Hesitation
Alex Achtem, Catherine Connolly, Stephen Palmer and Fiona Williams
Curated by Stephen Palmer and Fiona Williams
Bus Projects, July 2014
http://busprojects.org.au/2014/04/15/hesitation/

hesitation draws together four artists for whom hesitance plays a significant role in the approach to, or process of, making work. By bringing them together this show will seek to examine the various uncertainties at stake in art, as a way of relating, representing, or taking action in the world.
Each of the participating artists work across an unfixed range of media, in which the choice of form, and process of execution, plays a crucial part in the trajectory of the work. Uncertainty is here considered a necessary condition of art’s exigency, propelling small decisions and confusions as the constitutive circumstances of production. In this sense the exhibition is tied to particular artistic strategies, but is also directed towards the more general questions of art’s capacity to intervene in social and intellectual life.


  









The Weather from here 2014
Plastic
29 x 42cm

Prop #1 2014
Acrylic
.5 x 160cm

Exhibition install shots, Bus Projects (including work by Fiona Williams and Stephen Palmer in the background)
Photographs by Clare Rae
NARS Season II International Artist Residency Exhibition


Install shot
I'm glad I spent it with you* 2013
Perpex, dimensions variable


That I might reach you**
Brass, 12 x 24cm 

I'm glad I spent it with you* 2013
Perpex, dimensions variable





*Title from Lou Reed: 'Perfect Day', 1972
**Title from Simon and Garfunkel: 'Sound of Silence', 1964


With many thanks to the Copyright Agency Creative Industries Fund, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, The VCA Faculty Small Grant Scheme and the donors of the John and Mary Kerley Studio Research Traveling Scholarship for their generous support.






NARS Studio Residency, New York. 2013






































With many thanks to the Copyright Agency Creative Industries Fund, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, The VCA Faculty Small Grant Scheme and the donors of the John and Mary Kerley Studio Research Traveling Scholarship for their generous support.


      



       

Various 2013


Dowel
Tencile 1, Dudspace, King Street, Melbourne. 2013



Photograph, painted dowel, polyurethane
Dimensions variable

On the Screen, Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects

Making up with Annie Hall at 10%
2011, Digital Video, 3 minutes

Install Shot

On the screen: new video work by Catherine Connolly.


Exhibition text:
Catherine Connolly's video installation work is largely involved in examinations and reinterpretations of cinema. Fascinated by the images produced by classic cinema, the artist herself remains fixated in the uncanny repetition of the repeated behaviors, predicaments and attractions of her co-opted heroes and heroines. The works explore a variety of cinematic and artistic concerns from desire and screen, narrative and its subversion, the inertia from still to moving image and the inversion of tropes, particularly romance and horror. Making up with Annie Hall at 10% builds upon Connolly's utilisation of past cinematic moments. In this work the common scene of making up, drawn from Woody Allen's Annie Hall, is both drawn out to its most painful ambiguity, and extended out of it filmic origin slowly into painterly images. For this work Connolly was interested in not only the indefinite emotive concerns of the scene itself but the relationship between the still and moving image, and films relationship to painting.

Each Action Equal



Level ARI, Brisbane. March 2011
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Each Action Equal gathers humorous and/ or absurd performative gestures that communicate a

variety of deeper concerns: the role of the gendered body in art, feminine relation to

Modernism, the gendering of gestures and concern for how one should perform in film and art

making. Featuring works by female artists utilising a combination of humour, the body and

performative aspects through a variety of gestures from sitting on a power sander to quite

literally inserting oneself into Modernism. These works share the desire to look at the impulse to

communicate, what these awkward gestures may mean, the potential of humour as an artistic

and feminist strategy, and how the gendered body is used in a creative context.


Artist, Artist with Comedic Prop
2011, Digital Video, 3 x 3 minutes




Digital Video Stills


Install shot with Kel Glaister's Sitting on a Power Sander


Whatever Works

db Project presents

Whatever Works

An Exhibition about Woody Allen and Larry David
Curated by Christopher Hanrahan

Featuring:

Joseph Breikers
Catherine Connelly
Damien Dillon
Dara Gill
Ry Haskings
Andrew Liversidge
Mary MacDougall
Todd McMillan
Matthew McWilliams
Michael Moran
Rachel Scott
Masato Takasaka


Private view Thursday 17 March 6-8pm
Exhibition dates 18 March – 10 April 2011


db project: 19 Phelps Street Surry Hills, NSW 2010.
Gallery Open 2-6pm Saturdays and Sundays or by appointment.
 




Making up with Annie Hall at 10%
2011, Digital Video, 3 minutes

HERoes

HERoes
Saturday 5th March from 2pm
Upstairs, The Grace Darling Hotel, 114 Smith Street, Collingwood
Inspired by the 22 year old Grace Darling who saved a group of sailors ship-wrecked off the north coast of England in 1838, a series of panellists will talk about their female heroes.  Be inspired and engage with the questions Grace Darling’s story raises in an informal discusison upstairs at ‘The Grace’.  An exhibition of video art will further tease out the themes. 

Lyndal Walker will chair the panels.  She is an artist, curator and writer.  She has also worked in education and fashion and is one of the Hotham Street Ladies.www.lyndalwalker.com

Panelists include
Kate Brady works in bush fire recovery for the Red Cross.  She was Victorian director of the Create Foundation and has worked in advocacy and for trade unions.

Laura Castagnini is a  curator currently writing a thesis about contemporary feminist art. She recently had an internship at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Feminist Art Centre, at the Brooklyn Museum, New York.

Rachael Cotra is founding owner of Fat fashion stores and director of the Hello Darkness Film Festival

Virginia Fraser is an artist, writer, editor and curator.  She has been involved in Feminist activities since the 1970s when she co-authored A Book About Australian Women with the photographer Carol Jerrems.

Daniel O'Brien: After living in NY, Berlin and on the UK music festival circuit for the last five years, currently works in rock n roll industry as a roadie on the biggest shows in town, and is kicking his way into the photography scene.

Sean M Whelan writes for performance, paper and pixels. Recent achievements include winning the Moving Galleries People’s Choice award and performing three shows with The Interim Lovers at the Brisbane Arts Festival.

Melanie Schleiger is  a Senior Lawyer in the Civil Justice Program at Victoria Legal Aid.  She has appeared as an expert witness in Parliamentary inquiries into anti-discrimination legislation.

The video installation curated as part of ‘HERoes ‘ brings together the work of six contemporary Australian artists.  Catherine Connolly, Rachel Fuller, Dani Hakim, Hannah Raisin, Darren Sylvester, and Kellie Wells challenge our pre-conceptions of the female hero whilst exploring her impact on popular culture, history and contemporary art.   The Video program of HERoes is curated by Victoria Bennett.






Untitled (hand to mouth)
2011, Digital Video. One Minute Loop

Neither Beginning nor Ending

Firstdraft Solo Exhibition, Surry Hills. February 2011












Untitled Pair
2011, Video Installation, Mixed Media, 2 x single channel video 1 and 2 minute loops

Exhibition Blurb:

Catherine Connolly’s recent video installation work examines representation in and the language of cinema, and the ways in which this enforces, subverts or complicates ideas of gender, performativity and space. Cinematic language encompasses many prevalent concerns in her practice: the body, desire, the uncanny, spatial interaction as well as the nature of narrative and its rupture. Her practice also explores both real and represented spaces, and the way that a body, particularly the gendered body, moves and relates to them both on screen and in the world.

For this exhibition she extends on previous filmic investigations by taking from cinematic language and utilising it in both real and represented space, drawing on a  familiarity with the cinematic relationship between space, the body, horror and the uncanny.

For full exhibition essays by Rebecca Adams and Stephanie Van Schilt please see exhibition texts