Scope 16 Exhibition
- 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
Journeys - Due North
- Authors: Anderson, Lisa
- Date: 2016
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- Description: This installation brings together an art work begun on board a Russian icebreaker with images and ideas of the Trickster, Troll and Huldefolke developed along the Viking routes. Dr Lisa Anderson has been undertaking projects in the Arctic Region for the last decade, as an artist-in-residence on expedition with science teams, and shipping lines and with Polar Centenary expeditions to restage some of the great voyages of the North. The sculptural forms touch on ideas of extreme travel and expedition work, referencing nomadic existence in a world where weather has begun to lose the cyclic seasons. These works ask us to consider these journeys as beautiful and part of the story of the danger which we face as a people by not listening to the folklore, noting the migration of animals and people to understand the geopolitical activity of what has become the new frontier because of Climate Change. The works use photographs, drawing, sculptures and projections to weave a tale which may be opaque to some, but which allows for story-making and storytelling by all who spend the time to engage in the images and sounds.
Trickster Cloud
- Authors: Anderson, Lisa
- Date: 2016
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- Description: Tricksters are cultural figures that were the ‘go-betweens’ for the gods. They brought the gifs, such as fire, and tampered with the gods’ intention of fre as a warming and cooking tool. The Trickster emphasised the all-consuming nature of fire. The metaphors and hidden meanings of Tricksters within folklore explore our relationship with landscape, with weather, and with our own attempts to shape our worlds. This Trickster Cloud is part comic, part pain and encompasses the weather landscape that, by its very nature, dominates our lives. The figure begs the question “Am I in Nature, or is Nature in me?”