Visiting Artists Program

Artists selected for 2002

Anoli Perera visited the faculty from 1st of May to 1st of June 2002. Generally, her paintings incorporate the concept of bricolage where fragments from different written texts, raw materials, objects and painted surfaces are juxtaposed together giving a textured surface. They also transcend the two dimensional aspect of painting.
As a sculptor, she has worked with stone, steel, cement as well as junk metal from motor car parts. At present she uses cloth, thread, lace and paper as raw material for her sculptures and installations. Her subject matter always comes out of various situations and experiences in the social context she lives in. As such, her work reflects certain social and political issues relevant to the context of her living. Of recently, her work has focussed on the woman and the issues that confront her.

Whiting Tennis, a New York based painter recently visited our faculty as the 'Visiting Artist' for 4 weeks. Whiting was working on prints and paintings based on images from the States and Wollongong. He took many photographs of houses in and around Wollongong which became the basis of his work. "My most recent painting is related to printed matter, such as wallpaper, art prints, and posters, and the manner in which we see the familiar and render it in flattened pictorial space, I'm amused at the thought that we can only really recognise things that we've seen before and that the more typical the object, the more readily we can identify it and hence, abbreviate its depiction in two dimensions."
- Whiting Tennis