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Refraction

  • Date: 2017
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  • Description: Refraction Exhibition, 5th August-9th November 2017. The Gippsland Centre for Art and Design (GCAD), has been operating for over 40 years. In that time the centre has been at the forefront of artistic development in Gippsland and provided a rich legacy of alumni students. This alumni exhibition is being held as a tribute to the achievements of all past graduates. The exhibition showcases a selection of works by Gippsland alumni from throughout the history of the school. Current GCAD Director Bryce Ives observed that "The centre has a long history and a lot to be proud of artistically. The graduates have shaped the art scene in Gippsland and continue to play a central role in Gippsland and across wider Australia'.' Twenty-four alumni are participating in this exhibition - all are currently practising artists. Image: Michael Gallop, Pig on Plinth, 2017

Revamp : 60s & 70s revisited : Celebrating FedUni's Ballarat Art Schools

- Hinton, Shelley, Gervasoni, Clare

  • Authors: Hinton, Shelley , Gervasoni, Clare
  • Date: 2017
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  • Description: Federation University Australia’s Arts Academy wishes to acknowledge the extraordinary achievements of our alumni who studied Visual Arts at Ballarat Technical Art School, Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education, Ballarat College of Advanced Education and Ballarat Teachers’ College, from 1960 up to and including 1979. Over the past decades, a diverse range of visual artists have graduated from the Arts Academy, some of whom have gone on to gain national and international recognition. Presented from 25th November-27th January 2018.

SCOPE 17 Exhibition

  • Date: 2017
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  • Description: 15 February - 5th March 2017, SCOPE, FedUni's Arts Academy important annual exhibition showcases an inspired and rich mix of accomplished work by visual arts staff, research associates and associate and adjunct professors. The exhibition highlights the ongoing commitment to a sustained, rigorous art practice across a broad range of approaches and media by staff working in ceramics, painting, photography, design, drawing and printmaking. While the exhibition offers a great opportunity for staff to present their more recent works which extend notions of contemporary art, new and returning visual arts students are able to view work created by key visual arts lecturers.

The Assumed Divide

- Hollis, Sylvia

  • Authors: Hollis, Sylvia
  • Date: 2017
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  • Description: Exhibition at the Post Office Gallery, Federation University Australia, 8th-18th November 2017. The Assumed Divide is an exhibition of small, figurative sculpture works, created in response to an exploration of gender, feminism and relationships. Sylvia Hollis works with the nude human figure for its ability to expose the commonality of physical existence. Wary of the temptation to objectify the body, her representations keenly express a connection to the psychological states of the characters. In this series, depictions of torn, hollowed or disintegrated flesh suggest the sometimes painful or destructive process of negotiating intimacy between self and other. Drawn from personal experience, further informed by study in gender and feminism, this body of work examines the division created by assuming a categorical difference between men and women. Sylvia’s works have been described as confronting and graphic, as well as receiving praise for their realism and sensitivity. They offer insight into the interactions and perspective of a millennial woman who battles internalised sexism and a history of unequal relationships. Resoundingly, this exhibition affirms the right to claim and maintain autonomy, highlighting how this may be undermined by attempts to satisfy stereotypical requirements of a relationship. Reverting to ingrained binary stereotypes reduces our potential to understand the myriad spectrums of identity, allowing the decidedly unfair battle of the sexes to continue. Image: Sylvia Hollis, Disconnect, 2017 (detail), mixed media, 31 x 38 x 22cm

Unearthed : The Jan Feder Collection

  • Date: 2017
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  • Description: Exhibition at Post Office Gallery, 30th September-29th October 2017. Key ceramic works by over thirty significant ceramic artists, never seen before in Ballarat, will tour from Federation University Australia's Gippsland Centre for Art and Design (GCAD), selected from the Jan Feder Collection. This important Collection, amassed by funds raised by Jan Feder's student peers at GCAD in the mid 1980s after Jan Feder passed away, includes outstanding work by former teachers and visiting lecturers, now leading ceramic artists around the globe including; Kingsley Marks, Victor Greenaway, Christopher Headley, Peter Pilven, Victoria Howlett, Alan Peascod, Kurt Webb, Reg Preston and Sylvia Richardson to name a few.

Where's Russell : 3rd Year Visual Arts Students

  • Date: 2017
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  • Description: 15th November 2016-9th January 2017 This year’s exhibition of completing students in the Bachelor of Visual Arts at Federation University features the work of eight students who have witnessed the change from Monash University to Federation University. For the past three years these students have worked assiduously to research and develop a personal visual language which will enable them to make their mark in the visual arts. In spite of trends which have seen much argument about the relevance of the object in art and the purging of traditional mediums, the Gippsland Centre for Art and Design continues to promote the notion of art as ‘making special’ and remains one of the few art schools in Australia with the facilities to cater for every aspect of the visual arts while still enabling students to make work which is relevant in a contemporary context. These past three years have seen considerable change for both the Gippsland Centre for Art and Design and the students themselves. Among those changes there has been a University wide review of staffing which resulted in the retirement of the art school’s longest serving employee, Mr Russell Snelton. Russell served the Gippsland Centre for Art and Design as a studio technician for forty years during which time he won the respect and admiration of hundreds of students. This exhibition acknowledges Russell and the positive impact he has had on the students who have requested that the exhibition be titled “Where’s Russell?” in his honour. Image: Where's Russell?

Why do you play?

  • Date: 2017
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  • Description: Exhibited as part of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale; 19th August-17th September 2017. What motivates young people to do the things they do? What drives a love of sport in teenagers? Why Do You Play? answers these questions through a series of photographs and graphics of aspiring young footballers, both male and female, all the while dissecting the relationship between art and sport. A collaboration with the Federation University Australia Communication Design students and Greater Western Victoria Rebels Football Club, this street poster exhibition is an exploration and celebration of personal identity and ambition among young sportspeople today. These students are in their third year of studying Communication Design at the Arts Academy of Federation University.

An invader's guide to the British Isles

- Ferry, David

  • Authors: Ferry, David
  • Date: 2016
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  • Description: Lying on the coffee table are picture books that tell us all we need to know about Britain: its history and geography combined. This printed matter supplies the artist David Ferry with both his subject and his raw material. Guides of the nation’s heritage imagine an innocent landscape where the manners and attitudes of the genteel middle classes of England prevail. Into these Ferry has inserted cut out images from neighbouring picture books that demonstrate the practices of the active hobbyist. Woollen garments adorn figures from British history; tropical fish swim through the great halls of stately mansions; rock climbers ascend national monuments; and confectioners bake their own public art works. The consequence of these additions is humorous undermining of an accepted narrative. Providing a survey of David Ferry’s continued visual exploration of guides to British Heritage, this exhibition features work from series that span twenty-five years. The picture books, found in charity shops, are first subjected to simple cut and paste tampering; this is then refined through printmaking processes both traditional and digital. Resultant artist books and prints demonstrate a consistency of address that pokes fun at the polite and confident assertions of the conservative viewpoint. David Ferry RE, is Emeritus Professor of Printmaking at Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, RE, and printmaking consultant for the Sidney Nolan Trust in the UK. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions in Berlin, China, London, New York, Poznan and Seoul. His work can be found in public and corporate collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Ashmolean, Oxford; Art Institute of Chicago; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He is also included in many international university collections, and the libraries of Cambridge, Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh, and the British Library London. David Ferry is a Pollock/Krasner Grantee from New York. David Ferry is represented by Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Booklyn is the premier gallery and protagonists in the USA for the promotion and impact of the genre of the artists Book and very well known on the Australian museum and state library circuit As a gallery and promoters of the genre, Booklyn has been a powerful presence in events such as Photo-Melbourne and Photo-Sydney. A considerable amount of contemporary American/international 'book arts' placed in national institutions in Australia have been sourced originally through Booklyn, and through the presence of one of the senior directors, Marshall Weber, a regular visitor to Australia, particularly Melbourne. Weber was recently artist in residence at the Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne and Creative Consultant for the Australian National Veterans Art Museum. Marshall Weber's works are represented in private and public Australian Collections, including the Australian War Memorial and the State Libraries of Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales. booklyn.org Image: Standing Form No 3, 2015 Public Sculpture in England series 2015/16 digital archive print with stencil & varnish with gold leaf 594 x 841mm Courtesy the artist and Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY. Exhibition held at Post Office Gallery, Ballarat - 26 Oct – Sun 20 Nov 2016
  • Description: Lying on the coffee table are picture books that tell us all we need to know about Britain: its history and geography combined. This printed matter supplies the artist David Ferry with both his subject and his raw material. Guides of the nation’s heritage imagine an innocent landscape where the manners and attitudes of the genteel middle classes of England prevail. Into these Ferry has inserted cut out images from neighbouring picture books that demonstrate the practices of the active hobbyist. Woollen garments adorn figures from British history; tropical fish swim through the great halls of stately mansions; rock climbers ascend national monuments; and confectioners bake their own public art works. The consequence of these additions is humorous undermining of an accepted narrative. Providing a survey of David Ferry’s continued visual exploration of guides to British Heritage, this exhibition features work from series that span twenty-five years. The picture books, found in charity shops, are first subjected to simple cut and paste tampering; this is then refined through printmaking processes both traditional and digital. Resultant artist books and prints demonstrate a consistency of address that pokes fun at the polite and confident assertions of the conservative viewpoint. David Ferry RE, is Emeritus Professor of Printmaking at Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, RE, and printmaking consultant for the Sidney Nolan Trust in the UK. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions in Berlin, China, London, New York, Poznan and Seoul. His work can be found in public and corporate collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Ashmolean, Oxford; Art Institute of Chicago; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He is also included in many international university collections, and the libraries of Cambridge, Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh, and the British Library London. David Ferry is a Pollock/Krasner Grantee from New York. David Ferry is represented by Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Booklyn is the premier gallery and protagonists in the USA for the promotion and impact of the genre of the artists Book and very well known on the Australian museum and state library circuit As a gallery and promoters of the genre, Booklyn has been a powerful presence in events such as Photo-Melbourne and Photo-Sydney. A considerable amount of contemporary American/international 'book arts' placed in national institutions in Australia have been sourced originally through Booklyn, and through the presence of one of the senior directors, Marshall Weber, a regular visitor to Australia, particularly Melbourne. Weber was recently artist in residence at the Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne and Creative Consultant for the Australian National Veterans Art Museum. Marshall Weber's works are represented in private and public Australian Collections, including the Australian War Memorial and the State Libraries of Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales. booklyn.org Image: Standing Form No 3, 2015 Public Sculpture in England series 2015/16 digital archive print with stencil & varnish with gold leaf 594 x 841mm Courtesy the artist and Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY.

Benchmark 2016

  • Date: 2016
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  • Description: 27th July - 28 August 2016 Showcasing new work by our next hot crop of visual artists and designers, this important Arts Academy annual undergraduate exhibition reflects the breadth and diversity of students’ interests, ideas and areas of enquiry, as well as the in-depth levels of their medium and material investigations within a broad range of disciplines, including drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics and design. Image: Jan Stickland Nest I, 2016 drypoint etching Unique State Print 29 x 26cm Courtesy the artist

Caves @ Switchback

- Eller, Naomi, Gatiss, David, Gold, Storm, Goodwin, Sharon, Hughes, Kez, Lloyd, Merryn, Nordin, Nabilah, Tsoulis-Reay, Kristina, Smith, Julien, Stojkovich, Adrian, White, Petra, Williams, Rudi

Come dance in the light on unfinished edges

- Nowrungsah, Joyce

  • Authors: Nowrungsah, Joyce
  • Date: 2016
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  • Description: 25th May-7th July 2016 Image: Joyce Nowrungsah Untitled, Digital image, Courtesy the artist

DELVE16

  • Date: 2016
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  • Description: 25th May - 25th June 2016, Curated by Shelley Hinton. DELVE16 showcases recent work by Masters and PhD research candidates in the Faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University Australia. With candidates at varying stages of their research, this exhibition reflects diverse ideas and bold approaches to the students' individual field of enquiry. This exhibition is also an indicator of the continuing long and proud history of Federation Univeristy and predecessor institutions' Creative Arts programs dating back to the mid 1990s. Image: Tony Griffin Study for Boxing Day, 2016 acrylic on wood panel 20 x 20cm Courtesy of the artist.

Scope 16 Exhibition

- Anderson, Lisa, Button, Loris, Hill, Debbie, Lofts, Debbie, Mah, Paul, Mangan, Ben, Orr, Jill, Pasakos, James, Pilven, Peter, Smith, Chrissy, Wilson, Carole

  • Authors: Anderson, Lisa , Button, Loris , Hill, Debbie , Lofts, Debbie , Mah, Paul , Mangan, Ben , Orr, Jill , Pasakos, James , Pilven, Peter , Smith, Chrissy , Wilson, Carole
  • Date: 2016
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  • Description: 3rd February - 5th March 2016 SCOPE, FedUni's Arts Academy important annual exhibition showcases an inspired and rich mix of accomplished work by visual arts staff, research associates and associate and adjunct professors. The exhibition highlights the staff's ongoing commitment to a sustained, rigorous art practice across a broad range of approaches and media including ceramics, painting, photography, design, drawing and printmaking. While the exhibition offers a great opportunity for staff to present their more recent works, which extend notions of contemporary art, new and returning visual arts students are able to view work created by key visual arts lecturers. Image: Peter Pilven Psycho Santa, 2015 digital print on paper 600 x 700mm Courtesy the artist

Speaking Drawings : Works by Sally Miller

- Miller, Sally

  • Authors: Miller, Sally
  • Date: 2016
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  • Description: 9th March - 2nd April 2016 A compellingly beautiful yet tragic series of drawings make up this exhibition of nine works created by artist Sally Miller in the months before her death in mid 2015. Sally's life was prematurely cut short by a progressive neurological disorder called Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) - a degenerative disease that steadily cripples movement and bodily function. These nine large graphite on paper drawings, each accompanied by a brief description dictated by Sally in the last weeks of her life, reflect the harsh and progressive assaults on her body - a beautiful, powerful and compelling last testament to Sally's courage and fierce commitment to her artistic practice and creative imagination. Image: Sally Miller, Unwinding, 2015 graphite on paper Courtesy the artist's estate

The Butterfly Effect

- Mesaric, Frank

  • Authors: Mesaric, Frank
  • Date: 2016
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  • Description: 13th September-13th October 2016

A Memory : The Jan Feder Memorial Ceramics Collection

  • Date: 2015
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  • Description: A collection of ceramics in honour of a former student will be exhibited at Federation University Australia’s Gippsland Campus. The Jan Feder Memorial Collection was chosen by former ceramics lecturer Dr Owen Rye and will be exhibited at the Switchback Gallery from 20 May until 9 July, 2015 Many of these pieces are works of national and international significance and would be highly sought after by museums and galleries in Australia and overseas. The exhibition will be opened by Dr Rye at 5.00 pm on Wednesday, 20 May, 2015 in the presence of Dr Harry Ballis, Campus Director, and Peter Pilven, well known ceramic artist and Head of the Arts Academy. In 1980 students at the then Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education raised a small sum of money to buy a few small ceramic pieces to form the basis of a study collection. They did this in memory of student Jan Feder, who died tragically that year. Beginning with a piece by the noted Australian potter Victor Greenaway, the collection grew over the next decade to become a collection of 63 major works by some of the world’s leading ceramic artists. The collection was packed away in a clay shed and forgotten altogether until director Tony Hanning, along with two technical assistants Russell Snelton and Neale Stratford, rediscovered the collection. When they unpacked the work they realised that it was a snapshot of world ceramics from the eighties and nineties, with major works by leading British, American and Japanese artists, as well as the cream of Australian ceramic artists. Image: Neale Stratford, The Jan Feder Memorial Ceramics Collection
  • Description: A collection of ceramics in honour of a former student will be exhibited at Federation University Australia’s Gippsland Campus from next week. The Jan Feder Memorial Collection was chosen by former ceramics lecturer Dr Owen Rye and will be exhibited at the Switchback Gallery from 20 May until 9 July. Many of these pieces are works of national and international significance and would be highly sought after by museums and galleries in Australia and overseas. The exhibition will be opened by Dr Rye at 5.00 pm on Wednesday, 20 May, in the presence of Dr Harry Ballis, Campus Director, and Peter Pilven, well known ceramic artist and Head of the Arts Academy. In 1980 students at the then Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education raised a small sum of money to buy a few small ceramic pieces to form the basis of a study collection. They did this in memory of student Jan Feder, who died tragically that year. Beginning with a piece by the noted Australian potter Victor Greenaway, the collection grew over the next decade to become a collection of 63 major works by some of the world’s leading ceramic artists. The collection was packed away in a clay shed and forgotten altogether until director Tony Hanning, along with two technical assistants Russell Snelton and Neale Stratford, rediscovered the collection. When they unpacked the work they realised that it was a snapshot of world ceramics from the eighties and nineties, with major works by leading British, American and Japanese artists, as well as the cream of Australian ceramic artists. Image: Neale Stratford, The Jan Feder Memorial Ceramics Collection

A Relic of Memories

- O' Síocháın

  • Authors: O' Síocháın
  • Date: 2015
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  • Description: A Relic of Memories, Post Office Gallery, Federation University Australia, 11th-21st March 2015. Nó

Ballarat International Fotobiennale 2015 Core Program

- Harris, Sam

  • Authors: Harris, Sam
  • Date: 2015
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  • Description: Federation University Australia hosts an exhibition by Sam Harris as part of the Ballarat International Fotobiennale 2015 Core Program at the Post Office Gallery, 22nd August - 20th September 2015. Image: Sam Harris Uma with Cheepy, 2015 (from the book ‘The Middle of Somewhere’, 2015) photograph Courtesy the artist.

Benchmark 2015

  • Date: 2015
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  • Description: Wed 29 Jul – Sat 16 Aug Undergraduate Visual Arts students studying at the Arts Academy, Faculty of Education & Arts, Federation University Australia, will present their current work, in the Gallery's special annual exhibition, showcasing the creativity, skill and talent of the next generation of visual artists. BENCHMARK showcases an outstanding mix of works including photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed media, ceramics, film and printmaking and provides insight into young people's ideas, thinking and forms of creative practice. Image: Casey Bolton Untitled in Colour, 2015 pastel and charcoal on paper 3rd Year Bachelor of Visual Arts ( Fine Arts)

Cody Joy : Meeting point

  • Date: 2015
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  • Description: 10th – 20th June 2015 Drawing is recognised as a direct and sensitive method of revealing the artist's state of being. It is an immediate form of expression that reveals its own process of creation, moment to moment as it is made. Therefore, drawing suits an exploration of self in its ever changing, moment to moment state of development and has been used to combine, record and express different aspects of experience. Image: Cody Joy Untitled (drawn out, pulled together), 2013 ink and thread on paper 56 x 56 cm.