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.
Living heritage : Ignite your curiosity
- Authors: Campbell, Angela
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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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
Antipodean Epic
- Authors: Orr, Jill
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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Guirguis New Art Prize 2015
- Authors: Hinton, Shelley
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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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 Mr Mark Guirguis, this prestigious Art Prize showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists in Ballarat, Victoria. In 2015, the major award of $20,000 will be presented to the winning artist for the most outstanding single work of art from a pool of 15 Australian shortlisted finalists' presented in an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat and FedUni's Post Office Gallery, Ballarat from Saturday 11 April to Sunday 31 May 2015. The list of GNAP15 finalists are Chris Barry (VIC), Chris Bond (VIC), Teelah George (WA), Julie Gough (TAS), Louise Hubbard (VIC), Susan Jacobs (VIC), Jess Johnson (VIC), Ross Manning (QLD), Dylan Martorell (VIC), Pilar Mata-Dupont (WA), Kate Mitchell (NSW), Dominic Redfern (VIC), Mark Shorter (NSW), Conrad Tipungwuti (NT) and Jemima Wyman (QLD). GNAP15 judges, Hannah Mathews, Curator, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) and Max Delany, Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) will select and announce the winner at the gala exhibition opening at the Art Gallery of Ballarat. The Art Gallery of Ballarat and Post Office Gallery will be open from 10am to 5pm daily. GNAP is presented in association with the Art Gallery of Ballarat.
- Description: Curator: Shelley Hinton
- 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 Mr Mark Guirguis, this prestigious Art Prize showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists in Ballarat, Victoria. In 2015, the major award of $20,000 will be presented to the winning artist for the most outstanding single work of art from a pool of 15 Australian shortlisted finalists' presented in an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat and FedUni's Post Office Gallery, Ballarat from Saturday 11 April to Sunday 31 May 2015. The list of GNAP15 finalists are Chris Barry (VIC), Chris Bond (VIC), Teelah George (WA), Julie Gough (TAS), Louise Hubbard (VIC), Susan Jacobs (VIC), Jess Johnson (VIC), Ross Manning (QLD), Dylan Martorell (VIC), Pilar Mata-Dupont (WA), Kate Mitchell (NSW), Dominic Redfern (VIC), Mark Shorter (NSW), Conrad Tipungwuti (NT) and Jemima Wyman (QLD). GNAP15 judges, Hannah Mathews, Curator, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) and Max Delany, Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) will select and announce the winner at the gala exhibition opening at the Art Gallery of Ballarat. The Art Gallery of Ballarat and Post Office Gallery will be open from 10am to 5pm daily. Entry is free. GNAP is presented in association with the Art Gallery of Ballarat.
DELVE14
- Authors: Wojciechowski, Noirin
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Masters and PhD Research students at the Arts Academy, Ballarat, present their recent work at the Post Office Gallery in an exhibition which reflects diverse ideas and bold approaches to their work and chosen field of inquiry.
FOMO : The fear of missing out
- Authors: Ives, Bryce
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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Lohan-Tuka: The lost white woman of Gippsland
- Authors: Forbes, Rodney
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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Bird atlas
- Authors: Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Work exhibited as part of Togart Exhibition, Chan Contemporary Art Space- Darwin, Northern Territory - The work was exhibited as part of the Togarth Contemporary Art Award 2013 in Darwin; which is an annual exhibition that brings together Visual art works from all cultural bakgrounds.
Corruption in the ministry
- Authors: Atkins, Rosalind , De Medici, eX
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Part of Electric Valley Studios exhibition
Future primitive
- Authors: Mestrom, Sanne
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Untitled 2011; The Dance 1909; Karma Sutra #3; Karma Sutra #7; Untitled 2013
Got the message? 50 years of political posters
- Authors: Wallis, Geoff
- Date: 2013
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Guirguis New Art Prize 2013
- Authors: Hinton, Shelley
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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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 Mr Mark Guirguis, this prestigious Art Prize showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists in Ballarat, Victoria. In 2013, the major award of $20,000 will be presented to the winning artist for the most outstanding single work of art from a pool of 11 Australian shortlisted finalists' presented in an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat and FedUni's Post Office Gallery, Ballarat held 13th April- 19th May, 2013. Shortlisted finalists were Rebecca Baumann/Fergus Binns/Petrina Hicks/Ash Keating/Bonnie Lane/Richard Lewer/ Angelica Mesiti/ David Rosetkzy/Darren Sylvester/ Brendan Van Hek/Paul Yore. Winner was Ash Keating - West Park Proposition: three-screen artwork. GNAP is presented in association with the Art Gallery of Ballarat.
New13
- Authors: Mestrom, Sanne
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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Rosalind Atkins & Ex De Medici
- Authors: Atkins, Rosalind , De Medici, eX
- Date: 2013
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- Description: Each January for the last three years, Rosalind Atkins and eX de Medici pack the cars and head out on the long, hot and sublime drive to work at The Art Vault in MIldura. The Art Vault, a former Commonwealth Bank building was rebirthed by art patrons. Julie and Kevin Chambers, into a modern, well equipped printmaking workshop, studio, artist apartments and gallery in November 2008. Throughout the year, the copper plates and watercolour are ferried in the boot of the car back and forth between Melbourne (Atkins’ home town) and Canberra (de Medici’s home town). Equally, conversation revolving around the development of the imagery and progress of work takes place via email, SMS and phone conversations. The annual pilgrimage to Mildura results from mutual respect and desire to produce an edition which represents both of the artist’s concerns within their individual practices and ongoing friendship. Both artists function from very different perspectives, but it is easy to make a cohesive third meaning when there is a desire to do so, no matter the disparate positions. Where Atkins works from her abiding trust in the sentinel of the natural world, the Tree de Medici continues in her critique of the violent hegemon, the Human. Any set of evidence can be coerced into relationship, because every thing is in relationship, for good or for bad.
Scala
- Authors: Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Scala exhibition - 23rd September to 6th October, 2013 Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, North Carolina 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.
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.
SCOPE 13 Exhibition
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Scope 13 Exhibition (Curator, Shelly Hinton), Wednesday 20th February - Saturday 23rd March 2013 at Post Office Gallery, Ballarat. University of Ballarat, Arts Academy Visual Arts staff, Research Associates and candidates showcase their recent work in the Gallery's annual survey exhibition showcasing a broad range of themes and ideas across a range of media including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, design, ceramics and printmaking. List of artists includes Rhonda Baum, Phillip Berry, Loris Button, Stephen Davidson, Frances Deutsche, Debbie Hill, Cody Joy, Ben Mangan, Paul Mah, Vikki Nash, Jill Orr, Jimmy Pasakos, Laraine Peters, Peter Pilven, Ewen Ross, Chrissie Smith, Geoff Wallis and Carole Wilson
Still life with nine objects, 1954
- Authors: Mestrom, Sanne
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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The Bell curve
- Authors: Mestrom, Sanne
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Weeping woman