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To Wandiligong : A visual journey through memory, time, space, light, landscape and fourteen layers of glass

- Murray, Lauren

  • Authors: Murray, Lauren
  • Date: 2020
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  • Description: Images recording travel have been part of numerous cultural traditions enabling extraordinary discoveries and providing historical documents of great beauty used for millennia across many cultures. Lauren Murray’s work and research explores a visual journey within an observed environment through "fourteen layers of glass" that includes the car window, the lens of the camera, the lens of her glasses and the surface of her iPad - the nature of light, time and distance and ongoing changes to the climate of particular interest to her. Utilising photography, drawing, digital and analogue media, Murray presents 16 digitally augmented photographs and a 9.6 metre story map - beautiful yet uncannily prescient images and visual narratives of place, time and season. This exhibition constitutes the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led Masters research project at the School of Arts, Federation University, Australia. Lauren Murray is supported by an Australian Research Training Program (RTP) Fee Offset Scholarship through Federation University Australia.
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'EYE' : the End of Year Exhibition 2019

  • Date: 2019
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  • Description: 16th-24th November 2019. The Arts Academy at Federation University Australia presents the formal opening of ‘EYE’: the 2019 End of Year Exhibition, showcasing the extraordinary breadth and talent of the graduating visual arts and communication design students. Passionate, contemporary, challenging and visionary, audiences will navigate a highly diverse and eclectic exhibition, a feast of contemporary art that will excite and ignite Ballarat’s Mining Exchange. 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. The Arts Academy strives for excellence in the visual and performing arts and prides itself as a centre for culture and artistic practice. The exhibiting students are emerging artists who continue to broaden their horizons by immersing themselves into the wider world of the Arts and the community in general.

Adi Nes: Soldiers

  • Date: 2019
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  • Description: 24th August-20th October 2019. In partnership with the Ballarat International FOTO Biennale (BIFB'19), the School of Arts Post Office Gallery presents 'Soldiers’, a selection of works from the compelling series created by Adi Nes, one of Israel’s leading contemporary photographers. Captured between 1994 and 2000, Nes’s series focuses on both the intermediary moments between privacy and intimacy within the rigid framework of military life, and the loss of innocence within this highly masculine world. Considered one of the most important series of works in contemporary Israeli photography, Nes's work has been collected by prestigious museums and private collectors worldwide. Achieving awards including the 1999 Minister of Education, Culture and Sport Prize, Nes’s work was described by the New York Times as “shrewd send ups of the pervasive, macho military presence in Israeli life”. PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY Debbie Daddon and Embassy of Israel, Australia Image: Adi Nes, Untitled, 1995 digital print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 gsm Courtesy the artist and Sommer Contemporary Art. Tel Aviv

Benchmark 2019

  • Date: 2019
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  • Description: 19th July-17th August 2019. An important annual exhibition by FedUni’s undergraduate and postgraduate Visual Arts’ students, Ballarat, BENCHMARK19 showcases a rich mix of contemporary ideas, approaches, methods and materials by students working across diverse studio areas, including design, painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, video, photography and installation. Image: Demi Gerardi, Block It Out, 2019. Presets ‘Tools Down’ digital still. Third Year Communication Design. Arts Academy, Ballarat Federation University

Choice language

- Forbes, Rodney

  • Authors: Forbes, Rodney
  • Date: 2019
  • Type: Text , Artwork , Visual art work
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  • Description: Exhibition dates: 28 May-16 June 2019 Australian Galleries Melbourne, 35 Derby Street, Collingwood In 1977 Rodney Forbes was working as a missile systems technician with the Department of Navy. The Vietnam War had wound out to its inglorious conclusion and, disillusioned, he resigned and set off overland across Asia with his wife Rouvé. Encountering civil war in Afghanistan and worsening anti-Western feeling in Iran, they washed up penniless in punk-era London, where Forbes worked as an electronic game machine technician and haunted its art galleries. After a year in England, the pair set off back to Australia via Sri Lanka and Forbes says he can remember the exact moment, on a bumpy bus ride near Colombo, when Rouvé encouraged him to follow his dream of becoming a painter. Back in Australia Forbes enrolled at the legendary Gippsland School of Art, with 24-hour access, no grades and no crit sessions. Three months after finishing, he exhibited his paintings at the Victorian Ministry of the Arts Foyer Gallery in Melbourne. Stuart Purves, from Melbourne’s oldest commercial art gallery, Australian Galleries, spotted the show and invited Forbes to include some works in the gallery’s stock room. A few years later, the gallery gave him his first solo exhibition. The walls were still hot from Australian icon Sidney Nolan’s show, and Forbes says, “It’s hard to describe the nervousness occasioned by hanging as an emerging artist on the same walls as your artistic hero and the greatest painter Australia has produced.” Rodney Forbes’ debut show was a surprise success and he is now mounting his seventeenth solo show at the gallery, in the same room that he inherited from Nolan 30 years ago, “My paintings honour the ways in which people tell stories and the poetry in everyday life” he says, “and that is something I very much admired about Nolan.” CHOICE LANGUAGE is current until 16 June 2019.

Exquisite Chemistry

  • Date: 2019
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  • Description: 30th July-27th September 2019. Exquisite Chemistry (…and other Dreams) is an exhibition of work from staff at the Arts Academy Gippsland. This exhibition will enable students to see the work of their lecturers and technical staff.

Guirguis New Art Prize 2019

  • Date: 2019
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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 2019, the major award of $20,000 was presented to Melbourne-based artist Laresa Kosloff for her work, La Perruque, for the most outstanding single work of art from a pool of 16 Australian shortlisted finalists'. The shortlisted finalists were Benjamin Armstrong (VIC), Amanda Davies (TAS), Janet Fieldhouse (QLD), Caroline Garcia (NSW), Marie Hagerty (ACT), Matt Hinkley (VIC), Naomi Hobson (QLD), Laresa Kosloff (VIC), Grace Lillian Lee (QLD), Shirley Macnamara (QLD), Karen Mills (NT), Claudia Moodoonuthi (QLD), Raquel Ormella (ACT) , Nicola Smith (NSW), Neridah Stockley (NT), Tricky Walsh (TAS). GNAP19 is presented at FedUni's School of Arts Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat.

Joseph Beuys : The Revolution is Us

  • Date: 2019
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  • Description: 21st October-27th October 2019. ‘The Revolution is Us’ (La rivoluzione siamo Noi) showcases select films, works on paper and sculptures by internationally acclaimed German artist Joseph Beuys (1921 – 1986), one of the most influential Conceptual and performance artists of the second half of the 20th century. Known for his highly original and controversial ideas, themes and practices, including large editions of the same or similar works in “Multiples”, Beuys attempted to make art more democratic, collapsing the space between life and art through public discourse, performance and actions, believing “…everyone is an artist”. A sculptor, performance artist, printmaker, political activist, and teacher, Beuys was also an important contributor to the avant-garde FLUXUS movement alongside George Maciunas, John Cage, Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik and Yoko Ono, among others. Beuys championed the possibilities of artistic creation to enact positive social and political change and activate the intellectual and creative capacity in all of us. Through his notion of “social sculpture”, Beuys believed in the power of art to be able to activate and transform society. His “Multiples”, series of works were created in opposition to market forces and in response to making art accessible to all. Studying at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1947, Beuys was appointed professor of monumental sculpture at the Akademie in 1961, but was dismissed in 1972 after accepting students who had been previously rejected. Major works include How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (1965), I Like America and America Likes Me (1974), 7000 Oak Trees (1982). As a teacher Beuys touched many and continues to do so today. Joseph Beuys’s work is held in collections worldwide including the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Tate, London; Hamburger Banhof, Berlin, and the Kunstmuseum Basel. Image: La rivoluzione siamo Noi (The Revolution is Us), 1972 © Copyright: Edition Staeck, Heidelberg

NAIDOC 2019

  • Date: 2019
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  • Description: Wednesday 3rd July - Sunday 14th July 2019. A significant annual exhibition, NAIDOC19 celebrates our First Nations peoples presenting a broad range of visual approaches and media by important local indigenous artists exploring the theme ‘Voice. Treaty. Truth. Let’s work together for a shared future’. Image: Georgia MacGuire Adani, 2018 broadsheet paperbark 36 x 79cm. Courtesy the artist.

Raw Edges

- Farago, Anna

  • Authors: Farago, Anna
  • Date: 2019
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  • Description: Friday 14th June - Saturday 29th June 2019. Anna Farago uses various creative methods to explore her identity as daughter, sister, mother, wife, friend, crafter, artist, woman and now widow, and to examine how identity strongly intersects with memory and place. Comprising large-scale textiles, small embroideries, paintings, photographs, video and documented performative works, Farago’s ideas are deeply informed by her personal memories and personal experiences alongside those of others, including Indigenous Elders, Indigenous and non-Indigenous rangers and locals connected to specific sites and places. Anna Farago’s exhibition and recent work constitute the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led research project for a Masters Award at the Arts Academy, School of Arts, Federation University Australia. Anna Farago is supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Fee-Offset Scholarship through Federation University Australia. Image: Anna Farago Mapped Grief (still), 2019 (detail), Archival pigment print H150 x W100 cm Photo: Siri Hayes. Courtesy the artist.

SCOPE 19 Exibition

  • Date: 2019
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  • Description: 15th February - 9th March 2019, SCOPE, FedUni School of Arts' important annual exhibition, showcases accomplished work by Visual Arts lecturers, teachers, Research Associates, Associate and Adjunct Professors, and Research Fellows. Artists include; Lisa Anderson, Loris Button, Annette Chappell, Lucinda Horrocks & Jary Nemo (Wind & Sky Productions), Paul Mah, Ben Mangan, Jill Orr, Jimmy Pasakos, Kim Percy, Peter Pilven, Pitcha Makin Fellas (Ted Laxton, Thomas Marks, Adrian Rigney, Peter-Shane Rotumah), Vin Ryan, Chrissie Smith, Elke Varga and Carole Wilson. This exhibition not only celebrates artists who sustain an ongoing rigorous art practice but also reflects excellence across a broad range of media, approaches and styles, achieved through an ongoing dedicated research process. Image: Carole Wilson, The Johnston Collection Mirror - Chintz 2, 2018, hand cut and stitched maps on paper, H80 x W55cm. Courtesy the artist.

The revolution is us

- Beuys, Joseph

  • Authors: Beuys, Joseph
  • Date: 2019
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  • Description: 25th-16th November 2019, Post Office Gallery, Federation University, Ballarat. ‘The Revolution is Us’ (La rivoluzione siamo Noi) showcases select films, works on paper and sculptures by internationally acclaimed German artist Joseph Beuys (1921 – 1986), one of the most influential Conceptual and performance artists of the second half of the 20th century. Known for his highly original and controversial ideas, themes and practices, including large editions of the same or similar works in “Multiples”, Beuys attempted to make art more democratic, collapsing the space between life and art through public discourse, performance and actions, believing “…everyone is an artist”. A sculptor, performance artist, printmaker, political activist, and teacher, Beuys was also an important contributor to the avant-garde FLUXUS movement alongside George Maciunas, John Cage, Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik and Yoko Ono, among others. Beuys championed the possibilities of artistic creation to enact positive social and political change and activate the intellectual and creative capacity in all of us. Through his notion of “social sculpture”, Beuys believed in the power of art to be able to activate and transform society. His “Multiples”, series were created in opposition to market forces and in response to making art accessible to all. As a teacher Beuys touched many and continues to do so today. Studying at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1947, Beuys was appointed professor of monumental sculpture at the Akademie in 1961 but was dismissed in 1972 after accepting students who had been previously rejected. Major works include How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (1965), I Like America and America Likes Me (1974), 7000 Oak Trees (1982). Joseph Beuys’s work is held in collections worldwide including the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Tate, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, and the Kunstmuseum Basel. Image: La rivoluzione siamo Noi (The Revolution is Us), 1972 © Copyright: Edition Staeck, Heidelberg

Traces of the female self

- Janetzki, Georgia

  • Authors: Janetzki, Georgia
  • Date: 2019
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  • Description: 22nd November-7th December 2019, Post Office Gallery, Federation University Australia, Ballarat. In Georgia Janetzki's research she explores how self-portraiture can be an embodied methodology and starting point for an investigation that goes beyond oneself: her experimental self-portraiture addressing the personal and by doing so, incorporating a wider community of female artists. Examining how women have always been present as artists but omitted from the canon of Western art history, Janetzki investigates this disconnect and at the same time poses the question, why is the canon also nothing like us. To assist her research, working as a modern-day flaneuse, Janetzki walked through art galleries and museums, observing the gender balance within our public institutions, travelling between home and university using the train as a studio for making images as well as provide safe passage. This exhibition constitutes the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led Masters research project at the School of Arts, Federation University Australia. Georgia Janetzki is supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Fee-Offset Scholarship through Federation University Australia. Image: Georgia Janetzki Self-portrait (Yayoi Kusama Museum elevator), 2018 digital print on silk H100 x W100 cm. Courtesy the artist

'EYE' : the End of Year Exhibition 2018

  • Date: 2018
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  • Description: 1st-9th December 2018. The Arts Academy at Federation University Australia presents the formal opening of ‘EYE’: the 2018 End of Year Exhibition, showcasing the extraordinary breadth and talent of the graduating visual arts and communication design students. Passionate, contemporary, challenging and visionary, audiences will navigate a highly diverse and eclectic exhibition, a feast of contemporary art that will excite and ignite Ballarat’s Mining Exchange. 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. The Arts Academy strives for excellence in the visual and performing arts and prides itself as a centre for culture and artistic practice. The exhibiting students are emerging artists who continue to broaden their horizons by immersing themselves into the wider world of the Arts and the community in general.

Ballarat Arts Foundation Eureka Art Award 2018

  • Date: 2018
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  • Description: The Ballarat Arts Foundation Eureka Art Award 2018 was won by Ash Coates for Mycolinguistics: Rubico-Sterolosis or Oneness, 2017, video animation. Established in 2000, through the initiative and generosity of Ballarat South Rotary Club, with ongoing support from the local community, Ballarat Arts Foundation has continued to assist and encourage the aspirations of local, emerging, contemporary artists who have lived, worked or studied in the regional city of Ballarat by providing an ongoing program of seed funding, connections, mentoring, training and support. Through presenting a biennial exhibition, the Foundation is also able to provide a unique opportunity for their Visual Arts alumni to showcase their work alongside their peers with the opportunity to receive the major prestigious Eureka Art Award of $2,500 or the $500 People’s Choice Award. By granting awards to a broad range of talented artists in a wide variety of disciplines in the visual and performing arts, the Foundation continues to enable local contemporary artists to develop and advance their careers locally, nationally and internationally. Image: Ash Coates, Mycolinguistics: Rubico-Sterolosis or Oneness, 2017. HD video animation, looped with sound.Duration 8:12 Winner: Ballarat Arts Foundation Eureka Art Award 2018

Benchmark 2018

  • Date: 2018
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  • Description: 17th August - 15th September 2018. FedUni's Arts Academy's annual exhibition of recent work by Visual Arts students showcases the skills of our next hot crop of designers, ceramicists, painters, printmakers and new-media artists, whilst highlighting the breadth and depth of their levels of material investigations, creative inquiry and visual expression within a broad range of disciplines, including; drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, video, design, mixed-media and installation. Image: Ebony Gulliver, Self Evident Map Painting 3, 2018 (detail), acrylic on paper, 123 x 86cm. Bachelor of Creative Arts (honours)

DELVE18

  • Date: 2018
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  • Description: 16th November - 8th December 2018. DELVE18 showcases recent work by Masters and PhD research candidates currently studying at the School of Arts, Federation University Australia. With candidates at varying stages of their research, this exhibition reflects diverse ideas and bold approaches to the students' individual fields of enquiry. This exhibition is also a reflection of the continuing long and proud history of Federation University Australia and predecessor institutions' Visual Arts programs dating back to the early 1990s. Image: Melissa Proposch, House of Sand III, 2018 (detail), archival inkjet print on cotton rag, 80 (h) x 120 (w)cm. Courtesy the artist.

Eighteen and Over

  • Date: 2018
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  • Description: 19th April-31st May 2018. Eighteen and Over is an exhibition showcasing the work of Gippsland Centre for Art and Design third year students, and also features their academic and support staff. This a project show driven by the students and demonstrates their creativity and endeavour. The students curated, installed, prepared content, and designed the catalogue and invitation.

Golden Plains : Recent works by Ruby Pilven & Peter Pilven

- Pilven, Ruby, Pilven, Peter

  • Authors: Pilven, Ruby , Pilven, Peter
  • Date: 2018
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  • Description: 16th March - 21st April 2018, Golden Plains is an exhibition by well-known and respected Ballarat ceramic artists, and father and daughter duo, Ruby and Peter Pilven. Influenced by the natural surroundings and rich cultural heritage of the Golden Plains Shire from Ballarat to the Bellarine Peninsula (Wadderung country), Ruby captures the rich pink-orange sunsets and blue seas and skies, while Peter’s interests focus on the pre and post gold mining era and the degradation and transformative effect of mining on the topographical and geological landscape. Presenting an extraordinary selection of Individually created and collaborative work, the exhibition not only reflects the artists’ individual and familial standard of excellence but also highlights their combined passion and exceptional knowledge of their medium. Image: ceramics by left, Peter Pilven, and right, Ruby Pilven. Photograph: Ben Mangan

Indigo Threads

  • Date: 2018
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  • Description: 26th April-19th May 2018. In a group exhibition by three Ballarat artists and FedUni Arts Academy alumni, their work will explore and reflect diverse ideas, media, styles and approaches, yet reflect and allude to how they are all intrinsically linked to a common interest and fascination with the beauty and colour of ‘indigo’. Image: Jessica Schroeter, Avenue of Arms, 2017 (detail) screen print on paper, 41H x 31W cm. Courtesy the artist.