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CURRENT NEWS AND EVENTS
March 2009
Halinka has a solo show opening on Thursday 5th March at Boutwell Draper Gallery, 82 - 84 George Street Redfern Sydney NSW 2016
Full details at the Boutwell Draper website - Click here.
April 2008
Halinka's work 'Girls' will feature in an article by Carrie Lumby in AUSTRALIAN ART COLLECTOR magazine due for release 1st April 2008. Carrie has put together her wishlist of desirable work within a given budget.
Halinka has been selected for OFF THE WALL, an exhibit at the Melbourne 08 Art Fair, designed to be a showcase of worthy emerging artists. The opening night will be held on the 17th April 2008. The fair runs until 20th April 2008.
March 2008
TOYOTA EMERGING ARTISTS EXHIBITION - Halinka's work 'The Bridge' is being exhibited in the Toyota Emerging Artists Exhibition at their Community Spirit Gallery in Port Melbourne, Victoria from 27th March to 28th May. Halinka's work was one of 39 selected from a record number of entrants for this particular exhibition.
January 08
Halinka was a featured artist in TURNROW, a literary and arts magazine published by the University of Louisiana.
You can learn more about this quality journal by visiting their website - turnrow.ulm.edu
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NEWS AND EVENTS FROM 2007
26/6/07
A new Gallery has been added to this site showing new paintings by Halinka that will be featured in the forthcoming show at MOP, which opens this Thursday, June 28th (see previous news item below for details).
Click on the gallery link above and select the New Works Gallery to see the images.
20/6/07
MOP Exhibition - Melrose Park
OPENING: 28th June 2007, 6 - 8pm, Shop 2, 27 - 39 Abercrombie Street, Chippendale NSW 2008.
The show will run from 28/6/07 to 15/7/07, open Thursday to Saturday 1 - 6pm and Sunday & Monday 1 - 5pm.
Statement and sample images
Artist Statement - Melrose Park
Places can embody our emotions in a most peculiar and powerful way. For some time my work has focused on a sensation which Freud described as the uncanny. A disturbing subversion of the idea of home in which a brooding sense of unease is experienced in the domestic environment. If homeliness can typically be described as a sense of safety, comfort, belonging and the mundane then the uncanny is its opposite; a sense of danger, dislocation, anxiety and potentially a feeling that some supernatural presence has invaded the security of the everyday.
My work focuses on suburbia and the built environment and explores the contradictory layers of meaning that can be found reflected there; home and dislocation, safety and danger, belonging and being the outsider, culture and wildness, the known, visible, everyday, and the unknown, hidden forces that pulse beneath the surface. I photograph and later paint scenes containing a tension between these contradictory meanings, using the play of light and dark at night to create a sense of mystery and unease, casting the viewer in the role of the outsider. The way that any landscape is read is purely subjective, filtered through layers of personal experience, but what is interesting about the uncanny is that it is a sensation many people recognise and relate to. It can be a fearful and disconcerting experience but it can also be exciting, beautiful, enlivening; a connection to the primal in an otherwise mundane environment.
Melrose Park is the suburb I grew up in. It is directly across the Parramatta River from Homebush, skirted by the river, a golf course, Victoria Rd and the Wharf Rd factories. A tiny suburb of post war brick bungalows where one can sense a nostalgia for the idea of home that suburbia once ideologically embodied. There is also the presence of other forces, the river with its pungent smell of mangroves, its sense of remnant wildness and another peoples' history far predating the red brick, and the factories which hum with industry even at night. Considering the concerns within my work it became apparent that my own childhood home would be an interesting place to explore.
13/6/07
MOP Exhibition
The invite for Halinka's show at MOP Projects is shown below. Please note that MOP is also moving to a new Gallery space and this will be the first show at the new place.
OPENING: 28th June 2007, 6 - 8pm, Shop 2, 27 - 39 Abercrombie Street, Chippendale NSW 2008.
The show will run from 28/6/07 to 15/7/07, open Thursday to Saturday 1 - 6pm and Sunday & Monday 1 - 5pm.
30/5/07
MOP Exhibition
Halinka will be having a show with MOP Projects, opening on June 28th, 2007. Watch this space for further details. Be sure to go to the Contact page and sign up for the Mailing List so that you don't miss any updates.
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NEWS AND EVENTS FROM 2006
14/8/06
New Image Galleries
Follow the gallery link above to see images of Halinka's most recent works, all of which were featured in the recent G&A Studios exhibition. Within that gallery is a thumbnail link to an Archive Gallery that contains all the previous images that we had online.
10/8/06
G&A Studios exhibition
The show at G&A has been going very well and has been extremely well received. It closes this coming Sunday (13th) so be sure to get along soon if you haven't already. If anyone is interested in meeting Halinka, she will be at the gallery all day Friday 11th August.
Russh Magazine
Due to Russh Magazine going international, they have changed their publication dates. However, the new issue featuring the interview with Halinka (a full double page spread) is out now, so check your local news-stands. If we get permission, we'll reproduce the article here.
Images online
We're having a few technical difficulties, but images of recent works should be up in a gallery on this site soon, so check back regularly.
3/6/06
Dates for Halinka's next show
Details for Halinka's next show have been confirmed. The exhibition will be a joint show with Jodie Maurer at G & A Studios, Level 2 Studio 203, 342 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 - click here for website. It will run from July 26th to August 13th. The opening will be on Wednesday 26th July, from 6 to 8pm. Following the opening the show will be open for viewing Wednesday to Sunday, 12 till 6pm.
Magazine feature
Halinka will be the featured artist in the next edition of Russh Magazine, on sale July 5th (click here for website).
19/4/06
Australian Art Collector Article
Halinka has recently had the honour of being included in the annual undiscovered artists feature in the current Australian Art Collector magazine. She has been included as one of 10 artists chosen nationally.
July Show
Halinka is currently in negotiation with G and A galleries in Sydney for a show at the end of July. The final date is yet to be confirmed but we will let you know as soon as it is. If possible, images of the work to be shown will go up on the site prior to exhibition. To be part of the mailing list, please send an email saying that you would like to be included.