Our friends from Signal are presenting Lilac City as part of their curatorial program at The Cube, found within the Oxford Art Factory, Sydney.

We are excited to exhibit our very own Cameron Skelton Wednesday June 12 at 6pm. The exhibition is a series of figure sculptures which have been reduced to a basic skeleton made of pine wood and held together by knuckle nails. They stand, sit, and lean, headless and fleshless. Their gender is not allocated and neither is their identity. They mimic human existence as if to mock us. They are ourselves. Reducing us to our basic existence as physical structures in which we sit, stand, and lean. 

Lilac City Studio is pleased to present Recreation II an exhibition of paintings by Sydney artist Kyra Henley.

Henley constructs paintings through a process of collage to create new and absurd narratives. Images sourced from magazines, and books of the 1950s, 60s and 70s are recontextualised to create unfamiliar landscapes of familiar images. These faux-realities become eerie masks to the destruction & darkness of the Post-War World from which the images come, the highly saturated pallet and incredible level of detail adding to this sense of facade.

Opening: Friday 26th October, 6-8pm

Dates: 26th October - 29th October

Hours: Sat & Sun, 11-5pm (or by appointment via email info@lilaccitystudio.net)

Location: Suite 203, 7 Randle Street, Surry Hills (above Ding Dong Dang’s)

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/684412588603453/

Lilac City Studio is pleased to present 'Currency', an exhibition including works by Ann Hirsch, Signe Pierce & Alli Coates, Marian Tubbs, and JD Reforma. These works are curated around a central theme of VALUE. This theme is explored within gender & sexuality, material & the body.

Opening: Saturday 13th October 6-8pm

Location: Suite 203, 7 Randle Street, Surry Hills, (above Ding Dong Dang Karaoke)

Dates: 13th October - 21st October    
Hours: Sat & Sun 11-5pm, or by appointment via email info@lilaccitystudio.net

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/236099853724566/

Ann Hirsch

Anne Hirsch is a video and performance artist, who examines the influence of technology on popular culture and gender. Her immersive research has included becoming a YouTube camwhore with over two million video views and an appearance as a contestant on Frank the Entertainer...In a Basement Affair on Vh1. She was awarded a Rhizome commission for her two-person play Playground which debuted at the New Museum and was premiered by South London Gallery at Goldsmiths College. Hirsch has been an artist in residence at Yaddo, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Recent solo shows include MIT List Visual Arts Center and the New Museum’s online project space First Look.



http://therealannhirsch.com/

Signe Pierce

Signe Pierce is an American multimedia artist working between New York and Los Angeles. She has worked in performance, photography, video and digital art. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, at the New Museum, New York, and at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Pierce has a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.

http://www.signepierce.com/

Alli Coates

Alli Coates is a multimedia artist based in New York City and Los Angeles. She has been privileged to work with some of the top international brands and publications in the world, including Helmut Lang, Theory, Uniqlo, MAC Cosmetics, Diane Von Furstenberg, L'Oréal, and many others. Her photography and design work has appeared in Vogue, W, Dazed and Confused, VICE Magazine, GQ, New York Magazine, Complex, and ELLE.

People Who Are dubbed her a "Creative Ninja," due to her flexibility in mediums: photography, video art, print design, window installations, web design, and art direction.

Alli grew up in Manassas, VA, graduated with a BFA from George Mason University in Washington DC, and now works between New York City and Los Angeles.

https://www.allicoates.studio/

Marian Tubbs

Marian Tubbs' assemblage-based installations and digital works critique cultural ascriptions of value and act to slow down accelerated modes of looking. Her work unveils poetic and political power inside an emotional reservoir of discarded images, poor materials, and ‘small’ talk. Natural and ‘fake’ imagery is captured in numerous randomised fluid and static visions. Discarding the use of hierarchy to preference various elements, the fragile and found are assembled to defiantly assert: ‘the poor material is my agent because it is set to fail at being ‘fine’’.

Selected recent exhibitions include “Hypersea”, 2018, Monaco; “Looking Without Seeing”, 2018, Benalla Art Gallery, Vic; ”STATION, Sydney", 2018; "Another Dimension”, McClelland Gallery, 2018; “Apocalypse Summer”, 2017, ltd los angeles, LA; ”In Practice”, 2017, SculptureCenter, NY; “quiet revolutions and les enfants terribles”, 2017, Station, Melbourne; "Zona Maco", 2017, ltd los angeles, Mexico City; “Contemporary Monsters”, 2016, Minerva, Sydney; "Abstract Sex*”, 2016, Bard CCS, New York; "Pleasure and Reality", 2015-16, National Gallery of Victoria; “Contemporary Print Culture”, 2015, National Gallery of Australia; “riven”, 2015, Station, Melbourne; "Relational Changes", 2015, Christine König Galerie, Vienna; “NADA”, 2015, New York, Minerva; “Hairy Plotter and the Polygrapher's Tones", 2015, Toves, Copenhagen; "Primavera 2014: Young Australian Artists", 2015, MCA, Sydney; "Quake 2", 2015, Arcadia Missa, London; "Glean", 2014, Minerva, Sydney.

Tubbs has recently curated shows including "Care" (with Dana Kopel) at Interstate Projects, NY and "Witness" at Minerva, Sydney. In 2017 Tubbs was the recipient of the Marten Bequest Scholarship for sculpture, and in 2015 MCA's 'Online Commission'. Tubbs’ work is held at the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of Contemporary Art and International institutional collections. In 2017 her work was included in the recent anthology 'Australiana to Zeitgeist' publishied by Thames and Hudson. In 2014, she contributed as an author to the philosophy volume "Deleuze and Guattari and the Arts: Intensities & Lines of Flight,” published by Rowman & Littlefield International. In 2015 she completed a PhD at UNSW Art & Design. She is a lecturer in Photomedia at the National Art School. Right now she is working on her first artist publication and an music video for rapper DonChristian.

http://www.mariantubbs.com/

JD Reforma

JD Reforma is an interdisciplinary artist who mines personal and public histories to explore the decolonising potential of the Filipino. His works occupy the interstice between the popular and the political, collecting and collaging narratives of diasporic experience as a methodology towards unpacking and unlearning cultural shame.

Exhibitions include Coconut Republic, 2017, Firstdraft, which was awarded the Contemporary Prize at the 2017 Campbelltown Arts Centre Fisher’s Ghost Art Award; Halò, 2017, with Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, curated by Katrina Cashman, Bayanihan Philippine Art Project, Mosman Art Gallery; Club Ate, 2017, Blacktown Arts Centre, curated by Bhenji Ra and Justin Shoulder; En-suite, 2017, curated by David Attwood; and 48HR Incident, 2015, curated by Aaron Seeto, Pedro De Almeida and Toby Chapman, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney. He has exhibited extensively throughout NSW, including Firstdraft, MOP Projects, Alaska Projects, Kudos Gallery, 55 Sydenham Rd, Breezeblock, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery; as well as Success, Fremantle, Western Australia and Fake Estate, Brisbane.

In 2018, he participated in the 4A Beijing Studio Program, alongside Rainbow Chan, Dean Cross and Andrew Liversidge. Upcoming projects include the 2018 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, Michelle Newton and Lola Pinder, Artspace, Sydney; The TV Show, curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Wollongong Art Gallery; and Neo-Filipino, with Caroline Garcia, Verge Gallery, University of Sydney.

http://www.jdreforma.com/

BODY/BLOOD brings together the work of artists; Dylan Batty, Dominic Byrne, Athena Thebus and Siena White. 

These artists’ assemblages create atmospheres of intimacy through the curation of their installations. Their practices involve an experimental and expansive use of materials and an exploration of the meaning embedded within them to enrich the content of their work. Between the artists lies an interest in identity, representing the self & the body’s implication within this.

The works each explore themes upon which their experience of self-representation is contingent, including personal heritage, gender, and the mediums through which self- representation takes place. The playful way in which the artists explore these ideas is cut by the weight of an underlying eeriness that exposes the complexities in exploring the body & self.

By placing these practices in conversation we hope to provide a space of contemplation on how material, text, tension & texture can create works rich & thick with feeling.
 

Opening:
Friday 17th August 6PM

Gallery Hours:
Saturday 18th August 12-5PM
Sunday 19th August 12-5PM
Monday 20th August 12-5PM

Dylan Batty is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and racing car designer living and working on occupied Darramurragal Land. Sovereignty was never ceded. Their practice is based heavily within the post Internet conceptualism, examining the Internets heavy reliance on intimacy and remediation, while also investigating the logistics of art in a wider context.

https://www.dylanbatty.net/

Athena Thebus’ practice spans sculpture, installation, and writing. Her practice is driven by the desire to generate atmospheres thick with past shame and queer hope. The works have an undercurrent of celestial Catholicism as influenced by her Filipino mother. Presently, her writing practice involves swimming in other people’s waters and learning what it means to be a prince subservient to queens. She is a Scorpio with a Sagittarius rising and a Capricorn moon.

http://www.athenathebus.com/

Siena White is an artist, curator and teacher whose multidisciplinary practice was born from traditional foundations in drawing & sculpture. Her practice is driven by an interest in how identity and perception of self is affected by environment. Siena uses observations from her own life working as an assistant to Stockbrokers to explore the delineation between the ‘performing-self’ & identity and where these two ideas lie in relation to the self.

http://www.sienawhite.net/

Dominic Byrne is a Sydney-based artist who uses both performance and studio- based models of art making to investigate the modes by which people constitute themselves and others online. Originating in video-based performance, Byrne’s practice has recently begun to encompass minimalist-inspired sculptures and wall paintings, linking online representations of desire and queerness within an aesthetic operated by its self-consciousness and physical reality.

https://www.dominicbyrne.net/

Monstrous/Ordinary

Opening
Friday 6th July 6-8PM

Gallery Hours
Friday 6th July 11-5PM
Saturday 7th July 12-5PM
Sunday 8th July 12-5PM

 at
Campbell Project Space
78 Campbell St, Surry Hills

‘Monstrous/Ordinary’ is an exhibition curated by Lilac City Studios. The show places together the work of artists from Sydney and abroad including Ben Reid, John Michael Parry, Marian Tubbs & Lewis Hammond.

Tittering between the ordinary and monstrous, the works share a sense of familiarity pierced by an idiosyncratic eeriness. Parry’s ersatz archaeological installation uses everyday objects that stand in for unfamiliar histories, creating deliberate misinterpretations of a ‘human narrative’. The discord of materials used by Tubb’s creates an irksome clash of high and low culture, the eeriness of internet imagery in its anonymity and simultaneous ubiquity, violate the delicacy of the silk they are printed on. Reid’s subtle curation of familiar parts forms an unsettled whole, while the distorted & fragmented bodies of Hammonds paintings are made somehow more ominous by the rich & painterly use of oil paint with which they are represented.

The show places these works together with the aim that the audience experience this feeling of a violated ordinariness and how the materials used by the artists communicate this theme.  

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Gabriel Cole
Simone Griffin
Soul Mckenzie
Jasper Powrie
Elena Tory-Henderson
Gussie Vinall Richardson
 

Opening Friday February 2nd, 6-8pm
at Campbell Project Space
78 Campbell St, Surry Hills NSW 2010

Gallery Hours
Friday Feb 2nd 11 - 4
Saturday Feb 3rd 11 - 4
Sunday Feb 4th 11 - 4

A collaborative exhibition by Elena Tory-Henderson & Dominic Byrne

Opening: Friday September 15th, 6-8pm
Gallery open: September 16-17, 12-4pm
or by appointment September 18-22

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Lilac City Studio is pleased to present Amelia Skelton's first solo exhibition - Plastic.

Plastic celebrates the sense of fulfillment and freedom that the act of adorning a mask can allow. For Skelon a mask enables a person to actualise their desires; and to morph into a fantastical reincarnation of them self.

Opening: Friday July 28th, 6-8pm

Gallery Open: Saturday & Sunday July 29th - 30th, 12-4pm
Or by appointment Monday July 31st - Friday August 4th

Artist CV

Mils gallery presents its 6th edition of headgear- to be held at Lilac City. Please come

Featuring:
~~~Ida Lawrence~~~h.j.huwman~~~Simone Griffin~~~Adriano Rosselli~~~Eko Bambang Wisnu~~~Roman Stachurski~~~Siena White~~~Amelia Skelton~~~Nick Morzewski & Nabilah Nordin~~~Harrison Witsey~~~ Eva Troyeur-Gibson~~~Joe Wilson & Chanelle Collier~~~Ryan Hancock~~~Nicole Toms~~~Yuta Matsumura~~~And Moré

Opening: Friday July 14, 6-8pm
Gallery Hours: Sat-Sun July 15-16, 12-4pm
or by appointment July 17 - 21

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Lilac City is pleased to present LCE4. A group show coordinated by the Lilac team.

Kit Christian, Michael Cooper, Harry Culy, Ryan Hancock, Jasper Powrie, Athena Thebus and Elena Tory-Henderson

Opening night: Friday June 30, 6-8pm
Gallery open: Sat & Sun, July 1 – 2, 12 – 4pm
open by appointment July 3 - 7

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Steven William Charles Latimer III
& Siena White

Opening: Friday June 16, 6-8pm
Gallery Open: Saturday June 17 - Sunday June 18, 11-4pm
Or by appointment June 19 - 23
 

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NICK MACMAHON ~ China: Country, Family, Friend & Lover

Sydney photographer Nick MacMahon's solo show at Lilac City opens Friday April 28th 6-8PM.

A documentary photography series from time spent working with communities in urban and rural areas of China.

Opening Night:  28/04/2017 6-8PM
Open: 29/04/2017 - 30/04/2017 11-4PM

See gallery here
 

http://nickmacmahon.com/

This year we lost a beloved friend and peer. Brandon Trakman. He was, beyond all things, an artist. An artist who inspired, who challenged and who made us want to be better. This exhibition is for him.

The exhibition will include works by Brandon alongside works donated by Tomás Artigas, Tanya Avanus, Marissa Bagley, Jordan Beenken, Melissa Chalker, Annalisa Ferraris, Ryan Hoffmann, Aidan Jansen, Gemma King, Steve Latimer, Lucy O’Doherty, Emily Rogers,  June Sartracom, Eva Troyeur-Gibson and Zoe Young.

All proceeds will be put towards an annual art prize in his name.

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Sam Stephenson zine launch and solo exhibition Heads combines his photography and ceramic works. 

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The first exhibition at Lilac City Studio

KIT CHRISTIAN   STEVEN LATIMER   SIENA WHITE

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