Benchmark23 : undergraduate visual arts
- Date: 2023
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- Description: BENCHMARK23 UNDERGRADUATE VISUAL ARTS THU 20 JUL - SUN 13 AUG 2023 Please join us for the students' exhibition opening on Fri 21 July @5, for 5.30pm. All welcome! An important annual Arts Academy Visual Arts undergraduate students’ exhibition, BENCHMARK showcases a rich mix of works of art completed individually and collaboratively across a broad range of media and studio areas, including painting, printmaking, ceramics and digital media. Here, students not only illustrate high levels of creative skill and ingenuity but also reveal complex concepts and ideas that underpin dynamic approaches, styles and interpretations. *OPEN FOR 'OPEN DAY' SUN 13 AUG 2023 Image: Peta Kalisperis Untitled, 2023 linoprint on paper H76 X W56 cm Courtesy the artist
Kenneth Kronberger : behold the animated diorama!
- Authors: Kronberger, Kenneth
- Date: 2023
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- Description: WED 1 MAR – FRI 17 MAR 2023 Please join the artist Kenneth Kronberger to celebrate an end of exhibition event at the Post Office Gallery, on Fri 17 March @ 5.30, for 6pm, until 8pm. All welcome! Through an investigation into the historically intriguing silent and static miniaturised world of the diorama and the contemporary art of animation, Kenneth Kronberger’s new work and PhD examination exhibition integrates these intriguing imagined formats, creating his own metamorphised ‘worlds’ and fantastical illusionistic spaces. This exhibition constitutes the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led Doctoral research project at the Institute of Education, Arts and Community, Federation University, Australia. Kenneth Kronberger has been supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend and (RTP) Fee-Offset Scholarship through Federation University Australia. Image: Kenneth Kronberger The Penthouse, 2023 wood, paper, digital print, foam board, acrylic paint, found objects, digital video H31.8 x W31.8 x D32 cm (scale 1:10) Courtesy the artist
- Description: WED 1 MAR – FRI 17 MAR 2023 Please join the artist Kenneth Kronberger to celebrate an end of exhibition event at the Post Office Gallery, on Fri 17 March @ 5.30, for 6pm, until 8pm. All welcome! Through an investigation into the historically intriguing silent and static miniaturised world of the diorama and the contemporary art of animation, Kenneth Kronberger’s new work and PhD examination exhibition integrates these intriguing imagined formats, creating his own metamorphised ‘worlds’ and fantastical illusionistic spaces. This exhibition constitutes the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led Doctoral research project at the Institute of Education, Arts and Community, Federation University, Australia. Kenneth Kronberger has been supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend and (RTP) Fee-Offset Scholarship through Federation University Australia.
Made you look! Paintings by Geoff Wallis
- Authors: Wallis, Geoff
- Date: 2023
- Type: Text , Artwork , Visual art work
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- Description: FRI 1 DEC - FRI 9 FEB 2023 Ballarat artist Geoff Wallis presents his recent series of paintings in the exhibition, Made You Look! Informed by his extensive knowledge of art history and contemporary art issues and ideas, the subject of Wallis’ paintings is art itself. For Wallis, text is used as a kind of meta-commentary, to invite or provoke direct responses from his audience about interpretation and value judgement and broader issues surrounding authenticity, reality, and purity as they pertain to art. Beyond its semantic role, text also plays an important syntactical or formal part in the paintings’ aesthetic - one in which chance, process and facture all figure prominently. Geoff Wallis was formerly an academic, lecturing in Art History at Federation University, Ballarat, and has curated significant exhibitions and written extensively on art and artists. This exhibition was opened by Ola Wallis, the artist’s granddaughter, and the artist, on Fri 1 Dec @ 6.30pm. Image: Geoff Wallis Your Call, 2021 acrylic, oil and aerosol paint on canvas H1450 x W1380 mm Courtesy the artist
Marra-Narrap Lakorra : under blue skies
- Date: 2023
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- Description: WED 21 JUN - SUN 9 JUL 2023 Through a unique collaboration between Federation TAFE’s visual arts program, H.M.Prison Langi Kal Kal and Hopkins Correctional Centre, select First Nations Indigenous artists present their recent work to celebrate their rich cultural heritage and traditions and the significance and power of creativity, expressing ideas surrounding identity, country, kinship and friendship during NAIDOC 2023. Federation University Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters where its campuses are located, and we pay our respects to Elders past and present, and extend our respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations Peoples. **Open for NAIDOC Week, from Sun 2 to Sun 9 July 2023, 12 -5pm. This exhibition opening and Welcome to Country was held on Friday 23 June @ 6 - 8pm. Language Source: Wadawurrung Language App Image: Nev F Dancing Man, 2023 acrylic on canvas 80 x 50 cm Courtesy the artist “Happiness is so overlooked until you have none. Dance and be happy"
Room with a view : aspects & perspectives
- Date: 2023
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- Description: WED 17 MAY - FRI 2 JUN 2023 Showcasing a unique selection of works of art selected from Federation University’s Permanent Art Collection, this exhibition explores our local neighbourhood and its surrounds, examining the landscape from a real and imagined perspective, as well as a historical and contemporary viewpoint. Artists include Deanne Gilson, Tony Griffin, Gwyn Hanssen Piggot, Christopher Headley, Garth Horsfield, Angeline Koot, Duncan Lannan, David Larwill, Josh Muir, Diana Nikkelson, David Noonan, Scott Pearce, Millicent Reed, Ken Searle and Jan Senbergs. This exhibition was presented in association with the City of Ballarat's Heritage Festival Fri 19 - Sun 28 May 2023. Image: Ken Searle Ballarat, 1998 oil on canvas H87 x W 350 cm Federation University Permanent Art Collection
Scope 23 Exhibition
- Date: 2023
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- Description: SCOPE23: ARTS ACADEMY LECTURERS & ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE WED 5 APR - FRI 28 APR 2023 Sharon ANDERSON Koji HOASHI Jo MOTT Jill ORR Jimmy PASAKOS PITCHA MAKIN FELLAS Julie REED HENDERSON Kim PERCY Vin RYAN Elke VARGA Anthea WILLIAMS Carole WILSON An important annual Federation University Arts Academy exhibition, this year SCOPE showcases highly skilled work created by Visual Art lecturers and artists-in residence, based at Ballarat and Gippsland campus, who sustain an ongoing rigorous artistic practice across a broad range of disciplines including ceramics, painting, printmaking, sculpture, performance art, drawing and digital media. Image: Julie Reed Henderson geo/bio/eco/socio lo-res stammer and wend, 2023 (detail) scourers, rock, leather, silicon, cotton thread, plastic, paper on felt, neon in acrylic box H65cm x W80cm x D10cm Courtesy the artist
Benchmark22 : undergraduate visual arts
- Date: 2022
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- Description: WED 3 AUG – FRI 26 AUG 2022 Cassie BYRON, Sarah CANHAM, Abbey CODY, Erin COOMANS, Liarne CORKE, Michael CREANEY, Hannah D’ANTONIO, Vanessa DICKSON, Katherine DOUGLAS, Kristen FREEMAN, Angela GERRARD, Greg HORRICKS, Peta KALISPERIS, Clayton KEEFE, Shelia-anne KORS, Kristen LEIGH, Stacy LIVITSANIS, Jasmine MCKAY, Sarah MISCHKER, Tiarna PRATTLEY, Tahlia ROBERTS, Selina ROBERTSON, Ilona TOPOLCSANYI, Travis TRUDGEON. In this important Arts Academy annual exhibition, twenty-four undergraduate Visual Arts students showcase their recent work. Here, students explore and experiment with a range of media, expressing complex ideas surrounding politics and society, fantasy and fiction, memory and nostalgia, and the environment across a broad range of disciplines including painting, printmaking, drawing, textiles, ceramics, sculpture and mixed-media. This exhibition was opened by Associate Professor Richard Chew, Director, Arts Academy Ballarat and Gippsland, Institute of Education, Arts and Community on Fri 5 Aug 2022. NB: Due to continuing health concerns with the COVID19 pandemic, we strongly suggest maintaining safe social distancing and wearing a mask in the Gallery space. Image: Abbey Cody Smoke Break, 2022 oil on wood 25.4 x 20.32 cm Courtesy the artist
- Description: WED 3 AUG – FRI 26 AUG 2022 Cassie BYRON, Sarah CANHAM, Abbey CODY, Erin COOMANS, Liarne CORKE, Michael CREANEY, Hannah D’ANTONIO, Vanessa DICKSON, Katherine DOUGLAS, Kristen FREEMAN, Angela GERRARD, Greg HORRICKS, Peta KALISPERIS, Clayton KEEFE, Shelia-anne KORS, Kristen LEIGH, Stacy LIVITSANIS, Jasmine MCKAY, Sarah MISCHKER, Tiarna PRATTLEY, Tahlia ROBERTS, Selina ROBERTSON, Ilona TOPOLCSANYI, Travis TRUDGEON. In this important Arts Academy annual exhibition, twenty-four undergraduate Visual Arts students showcase their recent work. Here, students explore and experiment with a range of media, expressing complex ideas surrounding politics and society, fantasy and fiction, memory and nostalgia, and the environment across a broad range of disciplines including painting, printmaking, drawing, textiles, ceramics, sculpture and mixed-media. This exhibition was opened by Associate Professor Richard Chew, Director, Arts Academy Ballarat and Gippsland, Institute of Education, Arts and Community on Fri 5 Aug 2022. NB: Due to continuing health concerns with the COVID19 pandemic, we strongly suggest maintaining safe social distancing and wearing a mask in the Gallery space.
EM I Body : works by Indonesian Women Artists
- Date: 2022
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- Description: WED 14 SEP – FRI 25 NOV 2022 Showcasing select work by seven contemporary Indonesian women artists, EM I BODY uncovers personal stories and unspoken truths while revealing common states of pride, tenacity and personal endurance. Here, an oversized canvas and stilled imposing woman’s gaze, contrasts with the blurred silhouette and video of a woman behind glass painting herself in and out of the picture. Conversely, depictions of naively painted distorted figures act to reclaim the artist’s body and sexuality, while works created from carbon copies, and from human hair, symbolise the act of protection and nurturing between mother and child. Featuring Audya Amalia, Ayurika, Dita Gambiro, Erika Ernawan, I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih (Murni), Theresia Agustina Sitompul (Tere) and Restu Ratnaningtyas, artists present visually compelling work in diverse media examining women’s familial and personal relationships, sexuality, identity, nostalgia and memory. This unique exhibition is presented in partnership with Project Eleven, a philanthropic initiative that supports the work of contemporary artists, with a focus on cutting-edge contemporary art and cross-cultural collaboration. This exhibition was opened by Konfir Kabo, Founder, Project Eleven, with remarks by Asoc. Prof Richard Chew, on Fri 9 Sep. Image: AYURIKA Lost #2, 2020 oil on canvas H200 x W300 cm Courtesy the artist
- Description: WED 14 SEP – FRI 25 NOV 2022 Showcasing select work by seven contemporary Indonesian women artists, EM I BODY uncovers personal stories and unspoken truths while revealing common states of pride, tenacity and personal endurance. Here, an oversized canvas and stilled imposing woman’s gaze, contrasts with the blurred silhouette and video of a woman behind glass painting herself in and out of the picture. Conversely, depictions of naively painted distorted figures act to reclaim the artist’s body and sexuality, while works created from carbon copies, and from human hair, symbolise the act of protection and nurturing between mother and child. Featuring Audya Amalia, Ayurika, Dita Gambiro, Erika Ernawan, I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih (Murni), Theresia Agustina Sitompul (Tere) and Restu Ratnaningtyas, artists present visually compelling work in diverse media examining women’s familial and personal relationships, sexuality, identity, nostalgia and memory. This unique exhibition is presented in partnership with Project Eleven, a philanthropic initiative that supports the work of contemporary artists, with a focus on cutting-edge contemporary art and cross-cultural collaboration. This exhibition was opened by Konfir Kabo, Founder, Project Eleven, with remarks by Asoc. Prof Richard Chew, on Fri 9 Sep.
MOMO : a play with music adapted from the book by Michael Ende, Music by Rick Chew, book and lyrics by Anthony Crowley
- Authors: Chew, Rick , Crowley, Anthony
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Visual art work , Play
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- Description: Once upon a time, a young orphan girl appears in the local amphitheatre. The townsfolk, at first perplexed, soon discover that Momo has a special power, the gift of listening. Before long, Momo has transformed the whole community, children play more, people argue less and her friends Beppo Roadsweeper and Guido Guide visit every day. But all that is about to change. Beyond the outskirts of town a dark force is gathering. The Men In Grey and their sinister time saving bank are in need of new customers, and no one in town is safe. Wednesday 2nd November @ 7:00pm Thursday 3rd @ 7:00pm Friday 4th November @ 2:00pm & 7:00pm Saturday 5th November @2:00pm & 7:00pm Ticket available:https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/momo-tickets-379439462647
Scope 22 Exhibition
- Date: 2022
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- Description: SCOPE22: ARTS ACADEMY LECTURERS, TEACHERS & HONORARIES WED 2 MAR - FRI 1 APR 2022 Sharon ANDERSON, Jason GRACE, Wendy HABRAKEN-FLACK, Paul MAH, Jill ORR, Jimmy PASAKOS, Kim PERCY, Jenny PETERSON, PITCHA MAKIN FELLAS, Julie REED HENDERSON, Chrissie Louise SMITH, Elke VARGA, Anthea WILLIAMS, Carole WILSON, WIND & SKY PRODUCTIONS. An important Arts Academy annual exhibition, SCOPE showcases new work by lecturers, teachers, research associates and research fellows from the University's Gippsland and Ballarat campuses, who, as educators and researchers at Federation University, also sustain an ongoing rigorous artistic practice. Image: Kim Percy Mama Manna Gum, 2021 digital photograph on paper H32 x W20cm Courtesy the artist
Benchmark21 : undergraduate visual arts
- Date: 2021
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- Description: BENCHMARK21: UNDERGRADUATE VISUAL ARTS WED 11 AUG - FRI 20 AUG 2021 The Post Office Gallery’s important annual exhibition presents innovative, inspired and bold ideas by Ballarat’s Arts Academy undergraduate visual art students across a range of media, styles and disciplines including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics and installation. Image: Erin Jankelowitz, Alex Glenk, Perri Hobbs, Morgan McDermott, Libby Lewis (First Year Collaboration Class, 2021) Release, 2021 digital print 65 cm x 85 cm Courtesy the artists
EYE: Visual art and design 2020 graduating students
- Date: 2021
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- Description: 11 MAR - 1 APR 2021 Anthea BIDWELL Vienna Drysdale BISCHARD Jessica CHAPLIN Kathryn DRUM Miles FOLEY Tameka HAGUE Clayton KEEFE Angeline KOOT Lauren MATTHEWS Tess MCLOUGHLAN Sarah TAYLOR Brittany TUCKER Ella YOUNG Showcasing work by our 2020 visual art and design graduating students within the Bachelor of Visual Arts, Bachelor of Communication Design, Creative Arts (Honours) and Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design, Ballarat, this exhibition has been curated at the School of Arts Post Office Gallery following our virtual exhibition launch in 2020. Image: Vienna Drysdale Bischard Figure 2, 2020 digital print on archival paper H50 X W35 cm Courtesy the artist
- Description: 11 MAR - 1 APR 2021 Anthea BIDWELL Vienna Drysdale BISCHARD Jessica CHAPLIN Kathryn DRUM Miles FOLEY Tameka HAGUE Clayton KEEFE Angeline KOOT Lauren MATTHEWS Tess MCLOUGHLAN Sarah TAYLOR Brittany TUCKER Ella YOUNG Showcasing work by our 2020 visual art and design graduating students within the Bachelor of Visual Arts, Bachelor of Communication Design, Creative Arts (Honours) and Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design, Ballarat, this exhibition has been curated at the School of Arts Post Office Gallery following our virtual exhibition launch in 2020.
Fiona Crawford - When you go looking for me, I am not there
- Authors: Crawford, Fiona
- Date: 2021
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- Description: Following residencies in Assisi, Italy in 2016 and 2019, inspired by the beauty and intrigue surrounding the medieval embroidery tradition of ‘Punto Assisi’ still practised today, Fiona Crawford’s contemporary textiles subvert and transgress conventions and reinterpret the ubiquitous subject of ‘women’s work’ Derived from the exterior of medieval San Rufino Cathedral, Punto Assisi’s highly stylised pattern and form is unique - the subject matter empty of detail, with the outlined negative space seeming to echo the absence of information and who the female artisans were. Invisible and indispensable, the names and faces of the female makers were rarely documented, existing within the dominant male hegemonic ideologies of the time, undervalued and seen as only undertaking 'women’s work'. Using vintage linen and thread, the combination of traditional and contemporary imagery, text, and the concept of drawing with thread, Fiona Crawford’s work investigates the notion of absence and at the same time honours the unknown female makers of this now highly prized and ancient art. This exhibition constitutes the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led Masters research project at the School of Arts, Federation University, Australia. Fiona Crawford is supported by an Australian Research Training Program (RTP) Fee Offset Scholarship through Federation University. 45-minute session times available via Eventbrite. Please wear a mask and comply with 1.5m social distancing rules.
SCOPE 21 Exhibition
- Date: 2021
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- Description: SCOPE21 30 JUN - 16 JUL 2021 An important Arts Academy annual exhibition, SCOPE 2021 presents new work by lecturers, teachers, research associates and research fellows who, as artists also sustain a rigorous research and/or teaching practice at Federation University, and whose work expresses complex ideas related to fact and fiction, empathy, politics and global unrest, as well as ideas surrounding Indigenous art and iconography. Image: Elke Varga Temple Flags, 2020 acrylic on canvas 3 x (25 x 25cm) Courtesy the artist
Shelter from the storm
- Authors: Griffin, Tony
- Date: 2021
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- Description: 15 APR - 28 MAY 2021 [extended until 4 June 2021] Through an exhaustive description of the everyday and often overlooked objects in one suburban home in the early part of the twenty first century, as a form of archaeology of its recent past and present, Tony Griffin’s research considers how broader entanglements are hidden in our everyday through the proliferation of our things. Here, by exploring theories of the mutual dependency between humans and things, Griffin examines how his paintings provide agency in discerning those relationships and act as a means to understand our world in this age of anxiety. This exhibition constitutes the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led Doctoral research project at the School of Arts, Federation University Australia. Tony Griffin’s is supported by an Australian Research Training Program (RTP) Fee Offset Scholarship through Federation University. Image: Tony Griffin Untitled, 2020 acrylic on board H20 X W20 cm Courtesy the artist
Twice is lucky, 3 times a charm
- Authors: Forbes, Rodney
- Date: 2021
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- Description: Exhibition dates: 3 August-13 November 2021 Twice is Lucky, 3 Times a Charm’ is Rodney Forbes’ 20th solo exhibition with Australian Galleries. Created during the COVID-19 pandemic, these vibrant paintings explore fortune, transformation and love. This exhibition features ‘A Submariner Dreams of Home’, winner of the 2020 Maritime Art Prize. Rodney Forbes’ paintings address deeply poignant subject matter through dreamlike and surreal imagery. Figures and objects float against his trademark palette of bright, luminous colours, drawing the viewer in to explore a rich narrative. “Although the subject matter of Forbes’ paintings deals with aspects of the human condition, his paintings contain a degree of humour without which his intensity of vision would degenerate into affected angst. It is his ability to see beneath the surface of human relationships and the domestic environment and then to express that vision with warmth and humour that elevates his work from the drily philosophical or the contrived.” – David Thorp – artist and curator, Director, South London Gallery 1992-2001, Turner Prize Judge This exhibition celebrates Rodney Forbes’ unique style of storytelling and his ability to portray wonder, adventure and the unforeseen through a highly distinctive painting style.
Yapaneypuk Nyini Wowa (Together my Brother)
- Date: 2021
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- Description: YAPANEYPUK NYINI WOWA FROM 5 JULY 2021 Through a unique collaboration between Federation College’s VET visual arts program, Langi Kal Kal and Hopkins Correctional Centre, select indigenous artists present their recent work to celebrate their rich cultural heritage and traditions and the power of creativity to express ideas surrounding identity, country, environmental issues, family, kinship and friendship during NAIDOC in 2021. Image: Maggs (Noongar) Two Lizards, 2020 acrylic on canvas H45 x W55 cm Courtesy the artist
EYE : Arts Academy End of Year Graduating Student Exhibition
- Date: 2020
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- Description: EYE: ARTS ACADEMY END OF YEAR GRADUATING STUDENT EXHIBITION 16 DEC 2020 – 2 MAR 2021 Molly BERRY, Jackson BERTRAM, ;Ann BETTS, Anthea BIDWELL, Christine BOURCHIER, Jessica CHAPLIN, Kathryn DRUM, Vienna DRYSDALE BISCHARD, Daniel CULLINAN, Lauren ESPIE, Miles FOLEY, Tameka HAGUE, Tyra HOWARD, Caleb JORDAN, Clayton KEEFE, Angeline KOOT, Georgia LEONARD, Lauren MATTHEWS, Tess MCLOUGHLAN, Tayla RIDGEWAY, Poppy SCHEMBRI, Sarah TAYLOR, Brittany TUCKER, Grace WARE, Ella YOUNG EYE - End of Year Exhibition showcases work by visual art and design graduating students across five programs: Bachelor of Visual Arts (Ballarat), Bachelor of Fine Arts (Gippsland), Bachelor of Communication Design, Creative Arts (Honours) and Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design, and represents the culmination of at least two to three years study. Due to COVID-19, the exhibition has been created via a software platform enabling the students' work to be curated in a virtual gallery setting. The online exhibition launch, with Federation University’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Duncan Bentley and Associate Professor Rick Chew, Director, Arts Academy, with Visual Arts' students, was held on Wed 16 Dec. Through the generosity of our sponsors, awards recipients were announced for our high achieving and committed students at the official online launch. A physical exhibition of EYE will be held at our Post Office Gallery, Ballarat and Switchback Gallery, Gippsland in March 2021.
SCOPE 20 Exhibition
- Authors: Button, Loris , Horrocks, Lucinda , Nemo, Jary , Wind & Sky Productions , Mah, Paul , Orr, Jill , Pasakos, Jimmy , Percy, Kim , Pilven, Peter , Fellas, Pitcha Makin , Laxton, Ted , Edgeley, Trudy , Rigney, Adrian , Varga, Elke , Williams, Morgan , Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2020
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- Description: SCOPE20: ARTS ACADEMY VISUAL ARTS LECTURERS, TEACHERS AND HONORARIES FRI 21 FEB – SAT 7 MAR 2020 Please join us for the exhibition opening, with remarks by Associate Professor Rick Chew, Director, Arts Academy, Federation University Australia @ 5:30 for 6pm on Thu 20 Feb 2020. All welcome! Loris BUTTON, Lucinda HORROCKS & Jary NEMO, Paul MAH, Jill ORR, Jimmy PASAKOS, Kim PERCY, Peter PILVEN, PITCHA MAKIN FELLAS, Elke VARGA, Morgan WILLIAMS, Carole WILSON In the Arts Academy’s important annual exhibition, SCOPE presents a diverse selection of works on paper, video, ceramics, printmaking, painting and design, by Visual Arts lecturers, teachers, Research Associates, Associate and Adjunct Professors and Research Fellows who, as artists, also sustain a rigorous artistic research and/or teaching practice at Federation University's School of Arts. Participating artists present work across disciplines including drawing, painting, photography, performance art, video, ceramics, textiles and printmaking. Presenting works of beauty and contemplation alongside the real and unsettling, participating artists express complex ideas related to fact and fiction, identity, empathy, politics and global unrest, as well as climate change, Indigenous art and cultural appropriation. Image: Wind & Sky Productions & Chris Hayward, Collections and Climate Change, 2019 Video: 9.01 mins. Courtesy the artists
The Messengers
- Authors: Drendel, Graeme
- Date: 2020
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- Description: Please join the artist for the exhibition opening, with remarks by Geoff Wallis, former Federation University lecturer, on Sat 14 Mar @ 6:30pm. All welcome! In Graeme Drendel’s first solo exhibition in Ballarat, Victoria, the renowned Australian artist presents his intriguing vignettes for which he is well known and celebrated – his subjects and characters on the one hand puzzling and perplexing and on the other mystical and surreal. Born in the Mallee, Victoria, Drendel has gained recognition for his highly accomplished hand in drawing and painting and for his particularly intelligent observation and portrayal of life and the human condition. Graeme Drendel is represented by Australian Galleries, Melbourne. australiangalleries.com.au