QV: MAY 28TH - 9TH JUNE
NO VACANCY & MADMAN PRESENT;

EVANGELION

Madman Entertainment, in collaboration with NTV Films and No Vacancy Gallery, are proud to announce a 2013 event tour that fans of Japanese popular culture and the EVANGELION franchise will not want to miss.

The exclusive exhibition will offer anime/manga, sci-fi and pop culture fans of all ages a unique and extensive insight into how the famed EVANGELION animated films were created – showcasing a collection of original concept and production art, character drawings and other key artefacts that provide a rare and fascinating glimpse at the behind the scenes artistry of Japanese anime film production.

A variety of rare and valuable EVANGELION books, statues, tapestries and other items will also be on display.

No booking required: $5 Entry Fee

FED SQ: YARRA BUILDING MAY 23RD - 26TH
NO VACANCY 5TH BIRTHDAY

We are turning 5 on the 23rd May 2013!!! Check out the line up! big show at Yarra Building at federation sq.

Bonsai, Twoone, Megg, Ghostpatrol, Nick Thomm, Ollie Lucas, Drew Funk, Jeremy Ley, Eveline tarandaja, Luke Lucas, Dehara, Jasper Wong, Kubota Fumikazu, Charlotte Lance, Cat Rabbit, Nior, Seven Seas, Isabelle Knowles, Makatron, Beastman, Numskull, Max Berry, Ben Frost, Stephen Ives, Tai Snaith, Nails, Buff Diss, Adnate, Tom Vincent, Sheryo, Yok, Acorn, Thomas Jackson, Sean Whelan, Justin WilliamS, Andrew Gordon, Stephen Doan, Paul Mylecharane (Oh54)

QV: 11TH - 23RD JUNE
YOU’RE A WOMAN, I’M A MACHINE

RECENT PAINTINGS BY ROSS VAUGHAN AND SHAUN THATCHER

Ross Vaughan and Shaun Thatcher have put together their first collaborative exhibition after working side by side for the last three years.

Ross’ work takes trash imagery, pop culture and advertising tropes and throws them in a blender, painstakingly rendering the result in oil paint, while Shaun’s paintings blur the line between figuration and abstraction with his deconstructed portraits and still lifes.

Both artists live and work in Melbourne.

FED SQ: JUNE 4TH - 13TH
NIOR

No-Vacancy gallery presents a new series of paintings and sculptures by Melbourne artist Robert Bowers, also known as Nior. In his new body of work, Nior continues his mark makings of the wild world. Balancing forces of chaos and inclinations toward order in the animal kingdom. Cropped insights into the group behaviour of vast groups, herds and colonies are a major focus in this new display.

FED SQ: JUNE 15TH - 23RD

Sound to Light – Crossing Borders

Sound to Light – Crossing Borders is an exploration in interdisciplinary practice and artists' locality. Melbourne and Hobart based artists involved in the fields sound and light are matched together and given two months to create new hybrid partnerships. Presented concurrently at two separate festivals; Dark MOFO and The Light in Winter, the works will be simultaneously streamed between both sites transforming the No Vacancy Gallery & Salamanca Arts Centre into a hive of performance and installation-based work.

Curated by Jason James and Chris Norman and produced and presented by Salamanca Arts Centre, Dark MOFO & 313RGB.

Kit Webster & Chiara Kickdrum
Ethno Tekh (Chris Vik & XY01)
Oscar Ferreiro & Heath Brown
Zeal & Cycle
Chronox (Michael Prior & Lachlan Conn)
Sally Rees & Rodney Berry
Dylan Sheridan & Laura Hindmarsh
The Hunter & Jason James

Website: www.soundtolight.net

Performance: (Opening) 6—8pm, 15 June 2013

QV: JULY 2ND - 14TH

LEPUS AUSTRALIA

Lepus Australis' will highlight the plight of the humble domestic bunny in Australia.
In 1950, Myxomatosis, a highly contagious and fatal disease, was released into Australia to control the wild rabbit population, however the majority of wild rabbits have since developed an immunity to the disease while domestic rabbits have no protection.

Spread by biting insects such as mosquitos and fleas, it is impossible to completely protect a pet bunny from this virus and once contracted 99.9% of bunnies die. 2010 & 2011 were particularly bad years with hundreds of infected pet bunnies being euthanised between October and May. Having to say goodbye to an otherwise perfectly healthy family member is so cruel and causes so much heartache.

The only solution is to legalise the myxomatosis vaccine. Australian bunny fans want to share their love for their furry friends and show our country that we need change. Forty-five emerging and established local illustrators, including Amy Borrell, Beth Emily, Courtney Brims, Lilly Piri, and Kirbee Lawler, will come together in a positive celebration of all things rabbit and Australiana, as well as an installation of one thousand origami paper bunnies.
Produced by Sally Landells and Emma Leonard.

FED SQ: JUNE 24TH - 14TH JULY
DJILPLIN ARTS

Djilpin Arts Aboriginal Corporation is a not for profit organisation based in the Beswick (Wugularr) community of the Northern Territory. It was established in 2002 to maintain, develop and promote traditional and contemporary Indigenous visual and performing arts of the Katherine and Arnhem regions.

Working in country with kin and culture across generations Djilpin Arts’ activities which include visual, performing and multimedia arts, are rich in spirit, bringing healing to the community, linking traditional culture with modern enterprise. Djilpin operates from the Ghunmarn Cultural Centre in Beswick and its Katherine Gallery. The annual Walking With Spirits Festival at Malkgulumbu (Beswick Falls) re-enacts the ancient art of corroboree with fire, music and imagery. Multimedia programs create film and video which take Djilpin’s stories to the rest of Australia and the world.

Djilpin’s has 100% Indigenous membership of approximately 75 people from Wugularr and other communities, and from Rittharngu/Wagalak, Dalabon, Mialli, Mara, Jawoyn and Rembarrnga language groups. It is overseen by a Board of Directors and has eight permanent indigenous staff positions. While the name “Djilpin‟ refers to important ceremonial land at Goyder River, the organisation’s focus is on arts and cultural practice in the region, rather than with a particular group of Traditional Owners.

FED SQ: AUGUST 6TH - 25TH
JEN FROST

Consistent Inconsistencies

The small details, the perfect glimpses, the way light falls through foliage, the rapier sharpness of a birds beak, the fuzzy fullness of an errant bumblebee, the fine petals of a perfect  tiny alpine bloom.

Jennifer Frost has a refined sensitivity to the small details. Taking the natural world and deconstructing it into small intimate pieces – each one a secret perfect beauty – then reassembling, grouping, pairing, building a precious patchwork narrative.  An expansive view with a detailed eye, delicate constructions that are individuals yet part of the whole, timeless yet fleeting.

 Jennifer Frost works in precious metals, print, pencil, paint, photography and glass to celebrate nature in all its consitent inconsistencies.

QV: AUGUST 23RD - 8TH SEPTEMBER
KATRINA RHODES

Katrina Rhodes paints surealistic pieces, which express the shared view that ‘playfulness is a form of wisdom and not of frivolity.’

As a painter, Rhodes lives in a kind of seclusion. She will allow herself to be described only as ‘a student of time and whimsy’ who never studied art in an institution. She admits her work enjoys an element of self-indulgence, so prefers to encourage each viewer to humour themselves by finding their own relationship to her art.

Rhodes incorporates themes based on her attraction to the ‘fantastical’ water foul. Her ideas stem from a subconscious place which, she confesses, is a ‘tad hard to explain’. Like Impressions of Flying South is a body of works created by Rhodes with the aim of showing an evolution of sorts. Following on from her sell out first solo show in 2011, A Handful of Civilized Friends, this continuation of her outrageous plot welcomes the ‘Avian Humanoid’. In this show Rhodes acknowledges the absurdity of modern life, understands conformity and yet rejects conformity of a destructive nature. Rhodes also believes that notions of romantic and personal fulfillment are just as important as social activism in art. As Rhodes’ latest body of work, Like Impressions of Flying South will give the viewer no choice but to devour all elements of the artist’s message, no matter how ridiculous.

FED SQ: SEPTEMBER 2ND - 22ND

EAST OF THE SUN, WEST OF THE MOON

Emma Leonard's debut solo show focuses on a distinctly feminine hero's journey in an otherworldly, yet familiar place.
Inspired by a collection of seven Northern European fairytales, 'East Of The Sun, West Of The Moon' is a series of new portraits of melancholy young women straddling adolescence and adulthood that are at once beautiful and macabre, innocent and unsettling, and fragile yet powerful.

FED SQ: SEPTEMBER 24TH - 13TH OCTOBER
FELECITY HAYWARD

MORE INFO COMING SOON.

QV: OCTOBER 8TH - 20TH OCTOBER
KATHERINE GAILER

‘Woman’ and ‘Nature’ are fundamentally connected. The biological cycles in the female body allow her to bond with other natural rhythms present in the environment. In an attempt to revive a multidimensional reading of the female subject, Katherine Gailer’s works reveal fragments of female identity in its enigmatic, instinctive, sexual and destructive aspects. “zero” is an exhibition that aims to expose the possibility of women being body transcendent rather than body dependent, with the purpose of opening a conversation about the cohesion that exists between ‘body’, ‘nature’ and ‘woman’. Through this infusion of elements, the feminine meets with the cycles of the cosmos to celebrate the interconnectedness of all things, exposing the tenderness and beauty of what is ‘to be’/‘being’ a woman.

FED SQ: OCTOBER 15TH - 3RD NOVEMBER
HELEN & INGRID WILSON

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life” Bertholdt Auerbach (1812-82)

Dust is a group multimedia exhibition and print exchange exploring the ideas and images that emerge when a selection of printmakers respond to this quote.

The artists are invited to edition one print for exhibition at No Vacancy and are provided with the collection.

In conjunction with the print exhibition, Ingrid Wilson will make a short film featuring the artists in their studios during some part of their printmaking process speaking about the thoughts and processes informing the work.

The prints and film provide a window into each artist’s mind and methods as they explore their own responses intellectually, emotionally and technically.

QV: NOVEMBER 19TH - 1ST DECEMBER
ARCHITECH AWARDS

MORE INFO COMING SOON.

QV: 5TH - 15TH DECEMBER
BA TEXTILES DESIGN

The annual exhibition of RMIT's Bachelor of Arts (Textile Design) final year students will serve as a celebration and culmination of three years of highly innovative and dynamic work focused in the discipline of textile design.

Textiles will be the common thread that brings the pieces together to showcase the range of skills of the 24 students. Represented through the program's specialised areas of surface and construction design (print, knit and weave), which can include illustration, bookmaking, product design, fashion design and concept design in both digital and traditional media.