Artist's Style - Deborah Young - Factory 49

Another fabulous and colourful show at Factory 49 this one 'Patterns' courtesy of Artist Deborah Young.

Factory 49

49 Shepherd Street

Marrickville, Sydney

Thurs - Sat, 1 - 6 pm.

Street Fashion Sydney - shot with the Fujifilm X-Pro1.

SNO 85 - Factory 49 - Abstract Art Baby!

The 85 after SNO stands for the number of shows; SNO being good minimalists don't have names they have numbers for the shows instead. I quite like that as it makes it easy to keep track of how long it is is since the last show I attended, photographed at, and how many I have missed! Not many lately. And although Factory 49 also shows work in a similar style and some of the same artists; the 49 is the street number of the gallery space and always stays the same - though this could become confusing if they decide to move and keep the same name - mind you King Street Gallery seem to have been able to work around that little problem quite well for more than a few years..

First up is the SNO show; I had been wanting to make a portrait of Suzie Idiens for a while now and this time I managed to get one of Suzie in front of her artwork 'Blue Slot 2012', (MDF, polyurethane, 60 x 54 x 6.5).  I was thinking that having made Suzie's portrait I had photographed the only exhibiting artist in attendance at SNO 85; not so. I had been talking with sound artist Gary Bradbury; who incidentally had performed live at my own show at SNO two years earlier - I knew he had the sound piece running in the front gallery space but it just didn't click, no pun intended that I should photograph him too. So this is what happens when you get a little too fixed in your ways; you think visual-art artist-portrait a little too often and you forget that the sound artist who is making art you cannot see is standing right there talking to you and can also be documented at the shows opening. My apologies to you Gary, this will not happen again; and by way of trying to make up for my omission I did make an 'autograph portrait' of the freehand ballpoint pen description of 'Mouth Tracks' which I very much suspect was jotted onto the wall by Gary himself;  pictured below, I quite like it.

Dutch artist  Henriëtte van 't Hoog 's coloured , light-reflecting back-to-the-wall 'Cubes' were/are absolutely fascinating and had me thinking of some great ideas for my fashion photography. Well yes I do draw some of my inspiration from looking at art, of course! And then there was a mild pang of jealousy but far more admiration for Karen Schifano's - 'I'll take you there', I do love a good road line. I wish I had thought of adding my own to the ones that are already there. What a great way to draw, the possibilities truly are endless.

SNO 85

Factory 49 Annual Group Show 2012

And so onto the Fab group show at Factory 49 which included the installation piece 'barely breathing, 2012' by Caroline Phillips whom I also managed to photograph for my collection of Artists at their openings. Thank you Caroline; love your installation piece and I love the pink and mauve. As group shows go, there are far too many artists to single any out - you just must go and see for yourself. Both galleries being quite close to one another in Marrickville should make it an easy trip to see both SNO and Factory 49 in the one afternoon..

Thanks to everyone at SNO & Factory 49 for another two beautiful art shows.
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Oxley9 & Factory 49 - Words Colour & Fashion

Youth and style were out in force for the Newell Harry, TV Moore shows at Roslyn Oxely9 Gallery last night. While waiting for my friends to show up I had time to look over the two shows and meditate (if thats the right term) on Newell's text work 'Untitled (More Mumbo Jumbo: Crackpots ‘n’ Poems for Ishmael Reed)' shown below. What did it all mean, those strange lines of broken words? Although I am sure my interpretation is completely wrong I decided it all had something to do with mining magnates and (mistresses/wives) in Australia; some sort of political statement... of course Newell's two page essay in the gallery notes on his stay at the 'Blue Pango' Hotel which lent its name in part to the title of the show, shed next to no light on the situation at all though it was certainly a very entertaining read.

And I have no-idea why there were so many well styled individuals at the show but there they were in droves! I could have gathered material for quite a number of 'Street Fashion' posts; but as it was, I confined my selection four lovely people who kept catching my eye, and leopard print is clearly in with the art student set; watch out its probably about to go large!




The scene was somewhat different for Paul Raguenes show at Factory 49 on Wednesday night, blocks of strong colour in aluminium and glass minimalism at its minimal best including the interactive piece 'Colorific Game table, 2012' wood, steel, glass, plastic car paint... All beautifully, seamlessly rendered. I recognised the vintage 6x6 glass slide mounts immediately from my days of shooting the 6x6 film format! And as chance would have it I got to spend time talking with Paul at the Oxley9 show above, which was all very good and well as he jets back to France tonight; thanks for the art and conversation Paul.


Minimalism or is it Non Objective art is doing very very well in Marrickville - so well that it seems Cityrail are angling for their own piece of the action with what looks like a very large scale 'work in progress' at Sydenham station. I only wish I could find a great position to get a better shot off; mind you at Cityrail's speed of work this installation piece is likely to remain 'in progress' for some time yet to come.


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Factory 49 - Sally Clarke + Group Print Show

A cool and challenging Installation piece "Power Play" by Sally Clarke (portrait below) and lovely works on paper and fabric in the group print show. All well worth the trip to Marrickville to take a look. Lots of great looks in the diverse crowd & I loved artist Adrian Clement's classic style, wool overcoat, flannels and a dinosaur neck tie with white shirt. Perfect artist opening dress sense.

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Factory 49
49 Shepherd St
Marrickville

Till July 7..

Melanie E. Khava at Factory 49 - Richard Dunn at SNO 74

Melanie E. Khava at Factory 49


Factory 49, 49 Shepherd St Marrickville, untill Saturday 17 September.



SNO 74-Richard Dunn presents Polygon.
When: Until 25 September
Where: First Floor, 175 Marrickville Rd Marrickville


Artist in Residence Sophie Keeling in her Studio at SNO, Sophie will be exhibiting in SNO's next show.






The Sydney presentation of What is Post-Formalism? is a collaborative social project by Billy Gruner and Sarah Keighery. The audience was invited to participate in the painting performance. Ran from 26 August 4 September 497 Parramatta Road Leichhardt




Is there something in the water in the Inner West? Could be, there is a lot of Non Objective/Abstract Art happening at the moment with two great shows on right now to check out.

Factory 49
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