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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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
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
In a Mughal garden, Vanitas series
- Authors: Button, Loris
- Date: 2012
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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
The Promised land performance
- Authors: Orr, Jill
- Date: 2012
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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
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
Scala
- Authors: Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2013
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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.
DELVE18
- Date: 2018
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- Description: 16th November - 8th December 2018. DELVE18 showcases recent work by Masters and PhD research candidates currently studying at the School of Arts, Federation University Australia. With candidates at varying stages of their research, this exhibition reflects diverse ideas and bold approaches to the students' individual fields of enquiry. This exhibition is also a reflection of the continuing long and proud history of Federation University Australia and predecessor institutions' Visual Arts programs dating back to the early 1990s. Image: Melissa Proposch, House of Sand III, 2018 (detail), archival inkjet print on cotton rag, 80 (h) x 120 (w)cm. 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.
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.
'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.
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
Guirguis New Art Prize 2019
- Date: 2019
- 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 and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, this prestigious Art Prize showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists. In 2019, the major award of $20,000 was presented to Melbourne-based artist Laresa Kosloff for her work, La Perruque, for the most outstanding single work of art from a pool of 16 Australian shortlisted finalists'. The shortlisted finalists were Benjamin Armstrong (VIC), Amanda Davies (TAS), Janet Fieldhouse (QLD), Caroline Garcia (NSW), Marie Hagerty (ACT), Matt Hinkley (VIC), Naomi Hobson (QLD), Laresa Kosloff (VIC), Grace Lillian Lee (QLD), Shirley Macnamara (QLD), Karen Mills (NT), Claudia Moodoonuthi (QLD), Raquel Ormella (ACT) , Nicola Smith (NSW), Neridah Stockley (NT), Tricky Walsh (TAS). GNAP19 is presented at FedUni's School of Arts Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat.
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)
WALL | PAPER
- 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)
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
The Assumed Divide
- Authors: Hollis, Sylvia
- Date: 2017
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- Description: Exhibition at the Post Office Gallery, Federation University Australia, 8th-18th November 2017. The Assumed Divide is an exhibition of small, figurative sculpture works, created in response to an exploration of gender, feminism and relationships. Sylvia Hollis works with the nude human figure for its ability to expose the commonality of physical existence. Wary of the temptation to objectify the body, her representations keenly express a connection to the psychological states of the characters. In this series, depictions of torn, hollowed or disintegrated flesh suggest the sometimes painful or destructive process of negotiating intimacy between self and other. Drawn from personal experience, further informed by study in gender and feminism, this body of work examines the division created by assuming a categorical difference between men and women. Sylvia’s works have been described as confronting and graphic, as well as receiving praise for their realism and sensitivity. They offer insight into the interactions and perspective of a millennial woman who battles internalised sexism and a history of unequal relationships. Resoundingly, this exhibition affirms the right to claim and maintain autonomy, highlighting how this may be undermined by attempts to satisfy stereotypical requirements of a relationship. Reverting to ingrained binary stereotypes reduces our potential to understand the myriad spectrums of identity, allowing the decidedly unfair battle of the sexes to continue. Image: Sylvia Hollis, Disconnect, 2017 (detail), mixed media, 31 x 38 x 22cm
Where's Russell : 3rd Year Visual Arts Students
- Date: 2017
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- Description: 15th November 2016-9th January 2017 This year’s exhibition of completing students in the Bachelor of Visual Arts at Federation University features the work of eight students who have witnessed the change from Monash University to Federation University. For the past three years these students have worked assiduously to research and develop a personal visual language which will enable them to make their mark in the visual arts. In spite of trends which have seen much argument about the relevance of the object in art and the purging of traditional mediums, the Gippsland Centre for Art and Design continues to promote the notion of art as ‘making special’ and remains one of the few art schools in Australia with the facilities to cater for every aspect of the visual arts while still enabling students to make work which is relevant in a contemporary context. These past three years have seen considerable change for both the Gippsland Centre for Art and Design and the students themselves. Among those changes there has been a University wide review of staffing which resulted in the retirement of the art school’s longest serving employee, Mr Russell Snelton. Russell served the Gippsland Centre for Art and Design as a studio technician for forty years during which time he won the respect and admiration of hundreds of students. This exhibition acknowledges Russell and the positive impact he has had on the students who have requested that the exhibition be titled “Where’s Russell?” in his honour. Image: Where's Russell?
RELOAD : Back to the 80s
- Date: 2018
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- Description: 15th December - 9th February 2019, Tamara BEKIER, Tonya BLIZZARD, Geoff BONNEY, Frank BURGERS, Mark BURT, Catherine CAVEN, Rohan CHALMERS, Mavis COUGLE, Christine CRAWSHAW, Margie DELAHUNTY-SPENCER, Tarli GLOVER, Tony GRIFFIN, Gail HARRADINE, Harri HARRISON, David KERR, Katharine MARTIN-BURGERS, Julie MULHERON, Vikki NASH, Stefan NECHWATAL, Joanne NEIL-WHITE, David NOONAN, Veronica O’HEHIR, Anna PLACIDI, Sarah SANDERS, Sue (COWIN) SEDGWICK, Steve SEDGWICK, Tamara SHARP, Dean SIMPSON, Peter SPARKMAN, Jacki STAUDE, Robert WAGHORN, April WELFARE, Rob WHITSON, Peter WIDMER, Kim WILLIAMS To celebrate the achievements of FedUni's Visual Arts alumni who studied at one of our former Ballarat Art Schools, RELOAD: Back to the 80s will showcase the work of 35 visual artists who completed their studies during the period 1980 to 1989, some of whom have gained national and international recognition. Recognised as the oldest continuous art school in Australia, from its beginnings as the School of Mines, Ballarat (SMB) and the establishment of the Ballarat Technical Art School in 1907, Federation University Australia (FedUni)’s Arts Academy endures despite many organisational, social and political changes. This exhibition not only celebrates our alumni’s success but also recognises the many former FedUni teachers and lecturers instrumental in shaping and inspiring active creative minds. Image: Geoff Bonney, Toy Boy, 2018 (detail), wood, paint, found objects, 105(h) x 46(w) x 50(d) Courtesy the artist.