Please Note

Due to construction delays 

The Kurb will now return to 310 William street

at the end of September  2010

We have limited space available in late September at 214 William

KURB ENDORSES THE GREENS

 The Greens have by far the best arts policy as NAVA indicates 

 The Greens are showing real leadership in being prepared to invest new funds to build the success of Australian artists’ innovative ideas and practice, and ensure their contribution is better recognized and remunerated,

NAVA is particularly pleased that under the Greens, young and emerging artists would be the beneficiaries of targeted support mechanisms. The establishment of an Artist Fund would pay out $3 million in exhibition fees to artists when their work is on show in publicly funded galleries and not available for purchase. 

This would ensure that artists would be paid according to industry standards. For visual artists, it would provide an equivalent benefit to the Public Lending Right contribution paid to writers when their books are borrowed from libraries.” 

NAVA also welcomed the Greens’ promise to strengthen the recently legislated Resale Royalty right scheme by applying it on all resales, ensuring easier international reciprocity. The Greens also promise to remove the ‘opt out’ provision which can be used to compromise the inalienability of the right. NAVA affirmed that the proposed $5m fund would assist galleries to set up appropriate administrative mechanisms for compliance.

Though research shows that the great proportion of artists are financially self-sufficient, NAVA has been seeking fairer treatment for artists when they temporarily need income support. Under the Greens, social security arrangements will be greatly improved for artists recognizing engagement in appropriate arts programs or organisations as part of the mutual obligation requirements by Centrelink. Centrelink staff would also be trained to better assist artists. 

The arts industry has been united in its opposition to the recommendation of the Cooper Review into Australia’s Superannuation System, that investment in art works be denied to self-managed superannuation funds. The Australian Greens have added their voice to this opposition by acknowledging the substantial negative impact this decision would have on the Australian art market, especially detrimental for Indigenous artists. 

Indigenous intellectual property rights are another target in the Greens policy papers. NAVA welcomes their promise that better protection would be provided and recognition of Indigenous communal rights where artistic expression draws on traditional Indigenous knowledge and practices.

VOTE GREEN ON THE  21ST 

Current SHOW

CECILE FERARD AT THE KURB GALLERY 214 WILLIAM STREET

French artist Cecile Ferard will exhibit her video projections at the gallery from 8th August

Exhibition opening from 5.00 pm Sunday. 8th August All WELCOME.

ON Friday 13th August at 7.00pm she will perform

TATTOO YOU

A tattoo transference work of which she says

During my performance I will ask people to draw their own tattoos on my body, in the same place that the tattoo can be found on their body. It is enough for people to try to transfer their tattoo, I am not concerned about an exact drawing of their tattoo, the tattoo is the link between the people and me, as the artist.

There is a culture of tattoos in Australia which I would like to explore in this work. I would like to be covered by images which represent the identity of each person symbolised by their choice of tattoo . Try to evoke a new way of perceiving the Other. I question what the tattoo represents. This transposition raises issues of relationship and identity. I try play with the impossibility of becoming the Other, so that I am able to establish a new relation to

the image of the Other.  

 COMING UP

out of town 

Previous

COCK ROCK and the Swelpitingers

 opening  

Wednesday July 28th 6.00pm 

 until 28th May

coming soon 

THIS WEEKend 

 a wonderful installation

Anna and Korin Gath present

The Postmodern Nuclear Family

Friday 14th May 2010, 6.30pm

Saturday and Sunday 10am-3pm

Kurb Gallery. 214 William St. (Opposite Brass Monkey)

 ANNOUNCiNG PERFORMANCE PERENNIAL

Thursday May 6 Friday May  7 Sunday  May 9

including

 Martin Heine : Form and Function went very well 

 Friday and saturday also went well see below

Pippa's Studio 

Tatjana Seserko Seeing Blood 

All Washed UP 

KURB Performance Perennial

Thursday 6th May

7.30 pm - 8.30 pm Lucy Pearmain Fun With Television

9.00 pm - 10. 00 Martin Heine     Form Follows Function

Friday 7th May

7.30pm  - 10pm 

Pippa’s Photo Portrait Studio  

7.30pm  Natalie       Seesaw

9.00pm Tatjana Seserko  Seeing Blood 

9.30 Malcolm Iddoch Mood Music

Saturday evening 8th May

Concert by Benjamin Moleta 

Sunday 9th May 

2.30pm  - 4.30 pm

Pippa Tandy Pippa’s Portrait Show  

Exhibition of portrait photos made on Friday 

David  Bromfield Martin Heine

All Washed Up

Paint a Masterpiece on a Plastic Plate. 

Have your picture taken with it .

David and Martin will do The Washing Up 

Chris Poole Movie Time

FAIR TRADE SHOW

all welcome

 KURB PERFOrMANCE PERENNIAL 

All artists  who wish to be part of  this event please email kurbgallery@westnet.com.au

This  portrait of our esteemed director announces at last

* * * ** THE ALL STAR  ** * * *

KURBist GONG BAND CD LAUNCH

has taken place

 CD's now available  from Dan Spriggs $20.00

Opens 17 April

Amazing Stuff   

coming soon terrific painting

closed tuesday 13th April  

The AMAZiNG ADVENTURES of Safari Bob in INDO CHINA 

Happy snaps from the old daze

STOP PRESS

KURB GALLERY NOW REPAINTED A SPARKLING WHITE

use it or lose it  

This our first show at 214 William Street

EVERYONE WELCOME 

KURB STUDIOS DINNER DECEMBER 2009

Important Information for all Prospective Exhibitors at the KURB

 TEMPORARY EXHIBITION SPACE

From January 2010 The KURB will in temporary premises at 

214 William Street former NAB bank building (opposite the Brass Monkey).

We are taking exhibition bookings to begin from late January 2010  

The building contains an excellent large gallery space which needs a little work.

If require any further information please contact the KURB at 

kurbgallery@westnet,com,au.