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.
Read reviews of exhibtions at Kudos and leave comments on the COFA Blog.
Current Exhibitions
Emerging Topologies
Josh Harle
May 21 – May 25
The spaces we inhabit are becoming progressively more legible through ubiquitous access to Google Maps and GPS navigation, introducing new types of travel story and new types of space. Emerging Topologies explores the shifting landscape of a city experienced through mobile mapping technology, and sketches out its own improbable paths through the shadows.
Informed by his research degree in Computer Science, Josh Harle has created a series of software tools to map, scan, and visualise the city in contingent, poetic ways, in spite of the rationalising imperative of geo-locative technology. The works tell tales: compiling unreadable maps of journeys through strange cities, and taking playful, winding trips across the smudged face of the reference map.
Opening: Tues, May 21, 5-7pm
When: May 21-25
Where: Kudos Gallery
6 Napier St, Paddington, NSW
Hours: Wed to Fri, 11am – 6pm, Sat, 11am – 4pm
Tel: (02) 9326 0034
Upcoming Exhibitions
Princesses and Pirates
Mark Visione
May 28 – June 1
This exhibition of works by Mark Visione supports an investigation into the clear gender based preferences found in the drawings of children, which may indicate fundamental differences between females and males in their vision of the world, their art making and beyond.
Even though the questioning nature of art makes the use and manipulation of a ‘gender toolbox’ subjective and vague, recognition and use of these differences may allow the mature artist of either gender to suggest an emphasis towards masculinity or femininity in their own work.
Starting with etchings and collagraphs based on childhood drawings, Visione applies the understanding gained to his preoccupations with human relationships seen in the context of culture.
Opening: Tues, May 28, 5-7pm
When: May 28-Jun 1
Where: Kudos Gallery
6 Napier St, Paddington, NSW
Hours: Wed to Fri, 11am – 6pm, Sat, 11am – 4pm
Tel: (02) 9326 0034
Point of View
Volker Kuchelmeister, Josh Harle and Chris Henschke
June 5 – June 15
Point of View explores the boundaries between real and virtual space and the relationship between the observer and the observed.
Featuring work by COFA staff Volker Kuchelmeister, Josh Harle and Chris Henschke, the exhibition utilises electronic media to explore the boundaries of the cinematic image and investigate the limitations traditional ocular optics put on our perception of mediated imagery.
This exhibition is presented by COFA + ISEA2013.
Opening: Tues, Jun 11, 5-7pm
When: Jun 5-15
Where: Kudos Gallery
6 Napier St, Paddington, NSW
Hours: Wed to Fri, 11am – 6pm, Sat, 11am – 4pm
Tel: (02) 9326 0034
