2010 EXHIBITIONS
AIR8
20 Oct – 27 Nov 2010
AIR8 brings together the work of eight recent artists-in-residence at the Arts Academy. The exhibition is both a celebration of the achievement of the artists involved, and a chance to reflect on the breadth and depth of the program. More:
UB CERAMICS
24 Sep - 16 Oct 2010
This exhibition showcases a unique selection of sculptural, functional and installation ceramics by diploma and degree students at the University of Ballarat. More:
JACKIE GORRING: ARTSISTAN
21 Jul – 31 Jul 2010
Over the last 35 years, I have worked mainly in printmaking, sculpture and drawing. My ideas are always exploring aspects of people, place and more recently, aspects of aging. These investigations have led me to experiment with a range of mediums and techniques including the use oil pastels in conjunction with collagraphs, unconventional printing blocks and surfaces, which include scouring pads, gravel, polystyrene and pipe cleaners and transparent printing ink with multi layered backgrounds, colours and textures. More:
JULIE HERON: PERFORMING IN THE SPACES BETWEEN
23 Jun – 3 Jul 2010
The uncertain performance of an aging self as an individual and social construction moving in the spaces between the known and the unknown, between practices as artist, PhD researcher, writer and teacher, underpins the installation. Installation references mixed perspectives as artist/researcher, teacher and writer addressing and questioning her own and social constructions of the post-menopausal self through art and research. More:
LOUISE FOWLER-SMITH: NEW PERCEPTIONS : SACRED TREES
2 Jun – 19 Jun 2010
As an environmentally concerned artist, the most recent work of Louise Fowler-Smith focuses on the veneration of trees, a subject she was drawn to not only for the magnitude of its environmental significance but also its universal and pan-religious symbolic importance. Louise’s investigation and resultant work has spanned two continents, Australia and India. More:
CHRISTOPHER HEADLEY: REFLECTIONS
19 May – Sat 29 May 2010
Headley based himself in the ceramics studio whilst artist-in-residence at the Arts Academy, University of Ballarat in 2009. During his residency Chris was spotted dragging his ceramic figures and photographic equipment across mullock heaps near Ullina, around Lake Wendouree and inside the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery where he was photographing Mount Warrenheip. More:
ECLECTIC YIELD
28 Apr – 15 May 2010
Over the past 20 years a range of works have been acquired by the Directors of TAFE from the EYE (End of Year) exhibition from the Diploma of Ceramics and Visual Arts for the University of Ballarat Permanent Collection. More:
EDWARD COLERIDGE: TILTING AT WINDMILLS
28 Apr – 15 May 2010
Edward Coleridge’s work investigates the identity and meaning of the real and painted landscape of Western Victoria – and the aesthetic value of the intrusions thereon. More:
MICHAEL GRANT: PRELUDE
24 Mar – 24 Apr 2010
During 2008 and 2009, Michael Grant undertook a personal pilgrimage to the battlefields of Papua New Guinea, in particular, to attempt to understand events that took place during the Second World War. In this exhibition, in a series of portrait and landscape paintings, Michael interprets and expresses a very personal, visual response to significant historical events, loss and remembrance. More: