31 May - 8 June 2007
Opened Thursday 31 May - 12.30pm
Entry to the exhibition and opening is free and everyone is encouraged to come along.
About the Artist:
Jessica House is an international student from the United States who is currently working on her Master of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong. Her study of Fine Arts has included time spent at the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of California in Los Angeles and at Richmond College in Florence, Italy. She received her Bachelor of Studio Art from the University of Texas in Austin, US. After completing her undergraduate work in Studio Art, she earned her Master of Cross-Cultural Education degree from National University in California. Since then, she has spent the past 4 years writing art curricula for inner-city school environments and teaching visual arts to diverse student populations at the primary school level. She currently completing her Master of Creative Arts at UOW in coursework. This is her first solo exhibition. Upon graduation, she will return to the United States and resume teaching visual arts.
 
From the artist about the exhibition:
The central theme that motivated the development of Relative Topography is emotional vacillation, but more specifically, the connection between emotional flux and geography. There is an immediate connection between the internal and the external, between where I am emotionally and where I am physically, because of the assimilation process that occurs when moving to new places. Relocating is something I have done quite a bit in my life. In fact, within the past ten years, I have lived in nine different regions of the United States, and have lived in Italy, and now in Australia. I am intrigued by the direct impact that geographic change has on the psyche. Relative Topography explores the way my emotional responses coincide with my physical responses to external stimuli.
Pictured left: Artist Jessica House (right) with fellow Master of Creative Arts student Heidi Trelfo (left) at the opening of her first solo exhibition Relative Topography - Blutac Gallery, Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong.
Pictured right: Artist Jessica House with her Master of Creative Arts supervisor at UOW, Richard Hook at the opening of her first solo exhibition Relative Topography - Blutac Gallery, Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong.
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