2019
WATERLINES
20 NOVEMBER - 6 DECEMBER A showcase of work by third year architecture students, who, in their final Architecture Design Studio course, were prompted to craft designs that respond to the dynamic threshold between land and water in Newcastle. Join us for a celebration of the graduating student’s successes and see the strength of UON’s School of Architecture and Built Environment. VIEW the installation images |
REIMAGINING THE CANON
23 OCTOBER - 16 NOVEMBER Curated by Annemarie Murland Patricia Wilson-Adams | Dr Alison Bell | Chris Byrnes | Dr Penny Dunstan | Sarah Edmondson | Helen Hopcroft | Dr Annemarie Murland | Dan Nelson | Dr Lucy O’Donnell | Marika Osmotherly | Alessia Sakoff | Belinda Street | Kiera O'Toole | Rachel Thomas | Lezlie Tilley | Clare Weeks | Eila Vinwynn | Vera Zulumovski | Lee Zaunders In Reimagining the Canon 19 international and national female artists respond to the question: “If you could write yourself into the Canon of Western Art – how would it look and sound?” It’s commonly observed that if you ask someone to name ten famous female artists, they struggle to do so. The Countess Report on gender diversity in the representation of visual art in Australia was released in 2016 and showed that while there are many more female than male artists, more men exhibit in Australian museums and galleries. Reimagining the Canon, curated by Dr Annemarie Murland, questions gender inequality in the art world, and celebrates women artists’ contribution to art and exhibition practices. As a collective, the group brings ‘the everyday’ into the identity politics that surround the Canon of Western Art and its nemesis, ‘feminist art’, today. VIEW the installation images VIEW the exhibition catalogue DOWNLOAD the exhibition invitation image: Mary Catherine Docherty, 14, had to do 7 days of hard labour for stealing iron with her friends (c1873) |
STEEL LIFE
MURRAY MCKEAN 24 SEPTEMBER - 19 OCTOBER The photograph acts as a witness to time, people and events, and has been the preferred medium for documenting and preserving our histories since its invention in 1839. Murray McKean's Steel Life presents a collection of photographs documenting the Newcastle steelworks post-closure, following on from Harold Cazneaux (1878 – 1953) and David Moore's (1927 – 2003) vivid documentation of the site in the decades prior. Using the texture of the abandoned architecture of the site, Murray has preserved this period of our city's history with a series of poignant images that offer critical commentary on our collective memory twenty years on. VIEW the installation images DOWNLOAD the exhibition invitation image: Steel Life number 14, 2001, silver gelatine prints shot on 6 x 7 mm 100 iso film using Mamiya RB 67 camera. Image courtesy of Murray McKean |
BY THE GOOD GRACE
VICKI HAMILTON 28 AUGUST - 14 SEPTEMBER 2019 By the Good Grace explores the love, hate and indifference shown towards domesticated dogs historically. The broader aim of this research is to challenge people’s perceptions around the capacity of dogs to suffer when ill-treated, often as a result of dogs being purchased for fashion or illegal activities, rather than a deeper relationship. VIEW the installation images DOWNLOAD the exhibition invitation DOWNLOAD the exhibition catalogue image: Vicki Hamilton, Fifi - Dogs Bodies 2019, porcelain, brocade fabric, mixed media, dimensions variable |
MAZIE TURNER | DAN NELSON | ANNEMARIE MURLAND | KATRINA HOLDEN
ERASURE 17 JULY - 24 AUGUST 2019 Erasure is never simply a matter of making things disappear: there is always a remainder that comes about in the aftermath, some mark on the surface from which a word or image or note has been removed. Whether crossed out, written-over or rubbed away, the forsaken item has a habit of returning, like a spectre: if only in the marks that assume its place and assert its passing. VIEW the installation images DOWNLOAD the exhibition invitation DOWNLOAD the exhibition catalogue (4.2MB) image: Mazie Turner, Out of Darkness - Violet Cloud 2009, oil on belgian linen, 152.5 x 183 cm Donated by the artist to the University of Newcastle Collection through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program |
SCHOOL OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES | HONOURS 2019 BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS
12 JUNE - 6 JULY 2019 SCATTERED LOLITA MANUKIAN The Armenian Genocide in 1915 forever changed Armenian history and the landscape of migration in the twentieth century. 104 years later issues of displacement and trauma still bind Armenians from all over the world through a thread of collective memory and the eternal quest for identity and belonging. Scattered is an installation that explores Armenian symbolism to tell a narrative of journey and diversity whilst portraying the universal struggle of acknowledging the past. FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING MICHELLE WELLHAM Through a series of figurative ceramic sculptures, Michelle Wellham's research considers that violence of a domestic nature is closely connected with the way that gender is constructed and performed. It uses theatrical tableaux to contrast tropes of masculinity with feminine forms presented as subordinate in order to present a non-verbal testimony of abusive experience. VIEW the installation images DOWNLOAD the exhibition invitation image: top: Lolita Manukian, Scattered 2019 (detail), white earthenware paper clay bottom: Michelle Wellham, Figuratively Speaking 2019 (detail), mixed media |
KATHRYN JEANES
BILOELA: AFORE AND BEYOND 24 April - 8 June 2019 Uncovering the repressed history of three nineteenth century public schools for “wayward” working class girls, Biloela: afore and beyond is an exhibition developed out of Kathryn Jeane's PhD research into local histories and institutionalised abuse. Through this installation, Jeanes makes public her research into the incarceration of abandoned girls at Newcastle Military Barracks, Biloela on Cockatoo Island and the Parramatta Industrial School for Girls. VIEW the installation images DOWNLOAD the exhibition invitation (465KB) image: Kathryn Jeanes, Biloela: Afore and Beyond 2019 (detail), concertina book, dimensions variable |
DINO CONSALVO & LOTTIE CONSALVO
FROM THE MUDBRICK HOUSE 20 March - 20 April 2019 From the Mudbrick House is the first joint exhibition of Newcastle-based father and daughter artists Dino Consalvo and Lottie Consalvo. Curated by Ahn Wells, the exhibition invited the artists to review each other's practices and select artworks they felt have the most innate resonance to their relationship, and their own – and each other’s – practice. The resulting exhibition is part retrospective and part collaborative. VIEW the installation images DOWNLOAD the exhibition catalogue (1.8MB) DOWNLOAD the exhibition invitation (128KB) images: top: Dino Consalvo The Jake Painting 1980, mixed media on board, 120 x 180 cm bottom: Lottie Consalvo in silence 2017, acrylic on board, 180 x 366 cm |
GREG FULLER | JASON HICKLIN | TRACY HILL
COMMON GROUND PACIFIC 13 February - 9 March 2019 Through their research during a residency in Newcastle in 2016, three UK artists investigate how ideas of navigation and walking have a direct correlation to our understanding of and relationship to landscape and place. By experiencing a landscape in a multisensory way, they suggest that wayfaring can give rise to local cultural understanding of the unique and transitory properties of a certain place. Greg Fuller, Jason Hicklin and Tracy Hill return to Newcastle to present an exhibition of their visual reinterpretations of the Hunter landscape as experienced through their walking journeys. VIEW the installation images DOWNLOAD the exhibition roomsheet (77KB) DOWNLOAD the exhibition invitation (2MB) image: Tracy Hill, Standing Ash 2017, intaglio on somerset paper, 58.5 x 94 cm |
AUCHMUTY BANNER PROJECT 2019
Read here about the new banners on the Auchmuty Library facade, featuring Indigenous artworks from the University of Newcastle Collection |