http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 Tracing site: relocating the museum from Wood St to Honeysuckle 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 ]]> Site tracing: culture, identity, site and place 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 ]]> Forsythes collectors care http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:12558 Works exhibited include: 'Haptic Memory No 2', 'Haptic Memory No 5', 'Haptic Memory No 7', 'Haptic Memory No 8'. 2013-02-21T04:10:17.904Z ]]> 1000 small boxes http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:12560 Works exhibited include: 'Down #1', 'Down #2' 2013-02-21T04:10:17.868Z ]]> 100 women http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:12559 Works exhibited include: 'Pippa Robinson', 'Julie Ainsworth', 'Pamela Connell', 'Eugenie Lumbers'. 2013-02-21T04:10:02.661Z ]]> Proto-animate²⁰ http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:10324 Can non-coding DNA be given a new lease of life through modern biotech processes? Proto-animate is concerned with genetic material that is considered inanimate in so far as it does not code for proteins within the genomic environment. However, these strands of non-coding DNA do have potential properties as yet to be comprehensively defined. In Proto-animate a novel code sequence is comprised of 158 DNA letters (bases) derived from what is considered a non-coding region of a gene. This gene known as the APOE gene (Apolipoprotein E) is associated with Alzheimer’s disease in humans. This sequence was inserted in E.coli bacteria and is the principal creative agent at work. Through this process a previously inanimate, non-coding section of DNA is poetically expressed in interplay of memories and repetition within the artist’s childhood classroom. 2012-03-14T04:36:24.666Z ]]> Re-extended painting http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:10205 This exhibition pursues painting’s extension into other media contexts in order to demonstrate how painting can become something other than itself. Underlying this extension is a fundamental recognition that painters do ‘think-work’ through the performance of painting and the agency of thoughtful making. So we might say that the ‘death’ of painting was never pathological since it continues to work as a homeopathic prescription for the serialised rebirth of painting in ever varying monstrations. 2012-03-14T04:00:02.478Z ]]> Peripatetic painting http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:10206 Genetically modified (gene silenced), emergent painting (dimensions emergent and temporal). 2012-03-14T04:00:02.215Z ]]> JDoe: Alzheimer's portraits series http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:10323 These paintings were made with a new transgenic organism as the medium - a strain of E. coli bacteria that Brodyk himself created by mixing genes for a glowing molecule from jellyfish (green fluorescent protein) along with human genes connected to Alzheimer's disease. 2012-03-07T04:40:03.197Z ]]> Solar arc http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4252 Works exhibited: Beside glass; Eos; Mt Irvine door; Mt Tomah sundial; Tent; Mirror; Corner; Chair; Piano; Fence; Autumn; Leaves; Prayer flags; Blind. 2012-02-14T21:20:01.961Z ]]> In between space http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4230 Anne Graham constructed eight rooms corresponding to a normal dwelling: a bedroom, a bathroom, a kitchen, a studio, a library, a living room, an office and a gallery. Everyday routines that occur while occupying these spaces became the formal framework for the work. The actions and the objects in the spaces were intended to be more than functional: the spaces became ‘social sculptures’. Quite, intimate and familiar activities appeared strange due to their displacement. By evoking associations, the spaces, actions and objects became, in effect, ‘transitional objects or phenomena’. These rooms, in the words of Gordon Matta Clark, are intended to take “a normal situation and retranslate it into overlapping and multiple readings of conditions past and present”. 2010-07-15T06:19:16.832Z ]]> Outside inside: fragments in place http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4246 This project explored the idea of art as an instrument for the re-interpretation of histories and stories and the possibility of art as an interpretive and educative tool. The Brigham Young University Museum of Art is located in the heart of Utah and the University houses an archive devoted to the genealogy of the Mormon people. The work concerned the lives of the women who were part of the initial pioneering population of Utah. The role and strength of early pioneer women has tended to be been undervalued and under explored and responses to their contribution have tended to be through literature rather than through a material/visual exploration of artefacts and domestic interventions. 2010-07-14T01:08:53.003Z ]]> Nine dragons http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4247 The work for this exhibition was titled ‘Angels and Insects’, composed of a sculptural installation which incorporated a performative element. The work raised issues relating to environmental sustainability, real estate and development, the Korean economy and climate change. Art and interactive performance became a novel primary communicative tool in a cross cultural situation. 2010-07-14T01:07:13.078Z ]]> The Snake Path at Nanatsugama http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4234 Anne Graham had the challenging task of creating a major community artwork for the Nanatsugama Fishing Park, a nature reserve in an area famous for its wild, scenic beauty – and for its ancient serpent legend. Graham designed a snake-shaped walkway that sinuously wound around a hillside terminating in a cluster of granite rocks with polished flat tops – a place for meditation, viewing and picnics. Seventy tiled panels were designed by groups drawn from local communities and further afield and then, in a mammoth community workshop attracting well over 1,000 people, assembled and inserted into the walkway. The importance of the project to the community was evident in the formal blessing by village elders followed by an enactment of the serpent legend and the provision of local food and delicacies such as sake in bamboo flasks for all the participants. 2010-07-14T01:03:55.423Z ]]> Abode http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4191 This solo exhibition of ceramic sculptures illuminates traditional kitchen labour as a mainly female activity and in doing so attempts to provoke impetus for change through challenging society’s acceptance of this traditional role. Ironic text embedded into the ceramic sculptures is drawn from Mrs Beeton’s Cookery Book, (c. 1919) and refers to the continuing domestic labour of women today. Assemblage pieces exhibited: (1) Kitchen Advice ; (2) Labour Saving Devices ; (3) Housework ; (4) The Housewife ; (5) Good Cooks ; (6) Labour Saving Devices II ; (7) Meat Beef Veal ; (8) Culinary Utensil ; (9) Multi Wonder ; (10) Household Hints ; (11) The Art of Using Up. 2010-07-13T23:25:51.027Z ]]> JAB: thrust and disrupt http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4243 Works exhibited: (1) 'Barber's pole gift wrap' (2) '(Un)lucky dip fatigue' (3) 'One, or the Other' (4) 'Reading between the li(n)es (Write your own Bible)'. 2010-07-13T05:41:31.445Z ]]> Queer as folk art http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4235 2010-07-13T05:37:32.069Z ]]> Playing with dolls (UK) http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4242 ‘Playing With Dolls’ is a multi-component textile installation contributing to Queer Theory and Craft Theory discourses. This output investigates the Queer and marginalised status of textile Crafts within the Fine Arts discourse: Craft practice can be considered an inherently Queer practice. Here, ‘Queer’ could be defined as non-normative, oppositional, and a reclaiming of the marginalised. Overlaying this is the assertion of the gendered nature of textile practice. It challenges accepted (hetero)normative codification encouraging (re)assessment and (re)evaluation in relation to textile craft, masculinity and (homo)sexuality. 2010-07-13T05:35:34.431Z ]]> Moving the Royal: framing the memories http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6340 2010-07-13T02:17:45.904Z ]]> Moving the Royal: framing the memories http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4175 The context of this work was the relocation of the iconic Royal Newcastle Hospital to a new site at John Hunter Hospital. This project did not seek the large landmarks of change but the memorabilia of small acts, the detritus of daily activities and the repeated tasks which make up daily working life. The trauma of moving became a celebration of the past, and, rather than generating fear of an unknown future, the move provided the opportunity for new expressions of identity and vision. 2010-07-13T02:14:52.552Z ]]> Listening: indigenous voices on the Central Coast http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6372 ‘Listening: Indigenous voices on the Central Coast’ aimed to contribute to knowledge about the little known Indigenous history of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, and to operate as a medium of reconciliation at the community level. Central to these objectives was the unique research process that centered on Indigenous epistemologies in the production and dissemination of new knowledge. Indigenous voices were centered at all stages of the research project, involving the sharing of research outcomes for and with the Indigenous community. Culturally appropriate mediums of storytelling and performance were selected over text based academic journals. With an all-Indigenous steering committee of elders and representatives from local Indigenous organizations established to guide the process, members of the local Darkinjung community shared their life stories as the basis for the performance script. The medium of verbatim performance was employed to ensure that the voices of the storytellers were not appropriated. 2010-07-13T02:04:51.096Z ]]> X_T XenoBiotic_Art http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4205 This exhibition shows art images addressing the following question. What can be achieved specifically by using these biotechnology and science materials and processes as models for art processes and materials? In so doing it develops a broader societal engagement with and understanding of certain aspects of the multifarious questions posed by this science and technology for contemporary society. 2010-07-13T01:57:26.522Z ]]> Glo©k gene http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4203 The hybrid installation "glo©k gene" is a work in progress. "glo©k gene" uses living material as a new art medium. It employs the processes used in biotechnology involving genetic engineering as new media art protocols to critique both art and science. [transgenic E-coli bacteria sealed in double perspex containers; slide projection; UV light; stroboscope light; electric cables and fittings]. 2010-07-13T01:50:57.846Z ]]> World towns: a photographic exhibition of people and their environments in small towns of the world http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4256 There are six World-Towns in this exhibition: Shiida, Japan; Otorohanga, New Zealand; Dolores, USA; Martel, France; Frigiliana, Spain; and Gloucester, Australia. The photographs are of people and their environments. They describe the way of life, architecture, landscape and ambience within these small towns, and, in doing so, depict and reflect upon our sense of place. 2010-07-13T01:44:25.765Z ]]> Only emotion endures http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6365 ‘Only Emotion Endures’ is a solo exhibition combining creative writing with sculpture and screenprints. Using a phrase by the American poet Ezra Pound, “Only emotion endures”, as its title placed the language-based sculptures and screenprints into a context of poetic sensibility through its reference to mortality and the power of feelings, using words of poetry as key elements in the construction of artworks. 2010-07-13T01:13:18.990Z ]]> Ngarrama, a lakeside dialogue between Birabahn, Threlkeld and … http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6358 'Ngarrama, a lakeside dialogue between Birabahn, Threlkeld and …', the performance at the centre of the Birabahn/Threlkeld Research Project tells the story of contact and cooperation between Threlkeld and Birabahn, explores the dialogic relationship between missionary and Aboriginal, archive and repertoire, history and memory, then and now, through contemporary CCD practice and site-specific performance. 2010-07-13T00:50:52.547Z ]]> The new bird http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4218 Natural History illustration is associated with exact depictions of the Natural world. ‘The New Bird’ represents a deviation from this. It imagines what Natural History illustration would look like when confronted with a genetically engineered bird. In this sense the illustration series acts like a silent ‘ironic’ witness observing the ongoing theme about the struggle between Nature and Technology. Using traditional techniques associated with Natural History illustration and under the guise of realism, it questions the results of technological interventions in the avian world. “The New Bird” consists of fifty works (including a limited edition book) around the theme of the ‘manufactured bird’. 2010-07-12T23:52:03.979Z ]]> Still llife moments http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6341 'Still Life Moments' is an installation comprised of a digital movie of the same name, and three digital prints on paper (Still Life Moments I, II, and III). The still life genre has its origins in ancient times, but has been most popular in Western art since the 17th century. It is by its very nature a static analysis of a collection of objects from a fixed viewpoint, usually composed in an interior setting. The digital prints and animations produced for the exhibition “Home is where the art is” challenged this approach and questioned the genre’s relevance to contemporary art practice. The centrepiece of the installation was a multi-faceted time-lapse animation projected onto the top surface of a table style gallery plinth. Inspired by cubism, this kaleidoscopic animated image re-presented a sunlit version of a traditional viewpoint juxtaposed with views from below photographed through both clear and diffused glass over a fourteen-hour period. 2010-07-12T23:26:08.224Z ]]> A voyage of discovery http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4201 Artworks from the Canning Stock Route expedition. 2010-07-12T23:17:37.138Z ]]> A dozen or so eggs: patterns from the past 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 ]]> Exhumed http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4257 Work exhibited as part of the exhibition ‘Reactions’ held in New York at the renown experimental art forum venue known as Exit Art Gallery. 2010-06-15T08:24:34.175Z ]]> Works on paper http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4255 2010-06-15T08:22:00.415Z ]]> Time shift: Birka light http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4254 Medium: projection - digital animation. Dimensions variable. 2010-06-15T08:19:41.037Z ]]> San Gimignano Obscura http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4253 The ‘San Gimignano Obscura’ work was exhibited as part of the Gosford Art Prize. 2010-06-15T08:18:30.264Z ]]> Memory and Things http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4251 Works exhibited: Mrs Ella Perrett and her comb, Mrs Elsie Grisdale and her jewels and porcelain pig, Mrs Elma Spruce and her hat, Miss Mavis Green and her nurses uniform, Mrs Topsy Lyon and her husbands walking stick, Mrs Joyce Horton and her garden, Mrs Pat Lyon and her elephant, Mrs Jean Jones and her pot, Mrs Betty Teal and her things, Mrs Vi Lyons and some of her things; at Westcott Retirement Village. 2010-06-15T08:15:57.276Z ]]> The museum of the new bird http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4241 TREVOR WEEKES' portraits of birds are out-of-this-world. His paintings are animated insights into the lives of the feathered flocks of WEEKES' imagination. WEEKES has an infectious enthusiasm for nature, especially animals. He is inspired by animals' ability to adapt and evolve to ever changing environments. WEEKES works across many disciplines including painting, drawing and sculpture. His work is always full of humour, mythic history, inventiveness and uncanny reality. 2010-06-15T07:57:06.164Z ]]> Emergence http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4240 This large multi-piece installation, entitled Emergence, was exhibited as part of The Figure in Question exhibition at Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery. 2010-06-15T07:56:26.020Z ]]> Self-portrait with black dog http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4239 This work attempts to provide insight into the psychological states engendered by the migrant experience. 2010-06-15T07:51:39.098Z ]]> Recent art signs and word sculptures http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4238 2010-06-15T07:49:17.580Z ]]> Playing with dolls (Finland) http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4236 Site specific installation of 'Playing with Dolls' for art museum display in Finland, 2005. 2010-06-15T07:43:30.206Z ]]> Playing with dolls II (USA) http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4233 Site specific installation of 'Playing with Dolls II' for arts festival display in the US, 2006. 2010-06-15T07:42:06.828Z ]]> Wish transmitter http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4232 2010-06-15T07:36:20.012Z ]]> Playing with dolls II (Lithuania) http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4231 Site specific installation of 'Playing with Dolls II' for gallery display in Lithuania, 2007. 2010-06-15T07:34:51.443Z ]]> Ms Fortuna goes Greek http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4229 Ms Fortuna is the creation of Brisbane-based performance artists Wendy McPhee and Richard Vella. 2010-06-15T07:28:50.005Z ]]> Festivus 04 http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4228 2010-06-15T07:28:13.627Z ]]> The fishing park http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4226 2010-06-15T07:26:55.137Z ]]> Ms Fortuna in Private dancer http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4225 Ms Fortuna in Private Dancer is a variety show for adults. Ms Fortuna in Private Dancer dissolves the boundaries between performer and audience... the question is: who is watching whom? Ms Fortuna is the creation of Brisbane-based performance artist Wendy McPhee and Richard Vella. 2010-06-15T07:06:28.440Z ]]> Life lines: the human arm as the basis of flight http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4224 2010-06-15T07:05:52.811Z ]]> Portraits from nature http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4221 2010-06-15T06:58:32.612Z ]]> There is beauty in everything http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4219 2010-06-15T06:57:51.452Z ]]> Charting memory, framing memory http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4217 Charting Memory, Framing Memory juxtaposes romantic images of nostalgia with associations of order, measure and structure. These ideas function as tensioning devices that question attempts to place them at opposing ends of a spectrum. As shown in the works of the Lawry and Schofield, the intricate workings of memory need not be separated by the language of art, science and community; they are fuelled by dynamic combinations of these frameworks of knowledge. 2010-06-15T06:54:35.591Z ]]> Aristophanes' Lysistrata http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4215 Production of the Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes. Directed and translated by Michael Ewans. 2010-06-15T06:34:41.927Z ]]> Aristophanes' The women's festival http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4214 Production of the Greek play The Women's Festival by Aristophanes. Directed and translated by Michael Ewans. 2010-06-15T06:34:00.773Z ]]> Australian horizon http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4213 Exhibition of Australian photographic images presented in Japan. 2010-06-15T06:33:24.801Z ]]> Shiida return (hometown Shiida) http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4212 2010-06-15T06:32:45.109Z ]]> Idenities Australiennes http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4211 2010-06-15T06:31:30.158Z ]]> The Rouchel bushmans carnival and the Rouchel http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4210 Allan Chawner's constellation of photographs entitled The Rouchel Bushmans Carnival and the Rouchel is a chronicle of life in a small rural community in the upper Hunter Valley in NSW. Foe almost 20 years, Chawner and his family have visited The Rouchel, their annual pilgrimage focused around the calendar event of The Rouchel Bushmans Carnival, which forms the heart of this exhibition. 2010-06-15T06:30:54.700Z ]]> DNArt http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4209 The installation 'DeoxyriboNucleicArt' is a work in progress. The inanimate sources used in this installation are fragments derived from biotech industry company warehouses, laboratories and research facilities. 2010-06-15T06:29:54.909Z ]]> World towns, Gloucester http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4208 Photographic exhibition consisting of images of the town Gloucester, New South Wales. 2010-06-15T06:28:52.958Z ]]> 488nm http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4207 2010-06-15T06:28:16.899Z ]]> Never done http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4193 Works exhibited: (1) Bread (2) Butter Pats (3) Colander (4) Funnel (5) Jelly Mould (6) Knife (7) Mincer (8) Rolling Pin. 2010-06-15T05:54:03.623Z ]]> Beaten and battered http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4192 Works exhibited: 'Beater', 'Handmixer', 'Hydromixer', 'Kan Mixer', and 'Sunbeam Mixer'. 2010-06-15T05:47:25.252Z ]]> Pink II http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4188 Works exhibited include: 'Actinidia', 'Auberg', 'Citron', 'Cucurbit', 'Sieversii'. 2010-06-15T05:27:19.866Z ]]> New adventures of Mark Twain: coalopolis to metropolis http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4186 Works exhibited: 'Builder', 'Cowboy', 'Football', 'Huck Finn', 'The Lone Ranger', 'Medic', 'Officer', and 'Tom Sawyer'. 2010-06-15T05:24:23.212Z ]]> 108 clouds for coming rain 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 ]]> Sign language http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4180 Works exhibited: Wrong Day Go Back, Exit Strategy, No Understanding, Notice. The Seymour Theatre Centre Foyers will be transformed into an alternate universe where obeying signs may become incredibly confusing. In Richard Tipping’s world, Stop may become Go, the sign on the door may say Come in We’re Closed and a Roundabout may be your Exit sign. Legalise Acne Now! 2010-06-15T05:21:14.088Z ]]> Playing with dolls (Norway) http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4179 Like most schools in the UK (and Australia) from 6-16 years you wear a school uniform. During school hours you put fashion aside and take on a similar appearance. What are the reasons for doing this? To remove the pressure of having to compete with your fellow students in the style stakes. To remove the pressure on your parents wallets! We all know fashion costs and not everyone can join in. To maintain discipline like an army of students under the schools control! What do you think? Let’s look at Brett Alexander’s work: “Playing with Dolls” - Rows of identical little outfits. Are we all the same? If you look closely the text sewn onto the uniforms are different however. Some of the words are harsh and cruel. This artwork takes a critical look at stereotyping and the problems of forcing people into narrow categories because of their gender or sexual orientation. Brett Alexander is a gay artist who grew up in Australia. He wants to challenge us through his textile works and invites us perhaps to consider that we are all complex human beings in a wider society with diverse tastes and interests that make us individuals and communities. Stereotyping can be repressive and limiting, and can restrict a person’s freedom of expression. 2010-06-15T05:16:44.771Z ]]> Street talk http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4176 2010-06-15T05:11:44.366Z ]]> New adventures of Mark Twain: coalopolis to metropolis http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4174 Works exhibited: Excursion 1. Imposingly framed in woody hills. Excursion 2. With spacious views of stream and lake. Excursion 3. Every now and then the noblest groupings of mountains. Excursion 4. The most enchanting rearrangements of the effects. Excursion 5. Further along, green flats, thinly covered with gum forests. 2010-06-15T04:43:54.511Z ]]> Verve http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4173 The exhibition, curated by Miranda Lawry and Trevor Weekes, showcases the wide range of the Fine Art staff’s art practice executed in the mediums of painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and works on paper. 2010-06-15T04:42:24.908Z ]]> Drawn from the archive http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4220 2010-05-26T06:59:20.755Z ]]> Sloboda: bolest (freedom's pain) http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6338 Multi-part installation. 2010-05-24T05:10:01.890Z ]]> Symbolique http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6336 12 piece exhibition. 2010-05-24T05:00:03.073Z ]]> Paper road Geneva 2003 http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6337 Multi-part installation. 2010-05-24T05:00:02.423Z ]]> Paper road: heading to East http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6335 Multi-piece installation. 2010-05-24T05:00:02.404Z ]]> Paper island: First International Symposium of Paper Artists, Krapanj http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6334 Multi-piece installation. 2010-05-24T05:00:01.415Z ]]> Five x five http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6331 Work consists of five pieces, fitting with the title of the exhibition. 2010-05-24T04:50:02.307Z ]]> White greetings for Belarus http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6332 Installation using paper art. 2010-05-24T04:50:01.707Z ]]> 9th Jeonju Paper Culture Festival 2005 http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6333 Multi-piece installation. 2010-05-24T04:50:01.696Z ]]> Interpretations 'Coal River Precinct' http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6329 Works exhibited: 'Breathe I' and 'Breathe II'. 2010-05-24T04:40:01.261Z ]]> New adventures of Mark Twain: coalopolis to metropolis http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4178 Works exhibited: 'Tomfoolery: Land of the Free (to Bear Arms)' [wall display], 'Crime Scene: Hate Crime - Road Kill' [floor display]. 2010-04-27T05:26:20.371Z ]]>