2016
FROM EARTH TO SPIRIT: Indigenous art from Arnhem Land and the Tiwi Islands, NT
17 February – 26 March 2016
This exhibition features works in the University Art and Museum Collections by Australian Indigenous artists from Arnhem Land and the Tiwi Islands, both situated in Australia’s Northern Territory. These artists have long been making artworks from natural ochres, using imagery that expresses their profound knowledge of and connection to Country, its creation stories and its ceremonies. Earth and spirit come together in almost every aspect of Indigenous life – universal law, ceremony, sacred sites, and in the artworks that become infused with ancestral power through their making. From Earth to Spirit presents a range of art works in various mediums including bark paintings, ochres on canvas, works on paper, prints and carvings.
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Image: Bob Bilinyara Nabegeyo, Kangaroo and Mimi Spirit, natural earth pigments on Eucalyptus bark (detail), donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.
17 February – 26 March 2016
This exhibition features works in the University Art and Museum Collections by Australian Indigenous artists from Arnhem Land and the Tiwi Islands, both situated in Australia’s Northern Territory. These artists have long been making artworks from natural ochres, using imagery that expresses their profound knowledge of and connection to Country, its creation stories and its ceremonies. Earth and spirit come together in almost every aspect of Indigenous life – universal law, ceremony, sacred sites, and in the artworks that become infused with ancestral power through their making. From Earth to Spirit presents a range of art works in various mediums including bark paintings, ochres on canvas, works on paper, prints and carvings.
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Image: Bob Bilinyara Nabegeyo, Kangaroo and Mimi Spirit, natural earth pigments on Eucalyptus bark (detail), donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.
PAGINATION: THE BOOK AS OBJECT
30 March - 30 April 2016
The work of local, national and international makers concerned with the book as a creative medium have been invited to exhibit in Pagination: the Book as Object, an exhibition that investigates the medium and meaning of the book, and more broadly of book arts as a contemporary mode of expression. Works represented in the exhibition range from sculptural book objects, altered books, and editioned letterpress works – to designed books, comics, digitally printed works, student zines and print on demand publications.
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Image: Patricia Wilson-Adams, Words on Leaves, Intaglio, letterpress on saar paper, pamphlet binding, 2009, variable size
30 March - 30 April 2016
The work of local, national and international makers concerned with the book as a creative medium have been invited to exhibit in Pagination: the Book as Object, an exhibition that investigates the medium and meaning of the book, and more broadly of book arts as a contemporary mode of expression. Works represented in the exhibition range from sculptural book objects, altered books, and editioned letterpress works – to designed books, comics, digitally printed works, student zines and print on demand publications.
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Image: Patricia Wilson-Adams, Words on Leaves, Intaglio, letterpress on saar paper, pamphlet binding, 2009, variable size
THE 2015 AUSTRALIAN BOOK DESIGN AWARDS
30 March - 30 April 2016
The Australian Book Design Awards celebrating the bravest and brightest, the most original and beautiful books published in Australia each year. The 2015 Awards honor those outstanding books published between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2015. The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) supports Australian book designers by promoting their work to, and connecting with, the broader publishing community.
For more information on individual designers and category winners, visit the ABDA website via the link below.
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30 March - 30 April 2016
The Australian Book Design Awards celebrating the bravest and brightest, the most original and beautiful books published in Australia each year. The 2015 Awards honor those outstanding books published between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2015. The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) supports Australian book designers by promoting their work to, and connecting with, the broader publishing community.
For more information on individual designers and category winners, visit the ABDA website via the link below.
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BIMBLEBOX: ART - SCIENCE - NATURE
4 May - 11 June 2016
Bimblebox: art - science - nature presents a group of artists’ creative responses to their experience of a unique and threatened environment. Bimblebox Nature Refuge is located in a semi-arid, desert uplands environment in Queensland that is under threat from coal mining. This exhibition explores the impacts of mining, global warming, diminishing biodiversity, the changing socio-cultural dispositions of regional communities and the role that creativity plays in the process of indentifying and challenging these impacts. The artists join efforts to save the nature refuge from destruction, or at the very least, to provide a lasting testimony.
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Image: Emma Lindsay, 15 endangered black-throated finches, 2014, oil on linen (detail).
4 May - 11 June 2016
Bimblebox: art - science - nature presents a group of artists’ creative responses to their experience of a unique and threatened environment. Bimblebox Nature Refuge is located in a semi-arid, desert uplands environment in Queensland that is under threat from coal mining. This exhibition explores the impacts of mining, global warming, diminishing biodiversity, the changing socio-cultural dispositions of regional communities and the role that creativity plays in the process of indentifying and challenging these impacts. The artists join efforts to save the nature refuge from destruction, or at the very least, to provide a lasting testimony.
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Image: Emma Lindsay, 15 endangered black-throated finches, 2014, oil on linen (detail).
CHRIS CAPPER
MEMORIALS, ICONS AND SIGNS
15 June - 2 July 2016
Chris Capper’s meditative paintings offer a space for contemplation and reflection. His evocative compositions are careful considerations of form and space, yet are not committed to precise definition. Vibrant orbs imply flowers, while interiors are mapped in abstracted geometry, both recurring motifs throughout his works. memorials, icons and signs presents a survey of practice. The paintings selected for this exhibition touch on themes of loss, memory and hope. Like diary entries, they follow a painter’s intimate journey through the highs and lows – from the everyday to the profound.
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Image: Chris Capper, Lyn's vase. In memory of Lyn Thompson, 1998, oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm
MEMORIALS, ICONS AND SIGNS
15 June - 2 July 2016
Chris Capper’s meditative paintings offer a space for contemplation and reflection. His evocative compositions are careful considerations of form and space, yet are not committed to precise definition. Vibrant orbs imply flowers, while interiors are mapped in abstracted geometry, both recurring motifs throughout his works. memorials, icons and signs presents a survey of practice. The paintings selected for this exhibition touch on themes of loss, memory and hope. Like diary entries, they follow a painter’s intimate journey through the highs and lows – from the everyday to the profound.
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Image: Chris Capper, Lyn's vase. In memory of Lyn Thompson, 1998, oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm
MEREDITH BRICE COPLAND
(IN)VISIBLE ART: CONSPICUOUS MAKING IN AN AGE OF NANO TEXTILES
15 June - 2 July 2016
Meredith Brice Copland’s research project explores artistic responses to changes taking place in science and society due to the nanotech (technical) revolution. More specifically, she looks at these radical changes – artistically and philosophically – through the perspective of nanotech textiles.
Copland’s Master of Philosophy thesis and exhibition, (in)visible art: conspicuous making in an age of nano textiles, considers how artists navigate the nanoscale/science/technology space using speculative and material imaginations, and argues for the role of the artist as an agent of transformation and innovation where artifacts can narrate, mediate, critique and inform debate.
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Image: Meredith Brice Copland, NANOSKETCH #1 Vital swerves – atoms, random, unpredictable, intelligent, looking at the quantum physics narrative, plastic mesh, glass beads, synthetic found materials, monofilament, Teflon, acrylic sheet, 28 x 27 x 6.5 cm (detail)
(IN)VISIBLE ART: CONSPICUOUS MAKING IN AN AGE OF NANO TEXTILES
15 June - 2 July 2016
Meredith Brice Copland’s research project explores artistic responses to changes taking place in science and society due to the nanotech (technical) revolution. More specifically, she looks at these radical changes – artistically and philosophically – through the perspective of nanotech textiles.
Copland’s Master of Philosophy thesis and exhibition, (in)visible art: conspicuous making in an age of nano textiles, considers how artists navigate the nanoscale/science/technology space using speculative and material imaginations, and argues for the role of the artist as an agent of transformation and innovation where artifacts can narrate, mediate, critique and inform debate.
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Image: Meredith Brice Copland, NANOSKETCH #1 Vital swerves – atoms, random, unpredictable, intelligent, looking at the quantum physics narrative, plastic mesh, glass beads, synthetic found materials, monofilament, Teflon, acrylic sheet, 28 x 27 x 6.5 cm (detail)
SHADE - ARTISTS OF THE DESERT
6 July - 6 August 2016
Remote desert communities in the heart of Australia are home to some of our country’s most successful artists. Beginning in Papunya in the early 1970s with the exploratory transfer of ceremonial mark making onto board and canvas, emerged an explosion of works made using vibrant acrylic paints, potent symbology and diversity of line and form. This unique contemporary art movement has been active for 40 years.
Contemporary art from these regions illuminate the unique experience of the desert: its light and shade, its contours, its gifts and adversities, its deep running songlines and sacred beauty. Artists render themes connected to place and belonging in ways that bring Country, Tjukurpa (Law), creation stories and the landscape, to life. Places of both sacred and everyday meaning are embodied in vibrant articulations that shimmer with colour and power.
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Image: Linda Puna, Ngayuku Ngura (My Country), limited edition screen print, Mimili Maku suite, 84 x 59 cm
6 July - 6 August 2016
Remote desert communities in the heart of Australia are home to some of our country’s most successful artists. Beginning in Papunya in the early 1970s with the exploratory transfer of ceremonial mark making onto board and canvas, emerged an explosion of works made using vibrant acrylic paints, potent symbology and diversity of line and form. This unique contemporary art movement has been active for 40 years.
Contemporary art from these regions illuminate the unique experience of the desert: its light and shade, its contours, its gifts and adversities, its deep running songlines and sacred beauty. Artists render themes connected to place and belonging in ways that bring Country, Tjukurpa (Law), creation stories and the landscape, to life. Places of both sacred and everyday meaning are embodied in vibrant articulations that shimmer with colour and power.
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Image: Linda Puna, Ngayuku Ngura (My Country), limited edition screen print, Mimili Maku suite, 84 x 59 cm
LINDA RENZ
RE-INVENTING THE LOLITA COMPLEX
24 August - 3 September 2016
Linda Renz’s art practice investigates how socio-cultural beliefs surrounding gender, authority and erotic narratives are transmitted through visual images, implying broader social consequences. Her PhD exhibition, Re-inventing the Lolita Complex, explores the tensions and nuances that exist in historical portraits of young women, and also considers the rise of the “selfie” in contemporary culture.
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Image: Linda Renz, Untitled (from Blow Up, 1966), 2015, digital print
RE-INVENTING THE LOLITA COMPLEX
24 August - 3 September 2016
Linda Renz’s art practice investigates how socio-cultural beliefs surrounding gender, authority and erotic narratives are transmitted through visual images, implying broader social consequences. Her PhD exhibition, Re-inventing the Lolita Complex, explores the tensions and nuances that exist in historical portraits of young women, and also considers the rise of the “selfie” in contemporary culture.
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Image: Linda Renz, Untitled (from Blow Up, 1966), 2015, digital print
TECHNE: CRAFTING TECHNOLOGY
24 August - 3 September 2016
Technê refers to art, craft, and skill,
and the means by which a thing is made or gained –
a process of making and thinking.
Women who engage with technology in their creative practice have come together to explore unique outcomes and combinations that arise through the layering of art and design. Together, the work of these makers, artists, designers and writers, in their (often overlapping) capacities as professionals, practitioners, lecturers and students in creative industries, tease out their common ground.
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Images: Simone O'Callaghan Bathtime, cyanotype, 2011 (top), and The Good Life, cyanotype, 2011 (bottom).
24 August - 3 September 2016
Technê refers to art, craft, and skill,
and the means by which a thing is made or gained –
a process of making and thinking.
Women who engage with technology in their creative practice have come together to explore unique outcomes and combinations that arise through the layering of art and design. Together, the work of these makers, artists, designers and writers, in their (often overlapping) capacities as professionals, practitioners, lecturers and students in creative industries, tease out their common ground.
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Images: Simone O'Callaghan Bathtime, cyanotype, 2011 (top), and The Good Life, cyanotype, 2011 (bottom).
FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE
2016 STUDENT ART PRIZE & 2016 MARGARET OLLEY POSTGRADUATE AWARD
14 September - 1 October 2016
The Friends of the University of Newcastle play a vital role in the development and support of scholarships and prizes for the university. This year, they again sponsored the 2016 Student Art Prize and 2016 Margaret Olley Postgraduate Award. The exhibition at the gallery displayed the finalists of both awards.
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Image: opening night celebration, with winners Jocelyn Kelly, Erika Sorby and Vanessa Lewis (left to right)
2016 STUDENT ART PRIZE & 2016 MARGARET OLLEY POSTGRADUATE AWARD
14 September - 1 October 2016
The Friends of the University of Newcastle play a vital role in the development and support of scholarships and prizes for the university. This year, they again sponsored the 2016 Student Art Prize and 2016 Margaret Olley Postgraduate Award. The exhibition at the gallery displayed the finalists of both awards.
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Image: opening night celebration, with winners Jocelyn Kelly, Erika Sorby and Vanessa Lewis (left to right)
DANI MARTI
STILL LIFE IN YELLOW, STEEL AND MANDARINS
5 October - 12 November 2016
A major solo exhibition that continues Dani Marti’s exploration of the physical, psychological and emotional boundaries around intimacy, sexuality, relationships and the role of the artist. The exhibition presents two large-scale sculptures, Black Sun and Still life in yellow, steel and mandarins -- which was conceived specifically for the University Gallery -- alongside the video installation ‘Notes for Bob’ and three woven rope works.
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Image: Dani Marti, Still life in yellow, steel and mandarins, 2016, mattress frames, mandarins, lemons, cable ties,
STILL LIFE IN YELLOW, STEEL AND MANDARINS
5 October - 12 November 2016
A major solo exhibition that continues Dani Marti’s exploration of the physical, psychological and emotional boundaries around intimacy, sexuality, relationships and the role of the artist. The exhibition presents two large-scale sculptures, Black Sun and Still life in yellow, steel and mandarins -- which was conceived specifically for the University Gallery -- alongside the video installation ‘Notes for Bob’ and three woven rope works.
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Image: Dani Marti, Still life in yellow, steel and mandarins, 2016, mattress frames, mandarins, lemons, cable ties,
HOT OFF THE PRESS
GRADUATING STUDENTS FROM THE BACHELOR OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN
16 - 26 November 2016
The latest batch of Visual Communication Designers are on fire, and fresh out of the oven…Illustrators, Photographers, Animators, you name it. HOT OFF THE PRESS showcases the work of graduating students from the Bachelor of Visual Communication Design at the University of Newcastle.
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(HONOURS)
30 November - 10 December 2016
This exhibition celebrates the work of 6 students completing the Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) degree at the University of Newcastle in 2016: Rebecca Delaney, Maddyson Hatton, Vicki Pearce, Andrew Styan, Sandra Walker and Alexandra Williams. Graduating students have worked with a range of different media and processes to create individual pieces that reflect their achievements in becoming independent and professional artists.
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Image: Sandra Walker, Telluric: Composition lll, Divinum Cosmologia (Emanating Cosmologies), 2016, studio production, Beeswax and Wollemi Red Oxide Soil, dimensions variable.
30 November - 10 December 2016
This exhibition celebrates the work of 6 students completing the Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) degree at the University of Newcastle in 2016: Rebecca Delaney, Maddyson Hatton, Vicki Pearce, Andrew Styan, Sandra Walker and Alexandra Williams. Graduating students have worked with a range of different media and processes to create individual pieces that reflect their achievements in becoming independent and professional artists.
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Image: Sandra Walker, Telluric: Composition lll, Divinum Cosmologia (Emanating Cosmologies), 2016, studio production, Beeswax and Wollemi Red Oxide Soil, dimensions variable.