http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog daily 0.75 2025-11-21 http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog/2025/11/21/quotient-set-installation-at-carlton-library-city-of-yarra monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1763709720807-44A6XDPQ9ERET4OH4QI1/Eckersley+City+of+Yarra+4.jpg News - 'Quotient Set' installation at Carlton Library, City of Yarra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1763709721904-D5NLWE18CD01FXCJ0095/Eckersley+City+of+Yarra+3.jpg News - 'Quotient Set' installation at Carlton Library, City of Yarra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1763709749700-X7XR7AIP5QRG2YLWTHZV/Eckersley+City+of+Yarra+2.jpg News - 'Quotient Set' installation at Carlton Library, City of Yarra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1763709761068-FGDLTOJAKHTRX1O2MC3J/Eckersley+City+of+Yarra+1.jpg News - 'Quotient Set' installation at Carlton Library, City of Yarra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/d423a03b-be84-4eb6-a575-7e0c35433cc9/YC.ARTS_CLLB.101625.013.jpg News - 'Quotient Set' installation at Carlton Library, City of Yarra - Make it stand out ‘Quotient Set’ Carlton Library Light boxes http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog/2025/6/19/reflections-of-a-deleuzian-people-to-come-a-conversation-with-hoda-afshar monthly 0.5 2025-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/7ff10def-c676-41c0-9472-7e805404c076/DLGS19_2.jpg News - Reflections of a Deleuzian People to Come: A Conversation with Hoda Afshar - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog/2025/3/19/never-keep-both-feet-on-the-ground-exhibition-opening monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/9360990e-276c-489b-8456-e3103c6afd4c/cropped+part+of.jpg News - Never Keep Both Feet on the Ground Exhibition opening - Make it stand out Andrea Eckersley, Detail of P/an of/part of, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/0856d3fd-317c-480f-9deb-11199bc1ec61/Screenshot+2025-03-19+at+5.12.37%E2%80%AFpm.png News - Never Keep Both Feet on the Ground Exhibition opening - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog/2024/4/19/bayside-painting-prize-finalist monthly 0.5 2024-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/f8b4818a-6940-49f6-a828-a6f3d6db88c3/Bayside+painting+prize+invite.png News - Bayside Painting Prize finalist - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog/2023/9/5/this-saturday-radical-fashion-exercises-melbourne-launch-panel-discussion-at-perimeter-books monthly 0.5 2023-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/79123687-e129-4c15-87cb-3c758e4c2cb8/RadicalFashionExercises-ISBN978-94-93246-19-5_front-cover-def-Valiz.jpeg News - THIS SATURDAY: Radical Fashion Exercises Melbourne Launch + Panel Discussion at Perimeter Books - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog/2022/3/4/the-far-away-faint-glimmer-of-a-consciousness-more-acute monthly 0.5 2022-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/e7ad459f-4213-4ab9-975d-0ad0677f7d4c/IMG_0541+%281%29.jpg News - The far away faint glimmer of a consciousness more acute - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog/2020/2/13/new-book-of-poetry-by-antonia-pont-with-my-work-on-the-cover monthly 0.5 2020-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1581640582269-MX39S4SVYQ54FTLCJ0I8/You+will+not+know+in+advance+what+you%27ll+feel.jpg News - New Book of Poetry by the amazing Antonia Pont with my work on the cover! http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog/2019/10/24/little-solo-show-mantle-mantel-opening-at-c3-next-week monthly 0.5 2019-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1571913452892-ZEM53GXN2CO3QBTXVJ7H/Eckersley+c3+image.jpg News - Little solo show Mantle/ Mantel opening at c3 next week http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog/2019/8/24/robert-rauschenberg-foundation-archives-research-residency-award monthly 0.5 2019-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1566621768255-2Q3P539T00P97HRD9YZJ/Pelican.jpg News - Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives Research Residency Award Robert Rauschenberg, Pelican, 1963. http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog/2019/7/22/the-utopian-object monthly 0.5 2019-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1563846821700-LAICDX4KT4IOV3RS79HG/2.+Utopian+Object.jpg News - The Utopian Object http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog/2018/11/6/aa-side-for-blindside-b-side monthly 0.5 2018-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1541484167229-5G6B1ODB0W5UI8WEVQQ7/AA+side.jpg News - AA side for Blindside B-Side AA side, 2018, collaboration with Stephen Rendall. Fabric and acrylic paint on plastic. http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog/2018/6/6/australian-book-launch-of-practising-with-deleuze monthly 0.5 2018-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1528266401828-6E3S24U4KRBFF62XZZ82/Practising+with+Deleuze+book+launch.jpg News - Australian book launch of Practising with Deleuze http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog/2018/4/7/career-arcs-seventh-gallery-conversation-series-art-and-fashion monthly 0.5 2018-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1523158105994-QTKLF2STS2LLJKT6PW55/Career+Arcs_3-01.png News - Career Arcs SEVENTH Gallery Conversation Series: Art and Fashion Career Arcs SEVENTH Gallery Conversation Series Art and Fashion with Andrea Eckersley and Gian Manik Wednesday April 11, 6–7pm FREE Building a career in the arts can take multiple trajectories, often beyond the studio and gallery. To support their practice, artists invest labour in alternative practices and commercial ventures. Reflecting on the reality of multi-vocational practice, the conversation series Career Arcs will engage art professionals in a demystification of their fields, careers and individual experiences, as their practice intersects with the broader arts ecology. Selected from the fields of curatorship, publishing, festivals and design, this series brings together arts workers in conversation, providing unique insights for artists and audiences to reflect on the challenges and joys of vocational practice in the arts. Part Three in the series brings together Andrea Eckersley and Gian Manik in conversation, exploring the intersections of creative practice and fashion/garment making. Andrea Eckersley is an artist who lectures in Fashion Design, at RMIT University. Primarily interested in the way the body interacts with abstract shapes, Andrea’s work investigates the material aspects of painting with a particular focus on its surface. She has recently contributed a chapter on her painting practice for the coauthored book Practising with Deleuze: design, dance, art, writing, philosophy. Andrea is the art editor at the Deleuze Studies Journal and has exhibited at Sarah Scout Presents, Anna Pappas Gallery, Platform Public Contemporary Art Spaces, Nellie Castan Gallery, Craft Victoria, c3 and West Space in Melbourne. Gian Manik completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) at Curtin University of Technology (Perth) in 2007 and a Master of Fine Arts at Monash University (Melbourne) in 2012. He has worked as a lecturer in fashion, drawing, painting and textiles and has collaborated with the fashion labels D&K and VERNER. His work is held in the collections of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Artbank and Australian and international collections. He has completed residencies at the Perth Institute for Contemporary Art (2008) and Artspace, Sydney (2009). In 2016 his work was included in Painting, More Painting at ACCA, Victoria and as part of an exhibition titled Portraiture, 2017 at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. This event is proudly supported by the City of Yarra, through the Small Project Grants program. http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog/2017/11/11/launch-of-book-practising-with-deleuze-design-dance-art-writing-philosophy monthly 0.5 2017-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1510387752233-50FS38GFMYOQYFJGDOBY/Practising+with+Deleuze+cover.jpg News - Launch of book Practising with Deleuze Design, Dance, Art, Writing, Philosophy       http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog/2017/3/11/philosophies-of-difference monthly 0.5 2017-03-11 http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog/2017/3/11/exhibition-partial-coherence-at-anna-pappas-gallery monthly 0.5 2017-03-11 http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog/2016/4/1/shed-by-the-sun-in-eclipse monthly 0.5 2016-04-01 http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog/2016/2/29/royal-como-art-prize-winner-announced-andrea-eckersley monthly 0.5 2016-02-29 http://www.andreaeckersley.com/blog/2015/5/3/surface-activations monthly 0.5 2015-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1430652608966-PGHLPMEQLXPWSHBEJNSZ/image-asset.jpeg News - Surface Activations. PHD examination exhibition. http://www.andreaeckersley.com/projects daily 0.75 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1456734671248-YQ4595QAJBPRK0VES4R4/study+for+royal+como.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1459488870549-J9WZDDJNM1XYYXJR0V3C/Eckersley+Penumbra.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1541483893575-MKZ5URQ0XOO977KBN1QT/Andrea+Eckersley_RoyalComoFoyer.jpg Projects - Royal Como Foyer Untitled (Royal Como Foyer) 2018. Oil, acrylic, house paint and enamel on wall. Dimensions Variable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1581639176118-M2KEQ43NH24RKVP62ZOI/Andrea+Eckersley+-+c3.jpg Projects - Install image from solo exhibition Mantle/mantel at c3 Contemporary Art Space photograph by Aaron Christopher Rees Recasting the relationship between the body and painting, Mantle/mantel explored how material elements such as garment, sculpture, wall and lighting are implicated in the realisation of an artwork. Geometric shapes in the wall painting were reiterated in the surfaces of the garment and the shadows cast by the shelf, coalescing as a total composition. The resulting assemblage of surfaces elaborated Eckersley’s ongoing interest in the human subject implied in encounters with art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1495241338296-RTJQVZL7KWO2TXUOYU7J/Andrea+Eckersley+Partial+Eclipse.jpg Projects - Partial eclipse Partial eclipse, 2017, oil on linen 135 x 95cm. Photo Credit: Christo Crocker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1693381430529-0G0M34P52AUPJZJEFZAJ/Three+%28pink%3Agold%29+2019.jpeg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1693384078167-3CSHZ354ODMK0B8DXKC9/23-7_Meija_4.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1693382306929-G8E7GOP0360G1VGH0LDX/IMG_0524+%282%29.jpg Projects - the far-away faint glimmer of a consciousness more acute Collaboration with Steven Rendall 2022 Acrylic on plastic, embroidery on linen 28 x 15.5 x 14 cm the far-away faint glimmer of a consciousness more acute at Sarah Scout Presents , Melbourne This ongoing studio-based collaboration between Steven Rendall and Andrea Eckersley explores the material intersections of fashion and painting. Steven’s contribution functions to restage and re-perform various categories of fragmented images into paint onto discarded television and computer stands that Andrea then sympathetically adorns and dresses. The plastic panel supports have protrusions and holes that interrupt the expected flat surface of a painting, thereby creating problems that painting alone is unable to adequately address. Andrea creates garment like coverings for these problems selecting highly apposite material arrays to adorn the paintings. In the artists’ conversations the uncategorisable nature of these works is reminiscent of Robert Rauschenberg’s Combines yet more aligned with the scale of Richard Tuttle’s Compartmentalization (2008). These scavenged plastic bases are a substratum extracted from the flow of materials in our everyday lives. Repurposed, they become bases for new expressions, new forms, new possibilities. The work has a thrifting or gleaning like quality, it incorporates found materials, fabric interventions and garment construction. To work with the plastic moulded forms Steven fabricates collages of images taken from art auction catalogues, occult encyclopedias, horror film anthologies and so on, always diffracting and refracting the source materials through fragmentation, misprision, envy and critique. This process complicates the picture plane. The ensuing painted surfaces result in limitations, opportunities and comforts that are all compromised by the holes and protrusions of the plastic supports. Each painted surface invites and invokes interventions for Andrea’s decorative methods in construction to perform. These paintings are bodies needing to be dressed, inviting further possibilities that are expressed via the extraordinarily subtle construction of sleeves, gathered cloaks or accents built out of necklace-like accumulations. Andrea, like Tuttle, collects textiles which she manipulates and uses to ‘respond’ to the compositions, colours and textures of Steven’s paintings. Whilst it is evident that a garment may provide protection or be used as adornment to indicate status, garments may also be understood as social, affective and material expressions of subjectivity. These dressed painted arrangements remind us that the ‘meaning’ of a garment, material, effect or force, cannot be determined in isolation of the assemblages in which it circulates, or more directly, the encounters in which it participates. Henry James’ short story, The Turn of the Screw, shared from one artist to another, supplies a further diffraction within the assemblage methods on display here. The far-away faint glimmer of a consciousness more acute is a line where James describes how the governess identifies her own delayed dawn of an idea in the housekeeper’s impassive misunderstanding. Like the faint glimmers in James’ text, Steven Rendall and Andrea Eckersley have discovered a generative opportunity to see these objects otherwise, pushing them into unfamiliar, uncomfortable and obscure aesthetic arrangements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1749275837175-8K9DCXCRIM3J545JOQMX/Andrea%2BEckersley%2B-%2BOmbre%2Bderivative.jpg Projects - Ombre derivative “Ombre derivative”, 2019 - 2024, Oil on canvas, 152 X 152 cm. Finalist in the Bayside Painting Prize, Bayside Gallery 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1749277055699-ZVTDAOG98L70XMLEPWXE/Eckersley%2BMore%2Bor%2Bless.jpg Projects - Andrea Eckersley, More or less, 2025, pigment ink-jet print, 580 x 700 mm. In group show Never Keep Both Feet on the Ground at Sarah Scout Presents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1763707393682-HKGNMPQEIQ2058GYL5RB/YC.ARTS_CLLB.101625.014.jpg Projects - 'Quotient Set' Carlton Library Lightboxes, City of Yarra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1430972555557-W636Y5C1Q6OGUY0ZHWK8/craftvic-install-1.jpg Projects - 'Triangle' Craft Victoria installation view, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1431820769675-AJSIKH8U52EQ23XKXTUP/Surface-event%231.jpg Projects - Surface event #1. 2014. Oil, acrylic, gesso, gouache and painted timber panels on wall. Dimensions variable Surface event, solo exhibition at Platform Contemporary Art Spaces, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1431053954437-8RJB1W1BWH7BL53EB07D/monash-caulfield-childcare-centre-wall.jpg Projects - Monash Caulfield Childcare Centre Wall Painting. 2014. Acrylic on wall. Dimensions variable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1430709619526-ML5BG8MUX3RSLQL2S65D/depth-is-as-good-range.jpg Projects - Untitled (Depth is as good as range). 2014. Oil, acrylic, gesso, gouache, enamel and sanded back sections on wall. Dimensions variable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1430713310807-UT5Q39DTD7O45DHJC0QP/%5BEntry-Exit-Points%5D-2014-Installation-shot.jpg Projects - Untitled (Entry/Exit). 2014. Oil, acrylic, gesso and gouache on wall. Dimensions variable. Untitled. 2014. Oil on linen. 45 x 35cm. Untitled (Exit/Entry) and Study (Surface event #1) were part of a group show Exit/Entry Points at Glen Eira City Council Gallery, curated by Matthew Perkins, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1431347035069-B3NXQJND67RGC3TU1EUE/unititled-%2817%29.jpg Projects - Untitled (17). 2012. Oil on canvas. 200 x 150cm. Colour Relations, solo show at Nellie Castan Gallery, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1431854590247-WBKWUX3STJGLPAAIKCGX/Untitled%28134x150%29.jpg Projects - Untitled (11). 2011. Oil on canvas. 134 x 150cm. Private collection. Spatial Planes solo exhibition at Spiro Grace Art Rooms in 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1431935614604-NP9IXTT75WMG18ZLH7EF/origami-1.jpg Projects - Origami #1. 2007. Oil on canvas. 122 x 90cm. Folded Spaces, solo show at C3 Gallery, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1434167282558-L57514OSUGFLV3W9FRI2/untitled.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1437965402770-DTX7ZZ2MUBA8TL7CBPVE/image-asset.jpeg Projects - Surface Activation PhD Examination Exhibition Painting is customarily understood as a form of mark making that renders materials and arrangements of lines, or areas of colour, into compositions on surfaces. While a painting can be conceived of as more than a marked surface, it is primarily these surface features, and their particular qualities and arrangements, that are said to comprise the material aspects of a painting. Working with a range of surfaces, including painting and sculpture, and surface effects, such as those achieved with light, this research project has identified that painting involves an activation of surfaces in an event felt as a difference in intensity. The various studio explorations have investigated the relationships between intensive and extensive space, colour and sensation, the surface and affect. Each of these dimensions contributes to the intensification of the encounter with painting. These encounters activate surfaces in an assemblage of affects. This is the event of painting. http://www.andreaeckersley.com/new-cover-page daily 1.0 2017-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1430652772146-0MNA426ZGLVYT8T6R4JL/andrea-painting-with-shutter-shadow1.jpg Andrea Eckersley http://www.andreaeckersley.com/there-are-two-planes daily 0.75 2015-05-11 http://www.andreaeckersley.com/anna-varendorff-essay daily 0.75 2015-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1431313703449-5D0OV5Q9Q97565LW5IPF/image-asset.jpeg Anna Varendorff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1431313639010-IBOE5JTD1RI3VNMNG7FF/image-asset.jpeg Anna Varendorff http://www.andreaeckersley.com/about daily 0.75 2025-02-28 http://www.andreaeckersley.com/colour-relations-essay daily 0.75 2015-05-11 http://www.andreaeckersley.com/imaging-chanel daily 0.75 2015-05-11 http://www.andreaeckersley.com/writing daily 0.75 2025-11-21 http://www.andreaeckersley.com/surface-event-essay daily 0.75 2015-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1431312400942-SQ53QU88UFMW56068ZQW/image-asset.jpeg Surface Event https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5545987be4b099a7d92803dc/1431312616520-3O4MIG4PDEXESVZUDGZ2/image-asset.jpeg Surface Event http://www.andreaeckersley.com/contact daily 0.75 2015-05-11