Kym Maxwell

Students of Dandenong Primary School investigating the types of play in the schoolyard and collecting objects used.

Student conducting research, film recording for the Objects of Longing project, 2018

Kym Maxwell, Introduction of Rope (Objects of Longing Project), 2018, inkjet print, 30cm x 40cm

Students performing their theatre work Objects Are A Limbic System Embrace Their Logic, at Dandenong Primary School Hall, Dec 2018

Kym Maxwell with Dandenong Primary School, Objects of Longing (2018-2019) install shot

Objects of Longing has been generously supported from Gandel Philanthropy and Creative Learning Partnerships, Creative Victoria – A Victorian Government Initiative and Dandenong Primary School.

This project demonstrates the diversity of Maxwells practice and ability to work across disciplines

Performed and co-created with the students and staff of Dandenong Primary School, February, 2019. Act 3: Science Lab ( The teacher takes the knife). Image : Keelan O’Hehir

A Wharfie’s Story, scene 12: ‘The changing of the Industry' (2015) The arrival of cargo ships, performance held at Buluk Park, North Wharf. Image, Keelan O'Hehir

Kym Maxwell and the Collingwood College Theatre Troupe, documentation of performance, A Wharfie's Story,2015, Buluk Park, November 21st, 2015. Image, Keelan O'Hehir

Depicting Scene 3: ‘Initiation’ set within Festival Town Hall (2015), performed to a large general public at the location of the original Bull Yard, the pick up site (work allocation site) for wharfie’s in the 50’s, now a new lifestyle hub - outside Library of the Docks.

Collingwood Theatre Troupe and Kym Maxwell, Set for A Wharfie’s Story, Asbestos (2015). materials: Aluminium, fabric, Velcro, paint. Dimensions: 1920 x 12 x 1740mm. Photography : Christian Capurro.

Left of Image 6 visible original artworks, right of image, ‘storyboard iteration 2017 with teaching and learning ephemera from the Collingwood College Theatre Troupe, 2015.’ West Space, 2017.

Kym Maxwell Artworks: (Middle) Education's blood with water viaduct and soft cell stitches, 2017, cardboard tubing, gauze from previous sculpture, backdrop material, plaster, house paint, clear Perspex single filing cabinet, curriculum documentation, rope, cardboard tubing, elastic, pillows, 2050 X 600 X 450mm.

(Left) A Wharfie's Story Chalkboard Script, 2017. Chalkboard paint, MDF, chalk, screws. (Right) archival installation (2017), photograph, photocopy, print, paint, archival paper. (installation variable) 3.5 x 7.5 x 3.3m. West Space Gallery. Image: Christo Crocker.

(Far Back) 21st C pedagogic process, found-materials stage design, 1950's Fruit Boxes, 2017, (re-installation instructions: requested seven boxes from Mac Donalds [take those given]), rope, gaffa tape, 'ethics guilt' tubing, glue, newspaper, found palette. Dimensions 1050 x 1100 x 1002 mm.

(Back Middle) Swish or Swill, 2017. Found tin can, found tin cup, crate, carpet tiling, water and asbestos like talcum powder, 1200 X 900 X 1200 mm.

(Back Left) My life as a wharfie learnerar, 2017, hessian sack, and twine wadding and newspaper, purchased girl overall dress, found crate, 810 x 800 x 1010 mm.

Materials: chalkboard paint, chalk, MDF, plaster, pillows, house paint, rope, trolley, hessian, crate, found bin, boxes rope, watercolor paintings, white cordary, pine wood, screws, collection of documentation images from the work A Wharfies Story performed by The Collingwood College Theatre Troupe (2015), all storyboard imagery, collection of documentation, drawings, paintings, prints and scupltures by Kym Maxwell (2016-2017) crate, found bin, boxes rope, watercolor paintings, white cordary, pine wood, screws, collection of documentation images from the work, also a collection of drawings, paintings, prints and scupltures by Kym Maxwell (2016-2017). Dimensions variable. Image: Christian Capurro.

Kym Maxwell, storyboard iteration 2017, teaching and learning ephemera from a 2015 performance arts curriculum, seven pine stud arches and frames, white corduroy, nails, screws, two wooden stools, archival images gifted from Jim and Tui Beggs, multiple imagery reproduced from photographs by Keelan O'Hehir, Christian Capurro and Kym Maxwell relate to the theatre production A Wharfie’s Story performed by The Collingwood College Theatre Troupe (2015), as well as watercolour drawings and lithograph prints, notebook digital reproductions, charcoal comments, bluetak, gold split pins, sticky tape. All altered documentation, drawings, paintings, prints and sculptures by Kym Maxwell (2016-2017). Dimensions variable, ongoing installation instructions the fabric corduroy wallmust be 730 mm distance from the gallery wall, partly concealed with its height one third lower than the gallery wall..Gallery. For storyboard poetics and pedagogic process, Westspace Gallery. Images Christo Crocker

Kym Maxwell curated and was an artist within the large-scale international exhibition.

(left and right of image wall), Simon and Tom Bloor (U.K), A Sentence of Shapes 3, (2014) chalkboard paint, installation wall painting; (right in image), Annette Krauss (N.L), Hidden Curriculum, (2007 –ongoing), documentation of a participatory project, DVD, TV's, DVD players, metal shelf, posters and booklets, duration loop 30 minutes; (behind right wall in image) Kym Maxwell, Objects are Associative, (2014), found mixed media, dimensions variable. Image Patrick Rodriquez

Artists: Dan Arps, Simon and Tom Bloor (UK), Lane Cormick, DAMP, Emily Floyd, Nathan Gray, Dr Peter Hill, Annabelle Kingston, Anastasia Klose, Annette Krauss (NL), Kym Maxwell, Elizabeth Newman, Sean Peoples, Room 13 (with Robert Fairley UK), Nick Selenitsch, Antonia Sellbach, Peter Tyndall. Introduced by Centre for Constructed World. Photography: Patrick Rodriquez

Uneducated included 5 public events, lectures, one of which was the students of Collingwood College re-curated the exhibition, called the ‘Curation Project’ with the guidance of Emily Floyd and Kym Maxwell. A video of this work in included

Funded by the Pinpoint Ephemeral Arts Event Program sponsored by the Banyule City Council. Presented on November 23rd with a team of 10 volunteers this public intervention posed the value of screening out and screening in observation of one's behaviour in public. Does safety improve through observation or does it hinder expression and risk?

Kym Maxwell, Objects of Longing Project research phase, with Dandenong Primary School (August), 2018.

Kym Maxwell with Dandenong Primary School, Objects of Longing (2018-2019) (install shot with the student performers)

Objects of Longing has been generously supported from Gandel Philanthropy and Creative Learning Partnerships, Creative Victoria – A Victorian Government Initiative and Dandenong Primary School.

This project demonstrates the diversity of Maxwells practice and ability to work across disciplines with children and engaging them in their own research and ability to tell stories.

Performed and co-created with the students and staff of Dandenong Primary School, February, 2019. Act 3: Science Lab ( The teacher takes the knife). Image : Keelan O’Hehir

Kym Maxwell, Storyboard Poetics and Pedagogic Process (detail), 2017, Westspace Gallery, exhibtion documentation — installation wall, mixed media, dimensions variable. Image: Christian Capurro