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‘Fin’ is a body of work developed throughout 2013 by graduating students from the Bachelor of Illustration, NMIT. The show celebrates a diversity of practice, covering a broad range of approaches from the hand drawn, to digital illustration, painting, animation, installation, sculpture and sequential artwork. ‘Fin’ showcases a selection of works, expressing notions relating […]
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‘Fin’ is a body of work developed throughout 2013 by graduating students from the Bachelor of Illustration, NMIT. The show celebrates a diversity of practice, covering a broad range of approaches from the hand drawn, to digital illustration, painting, animation, installation, sculpture and sequential artwork. ‘Fin’ showcases a selection of works, expressing notions […]
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‘Fin’ is a body of work developed throughout 2013 by graduating students from the Bachelor of Illustration, NMIT. The show celebrates a diversity of practice, covering a broad range of approaches from the hand drawn, to digital illustration, painting, animation, installation, sculpture and sequential artwork. ‘Fin’ showcases a selection of works, expressing notions relating to […]
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33 Carat showcases the creative works of the 2013 jewellery students at NMIT. This year’s exhibition will unveil the unique pieces produced by the diverse makers graduating from the course. 33 Carat is the culmination of two years of intensive hand-skill training and personal investigation of jewellery and silversmithing methods. From dazzling precious gems to […]
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33 Carat showcases the creative works of the 2013 jewellery students at NMIT. This year’s exhibition will unveil the unique pieces produced by the diverse makers graduating from the course. 33 Carat is the culmination of two years of intensive hand-skill training and personal investigation of jewellery and silversmithing methods. From dazzling precious gems to steel and […]
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33 Carat showcases the creative works of the 2013 jewellery students at NMIT. This year’s exhibition will unveil the unique pieces produced by the diverse makers graduating from the course. 33 Carat is the culmination of two years of intensive hand-skill training and personal investigation of jewellery and silversmithing methods. From dazzling precious gems to steel and bones, […]
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Gallery 1 The exhibitors are both established and emerging artists: defined by the fluidity with which their practices move across the fields of both art and design. This exhibition provides a range of stimulating imagery, incorporating different methods, materials and media. Featuring: Anne Bennett, Simon Bowland, Annie Fitton, Kate Geck, Colleen Morris, Alan Nguyen, Mietta Preston, Stephen Pascoe.
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Gallery 2 In A slow swarm across the surface hypnagogic shapes unfurl amongst clouds of sampled text, layering and intersecting over the surfaces of the artworks to create new forms and figures. The exhibition explores the concept of incidental abstraction, using found fragments that collide in colour-coded arrangements. Common to all works is a processing […]
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Gallery 3 This exhibition explores the form, purpose and significance of the female breast. The complex and challenging experiences of motherhood, femininity, and nurturing are expressed through a series of wood-carvings and drawings. A number of dualities are brought to light in Virgona’s works including; femininity and masculinity, softness and hardness, containment and release, inner […]
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Interactive structures. Immersive environments. Sensory theatre. Sensorium navigates the various modes of human perception such as sight, sound, touch and scent through interdisciplinary artistic practice. Interact with structures that function as analogue communication devices; engage with generative new media works that use algorithms to explore the relationship between frequency and matter; view optical paintings that promote […]
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Within the curatorial scaffolding of Sensorium, Roundangle presents a live art experience with smell as its central provocation. Pivoting around an olfactory evocation of the seven cardinal vices, audience members are enticed into an interactive dining event entitled Potion, Dining with the Scent of Sins. Upon being greeted by a Maître d’ and ensemble of […]
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Interactive structures. Immersive environments. Sensory theatre. Sensorium navigates the various modes of human perception such as sight, sound, touch and scent through interdisciplinary artistic practice. Interact with structures that function as analogue communication devices; engage with generative new media works that use algorithms to explore the relationship between frequency and matter; view optical paintings that promote […]
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Gallery 3 Everything’s Fine furthers Hook’s exploration of drawing as a storytelling device. The seemingly familiar imagery gleaned from a domestic context, is used to establish an immediate connection with the viewer. However, there is an insidiousness to these works that belies the readings they initially generate and closer inspection will reveal an ominous undercurrent or […]
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Gallery 2 This exhibition documents the life of a mysterious and adventurous old man. John Culver is the life-long companion of the artist’s sub-conscious and his identity has been forged through a mixture of memory, make-believe, heartache and aspiration. For those who have known him he is the ultimate avatar into a world of hope […]
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Gallery 1 Presence and Absence, is a large-scale photographic exploration into ‘Shibui’ and ‘Shibusa’, referring to a particular Japanese aesthetic of simple, subtle and unobtrusive beauty. Shibusa has been said to have seven attributes: simplicity, implicitness, modesty, tranquillity, naturalness, roughness, and normalcy. The concept represents an openness to nature and an appreciation of the irregularities […]
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Gallery 1 + 2 Laos born Australian artist Sittoula Sitlakone employs the activist strategies of street art fused with the vernacular of advertising in a discussion around Australian identity. Utilising the tactics of culture jamming or subvertising, Sitlakone takes existing cultural icons and subverts them for the purposes of political critique. National identity, cross cultural […]
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Gallery 3 ‘It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.’ Gaston Bachelard, 1958 Informed by the philosophical theories of Gaston Bachelard, expressed in his seminal work The Poetics of Space, Robertson’s paintings are concerned with the lived experience of architectural spaces and the idealistic desire for perfect surroundings that […]
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Gallery 1 + 2 Laos born Australian artist Sittoula Sitlakone employs the activist strategies of street art fused with the vernacular of advertising in a discussion around Australian identity. Utilising the tactics of culture jamming or subvertising, Sitlakone takes existing cultural icons and subverts them for the purposes of political critique. National identity, cross cultural […]
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Gallery 3 Tinpalit’s surrealist sculptural works explore the intuitive dance of intention, reciprocation and observation that occurs when becoming acquainted with a stranger. There are, to various degrees, always primal motivations within this human facade. False pretense is common and often subconscious and this is represented by the various masks in this series. – PT Tinpalit’s eccentric […]
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Gallery 2 Disarmingly subtle, beautifully detailed and intoxicating in their gentle ferocity, Lester’s invocations of totem creatures take us into a world of animalistic power. The depiction of animal counterparts traced around human heads points towards the physical and mental cohesion attained by identifying an inner beast, which can release and instil a purity of […]
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Gallery 1 Bilimoria’s photographic practice explores the push and pull of opposing polarities, in-between spaces and the cyclical nature of concepts and things. Fragments of text, a solitary fingerprint, the effervescent blur of a butterfly wing are all mined for their poetic and emotive potential as Bilimoria estranges familiar objects from easily recognisable and categorical […]
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Gallery 1 Walsh’s emotionally driven and beautifully sensitive paintings resonate with pathos, as scenes of human connection are rendered in bleeding washes of fleeting fragility. Delicately delineated in ink, watercolour and oil, these deeply psychological portraits and groups convey the subtle dynamics of body language and facial expression. Evoking memories of the past, these odes […]
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Gallery 2 Fabian Rojas’s artistic practice employs an analytical and reflective view of the self within various social, personal and cultural contexts. In my work, I internalize and de-construct the notion of the self and the possible displacement of its existence in a technological world. By engaging and interrogating the subject within the present habitus, Fabian Rojas […]
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Gallery 3 These bold and complex images have been inspired by a deep theoretic engagement with the notion of identity, which is inherently layered. In these beguiling portrayals of alternating presence and absence, tonality is employed to an electrifying degree, resulting in a visual experience that reflects the fluctuating nature of consciousness, subjectivity and selfhood. […]
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Gallery 1 + 2 Steve May’s large scale, unconventional portraits depict an eclectic gaggle of archetypal characters. Often rendered in dramatic chiaroscuro, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, features sharp suited Italian gangsters, tattooists, angelic looking children, and a gun toting bad boy from Neighbours. While executed in a figurative realist style, these works are loaded […]
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Gallery 3 In this body of work, Chang questions the linear conception of time as flowing towards a singular trajectory. Time instead, is conceived as a stratified continuum or a series of layers, a fusion of memory, subjectivity and context. This notion of layering is central to Chang’s practice, as an aesthetic directive, a creative […]
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Gallery 1 Wood allows us to take a moment to appreciate the inherent beauty of this material and to reflect on its unique contribution to human life. Gaunt’s muted tonal drawings delineate a contrast between the organic and the industrial, using wood as a symbol of human intervention in the natural world. That Gaunt has used […]
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Gallery 2 Travis Vella’s bold delivery of surreal and striking imagery takes the viewer into the unfathomable realm of the artist’s subconscious. The disorienting effect is deliberate, as Vella seeks to convey the plurality of meaning that exists within the inter-subjective framework through which we form our understanding of the world and each other. Vella’s […]
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Gallery 3 Georgie Flood’s paintings evoke the sense of an unexpected confrontation, a moment of shock, an unwanted advance or a surprise encounter. They emit a raw immediacy that belies confidence and control. An estranged allure takes hold, oscillating between desire and horror, between image and brushstroke. Flood obsessively combs the Internet for sources. She […]
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Gallery 3 Ngaere Guyatt repurposes the worn dilapidated artifacts of our throwaway consumer culture to produce her latest series – Second Life. Through processes of bricolage, Guyatt creates three dimensional assemblages and wall relief works. Elevated to the status of an art object, the urban detritus undergoes a process of transformation; becoming a transformational object […]
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Gallery 2 Susie Leahy Raleigh’s vibrant aqueous surfaces are informed by a personal response to atmospheric phenomena, altered states of mind and consciousness. Exploring psychedelic ideas and aesthetics, these abstract works endeavor to stimulate the senses and provoke an intoxicating affect in the viewer. Produced by pouring transparent and metallic inks onto a perpex […]
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Gallery 1 Olivia Pintos – Lopez’s practice is concerned with the fleetingly precious nature of objects, and their ability to briefly contain symbolic meaning beyond their materiality. Using salvaged fragments and found materials that are selected for their transient nature or associative value, Pintos – Lopez assembles figurative objects. Constructed as analog avatars, t he […]
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Gallery 1 In this series of works Stephenson explores her own place in the Earth’s geological timeline, utilising the stratified layering of the landscape as a framework of enquiry for her own personal journey. Combining a diverse array of photographic imagery, mixed media works and artist’s books, and incorporating museological display strategies, Stephenson poses questions […]
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Gallery 2 Dark, gritty, and often imbued with a menacing sense of disquiet, Pellatt’s landscapes and urbanscapes are intended to elicit a connection with the viewer on a more primordial level. Captured during twilight’s cusp or first the light of morning, these scenes signify a time in the theatre of the day, to either awaken […]
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Gallery 3 In Crossroads – Twice Upon a Time, five artistsquestion the trajectory of technological and cultural progression. Using a diverse array of mediums and procedures that range from sculpture and assemblage through to print, photography and new media, the works in this show represent varying responses to a number of sociological evolutions and regressions. Poised at […]
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Gallery 1 The series of works in Kate Wallace’s Moving Still snatch moments in time from the restless circulation of city life. Using imagery familiar to every commuter,Moving Still adopts the train carriage as a device to frame fragments of everyday narrative. In Wallace’s hands, the public space of the train carriage – which is both moving and […]
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Gallery 2 June Chen’s latest body of work is an investigation of the self-portrait. Using a series of glossy, studio photographs of her own face as a starting point, the artist enacts a process of defacement. Making precise, almost surgical, cuts directly into the photographic surface, Chen’s method is as delicate as it is violent. […]
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Gallery 3 In his exhibition You Have Been Loved, Troy Argyros turns his attention to the tokens and treasures in which nostalgia and memory are contained. The small and highly particular items that Argyros depicts hold the imprint of experience. A particular smell, the texture of a certain fabric, a scrap of wallpaper from your childhood […]
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Gallery 2 Cuevas’ practice explores the contrast between apparent chaos; the random, the incidental, and the generated, versus an imposed order that references human intervention and an attempt to observe or control. These works draw on a diverse constellation of subject matter ranging from cellular biology and Buddhism, through to the everyday, as well as […]
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Gallery 1 Land Where You Fall is a body of work that concentrates on the familiar forms and signs found within our regular surroundings. Moving over the asphalt road like a carpet veiling the land, I am directed by arrows, cordoned by lines, and managed by traffic lights. Roaming through urban spaces I am lead, ushered […]
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Gallery 3 At the heart of the Celtic world is the art of storytelling. In Scottish Folklore there abound stories of imaginary creatures, both benign and malevolent. Some are hybrids neither human nor beast, others are spirits from the supernatural world. Created narratives go back centuries and are part of childhood. They also serve another […]
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Gallery 1 Someone Somebody Run is an exhibition representing a seven year collaboration between two artists dedicated to the art of printmaking, the artists’ book and a shared interest in Australia’s history. Their artists’ books, prints and mixed media works reveal contemporary responses to two of Sydney’s historical colonial sites where the unwanted and […]
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Gallery 2 ‘Every life leaves a trace’ – Walter Benjamin A seed is the trace of a tree – the one from which it fell, and the one into which it will grow. We live in the present, but are surrounded by signs and traces of what has been and what will be, those who […]
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Gallery 3 Taylor’s artistic practice explores the interstice between representations of the rural and the urban through a visual language that oscillates between abstraction and representation. “The Australian rural landscape has a perceived aesthetic, through my paintings I am exploring how urban development is causing this scenery to change.” The outer urban fringe is a […]
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Energy from stillness harnesses the strength and imagination from 2 and 3 dimensional artworks to create an art exhibition that is truly one of beauty. Each piece deconstructs what we perceive as energy and displays this to the viewer in an almost tangible form. This is achieved through the skillful use of the fundamentals of […]
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