Paul J Kalemba

Cherish or Perish.

2011-05-25T06:57:00.003-07:00

Cherish or Perish.
2011.

Notes from An Australian Summer.

Watercolour and Ink on Paper

Callistemon Foresterae:

Population 3000

Swainsona formosa:

A Love Story

Telopea speciosissima:

An Ecological Portrate.

Cloudy Bay, Bruny Island:

The Hunter and the Pray.

Eudyptula minor:

All the pretty little things.

Spoiled Rotten

2011-05-25T06:21:00.000-07:00

Taxonomy of Modern Corn.

Watercolour on Cotton Paper.

(installation View)

miscellaneous thoughts and inklines. . .

2010-10-18T19:51:00.001-07:00

Snapshot from Merri Creek.

Ink on cotton paper

Everyday acts.

mixed media on Craft paper.

Carnival of Resistance.
mixed media on Craft paper.

Waratah Dreaming.
Mixed media on Craft Paper

The resistence of memory. v2.0

2010-10-17T08:39:00.000-07:00

The Resistance of Memory (v2.0)

Platform Pubic Contemporary Art Spaces/
Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.

Melbourne. 2010

Mixed reclaimed media,

Herbs and preserved gleaned fruit.

257 x 50 x 120cm

In Case of Emergency. . .

2010-10-17T06:07:00.000-07:00

In Case of Emergency. . .

2009/ 2010

watercolour on cotton paper, plastic bags.

( a little exercise in botanical illustration and food security.)

Off the Wall.

Brunswick Bound; Bookshop & Gallery. Brunswick /

The Linden Postcard Show.

Linden Contemporary Art Gallery. St Kilda

Matter of Thyme 2010

2010-07-04T00:48:00.000-07:00

Matter of Thyme

(The Resistance of Memory v1.1 )

George Paton Gallery.

Melbourne. 2010

Mixed reclaimed media &
Watercolour on cotton paper.
Dimmentions variable

serving gleaned (discarded for profit protection) produce and organic bootleg moonshine

sustainable living festival 2010: Big City Lights.

2010-07-03T23:29:00.000-07:00

Sustainable Living Festival 2010

Federation Square- Melbourne.

Big City Lights.

A Daddy scare-crow, dressed in his Sunday best, escorts his cheeky and clever Kiddie Scarecrow on a long promised train ride into the city to look at shops, people and art. (and a big play on the city playground, of course). Taking the opportunity to let his mind wander after a hard, hot season of crow scaring, he stops to marvel at the giant ghost gums above. Energetically distracted by the colourful and bustling surrounds Kiddie Scarecrow pulls against his Daddies firm and gentle grip to get a better vantage of the show on a nearby T.V.

Resisting Suversion of Subversive Resistance. Subversive Propositions Toward Urban (R)evolution.

2009-03-19T20:06:00.001-07:00

Resisting the Subversion of Subversive Resistance.

http://subversiveresistance.blogspot.com/
http://platformartistsgroup.blogspot.com/

Platform.
Degraves Street underpass. Flinders St Station.
Melbourne.
March 2009.

Thanks to Bulleen Art and Garden, for their generous in kind support, with this project.

to be continued. . .

Resisting Suversion of Subversive Resistance. part 1

2009-03-19T19:48:00.000-07:00

Resisting Subversion of Subversive Resistance.
Propositions towards urban (r)evolution

Marc De Jong, Paul J. Kalemba, Van Tran Rudd and Tom Sevil.
“Facilitator” Paul Kalemba. (Curator)

"No, painting is not done to decorate apartments it is an instrument of war".
Pablo Picasso. 1945.

Resisting Subversion of Subversive Resistance features the works and collaborations of four contemporary arts-activists. Romantic illusions of freedom fighters aside, serious business meets tongue-in-cheek as a homegrown R/evolution through urban edibles and the bicycle-peddling critical masses meet conscious consumption and political awareness.

The 20th century saw exponential advancement in many areas of human activity. The image was by no means excluded from this refinement. The total war of World War 2 saw not only mechanized militarism devastate European civilization, but the Third Reich and the allies alike bred the image for a new purpose. The manipulation of desire and fear was refined and exploited through the image, with propaganda aiming for nothing short of changing the opinions, and thus actions, of entire nations.

Enter the 21st Century. Commercial advertising carries on this imaging tradition into this decade, promising a veritable Shangri-La of sensual pleasure, luxury and convenience, tied firmly to a treadmill of competitive individualism. Meanwhile, headlines scream climate change, peak oil, environmental collapse, over consumption, finite resources . . . the new ideas now firmly in the zeitgeist. At face value it seems society as economy vs a sustainable future.

Resisting Subversion of Subversive Resistance seeks to defy this manipulation of fear and desire, employing a combination of loose scale model propositions and the graphic image, where WW2 style propaganda meets re-advertising, promoting consumer awareness and sustainable models via DIY culture. The artists dialogue with the notations of propaganda and resistance though subverting emblematic symbology and imagery of contemporary art, advertising and politics and their concurrent histories.

Market Pressure. VCA Graduate Exhibition, VCA student gallery. Melbourne 2008

2008-12-05T06:31:00.000-08:00

Market Pressure. 2008

Reclaimed carbonised timber, reclaimed glass and plastic bottles, earth, reclaimed natural fiber rope, organic seedlings.

A Reclaimation. VCA grounds 2008.

2008-12-05T05:06:00.000-08:00

A Reclamation. 2008
VCA grounds.
Reclaimed wood, earth, disused public space, organic seedlings, organic seeds.

. . .The Height of the Civiliz(s)ed World?. . .

. . .the understory. . .
yum

. . .eat the city. . .

Fear. . . Desire. . . Freedeom, VCA Student Gallery. 2008.

2008-08-25T05:10:00.000-07:00

Fear. . . Desire. . . Freedom.
Paul J. Kalemba.
VCA Student Gallery.
August 2008.

Discarded pine, discarded cardboard, discarded angel-iron, discarded bottles, water, acrylic, food dye and sprouted organic seedlings. Dimensions variable.

Beneath The Empire, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne. April 2008

2008-07-24T06:36:00.001-07:00

Beneath the Empire.
Paul Kalemba, Ben McKeown, Nicola Page.
Upstairs Flinders. May 2008.

Above: Black and White, 2008, Collaborative installation.
Paul J. Kalemba and Ben McKeown.
Earth, Lino Cut prints on card, acrylic on canvas. dimensions variable.

Tachyglossus aculeatus, After 5c coin. 2008 (detail)

Menura novaehollandiae after 10c coin.
ink on paper. 2008.

Tachyglossus aculeatus, After 5c coin. 2008

Linden Postcard Exhibition, Linden Contemporary Art Gallery, St Kilda, Melbourne. 2008

2008-07-24T06:35:00.001-07:00

Relief.2007. Ink on Reused cardboard. 30 x 30 x 5cm

Card City 2008. Ink on Cardboard. 30x 30x 10cm

2007 VCA Graduate Exhibition, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, South Melbourne. November 2007

2008-07-24T06:34:00.000-07:00

Sketchbooks: A Group Show. Brunswick Bound Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne 2007

2008-07-17T07:09:00.000-07:00

cv

2008-07-17T05:37:00.000-07:00

Paul Kalemba

03.03.1980.

Melbourne.

2009 Certificate IV in Assessment And Training.

2008 Masters of Visual Art . Melbourne University, Faculty of the Victorian Collage of the Arts, Melbourne.

2007 Graduate Diploma in Visual Art. Melbourne University, Faculty of the Victorian Collage of the Arts, Melbourne.

2001 Honors, Digital Art and Multimedia

Victoria University, Melbourne

1998- 2000 B.A. Computer Mediated Art, Victoria University, Melbourne.

Solo Exhibitions.

2010 Spoiled Rotten. Platform Public Contemporary Art Spaces. Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions.

2010 Feasting Vignettes. Melbourne Food and Wine Festival / Platform Underground garden, Melbourne.

2010 Sustainability: crisis or opportunity, George Paton Gallery, Carlton.

2010 The Sustainable Living Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne

2010 Linden Postcard Exhibition, Linden Contemporary Art Gallery, St Kilda, Melbourne.

2009 Off The Wall, Brunswick Bound, Brunswick, Melbourne

2009 Post. Place Gallery, Richmond

2009 Resisting Subversion of Subversive Resistance. Platform Artist Group. Inc. Flinders StreeStation underpass, Melbourne.

2009 The Art of Sustainable Gardening, Bulin Bulin Gallery, Bulleen, Melbourne.

2008 Diorama December, Brunswick Bound Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne.

2008 VCA Graduate Exhibition, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, South Melbourne

2008 Exquisite Features, Tapespace, Carlton, Melbourne.

2008 Beneath The Empire, Upstairs Flinders Gallery, Melbourne.

2008 Linden Postcard Exhibition, Linden Contemporary Art Gallery, St Kilda, Melbourne.

2007 VCA Graduate Exhibition, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, South Melbourne.

2007 Proud, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, South Melbourne.

2007 Sketchbooks: A Group Show. Brunswick Bound Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne

2007 A Disparate Collection, VCA Student Gallery, South Melbourne.

2006 Breakdown Press, Breakdown Posters Launch, A Space Outside, Abbotsford, Melbourne.

2006 Art For Food! Lentil as Africa, Bar/ Café/ Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne.

2006 Random Molecules, Kick Gallery, Northcote, Melbourne.

2005 Babylonian Pandemonium, Black Cat, Bar/ Café/ Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne.

2005 Linden Postcard Exhibition, Linden Contemporary Art Gallery, St Kilda, Melbourne.

2004 National Print Symposium, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

2004 The Conceptual Reconstruction of Brunswick, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne.

2004 Scarab window; street projections project, Black Cat/ Sutton Gallery. Fitzroy, Melbourne.

2004 Eyes for Other Skies, Australian Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne.

2004 Eyes For Other Skies - best of, Seoul Fringe festival, Korea

2004 Nikon Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy Melbourne.

2004 Empty Show. abandoned space. Fitzroy Melbourne.

2003 cause n effect, Wasabi Warehouse, Nth Melbourne.

2003 Empty Show. abandoned space. Newcastle

2003 disenta. . . , Irene Community Art Centre, Brunswick, Melbourne.

2003 Melbourne Stencil Festival, Nth Melbourne.

2003 Nikon Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Melbourne.

2002 With Only The Clothes On Their Backs, Refugee Benefit/ Art Auction, Dantes Upstairs, Fitzroy Melbourne.

2002 windows, Scott Alley, Melbourne.

2002 Nikon Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy Melbourne.

2001 @, Steps Gallery, Carlton Melbourne.

2001 Nikon Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.

2000 On exit frame, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne.

2000 Nikon Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.

Events/Theatre

2005 Multimedia Designer The Great Wall Of Books, Footscray plaza, Melbourne.

2005 Projection artist, Tranceplant, Mount Elephant National Park

2005 Multimedia Designer, The Big Machine, Art Play, Melbourne.

2004 Multimedia Designer, Habitat. Traxbox, Melbourne.

2003 Co. Director alleys not telleys, Degraves St, Melbourne.

2002 Projection artist, Tranceplant. You yang’s national park.

2002 Co. Director, alleys not telleys, Scott al, Melbourne.

2002 Projection artist, Lotus, Bar 44, Melbourne.

Major Grants.

2003 City of Melbourne Major Project Grant, “alleys not telleys” multi arts festival

Curatorship.

2009 Resisting Subversion of Subversive Resistance. Platform Artist Group. Inc. Flinders Street Station underpass, Melbourne.

2003 cause n effect, Wasabi Warehouse, Nth Melbourne.

2003 alleys not telleys, multi arts festival Degraves St, Melbourne.

2003 dissenta, Irene Community Arts Warehouse, Brunswick, Melbourne.

2002 alleys not telleys, multi arts festival Bligh Pl. Melbourne.

2002 alleys not telleys, multi arts festival Scott Al, Melbourne.

Selected Illustration and Design positions

2010 Webellion co-operative / Illustratior Graphic Designer.

2009 Precycle. Director / Eco-graphic Designer / Illustrator.

2009 Yarra Climate Action Now, Artist / Graphic Designer

2009-2001 Melatonin dub Collective, Illustrator / Graphic Designer

2008 Creative Environments Enterprises. , Illustrator / Graphic Designer

2007-2002 Trax Arts, Illustrator / Graphic Designer.

2005 Well Theatre, Illustrator / Graphic Designer.

2005-2002 Digital Killed the Analogue Star, Illustrator/ graphic designer.

2005-2002 Tranceplant Inc. Illustrator / Graphic designer

Collections. Dantes Upstairs. Fitzroy, Melbourne.

Victoria University. Melbourne.

Salesian College Rupperswood, Sunbury.

Sunbury Downs Secondary College, Sunbury.

Private Collections, Australia and Japan.

Bibliography.

2010 Feast your eyes on this, Rachelle Unreich, The Age. March 14, 2010.

2009 Building an Australasian Commons, Rachel Cobcroft, Queensland University of Technology Press. 2009 p103

2009 Resisting Subversion of Subversive Resistance, Leon Goh, Un Magazine. July 2009, P74.

2008 Beneath the Empire, Lucy Elliot, Melbourne City Voice, 24 April 2008, P14

2008 Art Matters, Lucy Elliot, Melbourne City Voice ,8 May 2008, P23.

2007 Spotlight on Student’s Art. Melissa Buttigieg, Fairfax Community Network; Sunbury Telegraph, 27 November, P6.

2006 Breakdown Posters, Tom Sevil, Breakdown Press, P3, 18.

2004 The Undergrowth. Tim Parish, Undergrowth. 30 July. P1, 26,29.

2002 February .02, Centre for Contemporary Photography. P3

2000 Hi-tech form focus, Ted Kloszynski, The Advocate, 21 November. P1.