Please join us for opening night drinks
6-8PM this Thursday 9th February
Numskull at blank_space from February 9
Thursday 9th February – Wednesday 15th February 06
A one man street art band.
Dabbling in the arts of graffiti & stencils, this kid has a barrage of images that’ll stun you in even the darkest of alleys.
Child’s Play bears witness to these images coming to life. Clothing, badges, art and sculpture.
blank_space
a new contemporary art space
374 Crown St. Surry Hills 2010
Ph: (02) 8308 8218
E: info@blankspace.com.au
W: www.blankspace.com.au
blank_space is interested in seeking proposals for 2006 from artists, curators & designers
Opening Wednesday, February 22, 6pm.
For her installation ‘That’s not how it appeared on the box…’ Tsering Frykman-Glen will build a small and short-lived utopia based on nostalgic references and childhood fantasies.
“When I was little I remember asking when? when? when? and being told when you grow up! Well, I’ve grown up and I still can’t ride a motorbike around a burning pit of fire or build a real live-inable house out of Lego or talk to horses or hold hands on a hillside with a band of multi-ethnic peace loving multiculturists, stopping wars by singing songs and drinking a well known brand of soft drink. Those strange utopias I built in my head will never exist and were just a way for my parents to get me to shut up, with the promise of better things to come.”
By building a giant diorama that incorporates a flat pack landscape, nostalgic sounds, fairy floss and a time lapse video of a growing Magic Garden, Frykman-Glen is aware that, like most extravagant plans, perfection maybe impossible but she’s trying and she’s sincere. And perhaps the imperfections are all part of the experience, a final recognition that utopian dreams are just dreams and that life itself is imperfect, but that it’s still important to keep dreaming.
Tsering Frykman-Glen is a British born but Sydney based artist whose art practice crosses a variety of media including video, sound, photography and installation. A well-known member of Sydney’s ARI (artist run initiatives) scene Frykman-Glen has had much involvement in the running of Phatspace Gallery and Projects. Before moving to Sydney in 2004, she lived in Milan for 2 years during which time her work was exhibited in New York, Berlin, London and Milan. She has continued to show extensively both locally and overseas, recent exhibitions include The Phatspace and Bus Project, Arts Aporia, Osaka 2005/06, Video Nasty, Firstdraft Sydney 2005, International Video Festival, MONA, Detroit 2005, Wide Open Beavers Inside, Phatspace, Sydney 2005, and Growing, Berliner Kunstproject, Berlin 2004. This is her first solo show in Sydney.
