Kudos Gallery
Gallery History & Vision
Kudos Gallery is located in the heritage listed St Sophia Hall in Napier St. Paddington. The gallery was established in 1998 by the COFA Students’ Association to provide COFA students with an accessible gallery space off campus to develop an exhibition profile whilst still at University. Post-VSU, Kudos is still run by COFA students, now supported and funded by Arc @ COFA, a new student organisation established in 2007.
The Kudos Gallery exhibition program is determined by a committee of student representatives from each school at COFA, and the Kudos Gallery Supervisor. The gallery plays host to approximately thirty diverse exhibitions per year, encouraging all students from first year to PhD level to submit proposals for solo, group or curated exhibitions.
An open policy at Kudos Gallery allows an exciting assortment of cutting-edge experimental art exploring emerging concepts, technologies and cross-mediums, as well as a celebration of traditional art practices and themes.
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Current Exhibitions
Brave New Worlds
Curated by Anne-Marie Hurtgen + Kirsten Cunningham
February 8 – February 18
The exhibition Brave New Worlds investigates the impact of human intervention in the world, examining how it has shaped the present and imagining how it might shape the future.
With startling imagination, Brave New Worlds brings to life some of the terrifying and exhilarating possibilities long embraced by science fiction, reminding us, unflinchingly, that we are hurtling toward an uncertain future. In a collection of intertwining narratives, the works in Brave New Worlds offer a vision of our world to come that is politically charged without being pessimistic; it is a vision that ultimately celebrates the resilience and ingenuity of earth’s inhabitants.
Curated by Anne-Marie Hurtgen & Kirsten Cunningham
Artists:
Amr Alfaleh, Kirsten Cunningham, Sophie Clague, Jessica Edwards, Julia Featherstone, Josh Harle, Laura Hill, Anne-Marie Hurtgen, James McDonald, Gail Reingold, Intan Tenacious, Miren Zarate and Freya Zinovieff
Opening: Tues, Feb 7, 5- 7pm
When: Feb 8 – 18, 2012
Where: Kudos Gallery
6 Napier St, Paddington, NSW
Hours: Wed to Fri, 11am – 6pm, Sat, 11am – 4pm
Tel: (02) 9326 0034
Upcoming Exhibitions
Alexander Poulet
I EXIST, I INSIST
February 22 – March 3
A solo exhibition utilising natural and urban settings to create a consuming contrast that displays our expansive effect on the Earth.
Opening: Tues, Feb 21, 5- 7.30pm
When: Jan 25 – Feb 4, 2012
Where: Kudos Gallery
6 Napier St, Paddington, NSW
Hours: Wed to Fri, 11am – 6pm, Sat, 11am – 4pm
Tel: (02) 9326 0034
Sophie Clague
Site
March 7 – March 17
A solo exhibition of sculpture based work by Sophie Clague in response to the COFA redevelopment building project.
Opening: Tues, March 6, 5- 7pm
When: March 7 – 17, 2012
Where: Kudos Gallery
6 Napier St, Paddington, NSW
Hours: Wed to Fri, 11am – 6pm, Sat, 11am – 4pm
Tel: (02) 9326 0034
Because We Can
Group exhibition at Kudos
March 21 – March 24
My uncle once received an award from the City of Melbourne for the person who has most contributed to making Melbourne “a living city”. He told an interviewer on radio that his father had gone down to Eastern Beach in Geelong every Sunday morning, regardless of the cold, to volunteer to teach the local kids to swim. When my uncle asked him why, he said: “because I can”. My uncle said that since his father’s passing a year ago, he had come to realise the importance of service to the community. My grandfather had actually died three years previous to the interview… When my mother asked my uncle why he had lied to the interviewer, he said: “because it made for a better story”. BECAUSE WE CAN.
Artist:
Tully Arnot, Andrew Burford, Alexandra Clapham, Lydia Dowman, Benjamin Holdstock, Gemma Messih, Bridie Moran, Stella Rosa McDonald and Zoe Roberston.
Opening: Tues, March 20, 5- 7pm
When: March 21 – 24, 2012
Where: Kudos Gallery
6 Napier St, Paddington, NSW
Hours: Wed to Fri, 11am – 6pm, Sat, 11am – 4pm
Tel: (02) 9326 0034
