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Join us this Thursday (9/9) for the final in the series of artist talks for The Stony Rises Project. The exhibition ends 5 pm Saturday 11 September. Don't miss out!
Artists Vicki Couzens and Lesley Duxbury will be at the Gallery from 12.30 - 1pm, to talk about their work and the inspiration of the Western District of Vi...ctoria.
Vicki Couzens, a prominent artist and Keerray Wurrong/Gunditjmara woman, will speak about making her striking possum skin cloak which features in the exhibition, as well as her passion for the reclamation, regeneration and revitalisation of her cultural heritage knowledge and practices. http://netsvictoria.org.au/new-artistpag
This is a great chance to hear Vicki before she boards a plane to India. She will be joining RMIT Gallery Director and Chief Curator Suzanne Davies and several other artists for the exhibition: Power Cloths of the Commonwealth, as part of the XIX Commonwealth Games cultural program in New Delhi. This is Australia's only representation in the cultural program.
Vicki will be joined on Thursday at the Gallery artist talk by Lesley Duxbury, whose work in the exhibition incorporates inkjet print on paper and silkscreen print on glass. http://netsvictoria.org.au/new-artistpag
Entry free. Everyone welcome. groups encouraged.
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Don't miss Seth Keen talking about his digital work in The Stony Rises Project RMIT Gallery, Thursday 2 September, 12.30 - 1 pm.
Seth teaches in the media program at RMIT University and specialises in new media production courses, mainly in relation to developments occurring around video on the Internet.
His video work r...epresents one of the locations painted by the landscape painter Eugene Von Guérard, who sketched and painted in the Corangamite Shire of the Western District of Victoria from 1858-61.
"Because I have moved from a television documentary practice to a research practice that involves utilising new media technologies and exploring hybrid forms of narrative, I would describe myself as being a media artist. But, even though the platform has changed from television to the Internet, the observations that are captured still reflect the way I like to use a video camera to document people and place."
Read more at http://netsvictoria.org.au/purrumbete-ve
Admission free - all welcome
Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 12:30pm
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RMIT Gallery
Camperdown resident Marion Manifold will be at RMIT Gallery on Thursday to speak about her work as an artist and historian living on a volcano overlooking the Stony Rises http://netsvictoria.org.au/new-artistpag
Her work in the current exhibition, The Stony Rises Project, deals with ancestral memories and identities... of women of the Manifold family, an important pioneering family of the Western District of Victoria.
The Western District is home to many bluestone homesteads and drystone walls, symbols of prosperity enjoyed by the generations of early pastoralists in the area. Walter Withers painted the grand Purrumbete homestead in 1902.
Marion uses Walter Wither’s’ murals in Purrumbete, the original Manifold homestead, as a starting point to explore the lives of the Manifold women across 100 years. http://netsvictoria.org.au/the-land-jane
Free. All welcome - groups encouraged.
Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 12:30pm
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RMIT Gallery
Join us over your lunch break for an opportunity to hear artists Ruth Johnstone and Jenny Lowe talk about their very different work in The Stony Rises Project.
Ruth Johnstone's sculptural work uses personal details of her familial generational history ensuing from forced Irish famine and economically driven migration f...rom the British Isles in the 19th Century to the Stony Rises area. She completed a Master of Art in Dublin and a PhD through the School of Art at RMIT University in 2004 where she is currently a senior lecturer.
Jenny Lowe trained as an architect and recently returned from a long period of educating and practising in the UK, where she was an academic program leader in the Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the University of Brighton. She is currently researching and teaching design at RMIT.
Her project, to locate any new homes needed for the area in the disused quarries - working with intensive water harnessing, grew out of the ‘Timeline’ drawings.
"I find the quarries to be magnificent in the way that they reveal the volcanic events that created, over time and sequential eruptions, the land surface and volcanic cones/craters of the area."
Artist talks free. All welcome.
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 12:30pm
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RMIT Gallery
Artist Kit Wise, known for his large-scale digital landscapes, is currently exhibiting at RMIT Gallery in The Stony Rises Project. http://netsvictoria.org.au/gnotuk/
Although he has no prior history with the Western District of Victoria, Kit says; “I was excited by the opportunity to engage with a unique Australian lan...dscape, and by the interdisciplinary, collaborative nature of the project.”
The artist, a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art in the Faculty of Art and Design at Monash University, borrows from western medieval narrative painting and the European tradition of the picturesque. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Kit talk about his work and research in the field.
A graduate of Oxford University and the Royal College of Art, Kit worked as an artist in London, Paris, New York and Rome before settling in Melbourne in 2002.
His work shown in Viewpoints and Viewing Points: 2009 Asian Art Biennial (Taiwan) and Experimenta Utopia Now: 2010 International Biennial of Media Art (Melbourne) addressed the increasingly fluid or plastic condition of the work of art and the place of art and artist in contemporary culture.
Event free. All warmly welcome, including student groups
Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 12:30pm
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RMIT Gallery
Hitoshi Abe, regarded as among the most important architects of the current Japanese generation, launched Distributed Urbanism: Cities After Google Earth, at RMIT Gallery on 9 August. Edited by US architect and RMIT lecturer Gretchen Wilkins, the book asks what kind of urbanism does Google Earth produce?
Hitoshi is cur...rently in Australia, where he has been speaking about his work, inspiration and vision for design futures. About 150 architecture identities and students attended the launch and listened to Hitoshi speak about the important issues addressed by the new book.
“I’ve known Gretchen for a really long time and it’s a real pleasure to launch this book at RMIT Gallery,” he said.
Since 2007, Hitoshi Abe has been based in California, where he is the Professor and Chair of the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design. After obtaining his PhD in architecture in 1992, he set up Atelier Hitoshi Abe in Sendai, Japan. He is known for work that is spatially complex and structurally innovative.
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We warmly invite you to join Hitoshi Abe, of Atelier Hitoshi Abe in Sendai, Japan, as he launches Distributed Urbanism: Cities After Google Earth, edited by US architect Gretchen Wilkins.
Gretchen is a senior lecturer in Architecture at RMIT, and teaches in the Urban Architecture Laboratory. She is co-ordinator of the ...World Architecture Workshop. She became connected with Hitoshi Abe through their mutual interest in the way cities are changing, when she was assistant professor at the University of Michigan and Research Fellow at the Japan Foundation.
Hitoshi Abe is regarded as among the most important architects of the current Japanese generation. He is currently in Australia, where he has been speaking about his work, inspiration and vision for design futures. http://www.qtix.com.au/event/SLQ_Hitoshi
Since 2007, he has been the professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design. US architect Gretchen Wilkins was the editor of the 2008 book On-the-Spot: Atelier Hitoshi Abe. Known for architecture that is spatially complex and structurally innovative, the work of Atelier Hitoshi Abe has received numerous awards in Japan and internationally.
Gretchen’s new book, Distributed Urbanism: Cities After Google Earth (Routledge, 2010), asks what kind of urbanism does Google Earth produce? The book highlights the architectural practices emerging in response to the increasingly decentralised systems in which cities are organised and produced.
This collection of essays and projects, both imagined and real, compiles work by leading architects and theorists from a global perspective, including projects in Rotterdam, Tokyo, Barcelona, Detroit, Hong Kong, Dubai, Beijing and Mumbai.
Please join us for this event.
Monday, August 9, 2010 at 6:00pm
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RMIT Gallery
The Stony Rises Project - Artist Talk
Thursday 5 August, 12.30 - 1 pm.
Portland based artist Carmel Wallace is coming to RMIT Gallery to speak about her art and the inspiration of the Western District of Victoria.
Many of her works in the exhibition incorporate stone from the Tyrendarra lava flow, South-West Victoria.
...“My work is an expression of the environment and community it addresses. The approach I take is to immerse myself in the place that I am interpreting so that I can get to know it as well as I can. Materials are sourced locally where possible, providing an immediate connection to place.”
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Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 12:30pm
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RMIT Gallery Heidi Specker and Theo Deutinger speak about their work HELP ME, I AM BLIND at RMIT Gallery
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THE STONY RISES PROJECT
Join the curators of The Stony Rises Project as they talk about how they brought together some of Australia’s foremost artists and intellectuals in a project that investigates the meaning of ‘place’ by focusing on the Western District of Victoria.
Curators in conversation: Harriet Edquist, Lauren...e Vaughan and Lisa Byrne Thursday 29 July from 12.30 - 1 pm
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 12:30pm
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RMIT Gallery
HELP ME, I AM BLIND:
Exhibition opening - 29 July, 6-8pm
Artist talk - 30 July 12-1 pm
Seminar: “Where on (Google) earth are we?” - 3 August 12-1pm; Heidi Specker &Theo Deutinger, with architect Gretchen Wilkins & poet Ann Shenfield. (Chair) Professor Paul James, Director of the Global Cities Institute (RMIT).
RMIT Gallery An exhibition and publication documenting the visual-textual dialogue between German photographer Heidi Specker and Austrian writer and architect Theo Deutinger, HELP ME, I AM BLIND explores the meaning of homeland in the global age. Supported by RMIT Gallery, the Goethe-Institut Australia, Institut für Auslandsbeziehu...ngen and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Canberra.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 6:00pm
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RMIT Gallery
As part of the weekly artist talks for The Stony Rises Project, we warmly invite you to join us for a half hour lunch discussion tomorrow with artists Gini Lee and Laurene Vaughan about their work.
Friday 23 July 12.30 - 1 pm
Followed by questions from the audience
...Artist Laurene Vaughan is an associate professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University and research leader within the RMIT Design Research Institute. For the past five years she has been investigating the historical and cultural evolution of vernacular artefacts, their making and their meaning. Laurene has always been fascinated by the dry stonewalls of the Western District. Born in Koroit, a tiny town just out of Warrnambool, the region continues to have a very resounding sense of place and homecoming for her. "What inspires me about the Western District of Victoria? The land, the sea, the light, the memories, the mix of peace and drama: I feel the district as much as I see it. My heart always quickens the further west that I go."
Gini Lee is a landscape architect and interior designer and is professor of Landscape Architecture at Queensland University of Technology. Her PhD entitled "The Intention to Notice: the collection, the tour and ordinary landscapes" investigated ways in which landscapes and interiors are incorporated into the cultural understandings of individuals and communities through ephemeral thinking.
We would be delighted if you could join us for this event.
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 12:30pm
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