Renee & Merryn

The Narrows Print Workshop

2008-08-07T20:12:00.000-07:00

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KUWAII INSTALLATION

2008-02-12T21:15:00.000-08:00

At Penthouse Mouse

46 Stanley Street
Collingwood

Launch - Friday 22nd February 2008
MidMouse Party - Friday 29th Feburary 2008
Until - Sunday 9th March 2008

Fashion designer Kristy Barber has invited us to do an installation piece at the launch of her Kuwaii Autumn/Winter 2008 range for the Penthouse Mouse pop-up style shop as part of the L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival Cultural Program. This will be another exciting site specific collaboration, this time with an up and coming fashion designer. It is also great to meet some other amazing new Melbourne artists. We hope you will be able to pop in and check it out!

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www.penthousemouse.com.au

The Narrows Window

2008-02-12T20:46:00.000-08:00

Friday 21st December - 25th January 2008

We were invited by Warren Taylor to create a window piece for the Narrows while it was closed for the Christmas break. We worked with ephemeral materials like contact, cellophane, masking tape and glad wrap to create a finishing piece to conclude a successful year at our favorite budding gallery THE NARROWS.

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Prato Group Exhibition

2008-02-12T20:32:00.000-08:00

Guidare Impare (To look, to learn)

Friday 5th October - 8th October 2007

Both Renee and Merryn did a Semester in Prato, Italy at the Monash University Campus. The students were a part of an Italian Fine Arts Festival where they put together a group show for the people of Prato. We were working directly onto an antique door, which provided some interesting constraints and added a bit of depth to the piece.

Open Day at Monash Uni 2007

2008-02-12T20:06:00.000-08:00

Sunday 5th August 2007

Group Collaboration with:

Renee Cosgrave
Merryn Lloyd
Dom Sowersby
Sam Martin

This was our next project after RUNT space. We didn't have much notice and it was a bit of a slap and dash affair. We wanted to work with Dom because he helped us out in RUNT and we really wanted to try working with some different artists and materials to see what would happen. It was heaps of fun and a nice and light hearted experiment! The End

Good Ambiguity v Bad Ambiguity

2007-07-25T22:03:00.000-07:00

Runtspace @ Department of Fine Arts
Monash University, Caulfield Victoria AUS

Monday 16th July - Friday 20th July 2007

Our motivation for putting together this show in Runt Space came from our desire to collaborate together. An essential part of studying art here at Monash is the students’ exposure to the intense visual culture around us. Being immersed in this productive environment everyday we feed off and inspire each other to push boundaries and explore the familiar and the foreign. Through collaborations this connection is intensified and channelled to create a working relationship that distils these energies to create an even more exciting result. We want to exploit the visual connection students have with each other and see what can be achieved when two people work together.

Although we work in the same manner, Renee and I derive our practice from very separate origins.

Renee is concerned primarily with describing aesthetic relationships. Her work is very fast paced, unfolding as the relationships between the colours and shapes emerge and interlace. To achieve her desired aesthetic effects Renee works with a variety of materials that include collage, oil paint, coloured pencil and oil pastel.

Merryn is interested in trying to convert psychological processes into a physical space, to bring something that was once in the mind into physical being. This exploration has lead in many different directions, from more descriptive and pragmatic drawings, to recent abstract and sensory pictures constructed using collage and stop animation.

We wanted to see what the combination of our two separate work practices would be like. This relationship was enhanced by the situation we were placed in – producing work for Runt rather than Link space. Using the room as a studio space and gallery space produces some interesting conditions for the production of work in this collaborative show. It meant we could break down the pristine white gallery space and transform it into something unrecognisable. It was our aim to do something very different from previous shows in Runt, as well as push ourselves to be brave.