Gav Barbey Ice Melts Jan 26 - Feb 18 2024
Ice Melt Performance Art/Exhibition Creation On Saturday 27th January Gav Barbey created a series of art works from specially created ice blocks. Each block was combined with pigment and paint to slowly melt onto the canvas. Gav used physical movement performance art to control the melt in creating the unique artworks that are now on show and for sale.
Gav Barbey - Ice Melts
Everything we observe is changing moment by moment... it has no inherent static nature... When we give ourselves up to being present in the moment, we breathe, feel, hear and see. These are the baselines of our perception, what is outside, around and within us. Flow and movements propel our imaginations and storytelling. Interdisciplinary artist Gav Barbey freezes colours (pigment/paint) into blocks of ice. Colours frozen in water. Multiple colours lay static, frozen in time. Ice melts and colour flows to reveal an inner world, forming patterns, rivers, expressions, to eventually evaporate, dry and stain the canvas, a process of transformation within water’s hydrologic cycles. It does not concern my initial idea. If the material, the frozen forms are temporal, it is what they express at any given moment within their journey… my journey…the audiences journey which matters.
Transmogrification…Grace… the figurative abstraction of a story that reveals itself to both artist and viewer; like the dance of a fire, the course of a river, the roots and branches of a tree, the meanderings of the mind, the meditation of the spirit, the playfulness of the physical; these works hope to celebrate rather then dictate what we see and feel within any given moment and the story we are influenced to put upon them within that moment. When we bundle individuals into groups by labelling them, we so often overlook the diversities that make them part of any such group. The painting is not separate from artist or viewer; and in both we see the other... as painter is viewer and viewer as artist.
Ice Melt Performance Canvases Created in the gallery on Saturday 27 January 2024
1. Ice Melt Performance Canvas #1 Pigment on Canvas 100cm x 100cm framed $3,000
2. Ice Melt Performance Canvas #2 Pigment on Canvas 100cm x 100cm framed $3,0000
3. Ice Melt Performance Canvas #3 Pigment on Canvas 100cm x 100cm framed $3,000
4. Ice Melt Performance Canvas #4 Pigment on Canvas 100cm x 100cm framed $3,000
5. Ice Melt Performance Canvas #5 Pigment on Canvas 100cm x 100cm framed $3,000
6. Ice Melt Performance Canvas #6 Pigment on Canvas 100cm x 100cm framed $3,000
7. Ice Melt Performance Canvas #7 Pigment on Canvas 100cm x 100cm framed $3,000
8. Ice Melt Performance Canvas #8 Pigment on Canvas 100cm x 100cm framed $3,000
9. Ice Melt Performance Canvas #9 Pigment on Canvas 100cm x 100cm framed $3,000
10. Ice Melt # 1 Pigment on paper framed 35 x 30 cm $ 500
11. Ice Melt # 2 Pigment on paper framed 35 x 30 cm $ 500
12. Ice Melt # 3 Pigment on paper framed 35 x 30 cm $ 500
13. Ice Melt # 4 Pigment on paper framed 35 x 30 cm $ 500
14. Ice Melt # 5 Pigment on paper framed 35 x 30 cm $ 500
15. Ice Melt # 6 Pigment on paper framed 35 x 30 cm $ 500
16. Ice Melt # 7 Pigment on paper framed 35 x 30 cm $ 500
17. Subtle is the night of neon rain… a wild of sensuous colour…’ Pigment on paper framed 180 x 180 cm $ 5,000
18. Ice Melt # 8 Pigment on paper framed 35 x 30 cm $ 500
19. Ice Melt # 9 Pigment on paper framed 35 x 30 cm $ 500
20. Ice Melt # 10 Pigment on paper framed 35 x 30 cm $ 500
21. Ice Melt # 11 Pigment on paper framed 35 x 30 cm $ 500
22. Ice Melt # 12 Pigment on paper framed 35 x 30 cm $ 500
23. Ice Melt # 13 Pigment on paper framed 35 x 30 cm $ 500
24. Ice Melt # 14 Pigment on paper framed 35 x 30 cm $ 500
25. ‘Swim with me… here amongst the absorbent light…’ Pigment on canvas 110 x 80 cm $ 3,500
26. Ice Melt # 15 Pigment on paper framed 40 x 30 cm $ 500
27. Ice Melt # 16 Pigment on paper framed 40 x 30 cm $ 500
28. Ice Melt # 17 Pigment on paper framed 40 x 30 cm $ 500
29. ‘A gathering of effervescent colour…’ Pigment on canvas 110 x 80 cm $ 3,500
31-131 Ice Moments Pigment on paper 40 x 20 cm $ 150 Opportunity for visitors to the gallery to create their own ice melts in collaboration with Gav Barbey on Saturday 27 Jan.
Ice Melt Street Activation On Friday 26 January 2024 Interdisciplinary artist Gav Barbey froze colours (natural pigment and natural elements) into 130 lt blocks of ice that were positioned around the Sorrento village to slowly melt over Australia day. The colours/flowers were frozen in water to create multiple colours that lay static, frozen in time. Ice melted and colour flowed to reveal an inner world, forming patterns, rivers, expressions which eventually evaporated and dried, a process of transformation within the water’s hydrologic cycles.
Street Ice Melt Performance - Created in Sorrento on Friday 26 January 2024
Sales: Julie Collins - Director gallery@djprojects.net 0417324 795 Free delivery and installation within Victoria. Shipping arranged interstate and Overseas. & Gallery accepts Art Money www.artmoney.com 21 Morce Ave Sorrento, Victoria, Australia www.andgalleryaustralia.net & Gallery is part of the djprojects family of art related businesses. www.djprojects.net
Gav Barbey Competencies, Skills + Attributes Visual Art - painting, sculpture, installation, exhibitions, experimental art Theatre/Film Design - design process, script analysis, movement, set and costumes, workshop Collaboration - inspiring, equality, leadership, facilitation Human-Centred Design - meets deadlines, coordinates teams, rapid prototyping, community engagment Installation - exploration, spatial, narrative Writer - storyteller, team collaboration, illustrator Teacher - workshop development, group dynamics, wellbeing Movement - painting, yoga, dance, puppetry Over the past 12 years I have formulated a facilitation model to inspire creative innovation, collaborating with education experts, corporate strategists and wellbeing practitioners. I have a strong belief that great innovation and design are driven by asking the right questions and then asking more questions— from curiosity and saying ‘Yes’, every idea has at least one valued concept within it. Human centred design, ideation, rapid prototyping, agile and community engagement are all based upon a communal understanding, where space is opened for sparking creativity, imagination and expression. When we listen, feel and celebrate diversity, we open up to a mindfulness that can express itself within any form, where right is formulated through journey, through deep listening, through play and a sense of belonging and inclusion. When we engage people, environment and the sensuous, we can expedience sustainably from idea, question, need through to a deliverable that truly excites, is changeable and opens doors within a sustainable and collective process. The culmination of some of this work and ideation was delivered in a TEDx talk at Melbourne University in 2016—the talk explores the notions of pictorial language. See TEDx Talk I have conceptualised, designed, created facilitated and tailored workshops for a broad range of companies, from the Arts, Corporates, Education and Communities. These workshops, collaborations, ideations inspire participants to express themselves through creative play, observational connectivity, mindfulness and problem solving through the power of curiosity and freedom to express, ideation. I am an art director, production and costume designer in theatre, film, television and advertising. I am known in the industry as a designer who works, creates within rehearsals, utilising the input of the cast, writer, director and crew. My work is based upon movement and theatrical magic; I have a background in dance, puppetry and visual based text performance. As a multi-disciplined Visual Artist my interest is within the meditative flow of movement, interaction and participation.
As a writer/ director it is poetry that excites me. Visual Art - painting, sculpture, installation, exhibitions, experimental art Theatre/Film Design - design process, script analysis, movement, set and costumes, workshop Collaboration - inspiring, equality, leadership, facilitation Human-Centred Design - meets deadlines, coordinates teams, rapid prototyping, community engagment Installation - exploration, spatial, narrative Writer - storyteller, team collaboration, illustrator Teacher - workshop development, group dynamics, wellbeing Movement - painting, yoga, dance, puppetry Education Masters of Art – Transformative Studies 2010 OASES University, Melbourne Bachelor Degree – Theatre and Film Design 1991 - 1993 National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) Major in Set and Costume Design 2012 - present Yoga/ meditation teacher training — currently teaching yoga/ stretch therapy/ meditation 1984-1990 Apprenticeship Commercial Artist/ Gas & Fuel Corporation, Victoria Solo Exhibitions 2020-21 Body—online work over 8 months—recorded dance, drawing and movement everyday live 2020 Painted City Forest—A Refugee online works of quick response paintings live over a year 2019 A movement of flying—Audrey Fine Art Gallery Sydney 2019 Gav Barbey—Hong Kong and Singapore Art Fairs 2019 Flow a series of Ice Melts and Live performance—Wentworth Galleries Sydney 2018 Flight an exhibition on the wing—Wentworth Galleries Sydney 2017 Lyrical line—Wentworth Galleries Sydney 2016 Birds—Wentworth Galleries Sydney (exhibition/ live performance) 2012 Little Seed America – Installation/book reading/animation/performance across 7 States/ 3000 people across North America
2011 The Poetic Nature of the Dot – Red Gallery - Iceworks 2010 Love/ Hate – Until Never Gallery 2 street 150 litre blocks + 500 small blocks & video pieces 2010 Transformation – Brightspace Gallery – 5 x 150 litre Icemelts live & split screen Video piece 2009 Interaction (viewer is artist & artist is viewer) - Installation and stills video, Under the Bridge Arts Festival (exhibition/performance/ Installation), Dumbo, New York 2009 For the Love of the Game, Sackville Artist Studio, (High gloss pours) Melbourne 2008 Dots - Installation and film, Under the Bridge Arts Festival, (exhibition/performance/ Installation), Dumbo, New York 2008 Retrospective, The Birth of the Landscape, Wentworth Galleries, Sydney 2005 The White Album Roney Gallery, (performance/ Installation), Sydney 2004 Ned Kelly Hanged – limited edition print series Signature Prints, Sydney 2004 Portraits RPArt, Sydney 2003 Ned Kelly Hanged Greythorne Galleries, Melbourne 2003 Works on Paper Manyung Gallery, Melbourne 2002 33/21 Works on Paper Contacts Photographics, Sydney 2002 A Day at the Zoo Patrizia Autore Gallery, Melbourne 2002 Aerials, Blobs, Tidal Marks, Ink-blots Arthouse Hotel, (120 Lt Icemelts performance/ Installation/ Video), Sydney 2002 Birds Danks Street Gallery, Sydney 2001 Iceworks Charles Hewitt Gallery, (performance/ Installation), Sydney 2001 Recent Works Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney 2000 Zoo II Source 490, Sydney 1999 Zoo Studies Source 490, Sydney Group Exhibitions 2019 Wentworth Galleries Hong Kong/ Sydney 2016 Wentworth Galleries Hong Kong/ Sydney 2016 Manyung Galleries Melbourne 2015 Signature Prints — show case of prints 2014 Hut 41 — The figure 2012 Hut 41 — Greetings 2011 Wonderland – Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong 2009 Carriage art works – contemporary art from the city fringe, (performance/Iceworks/ Installtion) Sydney 2009 I Heart Art – Dumbo Arts Centre (DACs) New York
2008 Leo Kuelbs Collection – Patriotic, Dumbo Panelling Gallery, New York 2008 Leo Kuelbs Collection – Under the Bridge festival group show, Dumbo Panelling Gallery, New York 2008 More Than Meets The Eye, At The Vanishing Point Contemporary Art, Sydney 2007 Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize, MCAP’07, Sydney 2007 Gallery of functional art, Blood Stains ice works (Christina Mero curated) Santa Monica, California 2007 The Howard Years, The Vanishing Point Contemporary Art, Sydney Gav Barbey : BIO 0418 203 797 | gavbarbey@gmail.com 2007 Space Aid – Iceworks Queen St Studio, Sydney 2007 Leo Kuelbs Collection – Iceworks Dumbo Panelling Gallery, Brookyln, New York 2006 ANZAS Southern Hands - Works on Paper Australian Embassy, KwanHoon gallery Korea 2005 Works on Paper Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney 2004 Humane Society – Extinction Denied Arthouse Hotel, Sydney 2004 Josephine Ulrick Photographic Prize Tweed River Gallery, Murwillumbah 2004 Propeller 4 Sydney 2003 Rings of History Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney 2003 Waterhouse Prize South Australian Museum 2003 RU&(eye)@1…some things we think… Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney 2003 MAC Art (AIDS Fund) Orson & Blake, Sydney 2003 Humane Society - Extinction Denied Arthouse Hotel, Sydney 2003 Studio Exhibition Schwang Effects, Sydney 2003 Creative Madness Garvan Institute, Sydney 2003 With anything blank around The Ephemeral Holt Street Gallery, Sydney 2002 Duck Art, Installation, Royal Lifesaving Australian Stock Exchange, Sydney 2001 Willoughby City Art Prize Sydney 2001 Humane Society VOLVO Gallery, Sydney 2001 Amnesty International Wagner Gallery, Sydney Film/ Installation/ Performance 2015 Festival Spectrum Now — 2000 people participation of the construction of 140 meters of overlaid screen printing art — piece donated to King George Hospital Sydney 2013 Signature Prints (Short video piece for Cannes film festival) 5 min 2012 Ferrari (scale model of Ferrari car for China event/installation) – stop motion 2010 Love/ Hate (150 litre ethereal Icemelts outdoors) 4 min digital video
2010 Transformation (120 litre Iceworks textures) 4.5 min digital video 2009 Interaction (viewer is artist and artist is viewer) 1000 interactive Icemelts N.Y.- stop motion 2008 The Guy who Killed Paris Hilton -Feature Length (Iceworks) film which looks at the complex word ‘Art’, featuring Actors/ Performers/ musicians/ DOP’s/ Writers 60 mins (Goalpost pictures) 2008 Live under the Brooklyn Bridge (500 Icemelts) 3000 HD digital stills to quicktime 2005 The White Album (Iceworks) HD video, 15 mins 2005 FlyVideo, 22 mins, work on the birds in Sydney Park 2002 Aerials, Blobs, Tidal Marks, Ink-blots 16mm, 5min, Time Lapse 2002 Birds Digi Beta, 30 min documentary 2001 Mean Gleam Ultra Marine Digi Beta, 5 min, Ice Painting Collections Concord Insurance group Pty Ltd, Australian Metal Holdings, Myer Foundation, Idameneo, Boteck Pty Ltd, Warner’s Music, BCoz Restaurant Melbourne, Australian Pearl Company (Autore Pearls), Simchowitz Collection LA. Private & Corporate Collections held in Australia, United Kingdom, Spain, South Africa, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea and USA. Articles Australian August 2nd 2010 Australian Art Review issue 17 - The Iceman Cometh Happenings// Art and Culture in New York: Sept 28th 2008… A slice of the DUMBO Arts Festival; 5 pieces that represent the DUMBO Arts Festival New York Art Beat: Brooklyn UnaBridged – Sept 2008 ABC Sunday Arts – Ice Works July 2001