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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Studio visits are a real treat. And last month’s was no exception. We visited Nick Breedon during their stint as artist-in-residence at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in South Melbourne. We were there to see their progress on the ambitious woven works they are producing for the June show ‘A Whole New World’ at Chapter House
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Families of posca people group together, their guts scrawled over the window in a display of doodling at its very best. Raphael Rizzo and Rhys Mitchell are sweating – it’s hot in the cargo shed, despite the promenade fronting the less-brown end of the Yarra. Louise Klerks (our Gallery Director) has called them here, one
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Here is our second collection of panoramic shots presenting the exhibitions in-situ. If you’re overseas or interstate, these images give some idea of the display of works in the space and their setting within the lane. February 2013 – Andrzej Nowicki ‘Bifrost’ January 2013 – Phil Elverum ‘Six Real Ghosts’ November 2012 –
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First of January and there was no time to waste. With two weeks between shows, we jumped into the renovations and maintenance of the space that were so sorely needed and suddenly attainable thanks to our City of Melbourne arts grant. Though mainly functional, and designed to make our lives easier, there were also aesthetic
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We took the occasion of our first birthday, on 1 November, to launch our 2013 program. See the ‘upcoming‘ page for more details and look forward to seeing you at an opening next year. Thanks to our graphic designer, JD of Totem Visual for designing a snazzy program.
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Late last month, Melbourne film project This City Speaks launched at Carlton’s Goodtime Studios with an event all about creative space. The films focus on the city’s creatives, with intimate interviews revealing the practice and habits, route and resolve of artists and musicians. Chapter House Lane Gallery Director Louise Klerks is the subject of one
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Imagine our surprise when we walked into Kez Hughes’ current Westspace show, Best Of… only to see our feathered friend from Pia Murphy’s May show at Chapter House Lane, in 2D. The replica can be compared to the original here, and is a perfect example of Hughes’ clever visual history of recent works and shows by Australian
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