SCOPE 18 Exhibition
- Date: 2018
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- Description: 8th February - 10th March 2018, SCOPE, FedUni Arts Academy's important annual exhibition showcases accomplished work by Visual Arts lecturers, teachers, Research Associates, Associate and Adjunct Professors and Research Fellows. The exhibition not only celebrates artists who sustain an ongoing rigorous art practice but also reflects excellence in a art in broad range of media, approaches and styles, achieved through rigour and dedicated research by each of the exhibiting artists. Image: Gay Pride Week, Melbourne, 1973. Photograph by Frank Prain. Featured in the film ‘Out of the Closets, Into the Streets’ by Wind & Sky Productions, 2016. Image courtesy of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives.
The Road Back
- Date: 2018
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- Description: 18th September - 9th November 2018. The Road Back featuring the work of Nicole Moorhouse is an exhibition of intriguing paintings that feature intricate patterning and shapes rendered with a bold colour palette. Ordinary objects are the basis for new forms and compositions that entice the viewer to consider a meaning or narrative of what they see. The paintings trace the artist’s journey from her earliest discoveries and explorations to exhibiting professionally.
'EYE' : the End of Year Exhibition 2017
- Date: 2017
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- Description: The Arts Academy at Fed Uni presents ‘EYE’: the End of Year Exhibition 2017; 11th-19th November 2017; at the Mining Exchange, Ballarat, in November. Passionate, contemporary and visionary, EYE showcases the breadth and talent of the graduating visual arts and communication design students at FedUni's Arts Academy. The annual EYE Exhibition represents an opportunity for the Ballarat community to step into the creative hothouse of the Arts Academy and explore the future of contemporary art in Australia
A kinship of creatures
- Authors: Ní Shíocháin, Máirín
- Date: 2017
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- Description: 7th-17th June 2017 Máirín Ní Shíocháin’s practice reflects a lifelong affinity with non-human animals. Her observation of animals and birds in natural habitats in and around Ballarat and district was the foundation for this research. The project focused on the recognition of kinship between humans and other animals and resulted in this body of work which contributes to the current discourse around animals in contemporary art. Consistent with her past practice, the works are all paper-based, demonstrating the versatility of this medium. This exhibition represents the culmination of Ní Shíocháin’s practice-led PhD research at the Arts Academy, Faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University Australia. Image: Máirín Ní Shíocháin, Colm 1, 2015, Monoprint paper collage on Stonehenge paper, 32 x 25cm. Courtesy the artist
Benchmark 2017
- Date: 2017
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- Description: 19th July-12th August 2017 This special exhibition of recent work by FedUni’s undergraduate Visual Arts students from the Arts Academy, Ballarat, and Gippsland Centre for Art and Design (GCAD), Churchill showcases new work by our next hot crop of visual artists and designers. Held annually, this important Arts Academy 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: Sarah Saridis, Untitled, 2017 (detail), print on paper.
Cracks in the seams
- Authors: Orr, Jill
- Date: 2017
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- Description: Exhibited as part of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale; 19th August-17th September 2017. Cracks in the Seams is a performance installation that will be performed for a video and photo shoot on the diving platforms at the edges of Lake Wendouree, where the historic overlay of original 1920s bathing meets 21st century performance. Trust and tension, control and release and interdependence all meet in this project, with Arts Academy dance students performing the work under the tutelage and direction of performance artist and director Jill Orr. The production will then be shown as a video installation throughout the 2017 Ballarat International Foto Biennale. Exhibited both nationally and internationally, Jill Orr’s performance work centres on issues of the psychosocial and environmental where she draws on land and identities as they are shaped in, on and with the environment, be it country or urban locales. Orr grapples with the balance and discord that exists at the heart of relations between the human spirit, art and nature.
From the Bower : Patterns of collecting
- Authors: Button, Loris , Klein, Deborah , Saxton, Louise , Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2017
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- Description: Exhibition at Art Gallery of Ballarat, 29th July-19th September 2017. This exhibition presenting artwork and items from the unique personal collections of four contemporary Victorian artists: Loris Button, Deborah Klein, Louise Saxton and Carole Wilson. The artists are linked by their studio practice, their regional locations and connections, and their love of gleaning. Their studio collections range from curiosities, natural history specimens, memorabilia, discarded books and china, domestic textiles, carpet and linoleum, and old tools of trade.
Guirguis New Art Prize 2017
- Date: 2017
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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 and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, this prestigious Art Prize showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists in Ballarat, Victoria. In 2017, the major award of $20,000 was presented to the winning artist, Yhonnie Scarce, for the most outstanding single work of art from a pool of 14 Australian shortlisted finalists' presented in an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat and FedUni's Post Office Gallery, Ballarat held 25th March- 14th May, 2017. Shortlisted finalists were Abdul Abdullah (NSW), Joel Arthur (ACT), Erin Coates (WA), DAMP (VIC), Carly Fischer (VIC), Natasha Johns-Messenger (VIC), Jumaadi (NSW), Julia McInerney (SA), Brian Robinson (QLD), Julia Robinson (SA), Alistair Rowe (WA), Yhonnie Scarce (VIC), Esther Stewart (VIC), Peter Vandermark (ACT). Winner was Yhonnie Scarce - The More Bones the Better 2016. GNAP is presented in association with FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat.
I am becoming German
- Authors: Moradi, Maziar
- Date: 2017
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- Description: 19th August-17th September 2017 I am becoming German (Ich Werde Deutsch) pictures young people, who were forced to leave their countries to start a new life as immigrants in Germany, as well as those who were born in Germany but have grown up under influence of their family's cultural background. The work is based on the impressions, fears, experiences, fates and losses of the young immigrants, by focusing on the individual circumstances of their lives. Maziar Moradi uses staged photographic portraits as the framework to capture and visualise their stories. He lets the immigrants re-enact key scenes of personal developments, dramatic experiences or turning points in their lives and thereby letting the individuals become the actors in their own narratives. Through drama, wit and humour these stories of personal experiences tell about the protagonists' great effort to become "German" and to establish a new life in a foreign country. Shown as part of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale Image: Maziar Moradi, Without Title, 2008, Fine Art Print, 100 x 125cm. Courtesy the artist.
In between the object and the gaze
- Authors: Gilson, Deanne
- Date: 2017
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- Description: 23rd June-15th July 2017 Deanne Gilson’s work focuses on reclaiming traditional knowledge, the colonial gaze and challenging Western portrayals of Aboriginal people. Her art practice and current research is concerned with the objectification of Aboriginal women and the impact of the male colonial gaze, and what was known of traditional ‘women’s business’. Examining how contemporary art can heal, disrupt and challenge the male colonial gaze through a reflective process, within Deanne’s research and art, her aim is to highlight and bring back women’s business through art practice as research and link this to the revived practice of ceremony. Deanne Gilson is a proud Wadawurrung woman who currently lives and works in Ballarat, Victoria. Deanne completed a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Art) with Honours at the Arts Academy, Federation University Australia, in 2010 and is currently a PhD candidate at the Institute of Koorie Education, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria. Image: Deanne Gilson, Decolonising White, 2016, Black Hill white ochre, charcoal from my fire, gold leaf, acrylic paint on linen, 90 x 100 cm. Private Collection.
Indwelling : A story in Fresco
- Authors: Chappell, Annette
- Date: 2017
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- Description: 24th May-3rd June 2017 Annette Chappell’s work is a contemporary exploration and transgression of the material form and function of traditional fresco. Drawing upon onsite experience as a materials conservator of historic fresco she repurposes that knowledge to create contemporary part and full fresco surfaces and to locate her self-story as an artist. Through a process of indwelling in recurrent and resonant imagery, her storylines are enacted through immersive and spontaneous material and pictorial techniques, and captured in the stone layer veil or ‘velo’ of the fresco lime plaster. The choice of dark and light tonal values in her backgrounds are an evocation of mysterious spaces – the inner and outer worlds of human experience where self-story takes place. Annette’s storylines chronicle the shift from her figurative enactments of story to a focus on form-denying settings where those narratives dissolve into the sensation and emotion of contemplative silence. This exhibition constitutes the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led research project for a Doctoral Award at the Arts Academy, Faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University Australia. Image: Annette Chappell, Indwelling: The Zebra Pursues, 2015 (detail), lime plaster, pigment and wax on board, 90 x 60cm. Courtesy the artist
NAIDOC 2017 : Inside-out dreaming
- Date: 2017
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- Description: 23rd June-15th July 2017 Through a unique collaboration between Federation College’s VET Visual Arts program with Ararat (Hopkins Correctional Centre) and Langi Kal Kal, Indigenous artists present their recent work in an exhibition that explores, expresses and celebrates their Indigenous cultural heritage and the significance of NAIDOC for the community. This year the National NAIDOC theme is Our Languages Matter. The theme aims to emphasise and celebrate the unique and essential role that Indigenous languages play in cultural identity, linking people to their land and water and in the transmission of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, spirituality and rites, through story and song. Image: Gary, Eagle Dreaming, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 80cm. Courtesy the artist.
Our hopes for the city of Morwell
- Date: 2017
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- Description: 13th-24th November. This photographic exhibition evolved from research into recovery from the Hazelwood Mine Fire. Community groups and individuals are photographed holding objects representing their hopes for the future of Morwell. A common stylistic treatment unites participants in their common cause. Photography by Clive Hutchison. Morwell Neighbourhood House, researchers from Federation University Australia involved in the Hazelwood Health Study and the Gippsland Centre for Art and Design, have joined forces to co-host this exhibition.
Parts Unknown : Italy
- Authors: Walker, Todd
- Date: 2017
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- Description: Exhibited as part of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale; 19th August-17th September 2017. Photographs have the capacity to inspire, reflect and connect. The ability to capture images and record them as a moment in time makes photography the ultimate form of documentary art, and black and white photography brings new meaning to images. Artist Todd Walker captured these photographs over a four-week period, reflecting the unknown parts of Italian life in simple, uncomplicated imagery.
Revamp : 60s & 70s revisited : Celebrating FedUni's Ballarat Art Schools
- 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
- 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.