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JUNE/ JULY at VERGE GALLERY
June 18 – July 11
Gallery 1: ACCREATION: UN-BECOMING AND THE SURFACE AS SIGHT, Niall Robb, Laura Hunt, Kath Fries, Alma Studholme and Charlotte Richardson.
Gallery 2: COMMON SUBJECTS, Diarmid Campbell and Luke McMaster.
Opening 6-8pm June 18
Saturday 27 June: CREATIVITY AND THE WANDERING MIND PANEL DISCUSSION
The Elevator Pitch: Communicating the value of creativity.
Cuts to arts funding in the recent Federal Budget, and the debates that ensued, highlight the necessity of continuing to communicate the value of creativity & the arts to the broader community. How do we work towards making the arts sector less vulnerable to attacks, and stronger in the face of them? While anti-Brandis rants can be cathartic, it's important to share strategies of broader continuing relevance so that we can move beyond times of crisis, survive and thrive.
Saturday July 4 DOUBLE VISION
Altered-states through drone, psych and noise.
Comprised of core players and composers Kraig Grady and Terumi Narushima.
A new collaboration between Jannah Quill and Laura Hunt (Ghastly Spats).
Saturday July 11 AGGREGATE ART CRIT
Niall Robb, Laura Hunt, Kath Fries, Alma Studholme and Charlotte Richardson.
Accreation: Un-becoming and the Surface as Sight brings together five artists from disparate practices, each exploring surface as a site of the imperceptible, and the space between process and actualization of work. Robb understands surface as a sight of enchantment, coupling the circulatory nature of moving image with the materiality of surface to explore the imperceptible in a space between reality and mythology. Richardson's bespoke jewelry pieces explore the everyday, collapsed and reformed. Her up-cycled domestic plastic products hold an uncanny sensibility, forming a new relationship with the viewer via the mirrored surface. Hunt's practice is based in the documentation of action, she takes imperceptibility of sound as an ever-evolving and circulatory surface. Fries installations looks at the ephemerality of the physical surface as a site of creation, suggesting impermanence and transience.In Firing Enzo, Studholme draws on the properties and processes of the ceramic material. In the process of documenting her work, Studholme reveals slippage inherent in process, and the impossibility of control. The resulting works transform the gallery into a many-layered space of to uncover and re-imagine the surface of things.
Kath Fries' practice traces the impermanence of present experience, as an ongoing personal reflection on the passage of time and fragility of life. Working with tactile materials to explore interconnections between our senses and our surroundings, her sculptural installations are quiet, sensitive engagements with site and materiality. Divest is a beeswax and ash installation exploring uncontainablity and porous intersections between artifice and nature. In this work, beeswax polyp forms cluster in a vertical crevice, seemingly seeping inwards to gradually invade the gallery space. These aromatic translucent shapes suggest embodied presence but their surfaces are smattered with ash, which in turn conjure a sense of uneasiness, vulnerability and loss. www.kathfries.com
Laura Hunt creates communicable exchanges between otherwise inaudible objects. Hunt's practice involves making impermanent autonomous instruments with water and amplification inside ceramic and plastic vessels. She explores the relationships that arise between performance improvisation and control. The sonic sculptures enter into an exchange beyond the artists control; they exist temporally as well as fixed and Hunt takes on the role of both creator and spectator. Hunt's work manifests from a history and connection to collaboration and playing music. Music in a group environment often begins as a spontaneous, performative and communal pursuit. Replicating qualities of live communal performance is seen in Hunt's visual practice.
Niall Robb is a Sydney based video and installation artist. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology) from The University of Sydney in 2009 and a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from Sydney College of the Arts in 2012. His practice explores surface materiality as a possible site of enchantment. Robb has exhibited in a number of group shows in Australia and is currently a MFA candidate at Sydney College of the Arts.
Emerging sculptor Alma Studholme is a Sydney-based artist, originally from Croatia. At the core of Studholmes' work is the ceramic medium. Her interdisciplinary mixed media practice draws on the particular performative and interactive elements of each work. Through an experimental framework, Alma is currently working on a PhD project at the University of Sydney. The project is designed to explore various ontological aspects of the embodied human experience and extend her sculptural practice across cognitive sciences, neuroscience and contemplative religious traditions.
Charlotte Richardson is currently completing her Bachelor Of Visual Arts (Honours) at Sydney College of the Arts. Inspired by the waste within our consumer society she attempts to challenge the labels we give every day objects by utilising the associations between jewellery and value.
*Accreation: Un-becoming and the Surface as Sight is the result of our single work application callout and has been curated by the Verge Gallery team including Nina Dodd, Victor Lo, Ana Perez, Andrew Smart, Yves Lee, Minji Kim and Gabrielle Steele.
Diarmid Campbell and Luke McMaster
Common subjects brings together material and conceptual concerns shared between Diarmid Campbell and Luke McMaster in order to interrogate the role of design and technology in mediating our negotiations of social spaces. In particular, the ways in which the technological gaze, surveillance and social control cohere in relation to physical and virtual architectures of visibility and openness.
Like the advent of modernist architecture aspired to abolish distinctions of inside and outside, so too does current digital infrastructures that corrupt boundaries between personal and public. Visibility has developed in conjunction with the increasing privatisation and surveillance of seemingly public domains. In the spaces of pedagogical institutions, shopping malls and online platforms we are watched and scrutinised; our actions become information.
Of the types of public space they can be viewed within the context of a veil. There is a level of transparency, however therein lies the potential to mask and selectively reveal aspects of oneself. As the rapid development of digital technologies re-orients our experience of space the placement of the body is inescapably seen, exposed and revealed yet hidden, masked and disguised. Existing between the logic of the virtual sphere and nature of the classical world, multiple identities emerge of a single individual.
Through exploring our movements through the dimensions of informational and corporeal realms within this framework of openness and concealment, common subjects examines the efficacy of virtual and physical structures.
Diarmid Campbell lives in Sydney. He has a forthcoming solo exhibition at Feltspace, Adelaide in 2015. Recent exhibitions in 2014 were Counter Image, ICAN and You need to take two images of everything, Firstdraft, both in Sydney.
Luke McMaster is a Sydney based artist. His recent work uses painting, sculpture, photography and installation to explore affectations of design, space, value and artifice. He is an ArtStart recipient from Australia Council for the Arts and in 2015 undertook a residency at the Dr Denise Hickey Memorial Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Recent exhibitions include Counter Image, ICAN (2014), Determining Factors, Archive Space (2014) and An Unstable Living Arrangement, Firstdraft (2013).


text: on Apr 2, 2013 @ 5:15 AMApr 2, 2013 @ 5:15 AM PublishedUK prompt gas prices down 14 percent as LNG supply doublesLONDON (Reuters) - British prompt gas prices slid 15 percent on Tuesday to a two-week low as flows from North Sea pipelines and stocks of liquefied natural (LNG) gas at terminals rose sharply, although cold weather was expected to drive demand until next week.Prompt gas for within-day delivery was trading at 77.00 pence a therm at 0740 GMT, down 13.40 pence from the previous day's trading on Thursday, before the Easter holidays.Gas for Wednesday delivery traded at 79 pence, down 14.50 on Thursday's close."The system is very long this morning because of a big rise in LNG deliveries, healthy flows from Norway, while along the curve, prices are weakening as forecasts suggest Britain will start to see milder weather next week," said one trader.Forecast supply of gas at 347 mcm outpaces expected demand by 28 mcm, National Grid data showed, driving within-day gas prices to their lowest since March 15.Three deliveries from Qatar and another from Trinidad have helped replenish stocks after the coldest March in half a century, while Norwegian deliveries to Britain are expected to be 134 mcm on Tuesday, up from Thursday's average of 119 mcm, according to National Grid data.The four deliveries of super-cooled gas have swelled Britain's stocks of LNG held at import terminals to 7,599 gigawatt hours (GWh) on Monday, or around 660 million cubic metres (mcm) of gas, up from 358 mcm on March 24.LNG terminals are expected to pump 26 mcm of gas into Britain's distribution network on Tuesday after supply hit 30 mcm on Monday, up sharply from 14 mcm on Thursday, analysts at Reuters Point Carbon said in a daily report.In addition, Britain's stocks of natural gas in storage rose slightly to 2,847 GWh (about 247 mcm) on Monday from just 2,594 GWh on Saturday, as plentiful supplies of pipeline gas allowed some refilling of mid-range storage, according to the latest data from National Grid.Gas storage sites topped up their meagre supplies by 29 mcm or 0.6 percent by late Monday, according to figures published by Gas Storage Europe, leaving total stocks at just 5.7 percent of capacity.Demand for gas is expected to remain high this week as Britain continues to shiver in unseasonably cold temperatures.Forecasters GFS said that temperatures would return to seasonal norms from the middle of next week, although this week many areas are expected to remain close to freezing.(Reporting By John McGarrity and Daniel Fineren; editing by Alison Birrane and Keiron Henderson)

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The Pittsburgh Steelers will kickoff their 2013 season Sunday at Heinz Field and unless any players receive contract extensions between now and then, the team will have 19 free agents at the end of season assuming all are still on the 53 man roster by then. Below is a quick recap of the players that are entering their final year under contract and schedule to be free agents in 2014.
Emmanuel Sanders (URFA) – Unless Sanders receives an extension between now and Sunday, he will test the free agent market and most likely end up elsewhere next season.
Ziggy Hood (URFA) – Unless Hood is extended by Sunday, he will test the free agent market next offseason. He is a former first-round pick so you can certainly expect that he will receive some attention if he plays well in 2013. If that winds up being the case, the Steelers will other teams set his market value and then decide whether or not they can afford him.
Ryan Clark (URFA) – Should Clark decide not to retire to start his broadcasting career, I could see the Steelers bringing him back for one more year on a qualified contract for the minimum as long as his play does not drop off in 2013. The Steelers know that he will want to finish his career in Pittsburgh so they will use that to their advantage.
Brett Keisel (URFA) – Whether or not Keisel returns in 2014 depends entirely on his play in 2013. He won't want to end his career elsewhere should he choose not to retire, so the Steelers should have no problem signing him to a one-year qualified contract for the minimum next offseason if that is indeed the direction that they want to go. If indeed he does return, he will have to do so as a backup.
Jason Worilds (URFA) – Regardless of what happens in 2013, Worilds will more than likely be allowed to test free agency next offseason. The Steelers might be interested in retaining him as a backup, but only if the price is right. Worilds is a former second-round pick, however, so I fully expect he will get his tires kicked by several teams and I am not expecting him to return in 2014.
Isaac Redman (URFA) – Redman is not an every-down running back, so it is hard to imagine that he will receive a lot of attention next offseason as a free agent. Should he not get receive a modest deal between now and Sunday, the Steelers might try to re-sign him next offseason for the minimum to compete for a roster spot.
Jerricho Cotchery (URFA) – The Steelers wide receiver depth chart could very well be nonexistent next offseason should Sanders wind up elsewhere. Cotchery's best years are behind him, but having him back as a third or fourth receiver at the minimum might be something to keep in mind.
LaRod Stephens-Howling (URFA) – Stephens-Howling still has tread left on his tires and might be asked back on a one-year deal next offseason to serve as a third-down and change of pace back. Should he ultimately wind up being re-signed, it will likely come with no guarantees that he will make the roster.
Al Woods (URFA) – You would have to think the Steelers would like to retain Woods next offseason being as the depth behind him is still young and unproven. He will start the 2013 season as not only a backup defensive end, but the backup to nose tackle Steve McLendon as well. That position flexibility could come in hand down the line and it shouldn't cost much to retain him.
Felix Jones (URFA) – Jones future depends on how he performs as a complimentary back in 2013. If he does well, he will likely entertain offers elsewhere next offseason. If he doesn't, the Steelers probably won't want him back.
Greg Warren (URFA) – Once again, Warren will be an unrestricted free agent and primed to return on a one-year qualified contract.
Zoltan Mesko (URFA) – Believe or not, Mesko is a prime candidate to receive either the franchise or transition tag next offseason. If he punts well this year, you can expect him to return in 2014.
David Johnson (URFA) – Johnson was signed back to the roster this offseason on a one-year deal and that very well could happen again next offseason if he plays well in 2013.
Da'Mon Cromartie-Smith (RFA) – Cromartie-Smith is one of two restricted free agents on this list, but being as he is not a starter, it's hard to see him receiving a restricted tender next offseason. He will more than likely be allowed to test free agency, but could return as a training camp invitee on a one-year minimum deal.
Michael Palmer (URFA) – Palmer might not even make though 2013 as the Steelers are likely to waive him once Matt Spaeth is ready to come off the injured reserve list after week eight.
Kion Wilson (RFA) – Wilson might have some upside as an inside linebacker, but his primary role in 2013 will be to help out on special teams. Should Sean Spence be able to make a full recovery, Wilson might very well be the odd man out later on this year. Let's just say that right now that Wilson's future is yet to be determined.
Guy Whimper (URFA) – I am surprised Whimper lasted this long on the roster and I will insist that Kevin Colbert be given a drug test if Whimper is re-signed next offseason.
Cody Wallace (URFA) – There is no guarantee that Wallace will be brought back next season if he is still on the roster at the end of the year. If he is re-signed, you can bet that it will only be for one year and at the minimum.
Plaxico Burress (URFA) – 2013 had to be Burress' last shot, so I just can't see him returning in 2014.
Al Woods and Emmanual Sanders need extensions asap, but I doubt it will happen during the season.
I thought Cortez Allen was in his contract year also?
No player on that list makes me worry at the thought of losing. Obviously it would be great to keep Sanders at the right price but it's possible that Wheaton could make that loss a lot easier to take. I agree with Garrett that I'd like to see Woods signed.
Cortez Allen is in his 3rd year, I think he signed a 4yr contract. I like this kid, but the Steelers may want to wait to see exactly what he does as a full time starter. This will be his first year as a starter. They really can't afford to lose him, Ike is on his way out, Curtis Brown has been a bust thus far, and they really don't have anybody else. For the life of me, I don't understand why the Franchise doesn't place a great deal of value on DB's. And when they do, they seem to always come up with a BUST! I would fire the Scouting team that is responsible for providing feedback on all of the these guys. Do your research on Defense, the Steelers has done a terrible job drafting DB's since Colbert was hired. Yes, they got it right with Cortez Allen and Ike Taylor, but look how long it took Keenan Lewis to catch on. Troy was a 1st rounder, a No-Brainer there. If anybody goes down, they will be in trouble.
Shutdown corners aren't easy to find or pay. Look at some teams that invested huge money in corners. Jets with Revis, Raiders with Asomugha etc. I agree the depth isn't great but it was the #1 ranked secondary in football last year so I may hold off on firing the scouts.
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Jack Hannahan finally ready to join the Reds
Jul 27, 2014, 11:34 AM EDT
Via Major League Baseball's official transactions feed …
The @Reds activate INF Jack Hannahan from 60-day DL; option RHP Curtis Partch to Triple-A Louisville.
— MLBRosterMoves (@MLBRosterMoves) July 27, 2014
Hannahan underwent shoulder surgery over the offseason and his longer-than-expected recovery cost him the first four months of the 2014 season. The versatile 34-year-old can be a valuable utility infielder down the stretch for the Reds, who are six games out of first place in the National League Central standings at the start of play Sunday. Hannahan has experience at first base, second base, third base, and shortstop.
- uk2ndbestinthestate - Jul 27, 2014 at 3:48 PM
He's awful.
- contraryguy - Jul 27, 2014 at 7:41 PM
0 for 4, 2 Ks. Welcome back, Jack.
The Reds have to be in sell mode by now. They have no credible prospects above AA and barely the depth to complete an interleague game with a DH. But hey, the rumor is they're looking at mid-30s replacement players in the trade market. So there's that.
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