March is Archibald month in Sydney with focus fully on the face.

Body of Work, showing at Artereal in Rozelle from 8 March - 5 April, is approaching the perception of the body from the divergent views of eight national and international artists working in sculpture, print media and photography.

These artists explore themes of absence, reminiscence, loss of identity, dream and death through techniques such as cyanotypes (sun prints), resin, digitised skin, etchings and collagraphs.

In this exhibition, the body is the expressive vehicle for ideas of ageing, self image, innocence lost and issues of perception within a society engulfed in digital images and fabricated realities. Collaborative photographers AZIZ+CUCHER overlay living human skin onto architecture, while REBECCA BEARDMORE engages her viewer with the haunting subtlety of her print media works. Female loss of identity, from both a self-image and societal point of view, underlies Muse by photographer SHANE FITZGERALD. In FREYA JOBBINS' anguished etchings and lithographs, her flesh is cut in sections and weighted down with all the expectations of others and what they want from her.

JULIA BOROS, acknowledging the technique of Victorian-era cyanotypes, captures an impression of her own female form on fabric.

In a related process CHRISTOPHER BUCKLOW combines drawing and photography to cast thousands of tiny circles of sunlight upon a silhouette with a pinhole camera to create the ghostly illusion of a three-dimensional figure.

The resin sculptures of NOLA DIAMANTOPOULOS explore the dynamic and invisible life force that surrounds us. In contrast ANNE MacDONALD's photographic series are symbolic distillations of death.

In association with the fictive bodies on the gallery walls, Artereal offers the opportunity to participate in a free life drawing workshop. Contact the gallery or website for more information.

Artereal welcomes you to join the artists on opening night, Thursday 8 March at 6 - 8pm .

For further information visit www.artereal.com.au or call Rebecca Denning on (02) 9818 7473.

For media queries contact Rea Francis rfmedia@iprimus.com.au or 0414 250 790.

Artereal is located at
747 Darling Street , Rozelle.

Body of Work
8 March - 5 April 2007

Gallery hours:
Wed - Sat, 11am - 5pm

Opening night
Thursday 8 March at 6 - 8 pm

".he starts the way a child starts,
which is to draw a line at the bottom of the page."

Rozelle's contemporary art gallery, Artereal, launches its 2007 program on Thursday 8 February at 6.00pm with NOW THEN , an exhibition of paintings and charcoal drawings by Melbourne artist Greg Ades. The exhibition will continue until Saturday 3 March.

The exhibition combines stunning outback landscapes of simple lines with stark urban environments. Ades explores the urban psyche through images of monolithic institutional and

domestic structures, which threaten or are threatened by their peripheral space.

The artist has spent time in New York and recently journeyed to remote areas of Australia to continue his exploration of 'the idea of the solitary' in both the city and bush - themes he has finessed over 25 years. His journeys to the Kimberley , Kakadu, the Daintree and South Australian deserts are all reflected in the Artereal exhibition.

"Whilst my works are landscapes, they are also a topography of psychosis; of hallucinogenic states filtered through a reality of survival - both as an artist in a peripheral land, and an individual in a physically daunting environment" says Ades.

Ades' work is held in major Australian public and corporate collections including Artbank, and Allen Allen and Hemsley. He has shown regularly with major Melbourne galleries (with Helengory Gallerie for the past 5 years) and participated in significant group exhibitions throughout Australia . His last exhibition in Sydney in 1984 was with Roslyn Oxley9.

Ades is currently Artist in Residence at the Port Melbourne Primary School where he continues to draw the line.

For further information visit www.artereal.com.au or call Rebecca Denning on (02) 9818 7473.

For media queries and for high resolution pix contact Rea Francis rfmedia@iprimus.com.au or 0414 250 790.
The artist is available for interview Tuesday 6 February - Saturday 10 February.

Opening night with the artist is on Thursday 8 February at 6pm - 8pm .

Artereal is located at
747 Darling Street , Rozelle.

NOW THEN, Greg Ades
8 February - 3 March 2007 .

Gallery hours:
Wednesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm