Incidental Murmuring, Cementa 15

09 April 2015

Installation main street, Cementa15, April 9 - April 12 2015

Cementa is a contemporary art Biennial in Kandos NSW, including over 60 artists exhibiting work across over 20 venues.

Inside the shop, windows act as membranes, an acoustic diaphragm, or simply a site in plain view, where listening to external sounds of the street is sometimes actually ‘eavesdropping’ on the passing community.

Outside the shop, a shared public path is a place for simple promises of connectedness.

Across the street, inside a car, windows are open or closed, amplifying internal and external sounds that travel and echo making what we think we heard indistinguishable and defined.

What is out loud, allowed? What is that noise - leaves dropping or eaves dropping?

How do we decipher which is public and what is private? Did we really hear someone say that or did we just hear ourselves think that? (Images by Ian Hobbs, Robyn Backen and Sue Pedley)

Nomanslanding Opening

02 April 2015

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Sydney Opening 2 April 2015

Darling Harbour, Sydney

2nd April - 3 May 2015

Merchant City Festival, Glasgow, Scotland

13 July - 2 August 2015

Ruhr Triennial/Urbane Kunste Ruhr, Germany

15 August - 27 September 2015

Opening NML

01 April 2015

Nomanslanding opening Darling Harbour Sydney 1st April 2015

Dome open on the harbour

Walking out onto Nomanslanding with life jackets

View from the blue side facing the red side, dome opened

Nomanslanding creative team L-R: Robyn Backen, Nigel Helyer, Helen Salmon, Michael Cohen, Jenny Turpin, Lorenzo Mele, Graham Eatough, Katja Assmann, Jeremy Sparks, Ben Fink (Andre Dekker absent) Images by Ian Hobbs and SHFA

NML floats!

28 March 2015

After a week of construction at White Bay Nomanslanding was craned onto Sydney Harbour and towed around to Darling Harbour. Thanks to Jeremy Sparks and his great construction team.

NML arriving in Darling Harbour

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NML - White Bay install

19 March 2015

Nigel outside the constructed dome at White Bay

Nigel testing the acoustics and it is amazing.

Emptiness

14 November 2014

14 November 2014 – 23 January 2015

VISUAL ARTS FELLOWSHIPS: ROBYN BACKEN, LINDY LEE, HILARIE MAIS

Robyn Backen, Lindy Lee and Hilarie Mais were awarded Fellowships for two years to undertake ambitious new projects and develop their artistic careers. Fellowships are only granted once in an artist’s lifetime with substantial support to research, reflect, create work, and expand their practice. Backen, Lee and Mais are all celebrated contemporary artists, working across drawing, projections, sculptural form and installation. The Australia Council has created a Fellowships Focus film to accompany the exhibition which profiles each artist’s practice and their personal tips when applying for funding from The Australia Council.

The installation EMPTINESS is drawn on 2 sides of a floating wall. It is a charcoal drawing made up of a question and and answer.

a question and an answer

How can one perceive the meaning of emptiness in the presence of a whisper?

Emptiness is form…..Form is emptiness