The Workers Club

Through the Looking Glass is an art gallery at The Workers Club. The constantly evolving space provides artists from all walks of life the chance to display their works, free of charge.

If you are interested in contributing an artwork to Through the Looking Glass, contact michelle@getnotorious.com

Current Exhibition

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Eat the Night by Jayne Tuttle

Eat the Night is a series of photographs by visual artist/actor/writer/musician Jayne Tuttle. The photographs are of collages created as support for her play Alice Eat the Night Violet, which was written and performed in Paris in 2007.

The play – itself a collage of images – was inspired by the works, which use photography to create collage, which is then itself photographed and further distorted. This process of reshaping and reimagining allows Jayne to play with perspective and time, and it also helps bring out the strangeness and other-worldliness in the images, something that became important in the play.

The Australian debut of Alice Eat the Night Violet is scheduled for late 2010.

Prudence Rees-Lee January 27 – February 27

The Art of Fashion

Designed by new kids on the block Hammocks and Honey, and painstakingly crafted by accessory label PHILOS-o-FACE, the sculptural pieces featured in The Art of Fashion straddle the art, craft and fashion trajectory in a unique, and kind of creepy, way.

Using repetition to engage with the tensions between mechanical reproduction and the post GFC preoccupation with the handmade, the work also plays with ideas of fan culture, image saturation and memorabilia while challenging the once static categories of wearable jewellery and art object. This is the first in a series of collaborations between the label and band.

Madeleine Brady December 17 – January 26

Inventioninnovation
Mixed media

Inventioninnovation is an absurd window cleaning device that questions the influence of technology on the traditional notion of the ‘worker’. The themes of logic, economy and masculinity are carried through to the accompanying series of drawings. Madeleine Brady is an Australian artist currently living and studying in Germany. http://www.madeleinebrady.com/

Launch – Thursday December 17, 6pm sharp for complimentary drinks!

Madeleine Brady

Alice Alva November 23 – December 16

Diploastrea Heliopora 2009,
Mixed media

Diploastrea heliopora is a personal homage and reflection of a snorkelling holiday. The work explores the fabric make up of Australia by focusing on the colour, texture and pattern of the Great Barrier Reef using 3D paper techniques.

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Vicky Yuan October 23rd – November 23rd

Kitty Kitty Bang Bang
Mixed Media

Vicky Yuan’s installation is an obituary, offering and lament for a cat who departed before his prime. Kitty Kitty Bang Bang explores the phenomenon of celebrity death and public outpouring for people known only vicariously through tabloids and paparazzi. This cat’s untimely death has led to notoriety and eternal youth.

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