anode 2009

Tortuga Studios presents the 'balance' exhibition

Dates
Opening 6.00pm - 10.00pm Friday 30th October
Friday 30th October - Friday 6th November 2009

Venue
Tortuga Studios
31 Princes Highway St Peters NSW 2044

Gallery hours: by appointment
Website: Tortuga Studios

You can lose it; you can weigh it; you can strike it and you can be off it…
It is man and machine, the poster child for power, the mediator between freedom and order. It is the amount left over.

It is BALANCE and it holds art captive in this 30-strong independent group show at Tortuga Studios in St Peters on Friday 30th October. 

The bureaucratic tank squats in the corner, its filing cabinet parts slick with disapproval of ‘the way things are done ‘round here’; a giant screw demands to be screwed in, oblivious to the confounding premise that one man is not enough for the job; the Jetpack Salon city transport network is all fired up and ready to scoot you across the city your hair protector helmet certain to maintain your ‘do; and whatabout… if your foot turned into a monster?

The third in the acclaimed group show series that tickle the imagination and champion the veracity and visibility of art in an industrial environment, the BALANCE exhibition sees over 30 emerging and established artists let loose in a gritty inner city warehouse to explore the notion of balance in the world around us. Irreverent, eccentric, beautiful, controversial and possibly a little imbalanced. 

Featuring visual artists, photographers, sculptors, installation artists, multi-media, costume and robotics, the lineup is a who’s who of the underground scene, and includes Chris Fox, Claire Nakazawa, Will Coles, Johnny Bell, Valentina Schulte, Perran Costi, Chas Glover, Denise Litchfield, Pete Strong, Mickey Quick, Jacq Sherry, Rachael Lafferty, Justin and Azelia Maynard, Tony Sawrey, Brian Paisley, Dillon McEwan, Bau Stone, Ed Horne, Pirate Photography, Sergio Abugattás Tenaud, Jamil Stone, Nikki Goldspink, Whatabout, Paul Irving, Jo Shand and more.