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Visiting Artists Program 1988 - 2004
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The Faculty of Creative Arts held a Visiting
Artist Program from 1988 - 2004.
The Visiting Artist Program aimed to support four
distinguished visiting artists for three to four
week visits each year. Each artist delivered lectures, worked with students in the
Faculty studios and engage in their own art practice
while on campus. The visiting artists also
presented talks and
lectures at galleries.
Artist selected for 2004:
Belle Shafir
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 Israeli
artist/sculptor, Belle Shafir was born in
Germany, but has lived and studied in Tel
Aviv, Israel since 1972.
Her aim during her stay is to "...strengthen
artistic relations between Israel and Australia,
and to show there is an artistic side to
Israel (not just the warlike picture the
media paint)..."
Recently, one of her works has been accepted
at the International Triennial of Tapestry,
Lodz 04 in Poland, opening May 24 -Oct 31.
During her residency at the FCA she hopes
to create an indoor sculpture, interact
with local artists and present lectures
and workshops on her work in Israel.
Belle will be presenting an 'Open Artist
Talk' on Wednesday 17th and Wednesday 24th
March in Room 128 (building 25). Interested
artists welcome to attend.
> more
about the artist (her own website)
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Maggie Henton
During her residency at Wollongong University, April/May
2004, Maggie Henton intends to begin 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
about the artist
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