Past Exhibitions
3rd - 21st April 2002 Marsupial-Sculpture by Martin Hodge.20th February - 10th March 2002 George Baldessin Travelling Scholarships- for graduates in sculpture from RMIT University, Victorian College of the Arts and Monash University.24th November - 9th December 2001 Bonanza- End of Year Members Exhibition. Prizes to be judged by Anne Ross.2nd - 18th November 2001 Fundere Sculpture Prize 2001and World Sculpture News Prize.
The $6,000 Fundere acquisitive Sculpture Prize and the $2,000 World Sculpture News non-acquisitive prize (for artists without gallery representation) are aimed at promoting excellence in contemporary sculpture. Finalists: Penny Algar, Robert Bridgewater, William Eicholtzh, Bianca Faye, Brigit Heller, Jacqueline Herbert, Liz Hewitt, Donna Marcus, Jamieson Miller, George Papadimas, Nik Papas, Robbie Rowlands, Jenn Stratman, Fred White, Dan Wollmering, Louiseann Zahra. Judges: Jane Scott (Director, Monash Gallery of Art) and Tony Ellwood (Deputy Director of International Art- National Gallery of Victoria). 10th - 28th October 2001 Caravan- An exhibition of recent sculpture by artists from Caravan Sculptors Studio.Features sculpture by Sue Boucher, Gibson Carlisle, Bronwn Garner, Liz Hewitt, Martin Hodge, Louis Laumen, Kate McCaughey, John Marshall, Deidre Oliver, Brian Paulusz, Robbie Rowlands, Philip Saccoman and Eva Volny. 19th September - 7th October 2001 ALL TO DIRT!- Curated by Sue Boucher with Philip Cappadona, Chaco Kato, David Water, Brigit Heller, Martin Hodge, Mike Jones and students of Collingwood College.
This is an exhibition focusing on the evolving and transient characteristics of natural materials. Reflective of our existence within urban life, this exhibition creates strong links and metaphors between our culture and the landscape that we inhabit. The 7 artists share a practice reflective of environmental concerns, human impact issues, coexistence ideals and an obsession with nature's diverse beauty. Collingwood College, opposite the Yarra Sculpture Gallery in Hoddle Street, is exploring a similar interest in nature with its students. A recently launched kitchen garden can be found in the northern corner of the college grounds. Created by students the garden contains herbs and vegetables and is indicative of the college's cultural diversity. Creating a parallel between these two events, works bu students of Collingwood College will be placed along side artists in the gallery and work of artist Chaco Kato will be placed within their kitchen garden. The two are connected physically by the Hoddle Street footbridge. This exhibition aims to alter the content of a familiar language, through its identity as art, in a way that is accessible to a wide audience. This exhibition is a Fringe Festival event. 30th August - 16 September 2001 PELLUCID- Tamsin Salehian & Blythe Toll8th - 26th August 2001 VCA Goes Live One off sculptural events/performances by students of the VCA Sculpture Department Friday 10th August 7.00- 9.00pm Leah Schnaars Figure Ground This body of work is a series of slide projections onto flour on the floor. I model the flour to the contours of the image of the body so that it looks like it's 'really there.' Then I alter the flour form so that the figure-ground relationship is blurred both literally and figuratively. It becomes very difficult to determine where one is seeing the photographic projection and where one is seeing the effects of the flour form underneath. I am interested in the areas where it looks as if the flour form and the projected image of the body merge, and where they are clearly separate. Saturday 11th August 7.00 - 9.00pm Bradleigh Betts Super mix A performance piece that transforms the gallery into a restaurant, with a combination of sounds and objects the visitor is tempted, however things are not always as they appear. Tuesday 14th August 1.00pm - 3.00pm Tai Snaith - Making a living A performance involving a live cow. 
Tai Snaith's cow, for her performance of Making a living Friday 17th August 7.00 - 9.00pm Kate Hendry Deep Breath Light and shadow are manipulated to take the visitor into the heart of this beautifully created sculptural event. Sunday 19th August 2.00pm - 4.00pm Rowan Douglas Writings of the projected image A very personal look at the way one artist sees the city he lives in. Through a combination of objects, writings and performance this seemingly collection of random thoughts taps into the psyche of all who move in and about this city. Gallery 1 Three one week shows from students of the VCA Ceramics August 8 - 12 Mary Green Ceramic Installation August 15 - 19 Staumn Hunder Said(g)ments August 22 - 26 Works in progress by students The gallery will be open as normal for these shows with performances timetabled. 18th July - 5th August 2001 ROLLER DOOR- sculpture by John AppletonA concentration, by one artist, to surround himself in reinvention, presenting work that explores and redefines the physical line of regular urban order.  'Dartboard', 2001- John Appleton. This is an exhibition that will hint at past exploitation of the ready-made. It will not rely purely on the object but will instead make links to cultural examination. Sculpture made from a variety of materials - concrete, metal, wood, canvas, paint. Arranged in a manner that presents the particular qualities of individual pieces, whilst utilizing all as contributing components to combine in the formation of another space/sculpture. The gallery will house and be incorporated within the whole exhibition. Roller Door, a major feature of the gallery, becomes an apt title for this exhibition - the opening of one space to another. John Appleton has been making sculpture in excess of thirty years. This exhibition is derived from only some of these works. 27th June - 15th July 2001 INNER- NEW WORK BY FREDRICK WHITEThe sculptures included in Fred Whites exhibition Inner are so dense in construction, utilising physical points of connection both literally and symbolically, to representations of the body. His work speaks of an aesthetic of the underground, essential services, storage tanks, water pipes, an unconscious visioning full of primal fantasy successfully transcending the mundane to mediate a new relationship to sex, death, each other. EMOTIONAL BODIES Two sarcophagus like figures are bolted together by heavy plumbing fittings in the stomach region of the body (emotional centre) - the transferral of their emotion is continual. A sculpture of heavy plate steel manifests as a cut out figure lying on the ground, from its middle projects a shipping chain with a hook on the end. MATERIALS Sheet steel, welded, steel tube Cast iron water pipes, galvanised plumbing pipe, flanges Shipping chain, rust HISTORY Inner is Fredrick Whites’ third solo show. He has been sculpting in steel for fourteen years. Notable works related to his new sculpture include; Corporate Dinosaurs (Ecology) 1990 Australian Sculpture Triennial, a 5m high tower, part drilling rig, part old service station signage Manhole 1999 3m totem, bolted to a manhole cover at the end of a laneway in the city, for Honours Year at RMIT. Universal Attachment 2000 Gasworks Outdoor Sculpture Show 18th May - 3rd June 2001 Down Street Studios presents: 4-SIDED TRIANGLE An exhibition of new sculpture works by: Anderson Hunt Karl Millard David Murphy Cameron Robbins 18th April - 13th May 2001 Fecund Beach Marsupium's (Gallery 1) Kim Power "When Will We Get There...?" (Gallery 2 & 3) Roland Smith Drew Collett Zara Collins Penny Gebhardt Maylei Hunt Nelia Justo 28th March - 15th April 2001 By Proposal- CSA Members Show: A group show of selected members work 3rd February - 2nd March 2001 CSAsculpture@stkildabotanicalgardens Click here for details 2nd December 2000 Oeuvre The Contemporary Sculptors Association annual members exhibition Winners, judged by Mark Stoner, were: Liz Hewitt- Monties Bar $1000 Acquisitive Prize Cliff Burtt- Exhibition Package at the Yarra Sculpture Gallery plus invitation donated by Celia Dymond Design and invitation printing by Xtreme Printing. Value $1000 Louise Harper- Julian Burnside $500 Prize Kate McCoughey- VCA $400 Prize for current or ex-student Dan Woolmering- Dame Elisabeth Murdoch $250 Prize Cecile Gray- Kerillo Prize, weeked away for two at the foot of the Grampians Rochelle Carr- Dinner for two at Yelza Andrew Smith- Subscription to LIKE Magazine Bylthe Toll- Subscription to LIKE Magazine Jemima Jones- GR Memorial Award $250 Thank you to all our sponsors for their generous contributions and for everyone who submitted to an eclectic array of work on show. 9th - 26th November 2000 Kaleidoscope Featuring work by Cecile Gray and Blythe Toll 20th October - 5th November 2000 FUNDERE SCULPTURE PRIZE (Exhibition of short lised works) The Inaugural Fundere sculpture prize is an acquisitive prize aimed at promoting excellence in contemporary sculpture. Featuring work by:
Yvonne Kendall 'Hors' Mixed media 2000 Winner of the Inaugural Fundere Sculpture Prize 2000 29th September - 15th October 2000 BRICOLAGE VCA third year sculpture show
16th August - 3rd September 2000 unit Anne Scambary Cathy Horsley 28th July - 13th August 2000 Fractured Memories An installation of sculpture by: Julie Collins 6th- 23rd July 2000 Small Blue Dog presents these installations: Re: Communique Camille Heisler The Promised Land Mike Northcote Achronos Geraldine Burrowes Emergence of Mammals Ernie Althoff 14th June - 2nd July 2000 re-Searchworks Work selected from candidates enrolled in Honours, Masters, and PhD programs, Sculpture Studio/The Department of Fine Arts/Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University. Featuring work by: Cameron Bishop Albert Yi Fu Chen Brad Cully Brian Doyle Jon Eiseman David Fitzsimmons Simon Kessel Mary Kiriakoudis Joe Machin Andrea Meadows Edwin Miocevic Michael Sibel Maria Snow 3rd - 21st May 2000 unbearable Beauty  Featuring work by: Craig Barrett Robert Delves Rebecca Eames Yvonne Kendall Jamieson Miller 13-30 April 2000 STANDING WITH OTHERS Recent Works By:
24th March - 9th April 2000 RETALIATION Liz Hewitt  1st - 22nd March 2000 resiuduum Featuring work by: Gerard Bibby Jasmin Tuln Lucreccia Qunitanilla Kirsten Lacy 27 November - 12 December 1999 Contemporary Sculptors Association End of Year Show: Bonanza 3 - 21 November 1999 PLAN(E) Sue Callanan Susan Milne Natasha Johns-Messenger 15 - 31 October 1999 SEAMLESS An exhibition of sculptural installations by students from the Victorian College of the Arts Curated by Julie Collins 22 September - 10 October 1999 Precious Foliage Sculpture by Sue Boucher 1 - 19 September 1999 (re)construction Anne Miron, Jane Wells, Velislav Georgiev, Yvetee De Lacy & Magdalena Moreno Curated by Anne Miron 11 - 29 August 1999 DAME FUEGO an exhibition of sculpted metalworks Lisa Herbert, Mary Sullivan, Kim McMaster and Louise McDonald 14 July - 8 August 1999 Commissions Rejected The CSA presents an exhibition of maquettes, drawings and designs of sculpture commission that have been applied for by artists but were not successful. 9 - 27 June 1999 MUSEUM Recent works by Hugh Davies TWO YEARS AND FOUR MONTHS FROM THEN collaborative works by Joe Angwin Jason Waterhouse ZODIAC ceramic works by Knight Chutrakul 19 May - 6 June 1999 (sculpture installations) SIMON KILVERT CHRIS BELL 28 April - 16 May 1999 Tiempo MARISY ACEVEDO RIO 7 -25 April 1999 Rawumber (sculpture installations) John Marshall Dreamings (sculpture installations) Murray Young 17 March - 4 April 1999 An exhibtion of sculptures, paintings, prints & drawings by: Craig Richards  and Recent prints & sculptures by: Andrew Smith  "Risk" Andrew Smith 1998 24 February - 14 March 1999 TOOL David Murray 28 November - 13 December 1998 M3- End of Year Members Exhibition
4 November - 22 November 1998 An exhibition of sculpture by: Gibson Carlisle  October 7 - 1 November 1998 G R A V I T Y Curated by Franz Ehmann a collaboration between SOApBOx gallery + Yarra Sculpture Space Courtney Pedersen Justin Avery Natalie Billing Laura Bechly Danielle Wood Caitlin Reid Sue Boucher John Marshall Jodie Cox Jess Hutchison 9 September - 4 October 1998 BALSA TOWN Ewen Coates 12 August - 6 September 1998 NOT TO SCALE Joel Adams A COMMON THREAD Jess Hutchison & Adrian Holmes 15 July - 9 August 1998 Alexandra Sanderson Dee Curtis Liz Hewitt Sandra O'Dea 17 June - 12 July 1998 TRANSITION Annette Lawson SOMNAMBULISM John Marshall RECOIL Sue Boucher 27 May - 14 June 1998 ECHOES IN MY MIND Jamieson Miller 
29 April - May 1998 BOB Tod Butterworth & Benjamin Lalor 
1 - 26 April 1998 TREE TRUNK STORIES Eva Volny VARIATIONS Deidre M. Olver 5 March - 29 March 1998 LIFE MACHINERY Darcy Maine 11 February- 1 March 1998 UNEARTHED Phillip Cappadona (Sculptor), Jane Williams (Poet)  12 November- 7 December 1997 WORSHIP Julie Collins 22 October - 9 November 1997 ENOUGH SPACE Bruce Armstrong, Robert Bridgewater, Philip Cappadonna, Emily Clarke, Julie Collins, Rebecca Eames, Yvonne Kendal, Nadka Mott, Louise Paramor, Mark Stoner, Richard Stringer 
24 September - 19 October 1997 SITE & SCALE: Caravan Sculptors- A Survey Gibson Carlisle, Meaghan Davis, Kylie Harrison, Tim Horn, Caroline Kennedy, Kate McCaughey, Ben Morieson, Brian Paulusz, Peter Randall |
