Visiting Artists Program 1988 - 2004

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 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)

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.

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