2012 EXHIBITIONS
Wes Walters: The Abstract Realist
Wed 19 Dec 2012 - Sat 26 Jan 2013
University of Ballarat Alumni and renowned, award-winning Australian artist Wes Walters' artistic career has spanned over 60 years across a myriad of styles, techniques and approaches. Read more: Wes Walters: The Abstract Realist >
Anne Scott Wilson: Inside Out
Wed 31 Oct - Sat 24 Nov 2012
Melbourne-based artist Anne Scott Wilson often site-specific art practice explores the ways in which meaning is made through motion, primarily using video and photography Read more: Anne Scott Wilson: Inside Out >
Caroline Askew: Hanging Histories
Wed 3 Oct - Sat 27 Oct 2012
Melbourne-based artist Caroline Askew's large-scale kaleidoscopic installations explore memory and nostalgia, questioning and re-evaluating the place of the handmade and handcrafted in a world of the mass-produced object and a consumer-driven society Read more: Caroline Askew: Hanging Histories >
Tarli Glover: Hard Land
Wed 5 Sep - Sat 29 Sep 2012
Tarli Glover's ongoing series of landscape paintings expose the harsher side of the Australian landscape and the aftermath of extreme weather events and environments changed by climatic occurrences of fire, flood, drought and cyclones. Read more: Tarli Glover: Hard Land >
BENCHMARK 2012: selected works by UB undergraduate students
Wed 1 Aug - Sat 1 Sep 2012
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. Read more: BENCHMARK 2012: selected works by UB undergraduate students >
BINDI COLE: Recent Works
Wed 11 Jul - Sat 28 Jul 2012
Combining portrait photography, painting, collage, text, weaving, film, performance, sound and projections, Cole’s work exposes the latent and unspoken power dynamics of Australian culture in the here and now. She subtly but powerfully reveals some uncomfortable truths about the fundamental disconnection between who we are, the communities and identities by which we shape our sense of self and how the prevailing culture attempts to place and define us. Read more: BINDI COLE: Recent Works >
MARKS 12: Ballarat Visual Art Secondary Teachers
Wed 13 June - Sat 30 June 2012
Wed 13 June - Sat 30 June 2012 Read more: MARKS 12: Ballarat Visual Art Secondary Teachers >
PHIL BERRY: Mates & Milkshakes
2 May - 13 May 2012
Philip Berry’s work brings to life the iconic Australian corner store - the local provedore selling everything from a bottle of milk to a pack of cigarettes to a range of small goods. Once a hub and important landmark within the community, abuzz with conversation and ablaze with advertising slogans, they stood like social beacons amid the drab, dull endless sprawl of suburbia. Celebrating these abandoned often reused or reappointed places, Berry’s work not only highlights the disappearance of the personable local proprietors and their conjoined shop residences, but also the sense of community that has disappeared with them. Read more: PHIL BERRY: Mates & Milkshakes >
STEPHEN DAVIDSON: Island Relics
28 Mar - 28 Apr 2012
Stephen Davidson’s new body of work constantly poses the question “Where are we now?”, “Where do we want to be?” and “What will our legacy be after we have gone?” His marooned, rocky island outcrops which stand isolated, devoid of life, lapped by the changing tides, bear witness to the wild, erosive natural elements of the sun, the wind and the sea but also bear testimony to the corrosive and neglectful results of human activity. Read more: STEPHEN DAVIDSON: Island Relics >
SCOPE 012: Selected works by UB staff & research students
22 Feb - 24 Mar 2012
In the Post Office Gallery's important annual visual arts exhibition, SCOPE 012 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. Read more: SCOPE 012: Selected works by UB staff & research students >
CORPUS: selected works by Art Unlimited
Wed 25 Jan - Sat 4 Feb 2012
Art Unlimited is a professional access studio for artists with a disability situated in the Old Geelong Gaol. The studio provides professional studio facilities and is staffed by qualified, practicing artists. Artists attending the studio are given full autonomy over the nature and subject matter of their work which has resulted in a diverse collection of art. Read more: CORPUS: selected works by Art Unlimited >