Sydney Exhibition
Aliki Yiorkas . Tyler Arnold . Paul Mallam
Carmel Byrne . Maggie Allingham . Jane Alexander
Kirthana Selvaraj . Sue-Ann Stanford . Jude Williams . April White
2021 ends with our annual IN House exhibition and Party
Thank you to everyone that have supported us over this difficult year.
Please join us for an afternoon of summer drinks, food, and say a final goodbye to 2021.
Please note that the exhibition opens & runs
Thursday 9 – Sunday 12 December
with the main event Sunday 2 – 7pm.
Carmel Byrne
Carmel Byrne founded Scratch Art Space in 2016 to provide a platform for recent fine art graduates & early career artists to build careers through professional practice opportunities, exhibitions, and network support.
In my figurative works I look for an inner world through expression and gesture that captures something specific about the subject but also has universal appeal. Surface tension is created when tone is used to build structure (rather than the illusion of space) and colour layering creates an uncanny depth in the works that doesn’t really make pictorial sense. Composition is kept simple with the single focus of the figure in space. Through the layering of colour & brushwork a floating inner life can emerge. The narrative is private, but an emotion is expressed.
Carmel is currently a resident artist at Scratch Art Space.
instagram / @carmelbyrneart
Maggie Allingham
A longtime creative in the early stages of her focused art practice, currently working with conceptual vignettes of public and private spaces.
Reflecting on recent discourse and increasing visibility of domestic and family violence in Australia, this work examines Intimate Partner Surveillance (IPS) as an element of coercive control. The work depicts a familiar, homely scene compromised by unassuming inanimate spyware items available locally, billed discreetly with same-day shipping. Guaranteed.
Maggie is currently a resident artist at Scratch Art Space.
instagram / @maggie_j_a
Tyler Arnold
Tyler completed is Bachelor of Arts (Art History) at Melbourne University and has since completed an art residency at Dunmoochin Art Foundation in Cottles Bridge. He works predominantly with oil paint and produces landscapes, streetscapes and portraits. These works in particular capture the visual playground of Tyler’s surrounding neighbourhood in Redfern.
Tyler is currently a resident artist at Scratch Art Space.
instagram / @tyler.j.arnold
Kirthana Selvaraj
Kirthana Selvaraj is a Queer, South Asian Artist, who draws on both individual and collective experiences within a into her works. She has completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (UNSW), as well as a Master of Art Therapy (WSU), and currently works as an Art Therapist in Sydney. Her practice is centred on Race, intersections of seen and unseen, violence and passivity, Gender and Sexuality. Kirthana’s work ‘Vicki Side Profile’ is exhibiting at our current exhibition IN House 2021.
Kirthana is currently a resident artist at Scratch Art Space.
instagram / @kirthanasart
Aliki Yiorkas
Aliki Yiorkas is a Sydney based artist who completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Printmaking at the National Art School, Sydney (2018-2020). Aliki’s works are primarily figurative and gestural and alternate between loose, highly intuitive mark-making to more controlled and representational works. She tends towards a minimal and subdued palette, with an emphasis on materiality and surface textures. Aliki’s work is autoethnographic and draws on notions of Object-Oriented Ontology, which suggests that people are engaged and enmeshed with the materiality of objects, and that objects simultaneously reciprocate their influence on us. Bringing attention to the things we use and collect, and approaching things at their level of sensuous specificity, she strives to bring an awareness of the ability of objects to affect us.
Although this theoretical framework underpins the work, Aliki uses the act of drawing as a way of intimately connecting with the world. With an emphasis on materiality, the medium of charcoal evokes the patina of time and a sense of history. The archived works; Collective Unconscious and Remembrance of Things Past, reflects on memories, innate impulses of collecting, and the emotional connections associated with objects.
Aliki has participated in a number of group exhibitions at Scratch.
instagram / @aliki.y
April White
April is a Canadian artist based in Sydney. After travelling for a large portion of her life, April has streamed back to her formal Fine Art studies through her recordings and observations of this time. She uses pencils and paint as her main mediums, but also has experience in graphic design.
April exhibited at Scratch in 2020.
instagram / @artofaprilwhite
Jude Williams
‘The Storeroom’ 2020 is about my desire to inhabit a previously made image. Roland Bathes calls this inhabitation, a ‘fantasmatic’ illusion. My previous image touched me so deeply I longed to inhabit what the image conveyed, beyond the original. Bathes says, ‘fantasmatic’ is like a second sight which seems to carry you forward to an imaginative time or carry you back to somewhere in yourself, as if I was certain of having been before or of going there. In painting densely over the rephotographed image, I have more than doubled the distance of my original image, creating more of what was, to create, ‘The Storeroom’.
Jude held a solo exhibition at Scratch in 2020
instagram / @judewilliams_
Jane Alexander
Jane is a recent Bachelor of Fine Art (sculpture) graduate from the National Art School. She also has a background in photography and painting. Her practice investigates the expressive use of materials, as well as her interest in plaster, steel, concrete and other manufactures object that connect together.
Jane held a solo exhibition Spatial Difference at Scratch in 2021.
instagram / @janealexander.art
Sue-Ann Stanford
Looking for a place where she could learn to draw, Sue-Ann joined the Scratch Art Space community in mid-2019. Fascinated by the contrast between “nature” and “person-made”, and illusions of permanence, her work focuses on encouraging forms to emerge, leaving an imprint as they pass through the drawing’s surface. For this exhibition, Sue-Ann is showing a series of charcoal drawings that all have a relationship to water, one of the most unusual and the most simple of substances (chemically speaking).
Sue-Ann is a student at Scratch Art Space classes.
Paul Mallam
Paul Mallam works across painting, sculpture and photography. He has a degree majoring in painting from the National Art School and has been a finalist in many of Australia’s major art prizes, including the Archibald and the National Photographic Portrait Prize. He has a particular interest in contemporary portraiture.
These works reflect my interests in both portraiture and history. My great great grandfather jumped ship in Fremantle as a sixteen year old Portuguese sailor and walked across Australia to the far North Coast of New South Wales. These works are meditations on the often violent, vexed but occasionally wonderful relations we have experienced with First Nation people, exemplified through my forebear, Antonio Alvos.
Paul is a regular at our Saturday life drawing sessions.
instagram / paulrmallam
