This year’s The Longer Light Series explores personal rituals and the importance of space and time. Each week of summer (2014-2015) will see a different interpretation of the theme by a variety of contributors including visual artist, Benjamin Lichtenstein. Benjamin Lichtenstein has exhibited at Chapter House Lane numerous times. His previous solo exhibitions include Death Adder, Chapter House
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Granted this extra slice of time, our final two shows go on to develop themes introduced by our previous three artists: a sense of exploration, self-taught methods and techniques – from darkroom experiments, and the intersection of sculpture, ceramics, and painting, to responding to the landscape en plein. To recap: it all started with the moody greyscale of Lichtenstein’s ‘Paperwork’. Unique-state compositions of light, ink, paint, and acid
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With the delightful ‘3 Vases’ by Stephen Benwell, the middle show of our short 3-month-long season, currently on, it’s timely to recap the project’s process from build to launch. 136 Johnston Street has been set up as a temporary roaming project of Chapter House Lane. Over multiple Sundays, it was steadfastly built by Chapter House Lane committee members
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If you find yourself cradling a charming handmade cup of mulled wine at our upcoming openings, we’ll let you in on the story behind it. The appeal of working with clay and rubbing shoulders with like-minded makers in a creative centre has long-standing appeal. Just ask the current Director, Julian Centofanti, who took over the
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For the third instalment of around the grounds: it’s that time of year again. In the frosted, wind-stricken heart of Melbourne winter, we are coaxed out of our dens to scurry around, wrapped up in as many layers as possible, to see art. Everyone is encouraged to explore the nooks and windows of the city,
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In the second installment of around the grounds, Chapter House Lane past exhibitors are found exhibiting in Sydney and Melbourne, others – seeking inspiration in far off lands. Matlok Griffiths (CHL#5 & #19) has recently taken off to the Philippines and I look forward to following up on what he makes of that other island
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I admit a trip to the dictionary was required, the word was palimpsest. The context: Mildura Palimpsest Biennale. To save you the trouble, palimpsest is something reused, altered from its previous form, but baring traces of its original use, or a parchment from which the original script is erased, and the faint traces upon which
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Kez Hughes’ September show has only just come down. And on reflection, I must add what a delight it was to work with her. One morning back in August, Louise and I went along to her home-based studio to conduct an interview and see how the works were progressing. Met at the door by Mr
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Between times, Louise and I may pop along to an opening or two to see what’s going on outside our heady Chapter House Lane existence. One evening back in June we went into the Margaret Lawrence gallery at VCA to see the ‘Third/Fourth: Melbourne artist facilitated biennial’. With a long, long list of exhibiting artists
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In anticipation of Matlok Griffiths’ July show, we visited his Abbotsford studio to see the progress of his self-described drawn works. Any visit with Griffiths results in an excitable frenzy of research: starting in this instance with a return to the dictionary definition of that little word ‘draw’. For what I saw was not at
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