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Sky Lab Project
In December 2009 the first Sky Lab exhibition was curated by Felicity Spear to coincide with the International Year of Astronomy. Artists who participated included Daniel Armstrong, Magda Cebokli, Sam Leach, Lesley Duxbury, Harry Nankin and Felicity Spear. This took place at the Stephen Mclaughlan Gallery, Melbourne.
The second Sky Lab exhibition in November 2011, titled Sky Lab: from where you stand, included the work of three Australian artists from Melbourne and Brisbane (Daniel Armstrong, Felicity Spear and Vanessa Stanley), Tarja Trygg from Aalto University, School of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland, and a London based Nepali artist (Govinda Sah ’Azad’), all of whom presented their work at the cross disciplinary Seventh International Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena (INSAPVII), which took place at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath, UK, in October 2010, and was organized by the University of Wales.
A third Sky Lab exhibition is planned and will hosted by Victoria’s Latrobe Regional Gallery in the Spring of 2013.
... A person looks at a work of art ...
Geelong Gallery — 18 September to 13 February 2011
Taking as its starting point three large, recently acquired photographs by contemporary Australian artist Anne Zahalka, this group exhibition is drawn mostly from Geelong Gallery's own collection and illustrates the currency in modern practice of the introspective but frequently witty genre of ‘art museum interior' in which visitors are seen to interact in different ways with works of art.
Zahalka's photographs, are presented in conjunction with earlier works by Edward Heffernan, Eric Thake, Peter Tyndall, Douglas Watson and Felicity Spear.
Seventh International Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena
INSAPVII — Bath (United Kingdom) — 24–29 October 2010
Felicity Spear presented a paper titled: Extending Vision: sky-situated knowledge and the artist’s eye.