http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:12557 Tracing Site is a vehicle for understanding and picturing change, the closure of one site and the creation of a new one. The objects and exhibitions have been moved on, the old buildings are left to start a new life under different ownership. The artists become the medium through which individuals and groups have expressed their feelings and concerns for an enterprise that promised so much but was eventually abandoned in favour of a new and different model. It was perhaps fitting that there was a link created between the Museum, the closure of the steelworks and the University. Newcastle Steelworks was once the largest employer in the region, that mantle has now passed to the University. The end of steel-making brought the financial possibility of change for the museum and the university, both sharing in the BHP Legacy. Tracing Site is an academic research exercise that attempts to capture the emotions of community unease and attempts to keep up with the inevitable nature of change which rules our times. 2013-02-21T04:10:27.472Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:12556 Site Tracing: culture, identity, site and place is an experimental installation featuring images and texts from the Tracing Site public participation project. It showcases the work of University of Newcastle staff Brett Alexander, Miranda Lawry, Angela Philp, Pam Sinnott, Kris Smith, Trevor Weekes and Patricia Wilson-Adams. The exhibition is to be opened by Gavin Fry Director of the Newcastle Museum. 2013-02-21T04:10:27.459Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4182 Museums are increasingly questioning and reinvigorating their programmes in order to maintain relevance and to reach wider audiences in more meaningful ways. These aspects have been the subject of many conferences world wide in recent years and collaborations with artists are now seen as a significant way in which a greater engagement with audiences can be achieved. This installation work was made at the invitation of the Newcastle Region Museum for an exhibition titled The Museum as Muse and was aimed at highlighting aspects of the museum’s collection and presenting them in a new and innovative manner. 2010-06-15T08:33:09.872Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4181 This installation work is primarily concerned with the climate change debate which has challenged artists world wide. It references a Japanese aesthetic and its deep associations with nature. The work acknowledges an increasing respect for cross-cultural and Asian concerns in art practice in this country and in form departs from traditional printmaking practices in that it explores the possibilities of the print as a three dimensional object. 2010-06-15T05:23:06.616Z ]]>