ABOUT
ART GARAGE(S) is an art gallery located in a reimagined garage space at 99 New South Head Road in Edgecliff.
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Viewable through glass frontage from the street from 6 AM to 9 PM, 7 days or by appointment.
Established by local artist, event producer and entrepreneur Christophe Domergue it provides a space for artists to showcase exciting new work.
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ART GARAGE(S) aims to turn this little strip in Edgecliff into an art hub of garage-come-galleries.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
THE MEETING OF METAL AND NURTURE
17 to 24 Nov
"Moving into this space to start the two week residency, I was immediately and strongly impacted by the visual and audio pollution of cars. It was a torrential downpour of revving and honking from Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs. Right under my nose, this soundscape infiltrated my psyche.
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I started dreaming of intimate partners dying in car crashes. So real and earnest were these dreams, that I felt I had to submit to these premonitions and depict what I saw and felt.
The show’s title, The Meeting of Metal and Nurture gestures to this collision of metal, fuel, grief and shame. Each drawing represents a specific intimate relationship, an experience with a lover that, well, was a car crash. There are no winners in a car crash, there are only survivors. This depiction of something so brutal, a car smashed into a single tree, was a cathartic process of healing and mourning, as I regained power back from the revving and honking cars on my doorstep."
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-Hal Witney
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Artist Hal Witney has completed a self-directed 14 day 'residency' (3rd - 17th Nov 2024) in the gallery. This performative experience was titled ‘210 hours’. The gallery became a studio environment. A masochistic atmosphere to produce a body of work. The exhibition The Meeting of Metal and Nurture is the product of the artist’s time in the Gallery over two weeks . On display for one week (17th - 24th Nov) the work is a poetic reflection on the intersections of pain, trust and intimacy.
Curated Contemporary presents: Giles Alexander
1 Oct to 31 Oct
“One cannot help but directly think of Giles Alexander the artist in relation to the maxim Know
Thyself. As a painter he belongs to a long-standing academic tradition of virtuously handled oil
painting and precision draughtsmanship, yet he stands aside from this, quite purposefully
drawing attention to moments where he departs from tradition. This is not wilful contrariness.
Alexander uses and abuses his polished aesthetic as another way of interrogating his world,
provocatively challenging the established ‘norm’ and questioning all that we hold dear. There
is a visual pun in these paintings between ‘space’ as a crucial component of all painting and
‘space’ the final frontier. Alexander has always focused his attentions on real and imagined
space, often drawing our attention to the shifting boundaries between the two.”
Kate Bryan, British art historian and curator, Director, The Fine Art Society, New Bond St,
London.
BEAM ME UP
8 AUG to 30 SEPT
C+D
E.L.K and Christophe Domergue
Cornish and Domergue are two artists whose distinct styles and philosophies create a dynamic and synergistic collaboration. Cornish, a self-described introvert, and Domergue, an extrovert, bring together their divergent practices to produce powerful, compelling art that transcends differences.
Together, Cornish and Domergue's work explores themes of space and identity, both in a physical and existential sense. Their collaborations speak to tensions between feeling marginalized and seeking acceptance, and yet feeling alienated and remaining an ‘outsider’, as when subcultures are integrated into mainstream culture.
TERRAIN
6 JUNE to 7 AUG
Mark Booth
James Gardiner
Christophe Domergue
This exhibition explores terrain as an idea, from the topology of an object obscured and masked.
To a conscious landscape, that flits from one reading to another, reluctant to reveal itself.
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A peeling is a landscape, is the terrain, lifted in a moment, holding history in dust and trace.
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A few readings, in a terrain of possibilities
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Opening: Thurs 6th June 6 PM to 8 PM
THE AFFORDABLE ART FAIR - SYDNEY
13 JUNE to 16 JUNE
E.L.K (Luke Cornish)
Christophe Domergue
C&D (Cornish & Domergue)
Louis Pratt
ART GARAGE(S) is excited to be presenting stencils on paper by three times Archibald finalist E.L.K (Luke Cornish), ‘Peelings’ by emerging Sydney artist Christophe Domergue and fresh new collaboration pieces by C&D (Cornish & Domergue) think Street Art meets Art from the streets.
Also another collaboratively crafted installation by Christophe Domergue, E.L.K (Luke Cornish), Louis Pratt that marries painting and sculpture to create a narrative on the devastation of our planet and the glimmer of hope amidst despair.
