gallery Lane Cove September 17^th – 5^th October.

We are looking for interesting DIY fanzines to sophisticated experimental image based artist books and zines that showcase and overview of all kinds of book and paper art, currently being made. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of an exhibition that is promoting the latest ideas to an new audience.You can find more information about the exhibition here.

We would like to invite all Zine/Artist Bookmaker and Artists to submit work to be included. Artist can submit up to 3 different works. Please send us:

            -  3-5 images of examples of your work

-  CV (with contact details) and a brief description about your art practice

Please email all submissions to centrehouse@bigpond.com.au by 31^st July 2012. All artists selected will be notified by the 13th August, via email.  Please send submissions to centrehouse@bigpond.com.au. All Artwork from selected artists must be delivered by 3^rd September. 

2. Call to Emerging Photographers

Gallery Lane Cove would like to invite you to submit work for a Public Art Commission in Lane Cove. This is an opportunity for emerging photographers to get exposure for their work in the public domain. In collaboration with the VOCE-N-ALE event, we ask photographers to respond to the theme “THE WORD IS OUT”. VOCE-N-ALE is an all inclusive cultural and social event with a broad scope of expression being held as a final salute to the The Year of Reading 2012 that captures our collective voices by Lane Cove Alive and the Lane Cove Library. The photographer selected will be offered an exhibition, which will hang in the outdoor forecourt, outside Gallery Lane Cove, which will engage the local community in the visual language of photography and reflect on the above theme.

The winning photographer will have their body of work printed on 12 outdoor canvas panels to, and includes approximately 12 -13 images. A fee of $2000 will be paid to the photographer for their images

              - 3-5 images of your work

              - CV (with contact details) A brief statement about your art practice

                           -  Outline of your proposed body of work for exhibition

Please note that the images will be blown up on canvas in the dimension 750mm wide x 1150mm high, so portrait shaped images are recommended. See below images of previous exhibitions.

    Please email all submissions to centrehouse@bigpond.com.au by the 31^st July 2012.      

     We look forward to hearing form you !

Studio's & Sculptures

Pamela Fairburn's exhibition Waterstories has just come down and I know that everyone will be sad to see it go. We had many busy days with lots of visitors during the three week exhibition and a packed house at her artist talk on Saturday 2nd June. 

We now have Laura Jade showing her small sculptures "White Parazoa"  in the Library Square Sculpture Plinth. It is a series of small sculptures initially inspired by the Victorian era. The geometric forms reference the designs of neck ruffles and lace of the period, whilst also referencing the appearance of cabinets of curios and the rise in scientific discoveries in the 17th- 19th centuries. The work also draws upon the ideas in the illustrations of biologist Ernst Haeckel in Art Forms in Nature focusing on sea creatures and the array of symmetrical and geometrical patterns found in living organisms.

Laura Jade is an artist currently living in Lane Cove, Sydney. Laura completed her BFA at the National Art School in 2007 and has since been involved in Australian group shows, was an awarded finalist in the prestigious Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize and had a solo exhibition of her paintings at Lane Cove music & cultural center last year. Laura’s art practice is inspired by Science and Natural History. Laura's sculptures are on exhibit in the Plinth until the 20th June when they will be heading to Adelaide where they have been shortlisted for the Waterhouse Natural History Prize. Find out more about Laura Jade.

Felicity has just arrived back from visiting Panchali Sheth and Annie Pavlovic at Artarmon Artist Studios where they are working on their  upcoming exhibition " From the Studio" at Gallery Lane Cove 17 - 28  July . Don't miss their Opening night on Wednesday 18th July at 6pm. Click here for more information.