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VERA ZULUMOVSKI
EMBELLISHED VIGNETTE
6 MAY - 11 June 2022
 
EMBELLISHED VIGNETTE is a survey exhibition 22 years on from Zulumovski’s solo exhibition at the University Gallery. THE EMBELLISHED IMAGE was curated by Nick Mitzevich, Director of the National Gallery of Australia when both were Master of Fine Art candidates at the University in 1999. Detailed iconography, exquisite technique, familial stories and incidental moments of the everyday were set against the landscape of Newcastle. As Nick Mitzevich wrote in the catalogue, ‘the world of Vera Zulumovski is elaborate, complicated and metaphorically rich’. This remains as true today and in this survey show we revisit some of the favourites from the early years of practice, with new work that describes in her rich, illustrative storytelling, vignettes of her bountiful experiences, life and career.

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​image: Woman with Novocastrian Vignette, 2022. Image courtesy the artist

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​​JAMES DRINKWATER
THE BOXER / ROUND 2 - old photos make me cry 

18 March - 30 April 2022
 
THE BOXER / ROUND 2 continues themes that emerged from the previous series of The Boxer / Round 1 shown at Nanda\Hobbs, Sydney in 2021, and explores the threads of familial lore and the legends surrounding James Drinkwater’s enigmatic Uncle, Greg. The Boxer had a tough exterior but grappled with a sensitive interior world, where his short life was played out through the poetry of the everyday. 

THE BOXER / ROUND 2 is supported by Nanda\Hobbs, Sydney and Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle. James Drinkwater is represented by Nanda\Hobbs Sydney and Nicholas Thompson Gallery Melbourne 

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image: It was 25 years before they knew (Johnny Carr in the role of Willie Drinkwater), 2021. Image courtesy Dean Beletich and the artist


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PETER FISHER (PhD)
WHEN WE WERE THERE
Mnemonic Representations in the Postcard

18 February - 12 March 2022
 
WHEN WE WERE THERE is a visual atlas of memory and representation.
The exhibition of collages and postcard images form the final research outcomes of Fisher’s PhD in Architecture, Wish You Were Here: Representation and Coerciveness of the Architectural Photograph to the Postcard which examines modes of representation in the architectural image, specifically through the postcard format.
 
The atlas of memories presented within the exhibition draw on what we see in the layering of representations from postcards, architectural drawings, paintings and iconic photographs, to establish ways of seeing through a repeated representational language and the coerciveness of buildings and places. These simulacra become the containers of memory, the visual cue to the unveiling and revealing of the experience of monument and place.


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image: Pantheon (detail). Image courtesy of the artist

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DEADCENTRE?
Vernacular Extractions - Mapping Western NSW.

14 January - 13 February 2022

A studio project for students from UoN’s School of Architecture and Built
Environment DEADCENTRE followed a looping transect along the Baaka/
Darling River system mapping the architecture and landscape in its path
through multiple media. A suite of drawn, collaged, written materials
were applied to document the various towns encountered layering town
morphology, landscape systems, historic structures, key buildings, industries, residual and operating mine sites to create descriptive cartographies.


Travelling Studio Project: Coordinators - D’Arcy Newberry-Dupe , Brenton Porter
Participants: Claudia Smith, Lachlan Howard, Larissa Gafa, Jack Piercy, Alex Jones, Chloe
Gesler, Madeline Brennan, Ally Cullingford, Rueben Bacon, Will Henry, Lachlan Adams,
Paris Perry, Emily Symes, Samantha Bailey, Sophie McCarthy, Mackenzie Beets, Mahalia
Leckner, Zachary Sheffield.



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SUZI ZGLINICKI (PhD)
UNKNOWN LANDS
15 January - 13 February 2022


​In so many aspects of human endeavour women of achievement have been rendered invisible, but there were prolific women artists who painted landscape, won prestigious awards and made a living from their art. Unlike that of artists who are men, their work is not included in art history. Unknown Lands addresses the imperative to acknowledge the presence of female landscape artists in the profession from 1700 onwards. It uses the symbolism of topographical maps and core imagery to link the fundamental reality of their lives with the bounty of their art. It is a bridge from our foremothers to the present and an opportunity to recognise the lives of these remarkable women.
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image: Unknownlands, sand dunes 2021. Image courtesy of the artist
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Header image: Michael Chapman, Digital Tapestry, Apocalypse, 2021, University Gallery. Image courtesy the artist.
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