An invader's guide to the British Isles
- Authors: Ferry, David
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Lying on the coffee table are picture books that tell us all we need to know about Britain: its history and geography combined. This printed matter supplies the artist David Ferry with both his subject and his raw material. Guides of the nation’s heritage imagine an innocent landscape where the manners and attitudes of the genteel middle classes of England prevail. Into these Ferry has inserted cut out images from neighbouring picture books that demonstrate the practices of the active hobbyist. Woollen garments adorn figures from British history; tropical fish swim through the great halls of stately mansions; rock climbers ascend national monuments; and confectioners bake their own public art works. The consequence of these additions is humorous undermining of an accepted narrative. Providing a survey of David Ferry’s continued visual exploration of guides to British Heritage, this exhibition features work from series that span twenty-five years. The picture books, found in charity shops, are first subjected to simple cut and paste tampering; this is then refined through printmaking processes both traditional and digital. Resultant artist books and prints demonstrate a consistency of address that pokes fun at the polite and confident assertions of the conservative viewpoint. David Ferry RE, is Emeritus Professor of Printmaking at Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, RE, and printmaking consultant for the Sidney Nolan Trust in the UK. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions in Berlin, China, London, New York, Poznan and Seoul. His work can be found in public and corporate collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Ashmolean, Oxford; Art Institute of Chicago; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He is also included in many international university collections, and the libraries of Cambridge, Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh, and the British Library London. David Ferry is a Pollock/Krasner Grantee from New York. David Ferry is represented by Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Booklyn is the premier gallery and protagonists in the USA for the promotion and impact of the genre of the artists Book and very well known on the Australian museum and state library circuit As a gallery and promoters of the genre, Booklyn has been a powerful presence in events such as Photo-Melbourne and Photo-Sydney. A considerable amount of contemporary American/international 'book arts' placed in national institutions in Australia have been sourced originally through Booklyn, and through the presence of one of the senior directors, Marshall Weber, a regular visitor to Australia, particularly Melbourne. Weber was recently artist in residence at the Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne and Creative Consultant for the Australian National Veterans Art Museum. Marshall Weber's works are represented in private and public Australian Collections, including the Australian War Memorial and the State Libraries of Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales. booklyn.org Image: Standing Form No 3, 2015 Public Sculpture in England series 2015/16 digital archive print with stencil & varnish with gold leaf 594 x 841mm Courtesy the artist and Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY. Exhibition held at Post Office Gallery, Ballarat - 26 Oct – Sun 20 Nov 2016
- Description: Lying on the coffee table are picture books that tell us all we need to know about Britain: its history and geography combined. This printed matter supplies the artist David Ferry with both his subject and his raw material. Guides of the nation’s heritage imagine an innocent landscape where the manners and attitudes of the genteel middle classes of England prevail. Into these Ferry has inserted cut out images from neighbouring picture books that demonstrate the practices of the active hobbyist. Woollen garments adorn figures from British history; tropical fish swim through the great halls of stately mansions; rock climbers ascend national monuments; and confectioners bake their own public art works. The consequence of these additions is humorous undermining of an accepted narrative. Providing a survey of David Ferry’s continued visual exploration of guides to British Heritage, this exhibition features work from series that span twenty-five years. The picture books, found in charity shops, are first subjected to simple cut and paste tampering; this is then refined through printmaking processes both traditional and digital. Resultant artist books and prints demonstrate a consistency of address that pokes fun at the polite and confident assertions of the conservative viewpoint. David Ferry RE, is Emeritus Professor of Printmaking at Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, RE, and printmaking consultant for the Sidney Nolan Trust in the UK. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions in Berlin, China, London, New York, Poznan and Seoul. His work can be found in public and corporate collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Ashmolean, Oxford; Art Institute of Chicago; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He is also included in many international university collections, and the libraries of Cambridge, Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh, and the British Library London. David Ferry is a Pollock/Krasner Grantee from New York. David Ferry is represented by Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Booklyn is the premier gallery and protagonists in the USA for the promotion and impact of the genre of the artists Book and very well known on the Australian museum and state library circuit As a gallery and promoters of the genre, Booklyn has been a powerful presence in events such as Photo-Melbourne and Photo-Sydney. A considerable amount of contemporary American/international 'book arts' placed in national institutions in Australia have been sourced originally through Booklyn, and through the presence of one of the senior directors, Marshall Weber, a regular visitor to Australia, particularly Melbourne. Weber was recently artist in residence at the Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne and Creative Consultant for the Australian National Veterans Art Museum. Marshall Weber's works are represented in private and public Australian Collections, including the Australian War Memorial and the State Libraries of Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales. booklyn.org Image: Standing Form No 3, 2015 Public Sculpture in England series 2015/16 digital archive print with stencil & varnish with gold leaf 594 x 841mm Courtesy the artist and Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY.
- Authors: Ferry, David
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Lying on the coffee table are picture books that tell us all we need to know about Britain: its history and geography combined. This printed matter supplies the artist David Ferry with both his subject and his raw material. Guides of the nation’s heritage imagine an innocent landscape where the manners and attitudes of the genteel middle classes of England prevail. Into these Ferry has inserted cut out images from neighbouring picture books that demonstrate the practices of the active hobbyist. Woollen garments adorn figures from British history; tropical fish swim through the great halls of stately mansions; rock climbers ascend national monuments; and confectioners bake their own public art works. The consequence of these additions is humorous undermining of an accepted narrative. Providing a survey of David Ferry’s continued visual exploration of guides to British Heritage, this exhibition features work from series that span twenty-five years. The picture books, found in charity shops, are first subjected to simple cut and paste tampering; this is then refined through printmaking processes both traditional and digital. Resultant artist books and prints demonstrate a consistency of address that pokes fun at the polite and confident assertions of the conservative viewpoint. David Ferry RE, is Emeritus Professor of Printmaking at Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, RE, and printmaking consultant for the Sidney Nolan Trust in the UK. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions in Berlin, China, London, New York, Poznan and Seoul. His work can be found in public and corporate collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Ashmolean, Oxford; Art Institute of Chicago; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He is also included in many international university collections, and the libraries of Cambridge, Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh, and the British Library London. David Ferry is a Pollock/Krasner Grantee from New York. David Ferry is represented by Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Booklyn is the premier gallery and protagonists in the USA for the promotion and impact of the genre of the artists Book and very well known on the Australian museum and state library circuit As a gallery and promoters of the genre, Booklyn has been a powerful presence in events such as Photo-Melbourne and Photo-Sydney. A considerable amount of contemporary American/international 'book arts' placed in national institutions in Australia have been sourced originally through Booklyn, and through the presence of one of the senior directors, Marshall Weber, a regular visitor to Australia, particularly Melbourne. Weber was recently artist in residence at the Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne and Creative Consultant for the Australian National Veterans Art Museum. Marshall Weber's works are represented in private and public Australian Collections, including the Australian War Memorial and the State Libraries of Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales. booklyn.org Image: Standing Form No 3, 2015 Public Sculpture in England series 2015/16 digital archive print with stencil & varnish with gold leaf 594 x 841mm Courtesy the artist and Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY. Exhibition held at Post Office Gallery, Ballarat - 26 Oct – Sun 20 Nov 2016
- Description: Lying on the coffee table are picture books that tell us all we need to know about Britain: its history and geography combined. This printed matter supplies the artist David Ferry with both his subject and his raw material. Guides of the nation’s heritage imagine an innocent landscape where the manners and attitudes of the genteel middle classes of England prevail. Into these Ferry has inserted cut out images from neighbouring picture books that demonstrate the practices of the active hobbyist. Woollen garments adorn figures from British history; tropical fish swim through the great halls of stately mansions; rock climbers ascend national monuments; and confectioners bake their own public art works. The consequence of these additions is humorous undermining of an accepted narrative. Providing a survey of David Ferry’s continued visual exploration of guides to British Heritage, this exhibition features work from series that span twenty-five years. The picture books, found in charity shops, are first subjected to simple cut and paste tampering; this is then refined through printmaking processes both traditional and digital. Resultant artist books and prints demonstrate a consistency of address that pokes fun at the polite and confident assertions of the conservative viewpoint. David Ferry RE, is Emeritus Professor of Printmaking at Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, RE, and printmaking consultant for the Sidney Nolan Trust in the UK. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions in Berlin, China, London, New York, Poznan and Seoul. His work can be found in public and corporate collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Ashmolean, Oxford; Art Institute of Chicago; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He is also included in many international university collections, and the libraries of Cambridge, Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh, and the British Library London. David Ferry is a Pollock/Krasner Grantee from New York. David Ferry is represented by Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Booklyn is the premier gallery and protagonists in the USA for the promotion and impact of the genre of the artists Book and very well known on the Australian museum and state library circuit As a gallery and promoters of the genre, Booklyn has been a powerful presence in events such as Photo-Melbourne and Photo-Sydney. A considerable amount of contemporary American/international 'book arts' placed in national institutions in Australia have been sourced originally through Booklyn, and through the presence of one of the senior directors, Marshall Weber, a regular visitor to Australia, particularly Melbourne. Weber was recently artist in residence at the Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne and Creative Consultant for the Australian National Veterans Art Museum. Marshall Weber's works are represented in private and public Australian Collections, including the Australian War Memorial and the State Libraries of Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales. booklyn.org Image: Standing Form No 3, 2015 Public Sculpture in England series 2015/16 digital archive print with stencil & varnish with gold leaf 594 x 841mm Courtesy the artist and Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY.
Benchmark 2016
- Date: 2016
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- Description: 27th July - 28 August 2016 Showcasing new work by our next hot crop of visual artists and designers, this important Arts Academy annual 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: Jan Stickland Nest I, 2016 drypoint etching Unique State Print 29 x 26cm Courtesy the artist
- Date: 2016
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- Description: 27th July - 28 August 2016 Showcasing new work by our next hot crop of visual artists and designers, this important Arts Academy annual 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: Jan Stickland Nest I, 2016 drypoint etching Unique State Print 29 x 26cm Courtesy the artist
Caves @ Switchback
- Eller, Naomi, Gatiss, David, Gold, Storm, Goodwin, Sharon, Hughes, Kez, Lloyd, Merryn, Nordin, Nabilah, Tsoulis-Reay, Kristina, Smith, Julien, Stojkovich, Adrian, White, Petra, Williams, Rudi
- Authors: Eller, Naomi , Gatiss, David , Gold, Storm , Goodwin, Sharon , Hughes, Kez , Lloyd, Merryn , Nordin, Nabilah , Tsoulis-Reay, Kristina , Smith, Julien , Stojkovich, Adrian , White, Petra , Williams, Rudi
- Date: 2016
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- Description: 12th April-5th May 2016 Curated by Storm Gold and Kez Hughes Image: Sharon Goodwin, Damascus Steel, 2015 (detail), acrylic on shaped plywood, Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Taryn Ellis
- Authors: Eller, Naomi , Gatiss, David , Gold, Storm , Goodwin, Sharon , Hughes, Kez , Lloyd, Merryn , Nordin, Nabilah , Tsoulis-Reay, Kristina , Smith, Julien , Stojkovich, Adrian , White, Petra , Williams, Rudi
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 12th April-5th May 2016 Curated by Storm Gold and Kez Hughes Image: Sharon Goodwin, Damascus Steel, 2015 (detail), acrylic on shaped plywood, Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Taryn Ellis
Come dance in the light on unfinished edges
- Authors: Nowrungsah, Joyce
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 25th May-7th July 2016 Image: Joyce Nowrungsah Untitled, Digital image, Courtesy the artist
- Authors: Nowrungsah, Joyce
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 25th May-7th July 2016 Image: Joyce Nowrungsah Untitled, Digital image, Courtesy the artist
DELVE16
- Date: 2016
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- Description: 25th May - 25th June 2016, Curated by Shelley Hinton. DELVE16 showcases recent work by Masters and PhD research candidates in the Faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University Australia. With candidates at varying stages of their research, this exhibition reflects diverse ideas and bold approaches to the students' individual field of enquiry. This exhibition is also an indicator of the continuing long and proud history of Federation Univeristy and predecessor institutions' Creative Arts programs dating back to the mid 1990s. Image: Tony Griffin Study for Boxing Day, 2016 acrylic on wood panel 20 x 20cm Courtesy of the artist.
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 25th May - 25th June 2016, Curated by Shelley Hinton. DELVE16 showcases recent work by Masters and PhD research candidates in the Faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University Australia. With candidates at varying stages of their research, this exhibition reflects diverse ideas and bold approaches to the students' individual field of enquiry. This exhibition is also an indicator of the continuing long and proud history of Federation Univeristy and predecessor institutions' Creative Arts programs dating back to the mid 1990s. Image: Tony Griffin Study for Boxing Day, 2016 acrylic on wood panel 20 x 20cm Courtesy of the artist.
Scope 16 Exhibition
- Anderson, Lisa, Button, Loris, Hill, Debbie, Lofts, Debbie, Mah, Paul, Mangan, Ben, Orr, Jill, Pasakos, James, Pilven, Peter, Smith, Chrissy, Wilson, Carole
- 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
- 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
- Type: Text
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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
Speaking Drawings : Works by Sally Miller
- Authors: Miller, Sally
- Date: 2016
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- Description: 9th March - 2nd April 2016 A compellingly beautiful yet tragic series of drawings make up this exhibition of nine works created by artist Sally Miller in the months before her death in mid 2015. Sally's life was prematurely cut short by a progressive neurological disorder called Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) - a degenerative disease that steadily cripples movement and bodily function. These nine large graphite on paper drawings, each accompanied by a brief description dictated by Sally in the last weeks of her life, reflect the harsh and progressive assaults on her body - a beautiful, powerful and compelling last testament to Sally's courage and fierce commitment to her artistic practice and creative imagination. Image: Sally Miller, Unwinding, 2015 graphite on paper Courtesy the artist's estate
- Authors: Miller, Sally
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text
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- Description: 9th March - 2nd April 2016 A compellingly beautiful yet tragic series of drawings make up this exhibition of nine works created by artist Sally Miller in the months before her death in mid 2015. Sally's life was prematurely cut short by a progressive neurological disorder called Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) - a degenerative disease that steadily cripples movement and bodily function. These nine large graphite on paper drawings, each accompanied by a brief description dictated by Sally in the last weeks of her life, reflect the harsh and progressive assaults on her body - a beautiful, powerful and compelling last testament to Sally's courage and fierce commitment to her artistic practice and creative imagination. Image: Sally Miller, Unwinding, 2015 graphite on paper Courtesy the artist's estate
The Butterfly Effect
- Authors: Mesaric, Frank
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 13th September-13th October 2016
- Authors: Mesaric, Frank
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 13th September-13th October 2016
Vin Ryan : Signs of Struggle
- Authors: Ryan, Vin
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 31st August - 24th September 2016 Vin Ryan's work has been described as an attempt at 'charting his neighbourhood surrounds and airing some of our dirty laundry’. He does this by methodically documenting the raw materials and minor details of everyday, urban existence. This exhibition is a very personal response to the artist’s own environment in Melbourne’s western suburbs. It is a record of setting but also situation. It considers the breadth of experience within a suburban setting by observing the nature strips, car parks and footpaths contained there. At the same time it also examines interior domestic spaces, inviting us to look with fresh eyes at the places that we call home within a suburban environment. Vin Ryan’s exhibition and recent work constitute 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: Vin Ryan, 21.10.15, 2015 35 x 45cm digital print Courtesy the artist
- Authors: Ryan, Vin
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 31st August - 24th September 2016 Vin Ryan's work has been described as an attempt at 'charting his neighbourhood surrounds and airing some of our dirty laundry’. He does this by methodically documenting the raw materials and minor details of everyday, urban existence. This exhibition is a very personal response to the artist’s own environment in Melbourne’s western suburbs. It is a record of setting but also situation. It considers the breadth of experience within a suburban setting by observing the nature strips, car parks and footpaths contained there. At the same time it also examines interior domestic spaces, inviting us to look with fresh eyes at the places that we call home within a suburban environment. Vin Ryan’s exhibition and recent work constitute 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: Vin Ryan, 21.10.15, 2015 35 x 45cm digital print Courtesy the artist
A Memory : The Jan Feder Memorial Ceramics Collection
- Date: 2015
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- Description: A collection of ceramics in honour of a former student will be exhibited at Federation University Australia’s Gippsland Campus. The Jan Feder Memorial Collection was chosen by former ceramics lecturer Dr Owen Rye and will be exhibited at the Switchback Gallery from 20 May until 9 July, 2015 Many of these pieces are works of national and international significance and would be highly sought after by museums and galleries in Australia and overseas. The exhibition will be opened by Dr Rye at 5.00 pm on Wednesday, 20 May, 2015 in the presence of Dr Harry Ballis, Campus Director, and Peter Pilven, well known ceramic artist and Head of the Arts Academy. In 1980 students at the then Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education raised a small sum of money to buy a few small ceramic pieces to form the basis of a study collection. They did this in memory of student Jan Feder, who died tragically that year. Beginning with a piece by the noted Australian potter Victor Greenaway, the collection grew over the next decade to become a collection of 63 major works by some of the world’s leading ceramic artists. The collection was packed away in a clay shed and forgotten altogether until director Tony Hanning, along with two technical assistants Russell Snelton and Neale Stratford, rediscovered the collection. When they unpacked the work they realised that it was a snapshot of world ceramics from the eighties and nineties, with major works by leading British, American and Japanese artists, as well as the cream of Australian ceramic artists. Image: Neale Stratford, The Jan Feder Memorial Ceramics Collection
- Description: A collection of ceramics in honour of a former student will be exhibited at Federation University Australia’s Gippsland Campus from next week. The Jan Feder Memorial Collection was chosen by former ceramics lecturer Dr Owen Rye and will be exhibited at the Switchback Gallery from 20 May until 9 July. Many of these pieces are works of national and international significance and would be highly sought after by museums and galleries in Australia and overseas. The exhibition will be opened by Dr Rye at 5.00 pm on Wednesday, 20 May, in the presence of Dr Harry Ballis, Campus Director, and Peter Pilven, well known ceramic artist and Head of the Arts Academy. In 1980 students at the then Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education raised a small sum of money to buy a few small ceramic pieces to form the basis of a study collection. They did this in memory of student Jan Feder, who died tragically that year. Beginning with a piece by the noted Australian potter Victor Greenaway, the collection grew over the next decade to become a collection of 63 major works by some of the world’s leading ceramic artists. The collection was packed away in a clay shed and forgotten altogether until director Tony Hanning, along with two technical assistants Russell Snelton and Neale Stratford, rediscovered the collection. When they unpacked the work they realised that it was a snapshot of world ceramics from the eighties and nineties, with major works by leading British, American and Japanese artists, as well as the cream of Australian ceramic artists. Image: Neale Stratford, The Jan Feder Memorial Ceramics Collection
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: A collection of ceramics in honour of a former student will be exhibited at Federation University Australia’s Gippsland Campus. The Jan Feder Memorial Collection was chosen by former ceramics lecturer Dr Owen Rye and will be exhibited at the Switchback Gallery from 20 May until 9 July, 2015 Many of these pieces are works of national and international significance and would be highly sought after by museums and galleries in Australia and overseas. The exhibition will be opened by Dr Rye at 5.00 pm on Wednesday, 20 May, 2015 in the presence of Dr Harry Ballis, Campus Director, and Peter Pilven, well known ceramic artist and Head of the Arts Academy. In 1980 students at the then Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education raised a small sum of money to buy a few small ceramic pieces to form the basis of a study collection. They did this in memory of student Jan Feder, who died tragically that year. Beginning with a piece by the noted Australian potter Victor Greenaway, the collection grew over the next decade to become a collection of 63 major works by some of the world’s leading ceramic artists. The collection was packed away in a clay shed and forgotten altogether until director Tony Hanning, along with two technical assistants Russell Snelton and Neale Stratford, rediscovered the collection. When they unpacked the work they realised that it was a snapshot of world ceramics from the eighties and nineties, with major works by leading British, American and Japanese artists, as well as the cream of Australian ceramic artists. Image: Neale Stratford, The Jan Feder Memorial Ceramics Collection
- Description: A collection of ceramics in honour of a former student will be exhibited at Federation University Australia’s Gippsland Campus from next week. The Jan Feder Memorial Collection was chosen by former ceramics lecturer Dr Owen Rye and will be exhibited at the Switchback Gallery from 20 May until 9 July. Many of these pieces are works of national and international significance and would be highly sought after by museums and galleries in Australia and overseas. The exhibition will be opened by Dr Rye at 5.00 pm on Wednesday, 20 May, in the presence of Dr Harry Ballis, Campus Director, and Peter Pilven, well known ceramic artist and Head of the Arts Academy. In 1980 students at the then Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education raised a small sum of money to buy a few small ceramic pieces to form the basis of a study collection. They did this in memory of student Jan Feder, who died tragically that year. Beginning with a piece by the noted Australian potter Victor Greenaway, the collection grew over the next decade to become a collection of 63 major works by some of the world’s leading ceramic artists. The collection was packed away in a clay shed and forgotten altogether until director Tony Hanning, along with two technical assistants Russell Snelton and Neale Stratford, rediscovered the collection. When they unpacked the work they realised that it was a snapshot of world ceramics from the eighties and nineties, with major works by leading British, American and Japanese artists, as well as the cream of Australian ceramic artists. Image: Neale Stratford, The Jan Feder Memorial Ceramics Collection
A Relic of Memories
- Authors: O' Síocháın
- Date: 2015
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- Description: A Relic of Memories, Post Office Gallery, Federation University Australia, 11th-21st March 2015. Nó
- Authors: O' Síocháın
- Date: 2015
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- Description: A Relic of Memories, Post Office Gallery, Federation University Australia, 11th-21st March 2015. Nó
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.
- 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)
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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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.
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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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
- 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
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.
- 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.
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
- 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
- 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
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
- Authors: Peters, Laraine
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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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
- Anderson, Kim, Button, Loris, Glover, Tarli, Harley, Trudi, Hill, Debbie, Joy, Cody
- 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)
- 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)