FAR-fetched: Going Live in less than 24!

FAR-FETCHED ART SHOW

Friday 30 May 2008, 6p.m.
SMSA, Level 1 / 280 Pitt Street, Sydney. By Invite Only.

All artworks are donated, so 100% of money raised goes to supporting a safe space for young gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender young people in Western Sydney.

Make a donation! All donations over $2 for FAR-fetched are tax deductible. You can donate online now at www.ourcommunity.com.au/farfetched

RSVP by Friday 23 May 2008 to jackie@farsocialenterprise.com

FAR-fetched is a child friendly event, and SMSA is an accessible venue.

FAR-fetched: Our Approach

Principles and practices underpinning FAR-fetched:
• FAR-fetched is being organised by Jackie Ruddock and Jo Taylor of FAR Social Enterprise.
• This is an event to celebrate the values of FAR, celebrate Jackie's 30th birthday, and raise money for a specific cause: Twenty10.
• The purpose of the FAR-fetched exhibition is to raise money for Twenty10's Shout Out Western Sydney Project. Twenty10 is a registered charity.
• FAR-fetched is an invite only, private function.
• The purpose of the FAR-fetched event is to have a shared, good time and raise money.
• FAR-fetched is NOT a commercial art selling initiative.

Rules governing the artwork sales:
1. Artwork is for sale only on the night, 6 p.m. Friday 30 May 2008. There are no presales.
2. A price list will be available on the FAR-fetched blog on Thursday 29 May 2008.
3. FAR-fetched is a one-night only event.
4. There is one person in charge of all sales only. This person is the only person authorised to agree to the sale of artwork. Their decision is final.
5. The prices of the artwork are fixed. There is no negotiation on art sale prices. Works are not being auctioned.
6. Payment for artworks must be made in full on the night by credit card, or by cash only. Personal Cheques are not accepted. Each person buying artwork must fill in a form including name, address and method of payment to secure the buying of the piece.
7. Two authorised people will witness cash sales.
8. Work that has been bought in full, may be taken at the end of the night, 8.30 p.m. Friday 30 May 2008. Otherwise, it will be collected from the FAR office at a pre-agreed time. All artwork must be collected by Friday 13 June 2008.

FAR-fetched: The Price List

1. Jodie Maurer
Untitled, 2006
Acrylic on board
(Ready for hanging)
$190

2. Jennie Pry
Reach, 2006
Oil on canvas
(Ready for hanging)
$500

3. Tori Spooner
Untitled, 2007
Acrylic on canvas
(Ready for hanging)
$220

4. April White
Fish 1, 2006
Oil on canvas
(Ready for hanging)
$150

5. April White
Fish 2, 2006
Oil on canvas
(Ready for hanging)
$300

6. Jeffrey Samuels
Brilliance of the golden fish school no.12 (Golden Fish Series), 2007
Acrylic and screen-printing on canvas
(Unframed)
$550

7. Arlene TextaQueen
I’ve already got an internet connection (Laura)
Texta on paper, masonite, Perspex
(Unframed)
$750

8. Brendan Lakin
Panoramas (2 of series)
Oil on board
(Ready for hanging)
$600

9. Mark Davis
Drift, 2007
Oil on canvas
(Ready for hanging)
$350

10. Tom Civil
Stencil 1
Mixed Media
(Unframed)
$120

11. Tom Civil
Stencil 2
Mixed Media
(Unframed)
$130

12. Tom Civil
Stencil 3
Mixed Media
(Unframed)
$150

13. Peter Williamson
Leaf Triangle, 2007
Giclee print (on archival watercolor paper)
Limited Edition Print
(Unframed)
$330

14. Magdalena Urzon
Pulling Your Own Strings, 2008
Mixed media
(Ready for hanging)
$220

15. Dennis Ropar
Wet4U
Acrylic on canvas
(Ready for hanging)
$250

16. David Lever
Lucy, 2008
Oils on canvas
(Ready for hanging)
$500

17. David Lever
Doll with Magenta Hair, 2008
Oils on canvas
(Ready for hanging)
$350

18. John Kilbey
Fighting for Memory, 2008
Mixed media
(Ready for hanging)
$200

19. Michael D’Abbs
Boy in Sun Hat, 2008
Water Media
(Unframed)
$200

20. Gav Barbey
Giraffe study (Ngoro Ngoro National Park, Tanzania), 2008 Limited Edition Screen Print on rag paper
Artists Proof
(Unframed)
$650

21. Dean Rankine
Hunger Strike at the 7Eleven
3 Print Series
(Ready for hanging)
$500

22. Jo Waite
Hippolyta, 2008
Watercolour
(Unframed)
$180

23. Nick Baldas
Wallpaper Poppies, 2008
Mixed media
(Ready for hanging)
$250

24. Paul Ferman
civilise #283, 2006
c type photograph
Limited Edition Print
(Framed and ready for hanging)
$800

25. Loris Quantock
Rhythm Sticks, 2006
Oil on canvas
(Ready for hanging)
$450

26. Martin Mischkulnig
[to come]
Photograph
(Ready for hanging)
$250

27. Ingvar Kenne
Lake Torrens, 2007
Type C digital print
Limited Edition Print
(Unframed)
$400

ARTIST: April White

April was born in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada in 1972. She now lives between Sydney and the Blue Mountains.

After completing her Fine Arts education in Canada, she travelled extensively before returning to work ingraphic design; while painting on the side. She exhibited in Toronto with her paintings inspired by her travels.

”My inspiration has always come from both within me and from the external world… sometimes an exchange of energy between me and my surroundings is what prompts me to create, and to express an emotion through line and colour.”

April continues to surround and stimulate herself with different scenery, different wildlife; and through observing different ways of the world. These observations take her from Thailand (where she lives and paints for 2 months of every year); Canada, where she likes to reconnect with her roots; to Australia where she lives and now paints full time.

ARTIST: Tori Spooner

Tori Spooner is a life long musician, children's music educator and part time artist. While her works don't portray greater metaphor, social or political message nor any specific representation of image, her art shows an exploration of the raw simplicity of colours and how they relate to one another and ultimately also to the observer. This limitation in variation of colour, depth and tone, along with the use of open, geometric shape structure helps the works to transcend other interpretation and becomes an invitation for observers to directly see the value of colour and tone as the artist does. Colour makes a constant impression on Tori throughout every day. In recent years she came to learn she is part of a minority of people who experience Synesthesia - a neurological sensory phenomenon in which her perception of numbers, days of the week, months and sense of time are all associated specifically and constantly with colours, tones and graphic images. The paintings are always within a certain colour pallet which she finds very cohesive, calming and inspiring to work with. It is this depth of connection with colour that ultimately inspires Tori's work.

ARTIST: Jennie Pry

Jennie has recently returned to creative work after far too many years of avoiding her own potential. As Pablo Picasso said “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

In between careers in the health and community sectors, Jennie went back to Art College (C.O.F.A) in the late 1980s to major in photography. While the experience was invaluable, she thinks she may have missed the point of art being one of the most authentic forms of human expression to help us to explore life’s truths and process our experiences. It may explain why she went back to community work and became a parent in the years that followed her formal art training. Jennie thinks she may be finally getting ‘the point’ and has recently returned to creative practice focusing on drawing, painting and photography. She works out of small studio at the Lennox Street Studios in Newtown and has been rekindling her painting, drawing and photo-media skills at the Sydney Gallery School (TAFE). In March 2008, Jennie started studying with Charlie Sheard at the Charlie Sheard Studio School for Oil Painting.

Artist Statement:
Since my return to painting and drawing in 2004, I have experimented with still life and the theatre of objects, portraiture and narrative work. I have pushed myself in new directions and enjoyed seeing my work change and come back to teach me something new. Most significantly, I have rediscovered my passion for drawing and have embarked on an ink wash and charcoal journey filled with vintage bathing suits, personal possessions and stories (real or imagined) of the women who filled them. Memory, nostalgia and the transitional phases of womanhood are themes that appear to be drifting through my curren

ARTIST: Jodie Maurer

Jodie Maurer is an artist who lives in Alexandria. Jodie studied painting at Sydney College of the Arts, graduating with first class honours in 2001. Since that time she has exhibited her paintings in the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Washington Square Gallery in New York City, and held numerous shows throughout Sydney.

Her paintings have been described as the visual equivalent of the calm before the storm, evoking a sense of uneasiness, a moment ripe with potential. Her references are photos of a tableau constructed out of refuse which in turn performs the task of a backdrop for either heroic or diabolical acts.