***new merch***
JOE'S "NOT NOTHING" WORKOUT TEE: A TRIBUTE TO MORAL SUPPORT
2024
Hand printed with Power Flower straight through the chest on both sides of the heart and triple World Famous Artists stripes featuring hidden 'Not Nothing' slogan on unique garment dyed heavy weight cotton tee in one of a kind Workout grey.
One size L
Limited Edition of 6
$85
These 6 grey tees were hand printed by me (Chanelle), and are inspied by Joe's personal workout tee that he made for himself to wear to fitness training with me. As usual he has noticed, and taken, the opportunity to make the art work out. He shows up bare foot with clothes and tunes of his own making, doing his best to make this situation his own through practiced play. He hates it. For himself and for me. And for the dire necessity of it all. He does it anyway.
Not Nothing is a way of doing in our art practice. It's sometimes just showing up, going through the motions or some high speed whatever. In it we are freed from the looming paralysis of indecision, self judgment, fear and perfectionism. And flung into a 'fuck this, do it anyway' punk-like approach that promises, at the very least, that failure is still a foward move. And Anything will do to get you there. The only way to do this wrong, is to not do anything at all.
The bare minimum, the easy way, the fun way, the whatever-i-feel-like-right-now way, are all on offer here. And they all hold some-thing. Some lightly potent thing, that somehow always ends up being more than enough.
This is a small set of artworks to acknowledge some big support. Here's to showing up, good enough is actually enough, and making it till you’re making it. Nice one Joe, thank you very much.
Love x chanelle
2024 - mixtape radio •perfromance, kites •oh petal ep release •2nd ed book
JUST MARRIED
Artist Statement: Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier - A Wedding as Art, Performance, and Resistance
Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier's wedding was not just a personal celebration, but an intentional artistic performance that confronts the spectacle of life. By approaching it as an alternate form of making art, their aim was to create an authentic experience, rooted in the criticality of care, love, and friendship. They strove to reverse the spectacle’s disintegration into all aspects of their practice, to reclaim agency, and push the boundaries of what art can be. It is a statement embodying the fusion of art and life, labor and leisure, and challenging the dominant cultural narratives of our time.
Photo: Jake Terrey
april 2023
RESIDENCIES 2022: BUNDANON TRUST - VERMONT STUDIO CENTER - RENSHAWS
EXHIBITIONS 2022: VERGE GALLERY - NSW VAEF - ARTICULATE PROJECTS
projects 2022: this is not a love song [sound archive] + [radio] - summer 68 - play something else cowboy
RESIDENCY 2 - BUNDANON TRUST
OCTOBER 2022
BUNDANON’S WORLD-RENOWNED ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM IS THE LARGEST OF ITS KIND IN AUSTRALIA AND SPANS THE ORGANISATION’S 30-YEAR HISTORY. THE PROGRAM GROWS YEAR-ON-YEAR AND IS STRUCTURED THROUGH A SERIES OF PARTNERSHIPS WITH LEADING ARTS ORGANISATIONS AND COMPANIES, CULTURAL AGENCIES AND BENEFACTORS.
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE AT BUNDANON TRUST 2022 - 2023. DEVELOPMENT 1, FEB 2022, STUDIO PRACTICE, SUMMER 68’ TEXTILE WORKS AND CURATORIAL PLANNING FOR ARTSPACE FELLOWSHIP. DEV 2, OCTOBER 2022, MIXTAPE SOUND PRACTICE, MUSIC FOR KITES. DEV 3 & 4, AUGUST, OCTOBER, 2023, REHEARSALS, STRATEGIC RECALIBRATION.
Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship 2022
CREATE NSW - ARTSPACE - NAS GALLERY
VAEF
Eddie Abd, Chun Yin Rainbow Chan, Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen, Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier, Emily Parsons-Lord, and Genevieve Felix Reynolds.
OPENING NIGHT Wednesday 24th August 2022, 6 - 8pm. National Art School Gallery
Presented in partnership with NAS and exhibited at the NAS Gallery in Darlinghurst. NAS Gallery Coordinator, Scott Elliot, will be joining Artspace’s Alexie Glass-Kantor and Elyse Goldfinch to develop the Fellowship exhibition.
NSW VAEF has evolved over the past 100 years into a key exhibition for profiling the dynamism and breadth of emerging contemporary artistic practice in NSW. Valued at $30,000, the Fellowship is offered by the NSW Government through Create NSW to enable a visual artist early in their career to undertake a self-directed program of professional development.
Each year, Create NSW convenes a judging panel of esteemed colleagues to determine the finalists, providing insight and passion to assess the highly competitive round of proposals.
union magazine #2
interview with Sophie lanigan
Out, Damned Spot is a collaborative project between Caitlin Hespe & Emilie Syme-lamont, Skelton&Conway and Joe Wilson & Chanelle Collier. It is a mixed-medium interrogation of the non-washable stain and the spectrum between control and disorder.
Gallery hours 11am - 5pm Friday, Saturday, Sunday
july 2022
VERMONT STUDIO CENTER 2022
Residency June 12 - July 1 Johnson, VT, USA
RECENT
JOE WILSON & CHANELLE COLLIER
EVERYTHING IS OK :)
13 MAY – 10 JUNE 2022
Exhibition launch: Thursday 19 May, 6-8pm
Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier are a collaborative love team based in Sydney. They have a generative practice developing ideas and dialogue to work alongside gallery and institutional programs. They use image, object, and sound mediums influenced by peer contemporaries, International Situationists, and critical media theory.
Their gallery exhibition Everything is ok :) establishes languages of resistance built around demonstrations of play and dialogue. An expression of agency is made through sound, material, actions and words.
Featuring their Summer 68 artwork series of iconic tent material, from pioneer Andre Jamet’s French brand; it draws from historic French political protests and detourned content. From this, Wilson and Collier use situationist play as a position that can be active and have the potential to divest from the labour of art work. This exhibition brings together infra-distances and the artists two voices to speak to the institution with criticality through care.
Verge Gallery
City Road, Jane Foss Russell Plaza
University of Sydney, Darlington, NSW, 2006
Open Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm
Thursday 10am-7pm
(From 16 May, Verge will be open Monday-Friday 10-5pm, Thursday 10am-7pm)
P: 02 9563 6218
verge-gallery.net
THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG [RADIO]
2022
Resonance Extra - https://extra.resonance.fm/–
2-2.30pm BST, third Friday every month Aug 2021 – Jan 2022
Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier in collaboration with Jack Prest
This Is Not A Love Song [Radio] is a 30-minute radio program hosted by leading experimental and sound art radio station Resonance Extra, London, live online, every month, featuring 6 episodes.
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ONGOING PROGRAM
PLAY SOMETHING ELSE COWBOY
BACK IN 5
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PLAY SOMETHING ELSE COWBOY is a program that interconnects professional dialogue, personal narrative and recreational past times via a cowboy themed cocktail bar.
Play Something Else Cowboy is a site for participation, where the bar acts as a locus object, a meeting place. Conversation and cocktails facilitate a generative dialogue between peers, hosting 2 guests every Friday night at 6pm.
The work engages notions of sonic agency and social practice as forms of resistance and exchange.
Accompanying Play Something Else Cowboy, is an ongoing series of cocktail glasses engraved with unattributed quotes from guests that reflect the quantity and diversity of engagement.
(Right) Documentation photo by Robin Hearfield
(Below) Cocktail photos by Jake Terrey
AVAILABLE WORK
The very best of [Sydney 2021]
A limited release of eight new The Very Best Of painted record covers are now available.
38 x 38cm, acrylic on found record covers framed under glass.
WORK IN PROGRESS
this is not a love song [sound archive]
Project
This Is Not A Love Song [Sound Archive] is an ambitious, ongoing project to create a comprehensive sound archive of field recordings from major museums worldwide. The Archive captures the ambient soundscapes of exhibition spaces, from echoing galleries to bustling foyers. It has been contributed to by an international network of artists, museum staff and institutions; aiming to collect a recording from every possible nation, building towards a collection representing 200 museums across 200 countries.
Concept
This Is Not A Love Song invites participants to explore the relationship between individuals and institutions through sound. It creates a space for critical reflection on field recordings and museums by immersing listeners in a unique soundscape experience. The project fosters collaboration through email and phone communication, generating an ongoing dialogue between artists, audiences, arts workers, and institutions. This focus on deep listening and quiet actions fosters a critical discourse centered around care.
Left: This Is Not A Love Song, 2019. Poster Print Edition. 60 x 90cm.
2019 - ONGOING
joe and chanelle
Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier are an artist love team based in Sydney. They share a conceptual practice and make artwork using textiles and sound. In galleries and institutions their exhibitions explore strategies of criticality and care. Kite flying , cocktail partys and picnics, are as much a part of their practice as any traditional art form. This is a tactic of alternate exhibitioning and relational exchange. They place a high value on peer to peer engagement, prioritising agency and reciprocity amongst artists. They create audio-visual worlds for intimate experiences, wielding personal emotions of love and friendship, sincerity, and grief.
Joe and Chanelle are influenced by the International Situationist movement 1960’s and contemporary media theory, evidenced through the use of vintage materials and combinations of found text and imagery. With a methodology of resistance, play, and gift giving, they are interested in the role of art in social change; and how artists are implicated within institutional power.
Recent collaborative projects include This Is Not A Love Song, an archive of field recordings of museum spaces; Play Something Else Cowboy, a cocktail bar project which imparts agency through direct conversation; and Summer of 68, which researches the language of resistance with textiles.
Wilson and Collier have collaborated since 2015 each is supported by a Higher Ground Studios Residency; Winners, Viewer’s Choice Award, Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, 2018. Grants, Residencies, and Fellowships including: Cité Internationale des Arts, France, 2018, returning in 2019; NAVA Create NSW Artist Grant, 2018; Create NSW Artist Grant, 2021; Create NSW Covid Development and Project Grants in 2022; The Renshaws inaugural Artist Residency 2022 and Finalists in the Artspace Emerging Visual Arts Fellowship 2022; Residency & Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, USA, 2022; Artists in Residence, Bundanon Trust, 2022 and 2023. Commissioned collaboration, Phoenix Central Park, 2021.
Wilson and Collier have been published or featured in Artist Profile #55; UNION Magazine #2; M17: The Big Circle catalogue; Catseye Bay design techniques (2020 dissertation); Resonance Extra (UK); EastSide 89.7 Arts Monday.
COME VISIT OUR FUCKING studio [higher ground]
Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier are permanent residents at Higher Ground studios, Annandale, Sydney, 2016 - ongoing.
Higher Ground Studios is a by invitation collective of artists and permanent studios committed to a respectful and supporting environment. Permanent Artists are expected to be considerate of each other’s diverse backgrounds and practices with an aim to encourage opportunity and wellbeing of fellow studio mates through participation, communication and openness.
The Higher Ground Studios seeks to develop toward a professional and benchmark representative space of visual arts practice based in Sydney. As a collective it is committed to developing a high standard workspace attractive to peers, curators, writers, and clientele.
