Highlights
highlights at Le space
Artist-in-residence: GARETH PHILLIPS
An award-winning photographer of long-form documentary work, Gareth’s projects are deeply personal. Based between the UK and India, Gareth uses the natural geography of forests and cascading mountain sides as metaphors for the tension and relationship between wild landscapes and the people that find succour in such remoteness.
Pictured above is a maquette of the book that Gareth developed during his residency at Le Space. Unfortunately the accompanying exhibition and workshops were cancelled due to COVID-19, however we hope to stage this work at the gallery at a later date. Gareth is also one of Le Space Gallery’s represented artists and his work is available for viewing and purchase upon request.
Gareth is an artist and photographer regularly commissioned by the Guardian, The Sunday Times Magazine, FT Weekend Magazine and the Wall Street Journal. Gareth’s work has been internationally recognised in exhibitions and awards, most notably the Ian Parry Award, Welsh Livery Society Award for Photographic Excel- lence. His work is also part of the David Hurn Collection at the National Museum Wales.
March, 2020
Artist-in-residence: david schulze
David Schulze is an Australian-born fashion photographer, based out of New York.
Over the past 17 years, Schulze has worked with some of the worlds most renowned fashion photographers, including Steven Meisel, David Sims and Mario Testino.
Schulze is known for his vibrant, playful approach to composition, sophisticated use of colour and an ability to make compelling portraits.
Schulze contributes to many of the worlds top publications, including; Vogue, Interview Magazine, Marie Claire, InStyle, Harpers Bazaar and V Magazine and his advertising clients include Adidas, Coach, David Yurman, Narcisco Rodriguez, Victoria’s Secret and UNIQLO.
January, 2020
Christmas party: sonos
With Mockturtle’s gorgeous wall pieces as a backdrop, we hosted a Chistmas party for pioneers of wireless audio systems, Sonos!
Drinks by the Everleigh and Connie’s pizza truck out front made for a delicious night to celebrate the festive season.
December, 2019
Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive
Moving into Studio 1 and launching on December 12th 6-8pm, the Archive is a dedicated space of photobooks from the Asia-Pacific region, open to the public. They have exhibited thousands of books at festivals all over the world since 2013 in Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, India, Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, UK, Ireland, USA
The APPA is a response to the boom in photographic self-publishing globally and is established to provide a ‘real’ way to see photobooks that would otherwise only be viewable online.
December, 2019
Artist-in-residence: Ling Ang
“Souvenirs of Sleep” - An installation
A collection of a year’s worth of Ling Ang’s dream journals currently inhabits one of our individual studios. Designed in the likeness of their childhood bedroom, using furniture replicas and colour themes symbolic to dreaming, Ling Ang’s installation is an immersive experience that invites the viewer to explore the subconscious.
October 1st - November 24th, 2019
photo shoot: collective closets
Collective Closets shooting their latest lookbook in the showroom.
September, 2019
DESIGN FILES HOME VISIT: YING ANG & MICHAEL CHAZAN
"If you told a younger Michael Chazan he’d raise his future family in an off-the-plan CBD apartment, he probably wouldn’t believe you… but funnily enough, it’s now his dream home.
The furniture designer and creative director of Le Space, which he founded with his partner, photographer/curator/educator Ying Ang, live here with their almost-three-year-old son, Oska Shübi, and have found that apartment living is the life for them.
Over the past three years, the couple have placed their own maximalist stamp on the Melbourne apartment, with plenty of personal touches, plants, self-made furniture, and soft lighting. It’s a home that really feels lived in – we love it!" - DF
Full story here.
Exhibition: DAVID SCHULZE
‘HEADS’
The first solo exhibition and book launch of New York based photographer David Schulze.
In this show, Schulze presents 30 intimate portraits from his adopted home, New York. He observes an almost accidental notion of beauty in the endless flow of anonymous human traffic that churns through the city.
Now more than ever, people are conscious and in control of their outward appearance, almost to the point of obsession. However, in this work, Schulze seeks to discover a beauty that is largely unintended and often unseen, particularly by the subject.
In this hidden and yet omnipresent world that sits behind the faces we engage with - or disengage with - on a daily basis, Schulze introduces us to an abstracted set of commonalities that sit in stark contrast to our increasingly divided society.
January - February, 2020
Exhibition: the Young initiators
Using Collingwood as a playground, Clearing The Shadow presents contemporary imagery from 12 young artists, who have spent the last two months collaborating on topics that connect and disconnect us, using visual stories as a tool to experiment and express.
Holding space for creative energy and critical thought, the artists also pose the question, to themselves, to you, and to wider audiences -
”What knowledge do we need to create socially engaged visual storytelling?”
Answering this question through experimentation, Clearing The Shadow presents snippets of internal landscapes - from political to personal, in the form of photography, poetry and moving image.
The artists:
Lally Tap, Sara Yasir, Yakub Ogunsina, Summaiya Rehman, Lameck Munalula, Peter Savat, Emma Fenech, Kevin Riady, Christopher Phung, Angelo Duot, Ammar Yonis, Akolda Bill
Produced by Madz Rehorek and Emmanuela Piath Noi
December, 2019
Pierce widera
Designers, Amy Pierce and Nat Widera, have joined our creative community in Studio 4!
Pierce Widera was established in 2017. Both Nat and Amy share a wealth of architecture and design experience across a variety of scales and sectors, including hospitality, commercial and residential.
December, 2019
exhibition: mockturtle
Meg and Joey are dedicated to creating customised wall finishes. The Melbourne based team uses unique design principles as a backbone of their practice developed over time from experience in theatre, set and graphic design. Working with architects, designers and business owners, Mockturtle is reimagining wall surface design whilst providing highly unique and creative finishes.After a superb 2019, we were delighted to host a year end exhibition showcasing their beautiful textured palettes in our gallery.
December, 2019
Le space gallery and studios complete!
Our incredible tenants have started moving in. Le Space is officially open for business! Check this space for some highlights of our previous activities or our homepage for upcoming events and exhibitions.
September, 2019
DESIGN FILES STUDIO VISIT: SIMONE HAAG & PéPITE
"Behind a grungy warehouse facade in a Collingwood backstreet lies a wonderland of creative studios. Like a cave with a network of twisting artistic tunnels, Le Space is a gallery, a community hub for design studios, and place for creative professionals to cross-pollinate ideas.
Stylist Simone Haag and Irina Rybakov of Pépite perfectly embody this ethos. We recently visited the pair in their beautiful shared space, to see how this shared workspace plays out IRL...
Enter Le Space, a new, sleekly designed creative hub in Collingwood that is as close to an arts commune as it gets in inner city Melbourne. The brainchild of Michael Chazan of Moda Piera and photographer Ying Ang, the space houses a plethora of Melbourne’s elite design professionals in its cocoon." - DF
Full story here.
March, 2020
Portraiture workshop: david schulze
Utilizing natural and studio lighting, 15 participants and 4 models over the course of 2 days, explored the elements and ideas behind making a compelling portrait.
Guided by our artist-in-residence, David Schulze, and co-founder of Le Space Gallery, Ying Ang, each participant was able to focus on individual elements of their visual practice and spend time working on the character of subject, light, prop, direction and work flow that influences the final outcome of a successful portrait session.
A showcase of each participant and their resultant images can be see on our Instagram account.
Above image by Rebecca-Marian Irene.
January, 2020
Exhibition: Sam Forsyth-gray
New Archivalia explores the unique connection between photography and the archive. It focuses on the unique dynamics of photography’s role as both passive archived material and/or an active and agential means of preserving, cataloguing, documenting and recontextualizing. It seeks to visualise this relationship through a poetic reading of a fictional archive to establish a theoretical and embedded investigation into these virtual and physical spaces.
New Archivalia took the form of moving image, experimental photography and a self-published photobook. The work is the result of Sam’s Master of Arts – photography project undertaken at Photography Studies College, Melbourne. Ultimately, the work considers the archive as an evolving and mutating space for both new personal collections and hierarchical change.
December, 2019
Community Outreach: The Young Initiators
Supporting a local community of emerging creatives has always been a focus of intention at Le Space. We have partnered with The Young Initiators program from the Centre For Multicultural Youth, to mentor and nurture a host of bright and curious talent in learning about visual language. By engaging our physical space, the participants have the opportunity to workshop within the context of public exhibition.
We will also be making the most of our in-house resources, such as the Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive, to engage in conversations about the nuances of publishing.
October - December, 2019.
Photo shoot: one day bridal x cecilia fox
Editorial shoot with One Day Bridal and Cecilia Fox in the showroom.
August, 2019