This is an archived website. See https://art.base.co/organisation/417-mailbox-art-space/ for current information about Mailbox.

Category Archives: EXHIBITIONS 2007

EXHIBITIONS 2007

JULIE-ANNE MILINSKI

JULIE-ANNE MILINSKI
Fragile Forest
18 DECEMBER 2007 – 22 FEBRUARY 2008
Coniferous porcelain objects construct a fragile forest in the Mailboxes at 141. Some verdant, others camouflaged, their ghostly doubles bleached like bones; these odd ornaments commemorate an age of environmental anxiety where increasingly, the extinction of the real invites a man-made substitution. A curiosity-cabinet of botanical momento [...]

DANIEL KAPLON

URBAN GRAFFITI  LOVE, HATE & PHILOSOPHY
slogan graffiti images from around the world by
DANIEL KAPLON
30 October – 14 December 2007
Daniel Kaplon explores the concept of love, hate and philosophy in his photographic images of graffiti. The themes will be explored and displayed in two week intervals.  Graphic images associated with graffiti will be broken down and [...]

NATASHA FRISCH

somewhere in the middle of nowhere
NATASHA FRISCH
28 August – 26 October
A lost object
A misplaced intention
An ill-considered action
A discarded emotion
An undisclosed thought…
With the onset of the winter rains, the disused mail boxes of 141 become overgrown with grass, a spectacle that has been lost during the summer months and is becoming a rare occurrence within the [...]

DANIEL DORALL

LEMMINGS
Daniel Dorall
26 June – 24 August 2007
Drawing on his skills as an architect, Daniel Dorall continues his exploration of urban and social agendas in a narrative series of ‘flat’ mazes.
My current art practice is informed by my fascination with the formal properties and possibilities of creating miniature maze-like constructions. This fascination stems from my background [...]

JAMIE BOYS

24 APRIL – 22 JUNE 2007
NECVARDA
JAMIE BOYS
Influenced by a calligraphic design sensibility, NECVADA is a journey of discovery and wonderment through a naive world of distorted reality. Figures are placed within spatial parameters that draw upon elements of modernist architecture and illustrative fantasy to create a dualistic intensity formed by the defining absence existing within [...]

GRACIA HABY & LOUISE JENNISON

If we stand very still, no one will notice.
GRACIA HABY & LOUISE JENNISON
20 FEBRUARY – 20 APRIL 2007
Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison work together as a collaborative duo on various joint ventures, and have been doing so since 1999. Using paper as their primary medium to create an ongoing series of limited edition artists’ books, [...]

SALLY McRAE

‘junkitecture’
Sally McRae
17 October 2006 – 16 February 2007
Junkitecture explores the 18th century creation of the diorama through the use of supermarket and realestate junkmail. Tiny pop-up cities made from the refuse of modern day consumerism. As well as a primiordal urge, creating these dioramas evolved out of a need to not be a passive recipient [...]