The Gallery - 2006 exhibition program
Water Over Skin 1 by Daphne Cazalet
Opening: Friday 8 November, 6.00pm
Showing: 6-19 December 2006
Location: Building 12, Casuarina Campus, NT, 0909
For Viewing appointments: 8942 1470
An exhibition of paintings and screenprints embodying post-colonial personal and political attitudes to mixed-cultural identity and race. This first exhibition contributes to Daphne's doctoral thesis in Visual Arts practive and research at CDU. View story about exhibition >>
Promonation by Katie Saunders
Opening: Thursday 23 November 2006, 6.00pm
Showing: 24 November-2 December 2006
Location: Building 12, Casuarina Campus, NT, 0909
A visual exploration of the connotations and implications of Australian nationalism. View story about exhibition >>
Eclosion & Smudge - 2006 art & design graduates exhibitions
Eclosion
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Opening: Friday 10 November 2006 at 6pm
Showing: Open daily 10:00am-3pm until Saturday 18 November
Location: Building 14, School of Creative Arts & Humanities, Charles Darwin University
This year the School of Creative Arts and Humanities is proud to showcase the work of 16 graduate students. The graduate show at Charles Darwin University is always an anticipated and well attended event in Darwin art’s calendar. Using diverse mediums and themes, students have developed a body of unique and engaging work. This year the broad range of mediums includes installation photography, printmaking and sculpture. Themes of identity, landscape and spirituality are expressed throughout the show. The challenges and rewards of being an artist in the Top End are testified in this exhibition Eclosion – a term referring to emergence in the insect world.
We hope that Darwin art lovers will visit the exhibition during its showing and support our new emerging artists. View story about the exhibition >>
For further information, please contact Melissa on 8946 6013.
Smudge - beyond the boundaries
Opening: Friday 10 November 2006 at 6pm
Showing: Open daily 10:00am-3pm until Saturday 18 November
Location: Building 12, School of Creative Arts & Humanities, Charles Darwin University
The end of year Certificate IV in Visual Art and Contemporary Craft students exhibition "Smudge" will open on the same night as "Eclosion" in the Gallery, Building 12, Casuarina Campus.
Smudge is an all encoumpassing exhibition, focusing on the best work completed durin 2006 by the Visual Art and Contemporary Craft students. Students will exhibiti from a deiverse range of mediums including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing and textile/fibre art.
This is a first time event, providing an insight into the comprehensive art practices studied at Charles Darwin University.For further information, please contact Melissa on 8946 6013.
Our home - Charles Darwin University Art Collection, recent acquisitions, 2004-2006
Chayni Henry, Our Home #1 2005, watercolour on paper, Charles Darwin University Art Collection, CDU1274
Showing: Thursday 19 October to Friday 3 November 2006
Opening: Thursday 19 October 2006 at 6.00 pm
Location: Building 12, Casuarina Campus, Charles Darwin University
Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday 10.00am to 5.00pm, or by appointment with Anita Angel, Curator, Charles Darwin University Art Collection
Contact: Anita Angel, Curator Charles Darwin University Art Collection
Exhibition Inquiries: 08 8946 6621 or 0413 473 599
General Gallery Inquiries: 08 8946 6013
Website: www.cdu.edu.au/vc/artcollect.html
The Charles Darwin University Art Collection began as a ‘teaching collection’ of approximately 100 items, principally works on paper by contemporary Australian artists, assembled by an Art Acquisitions Committee and the School of Fine Arts (then part of the Darwin Community College, followed by the Darwin Institute of Technology), between 1980 and 1989. With the amalgamation of the Darwin Institute of Technology and the University College of the Northern Territory in 1989, to create the Northern Territory University, another collection of more than 20 indigenous art and material culture items, acquired in 1988 by a former Warden of the University College, was also absorbed into what became the Northern Territory University Art Collection.
Since 2004, the Charles Darwin University Art Collection has continued to acquire, by donation or purchase, a wide range of work by established and emerging indigenous and non-indigenous artists … with particular reference to art with a connection to the Northern Territory and adjoining regions, including South East Asia, in accordance with its art acquisition guidelines. This exhibition, curated by Anita Angel, will present a wide range of art in various media, including work by CDU graduates, staff and other Northern Territory-based artists from the Top End and Centre.
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Because is not an answer by Russell Lilford
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Opening: 14 September 2006
Showing: 15 September - 14 October 2006
Location: Building 12, Casuarina Campus, Darwin, NT 0909
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Alan Griffiths: painting and prints - Northern Editions, Printmaking Studio and Gallery
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Showing: 8 August - 8 September 2006
Northern Editions Hours: Monday to Friday 10.00am to 5.00pm, or by appointment
Location: Building 12, Casuarina Campus, Charles Darwin University
Contact: Emma Fowler-Thomason or Anne Chivas on 08 8946 6325
General Gallery Inquiries: 08 8946 6013
Website: www.cdu.edu.au/notherneditions
Northern Editions, in collaboration with Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, presents an outstanding selection of paintings and prints by senior artist Alan Griffiths. From the elegantly 'mapped' illustrations of his traditional country to the quirky depictions of his life and culture, Alan's distinctive imagery takes us on a rich visual journey through his myriad of life experiences as stockman, camel treck driver, performer and teacher of traditional culture. View story about exhibition >>
Journey into a toxic heartland byAly De Groot
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An honours graduations exhibition by Aly De Groot showing 13 - 18 July 2006
This is an exhibition of textiles, fibre and photography in response to: “some people need to take a reality check…there is absolutely no room for mucking about now…why on earth can’t people in the middle of nowhere have low level and intermediate nuclear waste.”
(Dr. Brendon Nelson, Lucas Heights, July 2005.
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Inwardly outbound by Fiona Gavino
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Graduating exhibition by Fiona Gavino showing 22 June - 7 July 2006.
The works in the exhibition are made entirely from newsprint folded into strips and woven into refined sculptural forms. Ms Gavino’s graduate exhibition is a body of work inspired from life on the peripheries.
View the artists' statement and the exhibition photos
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Circumambulation by Tobias Richardson
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Showing 2 - 17 June 2006
The inspiration for the show: “The Kabah is a shrine in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is a cube shaped granite structure that is very ancient. The Kabah is commonly shown in pictures shrouded by black cloth, and is an important spiritual site for many peoples.
“I first became inspired by the Kabah whilst travelling in Burma where I saw hi-tech images of the Kabah in posters being sold on the streets of Yangon. The more I researched the Kabah the more I uncovered a rich symbolism resulting from layer upon layer of history. I was drawn to the simplicity of the Kabah’s shape and saw a structure of great allegorical power.
“The Kabah represents the oneness of mankind. A pilgrimage to circle the Kabah is a confirmation of ones’ faith that God will guide. It is from this ritual that I arrived at the exhibition’s title - Circumambulation.”
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Spider alignment by Sarah Pirrie
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A real-time projection exhibition showing 18 - 26 May 2006.
Spider alignment is a whimsical look at real-time natural events.
Driven by a chance encounter with a spider, local artist and CDU staff member, Sarah Pirrie has created an installation based on the proposition of the everyday, colliding with the monumentality of a moment.
While spiders are often the considered subjects for nightmares, Pirrie's focus is to capture a predatory event which will unfold over and hour, and which provides studies of relationship between spider and prey.
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Two minds by Kelly Scurr
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A photographic exhibition showing 5 - 12 May 2006. View story about the exhibition >>
