MIKE STUBBS
BURNT
OPENING 6PM THURSDAY 20 APRIL
GALLERY TALK 4PM FRIDAY 21 APRIL
Mike Stubbs' work encompasses film, video, mixed media installations,
performance and curation.
Trained at Cardiff Art College and the Royal College of Art, in 2003
Mike Stubbs was appointed Curatorial Manager at the Australian Centre
for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne, where he has been central to
developing a broader and more popular exhibition program through
producing such exhibitions as the blockbuster, Kubrick and curating
Proof - The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes and the highly
accoladed White Noise.
Stubbs' internationally commissioned artwork encompasses short art
films for broadcast and media installations for galleries and large
scale projections for public environs. Recent works include Jump
Jet-a large scale outdoor projection and twin screen gallery
installation made on location at RAF Wittering, UK, in 2003; Fuel-QUT
Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane, 2005; Donut-permanently
installed at The Energy Gallery, Science Museum, London; Zero-a film
made with Gina Czarnecki using material shot in a zero gravity
environment during a parabolic flight at the Yuri Gagarin Training
Centre, Moscow. In 1999 he was invited to present a video
retrospective of his work at the Tate Britain, London. In 2003 a
selection of his work was featured at the Adelaide International Film
Festival.
Stubbs has won more than a dozen major international awards. Recent
prizes include: Videox, Zurich 2005; WRO Bienalle, Poland, 2005; and
Echigo Tsumari Trienalle, 2003 for Cultural Quarter. In March 2004 he
presented a diverse collection of new media installations at the
Baltic Art Centre, Newcastle Gateshead, UK, and in the same year
received a Fleck Fellowship, from Banff Art Centre, Canada.
"Stubbs's films are touching and poignant because they reveal the way
in which obsessions, enthusiasms and hobbies are used by people to
enshrine the aspirations that the bare facts of life can hardly ever
live up to. Stubbs' work is marked by an understanding of aspiration,
and of the individual's relationship with his/her dreams. Within this
relationship Stubbs articulates the significance of home - a place."
Lizzie Muller
Http://www.forma.org.uk/current_productions/cultural_quarter.html
http://www.imaging.dundee.ac.uk/people/mstubbs/index.htm
For further information contact EAF Director and Curator, Melentie
Pandilovski: +61 (0)8 8311 7505.
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EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION curates its exhibition program to
represent new work that expands current debates and ideas in
contemporary visual art. The EAF incorporates a gallery space,
bookshop and artists studios.
Lion Arts Centre North Terrace at Morphett Street Adelaide * PO Box
8091 Station Arcade South Australia 5000 * Tel: +618 8211 7505 * Fax
+618 8211 7323 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Bookshop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
http://www.eaf.asn.au * Director: Melentie Pandilovski
The Experimental Art Foundation is assisted by the Commonwealth
Government through the Australia Council, it arts funding and
advisory body and by the South Australian Government through Arts SA.
The EAF is also supported through the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy,
an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.
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