Janet Burchill
Burghers refigured redwood flitch, synthetic polymer paint on wood
Monash University collection. Purchased 1993. |
Primary Views
Monash University Museum of Art
3 - 20 November 2008
3 February - 28 March 2009
Curators: Stephen Bram; Janet Burchill and jennifer McCamley; Juan Davila
Primary Views invites the insights of four artists represented in the Monash University Collection. Each has been invited to curate a self-contained exhibition 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.
Michael Corridore
Untitled 9 2006
Type C photograph, courtesy of the artist |
The Ecologies Project
Monash University Museum of Art
17 September 2008 - 22 November 2008
Opening function: Saturday 20 September 2008, 2pm
Curators: Geraldine Barlow and Dr Kyla McFarlane
Pre-opening curator's talk
Saturday 20 September at 1.30pm
Opening function
Saturday 20 September at 2.00pm
Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton Campus
With opening remarks at 2:45pm
by Professorial Fellow John Thwaites, Chairman of the Monash Sustainability Institute, and Former Deputy Victorian Premier and Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change
What is this project that we are now undertaking, as we globally seek a new balance with the ecological systems that sustain us?
Will endgame, apocalyptic visions drive change, or can our wonder in the natural world inspire the creation of a brighter future?
Artists have long drawn inspiration from nature, as well as being advocates for a sustainable relationship between humanity and the environment. Now that a need for change has become broadly accepted, what role for art?
Even with this accepted impetus to action, the particular paths we might take are unclear. It is an exciting and unsettling time as we sit between the darkest and most hopeful of futures. We must grapple with a myriad of abstract and interconnected systems, economic, environmental, social and philosophical. At this moment in time, art offers a lens through which we can examine the world as well as a kind of metaphorical thinking that can sharpen our perception of the relation between these complex parts and their impact on a dynamic whole. The Ecologies Project includes work by 40 artists exploring issues of sustainability, climate change and the idea of ecology as both form and metaphor.
LAURENCE ABERHART | LAUREN BERKOWITZ | CHRIS BOND | ANGELA BRENNAN | PAUL BUWANG BUWANG | JANET BURCHILL AND JENNIFER McCAMLEY | JOYCE CAMPBELL | MIKALA DWYER | MICHAEL CORRIDORE | PETER DOMBROVSKIS | BRODIE ELLIS | ANNA EPHRAIM | GALI YALKARRIWUY GURRUWIWI | ANDREW HAZEWINKEL | SUSAN JACOBS | ASH KEATING | NICK MANGAN | DHUWARRWARR MARIKA | MANDY MARTIN | VERA MÖLLER | JAMES MORRISON | ANNE NOBLE | HENRY NUPURRA | RAQUEL ORMELLA | FIONA PARDINGTON | LUKE PITHER | ADAM PYETT | STUART RINGHOLT | EWEN ROSS | SANDRA SELIG | ANDREW SINCLAIR | EILEEN YARITJA STEVENS | LISA STEWART | RICKY SWALLOW | CHRISTIAN THOMPSON | MICHELLE USSHER | ROHAN WEALLEANS | ROY WIGGAN | JOHN WOLSELEY
Greg Harrison
Das Einhorn 2007
Mezzotint (2nd state), courtesy of the artist |
FICTIONS
Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Centre for Art and Design
10 September - 9 October 2008
Opening Tuesday, 9 September 2008 at 5pm, Curator’s talk at 4.30pm
Curator: Kirrily Hammond
Revelling in the freedom of artistic invention, and drawing on a myriad of sources including literature, art history and the fantastic, the works in Fictions suspend our everyday realities, prompting contemplation of the nature of creativity and imagination. This exhibition will feature a wide range of works from the Monash University Collection, the Monash Rare Books Collection and selected loans, including work by the following artists: Guy Benfield, Andrea Blundell, Nadine Christensen, Peter Ellis, Julia Gorman, Gracia Haby, Gregory Harrison, Guan Wei, Petr Herel, Philip Hunter, Louise Jennison, Matthew Johnson, Sarina Lirosi, Nick Mangan, Moya McKenna, James Morrison, David Noonan, Geoffrey Ricardo, Leah Schnaars, Nick Stephenson, Ruth Waller and Louise Weaver |
