May 6th, 2009
Just got back from Melbourne! Much thanks to the 200+ locals who created amazing impressions of their city in our matchboxes. Here Leanne is installing one of the last ones we received at Vitrine, Platform. Thanks Platform Artists Group, and a special thank you to Sirin at Coffee Cubby for her invaluable support.
It was great to see so many of our collaborators come visit us throughout the morning on Saturday. We look forward to letting you know where our Melbourne Portrait travels to next.
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April 30th, 2009
Thank you very much to all who have contributed to People Make Places: Melbourne via having your photo taken and/or creating your impression of Melbourne inside one of our matchboxes. The matchboxes we have been receiving at Vitrine, Platform are amazing. We are having a special viewing of People Make Places this Saturday 2 May 10.30am-12pm - the final day of our time at Vitrine, Platform. On the day, we will be launching our photographs of Melbournians we have captured during our visits to Melbourne over the past few years.
Hope to see you there!
Vitrine is a large cabinet window space located under Flinders Street in Campbell Arcade (also known as Degraves Street Subway). The Arcade/subway connects to Flinders Street Station train platforms and can also be reached via stairs off Degraves & Flinders Streets. The closest exit to Vitrine is an underground staircase accessed from outside 248 Flinders St. Vitrine is at the bottom of these stairs (opposite the hairdresser).
Vitrine is part of the Platform Artist Group, an amazing artist run initiative supported by artists, the City of Melbourne through the Arts & Culture Triennial Program 2009-2011, by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria Programming, and by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
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April 6th, 2009
This month we will be spending time in Melbourne creating a portrait of the city with the help of the locals. The portrait is gradually being created at Vitrine, Platform located in Campbell Arcade, Flinders St Station which is accessible from Flinders St, Degraves St and via the Degraves St subway exit of Flinders Station (the staircase going downwards located in the middle of each platform of Flinders Station leads to the Arcade )
We will be spending most of our time at Vitrine - please visit us and contribute to our portrait: Campbell Arcades hours are
Monday - Friday 7am-7pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday and public holidays: closed
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April 1st, 2009
We are currently installing our latest project at the Vitrine Platform, Degraves St exit of Flinders St Station. The opening is this Friday night - if you are in Melbourne please stop by. We will be here for about a month creating a portrait of Melbourne.
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March 27th, 2009
Please join us at our March exhibitions and events. Please view our News Page for more info. We hope you can join us.
3 year celebration of PEOPLE TO PEOPLE, PLACE TO PLACE
presented at
At The Vanishing Point, 565 King St, Newtown
Saturday 28 March   10am - 7pm
Sunday 29 March    10am - 5pm
Image: Match Box Projects, The Journey So Far (in part) 2006-9
Features Match Box Galleries presenting works from top left hand corner L-R:
Row 1 G1 Yutaka Katoh, Leanne Shedlezki, Zoe MacDonell G2 Chizuko Saito, Koujirou Inoue, Martin Sharp,
G3 Simon Cooper, Leanne Shedlezki, Jennie Tate
Row 2 G4 Rodney Love, G5. Lucy Barker
Row 3 G6 Yodogawa Technique, Adam Hill, Nobumasa Takahashi G7 Taichi Oda, Linda Dennis, Keiko Inoue G8 Match Box
Copyiright. The Artists 2006-9
www.sydneyariguide.com …coming soon
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September 14th, 2008
We were invited to take part in the Chalk Urban Arts Festival, the largest Urban Art Festival in the Southern Hemisphere. It was held from 4 - 7 September 2008 in Tumbalong Park and The Chinese Gardens in Darling Harbour, Sydney. We introduced Match Box Galleries to those that came out to enjoy the Festival and spent time with the Chalk Artists creating some amazing works.
Above is Joey Betsy and her work which won the People’s Choice Award.
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May 25th, 2008
We were invited to be Guests of Honour at the Australia Japan Society of New South Wale’s Breaking New Ground event held at TressCox Lawyers Sydney on 22 May, 2008. We presented an insight to the Australia Japan Match Box Projects and exhibited Match Box Galleries presenting works by Karolina Novak, Jirat Patradoon, Michael Kempson, Linda Dennis, Keiko Inoue, Hirotoshi Sakaguchi, Imants Tillers, Ruark Lewis, Yuna Ogino, Toshiko Oiyama, Janet Laurence, Chizuko Saito, Koujirou Inoue and Martin Sharp
Works featured above Left to Right are by Karolina Novak, Jirat Patradoon and Michael Kempson
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May 16th, 2008
Facetnate! Series of Exhibitions: February - August 2008, SydneyÂ
Japan Foundation Gallery, Level 1, Chifley Plaza, 2 Chifley Square, Sydney
We are currently taking part in facetnate!, the Japan Foundation’s New Visual Artists Project, a 6 month series of back to back solo exhibitions by 6 emerging Australian artists influenced by Japan in their art practice. A facetnate! Match Box Gallery presenting works by all partaking will be exhibited at the gallery throughout the program.
Current/Upcoming Facetnate exhibitions           Â
6 - 20 May     Peter Humble Flights into Foreign
5 - 25 June   Symple Creative  NEOTOKYO + NEOSYDNEY
3 - 29 July     Benedict Ernst Garden of Love
11 - 26 Aug   Ainslie Murray An architecture of Thread and Gesture
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Map  to the Japan Foundation Gallery, Sydney  Â
For further Facetnate info go to
www.jpf.org.auÂ
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March 30th, 2008
A diverse range of NSW artists joined us with their Solo Match Box Galleries for an art in the park picnic. We introduced our works to eachother, our peers, friends and Match Box supporters. Match Box History Galleries and a Group Gallery introducing the most recent artists from Japan to collaborate with us were also presented.
Solo Match Box Galleries are now ready to hit the road on a future tour!
Pictured galleries from top L-R by:
Row 1 -Lucy Barker, Benedict Ernst, Tony & Francois, Match Box
Row 2 - Michael Kempson, MaryAnne Kyriakou, Rodney Love    Â
Row 3 - Paul Green, Leanne Shedlezki, Chizuko Saito (Chichi)Â Â Â
Row 4 - (Bottom Row) -Louis Pratt
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March 27th, 2008
Two years ago, we asked 3 artists to create work for our Portable Match Box Gallery, which we first toured to Nagoya Gardens, Hyde Park on Australia Day, 2006. Since then, more than 50 Galleries have been created, exhibiting works by 72 Australian and Japanese artists. Bring a picnic and celebrate with us in Hyde Park. Local artists who have created new series of works for Match Box Galleries will be out and about to introduce you to their work.Â
Hope to see you there.Â
Leanne and Naomi Shedlezki
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March 26th, 2008
Current/Upcoming solo exhibitions by Artists participating in Match Box Projects
SYDNEY
19 March - 5 April
Anna Kristensen Vision Quest
@ Gallery 9 9 Darley Street, Darlinghurst
20 Mar - 5 April
Zoe MacDonell Shadows on the Floor
Chalk Horse 56 Cooper Street, Surry Hills
8-24 April
Bil “William Anderson Jr” Facetnate! Exhibition 2: Totally Flat Consumer Camo
@Japan Foundation Gallery Level 1, Chifley Plaza, 2 Chifley Square, Sydney
14 May - 31 May
Monika Behrens History Wars (working title)
@First Draft 116-118 Chalmers St, Surry Hills
MELBOURNE
March - 5 April
Julian Meagher Scrub Series
Upstairs Flinders Level 1, 137 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
5 - 28 June
Monika Behrens Hush Rehearsal
Gallerysmith 170-174 Abbotsford St, North Melbourne
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March 22nd, 2008
 Facetnate! People to People, Place to Place: Australia-Japan
As the invited recipient of the Japan Foundation’s Support Program for Emerging Artists, we opened Facetnate! - a series of 6 exhibitions by Australian emerging artists influenced by Japan in their art practice. We presented 12 Match Box Galleries exhibiting works by the 72 artists taking part in the Australia Japan Match Box Project. The above 11 Galleries evolved following conducting an action research trip through Tokyo, NSW and Nagoya travelling with the below Match Box Gallery.Â
Side A of the Match Box Gallery which has continuously been touring through Australia and Japan introducing our project to fellow artists and collaborators, including all those exhibiting at the the Japan Foundation
Match Box Galleries introducing the major zones of exchange of the project (sister regions Sydney-Nagoya and Tokyo-NSW) and various visitors to our galleries.
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February 22nd, 2008
We have been invited to launch Facetnate!, the Japan Foundation’s New Visual Artists Project being held at the Japan Foundation Gallery, Sydney. We will open this six month exhibition program with People to People, Place to Place: Australia-Japan, featuring works created for our Match Box Galleries by more than 70 diverse Australian and Japanese Artists, Designers and Curators, together with a photographic installation of the Galleries’ travels through Australia and Japan. We hope to see you there.
A map to the Gallery can be found here.Â
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February 16th, 2008
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We just got back from an amazing trip to Japan.
We took two galleries with us - The Match Box History Gallery and A snapshot Gallery . (see image list for names of works). We enjoyed introducing them to all. We travelled to Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and Yokohama catching up with participating artists, visiting galleries and arts organisations, and meeting the people of each city.
We look forward to writing more about our trip soon.Â
In the mean time here are a few snapshots
  
Ginza, Tokyo - our two new friends, university students at the UNSW who saw our artwork at Awespace, Sydney and were amazed to then see us on the streets of Tokyo - so were we! -  a really small world!  Here they are with our gallery featuring works by L-R Yutaka Katoh, Leanne and Zoe MacDonell -  the first  artists from Japan and Australia to create work for our galleries.
Outside Nagoya train station - One of our many gallery guests viewing works L-R by Simon Cooper, Leanne and Jennie Tate. We have been exhibiting Simon and Jennie’s  works since we took our first Match Box Gallery out on Australia Day 2006
We spent so much time on the trains - two of the many curious guests to our galleries viewing our snapshots - our train conductors waiting to board the bullet train.
Yodogawa - Osaka. Collaborative artist duo, Yodogawa Technique giving us a tour of where they first started creating work together - on the banks of the Yodogawa River, Osaka.Â
Mount Fuji on a perfect sunny day from the bullet train - shinkansen
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Come back here to view more snaps shortly.
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