EYE : End of year exhibition 2023
- Date: 2023
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- Description: SAT 11 NOV - SAT 25 NOV 2023 This important annual End of Year Exhibition (EYE) showcases work created by graduating students from Federation University’s Bachelor of Visual Arts, Diploma of Graphic Design and Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design, Ballarat, and Bachelor of Fine Arts, Gippsland. For our emerging regional artists, EYE is the culmination of their studies; a showcase of the skills, concepts and level of understanding acquired throughout their degree course. Guided by staff, final year students also assist with the publicity, curation and installation of their work in the gallery environment as a form of art industry practice, professionally exhibiting their work to family, friends and the broader community. Outstanding student achievement awards, generously donated by special award sponsors, will be announced at the opening event at each campus. EYE (Post Office Gallery) Ballarat Formal opening: Fri 10 Nov @ 6pm Open: Wed to Sun 12 - 5pm EYE (Switchback Gallery) Gippsland 9 Nov to 23 Nov 2023 Formal opening: Wed 8 Nov @ 5pm Open: Tue to Thu 10am - 4pm, by appointment Contact: Julie Reed Henderson 03 5122 6050 Image: Sarah Mischker Creatures of Change, 2023 handbuilt glazed mid-fired stoneware H50 x W20 x D20 cm Courtesy the artist
Site, substance and sensation
- Authors: Ryan, Leonie
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: The idea that experiencing the world is a straightforward uncomplicated matter is challenged in a contemporary postmodern context. The empirical notion that reality can be experienced firsthand has been mostly abandoned in favour of the view that reality is constructed through language and culture. Indeed, most views of the world carry a bias, whether conscious or unconscious, which affects all that is encountered. It is not possible to separate the observable world from the person observing it nor to report on the world without already having a position on how it functions. As such ‘meaning’, in this body of research, is found in the awareness that the past informs and shapes the experience of the present moment. This is activated through a heightened sensory awareness of various stimuli, set up through the artworks, which draw distant, past associations into the present consciousness. Through practice led research I am creating the conditions within which the visitor can develop a heightened awareness of their associations through sensory experience and discover that those associations are always tethered to the past, shaping the ways in which they encounter the world. It is my objective through this project to open the way for a better understanding of the Self in relation to Being (consciousness), in a phenomenological sense, through this heightened sensory awareness. The practical outcomes of this research have been developed through a creative exploration of the sensorial world. In this project I posit that we do not draw meaning from the physical, material world itself but rather, meaning is located in our understanding that the physical world is brought into being through our consciousness of it.
- Description: Master of Art by Research
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
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
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.
PAPERmade Exchange Exhibition
- Date: 2015
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- Description: This exhibition developed through a chance meeting of academic staff from the then University of Ballarat and Wake Forest University at an artist residency in Italy. Dr. Carole Wilson, Professor Page Laughlin and Professor David Finn were all working within the shared studios at La Macina di San Cresci in rural Tuscany during July 2012, where they discussed future collegiate projects. Dr. Carole Wilson (Federation University) then exhibited her body of work, Scala, created during the Italian residency, at Hanes Art Gallery at Wake Forest University in September 2013, where she was hosted as a visiting artist. PAPERmade is the next stage in this international connection, and prior to its exhibition at START Gallery, this work showed at the Post Office Gallery, Ballarat. The WFU works submitted for this exchange show come from the beginning of the 2014-2015 academic year. While some pieces were pulled from exercises in entry-level classes, there are submissions from upper-level classes as well. The Studio Art program offers courses in videography, sculpture, painting, drawing and design, printmaking and photography. Digital processes are incorporated throughout all areas, depending on the level of the course. While Federation University Australia has a number of campuses, the work in this exhibition is from the Arts Academy Campus, Ballarat. Students represented here are from second, third, and fourth years of the Bachelor of Visual Arts (Fine Arts) and Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honors), specializing in visual arts. Programs at Federation University Australia consist of complementary courses in Studio Art, Art History/ Theory, and at Honors level, Research Methods and Seminars. The Studio Art program offers courses in digital media, printmaking, ceramics, 3D, drawing and painting. The student body is from a wide variety of backgrounds including recent school leavers as well as mature age students, which results in a rich and lively studio atmosphere.
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.
Lohan-Tuka: The lost white woman of Gippsland
- Authors: Forbes, Rodney
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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When all the rivers run
- Authors: Forbes, Rodney , Heckenberg, Robyn
- 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
Drift
- Authors: Atkins, Rosalind , Purdy, Susan
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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Exchanging Story: Connecting by the printed surface
- Authors: Forbes, Rodney , Yazzie, Melanie
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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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
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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GREENworks
- Authors: Heckenberg, Robyn
- 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
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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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.