News Items: April-May 2004

 

Twilight at Riversdale - An Australian Premiere
A chamber music concert featuring the Australian Chamber Orchestra's Elizabeth Jones (violin) andBernard Lanskey from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London (piano), will be held at the Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre at Riversdale, a BUNDANON property located on the Shoalhaven River near Nowra, on Saturday 10th of April at 5.00 pm.

With a program including Sonatas by Brahms and Debussy and two short works composed by the Dean of the Faculty of Creative Arts, Andrew Schultz, Sleepers Wake, Karalanga for solo piano and Night Flight for violin and piano (an Australian premiere), the event is an opportunity to hear two internationally renowned musicians at a striking location on the Shoalhaven River.

You are all cordially invited to attend the opening of the "Fabrics of Change: Trading Identities" exhibition Friday 23rd April at 6:30pm (to be opened by Prof. Gerard Sutton (our VC). This UOW project with national and international artists includes compelling material of bark fibre, fine woven and stitched fabric as well as printed and embroided costumes.

The exhibition traces connections between textiles and trade in countries of the former British Empire. A joint collaboration between the FCA and the Dept. of English Studies (Faculty of Arts). More at: http://www.uow.edu.au/crearts/GalleryFCA/FabricsofChange.html

Last few days for the Prints from Yolngu Country in the Long Gallery - Stay tuned for the next exhibition:.....

"Blasted Memories" by Dhanajaya Karunaratne (29 April - 28 May 2004 )
This collection of Dhanajaya Karunaratne work contains paintings, installlations and some sculptures that are both non- figurative and figurative. His art pieces, including his theatre productions, have a tendency to disturb the spectator rather than just entertain.

Also - exhibiting in the eastern end of the Long Gallery, "Pop-T-Art" a Toasters exhibition by students, opening 5th May.

Telestra Window Gallery - Launch 10am Friday 30th April.
You are invited to the launch of Culture on Crown, Celebrating the Spirit of Communities and the Revitalisation of Crown Street at the Window Gallery of the Telstra Exchange/old post office on West Crown Street, Wollongong.

The first Gallery showing Celebrations: Spirit of Communities is an initiative of the Illawarra Migration Heritage Project and recognises the contribution of migrant communities to the economic and cultural life of the Illawarra. The Telestra Window Gallery initiative has been developed by Gregor Cullen and Richard Hook in partnership with Chia Moan and Ian Colley from the Uptown Crown project. Uptown Crown are managing the revitalisation of West Crown Street Wollongong.

The "JACKY REDGATE SURVEY 1980-2003" exhibition
At the CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA (CACSA)
OPENING 23 APRIL 6-8 PM and running from 23 APRIL - 30 MAY. Australian artist Jacky Redgate (Lecturer at the Faculty of Creative Arts) is represented by Sherman Galleries, Sydney and ARC One Gallery, Melbourne. The CACSA will present the first of three exhibitions surveying the work of Jacky from 1980-2003.

A graduate of the South Australian School of Art in 1980, Redgate has since been a prolific practitioner - her work over this period has been concerned with the persistence of tradition and the meaning of remembrance. These works - on perception and recollection - are staged to convey memory, thoughts and feelings, unsettling our experience of history, location and meaning. This survey, complimented by a monograph later in the year, and an Artist Residency in Adelaide in conjunction with the SA School of Art, University of SA, will be the CACSA?s first
major career-presentation of an Australian artist, and will be Redgate?s first major exhibition in Adelaide. The survey will be touring to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney later next year.

The Show Must Go On? is a 2nd year student devised performance, with training in circus and physical skills from our Artist in Residence, Alicia Batestini of the fabulous Circus Monoxide.

Performance Dates: Monday 10th May, Wednesday 12th May, Friday 14th May and Saturday 15th May (raincheck days will be 11th and 13th May)
Where: Grass Area between Building 25 and 27 (adjacent to the Northern Carpark)
Time: 7pm. No Bookings required - Paper Donation Preferred (i.e. $5).
Further Details: 4221 3996 or e-mail: Brooke_Green@uow.edu.au
http://www.uow.edu.au/crearts/performances/ShowMustGoOn.html

The Silver Garburg Piano Duo - performing at the Bruce Gordon Theatre at the IPAC, Monday 10th May 7:30 pm. Tickets $35 and $25 concession. Two brilliant young Israeli pianists, Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg, combine their talents for one performance only.

Visual Arts undergraduate student Judith Ann Rudwick has won 2nd prize in the 2004 Royal Easter Show Abstract Sculpture competition and 1st prize in the 2004 Thirroul Seaside Festival "On The Shore" Recycled Art Work prize with her sculptures "Mars Effect" and "Two". Congratulations Judith!

View the winning sculptures at:http://www.uow.edu.au/crearts/news/Rudwick.html

NEA CAHILL, an MCA-Research student at the Faculty of Creative Arts, will leave for the Philippines on 22 April 2004 (TODAY) for a 3-month research and study at the University of Santo Tomas Centre for Creative Writing and Studies. She is the successful recipient of the UMAP fund of $4000 from DEST and a workshop fellowship (in fiction) from the host institution. As an exchange student under the UMAP Programme, she will research and write her main project (a cycle of short stories) in consultation with Filipino writers and academics; she will also attend lectures on Philippine Fiction at the University of Santo Tomas Graduate School. As well, her manuscripts will be workshopped by major Filipino writers at a national workshop in Baguio City. Watch out for Nea's 'postcards' in the IQ section of the Mercury in the next month.

"The Architect" chosen for script development - The Head of the School of Journalism and Creative Writing, Associate Professor John Scott's novel "The Architect" has been chosen as one of five script development projects at the ARISTA workshops in Melbourne from 2nd May to 5th April. ARISTA Development is a UK based enterprise which is currently Europe's leading story and script development agency. Film Victoria in cooperation with the NSW Film and Television Office, ScreenWest and the New Zealand Film Commission are hosting the ARISTA Development team in Australia.

The Coordinator of Visual Arts, Sue Blanchfield has been selected to exhibit her "By design-made in Australia" work at the national textile survey exhibition, the Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial which opens in September at the Tamworth Gallery and tours Australia for two years.

She has also been selected to exhibit in the International Triennial of Tapestry, Lodz '04 in Poland, opening May 24 -Oct 31 (the works represent all facets of the fibre/textile practice, not exclusively tapestry).

Janys Hayes (Performance Lecturer) was awarded an Australian Council Grant.

Maggie Henton: During her residency at Wollongong University, April/May 2004, Maggie Henton intends to beginning a new body of work: The Curtained Window. The window?s fascination comes from its complex position between the public and the private; between interior and exterior. Is the window intended to let you look in or out; see or be seen. Does the curtained window evoke the domestic interior space as private and intimate, or as a place of concealment and shame? The curtain conceals the interior, but is also a display of taste. It is envisaged that the layers of space and layers of meaning contained within the curtained window will be explored through the
mediums of printed images, cloth, and casts of domestic objects and fragments of interior space. Maggie Henton has been collecting photographs of windows since her last visit to Australia in 2001, and these will form the starting place for this new body of work.

> More at: http://browngrotta.com/Pages/henton.html

General Information for Staff and Students:

St Mary Star of the Sea College is hosting its annual Arts Visions Acquisitive Art Prize ($1000). Entry forms from sdaly@stmarys.nsw.edu.au or call 42286011. Artists practising in all mediums invited to enter (requirements: over 18 years and citizen of the Illawarra). The Calender of Events will be available in the next few weeks (you wont be able to miss it)

Stay tuned for International Week events (1st week in August) - We are lucky enough to have the performance "No Exit" (JP Satre) locked in during the IWeek festivities.

TIDE - a magazine showcasing the work of student and young writers will be launched on Friday (28th May) 5:30pm, at the University of Wollongong/FCA. TIDE (edit spelt backwards) is the work of 3rd year creative writing students from the School of Journalism and Creative Writing, under the direction of Dr Shady Cosgrove.

Songs Of Ecstasy: 8th May at the Sydney Opera House
The Song conmpany return to The Studio at the Opera House for their 20th anniversary year with a new version of the ancient love poem Song of Songs, conceieved by composer Andrew Schultz and Melbourne Poet Barry Hill.The six voices of the The Song Company are electronically multiplied into a 'sensurround' tapestry of lusciously exotic vocals, with the earthy sounds of William Barton on the didgeridoo. When: 8:15pm. Admission: $30/$25. More information: 02-9351 7939 or visit: www.songcompany.com.au

Uni at the Brewery: CHESS PIECES
Come and hear about innovative musical research being undertaken at the University of Wollongong's Faculty of Creative Arts: research in 3D sound, the University's musical system (titled CHESS), novel musical instruments and computer generated music. Presenters will include: Associate Professor Stephen Ingham and Aaron Hull- from the University's Faculty of Creative Arts. Dr Houston Dunleavy, Senior Lecturer in Composition, will present and MC. There will also be improvisations from third year students, including sampling of sounds at hand within the Brewery. Where: Five Islands Brewery, Eastern beach end of the WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong When: 5:30 until 6:30 pm, 5 May 2004. Cost: FREE 
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