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Honours and Masters 2008 Graduate Exhibition

23 – 31 October 2008

Vincent Bicego, BCA(H), Visual Arts
Katie Daniels, BCA(H), Visual Arts
Fatima Hijazi, MCA, Visual Arts
Steven Jerram, MCA, Visual Arts
Belinda Trumble, MCA, Visual Arts

The Honours and Masters 2008 Graduate Exhibition showcases the work of post graduate and honours students of the Faculty of Creative Arts and incorporates a diverse array of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, cast bronze, natural plant with wax, etchings, animation and wall installation.

The artists, Vincent Bicego, Katie Daniels, Fatima Hijazi, Steven Jerram and Belinda Trumble, explore a composite of artistic concepts presenting their individual research and vision in a stimulating collective exhibition.

The exhibition will be officially opened on Thursday 23 October at 12.30pm by Professor Diana Wood Conroy (Visual Arts Chair, Faculty of Creative Arts Research Committee) with a traditional Welcome to Country performed by Aunty Barbara Nicholson.

From the artists:

Vincent Bicego

My BCA (Honours) work exemplifies a style of installation art I have been developing over the past two years. It is concerned with the retextualisation of digital images: transforming information that (in theory) is precise and durable, into forms that are tactile and ephemeral. These new works are linked to the research I have carried out this year concerning Aboriginal art and culture, particularly Indigenous Australians’ sense of connection to Country. Thus, while I have made no attempt to mimic Aboriginal art practices or aesthetics, these pieces question how effective ‘western’ genres - such as cartography and landscape art - are in illustrating our actual experience and understanding of our environment; both its immediate resonance and its history. (Note Vincent’s work is located in the Blutac Gallery behind the FCA Gallery)

Katie Daniels

My body of work explores my personal and varied reactions to the visual ‘norms’ of femininity that are represented in contemporary society. It also explores the nature of the gaze. That is to say, who is gazing at these visual norms and also who are these visual norms aimed at-who is the spectator. The gaze that these faces use is one that scrutinises the viewer, turning them into a display. These faces do not acquiesce to the desires of the audience. Essentially this body of work is a statement of defiance against whatever stereotype society believes I should embody.

Fatima Hijazi

My work, titled Anon Place, is an exhibition which uses painting, sculpture and drawing to review our reading of space. By studying line, tone, form and perspective the artworks consider the visual field in Eastern and Western traditions of art. The title draws from Marc Auges text Non-Places. Auge discusses the difference between place and space. He identifies non-places as sites of transit within the contemporary world, such as airports, supermarkets and hotels. Using objects from Eastern hotels as a focus, the drawings and paintings begin to question the position of the East as a point of transit to the West. Or, as subjects that acquire their identity by being on the way to other places. This exhibition also explores the subject of anonymity – by creating non-objects. These objects are plaster castings of the gaps within Styrofoam packaging. The forms are anonymous, yet they retain an imprint or memory from their surrounding Styrofoam walls.

Steven Jerram

Steven Jerram is currently completing his master of creative arts course. He has previously worked in painting, printmaking and installation, and is currently experimenting in animation. ‘The Devil at my Heels’ is a music video (currently on display in the FCA gallery), which makes visual reference to military/industrial graphics as well as elements of pop culture.

Belinda Trumble

Within this current body of work I explore the dialectics between Ephemerality and Permanence. By exploring the notion of placing the self, this body of work grew from exploring my childhood associations with the my family property called ‘Beneveland’ and my grandmother ‘Ila’ with her garden and textile works. In accurately recreating the physical elements of these objects from the past, such as the flower and the lacework, in metal it is an attempt at making the ephemeral permanent in order to represent and capture, to hold fast to memory. In the long run all things are ephemeral. Our sense of permanence relates to the scale of our lifetime. Children (if they're lucky) live in a reassuringly unchanging world. Only as we grow older do we realise that the world is in constant flux.

FCA Gallery & Blutac Gallery
Building 25
Faculty of Creative Arts
University of Wollongong
Gallery times: 9am – 5pm Monday - Friday