22 April, 10am-4pm

Naomi Shedlezki and Match Box Projects
Open Day - Rocks Pop-Up NIEA Studio
Level 2, 47 George St, The Rocks

We invite you to visit us at Naomi’s Open Studio Day as part of her residency at NIEA’s Rocks Pop-Up Studio where we will be setting up a Match Box Depot for the day!

Pop by and see our evolving portrait of Sydney. Those of you who have finished your Sydney matchboxes please bring them along. Friends are invited to join the project too and can pick up a box on the day. Look forward to seeing you there.

The studio is on the Corner of George St and Playfair St, where the weekend Rocks Market starts. Please enter via the inside staircase at the back of the building, up through Gallery 1, Level 1, then up the front stairs to Level 2. (Back entry also via 6-8 Atherden St - sometimes Atherton St on maps)

Please note the studio is located in an amazing 1843 sandstone building - therefore there are no lifts…

For those that have one of our matchboxes and would like to contribute or would like to see how our Portrait of Sydney is evolving, we will be at the Rocks on Sunday 1 April from 9.30am-3pm at the Rocks Pop-Up Window at 6-8 Atherton St. (which is the back of 47 George St, located on the corner of George St and Playfair St)

Instructions for those creating portraits are at
http://matchboxprojects.com/MatchboxSydneyPortraitInstructions.php

We will be taking part in the Rocks Pop-Up Program over the coming months. The Rocks Pop-Up program incorporates providing artists the opportunity to take up residence in temporarily vacant buildings across the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority’s Rocks Precinct. Watch this space and our news page for special events we will be conducting from March. Those that have one of our Matchboxes and would like to take part in our Sydney Portrait Project, please view instructions via the link on the home page of our website or go to
http://matchboxprojects.com/MatchboxSydneyPortraitInstructions.php

We are conducting these projects whilst Naomi is Artist-in-Residence in the Pop-Up NIEA Studio. (National Institute of Experimental Arts) at 47 George St, The Rocks. More info on NIEA can be found at http://www.niea.unsw.edu.au/

Leanne and I will be conducting free walking ARI tours across a diverse range of Artist Run Galleries, Studios and projects spaces for Art Month. Please join us.

From 1-25 March, Art in Sydney is celebrated with Art Month Sydney which brings together together over 300 artists, 200 events and 100 exhibitions. There will be Art Tours, Art and Food Events, Art Bars and many opportunities to view and celebrate Contemporary Art across the City.

We will be conducting four free ARI Walking Tours visiting local Artist Run Initiatives, including galleries, project spaces, artist studios and residencies across Surry Hills, Chippendale, Newtown, and the Rocks/Millers Point. Artist and ARI Directors will give insights to their Initiatives, Studios and works.

TOUR DATES

Saturday 10 March 2012 NEWTOWN 2 pm

Sunday 11 March 2012 ROCKS/MILLERS POINT 1pm

Saturday 17 March 2012 CHIPPENDALE 1pm

Sunday 18 March 2012 SURRY HILLS 1pm

These tours are free but registration is essential at http://www.matchboxprojects.com/ariguide/March2012ARITourRegistration.php

For an insight into Sydney’s ARIs visit our Sydney ARI Guide at www.sydneyariguide.com

More info about Art Month Can be found at www.artmonthsydney.com.au

Match Box Projects Yute (more of Yute will be uploaded to our works and projects page soon)

We recently created and presented work for our People Make Places: Deniliquin series at the Deniliquin Ute Muster, one of the largest national rural themed festivals in Australia. Over 18 000 people came together to celebrate Ute and Australian culture.

Utes come in from all over the country, and boy are they prepared.

People spent days in their utes before the event even started. They lined up on the side of the road and camped out to make sure they got a great position to set up at the festival. The traffic jam at 6am on opening day was phenomenal.

We met so many wonderful characters.

Every year they have a blue singlet world record attempt. Unfortunately they were not successful in breaking the records this year, but it was an amazing attempt, especially considering the wet and muddy conditions.

Mateship was every where

xxxx girls

The ultimate utes

Utes come from all over the country to enter various ute competitions.

Meant a lot of fun, but mud galore.

There were mud fights happening everywhere.

The rain did not stop 1000s coming out for the evening concerts

Adam Harvey and Beccy Cole

The morning after…

“What is in the back of your ute”

We were really fortunate to have an Apollo Camper on site with us. It definately was the place to stay in the muddy conditions. Many festival goers informed us of the diverse objects they put in the back of their ute. More about this project later..

We thank Apollo Motorhomes, Arc@COFA, Australian Glass Group, Deniliquin Ute Muster, Edward River Glass and Aluminium, Kata, Manfrotto, McClean Beach Caravan Park, SanDisk and Rodes for their support.

Special thanks to Pat from P & I Engineering, Sydney and Daryl Whately, the McAllister Family, and Tarria Moore for helping us make it happen.

This project has benefited from an Arts & Design Grant courtesy of Arc@UNSW Ltd (University of New South Wales)

We will be at The Soroptimist Booth in Cressy St, Deniliquin (opposite target and NAB) for matchbox delivery/pick-up on the following dates.

Friday, 23, September               9am-12pm

Saturday, 24, September           9am-12pm

Tuesday, 27 September             9am- 2pm

Wednesday, 28 September        9am- 4pm

Look on our news page for extra times we may add (or if in emergency change around)

If you can’t make the above times, please contact

us on 0410 331 600 or 0419 388 108 and we can make an alternate time to meet.

NOTE: Make sure you read our matchbox instructions before completing your box. View them on the Soroptimist Booth Window or online at http://matchboxprojects.com/MatchboxDeniliquinPortraitInstructions.php

In April we spent time in Deni at the CMCA Deni Rally and McLean Beach Caravan Park conducting action research for a project which we are planning to create across Australia next year touring in a Gallery Camper. We recieved amazing advice from CMCA Rally members, and hopefully will see many on the road during our tour.

One of our first advisors with a great tip
Conducting action research at CMCA Rally

Advisor, 2011

Conducting a Screening of our work at McLean Beach Caravan Park

We thank the following for their support towards this project.

We just got back from rural NSW - Deniliquin - home to the largest rice mill in the Southern Hemisphere and the annual Play on the Plains and Deni Ute Muster. We were at the Campervan and Motorhome Club of Australia’s 25th Anniversary Rally conducting research for a future project we are developing to take across Australia. We would like to thank CMCA attendees for their invaluable advice and Apollo for their generous support towards our action research.

Please view our News page for our upcoming exhibitions and events.

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How? By creating something responding to the theme “Sydney - my city” inside our Match Box Projects matchboxes. It can be anything that represents their own (experience of) Sydney, from an image to an object, a piece of writing, something made or something found.

Instructions for matchboxes can be found at

http://matchboxprojects.com/MatchboxSydneyPortraitInstructions.php

DELIVERY POINTS
We will be having different delivery (and pick up) points for matchboxes, the first is at the Paper Mill Gallery, until Saturday 23rd October. The Paper Mill is located at 1 Angel Place, Ash St in the CBD (approx 2 mins walk from either Wynard Station or Martin Place). A map to the papermill together with details when we will be there to accept matchboxes can be found in the Blog Post below.