qutism : 1996 Graduate Exhibition

qutism :

1996 Graduate Exhibition Bachelor of Visual Arts 2nd - 13th December 1996 Published by the

Queensland University of Technology Academy of the Arts

H Block Gallery OUT Kelvin Grove Australia

TEL + 3864 3249 FAX + 3864 397 4

All Artwork Copyright 1996 Graduating Visual Art Students of Kelvin Grove, Brisbane 1996

Design: Darren Berlin and Sharna Ratcliffe

with thanks to Nicole Duffy

Printing: The Printing Office, Brisbane

Edition: 350

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1996 Bachelor of Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition December 2nd - 13th

Opening Night December 4th

FORWORD

"When Christopher Columbus left home - he didn't know where he was going. When he arrived at journey's end - he didn't know where he was. When he got home again - he didn't know where he had been. Really, the only positive thing about the whole venture was that someone else had paid for the trip."

Some have seen relationships between this story and the history of the Universities, however there is no relationship - it is just a story that sounds like it has a meaning.

The 1996 Graduate Exhibition permits a glimpse into the rich diversity of work that has resulted from an intense concentration by each individual on locating and enhancing their own creative urge.

During the course of their studies a particular stance has been developed - each individual brought their own culture to the culture of the university and now their resultant international positioning enables them to either support or challenge, or even ignore, the culture as it is manifested at large.

On behalf of all the staff I thank each of the graduating students for their involvement in the shaping of the ethos of Visual Arts at the Academy. We have gained from each other.

I heard a Moroccan variation on the Christopher Columbus story that had it that when Queen Isabella found that Columbus didn't know where he had been she told him to go back and do it again, but properly this time.

This may have meaning.

Jihad Muhammad John Armstrong Head of Visual Arts

Peter Alwast

The problem with writing a statement at the end of three years study, is that if anything, it violates the artwork. To sum it up in fifty words or less, is an impossibility, not only because of the length, but also because language itself can be an obstacle. It is this impossibility of language, to adequately represent that I explore in my paintings.

I'm interested in painting as a type of language and framing device, which as soon as it attempts to frame, looses or fails to adequately represent.

"The plastic arts of painting and sculpture labour, indeed under a similar limitation as compared

with poetry, which can make use of speech, and here once again the reason for their incapacity

lies in the nature of the material which these two forms of art manipulate in their effort to

express something." FREUD

Dhanushka Amarasekara

Human Heart . Dream of Life.

Stormy Visions. Spirit's Knife. Mad Trancer. Invulnerable Nothings.

Cold Hopes. Shadows of Night.

Captivated. Convulse. Consume.

"Conceptual thinking creates illusion and embellishment and can take you to the heavens and hells, to the far reaches of imagination, beyond the simple truth here in front of you."

Naomi Diana Becker

Natasha Beg

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" It is a broken rock, then it became a more precious thing. It is both determinate and

indeterminate. It is a basic form -like a natural form except it is obviously man-made. It is related to its surroundings but it is alone. It is not part of a composition, but becomes part of everything else. It is a key piece"

lsamu Nouguchi

Darren Berlin

Art - Originality = $

Norman Birrell

The essence of art is not mark making, for that is merely procedure, technique and is epheremal. Making a mark however, is the ethos of art and can be viewed as either a personal achievement or a shared experience. It may be an empirical resolution or a philosophical statement and might exist for a moment or for eons.

"After all, any given moment has its value: it can be questioned in the light of after- events, but the moment remains."

F Scott Fitzgerald

Matthew Blair

Catherine Brown

Angela Callaghan

Why do Some people Use so many words To say

Absolutely Nothing?

Nanushka

Shaun Cassidy

My will to Genius/Adoration is

corrupted by

ART.

It hates me

and lets me know it. That's okay

though, as I have nutured no-

feeling towards the art. I still

create, and that is it.

Virginia Yen-Ju Chang

Dealing with the transition of colours through a linear

expiration.

An experimentation with a medium that identifies a sense of intimacy and a personal perspective regarding emotion.

A Peace Missing

Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the

affairs of this life are not our own ordering.

Afraid, adj. Civilly willing that things should be other than they seem.

Ambrose Bierce

Vanessa Corbet

My work is about representing the inside of the human body through abstraction.

The paintings reside in the realm of abstraction . Through abstraction my

works can exist as neutral and everpresent. Thus remaining untouched

by the forces of life and death, which in reality have the ultimate control

over all existence.

Peter Davis

Vestigan:

a.

adj.

Of or pertaining to, or designating, the theory of evolution propounded by R. Chambers in his "Vestiges of the nature of Creation".

Vestarie: 1.1.

A vestry a church. Now rare or Obs.

Vestaments:

a. Official robes worn by members of the clergy.

Blind faith has shifted from the Church to 'rational

' science

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Post-modern thought rejects scientifico-deducto philosophy but fails to reinstate

supposedly disproved or questioned Christianity ?

Kylie Fisher

Themes of appropriate/inappropriate behaviour of teenage girls and their desire

for or rebellion against the expectations icons and stereotypes that highlight this

age ie: the cheerleader, prom queen, the model, the movie star and ultimately

the

perfection of the little princess.

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Branden Fillmore

In my work, mythologies operate as a screen on which I conduct an emotional

dialogue with a degree of comfort. Abject materials are soon added to break

down the integrity of this screen, and open up other histories/dialogues.

Sheree Ford

SHOO FLY DON'T BOTHER ME

SHOO FLY DON'T BOTHER ME

SHOO FLY DON'T BOTHER ME

I DON'T WANT YOUR COMPANY

Chris Garrity

Line can often deal with a deeper consciousness. This becomes more apparent when line is channelled through an automatic process or used in response to an environment. This deeper consciousness deals w ith an

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element of the unknown and it is this unknown which stimulates the line's

journey.

Annete Hale

Spoken words - sounds parts of a puzzle Digested - secreted playfully

appropriate - dreams of gaps -

between knowing and not knowing -

the rest,

the assumptions,

the symbolic,

Lustration -

Aura

Oar ....

Geoff Hawkes

The filled line, fallen.

The empty cut measured and marked off.

The joined gap,

displaced.

Curved.

Leanne Hill

Simplicity has become a major element in every aspect of my work. The female form, although complex in appearance, consists of a sensuous combination of line and form. Working in another medium besides canvas meant I could manipulate different ideas and images without being restricted by my materials.

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Chris Hogan

Working within limitations

imposed

by a closed system, the resultant multiple

combinations and permutations evoke an awareness of spatial dynamics. The

'objects' are not merely in the landscape, they are the landscape.

Scott Hollingsworth

Philippa Knack

UNDERCONSTRUCTION:

ROADWORK AHEAD

FEMININE CONSTRUCTION On site construction materials battery run flashing lights mirrors

sound

UV

lighting

'unauthorised vehicles will be towed away'

beeeep beeep beeeep ....

on location,

walking by,

driving through,

collecting debris from.

Neary Roth Ky

1. You must answer accordingly to my question, don't turn them away.

2. Don't try to hide the facts by making pretexts this and t

hat. You are strictly

prohibited to contest me.

3. Don't tell me either about your immoralities or the essence of the revolution.

4. While getting lashes or electrification you must not cry at all.

5. Don't make pretexts about Kampuchea Krom in order to hide your jaw of traitor.

6. If you don't follow all the above rules, you will get many lashes of electric wire.

7. If you disobey any point of my regulations you will get either ten lashes or five

shocks of electric discharge.

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Helen Lee

Imagine, momentarily glancing the eye and mind perceive, the sensate response persuades curiously yet to another. Visually the viewer is held, their eye and mind begin to code and decode, and therefore realising it is only an illusional effect.

This process of creating an illusional effect has become the central theme in my work.

Staging situations or happen

ings through the techniques of make-up has

led to manipulating the image only to re-create it to what is perceived as reality.

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Kathy Lindsey

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In trying to understand the artistic process of creation I have been attracted to the tradition of Hindu spirituality, which is the cult of Tantra, equates the human body with the cosmos.

The two are the same functional systems seen from different points of view, each inconceivable without the other.

"I" and "That over there", Male, Female, subject

and object are correlative.

Divided yet not separate.

Kelli Lister

Captivating an essence of strength, purity and passion.

A feminine aura of transcendental beauty.

Petalia Mackay

Natalie Mackie

"Time present and time past

Are both perhaps present in time future.

And time future contained in time past."

from 'Burnt Norton' in the four Quartets by T.S. Elliot

Melissa Marshall

I thought that pain meant I was not loved.

It meant I loved.

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Long and deep. Long and silent Long and still. Still language, now quiet, dead, because it doesn't need to be spoken.

It's this stillness that I love.

This love, a love of endings.

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Cushla McBride

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Rita McCulloch

"Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than furniture of the mind made visible"

James Haver, Style in Costume

body/mind fragmented concealment dress/object

presence camouflage

environment absence survival

Allison McGregor

Work both seductive and deceiving, gaining strength through apparent absence. Yet the black rectangle, with surfaces of reflective sheen, contains continuous changing identities and foremost utter misrecognition.

Forever slipping and forever breathing in.

Glenn McKewen

ACROSS DOWN

1. Blind man has not 1. Assessment time 2. Said he was here 2. Inlet (noises)

3. Party 3. As one

4 .... with the wind.

Larelle McMillan

Andrea Mines

Andrea's work plays upon the notion of surveillance, whether it's through a camera lens, a peep hole or just the naked eye. Someone, somewhere, is always WATCHING YOU!

Jade Monson

A collective group of figures which represent the self are given a visual identity by layering inks and translucent skins of colour.

This corresponds to an initiation

process which seals, protects and represents gravitational forces determined by the moon phases. A pushing and pulling distortion - which is emotional and physical - is represented in a frozen narrative.

Mark Onion

I look out of my studio window wondering if this place I am in is really my home, or

is it just another rented out man made monstrosity. What makes a home, a well

furnished living room, a well used kitchen, a hot meal at a large dinning room

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comforting toilet seat, who knows, but as I move through this abundance of

questions, I find my self lashed by a swall of answers, all different, all unique, all

to their own

, I wonder???

Sharna Ratcliffe

By utilising the mop head, loaded with Bitumen, to create its own impact upon the canvas,

rather than being merely an extension of my hand, and therefore

controllable; the outcome of each work is determined only by the weight of the paint, any loose cotton strands and the errant drops that ultimately splatter to the canvas in translucent smears.

Angela Rea

When I was four years old, I was often amazed at how smoothly my mother could write. I would imitate the fluid yet unrecognisable meanderings on the page.

A few years ago, I watched while she wrote her name. The letters slithered and toppled off the page onto the table.

Again her hand would not release its secrets.

Sarah Schefe

Functional art can be non-functional; depends on how the viewer perceives the

work. My exploration of the chair is how it can be perceived then transformed to

non-functional art. The elements and formalities of the chair is the exploration.

Yvette Stride

you don't run your hands along the napkins when you fold them you pat them

down the gentleman on ten isn't a gentleman he's a wanker the cork snapped and

i've only got lipstick on.

Camilla Thomson

The mixed media and cotton linter fibres, although subject to multiple I interpretation do imply a concentration of colour and texture and effect a type intramural surface. Within an enclosed space the work refers to encasing in order to draw a comparision to open space.

The psychological aspect of the colour is ethereal and persuasive, engaging the concept of upper atmosphere and points out the distance between us and our daily experience of things.

The larger works deal with the vanishing point as a pivot into visual and

qestural surface dvnamics.

Sam Vallance

object /'objikt/ n. 1. a tangible and visible thing. 2. a person or thing that arouses an emotion or provokes a reaction or response. 3. an aim. purpose or objective. 4. Informal. a person or thing that is ridiculous outland ish, or pathetic in appearance, arousing feelings of pity, disgust, etc.

5. Philosophy. that towards which cognition is directed, as contrasted with the thinking subject; anything regarded as external to the mind, esp. in the external world. 6. Grammar.

a noun or noun equivalent

whose referent is the recipient

of the action of a verb.

Do you - devour, switch, gasp , theorise, scatter, appreciate, hate, lose,

watch, mutilate, rest, clip, rhyme, scrunch, repulse, flash, outrage, pardon,

vacuum, ostracize, agitate, sing, tickle, sprout, clash, hunger, ambush,

gorge, go, compose, cultivate, matter, adapt, wish, blend, apply, grip, order,

kick, side-step, breach, eat, hide, exhaust, detect, rationalise, objectify,

end, suck, faint etc ?