Category: 2007

Gallery 3 Mary Sutherland visually interprets the notion of the heart. Her water colour and wax works on paper investigate not only the romantic and poetic notions of the word but also the medieval and mystical. Sutherland has set up an intriguing dialogue between the viewer and the image. The heart becomes a vessel, a…

Gallery 2 How is one truth measured against another? How is meaning uncovered from the morass of syntax constantly flooding through our field of view?  Exploratorium researches the notion that we are all scientists. Investigations are based upon lived experience where the hypothesis is altered as we move along in post-quantum space and time. Nicholas Kallincos’…

Gallery 1 Jane Gollan captures the elusive qualities of light and colour. Her research is a constant investigation into the varied and often unexpected shifts of natural and artificial light within the domestic realm. The play of refracted and reflected light on interior spaces and surfaces forms the foundation for her work. Smooth surfaces of…

How The Light Gets In 2007 RMIT Photography Department Graduates How the light gets in is an exhibition of work fresh from the 2007 RMIT Fine Art Photography graduates.  The work investigates an eclectic mix of contemporary issues. From observations on the new Australian vista to addressing concerns in contemporary feminism, the images are raw yet…

dot-net-dot-my Gallery 3 dot-net-dot-my is the result of separate residencies undertaken by Australian artists Tim Craker and Louise Saxton in Malaysia. Building upon their shared interests in pattern and Asian culture, both artists re-invent the net as an object that can entrap, protect, or shield. Referencing the decorative traditions of Islamic patterns and Western handiwork, dot-net-dot-my weaves together influences…

Gallery 2 Victoria’s coastline is littered with shipwrecks from a time before adequate shipping charts and navigation equipment.  Stories of sunken treasure, survival and loss, are part of what makes the sea a place of mystery and danger. Siobhan Punshon is interested in the connection between the romance of the sea, and the practical aspects…

Gallery 1 Lidia Gertig’s recent body of work tumbles out of childhood, through innocence and lands with a dark thud flat onto the face of canvas. Black silhouetted figures fleet across the image like apparitions of tightly held memories. Gertig’s work focuses on the emotional strength, observant nature and candid disposition of children during times…

Gallery 3 If a photograph was taken every one tenth of a second, then a day would be made up of 864 000 photographs. How many of these photographs would be remembered? Each photograph would have no meaning without the context of the photographs before and the photographs after. Each snapshot would be a brief…

Gallery 2 Anke Stäcker’s photographic works investigate and record the changing urban environment.transitory explores the ephemeral nature of places and buildings which are then translated into abstract patterns. Sections of wall, corrugated iron and abandoned structures weave together fragments of history. While the photographed image remains as a form of truth, Stäcker has lightly left her…

Gallery 1 Nicola Page Page explores the relationship between the digital manipulation of images and the traditional practice of painting. The use of Photoshop has seen the simplification of form, flattening of colour and deletion of image detail. Information is lost as it is processed from subject to digital photograph. Page is interested in these…