Category: 2012

Gallery 3 Exhibiting artists and designers defined not by their discipline, but by the fluidity with which their practices move between the fields of art and design. Colleen Morris, Stephen Pascoe, Kate Geck, Alan Nguyen, Anne Bennett, Matt Clare, Adam Lee, Adriane Strampp, Simon Bowland, Mietta Preston, Michelle Gillick.

Gallery 1 + 2 See Saw celebrates the culmination of three years of innovation, inspiration and hard work from NMIT’s graduating Bachelor of Illustration students of 2012. This show highlights the student’s exciting contributions to the cutting edge of creative illustration. See Saw pushes at the boundaries of visual communication and questions the role and…

Gallery 1 Rachel Joy’s latest series examines the Australian colonial project as executed by our pioneering forebears. Using iconic colonial images as a reference point, Joy comments on the complex position of animals, which were originally introduced for food, sport, companionship or farm work and are now regarded as feral, with often devastating consequences for…

Gallery 3 Inspired by the aesthetics of the natural world and the dramatic seasonal changes in the Dandenong ranges where she resides, Paula Ewington is enamored with color and texture.Informed by movements such as Impressionism and Post Impressionism, her gouache on canvas works are similarly produced en plein air. Ewington’s landscapes are less about representational…

Gallery 2 Banfield’s finely detailed linocuts and artist books examine the transient nature of memories. Delicately executed using layers of Japanese papers and hand stitching, the works provide us with a commentary on the more minute details of our lives. Through the study of forests and detritus, fallen leaves become an artistic motif that evidences…

Kate Gorringe – Smith, Suzanne Hutton, Monique Keel, Andrej Kocis, Helen Kocis Edwards, Roz Rogers, Jessi Wong and Maurizio Salvati. Mapmakers seek to walk the paths of dreams and render them tangible. In this exhibition, eight artists take the starting point of The Map’s Vocabulary to explore geographic, domestic, historical or emotional territory through traditional and non-traditional printmaking methods,…

Gallery 3 Rebeccah Power executes her latest body of work in a quirky and idiosyncratic painterly language. Using television documentaries based on history and archeology as a starting point, these works celebrate the act of discovery and the processes of uncovering new and unknown territories. In her drawings, Power employs the medium of watercolour on…

  Gallery 2 Centered on a mix ‘n’ match Noah’s Ark procession, Kirsty Fletcher’s new exhibition is a mutant safari of cardboard creatures inspired by nursery motifs and children’s toys. Giraffe in tampon box plaid pants exist amongst hybrid rocking horses and strange bird-girls, deer in neon socks cavort next to a fluorescent camel caravan.…

  Gallery 1 Julie Bradley’s multi layered compositions evoke symbolic incarnations of plants and animals from the Australian landscape. In Shape Shifting Bradley explores the processes of transformation, creating tableaus where forms emerge, overlap and dissipate. This produces areas of transparency and opacity that conjure up oppositions of absence and presence as well as a sense of…

Gallery 3 The artistic works of Ian Wells are primarily concerned with paint and the act of painting as an end in itself. Balancing the notion of risk taking with the certainty that comes from experience is a core tenet in his work. His process oscillates between embracing moments of serendipity, chance and accident and…