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MARS presents: Debbie Munro + Jesse Wright in 3D
live art - live music - pizza - drinks — free entry
Thursday MAY 31, 6pm - 9pm upstairs Metro Cafe + Events, 15 Railway Street Toowoomba
‘MARS presents’ is a resident MARSian and a guest artist.
Doing their thing live and mildly interactively.
…
It’s a calmer affair than our battles, with more room for artists to do their thing as organically as possible infront of an audience.
This time round we’ve got resident MARSian Debbie Munro + Jesse Wright - and no canvases. Instead there will be drills, all sorts of bits, nails, hot glue guns, wire and whatever else we find at the tip shop.
Both artists will be building their works from the ground up over two hours and to the live sounds of Power of Three.
The completed works will be available for purchase by way of silent auction, to no set reserve.
Metro is putting on their usual fare of fine foods and drinks.
Entry is free. come + play
* Image: Installation piece by Jesse Wright on Schofield Street
Doing their thing live and mildly interactively.
…
It’s a calmer affair than our battles, with more room for artists to do their thing as organically as possible infront of an audience.
This time round we’ve got resident MARSian Debbie Munro + Jesse Wright - and no canvases. Instead there will be drills, all sorts of bits, nails, hot glue guns, wire and whatever else we find at the tip shop.
Both artists will be building their works from the ground up over two hours and to the live sounds of Power of Three.
The completed works will be available for purchase by way of silent auction, to no set reserve.
Metro is putting on their usual fare of fine foods and drinks.
Entry is free. come + play
* Image: Installation piece by Jesse Wright on Schofield Street
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Our first opening in our new gallery - come, if you want
M A R S retrospective
OPENING: Saturday, May 26 7pm @ MARS gallery on theGRID: hybrid arts collective - 488 Ruthven Street, Toowoomba
We’ve had the great pleasure of showing the works of many talented artists since our inception in 2009.
Now as we’ve grown from the walls of metro cafe into our own gallery space, it’s time to honour their talent, vision and support of MARS since the beginning.
This show is about them. Some of them.
Kelli Morse
Zach Lawry
Ruth Cadioli
Mick Archibald
Byron Tupas
Ian McCallum
Lynden Thomas
Jesse Wright
Alison Mooney
and our current residents
Lauren Johansen
Margo Isaac
Dale Mundey
Debbie Munro
Come and celebrate the opening of our gallery and our first show.
Members of our hosts, theGRID: hybrid arts collective, enjoy a catered preview beforehand.
And the night also features the EP launch for Stephen Denham and the Superfriends in the neighbouring room - complete with four bands - Kasper, Brooke Mowett + Brisbane’s Tyranosaurus Rules.
Bar open for sales.
Now as we’ve grown from the walls of metro cafe into our own gallery space, it’s time to honour their talent, vision and support of MARS since the beginning.
This show is about them. Some of them.
Kelli Morse
Zach Lawry
Ruth Cadioli
Mick Archibald
Byron Tupas
Ian McCallum
Lynden Thomas
Jesse Wright
Alison Mooney
and our current residents
Lauren Johansen
Margo Isaac
Dale Mundey
Debbie Munro
Come and celebrate the opening of our gallery and our first show.
Members of our hosts, theGRID: hybrid arts collective, enjoy a catered preview beforehand.
And the night also features the EP launch for Stephen Denham and the Superfriends in the neighbouring room - complete with four bands - Kasper, Brooke Mowett + Brisbane’s Tyranosaurus Rules.
Bar open for sales.
* image by Debbie Munro
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MARSian Lauren Johansen + guest Ian McCallum
Thanks to all those who made it on the cold Thursday night just gone.
We’re getting into the swing of MARSpresents and looking to up the ante slightly come the final thursday of May. 6 - 9pm upstairs Metro Cafe + Events.
live music | live art | pizza | beer | goodness
More images and deets on our Facebook page: facebook.com/MARStoowoomba
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‘MARS presents’ returns as a flow on from our Battles.
It’s a resident MARSian and a guest artist.
It’s a calmer affair than our battles, with more room for artists to do their thing as organically as possible infront of an audience - on a canvas each.
MARSpresents Lauren Johansen + Ian McCallum
live art - live music - pizza - drinks — free entry
Thurs / April 26
Thurs / April 26
6pm - 9pm
Upstairs Metro Cafe + Events - 15 Railway St, Tbar
‘MARS presents’ returns as a flow on from our Battles.
It’s a resident MARSian and a guest artist.
It’s a calmer affair than our battles, with more room for artists to do their thing as organically as possible infront of an audience - on a canvas each.
That’s not to say we won’t interfere, cause we will. But we’ll interfere less with opportunities for audience suggestion / some round curation / whatever we feel like to stir the artists up a bit.
This time round we’ve got resident MARSian Lauren Johansen on one canvas and Ian McCallum on the other.
Both artists know their way around aerosol so be ready for can-stink.
The completed works will be available for purchase by way of silent auction, to no set reserve.
MARSbattles musos, Mayuresh and Alex Sathe will be freestyling live (check out their sounds as part of threepiece funk/ hiphop outfit Power of Three).
Metro is putting on their usual fare of fine foods and drinks.
come + play
This time round we’ve got resident MARSian Lauren Johansen on one canvas and Ian McCallum on the other.
Both artists know their way around aerosol so be ready for can-stink.
The completed works will be available for purchase by way of silent auction, to no set reserve.
MARSbattles musos, Mayuresh and Alex Sathe will be freestyling live (check out their sounds as part of threepiece funk/ hiphop outfit Power of Three).
Metro is putting on their usual fare of fine foods and drinks.
come + play
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our naked gallery
All we need now is to fill it up, which shouldn’t be a problem thanks to theGRID: hybrid arts collective’s residency program, Arts Queensland, our own MARSians and the Regional Arts Development Fund.
Plus a couple of talented artists independently involved.
Big things a-brewing and it’s. almost. time.
Details on our first show soon.
Check out our OPPORTUNITIES page for details on how artists can be involved.
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15 hours, 24 square metres of banner and one Easterfest
MARS was asked to create two six metre banners for the main stage of Easterfest this weekend.
We had 24 hours to create them based on responses given by people interviewed for a short film.
We did it after 15 hours of painting.
It was frantic but they came up a treat on the main stage.
Thanks to Easterfest, resident artists Debbie Munro, Margo Isaac and Lauren Johansen for their skills and My Midwives on Margaret street for our temporary studio.
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Life by Colour - MARS resident Debbie Munro solo
Life by Colour
6pm Wednesday April 3, Firefly Cafe Toowoomba
[ Ruthven Street, opposite Lincraft ]
An exploration of colour-based emotion, driven by ‘everyday’ narratives, Life by Colour is 2012 MARS resident artist, Debbie Munro’s first solo exhibition.
The works explore emotional connotations of base colours in relation to life stories familiar to many.
“A lot of …my paintings are stories and there are some hidden secrets within them, pertaining to my own personal story, but we won’t go in to that,” the artist said.
“These are my stories but they’re also somebody else’s stories.”
‘Life by Colour’ will open officially on Wednesday, April 4 from 6pm at Firefly Café in Toowoomba’s CBD.
Debbie Munro is a resident artist of Toowoomba’s not-for-profit, artist collective, MARS.
Debbie has won awards for her work in 2011’s Autumnfest, exhibited regularly locally since 2010 and enjoyed great response in her first experience at this month’s Grammar Art Exhibition.
Come and join us at Firefly this Wednesday night or check out the works throughout the month of April.
** Firefly very generously offers the walls of their venue to artists to exhibit their work. This exhibition is not a MARS event - we have nothing to do with it except that Debbie’s awesome and we’d love you to come check it out. All the juicy bits are Debbie and Firefly. We’re just the cheerleader :)
