22 June – 10 July 2011

6 shows

Exhibitions  be opened by Carla Feltham, artist and University of Newcastle Fine Art Masters Candidate,  at Opening Night from 7pm on Thursday 23 June

3:5
ADAM KELLY    ANNA MOREWOOD    BIANCA ROSSETTI
JEAN-LOUIS KOCHER    SHAN TURNER-CARROLL

Curated by Anne McLaughlin

These artists are all completing Fine Art studies at the University of Newcastle. Each was invited to select and present current work from their individual practice of photography, printmaking or sculpture for this show 3:5. Anne McLaughlin

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Painting With Light – Pinhole to Pixel
CHRIS BYRNES

By working simply with light, science, low technology devices and paper, I am able to connect with the primal, elemental, essential and true experience of photography. British artist Susan Derges in Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography says it perfectly…
Working directly, without the camera, with just paper, subject matter and light, offers an opportunity to bridge  the divide between self and other – or what is being explored.  There is a contact with the materiality of things that allows a different kind of conversation to happen.  One is changed and in turn changes – a kind of dialogue between inside and outside unfolds.
My work explores a personal journey playing with light in the physical world of nature [external world] and the created internal spaces of room-size camera obscuras [internal world].   Chris Byrnes
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Of Lace and Longing
BECC SPITERI

And I scald alone, here, under the fire
Of the great moon.

from The Letter by Amy Lowell

Of Lace and Longing is a collection of textile artworks exploring the themes of longing, unrequited love and heartache. Becc Spiteri

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Waste of Paint
AMY HILL

Quite simply, I’m obsessed. I have this fascination, this fixation with the naked female form. In my eyes there is nothing more beautiful, honest and strange than a naked body, so why not use it as a canvas? I take great joy in watching the way paint moves over skin, experimenting with how it drips and flows. Amy Hill

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Journey
ANTHONY YATES

This series of photographs, Journey, positions the artist as a diasporic person in his own land. This series is an outsider's perspective of Australian places, however, they maintain a vision that is uniquely Australian in their indifference and sometimes wry humour. These photographs are of a person that is lost in a constructed world. What these photographs say about the current state of the world is that the progress we have created for ourselves stretches far beyond our ability to deal with that progression. Anthony Yates

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The Green Bicycle
MARK MASON

One morning I found an abandoned bicycle in a lane on the way to the station, I carried it into town on the train in its unrideable condition with the idea of handing it to the Bike Ecology Centre. Instead, I hung on to it and fixed it - it just needed a spanner. Later I chained it up overnight in East Maitland, when I returned its wheels were kicked in and it was unrideable once more. I removed the wheels and used them as stretchers for the two acrylics. Mark Mason