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Stella Clarke : landscape to earthscape practice and aesthetics in a time of environmental crisis

- Clarke, Stella

  • Authors: Clarke, Stella
  • Date: 2024
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  • Description: 17 APRIL - 8 JUNE 2024 This exhibition, created in partial fulfillment of a Master of Visual Arts, explores the practice of landscape art in the context of global environmental crisis. The artworks were made amidst goldfields bushland, which, though beautiful, is successive to major industrial-extractive disturbance and subject to climate threat. The focus is upon responding to what is known about this fragile environment, as much as what is seen. The genre of 'landscape' is taken toward the diversity of 'earthscape', inclusive of habitat and multispecies. Damage to ecosystems is a consequence of human ability to disconnect from the natural, or material world of which we are part. Inspired by eco-critical thought, and eco-materialist principles, these artworks opt for sustainable processes and aim for a planetary aesthetics. The work is on paper, with organically unstable mediums such as kino and charcoal. Generative of life, carbon is also the colour of mourning; solastalgia is expressed in these artworks, but also care and the desire to connect. A closing event for this exhibition was held on Thursday 6 June @ 5.30pm with the artist, Dr Stella Clarke, and remarks by Dr Carole Wilson, Higher Degrees by Research Coordinator, Graduate Research School, Federation University. Image: Stella Clarke Earthbound in the Fabric of Undoing, 2023, charcoal & pigments on paper H70 x W115cm

Vienna Drysdale Bischard : autistic artistic

- Bischard, Vienna

  • Authors: Bischard, Vienna
  • Date: 2024
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  • Description: SAT 5 OCT – SAT 9 NOV 2024 As a practicing artist with Autism, Vienna Drysdale Bischard's art practice and research examines how Autism affects her art, as well as how her art making encapsulates Autism. In a series of self-portraits, alongside friends’ portraits and objects of personal significance, Bischard translates childhood memories and feelings of ‘difference’ as well as the ways in which she sought comfort and connection. Bischard’s sense of ‘difference’ is also relayed though a series of line drawings depicting figures that are at once familiar, yet transformed by Augmented Reality (AR), triggering abstracted imagery with digitally enhanced voicescapes. Here, by distorting the viewers’ sense of familiarity, Bischard expresses the process of daily masking and modelling techniques for those with Autism, in an effort to ‘normalise’ their emotional responses and appear ‘normal’ and acceptable to others. Concerned with medical research and suggested solutions to cure Autism through genetic and behavioural research, Bischard’s work also seeks to oppose suggested cures: rather to reorganise societal thinking to understand that Autistic people do not require healing or any form of medical fix. Vienna Drysdale Bischard is supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Fee-Offset Scholarship through Federation University. Image: Vienna Drysdale Bischard A study of Pfaff with case, 2024 digital print H29.7 x W42 cm Courtesy the artist

Benchmark23 : undergraduate visual arts

  • Date: 2023
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  • Description: BENCHMARK23 UNDERGRADUATE VISUAL ARTS THU 20 JUL - SUN 13 AUG 2023 Please join us for the students' exhibition opening on Fri 21 July @5, for 5.30pm. All welcome! An important annual Arts Academy Visual Arts undergraduate students’ exhibition, BENCHMARK showcases a rich mix of works of art completed individually and collaboratively across a broad range of media and studio areas, including painting, printmaking, ceramics and digital media. Here, students not only illustrate high levels of creative skill and ingenuity but also reveal complex concepts and ideas that underpin dynamic approaches, styles and interpretations. *OPEN FOR 'OPEN DAY' SUN 13 AUG 2023 Image: Peta Kalisperis Untitled, 2023 linoprint on paper H76 X W56 cm Courtesy the artist

EYE : End of year exhibition 2023

  • Date: 2023
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  • Description: SAT 11 NOV - SAT 25 NOV 2023 This important annual End of Year Exhibition (EYE) showcases work created by graduating students from Federation University’s Bachelor of Visual Arts, Diploma of Graphic Design and Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design, Ballarat, and Bachelor of Fine Arts, Gippsland. For our emerging regional artists, EYE is the culmination of their studies; a showcase of the skills, concepts and level of understanding acquired throughout their degree course. Guided by staff, final year students also assist with the publicity, curation and installation of their work in the gallery environment as a form of art industry practice, professionally exhibiting their work to family, friends and the broader community. Outstanding student achievement awards, generously donated by special award sponsors, will be announced at the opening event at each campus. EYE (Post Office Gallery) Ballarat Formal opening: Fri 10 Nov @ 6pm Open: Wed to Sun 12 - 5pm EYE (Switchback Gallery) Gippsland 9 Nov to 23 Nov 2023 Formal opening: Wed 8 Nov @ 5pm Open: Tue to Thu 10am - 4pm, by appointment Contact: Julie Reed Henderson 03 5122 6050 Image: Sarah Mischker Creatures of Change, 2023 handbuilt glazed mid-fired stoneware H50 x W20 x D20 cm Courtesy the artist

Kenneth Kronberger : behold the animated diorama!

- Kronberger, Kenneth

  • Authors: Kronberger, Kenneth
  • Date: 2023
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  • Description: WED 1 MAR – FRI 17 MAR 2023 Please join the artist Kenneth Kronberger to celebrate an end of exhibition event at the Post Office Gallery, on Fri 17 March @ 5.30, for 6pm, until 8pm. All welcome! Through an investigation into the historically intriguing silent and static miniaturised world of the diorama and the contemporary art of animation, Kenneth Kronberger’s new work and PhD examination exhibition integrates these intriguing imagined formats, creating his own metamorphised ‘worlds’ and fantastical illusionistic spaces. This exhibition constitutes the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led Doctoral research project at the Institute of Education, Arts and Community, Federation University, Australia. Kenneth Kronberger has been supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend and (RTP) Fee-Offset Scholarship through Federation University Australia. Image: Kenneth Kronberger The Penthouse, 2023 wood, paper, digital print, foam board, acrylic paint, found objects, digital video H31.8 x W31.8 x D32 cm (scale 1:10) Courtesy the artist
  • Description: WED 1 MAR – FRI 17 MAR 2023 Please join the artist Kenneth Kronberger to celebrate an end of exhibition event at the Post Office Gallery, on Fri 17 March @ 5.30, for 6pm, until 8pm. All welcome! Through an investigation into the historically intriguing silent and static miniaturised world of the diorama and the contemporary art of animation, Kenneth Kronberger’s new work and PhD examination exhibition integrates these intriguing imagined formats, creating his own metamorphised ‘worlds’ and fantastical illusionistic spaces. This exhibition constitutes the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led Doctoral research project at the Institute of Education, Arts and Community, Federation University, Australia. Kenneth Kronberger has been supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend and (RTP) Fee-Offset Scholarship through Federation University Australia.

Made you look! Paintings by Geoff Wallis

- Wallis, Geoff

  • Authors: Wallis, Geoff
  • Date: 2023
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  • Description: FRI 1 DEC - FRI 9 FEB 2023 Ballarat artist Geoff Wallis presents his recent series of paintings in the exhibition, Made You Look! Informed by his extensive knowledge of art history and contemporary art issues and ideas, the subject of Wallis’ paintings is art itself. For Wallis, text is used as a kind of meta-commentary, to invite or provoke direct responses from his audience about interpretation and value judgement and broader issues surrounding authenticity, reality, and purity as they pertain to art. Beyond its semantic role, text also plays an important syntactical or formal part in the paintings’ aesthetic - one in which chance, process and facture all figure prominently. Geoff Wallis was formerly an academic, lecturing in Art History at Federation University, Ballarat, and has curated significant exhibitions and written extensively on art and artists. This exhibition was opened by Ola Wallis, the artist’s granddaughter, and the artist, on Fri 1 Dec @ 6.30pm. Image: Geoff Wallis Your Call, 2021 acrylic, oil and aerosol paint on canvas H1450 x W1380 mm Courtesy the artist

Marra-Narrap Lakorra : under blue skies

  • Date: 2023
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  • Description: WED 21 JUN - SUN 9 JUL 2023 Through a unique collaboration between Federation TAFE’s visual arts program, H.M.Prison Langi Kal Kal and Hopkins Correctional Centre, select First Nations Indigenous artists present their recent work to celebrate their rich cultural heritage and traditions and the significance and power of creativity, expressing ideas surrounding identity, country, kinship and friendship during NAIDOC 2023. Federation University Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters where its campuses are located, and we pay our respects to Elders past and present, and extend our respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations Peoples. **Open for NAIDOC Week, from Sun 2 to Sun 9 July 2023, 12 -5pm. This exhibition opening and Welcome to Country was held on Friday 23 June @ 6 - 8pm. Language Source: Wadawurrung Language App Image: Nev F Dancing Man, 2023 acrylic on canvas 80 x 50 cm Courtesy the artist “Happiness is so overlooked until you have none. Dance and be happy"

Room with a view : aspects & perspectives

  • Date: 2023
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  • Description: WED 17 MAY - FRI 2 JUN 2023 Showcasing a unique selection of works of art selected from Federation University’s Permanent Art Collection, this exhibition explores our local neighbourhood and its surrounds, examining the landscape from a real and imagined perspective, as well as a historical and contemporary viewpoint. Artists include Deanne Gilson, Tony Griffin, Gwyn Hanssen Piggot, Christopher Headley, Garth Horsfield, Angeline Koot, Duncan Lannan, David Larwill, Josh Muir, Diana Nikkelson, David Noonan, Scott Pearce, Millicent Reed, Ken Searle and Jan Senbergs. This exhibition was presented in association with the City of Ballarat's Heritage Festival Fri 19 - Sun 28 May 2023. Image: Ken Searle Ballarat, 1998 oil on canvas H87 x W 350 cm Federation University Permanent Art Collection

Scope 23 Exhibition

  • Date: 2023
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  • Description: SCOPE23: ARTS ACADEMY LECTURERS & ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE WED 5 APR - FRI 28 APR 2023 Sharon ANDERSON Koji HOASHI Jo MOTT Jill ORR Jimmy PASAKOS PITCHA MAKIN FELLAS Julie REED HENDERSON Kim PERCY Vin RYAN Elke VARGA Anthea WILLIAMS Carole WILSON An important annual Federation University Arts Academy exhibition, this year SCOPE showcases highly skilled work created by Visual Art lecturers and artists-in residence, based at Ballarat and Gippsland campus, who sustain an ongoing rigorous artistic practice across a broad range of disciplines including ceramics, painting, printmaking, sculpture, performance art, drawing and digital media. Image: Julie Reed Henderson geo/bio/eco/socio lo-res stammer and wend, 2023 (detail) scourers, rock, leather, silicon, cotton thread, plastic, paper on felt, neon in acrylic box H65cm x W80cm x D10cm Courtesy the artist

Benchmark22 : undergraduate visual arts

  • Date: 2022
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  • Description: WED 3 AUG – FRI 26 AUG 2022 Cassie BYRON, Sarah CANHAM, Abbey CODY, Erin COOMANS, Liarne CORKE, Michael CREANEY, Hannah D’ANTONIO, Vanessa DICKSON, Katherine DOUGLAS, Kristen FREEMAN, Angela GERRARD, Greg HORRICKS, Peta KALISPERIS, Clayton KEEFE, Shelia-anne KORS, Kristen LEIGH, Stacy LIVITSANIS, Jasmine MCKAY, Sarah MISCHKER, Tiarna PRATTLEY, Tahlia ROBERTS, Selina ROBERTSON, Ilona TOPOLCSANYI, Travis TRUDGEON. In this important Arts Academy annual exhibition, twenty-four undergraduate Visual Arts students showcase their recent work. Here, students explore and experiment with a range of media, expressing complex ideas surrounding politics and society, fantasy and fiction, memory and nostalgia, and the environment across a broad range of disciplines including painting, printmaking, drawing, textiles, ceramics, sculpture and mixed-media. This exhibition was opened by Associate Professor Richard Chew, Director, Arts Academy Ballarat and Gippsland, Institute of Education, Arts and Community on Fri 5 Aug 2022. NB: Due to continuing health concerns with the COVID19 pandemic, we strongly suggest maintaining safe social distancing and wearing a mask in the Gallery space. Image: Abbey Cody Smoke Break, 2022 oil on wood 25.4 x 20.32 cm Courtesy the artist
  • Description: WED 3 AUG – FRI 26 AUG 2022 Cassie BYRON, Sarah CANHAM, Abbey CODY, Erin COOMANS, Liarne CORKE, Michael CREANEY, Hannah D’ANTONIO, Vanessa DICKSON, Katherine DOUGLAS, Kristen FREEMAN, Angela GERRARD, Greg HORRICKS, Peta KALISPERIS, Clayton KEEFE, Shelia-anne KORS, Kristen LEIGH, Stacy LIVITSANIS, Jasmine MCKAY, Sarah MISCHKER, Tiarna PRATTLEY, Tahlia ROBERTS, Selina ROBERTSON, Ilona TOPOLCSANYI, Travis TRUDGEON. In this important Arts Academy annual exhibition, twenty-four undergraduate Visual Arts students showcase their recent work. Here, students explore and experiment with a range of media, expressing complex ideas surrounding politics and society, fantasy and fiction, memory and nostalgia, and the environment across a broad range of disciplines including painting, printmaking, drawing, textiles, ceramics, sculpture and mixed-media. This exhibition was opened by Associate Professor Richard Chew, Director, Arts Academy Ballarat and Gippsland, Institute of Education, Arts and Community on Fri 5 Aug 2022. NB: Due to continuing health concerns with the COVID19 pandemic, we strongly suggest maintaining safe social distancing and wearing a mask in the Gallery space.

EM I Body : works by Indonesian Women Artists

  • Date: 2022
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  • Description: WED 14 SEP – FRI 25 NOV 2022 Showcasing select work by seven contemporary Indonesian women artists, EM I BODY uncovers personal stories and unspoken truths while revealing common states of pride, tenacity and personal endurance. Here, an oversized canvas and stilled imposing woman’s gaze, contrasts with the blurred silhouette and video of a woman behind glass painting herself in and out of the picture. Conversely, depictions of naively painted distorted figures act to reclaim the artist’s body and sexuality, while works created from carbon copies, and from human hair, symbolise the act of protection and nurturing between mother and child. Featuring Audya Amalia, Ayurika, Dita Gambiro, Erika Ernawan, I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih (Murni), Theresia Agustina Sitompul (Tere) and Restu Ratnaningtyas, artists present visually compelling work in diverse media examining women’s familial and personal relationships, sexuality, identity, nostalgia and memory. This unique exhibition is presented in partnership with Project Eleven, a philanthropic initiative that supports the work of contemporary artists, with a focus on cutting-edge contemporary art and cross-cultural collaboration. This exhibition was opened by Konfir Kabo, Founder, Project Eleven, with remarks by Asoc. Prof Richard Chew, on Fri 9 Sep. Image: AYURIKA Lost #2, 2020 oil on canvas H200 x W300 cm Courtesy the artist
  • Description: WED 14 SEP – FRI 25 NOV 2022 Showcasing select work by seven contemporary Indonesian women artists, EM I BODY uncovers personal stories and unspoken truths while revealing common states of pride, tenacity and personal endurance. Here, an oversized canvas and stilled imposing woman’s gaze, contrasts with the blurred silhouette and video of a woman behind glass painting herself in and out of the picture. Conversely, depictions of naively painted distorted figures act to reclaim the artist’s body and sexuality, while works created from carbon copies, and from human hair, symbolise the act of protection and nurturing between mother and child. Featuring Audya Amalia, Ayurika, Dita Gambiro, Erika Ernawan, I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih (Murni), Theresia Agustina Sitompul (Tere) and Restu Ratnaningtyas, artists present visually compelling work in diverse media examining women’s familial and personal relationships, sexuality, identity, nostalgia and memory. This unique exhibition is presented in partnership with Project Eleven, a philanthropic initiative that supports the work of contemporary artists, with a focus on cutting-edge contemporary art and cross-cultural collaboration. This exhibition was opened by Konfir Kabo, Founder, Project Eleven, with remarks by Asoc. Prof Richard Chew, on Fri 9 Sep.

Scope 22 Exhibition

  • Date: 2022
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  • Description: SCOPE22: ARTS ACADEMY LECTURERS, TEACHERS & HONORARIES WED 2 MAR - FRI 1 APR 2022 Sharon ANDERSON, Jason GRACE, Wendy HABRAKEN-FLACK, Paul MAH, Jill ORR, Jimmy PASAKOS, Kim PERCY, Jenny PETERSON, PITCHA MAKIN FELLAS, Julie REED HENDERSON, Chrissie Louise SMITH, Elke VARGA, Anthea WILLIAMS, Carole WILSON, WIND & SKY PRODUCTIONS. An important Arts Academy annual exhibition, SCOPE showcases new work by lecturers, teachers, research associates and research fellows from the University's Gippsland and Ballarat campuses, who, as educators and researchers at Federation University, also sustain an ongoing rigorous artistic practice. Image: Kim Percy Mama Manna Gum, 2021 digital photograph on paper H32 x W20cm Courtesy the artist

The chosen vessel : Belinda Michael & Tiffany Titshall

- Michael, Belinda, Titshall, Tiffany

  • Authors: Michael, Belinda , Titshall, Tiffany
  • Date: 2022
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  • Description: WED 14 DEC 2022 - FRI 3 FEB 2023 In an exhibition showcasing the collaborative work of Belinda Michael and Tiffany Titshall, these two important central Victorian artists present a powerful new series of drawings and ceramic vessels of immense beauty and intrigue. Set within the colonial Australian gold rush era, the artists challenge stereotypical narratives, recreating traditional scenes with a powerful female protagonist avenging the murder of her mother by performing wild and powerful acts on her harem of enslaved men. Here, accepted histories are upended replaced by a potent gothic mythological tale of female power, lust and revenge! This exhibition was opened by Natasha Mitchell, presenter, ABC Radio National, on Fri 9 Dec 2022. Image: Belinda Michael & Tiffany Titshall A Gothic Tale 9 & 7, 2021 earthenware with slips & oxides, sgraffito, once fired Courtesy the artists
  • Description: WED 14 DEC 2022 - FRI 3 FEB 2023 In an exhibition showcasing the collaborative work of Belinda Michael and Tiffany Titshall, these two important central Victorian artists present a powerful new series of drawings and ceramic vessels of immense beauty and intrigue. Set within the colonial Australian gold rush era, the artists challenge stereotypical narratives, recreating traditional scenes with a powerful female protagonist avenging the murder of her mother by performing wild and powerful acts on her harem of enslaved men. Here, accepted histories are upended replaced by a potent gothic mythological tale of female power, lust and revenge! This exhibition was opened by Natasha Mitchell, presenter, ABC Radio National, on Fri 9 Dec 2022.

Benchmark21 : undergraduate visual arts

  • Date: 2021
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  • Description: BENCHMARK21: UNDERGRADUATE VISUAL ARTS WED 11 AUG - FRI 20 AUG 2021 The Post Office Gallery’s important annual exhibition presents innovative, inspired and bold ideas by Ballarat’s Arts Academy undergraduate visual art students across a range of media, styles and disciplines including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics and installation. Image: Erin Jankelowitz, Alex Glenk, Perri Hobbs, Morgan McDermott, Libby Lewis (First Year Collaboration Class, 2021) Release, 2021 digital print 65 cm x 85 cm Courtesy the artists

Endings and beginnings : reflections on crafting and mothering

- McDonough, Sharon

EYE: Visual art and design 2020 graduating students

  • Date: 2021
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  • Description: 11 MAR - 1 APR 2021 Anthea BIDWELL Vienna Drysdale BISCHARD Jessica CHAPLIN Kathryn DRUM Miles FOLEY Tameka HAGUE Clayton KEEFE Angeline KOOT Lauren MATTHEWS Tess MCLOUGHLAN Sarah TAYLOR Brittany TUCKER Ella YOUNG Showcasing work by our 2020 visual art and design graduating students within the Bachelor of Visual Arts, Bachelor of Communication Design, Creative Arts (Honours) and Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design, Ballarat, this exhibition has been curated at the School of Arts Post Office Gallery following our virtual exhibition launch in 2020. Image: Vienna Drysdale Bischard Figure 2, 2020 digital print on archival paper H50 X W35 cm Courtesy the artist
  • Description: 11 MAR - 1 APR 2021 Anthea BIDWELL Vienna Drysdale BISCHARD Jessica CHAPLIN Kathryn DRUM Miles FOLEY Tameka HAGUE Clayton KEEFE Angeline KOOT Lauren MATTHEWS Tess MCLOUGHLAN Sarah TAYLOR Brittany TUCKER Ella YOUNG Showcasing work by our 2020 visual art and design graduating students within the Bachelor of Visual Arts, Bachelor of Communication Design, Creative Arts (Honours) and Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design, Ballarat, this exhibition has been curated at the School of Arts Post Office Gallery following our virtual exhibition launch in 2020.

Fiona Crawford - When you go looking for me, I am not there

- Crawford, Fiona

  • Authors: Crawford, Fiona
  • Date: 2021
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  • Description: Following residencies in Assisi, Italy in 2016 and 2019, inspired by the beauty and intrigue surrounding the medieval embroidery tradition of ‘Punto Assisi’ still practised today, Fiona Crawford’s contemporary textiles subvert and transgress conventions and reinterpret the ubiquitous subject of ‘women’s work’ Derived from the exterior of medieval San Rufino Cathedral, Punto Assisi’s highly stylised pattern and form is unique - the subject matter empty of detail, with the outlined negative space seeming to echo the absence of information and who the female artisans were. Invisible and indispensable, the names and faces of the female makers were rarely documented, existing within the dominant male hegemonic ideologies of the time, undervalued and seen as only undertaking 'women’s work'. Using vintage linen and thread, the combination of traditional and contemporary imagery, text, and the concept of drawing with thread, Fiona Crawford’s work investigates the notion of absence and at the same time honours the unknown female makers of this now highly prized and ancient art. This exhibition constitutes the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led Masters research project at the School of Arts, Federation University, Australia. Fiona Crawford is supported by an Australian Research Training Program (RTP) Fee Offset Scholarship through Federation University. 45-minute session times available via Eventbrite. Please wear a mask and comply with 1.5m social distancing rules.

Rodney Forbes : in my life

- Forbes, Rodney

  • Authors: Forbes, Rodney
  • Date: 2021
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  • Description: Exhibition dates: 13 March to 16 May 2021 Gippsland Art Gallery A showcase of Forbes’ colourful and characteristic practice from 1983 to 2020. Celebrating Rodney Forbes’ unique style of storytelling and his highly distinctive painting style. Over four decades, Forbes has developed his figurative narrative painting and use of flattened perspective. Throughout this exhibition visitors can view works that showcase Forbes’ colourful and characteristic practice from 1983 to 2020. Forbes says of the exhibition, “Thanks to Gippsland Art Gallery and Australian Galleries, Melbourne, for collaborating to bring 40 years of my work together. It will be wonderful to see those old friends again.” Rodney Forbes is represented by Australian Galleries, Melbourne. Rodney Forbes is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Federation University Australia.

SCOPE 21 Exhibition

  • Date: 2021
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  • Description: SCOPE21 30 JUN - 16 JUL 2021 An important Arts Academy annual exhibition, SCOPE 2021 presents new work by lecturers, teachers, research associates and research fellows who, as artists also sustain a rigorous research and/or teaching practice at Federation University, and whose work expresses complex ideas related to fact and fiction, empathy, politics and global unrest, as well as ideas surrounding Indigenous art and iconography. Image: Elke Varga Temple Flags, 2020 acrylic on canvas 3 x (25 x 25cm) Courtesy the artist

Shelter from the storm

- Griffin, Tony

  • Authors: Griffin, Tony
  • Date: 2021
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  • Description: 15 APR - 28 MAY 2021 [extended until 4 June 2021] Through an exhaustive description of the everyday and often overlooked objects in one suburban home in the early part of the twenty first century, as a form of archaeology of its recent past and present, Tony Griffin’s research considers how broader entanglements are hidden in our everyday through the proliferation of our things. Here, by exploring theories of the mutual dependency between humans and things, Griffin examines how his paintings provide agency in discerning those relationships and act as a means to understand our world in this age of anxiety. This exhibition constitutes the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led Doctoral research project at the School of Arts, Federation University Australia. Tony Griffin’s is supported by an Australian Research Training Program (RTP) Fee Offset Scholarship through Federation University. Image: Tony Griffin Untitled, 2020 acrylic on board H20 X W20 cm Courtesy the artist