2017
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BFA HONOURS - GRADUATES FROM THE BACHELOR OF FINE ART (HONOURS)
6-16 December 2017 This exhibition celebrates the work of students graduating from the Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) program in 2017. The artists have developed original projects that explore a range of critical perspectives and material processes. The exhibition features paintings by Nick Barlow, landscapes by Shannon Cadman, photographs by Alysha Fewster, portraits by Chloe Hey, sculpture by Rosemary Reynolds, and paintings by Deborah White. VIEW the Installation Images VIEW the Online Catalogue VIEW the Exhibition Roomsheet DOWNLOAD the Exhibition Invitation (731KB) Image: Chloe Hey, Ricky's girl, 2017, photograph, 100 x 100cm |
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THE MUSEUM OF US
GRADUATES FROM THE BACHELOR OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN 22 November - 2 December 2017 The 2017 graduates of Visual Communication Design present The Museum of Us, a collection of work that doesn’t just represent the individual, but the group as a collective. Supported by the School of Creative Industries, the exhibition showcases the diverse talents and design work of final year students from the 2017 Bachelor of Visual Communication Design at the University of Newcastle. VIEW the Installation Images VIEW the Exhibition Website DOWNLOAD the Exhibition Invitation |
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SALLY BOURKE AND NICOLE CHAFFEY - YARN
1-18 November 2017 Yarn is a visual conversation between two established practices, and the first time that Bourke and Chaffey have exhibited together. Chaffey interprets the Australian landscape in acknowledgment of an ancient connection to Country, while Bourke manifests her own connection to the Australian bush through a compelling interrogation of the human spirit. VIEW the Installation Images DOWNLOAD the Exhibition Catalogue DOWNLOAD the Exhibition Invitation Image L: Sally Bourke, Vows (pink spotted pony), 2016. Image R: Nicole Chaffey, All the ways home, 2017. |
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MICHELLE CATANZARO - IN/SITE
1-18 November 2017 A photographic exploration of underground and irregular spaces that captures the experience of transient venues outside formal urban frameworks. Catanzaro's images explore covert and an evasive places; temporary refuges for creativity amidst the push of gentrification and development. VIEW the Installation Images DOWNLOAD the Exhibition Catalogue DOWNLOAD the Exhibition Invitation Image: Michelle Catanzaro, The party's not over, 2012, digital photograph |
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VIRTUAL WRIGHT: EXPLORING THE HOLLYHOCK HOUSE
11-28 October 2017 Using new computer models of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'Hollyhock House', this exhibition undertakes a design-based exploration of its invisible or forgotten properties. Employing a combination of virtual reality simulations, rapid prototyped models and unique sliced cross-sections through the house, the exhibition demonstrates Wright’s mastery of scale, form and representation. VIEW the Installation Images DOWNLOAD the Exhibition Catalogue DOWNLOAD the Exhibition Invitation Image: Ian Owen, Library, Lounge and Music Room: Cross Section, 2017, digital image |
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THE ESSENCE OF SHELTER
11-28 October 2017 In most parts of Australia, the landscape generally offers the means for human construction of a basic shelter. The Hunter Valley offers its own robust typology supported by blackbutt, grass and bark. With the guidance of local researchers, five Architecture students built a series of shelter prototypes in response to a challenging design brief: construct a shelter with minimal tools that would last a year and support a group of five people living under primitive conditions. VIEW the Installation Images DOWNLOAD the Exhibition Invitation Image: Chief's Hut, 2017. Photo credit: Mathew Halen |
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PAUL MUNRO
AFTERWORK 9 August - 2 September 2017 Afterwork is a survey of paintings by Munro that encompasses his time working at the University of Newcastle. Many staff will remember him in his Employee Relations role, but also as an avid painter and creator of painted objects. Munro retired from the University in early 2016. As a way to give back to the University and its students, he recently donated his collection to UON on the basis that it be used to generate funds to create student scholarships. The paintings in the exhibition will be for sale to fund a scholarship for dedicated students with limited resources to achieve their academic goals. VIEW the Installation Images DOWNLOAD the Exhibition Catalogue DOWNLOAD the Exhibition Invitation Image: Paul Munro, The Kimberlies, 2002, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 cm |
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RAE RICHARDS
OVERTIME 9 August - 2 September 2017 Rae Richards’ long career as an artist demonstrates a life of practice. Overtime marks 60 years for Richards as a painter in this city. Continuing to probe techniques and ideas, new works in this exhibition illustrate a gentle move away from the still life of previous years towards more abstracted and dreamlike studies of colour and light. VIEW the Installation Images DOWNLOAD the Exhibition Catalogue (2MB) Image: Rae Richards, Sailing to Byzantium, 2017, oil on canvas |
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BAROQUE AND BEYOND | DAVID BANNEY AND BRETT MCMAHON
9 August - 2 September 2017 In 2015, conductor and composer David Banney encountered artist Brett McMahon’s installation work for the first time and saw in it the dynamic interplay between symmetry and broken symmetry that he was seeking in his own music. It was then that they discovered the formal and conceptual affinities between their practices and Baroque and Beyond came to life. The resulting body of new work is not so much a collaboration as a convergence, a conversation around texture, tone and contrasting sensation. VIEW the Installation Images DOWNLOAD the Exhibition Catalogue (5MB) LISTEN to the compositions Image: Brett McMahon, installation view of Baroque and Beyond at the University Gallery, Newcastle |
PENNY DUNSTAN
SHADOWLANDS II
19 July - 5 August 2017
The foundations of the works in Shadowlands II are derived from a practice of ‘wayfinding’ – a performative process of encountering post-mining landscapes through walking. Using drawing, photography, soils and collections, Dunstan has recorded these journeys through newly created, terraformed landscapes. In these works, creative practice co-
constitutes post-mining places by transmuting tracks into images and giving interactions form.
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Image: Penny Dunstan, Rix's Creek Study #9 Thistle, digital scan of lumen print, 2015-2017
SHADOWLANDS II
19 July - 5 August 2017
The foundations of the works in Shadowlands II are derived from a practice of ‘wayfinding’ – a performative process of encountering post-mining landscapes through walking. Using drawing, photography, soils and collections, Dunstan has recorded these journeys through newly created, terraformed landscapes. In these works, creative practice co-
constitutes post-mining places by transmuting tracks into images and giving interactions form.
DOWNLOAD the Exhibition Catalogue (2.5MB)
VIEW the Installation Images
Image: Penny Dunstan, Rix's Creek Study #9 Thistle, digital scan of lumen print, 2015-2017
BALNHDHURR - A LASTING IMPRESSION
19 April - 15 July 2017
Balnhdhurr – A Lasting Impression celebrates twenty years of onsite print production at the Yirrkala Print Space in the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre, located in the remote Aboriginal community of Yirrkala in Northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. The Yirrkala Print Space is unique amongst remote community art centres with twenty years of continual production of limited edition fine art prints by locally employed and trained Indigenous printmakers.
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Image: Gaymala Yunupingo, Djirikiti, 1998, screenprint, 40 x 40 cm
19 April - 15 July 2017
Balnhdhurr – A Lasting Impression celebrates twenty years of onsite print production at the Yirrkala Print Space in the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre, located in the remote Aboriginal community of Yirrkala in Northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. The Yirrkala Print Space is unique amongst remote community art centres with twenty years of continual production of limited edition fine art prints by locally employed and trained Indigenous printmakers.
VIEW the Installation Images
DOWNLOAD Exhibition Room Sheet (1.4MB)
Image: Gaymala Yunupingo, Djirikiti, 1998, screenprint, 40 x 40 cm
THE ART OF COLLECTING
22 March - 8 April 2017
The art of collecting presents a survey of works produced in the Newcastle region over a period of almost twenty years. Drawn from the personal holdings of a Newcastle-based collector, the exhibition offers a unique snapshot of the region’s visual arts sector over the last two decades. The art of collecting examines the nature of collecting, the impulses that drive collectors to gather works over many years, and the ways in which collections can be rich interpretive sources for social, visual and local histories.
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Image: Peter Gardiner, Mayfield, 2014, oil on convex ground, 61cm diameter, with thanks to Ian Anderson. Private Collection.
22 March - 8 April 2017
The art of collecting presents a survey of works produced in the Newcastle region over a period of almost twenty years. Drawn from the personal holdings of a Newcastle-based collector, the exhibition offers a unique snapshot of the region’s visual arts sector over the last two decades. The art of collecting examines the nature of collecting, the impulses that drive collectors to gather works over many years, and the ways in which collections can be rich interpretive sources for social, visual and local histories.
VIEW the Installation Images
DOWNLOAD the Exhibition Room Sheet (700KB)
Image: Peter Gardiner, Mayfield, 2014, oil on convex ground, 61cm diameter, with thanks to Ian Anderson. Private Collection.
CONSALVO | LANKAS | MAHER
15 February - 18 March 2017
In collaboration with Gallery 139, this exhibition profiles the work of three Newcastle-based artists: Dino Consalvo, Peter Lankas and Paul Maher. These artists each employ their own visual language to reflect on the landscape around them, whether suburban, urban or natural. The exhibition brings together new work from the studios focusing on practice and continual developments in defining and refining subject matter
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Image: Dino Consalvo, Empty Pool #1, 2016, oil on board, 120 x 140 cm
15 February - 18 March 2017
In collaboration with Gallery 139, this exhibition profiles the work of three Newcastle-based artists: Dino Consalvo, Peter Lankas and Paul Maher. These artists each employ their own visual language to reflect on the landscape around them, whether suburban, urban or natural. The exhibition brings together new work from the studios focusing on practice and continual developments in defining and refining subject matter
DOWNLOAD the Exhibition Catalogue (1.1MB)
VIEW the Installation Images
Image: Dino Consalvo, Empty Pool #1, 2016, oil on board, 120 x 140 cm
