UNIVERSITY GALLERIES
  • 2022
    • 2022 Uni Gallery
    • 2022 Watt Space
  • 2021
    • 2021 Uni Gallery
    • 2021 Watt Space
  • 2020
    • 2020 UNI GALLERY
    • 2020 WATT SPACE
  • 2019
    • 2019 UNI GALLERY
  • 2018
    • 2018 UNI GALLERY
  • 2017
    • 2017 UNI GALLERY
  • 2016
    • 2016 UNI GALLERY
  • 2015
    • 2015 UNI GALLERY
  • 2014
    • 2014 UNI GALLERY
  • 2013
    • 2013 UNI GALLERY
  • 2012
    • 2012 UNI GALLERY
  • 2011
    • 2011 UNI GALLERY
  • 2010
    • 2010 UNI GALLERY

2021



Picture
MICHAEL CHAPMAN, ZOE TWEEDALE, TIMOTHY BURKE & DERREN LOWE
APOCALYPSE
16 June - 24 July 2021


Apocalypse is the exhibition of architectural drawing drawn from architectural fragments appearing in the 140m long Apocalypse Tapestry from the 12 Century.

Apocalypse explores the notion of apocalypse in a contemporary context, interweaving themes of allegory, narrative, structure and disorder to construct a drawn and imperfect landscape of holes, voids and collapse set against the context of the modern world.

VIEW the exhibition highlights
image: courtesy of Michael Chapman.

Picture
THIRD YEAR ARCHITECTURE STUDENT EXHIBITION
LITTLE FICTIONS
04 - 05 June 2021

Student explorations in drawing, model making and digital rendering.

VIEW the exhibition highlights

image: compilation of student architectural drawing. Image courtesy of Michael Chapman.

Picture
CHARLIE SHEARD
CHARLIE SHEARD : PAINTINGS
14 April - 29 May 2021

Charlie Sheard is one of Australia’s most well known and respected abstract painters. He had seven exhibitions and two six month studio residencies scheduled for China and Germany and was also invited to a guest lectureship at Peking University in 2020 and 2021.

All these projects were shelved due to the pandemic and Charlie had already given up his studio. Having lost his way for a while, in the second half of 2020 he started painting with renewed vigour and a very different direction at his small home studio in Sydney. This new work will be heading to China later this year for an exhibition organised by Peking Art Associates in Beijing, with a Catalogue Raisonné of his practice from the last forty years. The University Gallery is delighted to exhibit Charlie Sheard’s new paintings and drawings in Australia prior to their exhibition in China.


VIEW the installation images
DOWNLOAD the exhibition catalogue
DOWNLOAD the exhibition floor sheet
READ about the exhibition in the Newcastle Herald
​WATCH the video of the installation


image: Charlie Sheard Green Paintings (detail), 2017 - 2021. Acrylic and oil on polyester, 214 x 198cm. Image courtesy of artist.

Picture
JAMES RHODES (PhD)
THE TANGIBLE IMAGE
11 March - 10 April 2021

Photographs are considered two dimensional images that record the ‘real’, but what information can the tangible, and intangible, qualities of photographs hold? This PhD research exhibition explores their inherent materiality and how this might shift contemporary photographic practice.

The methods employed in the creation of James Rhodes’ photographs, both in their development and display, influences conceptual readings through the multiple experimental approaches he has used to materialise the reproduction – ultimately developing tangible objects that question the premise of the medium itself.


VIEW the installation images
DOWNLOAD the exhibition invitation
DOWNLOAD the exhibition floor sheet
READ about the exhibition in the Newcastle Herald

image: James Rhodes, The Tangible Image 2020, installation detail view. Image courtesy of the artist

Picture
LIBBY ECKERSLEY (PhD)
PLAN AND EXECUTE

03 February - 06 March 2021

Plan & Execute is an exhibition by doctoral candidate Libby Eckersley. In it, the artist makes visible how she needs to think to keep making art after a shift in motivation.

The various materials which are displayed in an increasingly organised manner across the gallery space are the result of developing a set of flexible artmaking strategies over the four years in which Libby undertook her practice-led research. These mostly conceptual strategies include the use of a grid of human comprehension, the halving of uncertainty, a contrast between slow and fast, sporadic repetition, excess materials, a process of de-articulation, and the incorporation of irritants.

​This focus on developing a new bundle of artmaking processes is intended to create an enriched environment in which further experimental artistic practice is made possible.


VIEW the installation images
VIEW the installation in-situ 
​DOWNLOAD the exhibition invitation

images: top: Libby Eckersley, Plan and Execute. Installation detail view. February 2021.
Picture

University Gallery

T: +61 2 4921 5255 or 4985 4910
E: universitygallery@newcastle.edu.au
Picture

Watt Space Gallery

T: +61 2 4921 5255 or 4921 8733
E: wattspacegallery@newcastle.edu.au

Header image: Michael Chapman, Digital Tapestry, Apocalypse, 2021, University Gallery. Image courtesy the artist.
  • 2022
    • 2022 Uni Gallery
    • 2022 Watt Space
  • 2021
    • 2021 Uni Gallery
    • 2021 Watt Space
  • 2020
    • 2020 UNI GALLERY
    • 2020 WATT SPACE
  • 2019
    • 2019 UNI GALLERY
  • 2018
    • 2018 UNI GALLERY
  • 2017
    • 2017 UNI GALLERY
  • 2016
    • 2016 UNI GALLERY
  • 2015
    • 2015 UNI GALLERY
  • 2014
    • 2014 UNI GALLERY
  • 2013
    • 2013 UNI GALLERY
  • 2012
    • 2012 UNI GALLERY
  • 2011
    • 2011 UNI GALLERY
  • 2010
    • 2010 UNI GALLERY