Powerful and thought-provoking, an exhibition by New South Wales artist Victor Gordon opens at the Blacksphere Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne, on 19th November.

Gordon says "the images are at the same time idealised and romantic representations of icons etched in the collective consciousness and an invitation to explore Australian values at a deeper level."

Many of the works challenge an idea central to Australian art: that the landscape can be a metaphor for national and personal identity. The resulting works use realism and modernist techniques to provoke multi-layered readings from audiences.more

WHERE 217 SWAN STREET RICHMOND MELBOURNE VIC 3121

WHEN OPENING 6:30 19TH NOV 19 - 29 NOV 08

INFO 03 9429 4662

EMAIL info@blacksphereart.com.au

GALLERY WEBSITE blacksphereart.com.au

ARTIST WEBSITE www.victorgordon.com

IMAGE Gestation of The New Australian Republic Constitution Vol 2. 2008 Oil on canvas 1300 x 750

WHEN: Sat. 25th Oct starting at 12pm,

COSTS: $10 for adults, children free.

WHERE: 790 Pinnacle Road - Word of Mouth.

This is a family fun event with live music and a kids playground, BYO lunch and a blanket or chair, there will be coffee, wine and soft drinks available for purchase.

This year sees the return of Robbie Auld with a new Trio with Brenden Clark on Bass, and Sam Cairns on Drums

Robbie is a great young jazz piano player who is studying at The Sydney Conservatorium. His original compositions will provide the listeners with a chance to experience modern jazz at its cutting edge.

Sauce Design is proud to show off a recently completed project for Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).

The project brief was to design and develop print collateral for a targeted awareness raising campaign and to provide a national campaign of internet safety training and education with resources available through public libraries.

Strategy: To create a resource package that is visually engaging, communicates a sense of importance to the audience and encourages them to explore. Each component in the package was targeted at a specific audience and all components had to maintain consistency as a unified package. The target audiences include: library users - parents and guardian, Tweens aged 8 - 12 and librarians.

outcome: A highly engaging fun resource that has been well received with components now on reprint orders. The resource package consists of: A5 and A4 booklets, Presentation folder, A2 Poster and POS display.

We did manage to do some training while in Newcastle...in between soaking up the sun, surf and culture.

Thankfully the weather was fantastic! & we took time out to enjoy this and, managed a couple of swims at the Bar and Newcastle beach.

The Sauce office will be closed from 12pm, Thursday 25 September and will re-open as normal on Monday 29 September.

We are off to sunny Newcastle for some training, and we may just squeeze in a trip to the beach...

If you have any inquiries in the meantime please leave us a message via Contact on our website or alternatively by phone. P: (02) 6360 0222

(left) Linda Raymond with Mr John Cobb MP. (right) detail of the display

Sauce Design was pleased to attend the launch of 'Above the Shaft' a new exhibition focusing on life in Grenfell from its earliest days. The exhibition was opened by Mr. John Cobb MP. at the Grenfell Museum on Saturday 26 July 2008.

The graphical interpretive panels and banners featured in the display were designed and developed by Sauce Design. You can view more photos in the Sauce Design portfolio section. (left) Linda Raymond with Mr John Cobb MP. (right) detail of the display

As a portrait; the painting is unusual. The striking oblique rear view and compositional economy are accentuated by the strong diagonal emanating from the bottom left hand corner, drawing the view's attention to the centrally located image. Viewed from this angle, Mike Parr conveys a sense of quiet reflection; a mixture of both modesty and substance in the way he is positioned, at once casual yet clearly important, locates him firmly within the structure of contemporary art. find out more info http://www.victorgordon.com

A day out for the Sauce team to take in the WPCC exhibition Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Exhibition 2007.... we also managed to re-juice our thirsty brains and take in some creativity and also had a great mezz nosh at the Newtown Providores before heading back.