Project Rooms 2006

Melbourne Art Fair 2006's Project Rooms featured new work created by: Helen Johnson and Michelle Ussher (Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces); Scott Redford (Institute of Modern Art); Mira Gojak (Monash University Museum of Art); Stephen Fox, Emil Goh, David Lawrey and Jaki Middleton, Tara Marynowsky, Ms & Mr, Sam Smith, Soda_Jerk and Grant Stevens (Soda_Jerk & Half Dozen); Valerie Sparks (Linden).

 
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    Kate Just

    Kate Just (Melbourne) presented LOVE, a sculpture exploring the anthropormorphic quality of particular gardens, plants and land sites and references the artist's childhood memories of wildly-decorated small town American suburban yards, during cold dark Christmases.

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    Soda_Jerk & Half Dozen

    Soda_Jerk & Half Dozen presented a selection of video art works, by emerging video artists, including works by Stephen Fox and David Lawrey & Jaki Middleton.

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    Monash University Museum of Art

    MUMA'S project room featured an immersive multi-part sculptural installation by Mira Gojak, with a constellation of sleep-movements as its sculptural centrepiece. The new work is partly based upon a series of drawings of people sleeping; these drawings have been used as 'templates' from which have evolved a new series of the artist's distinctive sculptures, comprised of fragmented domestic furniture.

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    Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces

    Gertrude Contemporray Art Spaces presented an installation by Melbourne artists , Helen Johnson and Michelle Ussher, assembled from discarded and salvaged materials, referencing the role of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and the framework of community and communal living.

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    Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

    Scott Redford's project for the Melbourne Art Fair, presented by the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane explored an unobserved connection between aspects of utopian Russian revolutionary period architecture, and the freestanding roadside motel signage that originated in Las Vegas in the 1950s, which was soon imitated on the Gold Coast, Redford's hometown.

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    Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts

    Valerie Sparks' large, extraordinary digital installations, presented by Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts referenced the early 18th century French wallpaper genre of scenic panoramic landscapes. Sparks' project room evoked a parlour and explores its place as a point of respite.

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