Ballarat International Fotobiennale 2015 Core Program
- 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.
Crossing Paths : Marks by a select group of printmakers
- Date: 2015
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- Description: 25 March - 16 April 2015 The exhibition, from Colorado University USA, assembles an international group of printmakers from across America and the Pacific. It features a range of Native American artists including the renowned Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, whose work is held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum, New York. The exhibition was assembled by Navajo printmaker and curator Associate Professor Melanie Yazzie, a past artist-in-residence at Gippsland Centre for Art and Design, Federation University. The result is an intriguing set of images in a wide range of printmaking media, which celebrate sense of place and exchange of ideas across distance and between cultures. Said exhibition co-curator Rodney Forbes, "Melanie Yazzie made many connections here with both indigenous and non-indigenous artists and it's great that this relationship has given us access to this exciting range of international printmakers." Image: Image: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith The Long Shadow, 2013, woodcut and monoprint
Guirguis New Art Prize 2015
- Authors: Hinton, Shelley
- Date: 2015
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- Description: The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a $20.000 national, acquisitive, biennial, contemporary Art Prize administered by Federation University Australia's Arts Academy. Initiated and generously supported by local Ballarat surgeon Mr Mark Guirguis, this prestigious Art Prize showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists in Ballarat, Victoria. In 2015, the major award of $20,000 will be presented to the winning artist for the most outstanding single work of art from a pool of 15 Australian shortlisted finalists' presented in an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat and FedUni's Post Office Gallery, Ballarat from Saturday 11 April to Sunday 31 May 2015. The list of GNAP15 finalists are Chris Barry (VIC), Chris Bond (VIC), Teelah George (WA), Julie Gough (TAS), Louise Hubbard (VIC), Susan Jacobs (VIC), Jess Johnson (VIC), Ross Manning (QLD), Dylan Martorell (VIC), Pilar Mata-Dupont (WA), Kate Mitchell (NSW), Dominic Redfern (VIC), Mark Shorter (NSW), Conrad Tipungwuti (NT) and Jemima Wyman (QLD). GNAP15 judges, Hannah Mathews, Curator, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) and Max Delany, Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) will select and announce the winner at the gala exhibition opening at the Art Gallery of Ballarat. The Art Gallery of Ballarat and Post Office Gallery will be open from 10am to 5pm daily. GNAP is presented in association with the Art Gallery of Ballarat.
- Description: Curator: Shelley Hinton
- Description: The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a $20.000 national, acquisitive, biennial, contemporary Art Prize administered by Federation University Australia's Arts Academy. Initiated and generously supported by local Ballarat surgeon Mr Mark Guirguis, this prestigious Art Prize showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists in Ballarat, Victoria. In 2015, the major award of $20,000 will be presented to the winning artist for the most outstanding single work of art from a pool of 15 Australian shortlisted finalists' presented in an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat and FedUni's Post Office Gallery, Ballarat from Saturday 11 April to Sunday 31 May 2015. The list of GNAP15 finalists are Chris Barry (VIC), Chris Bond (VIC), Teelah George (WA), Julie Gough (TAS), Louise Hubbard (VIC), Susan Jacobs (VIC), Jess Johnson (VIC), Ross Manning (QLD), Dylan Martorell (VIC), Pilar Mata-Dupont (WA), Kate Mitchell (NSW), Dominic Redfern (VIC), Mark Shorter (NSW), Conrad Tipungwuti (NT) and Jemima Wyman (QLD). GNAP15 judges, Hannah Mathews, Curator, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) and Max Delany, Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) will select and announce the winner at the gala exhibition opening at the Art Gallery of Ballarat. The Art Gallery of Ballarat and Post Office Gallery will be open from 10am to 5pm daily. Entry is free. GNAP is presented in association with the Art Gallery of Ballarat.
Hyperborean Tales
- Authors: Murray, Jennifer
- Date: 2015
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- Description: 'Hyperborean Tales' Exhibition at Switchback Gallery, Federation University Australia, Gippsland Campus; 6th October - 5th November 2015. Jennifer Murray is a Masters candidate at Federation University’s Gippsland Centre for Art and Design and a painter of miniature images. Her Masters project explores the imagery of cold climates, focussing on places in the Arctic Circle. During her candidacy she undertook a residency at Skagestrond in Northwest Iceland, painting onsite out of an old converted fish warehouse and experiencing directly the visual and cultural effects of the cold climate. The result is an intriguing set of miniature paintings, which reveal the otherworldliness of our planet’s ultra-cold places. Murray is an admirer of Persian and Victorian miniature painting. The small scale meshes with the claustrophobic nature of cold climate living and these works illuminate what it is in cold places that adds new visual and cultural understandings about place. Image: Jennifer Murray, Hyperborean Tales, 8cm x 6cm (from Blue Series), 2011,acrylic on Lanaquarelle paper.
PAPERmade Exchange Exhibition
- Date: 2015
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- Description: This exhibition developed through a chance meeting of academic staff from the then University of Ballarat and Wake Forest University at an artist residency in Italy. Dr. Carole Wilson, Professor Page Laughlin and Professor David Finn were all working within the shared studios at La Macina di San Cresci in rural Tuscany during July 2012, where they discussed future collegiate projects. Dr. Carole Wilson (Federation University) then exhibited her body of work, Scala, created during the Italian residency, at Hanes Art Gallery at Wake Forest University in September 2013, where she was hosted as a visiting artist. PAPERmade is the next stage in this international connection, and prior to its exhibition at START Gallery, this work showed at the Post Office Gallery, Ballarat. The WFU works submitted for this exchange show come from the beginning of the 2014-2015 academic year. While some pieces were pulled from exercises in entry-level classes, there are submissions from upper-level classes as well. The Studio Art program offers courses in videography, sculpture, painting, drawing and design, printmaking and photography. Digital processes are incorporated throughout all areas, depending on the level of the course. While Federation University Australia has a number of campuses, the work in this exhibition is from the Arts Academy Campus, Ballarat. Students represented here are from second, third, and fourth years of the Bachelor of Visual Arts (Fine Arts) and Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honors), specializing in visual arts. Programs at Federation University Australia consist of complementary courses in Studio Art, Art History/ Theory, and at Honors level, Research Methods and Seminars. The Studio Art program offers courses in digital media, printmaking, ceramics, 3D, drawing and painting. The student body is from a wide variety of backgrounds including recent school leavers as well as mature age students, which results in a rich and lively studio atmosphere.
Reality is an illusion, although a very persistent one
- Date: 2015
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- Description: 4th-19th March 2015 Lorry Wedding-Marchioro is a Masters candidate at Federation University's Gippsland Centre for Art and Design and a public sculptor. Her sculptural and installation work explores connections between quantum physics and visual arts practice, drawing on quantum physics' idea that all solid things are composed of wave particles and are in reality as insubstantial as light. The result is an intriguing set of installations and sculptures, which challenge our ideas of what reality is. These works make us question what is real and substantial and what is not. Recent advances in physics bring us closer to the ancient Eastern idea that the world is actually an illusion and this is an idea that has always engaged artists. Switchback Gallery is at Gippsland Centre for Art and Design, Building 6S, Federation University Gippsland and is open 9 - 5 weekdays or by appointment Image: Image: Lorry Wedding-Marchioro, Metonymy, detail 2014 Perspex, Plexigravure, LEDs, mirror, wood. 101 x 101 x 10 cm photographer, Heath Britton
SCOPE 15 Exhibition
- Date: 2015
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- Description: 4th February - 7th March 2015 SCOPE15 was opened by Associate Professor Jennifer Jones-O'Neill, PhD, Head, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University Australia, on Thu 5 Feb. In the Post Office Gallery's important annual visual arts exhibition, 2015 SCOPE presented a rich cross-section of work by practicing visual artists who lectured in the visual arts in art history, painting, drawing, graphic design, printmaking and ceramics at the Arts Academy or undertook significant roles as visual arts research associates. Image: Jill Orr The Promised Land – Moving, 2012/13 70cm (h) x 105 cm (w) photograph Courtesy the artist and Jenny Port Gallery
Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Date: 2015
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- Description: 4th - 6th June 2015 The stellar team that brought Cabaret and 42nd Street to Ballarat are back with the zany romantic comedy of the Roaring Twenties - Thoroughly Modern Millie. This Tony award-winning musical based on the classic Julie Andrews cult movie tells the tale of Millie - an innocent country girl who comes to the big city in search of a husband. Along the way she becomes the secretary of the rich and handsome Trevor Graydon, befriends the sweet Miss Dorothy, fights off white slave merchant Mrs Meers, and hooks up with an unlikely paperclip salesman - Jimmy. In the end it takes the nutty, rich jazz-baby Muzzy to unravel all these crazy complications, give a great party and match up the star-crossed lovers. Filled with frisky flappers, dashing leading men, a villainess who audiences love to hate; and featuring explosive tap numbers Thoroughly Modern Millie showcases the skills of the Graduating Music Theatre Company to perfection. Book by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan, New Music by Jeanine Tesori, New Lyrics by Dick Scanlan, Original story and screenplay by Richard Morris, Directed and Choreographed by David Wynen, Musical Direction by Robyn Womersley.
Through a Glass Darkly
- Authors: Peters, Laraine
- Date: 2015
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- Description: Wed 15 – Sat 25 July Post Office Gallery Laraine Peters' recent drawn studies express her interest in the analysis of stromatolites that date back some 3.5 billion years and cyanobacteria, believed to be the progenitors of all life forms on earth. Peters is also interested in the close connection of cyanobacteria to soil, water, air and sunlight and the way in which these forms of bacteria mirror similar relationships between other descendant life forms and the land. She is also concerned with the connections and perceived metaphors that exist between these basic elements through a Jungian, archetypal perspective and need that she considers resides in all of us - to be more intimately connected with the earth. For Peters, the stromatolite sculpted forms, with mellifluous lines and patterns, together with the macroscopic and the microscopic elements, provide a rich source of visual material with an artistic tension that inveigles her to pursue and understand her subject. Laraine Peter's exhibition and recent work constitute the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led research project for the award of Master of Arts at the Arts Academy, Faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University Australia. Image: Laraine Peters Stromatolite Pattern 2, 2014 graphite & watercolour pencil on Arches aquarelle Courtesy the artist Photo: Ian Hill
- Description: Wed 15 – Sat 25 July Laraine Peters' recent drawn studies express her interest in the analysis of stromatolites that date back some 3.5 billion years and cyanobacteria, believed to be the progenitors of all life forms on earth. Peters is also interested in the close connection of cyanobacteria to soil, water, air and sunlight and the way in which these forms of bacteria mirror similar relationships between other descendant life forms and the land. She is also concerned with the connections and perceived metaphors that exist between these basic elements through a Jungian, archetypal perspective and need that she considers resides in all of us - to be more intimately connected with the earth. For Peters, the stromatolite sculpted forms, with mellifluous lines and patterns, together with the macroscopic and the microscopic elements, provide a rich source of visual material with an artistic tension that inveigles her to pursue and understand her subject. Laraine Peter's exhibition and recent work constitute the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led research project for the award of Master of Arts at the Arts Academy, Faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University Australia. Image: Laraine Peters Stromatolite Pattern 2, 2014 graphite & watercolour pencil on Arches aquarelle Courtesy the artist Photo: Ian Hill
WALL | PAPER
- Authors: Anderson, Kim , Button, Loris , Glover, Tarli , Harley, Trudi , Hill, Debbie , Joy, Cody
- Date: 2015
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- Description: Curated by Kim Anderson. 2nd December 2015 - 30th January 2016 WALL | PAPER brings together six artists working on and with paper and encompasses drawing, printmaking and sculptural works. A meticulous and methodical approach to art-making is shared by all, along with repeated forms, marks and motifs surrounding an individual singular focus. Each artist takes inspiration from different aspects of the external world that trigger a personal emotional response, and in translating these onto paper evoke themes of landscape, fate, memory and loss. Image: top row L- R: Cody Joy, Untitled, 2015 ink on paper (detail) Kim Anderson, Joy, 2015 Copic pen on paper (detail) Loris Button, Springtime in Renkum, 2015 linoprint on paper (detail) bottom row L-R: Tarli Glover, Conglomerate, 2012 recycled paper (detail) Debbie Hill, The Clotho,Lachesis and Atropos Series, 2015 graphite & coloured pencil on paper (detail) Trudi Harley, Transition, 2015 carbon pencil on paper (detail)
DELVE14
- Authors: Wojciechowski, Noirin
- Date: 2014
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- Description: Masters and PhD Research students at the Arts Academy, Ballarat, present their recent work at the Post Office Gallery in an exhibition which reflects diverse ideas and bold approaches to their work and chosen field of inquiry.
Lohan-Tuka: The lost white woman of Gippsland
- Authors: Forbes, Rodney
- Date: 2014
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SCOPE 14 Exhibition
- Date: 2014
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- Description: To be opened by Associate Professor Jennifer Jones-O'Neill, Deputy Dean Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University on Thu 20 Feb @ 5.30, for 6pm, at the Post Office Gallery, Ballarat. The Post Office Gallery's very popular annual survey exhibition will showcase practicing contemporary artists who are lecturers or Research Associates of the Arts Academy, Ballarat and for the first year Visual Arts lecturers at Gippsland campus in the mix!. Artists include Lisa Anderson, Rosalind Atkins (& Ex de Medici), Phil Berry, Loris Button, Graeme Drendel, Rodney Forbes, Alister Heighway, Debbie Hill, Julian Holcroft, Paul Mah, Ben Mangan, Sanne Mestrom, Jill Orr, Jimmy Pasakos, Peter Pilven, Susan Purdy, Ewen Ross and Carole Wilson.
When all the rivers run
- Authors: Forbes, Rodney , Heckenberg, Robyn
- Date: 2014
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Art & Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award
- Authors: Mestrom, Sanne
- Date: 2013
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Bathysphere
- Authors: Mestrom, Sanne
- Date: 2013
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- Description: Untitled III
Bird atlas
- Authors: Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2013
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- Description: Work exhibited as part of Togart Exhibition, Chan Contemporary Art Space- Darwin, Northern Territory - The work was exhibited as part of the Togarth Contemporary Art Award 2013 in Darwin; which is an annual exhibition that brings together Visual art works from all cultural bakgrounds.
Consequences
- Authors: Mestrom, Sanne
- Date: 2013
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