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 One Size Fits All, 2013. Ski jacket, cotton.

One Size Fits All (detail), 2013. Ski jacket, cotton.

 One Size Fits All (detail), 2013. Ski jacket, cotton.

  One Size Fits All, 2013. Ski jacket, cotton.

One Size Fits All, 2013. Ski jacket, cotton.

 One Size Fits All (detail), 2013. Ski jacket, cotton.

 One Size Fits All (with cheeky monkeys), 2013. Ski jacket, cotton. 

 One Size Fits All (Installation view), 2013. Three Ski jackets, cotton.

Proud.

Backburning

Opening 6pm Friday 4 October Featuring work by Julia Boyd, Jacqueline Bradley, Chris Carmody, Karena Keys, Trish Roan, Adam Veikkanen & Fiona Veikkanen Curated by Annika Harding We hope you can join us for the opening of Backburning. Exhibition continues until Saturday the 9th of November.  Backburning looks back at CCAS’ Blaze ACT Emerging Artist Showcase exhibitions over the past seven years. Blaze has featured over forty-five of the ACT’s most exciting and innovative emerging artists. Instead of cramming work by all of them into the gallery, curator Annika Harding has focused on a select group of former Blaze artists who use everyday materials to create astonishing and enlightening work. These artists – Julia Boyd, Jacqueline Bradley, Chris Carmody, Karena Keys, Trish Roan, Adam Veikkanen and Fiona Veikkanen – make fascinating observations about how we perceive materials and challenge how we see the world around us. Their very unconventional works show how easy it can be to find the infinite in the ordinary.

Upcoming Solo Show!

Opening 6pm 12th April- I hope you can make it for tasty treats and drinks.

Show continues until 22nd April.

Gallery hours: 11-5pm Wed-Sun.

Canberra Contemporary Art Space.

19 Furneaux Street, Manuka, ACT.- See you there!

Extract

This is an extract from the exhibition catalogue for Blaze 6. I'm looking forward to including a lengthy little something on this show soon too.

Fiona Veikkanen Kit Out (part 2) 2012

The experience of art in everyday life also informs Fiona Veikkanen’s work. Her inventive ‘survival tools’ plead their own necessity, and that of art itself. The forms and materials she employs – canvas, old metal parts, inflatable mattresses - make them seem like they should be functional. They are not, of course, because art is about cultural survival. Veikkanen’s work will make you think, and it is built to endure. -Annika Harding and Alexander Boynes.

Blaze 6

Blaze 6

Featuring: Dean Butters, Kate Barker, Helani Laisk, Bettina Hill, Ishak Masukor, Dan Lorrimer, Jonathan Webster, Fiona Veikkanen

Opening 6pm  Friday 17th Feb

Continues until 4th March 2012

Canberra Contemporary Art Space

Gorman House, 55 Ainslie Ave. Braddon. A.C.T.

Can't wait to see you there!

Blanket Cave or An Idea of Things

Poppy Malik makes subtle notions and sensations- doubts, fears, warmth and anticipation- beautifully tangible in her current show AN IDEA OF THINGS or the way things feel.

When Poppy Malik asked me to be a part of her show I was pretty excited, A fantastic artist to collaborate with, combined with good reason for making more woollen blanket art, i could not resist.

Poppy asked me to make a woollen blanket cave-somewhere to burrow down and nestle in amongst.

Blanket Cave

And then back into Poppy's hands for final touches and into the Gallery...

Poppy does not shirk at the use of glitter- She relishes it- transforming my dark den into her own brilliant cavern.

AN IDEA OF THINGS or the way things feel by Poppy Malik continues on at CCAS Manuka, Furneaux Street, Canberra until 11th September. 11-5pm.

Scouts Honour

Thanks to the guys at CCAS for the entirety of these words:

On Friday evening a number of artists and art fans assembled at the O’Connor Scout Hall for a good ol’ fashioned DIY exhibition: Double Hitch. When Fiona Veikkanen first told us about the exhibition we got a little excited, because when emerging artists make their own opportunities the results can be pretty incredible. And what a group of artists. Not only were there two current CCAS studio residents in the show (Fiona Veikkanen and Bettina Hill), there were also three former residents (Tim Dwyer, Chris Carmody and Adam Veikkanen) plus Luke Penders, Poppy Malik and Hannah Bath. Double Hitch did not disappoint- a few interactive artworks (including Chris’ Ball Game with Picture Frames and Hannah’s interactive wallpaper) and some intriguing interventions in the space (including Bettina’s fireplace and Fiona’s warm woolen heaters) made the scout hall come alive as a space for interaction, fun and warmth. It didn’t feel like an ordinary exhibition: the artworks complemented and even referenced the space and its scout hall paraphernalia instead of the usual artworks-in-white-space-formula; and the audience became giddy kids, completely engrossed in looking, colouring in and playing, and happy to simply hang out at the cosy old hall with a cup of hot soup. We’re keen to see some more group DIY exhibitions, and soup is always welcome! Annika reporting from O’Connor 

More to be found at the  CCAS Social Pages- there may even be a photo of you.