Splendid Newsletter

Would you like to attend a 3 week intensive laboratory styled residency, have an opportunity to produce a new work for Splendour in the Grass 2011, acquire skills in cross-artform collaboration and creating site specific experiences, receive tickets to Splendour in the Grass 2010 and be given an honorarium, accommodation and travel?

Yes? Then apply for Splendid's 2010 Program.

Splendid will open for applications for the 2010 program in January with sucessful participants announced in April 2010. More information about Splendid's 2010 Program will be released soon, stay tuned.

Splendour In The Grass has been working toward establishing a permanent sustainable event venue to stage the festival. The chosen 660 acre North Byron Parklands site at Yelgun in the Byron Shire is undergoing the comprehensive approval process with the NSW Department of Planning for a permanent cultural event venue and will not be ready for next year's event.

While this approval process goes ahead, Splendour In The Grass organisers are delighted to announce the festival will temporarily relocate to Woodford in Queensland, home of the Woodford Folk Festival, for the event's 10th anniversary in 2010.

Australia's number one mid-winter music celebration will be held across three glorious days next year from Friday July 30th to Sunday August 1st 2010.

More news about Splendour's 10th anniversary event will be announced in March 2010.

Splendour in the Grass

2009 Splendid Artist Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart has been commissioned to present A Someone Else's Problem Field as part of Next Wave Time Lapse at Federation Square, Melbourne. Next Wave Time Lapse is a year-long program of new screen-based work by young and emerging artists presented every Thursday night (5:30 - 6:30pm) on Federation Square's Big Screen.

A Someone Else's Problem Field is a site-specific work that employs Augmented Reality. Appearing at first to be a simple live-feed from Federation Square to the Big Screen, audiences will be disturbed and delighted as subtle interventions slowly become apparent, and distinctions between reality and fiction become blurred.

Lachlan's work will be viewable on Thursday 3 December, Thursday 10 December, Friday 18 December, Thursday 24 December and Thursday 31 December 2009, 5:30 - 6:30pm.        

Next Wave Time Lapse 

Splendid 2009 Artist Shakthi Sivanathan's company CuriousWorks has been working with the youth of remote mining town, Newman, Western Australia, to help them set up their own community media network.

Working with a mix of Indigenous youth and kids of mining families of all cultures, the foundations of a media network has been set up linking the small town's streets to the schools to the remote communities of the Western Desert. Movies, music and websites abound.

ABC's Stateline paid a visit for Newman's first ever film festival that the youth put on themselves. The local council has now invited the youth to present at their next meeting to lobby for a permanent youth space. Watch the project on ABC's Stateline here.

CuriousWorks' time in Newman was made possible through the BHP Billiton Iron Ore – Legacy Project presented by Country Arts WA in association with CuriousWorks and the Newman Community.

Splendid 2009 Artist Lauren Brincat is exhibiting in an upcoming show at Kings Artist Run Initiative.

Kings ARI have invited Firstdraft to be part of an exhibition in their AV gallery with Boxcopy from Queensland and Inflight Gallery in Tasmania. 
The exhibition is a video sampler of works from interstate ARI's.

Firstdraft have selected Lauren's Art Escaping Art performance video for the show. The exhibition opens on 27 November and continues to 19 December 2009.

Kings Artist Run Initiative
Level 1/171 King St, Melbourne

Splendid 2009 Artist Alice Lang has two upcoming exhibitions at Gilligan Grant Gallery, Troop and Star Abstraction.

Troop is an annual exhibition of paintings, photographs, soft sculpture, printmaking works and continues to 12 December, 2009.

Star Abstraction is an exhibition of paintings, lightboxes, and soft sculpture and presents a range of treatments concerning the concept of abstraction. This exhibition explores the techniques of a number of younger Australian artists working outside the realm of realism. 

Star Abstration opens on 3 February and continues to 20 February, 2010.

Gilligan Grant Gallery

1B Stanley Street, Collingwood, VIC

Splendid 2009 Artist Carl Scrase has been invited to particiapte in A4 Art 2009, The West Space Annual Fundraising Exhibition.

A4 Art 2009 is a curated exhibition, which features artists who have been involved with West Space through exhibitions, publications and committees.

A4 Art 2009 opens on Thursday 3 December and continues to Saturday 12th December 2009.

Carl is also currently exhibiting over the summer break at the front of Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts as part of the exhibition The Sublimation and Spiritualisation of Solids.

Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts

West Space

Level 1, 15 - 19 Anthony Street, Melbourne