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DRUNKEN LUSTRE is a group exhibition of young and emerging artists from

Sydney, curated by Anthony Springford and Jaime Tsai, and hosted by Artsite Gallery

from the 7th22nd of September.

DRUNKEN LUSTRE surveys 14 exceptional undergraduate or recent graduate

artists from the four leading Sydney art institutions: The National Art School; theUniversity of New South Wales, CoFA; the University of Sydney, SCA, and the

University of Technology Sydney, (Photography and Situated Media). This is a unique

opportunity to see some of the most vibrant and innovative artists at the beginning

of their careers, many of whom are yet to exhibit in commercial galleries or public

collections.

Hamish Campbell (Independent)

Benjamin Chadbond (UTS)

Theresa Darmody (CoFA)

Jenni Eleutheriades (NAS)

Anne-Marie Jackson (NAS)Eloise Kirk (SCA)

Gillian Lavery (CoFA)

Lucy Le Masurier (SCA)

Joanne Makas (NAS)

Gabrielle Mason (NAS)

Ramesh Nithiyendran (CoFA)

Nadia Odlum (NAS)

June Sartracom (NAS)

Stephanie Tsai (SCA)

Having lectured across many of these art institutions, Tsai (independent writer,

curator and academic), and Springford (artist, writer and academic) have invited

specific artists that they anticipate will seduce both local and international audiences,

and be snapped up by public and private collections in the near future. The resulting

group show covers a diverse range of media and approaches, including photography,

painting, installation, ceramics and textiles.

Drunken lustre suggests an altered state ofperceptual experience, akin to the

magpies swoon before shards of coloured glass, or the kaleidoscopic vertigo

encountered in a vast gothic cathedral. This collection is luminous, playful, tactile and

sensuous; it represents the most perceptive and sophisticated of Sydneys emergingartists. Nithiyendrans carnivalesque ceramics comically pit formal elegance against

puerile transgression, while Odlums dazzling optical installations and Sartracoms

austere, deductive canvases are a complex re-evaluation of Modernist abstraction.

A lot of this work is quite sexy, but its no less insightful or witty for that,

Springford says, As Oscar Wilde said of the Belle poquea similar age of excessand crisiswe are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

DRUNKEN LUSTRE

Exhibition: September 7 - 22, 2013

Opening: 3 - 5pm Sunday, September 8

Preview: Saturday September 7Artsite Gallery hours: 11am - 5pm WednesdaySunday

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