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“Common Place” @ Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
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MEDIA RELEASE

Common Place

Access Gallery at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre

Exhibition runs 2nd to 19th June, opening Saturday 4th June at 2:00pm.



An exhibition of selected works by NMIT Visual Arts students interpreting the historical and contemporary identity of Bundoora Homestead in a variety of media, using architecture and landscape as primary sources.

Students from courses across the Visual Arts Department travelled to the Bundoora Homestead Art Centre in March this year to spend the day drawing, painting and photographing the site. The works were further developed in a variety of media back in the studio. A selection of the final images will be shown in an exhibition on site at the Bundoora Homestead Access Gallery from the 2nd to 19th June. The exhibition aims to examine the layered histories of identity and place and provides an opportunity for students to exhibit their work within the community.

common place exhibition at Bundoora Homestead 2-19 June...my print will be on show and for sale.

Digital collage 3 titled 'Unwise' ...getting the hang of this...

Digital collage 'Forget to Weep'(50s horror movie theme this time)

'nightbird' ~ first attempt at photoshop collage.

Quickshots

Our brief...
to produce at least one good image of each of these themes using a digital camera.


movement/darkness/selective focus/ground level/face shadows

I'm still compiling, but below are some of my submissions~

quickshots /movement ~ 'bird'

quickshots/movement and night shot ~ 'Yaris'

ghost story at Bundoora Homestead

'Rubys Plan' oil on canvas 2009 (Ominous stormy sky over pink clouds and landscape)

'Dream 2' oil on canvas 2009 (landscape and tree at night seen from the window of a moving car)

'Dream 1' oil on canvas 2009 (landscape at night seen from the window of a moving car)

food for thought...stolen from Aces Dead Hare Review art blog

Printmaking~the actual moth wings used for 'Afterlife'

this is the final 3 colour print (lino cut) titled 'Afterlife' and inspired by found objects~ mothwings, gumleaves and a feather

initial artwork for tile cut

mothwing used as inspiration...

second print (3 colour) ~ 'Afterlife'

three different styles of photography that I find beautiful/graceful

Diver and cardinal fish in wire coral forest by David Doubilet

Susie Smoking by Nick Knight

Movement Study by Rudolph Koppitz

visiting galleries in Fitzroy / Art imitates life yet again

Printmaking

I'm really enjoying printmaking, it can be challenging at times (cutting the tile can be painful for my dodgy thumb!) and thinking in reverse (to enable cutting out progressive layers) has always been tricky for me. But I'm getting there...

first print 'Red Leaf two' linocut

tile cutting

...playing with the image. always :)

my first attempt at linocut printing...photo taken on campus Epping

George Alamidis and his fantastic sculpture...honouring extinct species of birds with an eco-friendly masterpiece (I love birds, does it show...?)

Photography/quickshots~selective focus

Paintings/Whiteout~Point Roadknight oil 2010

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (title borrowed from Dave Eggers) oil 2010

Photography/movement...Pepper

quickshots...movement

nmit brief/face shadows (this one as photographer ...and one as model)

NMIT photography class prop...appeals to my Taurean sensibilities

playing with water 2010

...bird has flown

...disturbed