Visual Arts Centre
Upcoming Exhibition
Honours 09
Work by Honours students from the School of Visual Arts and Design.
Exhibition Dates:12 November – 22 December
Particpating artists: Tom Baxte, Bronwyn Beer, Georgia
Cook, Peggy Devlin, Melissa Elliot, Rebecca Giles, Yelarney Hibberd,
Danielle Hobbs, Denise James, Maggie McCathie-Nevile, Paul Morrow, Ricky
Palmer, Alessandra Pedulla, Jeanne-Marie Pienne, Jeff Reynolds, Nicole
Schneider, Helen Turner, Patsy Kileen
Official opening: by Dr James McArdle 14 Nov 2-4pm.
The year spent in Visual Arts or Graphic Design Honours is transformative.
Students enter the year with a three-hundred word proposal and high
aspirations. For the first time they enjoy a sustained period in which
to concentrate solely on the completion of a project of a scale manifested
here in works of ceramics, illustration, painting, installation, sculpture,
drawing, printmaking and photography.
The process of intensive studio
production, and the exhibition each undertook outside the University,
was documented and reflected upon. The producer themselves became the
object of investigation beside the work, leading to an examination
of concept and method and the publication of a significant exegesis;
a survey of their field of investigation and elucidation of their production.
Separately each followed a path along which they encountered the imprint
of others; designers, artists, curators, theorists and commentators,
travelling in the expanding landscape of the visual around them. All
uncovered ideas and points of view which informed them, amongst these
being the irreal, the ‘culture
wars’ around Bill Henson, the symbolism of the butterfly, the battle
on the walls of our streets between commerce and expression, the emotional
potential in the grid, the political cartoon, the distorting mirrors
of racism and visual perception. Some have taken advantage of their status
as Honours researchers to enter into direct dialogue with artists or
designers they admire, so that their writing about others’ and
their own works becomes a valuable primary source.
The teaching and learning
was shared and negotiated, in video-conferenced seminars, across the
School’s
two campuses in Bendigo and Mildura and at mid-year the students gathered
for an intensive two-day critical review, with guests and postgraduate
students joining in. This exhibition and catalogue serves to signify
the transition these determined individuals have made into the profession.
James McArdle
Download full catalogue 1.9MB pdf.
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