SilkHouseARtProjects

We received notice today that SilkHouseARtProjects will be required to terminate its lease on November 7, 2009.

Our program until then will be ‘open studio’. Artists Penny Thwaite and Matthew Tome will be using the space for experimental studio work. Viewing will continue to be 24hr. You may find the artist at work at any time.  Saturday opening hours will be flexible, though it is anticipated that the artist will be working in the space on a Saturday. The Penguin Clock situated in the doorway will let you know when the artist will be there.

Thanks for all your support and interest in SilkHouseARtProjects!

Thank you Jane and Helen! There are no more Wet Walls at SilkHouse ARtProjects.

We look forward to a new SHARP project SOON

On Friday October 1, for short sessions between 5-8pm ‘Wet Walls – the movie’ by the Twilight Girls is showing at SilkHouseARtProjects located at

1/200 Silk House Hunter St Mall

Come and be a part of this fascinating event. Complimentary jaffas while they last!

BE THERE!!

This was a strange opening, smoky, weird and strangely lit by the lights on the mall.

We were a clue on the 1233abc radio Treasure Hunt today. Jill and Lucia popped by and picked up a red envelope from the SilkhouseARtProjects and got a look at the Wet Walls.

Opening is tonight at 6pm. See you there.

Since you last checked us out, The Twilight Girls have been hard at work constructing their installation, Wet Walls for SilkHouseARtProjects. It went through some changes, but now……..it’s ready to go!

Wet Walls opens this Saturday September 12 at 6pm, at SilkHouseARtProjects, Silk House 1/200 Hunter St Mall.

Come along and see this intriguing artwork…………..how did they do it?????

Dreams That Money Can’t Buy is the current exhibition at SilkHouse Art Projects. The project consists of the film/sound installation titled dissimilitude by Ryszard Dabek and a limited edition text/object groeten uit zandvoort produced to accompany the installation by i.j.oog.

dissimilitude consists of a single screen projection accompanied by a live from hard-disc sound composition. The visual elements of the work were shot in Newcastle during July 2009 . The installation was conceived of as an extended meditation on the passing of physical environments and the spaces in which memory dwells. For the most part the film traverses the now trashed environs of the Hunter Village shopping centre, occupying a space somewhere between surveillance footage and archeological document . While there is an undeniable beauty in this decayed site there is also a more menacing suggestion of the economic and political forces at work somewhere out of frame. Shot entirely on super-8 film the the work evokes the skewed colour palette and the inherent graininess of the film stock as a  visual analog for the melancholy of loss and the uncanniness of memory itself. This sense of the uncanny is further enhanced by the soundtrack that recombines recordings made at the filming site and outside the gallery space in  an evolving and unsettling composition.

The text/object groeten uit zandvoort is a meditation in text and images on the void created by the untimely death of author W.G.Sebald from a heart attack whilst driving his daughter home in 2001. It was published in a signed limited edition of 50 in July 2009 to accompany the installation dissimilitude.

Dreams That Money Can’t Buy is open on Saturdays between 10am and 5pm until August 22. A silent version of dissimilitude is viewable 24 hours in the window of SilkHouse Art Projects.

Ryszard Dabek and i.j.oog’s project opens on Saturday 1st August at 5pm.  The exhibition will be open from 10-5 on Saturday and will be viewable in various forms 24hrs.

Used is down. It’s sad to see it go, but all good things must pass. For those of you who need more, you can come to Sydney and see the leftovers at the Watch House in Balmain for three days only July 31st and 1st and Second of August. But this might mean you miss the great work of young Ryszard Dabek. Tough choices in these hard times.

It’s only been two days but I miss my shop and my new and old friends.  Sadly I am unable to open it again, but my friend Penny will open it on Saturday for one last chance to grab a bargain.

I will be taking it down on Sunday. Next month most of what you see will be on show at The Watch House in Balmain, on the 1st and 2nd of August. For those of you who missed the show I hope to see you there.

Thank you Penny and Matthew for your kind hospitality and generosity. You’ve been so much help. Thank you all who visited.  And thank you great citizens og Newcastle. You’ve been and inspiration, in these dark days.

And thank you young Nicholas, who came all the way over from France to photograhp some of the exhibition for me.