Exhibitions

Gondwana was once a great southern continent millions and millions of years ago. Australia, India, Antarctica, South America and Africa were all parts of it. A wonderful menagerie of animals and plants inhabited this ancient land, and their fossils (including dinosaurs, giant lizards and gargantuan ducks!)are on show in this exhibition. Stunning reconstruction art by reknowned Australian painter Peter Trusler brings these ancient relics to life as do a number of documentaries.

Bubbles on the Surface III Exhibition has been extended until 25th March, 2009. This is the culminating Exhibition by Aboriginal artists and researchers working together with Professor Margaret Somerville on her ARC funded project, Bubbles on the Surface: a place pedagogy of the Narran Lake. The artists are affiliated with various language groups who share an interest in the country around waterways in the Murray-Darling Basin. Like bubbles on the surface the project moves along the waterways. All these places, their stories and the connections they create between people and place tell us how to live in country.

Curators: Stephen Bram; Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley; Juan Davila. Continuing MUMA's series of summer season exhibitions exploring aspects of the Monash University Collection, Primary Views invites the insights of four artists represented in the collection. The participating artists - Stephen Bram, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley (working collaboratively) and Juan Davila - were each invited to curate a self-contained exhibition, drawn from the Monash University Collection, according to their own areas of interest, expertise and aesthetic/discursive predilections.

Alternative to classical or canonical art-historical readings, Primary Views considers the role of the artist as curator, encouraging new readings of the collection, and more partial, polemical and aberrant artistic historiographies.

Magistery celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Monash University and 80th Anniversary of further education in Gippsland. Curated by Tony Hanning, this extensive display will showcase the work of 45 artists who have lectured at the Gippsland Centre of Art and Design, and have formed a significant part of Australia's cultural history. Viewers will enjoy a wide range of works and media that blend time-honoured alongside cutting edge, including Adrian Mauriks, Dan Wollmering, Bill Young, Rodney Forbes, Nadine Christensen, Greg Giannis, Neale Stratford and Jon Campbell.

89 employers on campus - to promote 2010 course-related graduate programs and employment as well as to interact with potential candidates. This is a flagship career event open to final year undergraduate and postgraduate students from stated disciplines, all campuses. Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to meet employers from all over Australia and get a headstart in securing your dream graduate job.

Every few years the Library stages an exhibition of material recently acquired for the Monash Rare Book Collection. The focus of collecting in 2009 is mainly the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, reflecting current trends in scholarship at Monash. This current exhibition includes material of interest to the student of popular culture, Australian history and literature, children's books and games. There are also some pre-1800 items from the collection of the late Professor Harold Love, a scholar of the Restoration and of 19th century Australian drama and member of the Monash University English Department.

By hosting a sustainable food expo we will demonstrate how the Monash community can improve their environmental impact through their food choices.

Features of the event include:

mini workshops, exhibitor stalls,presentations and cooking demonstrations by celebrity chef Tobie Puttock of Jamie Oliver's Melbourne restaurant "Fifteen".

By hosting a sustainable food expo we will demonstrate how the Monash community can improve their environmental impact through their food choices. Features of the event include: mini workshops, exhibitor stalls,presentations and cooking demonstrations.

Too much of me: 7 paths through the absurd, (with detour)*

Artists: Ronnie van Hout, Kirsty Hulm, Laith Mcgregor, Stuart Ringholt, Workmanjones, Erwin Wurm
*(Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton)
Curator: Geraldine Barlow

How do we make sense of who we are and our place in the world, a world ambivalent to our existence? Our thirst for meaning fuels our encounters with the absurd; whether unexpected or deliberately sought out. Too much of me creates a number of paths through this terrain, encompassing the philosophical weight of the absurd as well as its relationship to play, creation, ridicule, revolt and freedom. Too much of me features the work of Ronnie van Hout, Kirsty Hulm, Laith Mcgregor, Stuart Ringholt, Workmanjones And Erwin Wurm, with a detour from Samuel Beckett and buster Keaton. The artists in the exhibition work with aspects of personal refection and self-portraiture. If art and self awareness arise from self reflection, what are the dangers of an excess of self reflection - too much of me?

Opening function
Saturday 18 April, 3-5pm with opening welcome at 3:45pm

Pre-opening floor talk
Saturday 18 April, 2.30pm
Join curator Geraldine Barlow in conversation with exhibiting artists Ronnie van Hout, Kirsty Hulm, Patrick Jones (Workmanjones) and Stuart Ringholt.

This exhibition consists of ceramic works which interpret natural forms and are arranged in ordered patterns influenced by the artist's reflections on Buddhist philosophy and nature.

Amorphous bodies / the space between
Peta Clancy works with photography to explore the themes of transience, temporality, mutability and the corporeal and subjective limits of the human body.

Opening function
Thursday 7 May 2009, 5 - 7 pm

Artists Talk
Thursday 7 May 2009, 3 - 4 pm

2009 is the International Year of Astronomy (IYA). Monash University Astronomers have developed an exhibition that explores and explains astronomy and how it is done. You can also buy a coffee downstairs and lounge in our relaxing reading area with books to peruse.

The current Rare Books Collection exhibition in the Matheson Library celebrates two famous authors. Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe are chiefly remembered for the early novels, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. In fact these eighteenth century writers were prodigious writers in many fields.

When Monash University began in 1961, one of the earliest major purchases was of a collection of Swift items. The Library has continued to add early editions and manuscripts to the Swift collection and material relating to Swift's contemporaries, of whom the greatest is Daniel Defoe.

This collection has been a major attraction for researchers in the area, in particular, Professor Clive Probyn of the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies at Monash.

Come along and see the display of manuscripts and early editions in the Rare Books Collection.

Richard Lewer: Nobody Likes a Show Off continues MUMA's ongoing series of survey exhibitions focussing upon the work of significant artists at mid-career.

The exhibition covers the scope of the artist's practice, encompassing painting, drawing, animation and installation works. Marked by a sceptical humour and a focus upon the darker sides of human behaviour, place and social identity, Lewer's work involves close observation and highly subjective encounters with family, sport and criminal subjects, leading to insightful and absurd narrative reflections on good and evil, life and mortality. Curator: Kirrily Hammond.

A broad range of international as well as Australian organisations with national and international reach are invited in order to

• Promote their course-related summer employment and industry experience opportunities,
• Promote their internship, co-operative year and exchange programs,
• To showcase their overseas work/travel programs
• Provide career and industry information and more
• Meet potential candidates

There may be an opportunity to attend campus interviews with visiting international delegates on Friday 7 August, so have your resumes ready and practice your interview skills now.

The Melbourne Writers Festival brings together 250 writers from overseas, nationally and locally, for a ten day feast of ideas, debate, readings, discussions and interviews. In it's 24th year, the festival presents 250 unique sessions at venues in Fed Square and nearby venues, and provides an opportunity to relax and mingle with writers and other audience members in the Atrium - the festival hub. The full program is inserted in The Age and is available on the festival website.

Monash University is an education partner of the Melbourne Writers Festival 2009.

SUSAN FEREDAY | MARCO FUSINATO | DONNA ONG | FIONA PARDINGTON | PATRICK POUND | JACKY REDGATE | ELVIS RICHARDSON | FIONA TAN

Curator: Dr Kyla McFarlane

Found or anonymous photographic images and film footage are a fascinating subject for many artists. The snapshot, the amateur photograph, the flea market find, the postcard, videos uploaded to youtube, and the work of the anonymous, jobbing photographer have all provided material fodder, or acted as conceptual springboards for making new work.

Engaging with this material, the artists in Photographer Unknown enact a series of reversals, reprisals and re-workings - bringing the snapshot to the status of the fine art print, calling into question conventions of authorship, quality, the public and private, the nature of the archive and monumentality.

Help mend minds...
The Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPrc) is holding an art exhibition and silent auction to raise funds for research into improving the understanding and treatment for mental illness. With ongoing support MAPrc can provide a brighter future for those with mental illness, including depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other conditions.

About the artists... There is still time to donate The art work has been donated by local artists, people from the community and consumers. It includes paintings, photographs, sculptures etc. If you would like to donate a piece of artwork, we would greatly appreciate your support. Please contact Dennyse Riach on 9076 6924. Artwork is required by 23rd October for our catalogue but will be accepted up until 5th November.

Venue & Parking:
The exhibition is being held at the AMREP Seminar Room at the Alfred Hospital. This is located next to the Ian Potter Library in the main hospital building. The hospital visitors car park is located on Centre Lane—enter off Commercial Road (fees apply). There is also parking available on surrounding streets which is free after 6.30pm.

Please come and enjoy some fine art, entertainment, canapes & bubbles and support a great cause.

All welcome.