From the Bower : Patterns of collecting
- Authors: Button, Loris , Klein, Deborah , Saxton, Louise , Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2017
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- Description: Exhibition at Art Gallery of Ballarat, 29th July-19th September 2017. This exhibition presenting artwork and items from the unique personal collections of four contemporary Victorian artists: Loris Button, Deborah Klein, Louise Saxton and Carole Wilson. The artists are linked by their studio practice, their regional locations and connections, and their love of gleaning. Their studio collections range from curiosities, natural history specimens, memorabilia, discarded books and china, domestic textiles, carpet and linoleum, and old tools of trade.
Scope 16 Exhibition
- 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
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.
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.
Mrs Darwin's Garden
- Authors: Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Visual art work exhibited at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
'Contained Worlds' Exhibition
- Authors: Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2008
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- Description: 'Contained Worlds' Exhibition held at Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne, 13 September - 11 October 2008 This research focussed on various aspects of colonisation and the length early european settlers went to in imposing their own sense of order on the Australian landscape through the creation of their homes and gardens. Long standing concerns with the history of women's handcrafts and the decorative arts was given emphasis in this body of work. Utilising a textile based process of cutting, piecing and stitching, the mapped representation of a given piece of land lost its original sense of meaning and was transformed offering multiple new readings.
'Prism' Exhibition
- Authors: Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2008
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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.
'Amphora' exhibition
- Authors: Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2007
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- Description: Exhibition at Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne Woollen carpet installations. This body of research investigated decomposition and decline and reusing cast off material to recreate beauty. It commented on excess of ornamentation, waste and re-working history to create a new story.
'Gardenesque' Exhibition
- Authors: Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2005
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- Description: 'Gardenesque' is a Ballarat Fine Art Gallery travelling exhibition held at Maroondah Art Gallery 20 January - 19 February 2005, Craft ACT Gallery 2 June - 3 July 2005 and Ararat Gallery 30 July - 11 September 2005. Acrylic paintings on canvas, carpet wall installations and paper wall installations. This research investigated notions of home and garden, particularly as it related to domestic architecture in Ballarat. Decorative architectural embellishments such as iron lace and plaster ceiling roses were revisted in materials such as reclaimed carpet. Garden design and architectural and building nomenclature were explored through paintings on canvas. Ownership and attachment to domestic space formed the backdrop to this exhibition.