Kym Maxwell

Kym Maxwell, Cloak of Curriculum, Collaborative Teacher, (The Dandenong Primary School Project, Objects of Longing), 2018

Materials: Plastic, fabric lining, curriculum, inkjet print photo documentation of the research phase, Objects of Longing, pages from vintage school books, The Australian Curriculum Progression Points, press stud and vintage buttons.

1. Documentation, Uneducated, installation, curation Kym Maxwell, Counihan Gallery, 2014 (left and right of image wall), Simon and Tom Bloor, A Sentence of Shapes 3, (2014) chalkboard paint, installation wall painting; (right in image), Annette Krauss, Hidden Curriculum, (2007 –ongoing), documentation of a particpatory 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

The children of Collingwood College re-curated the exhibition titled, ‘curation Project’ with the guidance of Emily Floyd and Kym Maxwell.

2. Documentation, Uneducated, installation view 2nd gallery, curator and artist Kym Maxwell, Counihan Gallery, 2014. (left in image) Kym Maxwell, Objects are Associative (2014), Mixed found materials, dimensions variable. (right in image), Lane Cormick, Cook Beale Mustard Swan(2009), Dan Arps, Shape Shifter (2013) Wall Drawing, Video player, Video, Dimensions variable. Image Patrick Rodriquez.

Uneducated 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 a Constructed World. Photography: Patrick Rodriquez

The children of Collingwood College Reggio Emilia approach re-curated the exhibition. This was titled the ‘Curation Project’ with guidance from Emily Floyd and Kym Maxwell.

Image (far left): Kym Maxwell, Objects are associative (2014). 2 Channel video work, HD Video, wooden dowel, pine plinth, found table top, lost and found manipulatives: wood, cement and found clothes.

Dimensions variable.

All works Courtesy of the artist

Kym Maxwell Steiner Verse, (2016), pedagogic performance with Class 6 and pedagogue Tanya Rao of Sophia Mundi Steiner School, 12 performers, 3 instruments, May 1st, 2016. Presented within the program ‘Polyphonic Social’ for Liquid Architecture and Abbotsford Convent. Photography: Keelan O'Hehir.

Kym Maxwell, Storyboard Poetics and Pedagogic Process, 2017, Westspace Gallery, Script: A Wharfie's Story, Chalkboards, Chalk, 2700 x 1800mm. Image, Christian Capurro

2. 9. Kym Maxwell, Informal Learning, 2017, George Paton Gallery, dimensions variable. Image Kym Maxwell Installation detail, April 2017. Materials: tyre paint, trestle door and steel table, university upcycled chairs, Dimensions: variable. Image: Kym Maxwell

21. Kym Maxwell and the students of Collingwood College Reggio 1/2, student creating curation notice, 2014, inject print, 42 x 30 cms

20. Kym Maxwell, Uneducated Website, designed by James Oates, 2014, ongoing, internet, uneducated.co.

Maxwell Kym, Refraction, 2017, Kingston Arts Centre, installation view, Steel, Cement, Water, Pump, metal, dirt, cardboard tubing, dimensions variable. Image, Kym Maxwell

Kym Maxwell, Learning Labour, MFA Grad Show MADA, Monash University, backdrop polemics, paint, Fabric, Velcro, Dimensions Variable. Image: Christian Capurro.

19. Kym Maxwell, Selection of Digging Tools. Site: BNWPS, eastern border found adjacent to a 60cm deep tunnel of clay below cement gutter, 2018, inkjet print, 30 cms x 40cms

a sample of the 24 chalkboards that were on display. Documentation install photography, Christian Capurro. Materials: chalkboard paint, mdd, chalk.

Collingwood College Theatre Troupe and Kym Maxwell, rehearsal and preparation, A Wharfie’s Story, (2015) in the Collingwood College theatre. Photography: Kym Maxwell

original documentation by Kym Maxwell of Goodwill research November 2013, Spensley Street Primary School.

12. Kym Maxwell, If Transmission Were Material, 2016, Abbotsford Convent, Mixed Media, Dimensions variable. Image, Patrick Rodriquez.

2. Documentation, Uneducated, installation view 2nd gallery, curator and artist Kym Maxwell, Counihan Gallery, 2014. (left in image) Kym Maxwell, Objects are Associative (2014), Mixed found materials, dimensions variable. (right in image), Lane Cormick, Cook Beale Mustard Swan(2009), Dan Arps, Shape Shifter (2013) Wall Drawing, Video player, Video, Dimensions variable. Image Patrick Rodriquez.

Uneducated 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 a Constructed World. Photography: Patrick Rodriquez

The children of Collingwood College Reggio Emilia approach re-curated the exhibition. This was titled the ‘Curation Project’ with guidance from Emily Floyd and Kym Maxwell.

Image (far left): Kym Maxwell, Objects are associative (2014). 2 Channel video work, HD Video, wooden dowel, pine plinth, found table top, lost and found manipulatives: wood, cement and found clothes.

Dimensions variable.

All works Courtesy of the artist

Maxwell, Kym, Informal Learning, 2017, George Paton Gallery, Pedagogic Project installation view. Materials: tyre paint, trestle door and steel legs, Kym Maxwell photography, black and white photocopy print on A4 paper, spray glue, sticker floor lettering, bond paper, textas, interivew table, university upcycled chairs, Dimensions: variable. Image Kym Maxwell

20. Kym Maxwell, War and Rest, (Site: BNWPS and WPS internal grounds location, and within trees — found materials include split brick, paving tile, cement cluster, fence pailing) 2018, injet print, 30 cms x 40cms

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

Kym Maxwell, installation shot Learning Labour, (sets and their institutional setting), MFA Grad Show (2017). Dimensions variable. Image: Chrisitan Capurro.

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

Industrial Estate group show (2014) Site: Woodcraft Mobiliar Factory

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

Publication A Wharfie’s Story- play, protest, consequence: Kym Maxwell and the Collingwood College Theatre Troupe, 2019. A 320 page self-published book with Ingram Press. Designed by Paul Mylecharane and Beaziyt Worou with text contributions by Lisa Radford, Rosemary Forde, Jim Beggs and myself: publication images by Keelan O’Hehir, Christian Capurro and Christos Crocker. Available Perimeter Book, MCA Store and Amazon Distribution

Mixer found by Serat, Museum of Anticipation tent, (Objects of Longing), 2018

Image: Christian Capurro

Image: Christian Capurro

Performed and co-created with the students and staff of Dandenong Primary School

Act 3: Science Lab ( The teacher takes the knife)

Image : Keelan O’Hehir