Limited Edition Prints published by Pharos Editions: A new exhibition of limited edition prints by Mary Rosengren, DCA Visual Arts candidate with the Faculty of Creative Arts, has recently been published by Pharos Editions. Taken from the series "The Real Thing", "Fruitingbodies" and "Digitalis" these works of visual and textual material are contemporary views of vegetation from western science and include historical accounts of plant subjects from European artist-scientists of 17th & 19th Centuries. Researched at the British Museum, Natural History Museum London, Herbarium RBG Edinburgh, School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong; and on field trips including the Cairngorm Mountains Scotland, Lake Mungo NSW, sub-Antarctic House RBG Hobart and the South Shetlands & Antarctic Peninsula.
Mary Rosengren recently re-established her practice in Australia after 15 years in the UK, where she had worked with artist networks in Scotland. In addition to exhibiting in the UK and Japan, Mary has continued to exhibit in Australia. Her work is represented in national and private collections. http://www.pharoseditions.com.au/about_us.html
Following a long run of Australian and International success, playwright Van Badham (University of Wollongong, Faculty of Creative Arts PhD Writing Candidate & Summer School tutor) returned to Wollongong in October to launch the Australian premiere of her explosive UK hit, Camarilla!
The performance opened at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre on 1 November and is the first in-house production produced by Merrigong Theatre Company. Camarilla is set in London?s West End and premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2003 to rave reviews.
From the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre: Camarilla Wednesday 1 November ? Saturday 4 November 8:15pm Bruce Gordon Theatre Adult $30 Concession $25 Student rush $17
Terrorism begins at home? A bomb goes off in London?s West End and high profile, left-wing academic, Maggie Tanner?s daughter Rebekah, is among the injured. In the aftermath of the bombings, the certainties of Maggie?s world begin to fall apart. Her Labour party husband supports the government?s anti-terrorist clampdowns and her own trenchant views are called into question. Tensions reach crisis point when Maggie?s conservative stepson returns from the US and Rebekah makes a move on him.
Written by: Van Badham Directed by: Kate Gaul Design by: Tobhiyah Feller Lighting Design by: Verity Hampson Composer: Daryl Wallis With: Tim Allen, Chris Beckey, Lorna Lesley and Alexandria Steffensen.
Daniel Blinkhorn, Faculty of Creative Arts DCA candidate in Music Composition, has placed second in the prestigious International Competition for Electroacoustic Music Composition Prize in Limerick, Ireland.
This annual international prize is administered jointly by RTÉ Lyric FM and The Centre for Computational Musicology and Computer Music.
The winners of this years? prize, titled DIFFUSION 2006, were announced on 1 October 2006 and the works will receive their premiere performances on 16 November at concert in Daghda Dance Space in St. John's Church, Limerick.
? 1st prize - Lucas Fagin "Filamentos" (Argentinean, located France) ? 2nd prize - Daniel Blinkhorn "squeak ('n bubble)" (Australian) ? 3rd prize - Bryan Jacobs "Within Scenes of Hurt" (Canadian)
The 2006 Jury consisted of: Trevor Wishart (United Kingdom), Roger Doyle (Ireland), Jürgen Simpson (Ireland)
The Centre for Computational Musicology and Computer Music is an internationally-recognised leader in advanced music technology education and research and is part of the Department of Computer Science & Information Systems at The University of Limerick, Ireland. For more information see: http://www.ccmcm.ie/
Radio Telefís Éireann is Ireland's Public Service Broadcaster. RTÉ music and arts station, RTÉ Lyric fm, is not only for lovers of classical music. Lyric fm caters for all tastes, dedicated for fans and novices alike playing classical, jazz, opera, as well as music from the stage, screen world and traditional music.
Multiplicity ? and exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Glenn Barkley (UOW Art Collection Curator)
In a major exhibition at the Museum of Conteporary Art, curator Glenn Barkley (UOW Art Collection), will be the present an exhibition of prints and multiples from the permanent collections of the MCA and University of Wollongong.
Titled, ?Multiplicity? the exhibit gives viewers the chance to see the evolution of this medium, emerging out of pop art and conceptual art, from the 1960s to the present day.
Attachment 1: Colin Lanceley Born 1938 Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand. Lives and works Sydney, New South Wales.
Some Are More Equal Than Others 1969 screenprint, edition 75 of 150, sheet size: 76.5 x 54.7, plate size: 81.5 x 60.5 University of Wollongong Art Collection, donated by Dr Douglas Kagi under the Cultural Gifts Program, 2006
Congratulations to Di Epoff for her winning presentation at the The University of Wollongong's Higher Degree Research (HDR) Student Conference last Wednesday, 27 September.
The Conference, attended by students, industry partners, academic and general staff provided a forum to present a range of projects being undertaken by UOW research students. The presentations were based on five categories with prizes being awarded for the best presentation in each theme and also the best poster.
Winner for her presentation in the "Cultivating creativity and innovation" category was Diane Epoff, (DCA-Visual Arts) with her project 'Paphos Theatre: A work-In-Progress'.
Cyprus High Commissioner visits UOW The High Commissioner for the Republic of Cyprus, Mr Achilleas Antoniades, visited the University of Wollongong's Faculty of Creative Arts on 23 August. Before touring the Faculty he met the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Gerard Sutton, and the Acting Head of the School of Art and Design, Professor Diana Wood Conroy.
Next week, the Faculty of Creative Arts will be installing a new exhibition in the FCA Gallery which is a direct result of a faculty research team visit to Cyprus in April/May of this year. The exhibition will be titled: 'Sonic Architecture: mapping the ancient theatre in image and sound'. This exhibition is a work in progress, exploring sonic and haptic textures documented by UOW participants in the recent University of Sydney excavation of the Paphos Theatre, Cyprus.
University of Wollongong Council member, Mr Kerry Kyriakoudes, participated in the High Commissioner's visit. Mr Kyriakoudes was Secretary of the Cyprian Community of Wollongong from 1980-99 and President of the Federation of Cyprus Communities and Organisations of Australia and New Zealand from 1997-2003.
Pictured: Professor Diana Wood Conroy, A/Head School of Art & Design, Faculty of Creative Arts. Mr Achilleas Anthoniades, High Commissioner for the Republic of Cyprus. Mr Kerry Kyriacoudes, University Council Photo: by Mark Newsham, University of Wollongong
Dr. Merlinda Bobis, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Creative Arts, has been offered a two-book deal by Bantam USA. Her first book, 'Banana Heart Summer' was first published by Murdoch Books Australia in May 2005 and was shortlisted for the 2006 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Merlinda is currently writing her second novel 'The Solemn Lantern Maker' and in August, will receive a receive 'a lifetime award' (the national Philippine Balagtas Award) for her fiction in English and her poetry in English, Pilipino and Bicol (the three languages in which she writes).
Local sculptor wins? Didier Balez takes out Stacks Finance Sculpture Competition Faculty of Creative Arts studio technician and MCA graduate, Didier Balez, has been announced the winner of the ?Stacks Finance Sculpture Commission? in Taree.
Mr Balez has been a practising artist for over 18 years who regularly exhibits across Australia. He recently entered the competition which hailed sculptors from across Australia to compete for a substantial commission and Didier's winning piece will be installed as the final part of renovations to the Stacks Finance building on the riverfront of Taree at No. 1 Pulteney Street.
The building, full of local history, has recently undergone major redesign and it was decided that a sculpture addition to the front of the building would finalise the work.
Stacks Finance launched the competition in conjunction with the Manning Regional Art Gallery and received over 40 entries from across the country. Initial entrants submitted scale drawings and digital images to a panel of judges and six finalists were selected to present high quality maquettes (miniatures) of their designs.
The maquettes are currently on public display at the Manning Regional Art Gallery and will remain for viewing until the end of the month. The Gallery is open from Wednesday to Saturday from 10am to 4pm, Sunday from 1pm to 4pm and is located at 12 Macquarie Street, Taree.
Mr Balez was advised of his win early this week and will have approximately one month to complete a full-scale sculpture for installation in early September. His work is a combination of metal and hand made ceramic tiles designed specifically for the unique space at the front of the building to compliment its style and location. The actual scale of the finished work will be 2.4 by 2.2 metres.
?I am very excited about this opportunity and am thrilled that my work has been chosen? said Mr Balez.
Liz Jeneid, Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Creative Arts is currently participating in a traveling exhibition of artists from three countries. The international exhibit includes 10 German, 10 Canadian and 10 Australian artists who have collaborated on a collection called "In Your Dreams". The exhibit tours Canada during 2006, Germany in 2007 and returns to Brisbane Australia in 2008.
?The thirty works represented in this exhibition are deeply felt mediations on dreams and dreaming. They challenge, they delight, they celebrate and they mourn. In the best sense, they enrich our understanding of ourselves and others not in any narrow sense as Canadians or Germans or Australians but as members of the human family.? John Thompson, Canberra, 2006
At the UOW Alumni Network Campus Chapter Prize Giving Ceremony on 30 May 2006: Emily Harris from the Faculty of Creative Arts, School of Art & Design was awarded a Campus Alumni Chapter Honours Year Prize.
Merlinda Bobis, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing has been chosen by the Union of Philippine Writers (Unyon ng Manunulat ng Pilipinas, UMPIL) as the 2006 'Gawad ni Balagtas' Awardee for Fiction in English for her novel 'Banana Heart Summer'.
Merlinda will receive the award in August during the annual Writers Congress in the Philippines. The same novel has also been shortlisted for the 2006 Australian Literary Society Gold Medal, Australia's oldest literary award inaugurated in 1899 by the Australian Literature Society (Melbourne) which was incorporated into the Association for the Study of Australian Literature in 1982. The winner will be announced in July.
Note: Gawad ni Balagtas (The Balagtas Award). Francisco Balagtas, a poet in the 1700, is an icon of Philippine literature. In his poetry, he depicted the suffering of the Filipinos under Spanish rule.
Van Badham - PhD Student and Summer School Tutor Following on from her Australian success last year, Van Badham, PhD Student with the Faculty of Creative Arts has now taken out international honours. She has won the International Student Playscript Competition (ISPC).
The competition is run in conjunction with the National Student Drama Festival in the UK. Previous winners have included the American playwright, Peter Morris, and English playwright, Joy Wilkinson. It is a significant award for an emerging playwright as the National Student Drama Festival attracts the cream of the British theatre industry to scout new talent. Alan Ayckbourn himself is the patron of the award.
Van took out the award from an international field, including students from some of the world's most prestigious universities, including Cambridge and is the first Australian to win the award in its 30 year history.
The play that won the competition is Black Hands / Dead Section, which also won the Queensland Premier's Literary Award. It is about terrorism; specifically, it's about the revolutionary/terrorist campaign of West Germany's Baader-Meinhof Gang in the 1960s and 70s. However, as Black Hands / Dead Section has a cast of 30 people and one of the prizes for winning the award is a public reading at the National Student Drama Festival, the organisers have asked if they can stage Petrograd, another of Vans plays that was entered in the same competition. Petrograd was first shown at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year and is about the collapse of the Soviet ideal and Post-Soviet idealism in the West.
Van has also recently received a commission from an American company to write a play about American Politics for the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia.
She has also recently been featured in SummerWinter Magazine (issue 4, Winter 2006) and will also be featured in the June issue of Nylon Magazine.
Photograph: Van Badham "Photo by www.krisbaum.com"
$10,000 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award And the winner is: Jacky Redgate
Sydney Artist Jacky Redgate has been announced as the winner of the prestigious Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photograph Award for 2006. The intriguing title of her work is Pigs can't run as fast as nurse can they Mum! The origin of the work comes from a diary her mother kept when she was hospitalised as a three-year-old child. It was during her illness that Redgate ?imagined? the images from this series.
Judge Julie Rrap commented: ?Jacky Redgate has made a substantial contribution to Australian photographic history. Her work in the Joseph Ulrick and Win Schubert Photographic prize reinforces many of the qualities of her practice, which frequently moves between sculpture and photography. As the title suggests, the work also references a moment recalled from childhood when the artist was hospitalised. In a child?s reality, scale shifts according to fantasy. Here we are given a precise almost catalogued depiction of two oddities; a nurses foot with sock and shoe and a pig?s trotter. The adult, faithful to a re-telling of the child?s fantasy, represents a dream as a reality. Suddenly we-are exposed to a surreal shock and experience this moment through a child?s vision. For me this work stood out in the exhibition because it seemed to belong to a category all of its own. It was an image I couldn?t quite place and this unsettling quality made it resonate in my imagination for some time.?
In addition to the $10,000 award an additional $5000 was made available to the judge to select work for the Gold Coast City Art Gallery Collection. These works are: Cathy Laudenback: Belanglo State Forest series, Eugenia Raskopoulos: Wet Letters Shayne Higson: Give me warmth, Gerrit Fokkema: His Story The exhibition runs until 21 May.
Image:Pigs can't run as fast as nurse can they Mum!
Local sculptor wins?
