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Wes Walters: Realism and Abstraction exhibition the Post Office Gallery at the University of Ballarat between 19 December 2012 and 26 January 2012. The Research project sought to present one of the first comprehensives surveys of the variety of Wes Walters practice; spanning almost six decades of work across a variety of mediums. Whilst previous shows of the artists' work have focused almost exclusively on his portraits and figure studies , the exhibition staged at the Post Office Gallery sought to instead to couple these well know works with a range of the artist's abstractions and commercial designs; the latter including his famous 1955 Chicko Roll poster which, as David Thomas notes in his introductory essay to the accompanying catalogue, was once seen in every fish and chip shop in Australia.
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Wes Walters: Realism and Abstraction exhibition the Post Office Gallery at the University of Ballarat between 19 December 2012 and 26 January 2012. The Research project sought to present one of the first comprehensives surveys of the variety of Wes Walters practice; spanning almost six decades of work across a variety of mediums. Whilst previous shows of the artists' work have focused almost exclusively on his portraits and figure studies , the exhibition staged at the Post Office Gallery sought to instead to couple these well know works with a range of the artist's abstractions and commercial designs; the latter including his famous 1955 Chicko Roll poster which, as David Thomas notes in his introductory essay to the accompanying catalogue, was once seen in every fish and chip shop in Australia.
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'Another kind of sublime' exhibition at Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy from 24th August - 6th September, 2012. An exhibition of cast and manipulated handmade paper wall installations and sculptures by Rosalind Lawson.
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Mates & Milkshakes : Corner shops in Ballarat Exhibition 2nd-13th May 2012 at Post Office Gallery, Ballarat. Phil Berry’s work brings to life the iconic Australian corner store - the local provedore selling everything from a bottle of milk or packet of cigarettes to a range of smallgoods. Once a hub and important landmark within the community, abuzz with conversation and ablaze with advertising slogans, they stood like social beacons amid the drab, dull endless sprawl of suburbia. Celebrating these abandoned often reused or reappointed places, Berry’s work not only highlights the disappearance of the personable local proprietors and their conjoined shop residences but also the sense of community that has disappeared with them.
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'Pleasure Framed' Exhibition of works by Wendy Bolger at the Post Office Gallery, University of Ballarat, 16 May - 9 June 2012. Wendy Bolger’s practice employs the frame as a structural and conceptual device where the potential of constraint in art making is explored, and through which both cultural and environmental concerns may be examined. With particular emphasis on the land and sites such as Lake Mungo, NSW, and Kaimai in New Zealand, Bolger re-examines white settlement and indigenous history, reconfiguring perceptions and associations of beauty, freedom and connection.