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Join us to celebrate the opening of this exhibition exploring the history of Aboriginal people of the Newcastle area and tracing their stories, culture and their intrinsic relationship with the land. The exhibition will also include the launch of Professor John Maynard’s new book, Callaghan, the University of Newcastle, Whose Traditional Land?. Mulubinba Place of Sea Ferns Exhibition opening and book launch Wednesday 6 May at 6pm with a special welcome performance by Ray Kelly Jnr.  Joseph Lycett, 'Aborigines cooking and eating beached whales, Newcastle, New South Wales', c.1817, watercolour, 17.7 x 27.9cm, from The Lycett Album, National Library of Australia. Exhibition dates: 6 - 30 May 2015 Original artifacts, flora and fauna will accompany early images by European artists, and will set the scene as the exhibition follows the history and development of Newcastle from an Aboriginal perspective. Photographs will also mark the ever-changing contemporary landscapes within the community. This exhibition is a part of a series of events celebrating the University of Newcastle’s 50th anniversary, and is presented in association with The Wollotuka Institute: a leader in Indigenous education at the University of Newcastle. Please join us to celebrate at the opening. Entry is free, all are welcome and refreshments will be served. Your RSVP is appreciated, phone 02 49215255 or email gallery@newcastle.edu.au  Andrew Snelgar's exhibition Ngurrampa (dreaming) will also be in the Senta Taft-Hendry Museum (below the University Gallery) until Saturday 10th May
Andrew Snelgar creates traditional forms and fuctional objects inscribed with contemporary imagery. The traditional forms hold individual stories originating from the Ngemba tribe, with the context connecting to the ocean and the land where animals and fish are harvested. Andrew Snelgar is an Aboriginal artist from the Ngemba people whose lands are in the western region of New South Wales. Image: Andrew Snelgar, three miru (spearthrowers): Eagle & Crow, Lore Circles, Waa Wauy (Rainbow Serpent). Join artists Grant Vercoe and Louise McAlpine to celebrate the opening of their Masters (Philosophy) exhibitions at the University Gallery. Grant Vercoe: Manhattan and the merging of Modernism Louise McAlpine: Hapticivism: haptic + activism - An Artistic Imperative Opening: Saturday 18 April at 2pm
Drawing inspiration from the great modern architectural icons of Manhattan, New York, Grant Vercoe’s paintings aim to visually articulate the experience of the scale of the metropolis. His Masters research explores recent responses to the architecture of Modernism, Neo-Modernism and post-modernist Deconstructive architecture. This exhibition of paintings is drawn from a body of photographic images captured on a research trip to New York in June 2011.
As an object maker, the media Louise McAlpine creates with are mainly of a textile nature. The touch sense is the “curator” in the studio, negotiating the other senses and the final word rests with “touch”. Here, in her Masters exhibition, the visual and haptic senses combine to create a handcrafted oeuvre. McAlpine’s work seeks to interrupt experience and replace it with a more sensual alternative, one which questions temporality and existence. Please join us to celebrate at the opening. Entry is free, all are welcome and refreshments will be served. Your RSVP is appreciated, phone 02 49215255 or email gallery@newcastle.edu.au |
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Header image: Michael Chapman, Digital Tapestry, Apocalypse, 2021, University Gallery. Image courtesy the artist.