Trilogy, We create the image together
- Authors: Orr, Jill
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Visual art work , Exhibition
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- Description: This live performance, Trilogy, We create the image together, is a trilogy of performance images that are evocative of Pagan rites, that gradually bare the body with a haunting present that does not go away. We make the Image Together are the words that Reverend Desmond Tutu spoke recently in honour of Nelson Mandela’s life. Humanity creates images that are transmitted collectively influencing consequent actions that follow. Some actions are some positive some are negative, it depends on the perception of meaning. Both image and action, artist and audience are interdependent. The images from a live work never really capture what transcends during a performance. In live performances I give priority to the audience. This is very different for performances for the camera where there is no audience. Jerry Bartkowski, the official photographer, has captured these moments.
- Authors: Orr, Jill
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Visual art work , Exhibition
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- Description: This live performance, Trilogy, We create the image together, is a trilogy of performance images that are evocative of Pagan rites, that gradually bare the body with a haunting present that does not go away. We make the Image Together are the words that Reverend Desmond Tutu spoke recently in honour of Nelson Mandela’s life. Humanity creates images that are transmitted collectively influencing consequent actions that follow. Some actions are some positive some are negative, it depends on the perception of meaning. Both image and action, artist and audience are interdependent. The images from a live work never really capture what transcends during a performance. In live performances I give priority to the audience. This is very different for performances for the camera where there is no audience. Jerry Bartkowski, the official photographer, has captured these moments.
To Wandiligong : A visual journey through memory, time, space, light, landscape and fourteen layers of glass
- Authors: Murray, Lauren
- Date: 2020
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Images recording travel have been part of numerous cultural traditions enabling extraordinary discoveries and providing historical documents of great beauty used for millennia across many cultures.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.
- Description: Faculty of Arts
- Authors: Murray, Lauren
- Date: 2020
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 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.
- Description: Faculty of Arts
SCOPE 20 Exhibition
- 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
- 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
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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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
- 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
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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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
A kinship of creatures
- Authors: Ní Shíocháin, Máirín
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 7th-17th June 2017 Máirín Ní Shíocháin’s practice reflects a lifelong affinity with non-human animals. Her observation of animals and birds in natural habitats in and around Ballarat and district was the foundation for this research. The project focused on the recognition of kinship between humans and other animals and resulted in this body of work which contributes to the current discourse around animals in contemporary art. Consistent with her past practice, the works are all paper-based, demonstrating the versatility of this medium. This exhibition represents the culmination of Ní Shíocháin’s practice-led PhD research at the Arts Academy, Faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University Australia. Image: Máirín Ní Shíocháin, Colm 1, 2015, Monoprint paper collage on Stonehenge paper, 32 x 25cm. Courtesy the artist
- Authors: Ní Shíocháin, Máirín
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 7th-17th June 2017 Máirín Ní Shíocháin’s practice reflects a lifelong affinity with non-human animals. Her observation of animals and birds in natural habitats in and around Ballarat and district was the foundation for this research. The project focused on the recognition of kinship between humans and other animals and resulted in this body of work which contributes to the current discourse around animals in contemporary art. Consistent with her past practice, the works are all paper-based, demonstrating the versatility of this medium. This exhibition represents the culmination of Ní Shíocháin’s practice-led PhD research at the Arts Academy, Faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University Australia. Image: Máirín Ní Shíocháin, Colm 1, 2015, Monoprint paper collage on Stonehenge paper, 32 x 25cm. Courtesy the artist
Eighteen and Over
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 19th April-31st May 2018. Eighteen and Over is an exhibition showcasing the work of Gippsland Centre for Art and Design third year students, and also features their academic and support staff. This a project show driven by the students and demonstrates their creativity and endeavour. The students curated, installed, prepared content, and designed the catalogue and invitation.
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 19th April-31st May 2018. Eighteen and Over is an exhibition showcasing the work of Gippsland Centre for Art and Design third year students, and also features their academic and support staff. This a project show driven by the students and demonstrates their creativity and endeavour. The students curated, installed, prepared content, and designed the catalogue and invitation.
Raw Edges
- Authors: Farago, Anna
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Friday 14th June - Saturday 29th June 2019. Anna Farago uses various creative methods to explore her identity as daughter, sister, mother, wife, friend, crafter, artist, woman and now widow, and to examine how identity strongly intersects with memory and place. Comprising large-scale textiles, small embroideries, paintings, photographs, video and documented performative works, Farago’s ideas are deeply informed by her personal memories and personal experiences alongside those of others, including Indigenous Elders, Indigenous and non-Indigenous rangers and locals connected to specific sites and places. Anna Farago’s exhibition and recent work constitute the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led research project for a Masters Award at the Arts Academy, School of Arts, Federation University Australia. Anna Farago is supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Fee-Offset Scholarship through Federation University Australia. Image: Anna Farago Mapped Grief (still), 2019 (detail), Archival pigment print H150 x W100 cm Photo: Siri Hayes. Courtesy the artist.
- Authors: Farago, Anna
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Friday 14th June - Saturday 29th June 2019. Anna Farago uses various creative methods to explore her identity as daughter, sister, mother, wife, friend, crafter, artist, woman and now widow, and to examine how identity strongly intersects with memory and place. Comprising large-scale textiles, small embroideries, paintings, photographs, video and documented performative works, Farago’s ideas are deeply informed by her personal memories and personal experiences alongside those of others, including Indigenous Elders, Indigenous and non-Indigenous rangers and locals connected to specific sites and places. Anna Farago’s exhibition and recent work constitute the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led research project for a Masters Award at the Arts Academy, School of Arts, Federation University Australia. Anna Farago is supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Fee-Offset Scholarship through Federation University Australia. Image: Anna Farago Mapped Grief (still), 2019 (detail), Archival pigment print H150 x W100 cm Photo: Siri Hayes. Courtesy the artist.
NAIDOC 2017 : Inside-out dreaming
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 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.
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 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.
The Road Back
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 18th September - 9th November 2018. The Road Back featuring the work of Nicole Moorhouse is an exhibition of intriguing paintings that feature intricate patterning and shapes rendered with a bold colour palette. Ordinary objects are the basis for new forms and compositions that entice the viewer to consider a meaning or narrative of what they see. The paintings trace the artist’s journey from her earliest discoveries and explorations to exhibiting professionally.
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 18th September - 9th November 2018. The Road Back featuring the work of Nicole Moorhouse is an exhibition of intriguing paintings that feature intricate patterning and shapes rendered with a bold colour palette. Ordinary objects are the basis for new forms and compositions that entice the viewer to consider a meaning or narrative of what they see. The paintings trace the artist’s journey from her earliest discoveries and explorations to exhibiting professionally.
Indwelling : A story in Fresco
- Authors: Chappell, Annette
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 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
- Authors: Chappell, Annette
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 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
- Grenfell, Sara, Smith, Alistair
- Authors: Grenfell, Sara , Smith, Alistair
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 18th-20th May 2017, Helen McPherson Smith Theatre Writer Michael Griffith Composer Dallas Rayner Performed by Second Year Music Theatre Company of the Arts Academy Director Sara Grenfell Musical Director Alistair Smith Magpie, set in Melbourne, is written by tram driver and aspiring playwright Michael Griffith. Eight years ago Griffith kept passing this old homeless man in Kew. The man wore several layers of grubby red clothes. To Michael he looked like a character from an Opera. Then, when the choir of hard-knocks premiered Michael realised that if someone rich wanted to join them they would have to pretend to be homeless, and to do that they would need an instructor. Or rather, he realised, this was ‘My Fair Lady’ backwards. He could see it all and knew immediately that it was a musical. Trouble was, he'd never written a song and he couldn't play an instrument, and because his children were still young, his family were surviving on a single income so even if he did possess the skills, he didn't have the time to write a musical. So he decided to follow his head's advice, and ignore it. But the story was too strong and he finally gave in and began writing. Working with music teacher Dallas Rayner, the pair have secretly laboured over the piece through a development at Carlton’s La Mama Theatre and now at Federation University’s Arts Academy. “Magpie could be set anywhere in the world, for its themes are currently both universal and old. It’s a story celebrating the strength of love, then that will be thanks to the perch it was offered by this special University, who allowed Sara Grenfell, Magpie’s determined director to harness the talent and commitment of this gorgeous group of vibrant students,” Michael Griffith said. “Creating a new work of theatre can be at times frustrating and arduous, but ultimately a rewarding and exciting experience. The second year musical theatre students have embraced the project that is Magpie completely. “It has provided a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in a real Australia story that is also universal. They have created real people/ characters that they can identify with. Working with the writer has given the Actors a real insight as to how a piece is put together in order to help facilitate and realise the writer's vision. This is a collaborative process. It has been an invaluable experience for the students, they have learnt so much,” says director Sara Grenfell.
The Messengers
- Authors: Drendel, Graeme
- Date: 2020
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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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
- Authors: Drendel, Graeme
- Date: 2020
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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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
An invader's guide to the British Isles
- Authors: Ferry, David
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Lying on the coffee table are picture books that tell us all we need to know about Britain: its history and geography combined. This printed matter supplies the artist David Ferry with both his subject and his raw material. Guides of the nation’s heritage imagine an innocent landscape where the manners and attitudes of the genteel middle classes of England prevail. Into these Ferry has inserted cut out images from neighbouring picture books that demonstrate the practices of the active hobbyist. Woollen garments adorn figures from British history; tropical fish swim through the great halls of stately mansions; rock climbers ascend national monuments; and confectioners bake their own public art works. The consequence of these additions is humorous undermining of an accepted narrative. Providing a survey of David Ferry’s continued visual exploration of guides to British Heritage, this exhibition features work from series that span twenty-five years. The picture books, found in charity shops, are first subjected to simple cut and paste tampering; this is then refined through printmaking processes both traditional and digital. Resultant artist books and prints demonstrate a consistency of address that pokes fun at the polite and confident assertions of the conservative viewpoint. David Ferry RE, is Emeritus Professor of Printmaking at Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, RE, and printmaking consultant for the Sidney Nolan Trust in the UK. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions in Berlin, China, London, New York, Poznan and Seoul. His work can be found in public and corporate collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Ashmolean, Oxford; Art Institute of Chicago; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He is also included in many international university collections, and the libraries of Cambridge, Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh, and the British Library London. David Ferry is a Pollock/Krasner Grantee from New York. David Ferry is represented by Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Booklyn is the premier gallery and protagonists in the USA for the promotion and impact of the genre of the artists Book and very well known on the Australian museum and state library circuit As a gallery and promoters of the genre, Booklyn has been a powerful presence in events such as Photo-Melbourne and Photo-Sydney. A considerable amount of contemporary American/international 'book arts' placed in national institutions in Australia have been sourced originally through Booklyn, and through the presence of one of the senior directors, Marshall Weber, a regular visitor to Australia, particularly Melbourne. Weber was recently artist in residence at the Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne and Creative Consultant for the Australian National Veterans Art Museum. Marshall Weber's works are represented in private and public Australian Collections, including the Australian War Memorial and the State Libraries of Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales. booklyn.org Image: Standing Form No 3, 2015 Public Sculpture in England series 2015/16 digital archive print with stencil & varnish with gold leaf 594 x 841mm Courtesy the artist and Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY. Exhibition held at Post Office Gallery, Ballarat - 26 Oct – Sun 20 Nov 2016
- Description: Lying on the coffee table are picture books that tell us all we need to know about Britain: its history and geography combined. This printed matter supplies the artist David Ferry with both his subject and his raw material. Guides of the nation’s heritage imagine an innocent landscape where the manners and attitudes of the genteel middle classes of England prevail. Into these Ferry has inserted cut out images from neighbouring picture books that demonstrate the practices of the active hobbyist. Woollen garments adorn figures from British history; tropical fish swim through the great halls of stately mansions; rock climbers ascend national monuments; and confectioners bake their own public art works. The consequence of these additions is humorous undermining of an accepted narrative. Providing a survey of David Ferry’s continued visual exploration of guides to British Heritage, this exhibition features work from series that span twenty-five years. The picture books, found in charity shops, are first subjected to simple cut and paste tampering; this is then refined through printmaking processes both traditional and digital. Resultant artist books and prints demonstrate a consistency of address that pokes fun at the polite and confident assertions of the conservative viewpoint. David Ferry RE, is Emeritus Professor of Printmaking at Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, RE, and printmaking consultant for the Sidney Nolan Trust in the UK. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions in Berlin, China, London, New York, Poznan and Seoul. His work can be found in public and corporate collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Ashmolean, Oxford; Art Institute of Chicago; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He is also included in many international university collections, and the libraries of Cambridge, Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh, and the British Library London. David Ferry is a Pollock/Krasner Grantee from New York. David Ferry is represented by Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Booklyn is the premier gallery and protagonists in the USA for the promotion and impact of the genre of the artists Book and very well known on the Australian museum and state library circuit As a gallery and promoters of the genre, Booklyn has been a powerful presence in events such as Photo-Melbourne and Photo-Sydney. A considerable amount of contemporary American/international 'book arts' placed in national institutions in Australia have been sourced originally through Booklyn, and through the presence of one of the senior directors, Marshall Weber, a regular visitor to Australia, particularly Melbourne. Weber was recently artist in residence at the Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne and Creative Consultant for the Australian National Veterans Art Museum. Marshall Weber's works are represented in private and public Australian Collections, including the Australian War Memorial and the State Libraries of Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales. booklyn.org Image: Standing Form No 3, 2015 Public Sculpture in England series 2015/16 digital archive print with stencil & varnish with gold leaf 594 x 841mm Courtesy the artist and Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY.
- Authors: Ferry, David
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Lying on the coffee table are picture books that tell us all we need to know about Britain: its history and geography combined. This printed matter supplies the artist David Ferry with both his subject and his raw material. Guides of the nation’s heritage imagine an innocent landscape where the manners and attitudes of the genteel middle classes of England prevail. Into these Ferry has inserted cut out images from neighbouring picture books that demonstrate the practices of the active hobbyist. Woollen garments adorn figures from British history; tropical fish swim through the great halls of stately mansions; rock climbers ascend national monuments; and confectioners bake their own public art works. The consequence of these additions is humorous undermining of an accepted narrative. Providing a survey of David Ferry’s continued visual exploration of guides to British Heritage, this exhibition features work from series that span twenty-five years. The picture books, found in charity shops, are first subjected to simple cut and paste tampering; this is then refined through printmaking processes both traditional and digital. Resultant artist books and prints demonstrate a consistency of address that pokes fun at the polite and confident assertions of the conservative viewpoint. David Ferry RE, is Emeritus Professor of Printmaking at Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, RE, and printmaking consultant for the Sidney Nolan Trust in the UK. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions in Berlin, China, London, New York, Poznan and Seoul. His work can be found in public and corporate collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Ashmolean, Oxford; Art Institute of Chicago; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He is also included in many international university collections, and the libraries of Cambridge, Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh, and the British Library London. David Ferry is a Pollock/Krasner Grantee from New York. David Ferry is represented by Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Booklyn is the premier gallery and protagonists in the USA for the promotion and impact of the genre of the artists Book and very well known on the Australian museum and state library circuit As a gallery and promoters of the genre, Booklyn has been a powerful presence in events such as Photo-Melbourne and Photo-Sydney. A considerable amount of contemporary American/international 'book arts' placed in national institutions in Australia have been sourced originally through Booklyn, and through the presence of one of the senior directors, Marshall Weber, a regular visitor to Australia, particularly Melbourne. Weber was recently artist in residence at the Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne and Creative Consultant for the Australian National Veterans Art Museum. Marshall Weber's works are represented in private and public Australian Collections, including the Australian War Memorial and the State Libraries of Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales. booklyn.org Image: Standing Form No 3, 2015 Public Sculpture in England series 2015/16 digital archive print with stencil & varnish with gold leaf 594 x 841mm Courtesy the artist and Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY. Exhibition held at Post Office Gallery, Ballarat - 26 Oct – Sun 20 Nov 2016
- Description: Lying on the coffee table are picture books that tell us all we need to know about Britain: its history and geography combined. This printed matter supplies the artist David Ferry with both his subject and his raw material. Guides of the nation’s heritage imagine an innocent landscape where the manners and attitudes of the genteel middle classes of England prevail. Into these Ferry has inserted cut out images from neighbouring picture books that demonstrate the practices of the active hobbyist. Woollen garments adorn figures from British history; tropical fish swim through the great halls of stately mansions; rock climbers ascend national monuments; and confectioners bake their own public art works. The consequence of these additions is humorous undermining of an accepted narrative. Providing a survey of David Ferry’s continued visual exploration of guides to British Heritage, this exhibition features work from series that span twenty-five years. The picture books, found in charity shops, are first subjected to simple cut and paste tampering; this is then refined through printmaking processes both traditional and digital. Resultant artist books and prints demonstrate a consistency of address that pokes fun at the polite and confident assertions of the conservative viewpoint. David Ferry RE, is Emeritus Professor of Printmaking at Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, RE, and printmaking consultant for the Sidney Nolan Trust in the UK. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions in Berlin, China, London, New York, Poznan and Seoul. His work can be found in public and corporate collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Ashmolean, Oxford; Art Institute of Chicago; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He is also included in many international university collections, and the libraries of Cambridge, Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh, and the British Library London. David Ferry is a Pollock/Krasner Grantee from New York. David Ferry is represented by Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Booklyn is the premier gallery and protagonists in the USA for the promotion and impact of the genre of the artists Book and very well known on the Australian museum and state library circuit As a gallery and promoters of the genre, Booklyn has been a powerful presence in events such as Photo-Melbourne and Photo-Sydney. A considerable amount of contemporary American/international 'book arts' placed in national institutions in Australia have been sourced originally through Booklyn, and through the presence of one of the senior directors, Marshall Weber, a regular visitor to Australia, particularly Melbourne. Weber was recently artist in residence at the Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne and Creative Consultant for the Australian National Veterans Art Museum. Marshall Weber's works are represented in private and public Australian Collections, including the Australian War Memorial and the State Libraries of Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales. booklyn.org Image: Standing Form No 3, 2015 Public Sculpture in England series 2015/16 digital archive print with stencil & varnish with gold leaf 594 x 841mm Courtesy the artist and Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY.
Fiona Crawford - When you go looking for me, I am not there
- Authors: Crawford, Fiona
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Artwork , Visual art work
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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.
- Authors: Crawford, Fiona
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Artwork , Visual art work
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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.
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.
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Artwork , Visual art work
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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.
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.
- Date: 2020
- Type: Text , Artwork , Visual art work
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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 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
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Artwork , Visual art work
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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
- Authors: Griffin, Tony
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Artwork , Visual art work
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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
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
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Artwork , Visual art work
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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
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
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Artwork , Visual art work
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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
- Authors: Orr, Jill
- Date: 2016
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- Description: Humanity’s survival depends on seed, the ultimate container of life but as climate and consequently environment is changing, seed has become contested ground. Political, scientific, environmental and ethical debate surround both genetically modified seed and its reliance on the global monopoly of a few mega agri-businesses. This is starkly contrasted by localised heritage seed closely guarded for its untampered quality. Both forms of seed production are charged with the task of feeding populations as they grow exponentially into the future. Here lies part of our challenge. Antipodean Epic is a poetic journey that incorporates seed both in abundance and scarcity. The work utilises costume to create three characters, or creatures, as a means to ask: Are the creatures the end of their species, or the beginning of another? Are they displaced or transported viral creations? Are they unwanted interlopers within the seed stock? Are they the carriers of a potential future or remnants of a distant past, or both?