2021
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
