Choice language
- 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.
The art of Daniel Moynihan : Printmaking 1966 - 2016
- Authors: Moynihan, Daniel , Button, Loris , Wach, Kenneth
- Date: 2016
- Type: Exhibition , Text
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- Description: 9 April–19 June, 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
Scala
- Authors: Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Scala Exhibition held at Gallery FAB, 7th November-7th December, 2013 University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri The Visual art works comprising Scala investigated the manner in which nature is mediated through both architectural forms and topographic codes; abstracting and embellishing our sense of space, time and ancient/contemporary culture. In doing so the work arrives a point of new knowledge for the discipline in terms of mapping, displacement and the use of motif within our navigation of real and imagined spaces. The significane of this research is attested to by the fact that it was shown at two international, university art galleries; strengthening ties between the Arts Academy at the University of Ballarat amd other art/research institutions in the United States.
In a Mughal garden, Vanitas series
- Authors: Button, Loris
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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The Promised land performance
- Authors: Orr, Jill
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Part of the Peformance as our Duty exhibition, 1st Venice International Peformance Art Week, December 8-15, 2012 As opposed to directly evoking a particular migration story, the work instead sought to investigate the open-ended nature of these readings, via the incorporation of multiple, unstable visual signifiers such a flags, boats, clothing and a series of performative/sculptural gestures that continually foreclosed any possibility of a direct reading of the work. In this manner, the works sought to simultaneously link each of these gestures back to both the history of Australian settlement, as well as to the journeys/travels undertaken in classical myths and legends
'Prism' Exhibition
- Authors: Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Visual art work exhibited at the The Light In Winter Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne 5 June - 5 July 2008, This work depicted a multi layered image of India reference various cultural, religious and historical traditions. It comprised laser cut highly reflective panels attached to the steel fabric of a buildign in Federations Square. It was alternately backlit and front lit with coloured lights to convey a sense of drama reminiscent of Diwali Festival of Lights.
Cultural fusion- a spiritual passage: an exhibition of recent ceramics
- Authors: Hoashi, Koji
- Date: 2007
- Type: Visual art work
- Relation: Post Office Gallery, Ballarat
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- Description: Exhibition held at Ballarat Post Office Gallery
Green Pick
- Authors: Ross, Ewen
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Exhibition held 7th-30th June, 2007
Australian Contemporary at Collect 2005
- Authors: French, Neville
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Exhibition: Ceramics Collect was launched in 2004 as the only international art fair in Europe that showcases the work of contemporary craft and design from around the world. It is held annually at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with visitors exceeding 15,000 and sales in excess of £1.5 Million.
- Description: 2003007104
Port's edge
- Authors: Pasakos, James
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 2004 Solo Exhibition, Port's Edge, Axia Modern Art Gallery- Melbourne Mixed media
- Description: 2003007077