Seminar Series | Anthony Gardner
Seminar
Art in an Age of Perpetual Distraction We live in an age of perpetual distraction. Think of our compulsions for social media. Or the algorithmic marketing that seeks to lure our focus from website to website and product to product. Or the pervasiveness of mobile technologies and rapid editing that…
Soil Breathes | Sophia Dacy-Cole
Gallery
You are invited to commune with the local soils. These artworks were all made in collaboration with the soils I steward at Wamboin, a short drive from here. Myself and my workshop participants have used scientific tools as tools of soil communion and intimacy. We have used microscopes and…
Seminar Series | Geoff Isaac
Art forum
Rethinking Plastics in Product Design Plastics are everywhere—but at what cost? With rising environmental and health concerns, the need for sustainable materials has never been more urgent. Plastics dominate consumer product design due to their affordability and durability, but their widespread…
Seminar Series | Anna May Kirk
Art forum
Revealing the Invisible with Glass Anna May Kirk will discuss her practice with glass, exploring how environments transform over deep geological and human historical time, and how this change is experienced. Kirk’s works utilise the optical nature of glass to make tangible the many processes of…
Seminar Series | Jamie Jelinski
Art forum
Face the Fax: The Development and Unrealized Potential of Wirephoto at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police In early 1960, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) sent two police identification photographs and a single fingerprint thousands of kilometers across the country via a wirephoto…
Seminar Series | Oscar Capezio
Art forum
Jonas Balsaitis: Analogue Now showing at the Australian National University's Drill Hall Gallery, Jonas Balsaitis: Analogue is an exhibition of paintings, prints, and experimental film by Australian artist Jonas Balsaitis (b.1948 Hanau, Germany), re-examining the artist’s use of…
Seminar Series | Scott Benefield & Andrea Spencer
Art forum
A Practice in Parallel Scott Benefield and Andrea Spencer live on the north coast of Ireland on a remote farm property, pursuing careers as artists using glass as their primary medium of expression, but retaining distinct identities and following divergent paths in their practices. Andrea’s work…