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Announcing our first project for 2024. Thank you for supporting us this year. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
Announcing our first project for 2024. Thank you for supporting us this year.
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It’s almost time to say goodbye to 2023 and welcome in 2024. We warmly thank all the artists, collaborators, volunteers, collectors, donors, partners, audiences and retail/hospitality patrons who have engaged with correspondences in 2023.
This year, correspondences has been honoured to support six on-site residencies and 20 artistic collaborations with an exceptional group of culturally and linguistically diverse creatives from various fields and generations.
Together, we have generated ten exhibitions, 40 diverse events and engagement programs and welcomed countless beautiful visitors to our space to experience visual art, music, and literature - or to gather and make, shop, or be together as a community while enjoying our hospitality service. We have had the good fortune of having two marvellous assistant producers (interns), Paulina Tuscano and Saskia Yeung, who continue to do beautiful things in their work and study.
In 2024, our creative program will continue to build upon our enduring commitment to creative projects that bring together socially engaged, situational and interdisciplinary practices that provide space for questioning and fostering enduring social connections between people from different cultures, disciplines and generations.
In recent news, we are grateful to have secured the Merri-Bek City Council Flourish Arts Recovery Grant to support our work in 2024. We sincerely thank Merri-Bek for their continuing support and this vital vote of confidence in what we do. Along with self-generated income and continued efforts to raise additional public funds, we have exciting plans afoot that we look forward to sharing with you in the new year.
Before we close at 6 pm this Saturday, 23 December, please visit the gallery to see Alex Fredriksson / Throwing Stones 《投石》curated by 咏晖 Donna Huang and presented as part of the correspondences Colleagues program for talented early career producers. We are thrilled today to share a sneak peek into our first project for 2024, Emma Ovenden & Elyss McCleary / Harmonious Eccentricity, opening on 25 January. We look forward to welcoming you back when we reopen at 10 am on this day. Read on to find out more.
We wish you and yours a safe and happy holiday period. We are sending much love to those who need it at this time.
Warmly
correspondences Studio
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BRUNSWICK| 25.1.24—29.2.24
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Upcoming projects/exhibitionsEmma Ovenden & Elyss McCleary
Harmonious Eccentricity
25 January ––7 March 2024
Harmonious Eccentricity is a collaborative residency project presented in connection with our annual Resonate program featuring live music, improvisation, video, quilting and beading practice by multi-instrumentalist/composer/visual artist Emma Ovenden, painting by visual artist Elyss McCleary and community collage making.
The project was inspired by Emma's albums Parameter I and II and works of visual art – the profoundly harmonious eccentricity in the sound and the innate sense of musicality in her abstract visual artworks, akin to the musical rhythms of this incomparable 'Unconventional beat maker. Integrity purist'.
It's a sensibility also palpable in the paintings of collaborator Elyss McCleary – works such as Golden Sherbert, 2018 (a detail pictured above), which will be shown alongside a selection of new and historical works.
Drawing inspiration from this idea of 'harmonious eccentricity', the project examines the art of sound, colour and abstraction, the interconnection of these disciplines with our bodies and the experience of emotional resonance, healing and connectivity with our sense of everyday being and place.
Emma and Elyss will collaborate/respond, make and present a series of exhibits and activities over six weeks that encourage audiences to explore the power of paradoxical thinking and making along with related notions of care and the importance of community connection in an age of increasing loneliness and social anxiety.
There will be a range of intersecting ideas and experiences around perfectionism/setting parameters, ageing, relationships, the healing ritual of making and the overarching sense of nostalgia and melancholy, as well as moments of joy and restlessness found in both artists’ practice.
There are five weeks of exhibition planned.
–– Week 1 25 January - 2 February: The first exhibition will focus on Emma’s practice, featuring new music, quilts and a video made by Emma in response to one of her songs. During this first week, Emma and Elyss will connect on-site and begin their respective making plans.
–– Week 2 3 February - 9 February: The artists will continue to make this week, and the first of two historic painterly works by Elyss - Golden sherbert, 2018 - will be added to the exhibit alongside Emma's music, quilts and video work.
– Week 3 10 -17 February: Making continues, and the second of the two historical works by Elyss will be added to the exhibit - alongside Emma’s music, quilting, video and new works of intricate beading.
– Weeks 4 & 5, 22 February - 7 March: The final exhibit will show a selection of new and historical music and visual artworks by both artists.
Alongside the exhibitions, community-making and a range of events have been planned. To find more detail continue reading under under Special Events & activities below.
Two special events are also planned for March in collaboration with our wonderful partners at the Sydney Road Street Party and Brunswick Music Festival—more details to be released in due course.
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BRUNSWICK| 25.1.24—29.2.24
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Special events & activities
Open late — Emma Ovenden & Elyss McCleary / Harmonious Eccentricity & Multilingual Poetry Reading Circle.
Friday, 2 February, 6:30-8:00 PM
correspondences Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country 39 Sydney Road Bulleke-bek (Brunswick) VIC
Together with Emma and Elyss, we invite you to join us after dark to explore the first exhibit and join our Multilingual Poetry Reading Circle - a monthly gathering inaugurated in 2023.
Access is free. Bookings are essential for planning purposes.
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An intimate set of live music with Emma Ovenden
Friday, 9 February, 6:30-8:30 pm
correspondences Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country 39 Sydney Road Bulleke-bek (Brunswick) VIC Join us for an intimate set of new live music by Emma. Elyss will also come along to listen and sketch a little. Note:—
—1) Entry from 6:30 PM. Emma’s set will commence at 7:00 PM and will finish at 7:45 PM.
—2) If you’d like a ticket with a drink, please choose the relevant ticket - pre-orders greatly assist our little Events team. This event is ticketed to help us subsidise the work we do. We appreciate your support.
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Facilitated collage workshop
Saturday, 10 February, 1:00-3:30 PM
correspondences Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country 39 Sydney Road Bulleke-bek (Brunswick) VIC Join us for a hands-on collage workshop with correspondences’ Emma Thomson. Throughout the session, we will also chat with Emma O and Elyss about collage, their practice and experiences working together on the project. This is a facilitated session with all materials and equipment provided. If you prefer to join a freestyle, self-guided session, join one of the other Saturday sessions on 17 or 24 February or 2 March. Bookings —> here.
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Opening - Emma Ovenden & Elyss McCleary / Harmonious Eccentricity
Friday, 16 February 6:30-8:00 PM
correspondences Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country 39 Sydney Road Bulleke-bek (Brunswick) VIC Together with Emma and Elyss, we invite you to join us for the opening of their residency project, Harmonious Eccentricity, and to celebrate the start of the new year. Access is free. Bookings are essential for planning purposes.
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Artist-In-Conversation - Emma Ovenden & Elyss McCleary
Harmonious Eccentricity
Friday, 23 February 6:30-8:00 PM
correspondences Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country 39 Sydney Road Bulleke-bek (Brunswick) VIC Join us after the opening of the final exhibit on-site for a conversation with Elyss and Emma, reflecting on intersections between sound, colour, making practice and much more. Access is free. Bookings are essential for planning purposes. Note:—
—1) Entry from 6:30 PM. The conversation will run from 7:00 - 8:00 PM.
—2) If you’d like a ticket with a drink, please choose the relevant ticket - pre-orders greatly assist our little Events team.
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Acknowledgement of CountryWe respectfully acknowledge the Sovereign Custodians of the land and waters upon which we live and work, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders past, present and emerging. We extend this respect to all First Peoples.
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