Posts tagged with Exhibition

  1. L.A. Postcard: video installation artist Bonnie Lane

    Bonnie drinking a margarita at the new tiki bar she and her husband built on the balcony of their house in LA.

    In our guest post series, we invite alumni, staff and current students to reflect on their time with the VCA. This week video installation artist Bonnie …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/vcamcm-direct/2012/11/05/l-a-postcard-video-installation-artist-bonnie-lane

  2. Guerrilla Girls

    Guerrilla Girls, Get Naked

    Earlier this year, founding members of the Guerrilla Girls, Frida Kahlo and Kathe Kollwitz talked to a full house at Federation Hall about their work, their philosophy of activism and their …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/vcamcm-direct/2012/09/25/listen-guerilla-girls-podcast

  3. Animation shorts

    Hidden Creatures Exhibition, 'Fishbert's Deep Sea Adventure', 2012, designed by VCA Animation Staff Paul Fletcher and Robert Stephenson

    This week Paul Fletcher showcases two recent exhibitions involving animation staff and graduates; the Railway Time Machine and the Hidden Creatures Deep Sea Adventures. Railways Time …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/vcamcm-direct/2012/08/22/animation-shorts

  4. Q&A: Veronica Kent, artist and PhD student

    PhD student Veronica Kent

    In our guest post series, we invite alumni, staff and current students to reflect on their time with the VCA. This week we interview artist and …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/vcamcm-direct/2012/07/02/qa-veronica-kent-artist-and-phd-student

  5. Rising: the Victorian Harbour Young Artist Initiative

    Tracey Lamb, Perfectly Poised, steel, paint, LED lighting.

    ‘Rising: the Victorian Harbour Young Artist Initiative’ is a four-week temporary public art exhibition at Victoria Harbour, Docklands. The project, now in its fifth year, runs parallel with the Sculpture …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/vcamcm-direct/2012/06/22/rising-the-victorian-harbour-young-artist-initiative

  6. Student post: Residency in Hameenkyro

    Laura Batch in a Finnish forest.

    In our guest post series, we invite alumni, staff and current students to reflect on their time with the VCA. This week, Fine Arts student Laura …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/vcamcm-direct/2012/06/11/student-post-residency-in-hameenkyro

  7. Now showing: Julie Shiels’ ‘Placeholders’

    ‘Placeholders’, a sculpture and installation work, is the latest manifestation of Julie Shiels (B.Ed 1986; MA 2006) ongoing PhD work with the Victorian College of the Arts; an artistic study which utilises the readymade space in clear plastic packaging as an armature to explore our 21st century consumer culture. The first element comprises of 20 freestanding bronze sculptures cast from empty plastic packaging, congregated on pink board where movement traces are marked. The second element features a faux Latin text, known commonly in the design world as placeholder text called Lorem Ipsum. ‘The objects and the text in this work might be familiar but not recognisable’, Shiels says. ‘The bronze sculptures are cast from the empty spaces in clear plastic packaging, but bear little physical resemblance to the toys and implements originally enclosed in those transparent voids. Their origins are obscured and abstracted, just as we are distanced from the industrial processes used to produce the original goods.’

    In ‘Placeholders’, Melbourne artist Julie Shiels continues her preoccupation with social narrative and mass consumption, preserving objects, which are either rejected, overlooked or abandoned. By Lieu …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/vcamcm-direct/2012/06/06/now-showing-julie-shiels-placeholders

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