https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2014/making-of-meaning Mixed media works by Anne Bennett arising from the printmaking Artist-in-Residence program at the Arts Academy, Federation University Australia. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2014/benchmark-2014 Arts Academy students across all disciplines within the visual arts, in second, third and honours level of the diploma and degree course present their recent work in the Gallery's annual student exhibition BENCHMARK. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2014/page-print-post PAGE.PRINT.POST: 50 years of Artists Books curated by Debbie Hill and Geoff Wallis, offers a rare insight and overview of the development, range and ambition of the Artists Book over half a century. Featuring books, postal art and other 'alternative spaces' from the 1960s to the 1980s, the exhibition presents a range of significant works from a host of private and public collections in Australia and the UK. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/lucato-peace-prize/lucato-peace-prize-2014 Established in 2004, generously supported by My George Lucato, the Lucato Peace Prize is an annual acquisitive art award open to all enrolled Federation University Australia tertiary students and all senior secondary students enrolled at any city of Ballarat secondary school or college. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2013/airspace-emma-stoneman-and-antonietta-covino-beehre airSPACE: Emma Stoneman and Antonietta Covino-Beehre have developed their recent body of work in 2013 whilst Artists-in-Residence at the Arts Academy, Federation University Australia. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2013/lucato-peace-prize-2013 Lucato Peace Prize 2013: Established at Federation University Australia in 2004, the Lucato Peace Prize is offered annually with the generous support of Mr George Lucato. The Prize is an annual acquisitive award, open to all enrolled Federation University Australia students and senior secondary students enrolled at a City of Ballarat secondary school or college. The winner of the Lucato Peace Prize is decided annually by a formal judging panel and is awarded to the student whose work best illustrates or expresses 'peaceful alternatives are always preferable to armed confrontations'. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/about-the-gallery The Post Office Gallery is committed to providing an outstanding educational resource and presenting an innovative exhibition programme, encouraging diverse audiences while creating strong links with the local and broader community. The Gallery?s changing exhibition programme features works of art by FedUni's Arts Academy students and staff, local and emerging Australian artists and recent acquisitions from FedUni?s extensive Art and Historical Permanent Collection. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a national acquisitive $20,000 contemporary art prize which presents a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/lucato-peace-prize Lucato peace prize https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/education The Post Office Gallery provides free talks surrounding current exhibitions. Enquiries and bookings are invited by secondary and tertiary level teachers. Prior bookings are required for guided or unguided groups. Class sizes are limited to 25 students. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/permanent-collection Permanent collection https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/contact Contact us at the Post Office Gallery, Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Victoria. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2012/the-abstract-realist The Abstract Realist: 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. From his early accomplished position as a commercial illustrator and designer, to a successful career as a visual artist, Walters has held many exhibitions with significant achievements, commissions and awards. Winner of the 1979 Archibald Prize for his Portrait of Phillip Adams, Walters has painted over 200 portraits of many notable Australians including Senator Neville Bonner, Sir Donald Bradman and Dame Elisabeth Murdoch. Walters was awarded the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery Minnie Crouch Watercolour Prize in 1953 and1956. His work is held in numerous national, state and regional galleries, universities, libraries and private collections worldwide. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2012/anne-scott-wilson Inside Out: 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. Her works aim to evoke an emotional response from the viewer, involving a haptic physicality and a somnambulistic body ? the intuitive body that houses all memory of movement, voluntary and involuntary in reaction and response to space. Following her recent work using light, colour and pinhole cameras, Wilson created new architectural interventions at the Post Office Gallery, bringing the outside in and taking the inside out, altering and reconfiguring the space with light and colour. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2014/naidoc-2014 NAIDOC 2014: Our Country Our Culture Our Community Indigenous artists from Hopkins Correctional Facility and Langi Kal Kal present their recent work including poetry, writing, painting and drawing in an exhibition exploring a range of themes and ideas in celebration of NAIDOC, 2014. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2014/myriad-thoughts Myriad Thoughts: Kim Anderson Kim Anderson's practice reflects her love of the art of drawing and observation. Drawing in intricate detail, she is attracted to the detritus and the discarded, the incidental and the residual - things half forgotten or things not often noticed. An inveterate collector of words, images and objects, stored away in boxes, jars, folders and online, her wunderkammer of curiosities and treasures inform her small and large scale works on paper and wall surfaces. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2014/upon-return Upon Return Carole Wilson's signatory hand-cut collaged works on paper which result in highly decorative wall installations, reference both the historical and the contemporary, while investigating the various approaches to pattern and decoration evident in art, architecture and artefacts from the Etruscan through to the Roman, medieval, Renaissance and contemporary era. Strongly influenced by her artist residency in 2012 in a restored 10th century church in Tuscany, Italy, Wilson's recent body of work and exhibition Scala includes her signatory use of the 'map', while referencing various interpretations and meditations on this and other travel experiences. Loris Button's works on Korean, Japanese and her own handmade papers, continue her exploration of the ways in which individuals in contemporary Western culture deal with ageing and mortality. Drawn to the concept of 'vanitas' as exemplified in 17th century Dutch still life painting, her works are further influenced by reflections on the spiritual foundations of both Korean and Indian cultures, embedded in deep time. Button's acute sense of observation and highly skilled use of line and pattern, coupled with the fragility of the handmade paper, imbue a sense of serenity and material meaning on this reflection on the transience of life. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2014/delve DELVE: Masters and PhD research students at the Arts Academy, Ballarat, presented their recent work at the Post Office Gallery in an exhibition which reflects diverse ideas and bold approaches to their work and chosen field of inquiry. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2014/scope-14 SCOPE 14: Visual arts staff and research associates The Post Office Gallery's very popular annual survey exhibition showcased practising contemporary artists who are lecturers or research associates of the Arts Academy, Ballarat and for the first year visual arts lecturers at Gippsland Campus in the mix! Artists included Lisa Anderson, Rosalind Atkins (& Ex de Medici), Phil Berry, Loris Button, Graeme Drendel, Rodney Forbes, Alister Heighway, Debbie Hill, Julian Holcroft, Paul Mah, Ben Mangan, Sanne Mestrom, Jill Orr, Jimmy Pasakos, Peter Pilven, Susan Purdy, Ewen Ross and Carole Wilson. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2014/eureka-art-award-2014 Ballarat Arts Foundation will announce the winner of the 2014 Eureka Art Award of $1000 at the Foundation's exhibition to be presented at the Post Office Gallery, Federation University Australia, Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2014/papermade Developed as a result of staff members' international residencies, this exhibition showcases the work of undergraduate degree students from both Federation University Australia, Arts Academy, Ballarat, Victoria and Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Following the Post Office Gallery exhibition in Ballarat, the work will then tour to START Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem in April/May 2015. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/ash-keating The winner of the 2013 Guirguis New Art Prize was Ash Keating for his work West Park Proposition, 2012. He works across a conceptual, site-responsive and often collaborative art practice that incorporates painting, sculpture, installation, video, performance and public interventions, and has referenced a wide range of social and environmental issues within his art. Frequently working beyond the gallery, and often harnessing community narrative and energy, Keating?s work also draws upon myth, ritual and ceremony. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/ash-keating/2013-guirguis-new-art-prize/bonnie-lane Bonnie Lane: Working primarily in video and video installation, Bonnie Lane?s practice has included video projection onto objects and unusual surfaces (such as water, fog, mirrors, furniture) in an attempt to make the inanimate come alive. Loops, repetition, circles and black voids reoccur as an autobiographical expression of anxiety, fear, loss and disappointment. Her creations become sculptural forms on continual loop with no beginning, middle or end, creating the sense of a virtual environment to be stepped into. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2013/jeff-woodger-channelling-romantic-landscapes Jeff Woodger: Channelling Romantic Landscapes: Jeff Woodger's passion is to paint post romantic landscapes in the classical style. His majestic panoramic works are deeply inspired by many of the seventeenth century greats such as Claude Lorraine and Salvator Rosa. However, while Woodger's interests lie in tradition and cultural history, he actively reconfigures these majestic places superimposing his own newly revised contemporary reality. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2013/vikki-nash-revealing-the-essence-of-the-sacred Vikki Nash: Revealing the Essence of the Sacred examines the archetypal forms of the dot, the cross, and the mandorla ? the almond shaped form that appears at the overlap of two circles and traceable throughout history and across cultures. Working intuitively, Vikki Nash takes the approach that what she distils in her art making and in these archetypal forms has great transformative powers, especially when synthesised with active spiritual practices. Her research also aims to remind the spectator of a gentle but resolutely held place of metaphysical truth within us. This body of work has been presented for Vikki Nash's Masters of Art (Fine Art) completion. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2013/top-picks Showcasing a broad range of work recently donated or acquired for Federation University's Permanent Collection, significant artists include; Gareth Sansom, Peter Blizzard, Deborah Klein, Alun Leach-Jones, Geoffrey Ricardo, Carole Wilson, Herbert Flugelman, David Green, Peter Georgakis, Noirin Wojciechowski, Deanne Gilson, Barbara Davidson, Alice Dennis, Jorg Schmeiser, John Braisted McKinnon Robinson and Ash Keating, winner of the inaugural Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP). https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2013/ballarat-international-foto-biennale-2013 Ballarat International Foto Biennale: Ayala Gazit was born in Haifa, Israel in 1984 and raised in Tel Aviv by an American mother and an Israeli father. After Ayala was told by her father at the age of 12 that she had an older brother whose name was James, she became obsessed with finding him. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2013/benchmark BENCHMARK 2013: University of Ballarat, Arts Academy pick of the bunch across all disciplines within the Visual Arts, in second, third and Honours level of the Degree and Diploma course showcased their current work, presenting a diverse range of themes, ideas, materials, methods and approaches to their subject. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2013/naidoc NAIDOC 2013: Inside Indigenous Perspectives: Indigenous artists from Hopkins Correctional Facility and Langi Kal Kal presented their recent work, which included poetry and writing, painting and drawing in an exhibition exploring broad themes and ideas, celebrating their NAIDOC, 2013. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2013/lend-up-your-ears Jen McKnight: Lend up your Ears: Jennifer McKnight is a designer who creates work for print and screen. Her work explores the boundaries between design and mixed-media art. Interested in ?hybrids?, she creates images that capture life in a state of flux. Her recent body of work and poster series focuses on recordings which she sees as a means to exploring the intangible and understanding alternative ways of learning. She is also interested in our relationship with reading and the written and spoken word and how this is now changing. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2013/guirguis-new-art-prize-2013 The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a national acquisitive $20,000 contemporary art prize which presents a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists with works that explore and embrace new ways of artistic expression, utilising existing mediums and new technologies in innovative ways. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2013/scope-13 SCOPE 13: University of Ballarat, Arts Academy Visual Arts staff, Research Associates and candidates showcased their recent work in the Gallery?s annual survey exhibition showcasing a broad range of themes and ideas across a range of media including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, design, ceramics and printmaking. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2013/the-kimonos-journey The Kimono's Journey : Function to Art: Local artist Maria Cook has a passion for textiles and stitch. She has been collecting vintage kimonos for years, drawn to the unique designs, types of weave and dyes, together with the special stories and history. Important to her creative journey and Imbued in each work is the symbolic union of east and west, coupled with a sense of renewal and new life she is able to create. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2012/hanging-histories Hanging Histories: 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. In reworking and re-assigning these handcrafted objects she not only honours the labours and the memory of unknown women but also creates new narratives and new levels of complex meaning. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2012/hard-land Hard Land: 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. Her sparse, minimalist canvases map and etch out fictional terrains with roads, tracks, built structures and vehicles, capturing the openness of space peculiar to the landscapes of regional and inland Australia. Tarli Glover was the Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Academy, University of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/lucato-peace-prize/lucato-peace-prize-2013 Lucato Peace Prize 2013: Established at Federation University Australia in 2004, the Lucato Peace Prize is offered annually with the generous support of Mr George Lucato. The Prize is an annual acquisitive award, open to all enrolled Federation University Australia students and senior secondary students enrolled at a City of Ballarat secondary school or college. The winner of the Lucato Peace Prize is decided annually by a formal judging panel and is awarded to the student whose work best illustrates or expresses 'peaceful alternatives are always preferable to armed confrontations'. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/ash-keating/2013-guirguis-new-art-prize/darren-sylvester Darren Sylvester?s multidisciplinary practice involves photography, sculpture, video, music and performance. Usually involving a wide range of pop culture elements and narratives, each medium is given a high-end production sheen or twist to be transformed into a discussion on contemporary ennui, pathos and mortality. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/ash-keating/2013-guirguis-new-art-prize/david-rosetzky David Rosetzky works predominantly in video and photographic formats, creating scenarios in which human behaviour, identity, subjectivity, contemporary culture and community come under intimate observation. He has been making portraits since the early 1990s, using the format to explore relationships between interiority and exteriority, reality and fantasy, authenticity and artificiality. Technically and aesthetically precise, Rosetzky's work is stylised, moody and strikingly beautiful and resembles the idealised images found in high-end advertising and screen culture. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/ash-keating/2013-guirguis-new-art-prize/fergus-binns Fergus Binns is a conceptual painter whose work has explored depictions of colonial Australia, national identity, the environment, art history, consumerism and popular culture. His large and small-scale multi-narrative paintings have the capacity to merge reality with fantasy while reflecting significant local and global environmental issues surrounding human negligence, frailty and our capacity for denial. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/ash-keating/2013-guirguis-new-art-prize/petrina-hicks While Petrina Hicks works primarily with people, her works transcend the boundaries of portraiture as she finds beauty in perceived imperfections and renders idealised beauty strange. While her images of adolescents elegantly capture the ambiguities of youth, her digital interventions are almost imperceptible, creating instead a polished hyper-reality. These subtle contrasts within the image play with the capacity of photography for dual capacities as both a revealer of truths and a perpetrator of lies, embracing the scope of what it means to be human. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/ash-keating/2013-guirguis-new-art-prize/rebecca-baumann Rebecca Baumann?s practice spans across a range of media including sculpture, installation and performance, using abstraction, colour, repletion and other formal qualities to explore philosophical concerns relating to the nature of emotion, perception, the self and consciousness. From kinetic assemblages to still imagery, Baumann?s works create a space to consider what it means to be human. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/ash-keating/2013-guirguis-new-art-prize/angelica-mesiti Angelica Mesiti predominantly works in video installation, with a particular interest in performance and dance. For several years she has developed performances for video in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds across the globe. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/ash-keating/2013-guirguis-new-art-prize/angelica-mesiti3 Paul Yore?s multidisciplinary practice involves installations, painting, sculpture, sound, drawing and tapestry. His playful, imaginative and fantastical work investigates constructions of culture, place and identity. Yore erects imaginary worlds from a jumble of materials including fountains, kinetic sculptures, decorated objects, colourful detritus and natural items to form hybrid installations. His mystical interventions employ absurdity and joy as beneficial responses to being confronted with meaninglessness, hopelessness and apathy. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/ash-keating/2013-guirguis-new-art-prize/angelica-mesiti4 Richard Lewer works across mediums including drawing, painting video and animation. Often using found materials Lewer references place together with critiquing the beautiful and/or sinister aspects of society. As a contemporary ?social realist?, Lewer is interested in exploring Australian culture, in contrast with other countries he has visited around the globe. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/ash-keating/2013-guirguis-new-art-prize/angelica-mesiti2 Brendan Van Hek?s work often takes the form of installations. These vary in tone and scale, shifting from the industrial and minimal to the opulent and colourful. Influenced by popular culture, literature and the diverse and varied sources that affect cultural producers today, his work emerges from narratives located in personal history, fiction and cultural politics. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2015/scope15-arts-academy-visual-arts-staff-and-research-associates In the Post Office Gallery’s important annual Visual Arts exhibition, in 2015 SCOPE promises to present a rich cross-section of work by practicing visual artists who lecture in the Visual Arts in Art History, Painting, Drawing, Graphic Design, Printmaking and Ceramics at the Arts Academy or undertake significant roles as Visual Arts Research Associates. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/GNAP15/2015/chris-barry-nt The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a national, biennial, acquisitive, $20.000 contemporary Art Prize, which showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists with works that explore and embrace new ways of artistic expression utilising existing mediums and new technologies in innovative ways. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/GNAP15/2015/chris-bond-vic The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a national, biennial, acquisitive, $20.000 contemporary Art Prize, which showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists with works that explore and embrace new ways of artistic expression utilising existing mediums and new technologies in innovative ways. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/GNAP15/2015/susan-jacobs-vic The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a national, biennial, acquisitive, $20.000 contemporary Art Prize, which showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists with works that explore and embrace new ways of artistic expression utilising existing mediums and new technologies in innovative ways. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/GNAP15/2015/ross-manning-qld The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a national, biennial, acquisitive, $20.000 contemporary Art Prize, which showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists with works that explore and embrace new ways of artistic expression utilising existing mediums and new technologies in innovative ways. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/GNAP15/2015/dylan-martorell-vic The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a national, biennial, acquisitive, $20.000 contemporary Art Prize, which showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists with works that explore and embrace new ways of artistic expression utilising existing mediums and new technologies in innovative ways. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/GNAP15/2015/pilar-mata-dupont-wa The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a national, biennial, acquisitive, $20.000 contemporary Art Prize, which showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists with works that explore and embrace new ways of artistic expression utilising existing mediums and new technologies in innovative ways. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/GNAP15/2015/kate-mitchell-nsw The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a national, biennial, acquisitive, $20.000 contemporary Art Prize, which showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists with works that explore and embrace new ways of artistic expression utilising existing mediums and new technologies in innovative ways. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/GNAP15/2015/teelah-george-wa The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a national, biennial, acquisitive, $20.000 contemporary Art Prize, which showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists with works that explore and embrace new ways of artistic expression utilising existing mediums and new technologies in innovative ways. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/GNAP15/2015/julie-gough-tas The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a national, biennial, acquisitive, $20.000 contemporary Art Prize, which showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists with works that explore and embrace new ways of artistic expression utilising existing mediums and new technologies in innovative ways. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/GNAP15 The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a national, biennial, acquisitive, $20.000 contemporary Art Prize, which showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists with works that explore and embrace new ways of artistic expression utilising existing mediums and new technologies in innovative ways. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/GNAP15/2015/jess-johnson-vic The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a national, biennial, acquisitive, $20.000 contemporary Art Prize, which showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists with works that explore and embrace new ways of artistic expression utilising existing mediums and new technologies in innovative ways. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/GNAP15/2015/conrad-tipungwuti-nt The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a national, biennial, acquisitive, $20.000 contemporary Art Prize, which showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists with works that explore and embrace new ways of artistic expression utilising existing mediums and new technologies in innovative ways. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/GNAP15/2015/dominic-redfern-vic The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a national, biennial, acquisitive, $20.000 contemporary Art Prize, which showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists with works that explore and embrace new ways of artistic expression utilising existing mediums and new technologies in innovative ways. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/GNAP15/2015/mark-shorter-nsw The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a national, biennial, acquisitive, $20.000 contemporary Art Prize, which showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists with works that explore and embrace new ways of artistic expression utilising existing mediums and new technologies in innovative ways. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/GNAP15/2015/jemima-wyman-qld The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a national, acquisitive, biennial $20.000 contemporary Art Prize, which showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists with works that explore and embrace new ways of artistic expression utilising existing mediums and new technologies in innovative ways. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2015/a-relic-of-memories In her upcoming Masters Examination exhibition, Relic of Memories, Noirin presents a series of watercolours on paper that act as an exposition into memory, nostalgia and longing as it relates to the potency and symbolism of place. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2015/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a national acquisitive $20,000 contemporary art prize which presents a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists with works that explore and embrace new ways of artistic expression, utilising existing mediums and new technologies in innovative ways. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2015/cody-joy-meeting-point Drawing is recognised as a direct and sensitive method of revealing the artist’s state of being. It is an immediate form of expression that reveals its own process of creation, moment to moment as it is made. Therefore, drawing suits an exploration of self in its ever changing, moment to moment state of development and has been used to combine, record and express different aspects of experience. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/email-sign-up-form Interested parties can sign up to the Post Office Gallery email list to obtain notice about forthcoming events. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2015/benchmark-2015 BENCHMARK showcases an outstanding mix of works including photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed media, ceramics, film and printmaking and provides insight into young people’s ideas, thinking and forms of creative practice. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2015/laraine-peters-through-a-glass-darkly Laraine Peters’ recent drawn studies express her interest in the analysis of Stromatolites that date back some 3.5 billion years and Cyanobacteria, believed to be the progenitors of all life forms on earth. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2015/ballarat-international-foto-biennale-2015-core-program Sam Harris started his career in London in 1990 photographing editorial portraits and sleeve art for numerous recording artists. His art practice evolved into one of London’s leading young portrait and reportage photographers, regularly shooting international assignments for leading UK publications, record labels and design studios. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/subscribe Subscribe https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2015/wendy-bolger-journeying-along-fence-lines WENDY BOLGER: JOURNEYING ALONG FENCE LINES https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2015/erin-mccuskey-luxville-delusion ERIN MCCUSKEY: LUXVILLE DELUSION https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2015/wall-paper WALL | PAPER brings together six artists working on and with paper encompassing drawing, printmaking and sculpture. A meticulous and methodical approach to art-making is shared by all, along with repeated forms, marks and motifs around an individual singular focus. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2017/scope-2017 SCOPE, FedUni's Arts Academy important annual exhibition showcases an inspired and rich mix of accomplished work by visual arts staff, research associates and associate and adjunct professors. The exhibition highlights the staff's ongoing commitment to a sustained, rigorous art practice across a broad range of approaches and media including ceramics, painting, photography, design, drawing and printmaking. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap17/2017/abdul-abdullah GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP17 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. The GNAP17 judge is Simon Maidment, Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap17/2017/joel-arthur-act GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP17 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. The GNAP17 judge is Simon Maidment, Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap17/2017/erin-coates-wa3 GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP17 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. The GNAP17 judge is Simon Maidment, Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap17/2017/damp-vic2 GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP17 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. The GNAP17 judge is Simon Maidment, Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap17/2017/carly-fischer-vic GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP17 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap17/2017/natasha-johns-messenger-vic2 GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP17 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap17/2017/jumaadi-nsw GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP17 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap17/2017/julia-mcinerney-sa GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP17 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap17/2017/brian-robinson-qld2 GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP17 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap17/2017/julia-robinson-sa2 GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP17 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap17/2017/alistair-rowe-wa2 GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP17 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap17 GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP17 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap17/2017/esther-stewart-vic2 GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP17 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap17/2017/peter-vandermark-act2 GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP17 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2012/benchmark-2012 BENCHMARK 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2012/bindi-cole-recent-works BINDI COLE: recent works. 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2012/corpus-selected-works-by-art-unlimited CORPUS: selected works by Art Unlimited. 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2012/marks-ballarat-visual-art-secondary-teachers MARKS 12: Ballarat Visual Art Secondary Teachers https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2012/phil-berry-mates-and-milkshakes 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2012/scope-012-selected-works-by-ub-staff-and-research-students 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2012/steve-davidson-island-relics 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2011/aired In 2011, the Post Office Gallery showcased the work of six visual artists who have undertaken a residency at the Arts Academy, University of Ballarat during the previous two years. The artists included Terry Davies, Christopher Headley, Rosalind Lawson, Li-Feng Lo, Anne Scott Wilson and Lars Stenberg. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2011/benchmark BENCHMARK showcases an outstanding mix of works including photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed media, ceramics, film and printmaking and provides insight into young people's ideas, thinking and forms of creative practice. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2011/medley-dan-odonnell Dan O’Donnell’s works over the past few years involve the concept of the “forever moving edge”. In a thematic representation of this idea, in several works he explores a vision of what life would be like if humans and human consumption had a strong contention with another species, such as birds, over living space. The works refer to the effects the “moving edge” has had on the nature that originally occupied the space, the traits of people who now occupy it, and the place it will eventually become. O’Donnell chose birds as a contending species, as they are symbolic of both nature and lack of restrictions, or freedom. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2011/its-a-draw-debbie-hill-and-duncan-lannan ‘It’s A Draw’ features two local artists, Debbie Hill and Duncan Lannan who both use drawing as their medium of choice. While Lannan’s cryptic installations focus on the observed judgement of artists, in particular, in the eye of the art critic, Hill’s narrative works comment on her own personal history, social status and belief systems and the veiled and often unspoken judgement of others. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2011/mapping-place-jessica-schroeter Works in this exhibition form part of Schroeter's Masters folio, in which she seeks to provide a visual representation of the idea of a ‘sense of place.’ The notion of place can be associated with the locations that an individual is drawn back to throughout their lives and for the artist this is her family's business in Winchelsea; the garage that has been a powerful source of visual material and memories of childhood. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2011/surface-john-ferguson This exhibition is a collection of new ceramic work that were influenced by Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and the innovative sculptures of the Japanese/American sculptor Isamu Noguchi immersed within the context of arid Australian environs. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2011/oneiric-veil-kelly-devrome Kelly Devrome’s studio practice is informed by architectural space which she uses as a historic and metaphoric vantage point for the context of her work. Her recent experience as a resident living in Kuwait City in particular has significantly influenced this body of work, of abstract paintings and works on paper. Devrome’s subtle yet rigorous meditation on abstract form evokes a sense of allusive space beyond the surface - of light and shade, deep and flat and absence and presence. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2017/between-the-object-and-the-gaze Deanne’s art practice and current research is concerned with the objectification of Aboriginal women by the male colonial gaze, and how this has affected Aboriginal women and what was known as traditional women’s business. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2011/promenade-mark-graver Mark's current practice involves working with printmaking, digital video and sound with interest concentrated at the point where these approaches meet and cross – the editionable act/event/encounter of pulling a print or screening a film, the re-presenting of this act/event/encounter and its relationship with memory, place and time. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2011/buna-michael-grant This research project draws on the experience of being on the battlefield, and seeks to visually examine the ways in which the landscape has changed since the battle took place. This investigation also examines the inescapable reality of battlefield deaths, with particular emphasis given to those soldiers that remain missing on the battlefield. The resulting artworks are intended to provide a visual means to consider the nature of the ongoing legacies of that conflict. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2011/trace-michael-shiell In this exhibition, working in the field of ephemeral environmental art, Michael Shiell examines the role of photography and the limited application as a documentary outcome. As a visual artist who creates ephemeral environmental art, Michael Shiell’s work and research is concerned with the way in which photography can quickly and relatively easily create a visual record of the created form but its highly refined view of time and space is problematic. Additionally, Shiell considers a sense of disjunction can occur with images captured by the camera, given it is a mechanical intermediary between the work and its representation, counter to the intimate, viscerally known manipulation of materials that occur with a environmental work onsite. Discovering isolated examples of artists using alternative formats to record and document environmental art, informed by the critical engagement with contemporary theoretical concepts, Shiell also explores these alternative image-making techniques. Michael Shiell’s exhibition and recent work constitute the partial fulfilment of requirements of a practice-led research project for a Doctoral Award at the Arts Academy, University of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2011/scope011 The Post Office Gallery's very popular annual survey exhibition showcased practising contemporary artists who are lecturers or research associates of the Arts Academy, Federation University. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2017/annette-chappell-indwelling,-a-story-in-fresco Annette Chappell’s work is a contemporary exploration and transgression of the material form and function of traditional fresco. Drawing upon on-site 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2017/gnap17 GNAP is a $20.000 national, acquisitive, biennial, contemporary art prize administered by Federation University Australia (FedUni)'s Arts Academy, generously supported by local Ballarat surgeon and philanthropist Mr Mark Guirguis, GNAP showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists in Ballarat, Victoria. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2017/naidoc-17 Indigenous artists from Hopkins Correctional Facility and Langi Kal Kal present their recent work including poetry, writing, painting and drawing in an exhibition exploring a range of themes and ideas in celebration of NAIDOC 2017. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2017/mAirIn-nI-shIochAin-a-kinship-of-creatures Máirín Ní Shíocháin’s practice-led research explores questions of interspecies empathy, mutuality and kinship within the context of visual art and espouses an animal advocacy stance within contemporary arts practice. It addresses concerns about the role of animals in contemporary art and proposes that creating art should not subordinate the ethical treatment of animals. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2017/benchmark17 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2017/maziar-moradi-i-am-becoming-german Ich Werde Deutsch (I become German) pictures young people, who were forced to leave their countries to start a new life as immigrants in Germany, as well as those who were born in Germany but have grown up under influence of their family's cultural background. The work is based on the impressions, fears, experiences, fates and losses of the young immigrants, by focusing on the individual circumstances of their lives. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2017/jan-fedder-collection The Jan Feder Collection is on tour from Gippsland Centre for Art and Design (GCAD), Federation University Australia. Jan Feder was an alumna of the Gippsland Campus who studied ceramics. After Jan Feder passed away suddenly, her student peers raised funds to buy ceramic works during the mid 1980s in her memory. Collecting works from visiting lecturers as well as key teaching staff, the Collection grew to become one of great significance holding work by leading ceramic artists from around the globe. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2017/sylvia-hollis The Assumed Divide is an exhibition of small, figurative sculpture works, created in response to an exploration of gender, feminism and relationships. Sylvia Hollis works with the nude human figure for its ability to expose the commonality of physical existence. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2017/arts-academy-alumni-1960s70s Federation University Australia’s Arts Academy wishes to acknowledge the extraordinary achievements of our alumni who studied Visual Arts at Ballarat Technical Art School, Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education, Ballarat College of Advanced Education and Ballarat Teachers’ College, from 1955 up to and including 1979. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2010/air9 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2010/ub-ceramics This exhibition showcases a unique selection of sculptural, functional and installation ceramics by diploma and degree students at the University of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2010/christopher-headley 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! https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2010/david-frazer Works on paper https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2010/eclectic-yield 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2010/edward-coleridge 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2018/scope18 SCOPE, FedUni's Arts Academy important annual exhibition showcases an inspired and rich mix of accomplished work by Visual Arts staff, research associates and associate and adjunct professors. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2018/peter-pilven-and-ruby-pilven Golden Plains is a joint exhibition between local Ballarat ceramic artists and father and daughter duo, Peter and Ruby Pilven. The sculptural works in this exhibition have been influenced by the natural surroundings of the golden plains shire and Ballarat's rich cultural heritage. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2018/alumni 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’. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2018/maryanne-coutts 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2018/naidoc18 FedUni’s Post Office Gallery celebrates NAIDOC 2018 and Australia’s First Nations peoples with two group exhibitions by local indigenous artists in Because of her, we can! alongside, Cooeee!, developed through a unique collaboration between Federation College’s VET Visual Arts program, Langi Kal Kal and Hopkins Correctional Centre. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2018/boaa-biennale-of-australian-art Paris-based Australian artist Heidi Wood’s immersive work will explore her 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2018/delve-postgraduate-research-students DELVE 18 showcases recent work by Masters and PhD research candidates at the School of Arts, Federation University Australia. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2018/ballarat-arts-foundation Established in 2000, through the initiative and generosity of Ballarat South Rotary Club, with ongoing support from the local community, the 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2018/benchmark18 FedUni's Arts Academy's annual exhibition of recent work by Visual Arts students showcases work created by our next hot crop of designers, ceramicists, painters, printmakers and new-media artists, highlighting the breadth and depth of students' levels of material investigations, creative inquiry and visual expression within a broad range of disciplines including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, video, design, mixed-media and installation. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2010/jackie-gorring 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2010/julie-heron 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2010/louise-fowler-smith 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2010/michael-grant 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2018/reload RELOAD: BACK TO THE 80s is a special opportunity to celebrate visual artists who graduated during the period 1980 to 1989. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2019/scope19 SCOPE, FedUni School of Arts' important annual exhibition showcases accomplished work by Visual Arts lecturers, teachers, Research Associates, Associate and Adjunct Professors and Research Fellows. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2019/gnap19 GNAP is a $20.000 national, acquisitive, biennial, contemporary art prize administered by Federation University Australia. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2019/georgia-janetzki Georgia Janetzki’s experimental self-portraiture addresses the personal and at the same time examines the wider community of female artists and the gender balance within our public institutions. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2019/naidoc19 FedUni’s Post Office Gallery celebrates NAIDOC 2019 and Australia’s First Nations peoples. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2019/benchmark19 FedUni's Arts Academy annual exhibition of recent work by Visual Arts students. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2019/bifb19 ‘Soldiers’ is a series of 22 photographs created by one of Israel’s leading photographers Adi Nes, between 1994 and 2000. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2019/anna-farago An exhibition of artwork by Masters candidate Anna Farago. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2020/lauren-murray Masters examination exhibition by Lauren Murray. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap19/2019/benjamin-armstrong-vic GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP19 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap19/2019/amanda-davies-tas GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP19 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap19/2019/janet-fieldhouse-qld GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP19 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap19/2019/caroline-garcia-nsw GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP19 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap19/2019/marie-hagerty-act GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP19 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap19/2019/matt-hinkley-vic GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP19 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap19/2019/naomi-hobson-qld GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP19 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap19 GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP19 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap19/2019/grace-lillian-lee-qld GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP19 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap19/2019/shirley-macnamara-qld GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP19 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap19/2019/karen-mills-qld GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP19 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap19/2019/claudia-moodoonuthi-qld GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP19 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap19/2019/raquel-ormella-act GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP19 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap19/2019/nicola-smith-nsw GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP19 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap19/2019/neridah-stockley-nt GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP19 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap19/2019/tricky-walsh-tas GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP19 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2019/joseph-beuys The work of artist Joseph Beuys https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2019/reverb-back-to-the-90s REVERB: RETURN TO THE 90s is a special opportunity to celebrate visual artists who graduated during the period 1990 to 1999. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2020/scope20 SCOPE, Federation University's School of Arts' important annual exhibition, showcases accomplished work by visual arts lecturers, teachers, research associates, associate and adjunct professors, and research fellows. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2020/graeme-drendel-the-messengers Graeme Drendel’s first solo exhibition in Ballarat, Victoria. The renowned Australian artist presents his intriguing vignettes for which the artist is well known and celebrated. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2021-exhibitions/fiona-crawford-when-you-go-looking-for-me,-i-am-not-there Details of an exhibition by Masters research student Fiona Crawford at the School of Arts, Federation University, Australia. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2020/virtual-eye-arts-academy-end-of-year-online-student-exhibition-2020 Details of an exhibition by Federation University’s Arts Academy current and graduating students from Ballarat and Gippsland campus. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2021-exhibitions/eye2021 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 will be curated at the School of Arts Post Office Gallery following our virtual exhibition launch in 2020. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2021-exhibitions/tony-griffin-shelter-from-the-storm 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. Fiona Crawford is supported by an Australian Research Training Program (RTP) Fee Offset Scholarship through Federation University. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2021-exhibitions/scope21-visual-art-teachers,-lectures-and-honoraries An important Arts Academy annual exhibition, SCOPE 2021 presents 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2021-exhibitions/installation ARTS ACADEMY BALLARAT UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT EXHIBITION https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2021-exhibitions/yapaneypuk-nyini-wowa-together-my-brother YAPANEYPUK NYINI WOWA TOGETHER MY BROTHER 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. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2021-exhibitions/the-fineman-new-photography-award The Fineman New Photography Award Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2021 https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2022-exhibitions/scope22 An important Arts Academy annual exhibition, SCOPE showcases new work by lecturers, teachers, research associates and research fellows, from Federation University's Gippsland and Ballarat campus. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2022-exhibitions/educating-artists This major exhibition to be launched at Federation University’s Post Office Gallery, Ballarat, titled ‘Educating Artists’ will highlight the former Ballarat Technical Art School (BTAS) between 1907 and 1940. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2022-exhibitions/melissa-proposch-how-to-raise-a-ghost Created during a time of the worldwide pandemic and escalating climate crisis, Melissa Proposch’s imagined haunted memories, dreams and associations come together in a series of works and exploration of the fear of the unknown and unseen threat. A conceptual map of the artist’s haunted house and place where her personal ghosts dwell, here Proposch crafts an offering - an invitation to come and convene with her in a form of parallel play. This exhibition constitutes the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led Masters research project at the School of Arts, Federation University, Australia. Melissa Proposch is supported by an Australian Research Training Program (RTP) Fee Offset Scholarship through Federation University. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap19/2019/laresa-kosloff-vic GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP19 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/gnap17/2017/yhonnie-scarce-vic GNAP, a national, biennial, acquisitive, contemporary art exhibition and $20,000 prize, generously sponsored by local surgeon and philanthropist, Mr Mark Guirguis, Administered by Federation University Australia, GNAP17 will be presented at FedUni's Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/GNAP15/2015/louise-hubbard-vic The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a national, biennial, acquisitive, $20.000 contemporary Art Prize, which showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists with works that explore and embrace new ways of artistic expression utilising existing mediums and new technologies in innovative ways. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/ash-keating/2013-guirguis-new-art-prize/ash-keating The winner of the 2013 Guirguis New Art Prize was Ash Keating for his work West Park Proposition, 2012. He works across a conceptual, site-responsive and often collaborative art practice that incorporates painting, sculpture, installation, video, performance and public interventions, and has referenced a wide range of social and environmental issues within his art. Frequently working beyond the gallery, and often harnessing community narrative and energy, Keating?s work also draws upon myth, ritual and ceremony. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2022-exhibitions/benchmark22 Cassie BYRON, Sarah CANHAM, Abbey CODY, Erin COOMANS, Liarne CORKE, Michael CREANEY, Hannah D’ANTONIO, Vanessa DICKSON, Katherine DOUGLAS, Kristen FREEMAN, Angela GERRARD, Greg HORRICKS, Peta KALISPERIS, Clayton KEEFE, Shelia-anne KORS, Kristen LEIGH, Stacy LIVITSANIS, Jasmine MCKAY, Sarah MISCHKER, Tiarna PRATTLEY, Tahlia ROBERTS, Selina ROBERTSON, Ilona TOPOLCSANYI, Travis TRUDGEON In this important Arts Academy annual exhibition, twenty-four undergraduate Visual Arts students showcase their recent work. Here, students explore and experiment with a range of media, expressing complex ideas surrounding politics and society, fantasy and fiction, memory and nostalgia, and the environment across a broad range of disciplines including painting, printmaking, drawing, textiles, ceramics, sculpture and mixed-media. NB: Due to continuing health concerns with the COVID19 pandemic, we strongly recommend visitors to maintain safe social distancing and wear a mask inside the Gallery space. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2022-exhibitions/em-i-body-indonesian-women-artists Showcasing select work by seven contemporary Indonesian women artists, EM I BODY uncovers personal stories and unspoken truths while revealing common states of pride, tenacity and personal endurance. Here, an oversized canvas and stilled imposing woman’s gaze, contrasts with the blurred silhouette and video of a woman behind glass painting herself in and out of the picture. Conversely, depictions of naively painted distorted figures act to reclaim the artist’s body and sexuality, while works created from carbon copies, and from human hair, symbolise the act of protection and nurturing between mother and child. Featuring Audya Amalia, Ayurika, Dita Gambiro, Erika Ernawan, I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih (Murni), Theresia Agustina Sitompul (Tere) and Restu Ratnaningtyas, artists present visually compelling work in diverse media that examine women’s familial and personal relationships, sexuality, identity, nostalgia and memory. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2023-exhibitions/kenneth-kronberger Through an investigation into the historically intriguing, silent and static miniaturised world of the diorama and the contemporary art of animation, Kenneth Kronberger’s new work and PhD examination exhibition integrates these intriguing imagined formats, creating his own metamorphised ‘worlds’ and fantastical illusionistic spaces. This exhibition constitutes the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led Doctoral research project at the School of Arts, Federation University, Australia. Kenneth Kronberger is supported by an Australian Research Training Program (RTP) Fee Offset Scholarship through Federation University. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2022-exhibitions/the-chosen-vessel In an exhibition showcasing the collaborative work of Belinda Michael and Tiffany Titshall, these two important central Victorian artists present a powerful new series of drawings and ceramic vessels of immense beauty and intrigue. Set within the colonial Australian gold rush era, the artists challenge stereotypical narratives, recreating traditional scenes with a powerful female protagonist avenging the murder of her mother by performing wild and powerful acts on her harem of enslaved men. Here, accepted histories are upended replaced by a potent gothic mythological tale of female power, lust and revenge! NB:*The PO Gallery will be closed from Fri 16 Dec 2022 until Wed 4 Jan 2023. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2009-exhibitions/bifb09 Doug Spowart and Victoria Cooper traverse themes, both personal and political, in the investigation of, and the representation of sites in the Australian landscape. The work connects contemporary social issues with historical, scientific and mythological insights intrinsic in each site. In most cases the resultant visual communiqué is resolved in the forms of the artists’ book or photobook using photography and text. Critical and intrinsic to this work is that it is deep-rooted in the narrative and the visual record of place. While working ‘on site’ Spowart and Cooper utilize and extend the concept of the documentary photographic methodology, to include light sculptures using projected images, the camera obscura and the cyanotype. Ultimately the books constructed become a ‘site’ in which the visual narratives intrinsic to place coalesce and create a dialogue with the observed reality of the ‘everyday’ This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2011/bifb11 For years Osamu James Nakagawa carried with him a vivid memory of the first time he stood atop the precipitous cliffs in Okinawa, called ‘banta’, that fall hundreds of feet to the ocean below: his memory of the beauty of the endless blue expanse of sea and sky intensified by the fearsome height and history that met his downward gaze. Five years later his memory drove him to revisit and descend those very cliffs. Standing at its feet for the first time, he felt in the cliff’s full visceral weight something so powerful that he was initially unable to take even a single photograph. The shadows seeping from the cliff's surface, the white craters riddling the cliff's coral limestone and the charred black caves, were stark reminders of all that these cliffs had witnessed. Returning to his studio after six months of researching and exploring the South Pacific Theater with thousands of image files of the cliffs to piece together, he re-shaped and re-experienced the original digital images. For him, the cliffs became a metaphor for Okinawa’s history as well as digitally-manipulated, hyper-real vision of his experience standing between fear and beauty on Okinawa’s banta. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions Contemporary art exhibitions now showing at the Post Office Gallery in Ballarat, Australia. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/current Contemporary art exhibitions now showing at the Post Office Gallery in Ballarat, Australia. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/upcoming An important Federation University Arts Academy exhibition in Ballarat, SCOPE showcases highly skilled work created by Visual Art lecturers and Adjunct Professors who sustain an ongoing rigorous artistic practice across a broad range of disciplines, whilst maintaining their important contribution and professional commitment to art education. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2023-exhibitions/scope23-lecturers,-teachers-and-honoraries An important annual Federation University Arts Academy exhibition, this year SCOPE showcases highly skilled work created by Visual Art lecturers and artists-in residence. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2023-exhibitions/room-with-a-view-aspects-and-perspectives Showcasing a unique selection of work from Federation University’s Permanent Art Collection, this exhibition explores the local neighbourhood and its surrounds, from a real and imaginary perspective, as well as a historical and contemporary viewpoint. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2023-exhibitions/naidoc23 MARRA-NARRAP LAKORRA Under Blue Skies Through a unique collaboration between Federation TAFE’s visual arts program, H.M.Prison Langi Kal Kal and Hopkins Correctional Centre, select First Nations Indigenous artists present their recent work to celebrate their rich cultural heritage and traditions and the significance and power of creativity, expressing ideas surrounding identity, country, kinship and friendship during NAIDOC 2023. Federation University Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters where its campuses are located, and we pay our respects to Elders past and present, and extend our respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations Peoples. Language Source: Wadawurrung Language App https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2023-exhibitions/benchmarl23 An important annual Arts Academy Visual Arts’ undergraduate students’ exhibition, BENCHMARK showcases a rich mix of contemporary approaches across a rich mix of studio areas including painting, printmaking, ceramics and digital media. Here students not only illustrate the breadth of creative skill but also reveal complex concepts and ideas that underpin a broad range of visual approaches, styles, media and interpretations. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2023-exhibitions/ballarat-international-foto-biennale Stephen Dupont's photographic mishaps celebrate chance and imperfection in Fucked Up Fotos. The series spans thirty years, five continents and more than a dozen countries, including Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, China, and Romania. It is a catalogue of everything that can go wrong in photography, featuring double-exposures, light leaks, x-ray clouding, and corrupted computer files. Despite unintended damage to his images, Dupont finds spectacular beauty within the frame. This exhibition is a celebration of the accidental, the unpredictable, and the imperfect, returning to the primal magic of photography and its ability to capture something beyond intent. ‘Fucked Up Fotos’ is a showcase of the unexpected and the remarkable in the most unlikely places - a meditation on chance and the power of photography to capture the unforeseen. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2023-exhibitions/made-you-look Ballarat artist Geoff Wallis presents his recent series of paintings in the exhibition, MADE YOU LOOK! Informed by his extensive knowledge of art history and contemporary art issues and ideas, the subject of Wallis’ paintings is art itself. For Wallis, text is used as a kind of meta-commentary, to invite or provoke direct responses from his audience about interpretation and value judgement and broader issues surrounding authenticity, reality, and purity as they pertain to art. Beyond its semantic role, text also plays an important syntactical or formal part in the paintings’ aesthetic - one in which chance, process and facture all figure prominently. Geoff Wallis was formerly an academic, lecturing in Art History at Federation University, Ballarat, and has curated significant exhibitions and written extensively on art and artists. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2024-exhibitions/landscape-to-earthscape This exhibition, created in partial fulfilment of a Master of Visual Arts, explores the practice of landscape art in the context of global environmental crisis. The artworks were made amidst goldfields bushland, which, though beautiful, is successive to major industrial-extractive disturbance and subject to climate threat. The focus is upon responding to what is known about this fragile environment, as much as what is seen. The genre of 'landscape' is taken toward the diversity of 'earthscape', inclusive of habitat and multispecies. Damage to ecosystems is a consequence of human ability to disconnect from the natural, or material world of which we are part. Inspired by eco-critical thought, and eco-materialist principles, these artworks opt for sustainable processes and aim for a planetary aesthetics. The work is on paper, with organically unstable mediums such as kino and charcoal. Generative of life, carbon is also the colour of mourning; solastalgia is expressed in these artworks, but also care and the desire to connect. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2024-exhibitions/benchmark24undergraduate-visual-arts This important annual Arts Academy undergraduate Visual Arts exhibition showcases fresh new student work across year levels and various media including painting, textiles, ceramics, sculpture, drawing and printmaking. Here, twenty-four students illustrate dynamic ideas, styles and techniques and explore diverse media and subjects surrounding a sense of home and the domestic, fantasy and dreams, identity and the self and the mystery and beauty of the natural world.  https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2025-exhibitions/reveal-works-from-the-permanent-collection Showcasing select works from the Art Collection, this exhibition celebrates the work of significant Australian artists whose work traces unseen relationships and draws on diverse lived experiences while responding to a myriad of subjects and ideas. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2024-exhibitions/autistic-artistic As an artist, Vienna Drysdale Bischard explores how autism affects her art, as well as how her art encapsulates autism, while celebrating her disability and observing how it shapes her work and research. Here, through a series of portraits of her friends with Autism, Bischard examines the commonly underdiagnosed condition for women, devaluing their creativity, while commonly being compared with and judged against Autistic men. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2024-exhibitions/eye24-end-of-year-exhibition Presented at the Post Office Gallery, Ballarat, and Switchback Gallery, Gippsland, EYE, End of Year Exhibition, showcases work created by graduating students from Federation University’s Bachelor of Visual Arts and Bachelor of Education. In a rich mix of work reflecting students’ ideas, skills and concepts, EYE allows students to exhibit professionally in a formal Gallery setting alongside their peers, to family, friends and the community, while marking the launch of their artistic journey and individual creative careers. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2025-exhibitions/kim-percy-visualising-the-invisible A multidisciplinary artist with a thirty-year career in the visual arts, Kim Percy's exhibition and series of new paintings, photographs, videos, and digital works, focus on the nexus of creativity and academic research through the lens of dyslexic thinking. By examining connections between dyslexia and creativity, Percy not only highlights typical dyslexic strengths, such as pattern recognition, visual-spatial awareness and problem-solving but also exposes the misunderstood neurodiverse coping mechanism of concealment and masking. A unique body of work, that illuminates the real and lived experience of dyslexia, Percy also expresses the personal challenge of late diagnosis and its impact on artistic expression, while offering new ways to consider and understand cognitive difference. Kim Percy is supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend and RTP Fee-Offset Scholarship through Federation University Australia. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2025-exhibitions/meaghan-shelton Tracing symbolic links between craft, memory, ecology, and feminine agency, Megan Shelton's new work and PhD exhibition, contributes to new conversations at the intersection of creative practice, feminist thinking, and contemporary visual culture. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2025-exhibitions/benchmark25 new work by Visual Arts undergraduate students from the Bachelor of Visual Arts in this important annual exhibition, showcasing fresh new ideas and approaches to painting, textiles, ceramics, sculpture, drawing and printmaking. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2025-exhibitions/survival-memories Lauren’s Matthews fascination with memory, combined with the softness of textiles, sees her reconnect with the little girl she only knows from photographs, creating a powerful memorial that honours her survival as a victim of childhood abuse. By confronting the taboo, Lauren’s work has a feminist ferocity that leaves the viewer with the desire to mourn the child she was, whilst simultaneously demanding a world that protects children from risk and harm. Lauren Matthews is supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend and RTP Fee-Offset Scholarship through Federation University Australia. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2025-exhibitions/robert-mapplethorpe Exclusive to Australia, the Ballarat International Foto Biennale presents ENNINFUL x MAPPLETHORPE, a selection of 46 original silver gelatin prints by acclaimed photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by Ghanaian-born British editor and stylist Edward Enninful O BE, the exhibition, with works presented in pairs, invites visitors to experience some of Mapplethorpe’s best-known photographs. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/past-exhibitions/2025-exhibitions/eye25 Bronte BALLANTINE, Illyanna BARACI, Annelise BELLADONNA, Maggie BROWN, Chloe BURROWS, Michael CREANEY, Lil De GRAAUW, Vanessa Dickson, Alyssa GOODWIN, Jennifer HART, Greg HORROCKS, Fardeen KHAN, Yasmin KOTTEK KEAN, Nasci LETHLEAN, Libby LEWIS, Dakota RADAKOVICH, Taylah RICHARDS, Kiara RYAN, Lauren SALTER, Susan STANLEY, Naomi SWIFT, Bennett TOY, Scarlett VANDENBERG, Selby WALKER, Phoebe YANDELL Showcasing Visual Arts students currently studying the Bachelor of Visual Arts and the Bachelor of Education and Honours, this important 'end of year' exhibition celebrates new talent and skill of our Visual Arts' students working across a range of approaches, styles and media, while providing a snapshot into recent developments in contemporary art, on a local, state and national basis, while proudly representing our region. https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/current-exhibitions/scope26-visual-arts-lecturers-and-adjuncts An important Federation University Arts Academy exhibition in Ballarat, SCOPE showcases highly skilled work created by Visual Art lecturers who sustain an ongoing rigorous artistic practice across a broad range of disciplines, whilst maintaining their important contribution and professional commitment to art education.