Paper Mountain

TEST SCREEN | TIM CARTER

papermountain — Thu, 30 May 2013 01:35:04 +0000

8 – 23 June

Test Screen is the first solo exhibition by West Australian artist Tim Carter. Featuring new work, Test Screen presents a series of episodic responses, both drawn and filmed, that explore the cinematic screen and its ties with notions of artifice and illusion. Referencing filmic production, the title dually refers to a screen test – a recorded rehearsal to scrutinise a set of variables in service of a greater narrative – and a test pattern – a generated signal used to activate an unannounced delay or period of repair in broadcast.

Replicating and translating cinematic scenarios with a home-made aesthetic, the artist employs methods and props that would seem counterintuitive to the artifice of the ‘make-believe’. Carter, here, presents a series of visual tricks and cues that rely on the hand-made and in-camera techniques, which embrace and reinforce the wonder of the screen. Avoiding the grandiose statements associated with the world of cinema though, the artist chooses to bewitch with the humblest and slightest of gestures and instead focus upon often-overlooked subject matter that flirts with the stage of the everyday. Interrogating the viewing parameters of the screen, Carter continues his ongoing interest to provide intimate and sensitive encounters with the moving image that examine the mechanics of sight.

Opening Friday 7 June, 6 – 8pm
Gallery opening hours 11 – 5pm
Tuesday – Sunday

Non-Knowledge Club

papermountain — Mon, 06 May 2013 17:20:32 +0000

Non-Knoweldge club is a monthly seminar series held at Paper Mountain, dedicated to the non-totalising, non-objective distribution of knowledge.

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Next Non-Knowledge Club:

We Nietzscheans: Foucault and Deleuze
Wednesday June 26, 7pm

Non-Knowledge Club’s second seminar at Paper Mountain will feature UWA’s Dr Wendy Grace, and her discussion of Michel Foucault’s and Gilles Deleuze’s respective readings of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Drinks will be available from 7pm. The seminar will begin at 7.30pm sharp.

For more information about ‘We Nietzscheans: Foucault and Deleuze, Difference, and the Battle to Think Philosophically Otherwise’ please visit: http://nonknowledge.net/S2

Last Non-Knowledge Club:

Pornographic Politics: What Politicians Stole From Pornographers
Dr Tim Gregory
29 May, 7pm

In a time when the authentic image is routinely questioned and a rupture of expectations has become the signifier of truth, how do politicians communicate a sincere message? Borrowing the notion of the “designed taboo” from pornography, politicians have learned how to become real through disclosure, confession and apology. The paradox (inadvertently first discovered by President Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal) is that disclosure of the right sin increases popularity. This talk will map this connection through analysis of Hustler’s “Who’s Nailin’ Paylin?” in order to suggest the pornographic industry is ahead of politics on understanding how the image works.

Tim Gregory is Lecturer in Theory at Curtin University, W.A. He is a researcher at the Center for Contemporary Art and Politics and has published and exhibited widely on the nexus of pornography and politics.

NOTES TOWARD A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE | ANNA DUNNILL

papermountain — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:46:19 +0000

6 – 21 July

A collection of drawing, installation and text based works exploring language; and the gaps between people that language fails to bridge. In her first solo exhibition Dunnill uses tactility in an attempt to pinpoint human connection, bringing together a variety of processes including mark-making, sculpture and embroidery.

Opening Friday 5 July, 6 – 8pm
Gallery opening hours 11 – 5pm
Tuesday – Sunday

Bacchanalian Picnic

papermountain — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 02:18:22 +0000

11 – 26 May

Delicate and brutal, this series of costume orientated drawings by emerging illustrator/designers Cherish Marrington and Lance Kershaw Ladu reflects on the stylised flavour of classical depravation found in the turn of the century’s Decadent movement. The creatures and characters in this exhibition are a romantic yearning that has turned sour, representing grotesque realities usually hidden from polite eyes. From out of this veritable manger of lust-worthy delights, this bacchanalian picnic in heavenly pastures, these daydreamed visions and imagined exchanges are manifested now in pen and ink, fixed on paper.

Opening Friday 10 May, 6 – 8pm
Gallery opening hours 11 – 5pm
Tuesday – Sunday

FUNDRAISER GIG

papermountain — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 01:55:57 +0000

14 April, 2014

Paper Mountain is holding a fundraiser to support our 2013 program!

Acoustic tunes by…

TIMOTHY NELSON
HAYLEY BETH
SOLAR BARGE and
TURIN ROBINSON

We will be officially launching the program at the event, as well as brand new Paper Mountain merch. Freshly hand printed T-shirts and library bags designed by three of our 2013 exhibiting artists will be dry and ready to wear

ALSO, treat your mouth to freshly baked treats and other assorted beverages by donation.

3 – 8pm
Entry $10

Hold Your Silence | Ross Hamilton Frew with Alan Stanners

papermountain — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:00:19 +0000

10 – 23 March, 2013

Ross Hamilton Frew is a Glasgow based artist working predominantly with
drawing. In Hold Your Silence, Frew presents a selection of new drawings
exploring the harmonic relationship between the page and its content, as
well as the use of geometry and line as a substitute for language. Having
developed a framework for creating a continuing body of work set within
self imposed parameters, he uses this framework as the starting point for
all of his drawings. By working continually within these parameters, Frew
is able to dissect what appears at first glance to be a series of predictable
patterns, but after closer inspection these works as a whole reveal
themselves to be a series of abstracted formulations concealed under a
complex process of elimination and selection.

Two paintings by fellow UK artist Alan Stanners will accompany Frew’s
drawings, creating a conversation surrounding the two artists’ differing
processes. Stanners puts forward this quote from a talk given by Harold
Pinter at the national student drama festival in Bristol in 1962 as a
reappropriated insight into his own practice.

I am not a theorist. I’m not an authoritative or reliable commentator on the
dramatic scene, any scene. I write plays, when I can manage it, and that’s
all. That’s the sum of it. So I’m speaking with some reluctance, knowing
that there are at least twenty-four possible aspects of any single statement,
depending on where you’re standing at the time or on what the weather’s
like. A categorical statement, I find, will never stay where it is and be finite.
It will immediately be subject to modification by the other twenty-three
possibilities of it. No statement I make, therefore, should be interpreted as
final and definitive. One or two of them may sound final and definitive, they
may even be almost final and definitive, but I won’t regard them as such
tomorrow, and I wouldn’t like you to do so today.

It is the reference to these multiple possibilities mentioned in the text
that Frew relates to in Stanners’ work. The more apparent fluidity and
spontaneity of Stanners’ painting alludes to regimented hints of Frew’s
cloaked decision-making process.

OPENING: Sat 9 March | 6pm – 8pm
EXHIBITION: 10 – 23 March | 11am – 5pm | Tues – Sun (Closed
Mondays)

IN CONVERSATION WITH ROSS HAMILTON FREW

papermountain — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:17:59 +0000

2 – 3pm, Sunday 24 February, 2013

Join artist Alex Maciver as he discusses his practice with fellow UK artist Ross Hamilton Frew. The pair have a history of exhibiting together and know each others work intimately. Maciver’s work is intricate in concept and process, making this event a special chance to hear the artist talk through his Paper Mountain exhibition I MAY LIVE ON AS A GHOST.

Ross Hamilton Frew will be exhibiting new work at Paper Mountain in March 2013.

Image: Alex Maciver, I MAY LIVE ON AS A GHOST, 2012 (detail). Mixed media collage, image courtesy the artist.

I MAY LIVE ON AS A GHOST | ALEX MACIVER

papermountain — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:50:27 +0000

9 – 24 February, 2013

As a part of FRINGE WORLD Perth, Paper Mountain presents UK artist Alex Maciver’s first solo exhibition in Australia.

With energetic neon squiggles, gestural lines and bright planes of paint, Maciver’s work occupies a space between representation and abstraction. Like a riddle, these seductive forms and textures hint at narrative, with each work suggesting intricate invention and the possibility of illusion. The gathering of artworks in the gallery space evokes a dialogue between threads of Maciver’s past encounters and sparks of immediate response. The installation looks as though something has just happened, just the moment before you entered the space. In this sense, the artist sees the exhibition as a form of stage performance.

Maciver explains: ‘I aim to construct a series of situations for the viewer to experience as well as building on the sculptural elements my recent work has included. I aim to question the role of the gallery and its interference in the completion of an artist’s work. It has been historically noted that an artwork is only art once it has been exhibited, I aim to challenge this.’

Alex Maciver graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone Art College, Dundee UK in 2007, and is an advocate of artist run initiatives (ARI) having previously been on the committee of GENERATOR Projects (Scotland’s leading ARI) and Co-Curated 2010 SafARI arts, to coincide with the 2010 Sydney Biennial. Maciver has recently returned from a residency and exhibition at Crate 59, QLD and is to undertake a studio residency at Fremantle Arts Centre in 2013. Maciver is currently based in Perth, Western Australia.

Top Left Image: Alex Maciver, I MAY LIVE ON AS A GHOST, 2012 (detail). Mixed media collage, image courtesy the artist.

Gallery Images: Alex Maciver, I MAY LIVE ON AS A GHOST, 2013 (installation shots). Paper Mountain, Perth. Images courtesy Paper Mountain and the artist.

papermountain — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:18:20 +0000

papermountain — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:16:03 +0000

Rose Skinner: TOY SHOW

papermountain — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:03:31 +0000

21 – 23 December, 2012

Doomsday is upon us. As the end of the Mayan calendar draws near, Perth based installation artist Rose Skinner reflects upon a post apocalyptic world through the eyes of our small beloved friends. The friends who sit upon our shelves, under our beds or within our boxes marked “childhood”. The mute secret-keeping creatures of comfort – our adventure companions and accomplices in mischief, the humble yet ever faithful toy.

TOY SHOW is a small but epic battle of good vs evil, featuring apocalyptic assemblages and interactive dreamscapes infused with curious creatures and delectable forms.

A showcase of Skinner’s current body of work, TOY SHOW includes pieces selected from her latest exhibitions in London and New Jersey. Toys, prints and illustrations are available for purchase. New and established collectors are encouraged to attend with prices starting from $40.

Exhibition Opening: Friday 21 December, 6pm
Exhibition Dates: 22 – 23 December, 2012
Opening Hours: 12am – 6pm

⁌❊△❀ PRINT PARTY ❀△❊⁍

papermountain — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:21:12 +0000

Saturday 2 March, 5 – 9pm

Shiritori Press has been undertaking a swag of printmaking projects this summer. To celebrate the end of the Summer of Shiritori, you are invited to PRINT PARTY, a sun-shining, moon-beaming, ink-mixing, squeegee-pulling, wall-stroking, window-licking printmaking extravaganza!

Featuring:

⦿ Premiere screening of the short film documenting D&A’s GPA (Danni and Alina’s Great Print Adventure: A Printmaking Pilgrimage) a two week eastern states printmaking adventure that Shiritori Press undertook in early January. Screening will be held at 7.30pm!

❊ Exhibition of prints, photos and other ephemera created over the summer, including prints for sale ($20 each!) from our FRINGE WORLD Festival project Shiritori Meets Perth

▵ Hands on printmaking fun times! Screen printing and etching! Choose your favourite image to print on paper, or bring your own t-shirt/bag/tea towel/etc

✿ Super cool printed matter from our friends at the Perth Zine Collective and Benchpress

◇ Tasty food and drinks

❉ Sweet tunezzzzz

… and more!

Entry is by gold coin donation.

Danni McGrath: Suzume

papermountain — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:56:06 +0000

10 – 16 December, 2012

Suzume is the Japanese word for sparrow. These small brown birds, common in Japan, move in quick, short bursts, jumping and flitting from place to place. Danni McGrath’s drawings are small, multicoloured and lead your eyes in quick, short jumps around the page. For McGrath, the drawing process is similar to the outcome; skittish and flighty. Thoughts, ideas and decisions jump quickly:

“Which colour next? What shape fits here? A connection to that bit? No, not there. Maybe. Yes, no, over here…”

Suzume is an exhibition presenting the results of McGrath’s investigation into this drawing practice in a range of media, part of an ongoing inquiry into artistic process; how art gets made. The exhibition features drawing, print, small sculpture and textile works, along with a large scale wall work that will be completed over the course of the show.

Opening Party: Sunday 9 December, 2 – 4pm
Afternoon tea provided

Exhibition: 10 – 16 December
Gallery Hours: 12 – 6pm daily

Emma Kroeger: Elegy to The Mississippi

papermountain — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:55:22 +0000

29 November – 3 December, 2012

Elegy to the Mississippi is a collection of photographs, poetry and short writing by Emma Kroeger.
The ‘Great American Dream’ of the 20th century which brought hope to the greatest middle class in history has, over the past few decades, given way to reality. Along the mighty Mississippi lie the great ol’ towns that gave birth to this dream of prosperity – small farming towns which saw through the abolition of slavery, the crippling Great Depression and the rise and fall of jazz. And now they stand, sparse beacons to a dream held just too far out of reach, scattered and clinging to the riverbanks.

Elegy to The Mississippi is an exploration of the lost American Dream – the dream of what was and what could have been.

Exhibition Launch: Thursday 29 November, 7pm
Artist talk / reading: 7.30pm
++ Free entry
++ Drinks Available

Exhibition: 29 November – 3 December
Gallery Hours: 11am – 4pm daily

Odd Anderson: Results of a pointless endeavour

papermountain — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:38:37 +0000

2 – 3 November, 2012

Results of a pointless endeavour, a solo exhibition by Perth sculptor Odd Anderson, presents a series of visual explorations into Chaos Theory and Emergence. Disagreeing with reductionism, these works are the result of semi-successful experiment and a reflection on how complexity may arise from a multiplicity of simple actions.

Anderson’s practice explores the way in which humans discover, quantify and define their universe. Currently focused on the fields of mathematics and science, Odd has drawn from the scientific method in creating a variable drawing algorithm. The algorithm produces geometric results, which are then interpreted and realised in three dimensions. As with any scientific endeavour interpretations change as new data is collected, conclusions can always be amended.

Das Superpaper Issue 25: Periférico // PERTH LAUNCH

papermountain — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:37:53 +0000

Wednesday 12 December, 2012 // 6 – 8pm
Free Entry

Guest edited by Ivan Muniz-Reed and Lorena Peña Brito, Periférico looks at ideas of the periphery, taking its name from the monumentally failed ring-road in Mexico City.

The issue traces some of the key developments from the 1990s which positioned contemporary Mexican art on the global art circuit and their subsequent impact on the current milieu of artists; the way in which art production in Mexico responds to the sombre situation that the country faces – a present of violence and political spasm; and the cross pollination of ideas which arise from encounters between artists from both locations and from the convergence between artists and place.

Join us from 6–8pm at Paper Mountain to celebrate the launch of the issue and Das Superpaper’s 4th birthday.

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About Das Platforms
Das Platforms is an Australian-based media project presenting, documenting and promoting new conversations in the emerging and contemporary arts.

Developing content for print and online distribution, as interviews, pictorials, critical articles, artists’ videos and documentaries, Das Platforms presents a cross-section of the most interesting and important art to a national audience.

Passionately free and accessible, Das Platforms aims to give renewed agency to the makers, presenters and audiences of considered and legitimate contemporary cultural production.

k2CLOUD

papermountain — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:01:09 +0000

7 – 16 November, 2012

K2CLOUD brings knitting and crochet into the 21st century through large scale sculpture. It is an interactive transforming installation, using only repurposed paper and plastic.

The installation, created by Elizabeth Marpole and Lex Randolph, begins with a White Opening. Using basic colourful materials, we are inviting the public to help transform the space into a brightly coloured room over 10 days. A disco will be held at the completion of the process to celebrate the transformation.

The title of our project references the visible formation of frozen water crystals in the atmosphere – a cloud.In much the same way as why skies are blue, clouds are white because their water crystals are large enough to scatter the light of the seven wavelengths (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet), which combine to produce white light. Our ‘cloud’ will begin white, and over the exhibition period will be transformed to reproduce all the colours of the light spectrum.

Opening Party: Wednesday 7 November, 6 – 9pm
Gallery Hours: 12 – 6pm daily
Closing Party: Friday 16 November, 6pm – late

Grip Quarterly Issue 1 Launch Party

papermountain — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:56:08 +0000

Monday 29 October, 2012 // 6 – 8pm

GRIP & Paper Mountain invite you to join us in celebrating the launch of the first issue of this new, short-run quarterly publication. The first issue boasts over 40, full-colour pages, topped with a charming 3D section, a comic and original script. Also featuring contributions from the following luminaries: J. Seymour Clifford, Tristan Fidler, Caitlin O’Neill, Markela Panegyres, Robert K. Potter and Alana Scherr. Entry is free, the bar will be open and first run (limited edition) copies of the first issue of GRIP will be on sale!

MORE ABOUT GRIP QUARTERLY…
GRIP is a forthcoming quarterly publication founded by film reviewer Tegan Miller and freelance arts writer Sheridan Coleman. Based in Perth W.A., GRIP will provide interesting, casually academic feature writing on the subject of screen culture alongside graphics by local illustrators.

At a glance, the phrase “screen culture” describes not only film, TV, online footage and video art, but the points at which they intersect with the ways we record the moving image, watch it, write for it, think about it and assign it significance in our lives. Dismissing the review as a format that ages badly and tends towards synopsis, GRIP will rather be a chronicle of the history, philosophy and prospect of the moving image.

Let Them Eat Zines: A Zine Festival

papermountain — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 23:53:44 +0000

Saturday 24 November, 2012 // 10 – 6pm
All ages, free entry

“Let them eat zines” is the traditional translation to English of the French phrase “Qu’ils mangent de la zines”, supposedly spoken by “a great princess” upon learning that the peasants had no paper. Since zines were made from paper, this apparently reflected the princess’s obliviousness to the condition of the people.

Drawing on this rich history, Let Them Eat Zines is the Perth Zine Collective’s very first zine fair. Held on Saturday 24 November at Paper Mountain, it will be a celebration of zine-making and DIY publishing to bring together zine makers and zine lovers from Perth and interstate.

The event is open to all ages and entry is free! Bring your friends, neighbours, parents, aunties, uncles, brothers, sisters, your local librarian and anyone else who has a love for zines.

The festival program will include a zine market, live music, a Zine Chef competition and zine readings. A full program will be announced early November.

Let Them Eat… What?
Zines (pronounced zeen) are self-published, non-commercial publications. They may contain art, essays, autobiographical writing, fiction, articles, recipes, comics, reviews, and many other genres, often exploring perspectives and subject matter not touched on by mainstream media. They are cheaply reproduced, handmade, and are either swapped or sold for a few dollars to cover costs. Typewriters, long-arm staplers, photocopiers, scissors and glue are common zinemaking tools.

Who are the Perth Zine Collective?
The Perth Zine Collective (PZC) is a not-for-profit group dedicated to fostering a culture of creativity in Perth through zines. They run Aunty Mabel’s Zine Distro, a mail-order distribution service for zines and comics, which stocks hundreds of titles from mostly Western Australian zinesters as well as zinesters from interstate and overseas. Additionally, the PZC holds frequent zine-making workshops at libraries, writing festivals, and as part of youth arts programs. They have organised events such as a zine picnic, a zine-making marathon, and zine reading socials; have assisted several local libraries to build up zine collections (Subiaco Library, the Grove Library, and the Alexander Library); and undertook a two-month residency at PICA in 2011. They really, really like zines.

More information:
Facebook Event
Let Them Eat Zines Website
Email PZC

LET’S GO, MAGIC WEIRDOS

papermountain — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:22:15 +0000

25 – 28 October, 2012

Perth artist Sean Morris has assembled a selection of 23 of his contemporaries from around the world; to take part in one of the most exciting group shows held in Western Australia in recent years. “Let’s Go, Magic Weirdos” sets out to harness, cage and present to the city a collection of exciting new work unleashed by crazed and beating minds from across the globe.

While the work of the “Magic Weirdos” encompasses a range of artistic styles, each artist involved shares what Morris calls a “defiant, fearless approach to art making.” Regardless of physical location; together they inhabit a world where rules are made for breaking, and the paradox of conventional art is thrown out of the window.

Artists:
Stevie Gee (UK), Jon Boam (UK), James Unsworth (UK), Manuel Donada (Spain), John Malta (USA), Michael C. Hsiung (USA), Luke Pelletier (USA), Ambird (USA), Eric McHenry (USA), Mariana Moyses (Brazil), Sheryo (Singapore), Ican Harem (Indonesia), Ryan Ady Putra (Indonesia), Cammy Yo (Japan), The Yok (Australia), Ghostpatrol (Australia), Kyle Hughes-Odgers (Australia), Eveline Tarunadjaja (Australia), Mel Stringer (Australia), Evie Cahir (Australia), Calliope Bridge (Australia), Cheeks (Australia), Yohyo (Australia), & Sean Morris (Australia)

Opening Party: Thursday 25 October, 6pm
Gallery Hours
26 October: 11am – 6pm
27 October: 11am – 5pm
28 October: 12pm – 5pm