2010
OUR ACHIEVERS
23 to 26 February 2010
This exhibition is a collection of photographic portraits by students studying Photography in the School of Drama, Fine Art and Music. It is also a celebration of their subjects – those who featured in the University’s newspaper column ‘Out to Achieve’.
The exhibition is a showcase of the published images along with the students’ own selection from the photographic sessions. The images give an insight into how the students, as photographers, interpreted the written word and captured the essence of their subject’s personality and achievements.
IMAGE Aaron Bellette Richard Vella
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23 to 26 February 2010
This exhibition is a collection of photographic portraits by students studying Photography in the School of Drama, Fine Art and Music. It is also a celebration of their subjects – those who featured in the University’s newspaper column ‘Out to Achieve’.
The exhibition is a showcase of the published images along with the students’ own selection from the photographic sessions. The images give an insight into how the students, as photographers, interpreted the written word and captured the essence of their subject’s personality and achievements.
IMAGE Aaron Bellette Richard Vella
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PETER TILLEY: SOMETHING OTHER THAN ITSELF
3 to 20 March 2010
This Master of Philosophy Exhibition explores ancient Egyptian symbolism which in part has been the basis for compositional and representational methods that continue to have an underlying influence. Symbols are often ambivalent and sometimes meanings may be contradictory with several symbolic dimensions depicted. As well as the obvious or common meaning, these symbols can represent ‘something other than itself’ by association or resemblance - it can be a material object used to represent an unseen concept.
Engaging with existential issues, this ehibition addresses the issues of doubt when confronting the unknown and the compromises inherent in the cycle of living. It is about what it means to be in an uncertain world with thoughts, feelings and desires as a vulnerable and sometimes fragile being. Just as life is uncertain, so too are the predicaments in these three dimensional situations.
IMAGE Peter Tilley The First Steps 2010, lead and found suitcase, 26 x 65 x 38 cm
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3 to 20 March 2010
This Master of Philosophy Exhibition explores ancient Egyptian symbolism which in part has been the basis for compositional and representational methods that continue to have an underlying influence. Symbols are often ambivalent and sometimes meanings may be contradictory with several symbolic dimensions depicted. As well as the obvious or common meaning, these symbols can represent ‘something other than itself’ by association or resemblance - it can be a material object used to represent an unseen concept.
Engaging with existential issues, this ehibition addresses the issues of doubt when confronting the unknown and the compromises inherent in the cycle of living. It is about what it means to be in an uncertain world with thoughts, feelings and desires as a vulnerable and sometimes fragile being. Just as life is uncertain, so too are the predicaments in these three dimensional situations.
IMAGE Peter Tilley The First Steps 2010, lead and found suitcase, 26 x 65 x 38 cm
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DARRYL BOWES: EVERYONE I KNOW REMINDS ME OF SOMEBODY ELSE
6 to 20 March 2010
Everyone I know reminds me of somebody else is a continuation of Bowes’ cold and controlled interrogation of painted surface and space. These slick, ambiguous works make widely disparate references, from the gentle affection of My fathers head is a house to the Elegy for dead mates paintings, which directly quote Peter Weir’s 1974 cult thriller The Cars That Ate Paris.
IMAGE Darryl Bowes Everyone I know reminds me of somebody else #3 (detail) 2010, acrylic lacquer on mdf, 126 x 126cm
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6 to 20 March 2010
Everyone I know reminds me of somebody else is a continuation of Bowes’ cold and controlled interrogation of painted surface and space. These slick, ambiguous works make widely disparate references, from the gentle affection of My fathers head is a house to the Elegy for dead mates paintings, which directly quote Peter Weir’s 1974 cult thriller The Cars That Ate Paris.
IMAGE Darryl Bowes Everyone I know reminds me of somebody else #3 (detail) 2010, acrylic lacquer on mdf, 126 x 126cm
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JOURNEYS TO THE OTHER WORLD: THE COLLECTION OF THE GALLERIES PRIMITIF
24 March to 10 April 2010
For five decades Senta Taft‑Hendry has travelled extensively, particularly in Papua New Guinea, West Papua (Irian Jaya), Micronesia, Polynesia and remote communities in Australia.
It is from these remote areas, often where Ms Taft-Hendry was the first contact, that these pieces have been sourced. Chosen with rare sensitivity for the artefacts and the communities visited by Senta Taft-Hendry, this extraordinary and eclectic collection of objects provide a backdrop to the story of one woman’s life long passion for other worlds.
IMAGE Carved wooden ancestral figures, Papua New Guinea, Galleries Primitif Collection
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24 March to 10 April 2010
For five decades Senta Taft‑Hendry has travelled extensively, particularly in Papua New Guinea, West Papua (Irian Jaya), Micronesia, Polynesia and remote communities in Australia.
It is from these remote areas, often where Ms Taft-Hendry was the first contact, that these pieces have been sourced. Chosen with rare sensitivity for the artefacts and the communities visited by Senta Taft-Hendry, this extraordinary and eclectic collection of objects provide a backdrop to the story of one woman’s life long passion for other worlds.
IMAGE Carved wooden ancestral figures, Papua New Guinea, Galleries Primitif Collection
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WHITE: EUAN MACLEOD | NEIL FRAZER | TIM CHEUNG
14 April to 22 May 2010
Three friends sailed to the Antarctic for ten days and each had their own responses to this vast wilderness. A photographer and two painters absorbed the light and texture of this pristine environment known as the last frontier. Back in their studios in Sydney, their sketches and photographs have been played out giving us a rare and extraordinary glimpse of WHITE.
These works are produced from sketches and photographs made during the journey of a lifetime - the imposing landscape has a materiality that has translated into studio interpretations as each artist manipulates surface and form to present a tangible sense of the drama and texture of the Antarctic.
IMAGE Neil Frazer Turning Point 2009, acrylic on canvas 198 x 213 cm
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14 April to 22 May 2010
Three friends sailed to the Antarctic for ten days and each had their own responses to this vast wilderness. A photographer and two painters absorbed the light and texture of this pristine environment known as the last frontier. Back in their studios in Sydney, their sketches and photographs have been played out giving us a rare and extraordinary glimpse of WHITE.
These works are produced from sketches and photographs made during the journey of a lifetime - the imposing landscape has a materiality that has translated into studio interpretations as each artist manipulates surface and form to present a tangible sense of the drama and texture of the Antarctic.
IMAGE Neil Frazer Turning Point 2009, acrylic on canvas 198 x 213 cm
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ZOO AiR: TWENTY ARTISTS FROM THE 2010 ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM AT TARONGA ZOO
26 May to 12 June 2010
Taronga holds a special place in our collective imagination. It is a place of childhood delight, a place to ponder the relationship between humans and wildlife, and increasingly, a place that may mean the difference between survival and extinction of species such as the Booroolong Frog, the Sumatran Tiger and the iconic Tasmanian Devil.
Taronga is also a visual feast, and we are delighted that so many of Australia’s prominent artists have embraced our zoo through this Artists in Residence program. 2010 marks the second year of the residency, with 20 painters, sculptors and photographers working over a three month period in and around the zoo grounds. The resulting artworks capture each artist’s response to our unique zoo, and the diversity of subject matter and treatment reflects the diversity of Taronga itself.
IMAGE Chris O’Doherty (aka Reg Mombassa) Giraffe eating a carrot, Taronga Zoo 2010, charcoal and colour pencil on paper, 40 x 47 cm
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26 May to 12 June 2010
Taronga holds a special place in our collective imagination. It is a place of childhood delight, a place to ponder the relationship between humans and wildlife, and increasingly, a place that may mean the difference between survival and extinction of species such as the Booroolong Frog, the Sumatran Tiger and the iconic Tasmanian Devil.
Taronga is also a visual feast, and we are delighted that so many of Australia’s prominent artists have embraced our zoo through this Artists in Residence program. 2010 marks the second year of the residency, with 20 painters, sculptors and photographers working over a three month period in and around the zoo grounds. The resulting artworks capture each artist’s response to our unique zoo, and the diversity of subject matter and treatment reflects the diversity of Taronga itself.
IMAGE Chris O’Doherty (aka Reg Mombassa) Giraffe eating a carrot, Taronga Zoo 2010, charcoal and colour pencil on paper, 40 x 47 cm
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GIFTED: THE 2010 JENNIE THOMAS TRAVELLING ART SCHOLARSHIP
30 June to 17 July 2010
The Jennie Thomas Travelling Art Scholarship provides an opportunity for students to gain primary research and inspiration for their Honours year of study. This award was implemented in 2003 and is given to students who have a clear vision of their practice and a passion for what they do.
2010 Finalists: Nerida Ackland (joint Winner), Gail Burrows, Chris Byrnes, Susan Cairns, Jessica Elliot-Lawrence, Rachael Ireland, Dominic Kavanagh, Nathan Keogh (joint Winner), Michael Randall and Grant Vercoe.
IMAGE Joint Winners Nerida Ackland (at left) and Nathan Keogh with Jennie Thomas, in the University Gallery
30 June to 17 July 2010
The Jennie Thomas Travelling Art Scholarship provides an opportunity for students to gain primary research and inspiration for their Honours year of study. This award was implemented in 2003 and is given to students who have a clear vision of their practice and a passion for what they do.
2010 Finalists: Nerida Ackland (joint Winner), Gail Burrows, Chris Byrnes, Susan Cairns, Jessica Elliot-Lawrence, Rachael Ireland, Dominic Kavanagh, Nathan Keogh (joint Winner), Michael Randall and Grant Vercoe.
IMAGE Joint Winners Nerida Ackland (at left) and Nathan Keogh with Jennie Thomas, in the University Gallery
GIFTED: RECENT GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY ART COLLECTION
30 June to 17 July 2010
This exhibition of recent Cultural Gifts acknowledges the benevolence of donors who keep University Collections buoyant and alive. It is through these donations that these public collections reflect, both for posterity as well as for now, the best of contemporary practice.
Featuring: Tom Bannerman, Aaron Bellette, Darryl Bowes, Caelli Jo Brooker, Kerrie Coles, Andy Devine, Carla Feltham, Neil Frazer, Merrick Fry, Matthys Gerber, Chrissie Iannsen, Dolly Mills, Leo Robba, Kris Smith, Mazie Turner and Trevor Weekes.
IMAGE Mazie Turner Out of Darkness - Violet Cloud 2009, oil on linen, 152.5 x 183 cm
30 June to 17 July 2010
This exhibition of recent Cultural Gifts acknowledges the benevolence of donors who keep University Collections buoyant and alive. It is through these donations that these public collections reflect, both for posterity as well as for now, the best of contemporary practice.
Featuring: Tom Bannerman, Aaron Bellette, Darryl Bowes, Caelli Jo Brooker, Kerrie Coles, Andy Devine, Carla Feltham, Neil Frazer, Merrick Fry, Matthys Gerber, Chrissie Iannsen, Dolly Mills, Leo Robba, Kris Smith, Mazie Turner and Trevor Weekes.
IMAGE Mazie Turner Out of Darkness - Violet Cloud 2009, oil on linen, 152.5 x 183 cm
AARON BELLETTE: TEARING LIGHT - DYSLEXIA AND CREATIVITY, AN ALTERNATE MODE OF PERCEPTION
21 July to 31 July 2010
Aaron Bellette’s work for the Masters of Philosophy is drawn from his own visual experience. Bellette has used medium format photography to record the visual experience of Dyslexia, distorting and layering the images to represent his interpretation of time and space. Spatial and temporal planes are rendered onto the film plane in order to physically construct his envisaged world.
IMAGE Aaron Bellette Digit Span 8.1:2009 2009, Bronica film camera - digital output 111.76cm x 201.37 cm
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21 July to 31 July 2010
Aaron Bellette’s work for the Masters of Philosophy is drawn from his own visual experience. Bellette has used medium format photography to record the visual experience of Dyslexia, distorting and layering the images to represent his interpretation of time and space. Spatial and temporal planes are rendered onto the film plane in order to physically construct his envisaged world.
IMAGE Aaron Bellette Digit Span 8.1:2009 2009, Bronica film camera - digital output 111.76cm x 201.37 cm
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MERRICK FRY: A NEWCASTLE SURVEY
21 July to 31 July 2010
This exhibition presents a survey of works from the artist Merrick Fry’s time as a resident of Newcastle. Many of the works exhibited, created between 1987 and 1993, discuss the idea of home in relation to the industrial urban landscape. The Location is described through the mixing of various disciplines, media and materials. Merrick Fry’s works from this period are specific to Newcastle and document a period of its social history. This exhibition is the first in Newcastle to bring these works together.
IMAGE Merrick Fry Boing Boing found objects, 27.5 x 33 x 38.5 cm
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21 July to 31 July 2010
This exhibition presents a survey of works from the artist Merrick Fry’s time as a resident of Newcastle. Many of the works exhibited, created between 1987 and 1993, discuss the idea of home in relation to the industrial urban landscape. The Location is described through the mixing of various disciplines, media and materials. Merrick Fry’s works from this period are specific to Newcastle and document a period of its social history. This exhibition is the first in Newcastle to bring these works together.
IMAGE Merrick Fry Boing Boing found objects, 27.5 x 33 x 38.5 cm
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WAAP 2010: THE WOLLOTUKA INSTITUTE ACQUISITIVE ART PRIZE
4 August to 21 August 2010
WINNER $2000 WAAP 2010 Prize: Linda Currie Emu acrylic on canvas
WINNER $1000 Interrelate Prize: Gina Varagnolo Campfire Dances acrylic on canvas
WINNER People's Choice Award: Casey-Lee Wright The Journey acrylic on canvas
IMAGE Gina Varagnolo Campfire Dances acrylic on canvas
4 August to 21 August 2010
WINNER $2000 WAAP 2010 Prize: Linda Currie Emu acrylic on canvas
WINNER $1000 Interrelate Prize: Gina Varagnolo Campfire Dances acrylic on canvas
WINNER People's Choice Award: Casey-Lee Wright The Journey acrylic on canvas
IMAGE Gina Varagnolo Campfire Dances acrylic on canvas
MARK ELLIOT RANKIN: NOMAD STRATEGIES - REDUCTION
25 August to 4 September 2010
There is a difference between a ‘journey’ and travelling. The latter takes you from departures to destinations, in a straight line. A journey however, takes one into a nomadic space between leaving and arriving. This exhibition attempts to explore my own journey, where chance makes no mistakes. I have found, as Constantine Cavafy did, that the language of the journey is poetry in the Greek understanding, “Poieo; to make.”
IMAGE Mark Elliot-Ranken Erasure 2010, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 150 cm
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25 August to 4 September 2010
There is a difference between a ‘journey’ and travelling. The latter takes you from departures to destinations, in a straight line. A journey however, takes one into a nomadic space between leaving and arriving. This exhibition attempts to explore my own journey, where chance makes no mistakes. I have found, as Constantine Cavafy did, that the language of the journey is poetry in the Greek understanding, “Poieo; to make.”
IMAGE Mark Elliot-Ranken Erasure 2010, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 150 cm
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LUMINATE: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM RALPH SNOWBALL'S HISTORIC GLASS NEGATIVES
8 September to 2 October 2010
In 2008 a collection of over 1000 glass negatives from renowned photographer Ralph Snowball was donated to the University of Newcastle’s Auchmuty Library Cultural Collections as part of the Norm Barney Photographic Collection. Dating from 1880s to 1920s, these beautiful images are literally ‘windows to another time’, documenting life in Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and the Hunter Region.
A selection of images has been printed for exhibition and sale, with proceeds going toward further restoration of negatives from the Bert Lovett and Norm Barney collections.
IMAGE Ralph Snowball Phillip’s Picnic Group Toronto NSW, 17 September, 1901
VIEW Ralph Snowball images held in the Auchmuty Library Cultural Collections
8 September to 2 October 2010
In 2008 a collection of over 1000 glass negatives from renowned photographer Ralph Snowball was donated to the University of Newcastle’s Auchmuty Library Cultural Collections as part of the Norm Barney Photographic Collection. Dating from 1880s to 1920s, these beautiful images are literally ‘windows to another time’, documenting life in Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and the Hunter Region.
A selection of images has been printed for exhibition and sale, with proceeds going toward further restoration of negatives from the Bert Lovett and Norm Barney collections.
IMAGE Ralph Snowball Phillip’s Picnic Group Toronto NSW, 17 September, 1901
VIEW Ralph Snowball images held in the Auchmuty Library Cultural Collections
SHORELINES: CATHY TREADAWAY AND ALISON F. BELL
6 to 16 October 2010
In conjunction with the ArtsHealth Symposium 2010 - Space and Wellbeing
Shorelines features paintings, prints, photographs and textiles developed as part of a collaborative research project investigating creative practice that has been on-going for the last four years at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. The exhibited works are a response to five coastal locations in England, Scotland, Wales and New South Wales, Australia, and result from two research field studies and three artist residencies.
The sea and shoreline has been a recurring source of inspiration for both artists. This project has provided a unique opportunity to reflect on these influences through documentary practice led research, performance and the generation of collaborative artworks that provide a shared response to each location.
IMAGE Treadaway and Bell Granite, 2010, digital ink-jet print, 100 x 100 cm
6 to 16 October 2010
In conjunction with the ArtsHealth Symposium 2010 - Space and Wellbeing
Shorelines features paintings, prints, photographs and textiles developed as part of a collaborative research project investigating creative practice that has been on-going for the last four years at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. The exhibited works are a response to five coastal locations in England, Scotland, Wales and New South Wales, Australia, and result from two research field studies and three artist residencies.
The sea and shoreline has been a recurring source of inspiration for both artists. This project has provided a unique opportunity to reflect on these influences through documentary practice led research, performance and the generation of collaborative artworks that provide a shared response to each location.
IMAGE Treadaway and Bell Granite, 2010, digital ink-jet print, 100 x 100 cm
AXES AND POLYGONS: ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY TOUR OF GREECE AND ITALY
STUDENTS OF THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT
20 to 30 October 2010
On 6 June 2010, thirty seven people with connections to the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Newcastle, met in Athens to begin a three week architectural study tour of Greece and Italy.
Twenty four were attending a new course, AHIS3900 ‘Overseas Study Experience’. Most were students of architecture who all kept graphic diaries, in the grand tour tradition.
Rather than following a line on a map, the tour moved chronologically, from prehistorical to Classical Greece, then onto ancient and early Christian Roman architecture, followed by the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Florence and Rome. Students experienced first hand the manner in which the classical style as we know it came into being and impressed that style’s rules and intricacies upon their own design sensibilities through the time honoured process of sketching, not as an end in itself, but as a step toward building their own works as practicing architects. This exhibition celebrates each student’s achievement and commitment to their chosen profession.
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STUDENTS OF THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT
20 to 30 October 2010
On 6 June 2010, thirty seven people with connections to the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Newcastle, met in Athens to begin a three week architectural study tour of Greece and Italy.
Twenty four were attending a new course, AHIS3900 ‘Overseas Study Experience’. Most were students of architecture who all kept graphic diaries, in the grand tour tradition.
Rather than following a line on a map, the tour moved chronologically, from prehistorical to Classical Greece, then onto ancient and early Christian Roman architecture, followed by the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Florence and Rome. Students experienced first hand the manner in which the classical style as we know it came into being and impressed that style’s rules and intricacies upon their own design sensibilities through the time honoured process of sketching, not as an end in itself, but as a step toward building their own works as practicing architects. This exhibition celebrates each student’s achievement and commitment to their chosen profession.
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JAAM: JAPAN - AUSTRALIA ART MUSINGS PROGRAM
20 to 30 October 2010
On the 9th August 2010, a new art residency program, JAAM, Japan – Australia Art Musings was launched at the Australia House, Echigo.
Six young art students from both the University of Newcastle - Mandy Francis, Fiona Lee and Nerida Ackland, and from Tama Art University - Shimojo Saeko, Chigasaki Keiichi and Fukui Hitomi, lived and worked together in a rustic farmhouse in Echigo, Tsumari. For several weeks the students interacted with each other, discovering new possibilities for international contemporary practice as well as developing potential course content for their respective universities.
The JAAM project was made possible with the generous support of Dr Rohma Cummins and the late Dr Brian Cummins.
IMAGE Nerida Ackland Body Baskets 2010, 100 metres of rice rope and light bulb, dimensions variable
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20 to 30 October 2010
On the 9th August 2010, a new art residency program, JAAM, Japan – Australia Art Musings was launched at the Australia House, Echigo.
Six young art students from both the University of Newcastle - Mandy Francis, Fiona Lee and Nerida Ackland, and from Tama Art University - Shimojo Saeko, Chigasaki Keiichi and Fukui Hitomi, lived and worked together in a rustic farmhouse in Echigo, Tsumari. For several weeks the students interacted with each other, discovering new possibilities for international contemporary practice as well as developing potential course content for their respective universities.
The JAAM project was made possible with the generous support of Dr Rohma Cummins and the late Dr Brian Cummins.
IMAGE Nerida Ackland Body Baskets 2010, 100 metres of rice rope and light bulb, dimensions variable
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HONOURS 2010: POSTGRADUATE PATHS - ARTISTS AND SPACES
3 to 21 November 2010
The Honours year of study, effectively the fourth year of the undergraduate degree, allows students to focus on their individual practice or research and explore aspects of a future career or further study in the creative arts.
During this course, under the guidance of their supervisors, extensive research is undertaken by each candidate into areas significant to their practice. This intensive year of study culminates in an exhibition or thesis on which they will be examined by external assessors.
The 2010 graduates show the progressive and flexible nature of this year of research study, and this is reflected in the number of students choosing to undertake Honours study. Artistic achievements, individual research and an understanding of the parameters and requirements of the Arts industry, highlight this year of study at the University of Newcastle.
IMAGE Sharon Taylor Saplings (detail) 2010, hand built earthenware ceramic, dimensions variable
3 to 21 November 2010
The Honours year of study, effectively the fourth year of the undergraduate degree, allows students to focus on their individual practice or research and explore aspects of a future career or further study in the creative arts.
During this course, under the guidance of their supervisors, extensive research is undertaken by each candidate into areas significant to their practice. This intensive year of study culminates in an exhibition or thesis on which they will be examined by external assessors.
The 2010 graduates show the progressive and flexible nature of this year of research study, and this is reflected in the number of students choosing to undertake Honours study. Artistic achievements, individual research and an understanding of the parameters and requirements of the Arts industry, highlight this year of study at the University of Newcastle.
IMAGE Sharon Taylor Saplings (detail) 2010, hand built earthenware ceramic, dimensions variable
CHINA SONG: AN EXHIBITION TO CELEBRATE JASMINE AND WATTLE, THE LAUNCH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE CHAMBER CHOIR RECORDINGS IN CHINA
24 November to 11 December 2010
In July 2010, the University of Newcastle Chamber Choir made its first concert tour to China. The Choir gave concerts in Beijing, Wuhan and Shanghai and took part in its first international competition in the World Choir Games in Shaoxing. Well known Newcastle photo-artist Catherine Croll accompanied the Choir throughout its tour, recording the words, images and responses of Choir members to their ‘China moment’ - the image or thought that is China for that person.
From the wonderful achievement of two wins and a third place in the three categories they entered in the World Choir Games, the Choir also recorded its latest CD, Jasmine and Wattle, in Shanghai.
China Song features works by Catherine Croll and the University Chamber Choir, Pamela See, Michael Bell, Claire Martin, Dermod Kavanagh, Johanna Trainor, Jen Denzin, Anne Graham and Allan Chawner. These works feature the experience of China - its people, sights, sounds, tastes and smells.
IMAGE Michael Bell Welcome to China 2010, linocut
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24 November to 11 December 2010
In July 2010, the University of Newcastle Chamber Choir made its first concert tour to China. The Choir gave concerts in Beijing, Wuhan and Shanghai and took part in its first international competition in the World Choir Games in Shaoxing. Well known Newcastle photo-artist Catherine Croll accompanied the Choir throughout its tour, recording the words, images and responses of Choir members to their ‘China moment’ - the image or thought that is China for that person.
From the wonderful achievement of two wins and a third place in the three categories they entered in the World Choir Games, the Choir also recorded its latest CD, Jasmine and Wattle, in Shanghai.
China Song features works by Catherine Croll and the University Chamber Choir, Pamela See, Michael Bell, Claire Martin, Dermod Kavanagh, Johanna Trainor, Jen Denzin, Anne Graham and Allan Chawner. These works feature the experience of China - its people, sights, sounds, tastes and smells.
IMAGE Michael Bell Welcome to China 2010, linocut
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