Tyger! Tyger! 2012
Phip Murray @ West Space

Thursday 28 Jul 2011

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Event Name:	Tyger! Tyger! 2012


Artists:	Phip Murray
Date:	Thu, 28 Jul 2011 to Sat, 23 Jun 2012
Venue:	West Space Floor 1, 15-19 Anthony St Melbourne, VIC, 3000

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Tyger! Tyger! is a series of six exhibitions featuring work created by six pairs of artists. Firstly, we invited six artists – Constanze Zikos, Philip Brophy, Maria Kozic, David Chesworth, Lyndal Walker and Ian Haig – who, in turn, were invited to nominate another artist (or artists) to work with. The Tyger! Tyger! projects will be mounted at different times and durations across 2011 and 2012 in different gallery spaces at West Space according to their needs. Furthermore, each of the six exhibitions will be accompanied by two commissioned texts, to be published in a suite of six publications deigned and produced by Stuart Geddes. The first iteration of Tyger! Tyger! will occur with the launch of West Space’s new premises. The first exhibition presents work by Ian Haig who invited Kotoe Ishii, a recent graduate of VCA’s Master of Fine Arts program, to work with him. Haig and Ishii’s work shares an interest in the inter-relationships between technology and the body, albeit in strikingly different ways. The first publication will feature texts contributed by Ian Haig and Kelly Fliedner. A guiding principle behind Tyger! Tyger! is a desire to create opportunities to invite different artists to work at West Space. At present the West Space artistic program focuses primarily on artists in their first ten years of exhibiting. West Space has long desired to change this focus in order to exhibit a broader range of artists, partly as a strategy in which to interrogate definitions of ‘emerging’ versus ‘established’ artists and also to challenge the idea that artist-run spaces primarily exist as ‘stepping stones’ to a more illustrious career. West Space’s relocation to a new site, one double the size of our old premises, gave us an opportunity to expand and diversify our program. We liked the idea of potential pairs as it enabled us to work with artists that were not customarily exhibiting at West Space as well as continuing our relationship with many artists who are still considered emerging in their careers. Rather than set up a ‘mentorship’ relationship, we preferred a model that enabled collaboration and that acknowledged existing synergies. Tyger! Tyger! illuminates some of the many interesting networks and relationships that crisscross the art community.
Event Type:	Arts and Exhibition
Genres:	Art Exhibition
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