THANKS SO MUCH TO GAMBIA CASTLE FOR THEIR HOSPITALITY AND SUPPORT

MORE IMAGES TO COME

CROSS COLOURING

IMAGES FROM NEW ZEALAND - GAMBIA CASTLE

DANIEL MALONE
ROB MCHAFFIE
HARRIET KATE MORGAN
KATE NEWBY
KAIN PICKEN & ROB MCKENZIE

ALEX VIVIAN


JAMES DEUTSHER & JOSH PETHERICK (FLOOR)

CROSS COLOURING AT HELL GALLERY
JOINTHASSLES AND GAMBIA CASTLE

From: Jess Johnson <hellgallery@gmail.com>

Date: 14 September 2009 1:02:05 PM

To: Jess Johnson <hellgallery@gmail.com>

Subject: CROSS COLOURING / Opening Friday 18 September 6 til late

CROSS COLOURING 
An exchange between Gambia Castle (NZ) / Joint Hassles (MEL)
Curated by Harriet Kate Morgan and Sarah Hopkinson
Opening Friday 18 September 6 til late 
September 19 – October 10, 2009

Josh Petherick / Alex Vivian / Jess Lucas / Kate Smith / Harriet K Morgan / Christopher LG Hill / Lane Cormick / Rob McHaffie  / Helen Johnson / Kain Picken & Rob McKenzie / Nick Selenitsch / Sean Bailey / James Deutsher / Dan Arps / Nick Austin / Andrew Barber / Fiona Connor / Simon Denny / Daniel Malone / Tahi Moore / Kate Newby / Tao Wells

In early 2009, Joint Hassles were edged out of their gallery space in Northcote due to Melbourne’s inner-city rent hikes. On becoming spaceless the Joint Hassles artists have climbed out of the white cube and been making friends… hosting art events in bedrooms, backyards, public parks and music venues. In the interests of sharing, Hell Gallery decided to offer up its premises. Joint Hassles asked if they could bring a friend and a third gallery was invited to the party. Gambia Castle is a gallery co-operative based in Auckland, NZ. Sharing similar ideologies in community and collaboration, Joint Hassles and Gambia Castle will come together at Hell Gallery in a group show of over twenty artists.

Jess & Jordy / Hell Gallery
5a Railway Place, Richmond 3121
Open Saturdays 12 - 5pm or by appointment
0431 974578 / hellgallery@gmail.com
www.hellgallery.blogspot.com
http://jointhassles.blogspot.com
http://www.gambiacastle.net

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CROSS COLOURING

AN INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN JOINTHASSLES AND GAMBIA CASTLE 

DAN ARPS
NICK AUSTIN
KATE NEWBY
ANDREW BARBER
FIONA CONNER
SIMON DENNY
DANIEL MALONE
TAHI MOORE
TAO WELLS
JESS LUCAS
JOSHUA PETHERICK
SEAN BAILEY
LANE CORMICK
HELEN JOHNSON
KATE SMITH
HARRIET K MORGAN
JAMES DEUTSHER
CHRISTOPHER LG HILL
ROB MCHAFFIE
KAIN PICKEN&ROB MCKENZIE
ALEX VIVIAN
NICK SELENITSCH

GROUP SHOW CURATED BY HARRIET K MORGAN AND SARAH HOPKINSON

OPENING FRIDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER 6-LATE

HELL GALLERY

ALEX VIVIAN

GROUP SHOW, "VICTORY OVER THE SUN." UTOPIAN SLUMPS, CURATED BY HELEN HUGHES AND MELISSA LOUGHNAN. 11th JULY 2009

JOINT HASSLES 2ND POSTER SHOW

SEAN BAILEY'S HOUSE

WASTED TRUTH + SNAWKLOR

25TH OF JULY

HARRIET MORGAN/A CONSTRUCTED WORLD/NICK SELENITSCH

WILL MACKINNON

MARCO FUSINATO/MATT GRIFFIN

ROB MCHAFFIE/JUSTIN K FULLER/MATTHEW HOPKINS

KATHERINE HATTAM

NICK MANGAN/JAMES DEUTSHER+CHRISTOPHER LG HILL/KAIN PICKEN

SEAN BAILEY+JOHN NIXON/KIAH GM/SIMON TAYLOR/NATHAN GRAY+JULIE BURLEIGH

HELEN JOHNSON/BIANCA HESTER/JOSH PETHERICK

JESS LUCAS+LEWIS BOYES

ALEX VIVIAN/SEAN BAILEY/MASATO TAKASAKA/ROSE NOLAN

PAT FOSTER+JEN BEREAN/KATE SMITH/GEOFF NEWTON/SIMON DENNY

CHRISTOPHER LG HILL 

PAINTED OVER GRAFFITI 

FRONT OF OLD JOINTHASSLES

KATE SMITH

STOOPID BOOGIE FUTCHA (ABOVE)

PAINT STICKS AND SBF (BELOW)

POSTERS

In your own room, posters fill a lack and at the same time create an identity. The lack is an idea but its not one I carry out or relate to. Some people tend to be fine with having nothing on the walls (which by the way is fine, it’s just not me etc). Wall adorning is one of the actions you can be involved in, amongst other ideas like representative t-shirt and patch wearing. Posters are less of this idea but in a room- they are central. Creating an identity or a representation through actual things is in itself a creation and the process doubles over. The idea is executed by the artist, say a band, someone who created a symbol, a motorcycle company, a naked woman - and then this idea is taken into a different sphere by someone- a fan or friend or anyone who recognises. I don't really have to explain posters to everyone but it is always good to clarify I guess.

The posters in this show touch on this idea in differing ways, as in I now have a different representation of these people than the one I may have had before due to the differing media Ideas are filtered through black and white and then into different aspects of their practice, music and designs. Finally, the restrictions of the paper further unite them into the generic world of a bedroom poster.  In my experience posters look good anywhere and at any stage of their deteriorating career and they look especially good in a house. Since I had to move out of my parents’ house and become real (:)) I have been noticing more and more the idealness of a house gallery, (reminiscent of Dudespace).  You get up and you’re at work. It’s so human and at the same time its really alien and awkward because a line is blurred.

Through doing these two shows I have seen the importance of having a space. However I also think that this Dudespace idea has been reinstated or rediscovered as something representational of Joint Hassles’ ideas. If those ideas implied by me are ones of a punk attitude, or of making ends meet, then having a show in a house couldn’t be closer to them. The old space (and space in general) had so much to do with the presentation of work and the subsequent thoughts gathered from looking at it, but in this case, now, ideas are inferred even before the show has started. We have always dealt with what we have and the means available and this is the most literal we have ever been.

 

JOINT HASSLES PRESENTS

THE SECOND BEDROOM POSTER SERIES

POSTER BY JUSTIN K FULLER

SATURDAY 25TH OF JULY

STARTS AT ONE PMBANDS AT THREE PM

SNAWKLOR&WASTED TRUTH

FINISHES AT SIX PM

MARCO FUSINATO

Marco Fusinato
THIS IS NOT MY WORLD, 
2006
Design- Seldon Hunt
Dupont screenprint on trilobal polyester 
124 x 1400 cm 
Courtesy Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

TWIN INFINITIVES

ANNA SCHWARTZ

UGLY HERITAGE

 

HELEN JOHNSON

AUSTRALIA IN THE SEVENTIES

JOINT HASSLES BEDROOM POSTER SERIES

HARRIET KATE MORGAN/BIANCA HESTER/KAIN PICKEN

JUSTIN KENT FULLER

PAT FOSTER + JEN BEREAN

WILL MACKINNON/KAIN PICKEN

ROB MCKENZIE

KATE SMITH

JARROD RAWLINS

A CONSTRUCTED WORLD

DAMP

HARRIET KATE MORGAN

HELEN JOHNSON

MATTHEW HOPKINS

SIMON DENNY

HELEN JOHNSON/TREVELYAN CLAY/MATTHEW GRIFFIN/HARRIET K MORGAN

CONSTRUCTED WORLD/KATE SMITH/NICK SELENITSCH

BEN RAYNOR

KAIN PICKEN

MARCO FUSINATO

BIANCA HESTER

ALEX VIVIAN/DAMP/JESS LUCAS + LEWIS BOYES

GEOFF NEWTON

JOHN NIXON

ROB MCKENZIE

JOSH PETHERICK

JAMES DEUTSHER + CHRISTOPHER LG HILL

ROSE NOLAN

SIMON TAYLOR

MASATO TAKASAKA

HARRIET KATE MORGAN

NATHAN GRAY + JULIE BURLEIGH

SEAN BAILEY

JESS LUCAS + LEWIS BOYES

TREVELYAN CLAY

ALEX VIVIAN

ROB MCHAFFIE

MATT GRIFFIN

WILL MACKINNON

STENCH IN NUMBERS

ALEX VIVIAN

TCB OPENING 15TH JULY

6-8PM

CONSTANT GRILLS - HARRIET KATE MORGAN

CONSTANT GRILLS/KISS THE GOAT/TRIUMPH OVER SPIRIT

 

It’s hard enough to exist in a place where you belong let alone one where you feel as if, or where you really don’t. This is how I felt in QLD, which is where I went for a month, with the intention of staying twice as long. I didn’t even really want to be there, of all places but I wanted some sort of change. 

“A reversed pentagram, with two points projecting upwards, is a symbol of evil and attracts sinister forces because it overturns the proper order of things and demonstrates the triumph of matter over spirit. It is the goat of lust attacking the heavens with its horns, a sign execrated by initiates…….

Less esoteric LaVeyan Satanists use it as a sign of rebellion or religious identification, the three downward points symbolising rejection of the holy Trinity.”

I would like to thank those who did look after me though as not all of my experience or personal change in QLD was or is bad.

These tshirts symbolize my time there as, and without going into boring detail, I definitely came back a different person in both good and bad ways. Being there made me question everything I was about and my place on the earth as an existing (female) human.