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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.
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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.
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The Ballarat Arts Foundation Eureka Art Award 2018 was won by Ash Coates for Mycolinguistics: Rubico-Sterolosis or Oneness, 2017, video animation. Established in 2000, through the initiative and generosity of Ballarat South Rotary Club, with ongoing support from the local community, Ballarat Arts Foundation has continued to assist and encourage the aspirations of local, emerging, contemporary artists who have lived, worked or studied in the regional city of Ballarat by providing an ongoing program of seed funding, connections, mentoring, training and support. Through presenting a biennial exhibition, the Foundation is also able to provide a unique opportunity for their Visual Arts alumni to showcase their work alongside their peers with the opportunity to receive the major prestigious Eureka Art Award of $2,500 or the $500 People’s Choice Award. By granting awards to a broad range of talented artists in a wide variety of disciplines in the visual and performing arts, the Foundation continues to enable local contemporary artists to develop and advance their careers locally, nationally and internationally. Image: Ash Coates, Mycolinguistics: Rubico-Sterolosis or Oneness, 2017. HD video animation, looped with sound.Duration 8:12 Winner: Ballarat Arts Foundation Eureka Art Award 2018
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The Ballarat Arts Foundation Eureka Art Award 2018 was won by Ash Coates for Mycolinguistics: Rubico-Sterolosis or Oneness, 2017, video animation. Established in 2000, through the initiative and generosity of Ballarat South Rotary Club, with ongoing support from the local community, Ballarat Arts Foundation has continued to assist and encourage the aspirations of local, emerging, contemporary artists who have lived, worked or studied in the regional city of Ballarat by providing an ongoing program of seed funding, connections, mentoring, training and support. Through presenting a biennial exhibition, the Foundation is also able to provide a unique opportunity for their Visual Arts alumni to showcase their work alongside their peers with the opportunity to receive the major prestigious Eureka Art Award of $2,500 or the $500 People’s Choice Award. By granting awards to a broad range of talented artists in a wide variety of disciplines in the visual and performing arts, the Foundation continues to enable local contemporary artists to develop and advance their careers locally, nationally and internationally. Image: Ash Coates, Mycolinguistics: Rubico-Sterolosis or Oneness, 2017. HD video animation, looped with sound.Duration 8:12 Winner: Ballarat Arts Foundation Eureka Art Award 2018
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27th July - 28 August 2016 Showcasing new work by our next hot crop of visual artists and designers, this important Arts Academy annual undergraduate exhibition reflects the breadth and diversity of students’ interests, ideas and areas of enquiry, as well as the in-depth levels of their medium and material investigations within a broad range of disciplines, including drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics and design. Image: Jan Stickland Nest I, 2016 drypoint etching Unique State Print 29 x 26cm Courtesy the artist
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27th July - 28 August 2016 Showcasing new work by our next hot crop of visual artists and designers, this important Arts Academy annual undergraduate exhibition reflects the breadth and diversity of students’ interests, ideas and areas of enquiry, as well as the in-depth levels of their medium and material investigations within a broad range of disciplines, including drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics and design. Image: Jan Stickland Nest I, 2016 drypoint etching Unique State Print 29 x 26cm Courtesy the artist
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16th March - 21st April 2018, Golden Plains is an exhibition by well-known and respected Ballarat ceramic artists, and father and daughter duo, Ruby and Peter Pilven. Influenced by the natural surroundings and rich cultural heritage of the Golden Plains Shire from Ballarat to the Bellarine Peninsula (Wadderung country), Ruby captures the rich pink-orange sunsets and blue seas and skies, while Peter’s interests focus on the pre and post gold mining era and the degradation and transformative effect of mining on the topographical and geological landscape. Presenting an extraordinary selection of Individually created and collaborative work, the exhibition not only reflects the artists’ individual and familial standard of excellence but also highlights their combined passion and exceptional knowledge of their medium. Image: ceramics by left, Peter Pilven, and right, Ruby Pilven. Photograph: Ben Mangan
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16th March - 21st April 2018, Golden Plains is an exhibition by well-known and respected Ballarat ceramic artists, and father and daughter duo, Ruby and Peter Pilven. Influenced by the natural surroundings and rich cultural heritage of the Golden Plains Shire from Ballarat to the Bellarine Peninsula (Wadderung country), Ruby captures the rich pink-orange sunsets and blue seas and skies, while Peter’s interests focus on the pre and post gold mining era and the degradation and transformative effect of mining on the topographical and geological landscape. Presenting an extraordinary selection of Individually created and collaborative work, the exhibition not only reflects the artists’ individual and familial standard of excellence but also highlights their combined passion and exceptional knowledge of their medium. Image: ceramics by left, Peter Pilven, and right, Ruby Pilven. Photograph: Ben Mangan
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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
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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
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Wednesday 3rd July - Sunday 14th July 2019. A significant annual exhibition, NAIDOC19 celebrates our First Nations peoples presenting a broad range of visual approaches and media by important local indigenous artists exploring the theme ‘Voice. Treaty. Truth. Let’s work together for a shared future’. Image: Georgia MacGuire Adani, 2018 broadsheet paperbark 36 x 79cm. Courtesy the artist.
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Wednesday 3rd July - Sunday 14th July 2019. A significant annual exhibition, NAIDOC19 celebrates our First Nations peoples presenting a broad range of visual approaches and media by important local indigenous artists exploring the theme ‘Voice. Treaty. Truth. Let’s work together for a shared future’. Image: Georgia MacGuire Adani, 2018 broadsheet paperbark 36 x 79cm. Courtesy the artist.
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Saturday 7th July - Saturday 4th August 2018. NAIDOC Week 2018 celebrates the invaluable contributions that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have made – and continue to make - to our communities, our families, our rich history and to our nation. In 2018 FedUni’s Post Office Gallery celebrates NAIDOC and Australia’s First Nations peoples with two group exhibitions by local Indigenous artists. BECAUSE OF HER, WE CAN! Local artists Deanne Gilson, Marlene Gilson, Tammy Gilson, Elizabeth Liddle, Georgia MacGuire, Josh Muir, and the Pitcha Makin Fellas, present a diverse range of sculptural, installation, prints and paintings that showcase and celebrate the richness and diversity of their Indigenous cultural identity. COOEE! In a unique collaboration between Federation College’s VET visual arts program, Langi Kal Kal and Hopkins Correctional Centre, select artists present their recent work in a group exhibition to celebrate NAIDOC18. Image: (top) Marlene Gilson Black Swamp, Lake Wendouree, 2017 acrylic on linen 76 x 100cm Courtesy the artist (below) Wade Dingo Dreaming, 2017 acrylic on canvas 33 x 43cm Courtesy the artist.
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Saturday 7th July - Saturday 4th August 2018. NAIDOC Week 2018 celebrates the invaluable contributions that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have made – and continue to make - to our communities, our families, our rich history and to our nation. In 2018 FedUni’s Post Office Gallery celebrates NAIDOC and Australia’s First Nations peoples with two group exhibitions by local Indigenous artists. BECAUSE OF HER, WE CAN! Local artists Deanne Gilson, Marlene Gilson, Tammy Gilson, Elizabeth Liddle, Georgia MacGuire, Josh Muir, and the Pitcha Makin Fellas, present a diverse range of sculptural, installation, prints and paintings that showcase and celebrate the richness and diversity of their Indigenous cultural identity. COOEE! In a unique collaboration between Federation College’s VET visual arts program, Langi Kal Kal and Hopkins Correctional Centre, select artists present their recent work in a group exhibition to celebrate NAIDOC18. Image: (top) Marlene Gilson Black Swamp, Lake Wendouree, 2017 acrylic on linen 76 x 100cm Courtesy the artist (below) Wade Dingo Dreaming, 2017 acrylic on canvas 33 x 43cm Courtesy the artist.
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24th May-3rd June 2017 Annette Chappell’s work is a contemporary exploration and transgression of the material form and function of traditional fresco. Drawing upon onsite experience as a materials conservator of historic fresco she repurposes that knowledge to create contemporary part and full fresco surfaces and to locate her self-story as an artist. Through a process of indwelling in recurrent and resonant imagery, her storylines are enacted through immersive and spontaneous material and pictorial techniques, and captured in the stone layer veil or ‘velo’ of the fresco lime plaster. The choice of dark and light tonal values in her backgrounds are an evocation of mysterious spaces – the inner and outer worlds of human experience where self-story takes place. Annette’s storylines chronicle the shift from her figurative enactments of story to a focus on form-denying settings where those narratives dissolve into the sensation and emotion of contemplative silence. This exhibition constitutes 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: Annette Chappell, Indwelling: The Zebra Pursues, 2015 (detail), lime plaster, pigment and wax on board, 90 x 60cm. Courtesy the artist
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24th May-3rd June 2017 Annette Chappell’s work is a contemporary exploration and transgression of the material form and function of traditional fresco. Drawing upon onsite experience as a materials conservator of historic fresco she repurposes that knowledge to create contemporary part and full fresco surfaces and to locate her self-story as an artist. Through a process of indwelling in recurrent and resonant imagery, her storylines are enacted through immersive and spontaneous material and pictorial techniques, and captured in the stone layer veil or ‘velo’ of the fresco lime plaster. The choice of dark and light tonal values in her backgrounds are an evocation of mysterious spaces – the inner and outer worlds of human experience where self-story takes place. Annette’s storylines chronicle the shift from her figurative enactments of story to a focus on form-denying settings where those narratives dissolve into the sensation and emotion of contemplative silence. This exhibition constitutes 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: Annette Chappell, Indwelling: The Zebra Pursues, 2015 (detail), lime plaster, pigment and wax on board, 90 x 60cm. Courtesy the artist
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Exhibition at Post Office Gallery, 30th September-29th October 2017. Key ceramic works by over thirty significant ceramic artists, never seen before in Ballarat, will tour from Federation University Australia's Gippsland Centre for Art and Design (GCAD), selected from the Jan Feder Collection. This important Collection, amassed by funds raised by Jan Feder's student peers at GCAD in the mid 1980s after Jan Feder passed away, includes outstanding work by former teachers and visiting lecturers, now leading ceramic artists around the globe including; Kingsley Marks, Victor Greenaway, Christopher Headley, Peter Pilven, Victoria Howlett, Alan Peascod, Kurt Webb, Reg Preston and Sylvia Richardson to name a few.
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Exhibition at Post Office Gallery, 30th September-29th October 2017. Key ceramic works by over thirty significant ceramic artists, never seen before in Ballarat, will tour from Federation University Australia's Gippsland Centre for Art and Design (GCAD), selected from the Jan Feder Collection. This important Collection, amassed by funds raised by Jan Feder's student peers at GCAD in the mid 1980s after Jan Feder passed away, includes outstanding work by former teachers and visiting lecturers, now leading ceramic artists around the globe including; Kingsley Marks, Victor Greenaway, Christopher Headley, Peter Pilven, Victoria Howlett, Alan Peascod, Kurt Webb, Reg Preston and Sylvia Richardson to name a few.
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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
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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
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8th February - 10th March 2018, SCOPE, FedUni Arts Academy's important annual exhibition showcases accomplished work by Visual Arts lecturers, teachers, Research Associates, Associate and Adjunct Professors and Research Fellows. The exhibition not only celebrates artists who sustain an ongoing rigorous art practice but also reflects excellence in a art in broad range of media, approaches and styles, achieved through rigour and dedicated research by each of the exhibiting artists. Image: Gay Pride Week, Melbourne, 1973. Photograph by Frank Prain. Featured in the film ‘Out of the Closets, Into the Streets’ by Wind & Sky Productions, 2016. Image courtesy of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives.
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8th February - 10th March 2018, SCOPE, FedUni Arts Academy's important annual exhibition showcases accomplished work by Visual Arts lecturers, teachers, Research Associates, Associate and Adjunct Professors and Research Fellows. The exhibition not only celebrates artists who sustain an ongoing rigorous art practice but also reflects excellence in a art in broad range of media, approaches and styles, achieved through rigour and dedicated research by each of the exhibiting artists. Image: Gay Pride Week, Melbourne, 1973. Photograph by Frank Prain. Featured in the film ‘Out of the Closets, Into the Streets’ by Wind & Sky Productions, 2016. Image courtesy of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives.
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19th July-12th August 2017 This special exhibition of recent work by FedUni’s undergraduate Visual Arts students from the Arts Academy, Ballarat, and Gippsland Centre for Art and Design (GCAD), Churchill showcases new work by our next hot crop of visual artists and designers. Held annually, this important Arts Academy undergraduate exhibition reflects the breadth and diversity of students’ interests, ideas and areas of enquiry, as well as the in-depth levels of their medium and material investigations within a broad range of disciplines, including drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics and design. Image: Sarah Saridis, Untitled, 2017 (detail), print on paper.
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19th July-12th August 2017 This special exhibition of recent work by FedUni’s undergraduate Visual Arts students from the Arts Academy, Ballarat, and Gippsland Centre for Art and Design (GCAD), Churchill showcases new work by our next hot crop of visual artists and designers. Held annually, this important Arts Academy undergraduate exhibition reflects the breadth and diversity of students’ interests, ideas and areas of enquiry, as well as the in-depth levels of their medium and material investigations within a broad range of disciplines, including drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics and design. Image: Sarah Saridis, Untitled, 2017 (detail), print on paper.
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19th July-17th August 2019. An important annual exhibition by FedUni’s undergraduate and postgraduate Visual Arts’ students, Ballarat, BENCHMARK19 showcases a rich mix of contemporary ideas, approaches, methods and materials by students working across diverse studio areas, including design, painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, video, photography and installation. Image: Demi Gerardi, Block It Out, 2019. Presets ‘Tools Down’ digital still. Third Year Communication Design. Arts Academy, Ballarat Federation University
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19th July-17th August 2019. An important annual exhibition by FedUni’s undergraduate and postgraduate Visual Arts’ students, Ballarat, BENCHMARK19 showcases a rich mix of contemporary ideas, approaches, methods and materials by students working across diverse studio areas, including design, painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, video, photography and installation. Image: Demi Gerardi, Block It Out, 2019. Presets ‘Tools Down’ digital still. Third Year Communication Design. Arts Academy, Ballarat Federation University
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Images recording travel have been part of numerous cultural traditions enabling extraordinary discoveries and providing historical documents of great beauty used for millennia across many cultures. Lauren Murray’s work and research explores a visual journey within an observed environment through "fourteen layers of glass" that includes the car window, the lens of the camera, the lens of her glasses and the surface of her iPad - the nature of light, time and distance and ongoing changes to the climate of particular interest to her. Utilising photography, drawing, digital and analogue media, Murray presents 16 digitally augmented photographs and a 9.6 metre story map - beautiful yet uncannily prescient images and visual narratives of place, time and season. This exhibition constitutes the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led Masters research project at the School of Arts, Federation University, Australia. Lauren Murray is supported by an Australian Research Training Program (RTP) Fee Offset Scholarship through Federation University Australia.
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Images recording travel have been part of numerous cultural traditions enabling extraordinary discoveries and providing historical documents of great beauty used for millennia across many cultures. Lauren Murray’s work and research explores a visual journey within an observed environment through "fourteen layers of glass" that includes the car window, the lens of the camera, the lens of her glasses and the surface of her iPad - the nature of light, time and distance and ongoing changes to the climate of particular interest to her. Utilising photography, drawing, digital and analogue media, Murray presents 16 digitally augmented photographs and a 9.6 metre story map - beautiful yet uncannily prescient images and visual narratives of place, time and season. This exhibition constitutes the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led Masters research project at the School of Arts, Federation University, Australia. Lauren Murray is supported by an Australian Research Training Program (RTP) Fee Offset Scholarship through Federation University Australia.
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26th April-19th May 2018. In a group exhibition by three Ballarat artists and FedUni Arts Academy alumni, their work will explore and reflect diverse ideas, media, styles and approaches, yet reflect and allude to how they are all intrinsically linked to a common interest and fascination with the beauty and colour of ‘indigo’. Image: Jessica Schroeter, Avenue of Arms, 2017 (detail) screen print on paper, 41H x 31W cm. Courtesy the artist.
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26th April-19th May 2018. In a group exhibition by three Ballarat artists and FedUni Arts Academy alumni, their work will explore and reflect diverse ideas, media, styles and approaches, yet reflect and allude to how they are all intrinsically linked to a common interest and fascination with the beauty and colour of ‘indigo’. Image: Jessica Schroeter, Avenue of Arms, 2017 (detail) screen print on paper, 41H x 31W cm. Courtesy the artist.
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24th May-30th June 2018. Beginning in 2013, DRESS CODE: The First Five Years is the result of a ritualistic daily drawing practice and series of works, in which the artist's concerns are in response to what she was wearing each day for the last five years. Maryanne Coutts writes, “Dress Code is a project which attempts to harness the ways that the days continue to follow each other, one after the other; unstoppable. It is a journal of what I wear each day – not in a ‘realistic’ or documentary way – but a fluid emotional extension of the creative activity of getting dressed in the morning. Each morning; every morning.” Based in a lively drawing practice, Coutts' work is increasingly an exploration of the relationship between drawing and time. Maryanne Coutts studied at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), The University of Melbourne, 1979 -1981, the University of NSW (UNSW),1984 and achieved a PhD at Federation University Australia in1999. She has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and internationally including UK, Spain and Thailand. Select solo exhibitions include Jostle, Australian Galleries, Sydney, 2017; Black News/White News, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour, 2017; Dress Code #2, Slot, Sydney, 2015 and Threads, Articulate Project Space, Sydney, 2014. A major survey exhibition, Telling Tales was presented at the Art Gallery of Ballarat in 2008. Coutts was jointly awarded the Blake Prize in 1982 and won the Portia Geach Memorial Award in 2007. Maryanne Coutts is currently Head of Drawing at the National Art School, Sydney and is represented by Australian Galleries, Melbourne. Image: Maryanne Coutts Dress Code 31.8.14, 2014 collage Courtesy the artist and Australian Galleries, Melbourne.
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24th May-30th June 2018. Beginning in 2013, DRESS CODE: The First Five Years is the result of a ritualistic daily drawing practice and series of works, in which the artist's concerns are in response to what she was wearing each day for the last five years. Maryanne Coutts writes, “Dress Code is a project which attempts to harness the ways that the days continue to follow each other, one after the other; unstoppable. It is a journal of what I wear each day – not in a ‘realistic’ or documentary way – but a fluid emotional extension of the creative activity of getting dressed in the morning. Each morning; every morning.” Based in a lively drawing practice, Coutts' work is increasingly an exploration of the relationship between drawing and time. Maryanne Coutts studied at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), The University of Melbourne, 1979 -1981, the University of NSW (UNSW),1984 and achieved a PhD at Federation University Australia in1999. She has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and internationally including UK, Spain and Thailand. Select solo exhibitions include Jostle, Australian Galleries, Sydney, 2017; Black News/White News, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour, 2017; Dress Code #2, Slot, Sydney, 2015 and Threads, Articulate Project Space, Sydney, 2014. A major survey exhibition, Telling Tales was presented at the Art Gallery of Ballarat in 2008. Coutts was jointly awarded the Blake Prize in 1982 and won the Portia Geach Memorial Award in 2007. Maryanne Coutts is currently Head of Drawing at the National Art School, Sydney and is represented by Australian Galleries, Melbourne. Image: Maryanne Coutts Dress Code 31.8.14, 2014 collage Courtesy the artist and Australian Galleries, Melbourne.
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22nd September - 6th November 2018. Paris-based Australian artist Heidi Wood’s large-scale immersive wall installation explores the artist's ongoing curiosity about tourism and the unpopularity of tourist zones particularly within the ex-Soviet bloc. Creating her own promotional environment utilising a repertoire of commercial pictograms, mementos and symbols, Wood deliberately questions the very position of culture, the messages it can provide and the people it aims to target. Heidi Wood gained a Bachelor of Arts in printmaking at Victoria College, Prahran, Melbourne and went on to study at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, Paris, DNSAP, atelier Claude Viallat. She lives in Paris and works in Montreuil. Image: Heidi Wood, Covici, Croatia, 2017, unsized digital image Courtesy the artist
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23rd June-15th July 2017 Through a unique collaboration between Federation College’s VET Visual Arts program with Ararat (Hopkins Correctional Centre) and Langi Kal Kal, Indigenous artists present their recent work in an exhibition that explores, expresses and celebrates their Indigenous cultural heritage and the significance of NAIDOC for the community. This year the National NAIDOC theme is Our Languages Matter. The theme aims to emphasise and celebrate the unique and essential role that Indigenous languages play in cultural identity, linking people to their land and water and in the transmission of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, spirituality and rites, through story and song. Image: Gary, Eagle Dreaming, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 80cm. Courtesy the artist.
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23rd June-15th July 2017 Through a unique collaboration between Federation College’s VET Visual Arts program with Ararat (Hopkins Correctional Centre) and Langi Kal Kal, Indigenous artists present their recent work in an exhibition that explores, expresses and celebrates their Indigenous cultural heritage and the significance of NAIDOC for the community. This year the National NAIDOC theme is Our Languages Matter. The theme aims to emphasise and celebrate the unique and essential role that Indigenous languages play in cultural identity, linking people to their land and water and in the transmission of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, spirituality and rites, through story and song. Image: Gary, Eagle Dreaming, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 80cm. Courtesy the artist.