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WATT SPACE

4 - 22 June 2008


The exhibitions will be opened on Thursday 5 June by Ashley Whamond, artist and Lecturer, School of Drama, Fine Art and Music, and Graham Lang, artist and Lecturer, School of Drama, Fine Art and Music at 6.30pm.

 

The Loading Dock and Locker Room

UNAUSTRALIAN
LUCAS GROGAN 

ANIMAL SKINS AND DRAWINGS

 

If we can finger someone as Un-Australian that must mean that we have a clear awareness of what constitutes being Australian. But what would Un-Australian art look like? The indigenous bunyip appears in colonial Australian mythology as the personification of fear in the Australian landscape. Upon successful colonisation of the landscape the Bunyip is relegated to the position of a benign curiosity. The heroes of 19th C white Australia are depicted as crusaders against wild Australia. A sense of Australian nationalism encouraged images of the now conquered flora, fauna and indigenous people into the homes and art of early 20th C Australians, however in recent times we are starting to view the different manifestations of Australianism with distaste.  

Lucas Grogan

 

 

 

 


Kelly Gang Bang (detail) ink and found images on paper; Dead bunyips over billabong (detail) installation; Shield Scars 3 (detail) clay, plaster, enamel on board

 

 

The Long Room and Media Space

Encryptions

NEAL BOOTH

painting

Fragments, pieces of puzzles and ambiguous shapes… Encryptions is a transcending exploration of transient forms and the interaction that this creates between the 'object' and its 'beholder'.  Neal Booth

 

 

 

 

 


Encryption(detail) recycled fence pailings, earth., acrylics, oils, fire; Decipher (detail) earth, enamel, oil stain ; Untold (detail) earth, oils

 


The Pit

New Urban

GRANT VERCOE

2D

My painting is inspired by architecture; I am fascinated with construction, building things and planning. This is the way I approach my painting and sculpture.  This year I have incorporated an interdisciplinary approach in my painting by trying to seamlessly incorporate optical 3-D effects with actual 3-D sculptural relief elements. I have also incorporated electronic elements into my work.  I take a page out of the Hard Edged abstractionists’ book, by using sharp defined edges, solid even colour  and repudiating expressive brush strokes. I am endeavouring to create things of beauty using architecture as my inspiration.

Grant Vercoe

 

 

 

 


Into the Third Dimension (detail) acrylic on board; Gender Representation - Woman (detail) acrylic on board; Light (detail) acrylic on board

 

 

The Locker Room

Into a looking glass

MELISAH MAY

photography, digital media, watercolour, ink
Into a Looking Glass highlights the potentially contradictory nature of image and identity. The subjects in the photographs highlight the struggle between exterior surfaces and the essence of being, and the division within oneself between perception and motivation. I was inspired by the elements of design and the way in which photography and digital media could be utilised as a language that far exceeds mere factual representation of ones physical capabilities, expressing the diverse complexities of character.  Melisah May

 

 

  		 


Forest from the trees (detail) digital photography and mixed media; Girl laughs at herself (detail) digital photography; Girl climbs tree (detail) digital photography

 


The Hoist

Red handed

JAY SULLIVAN

painting

In these works I sought to explore my love for portraiture and to paint from real experience. I utilise the colour red to symbolise sin, guilt, passion, anger and blood and these themes unify the works.  I try to show how violence and raw emotion can flow beneath a calm exterior, or a passive face. With varying levels of abstraction I suggest the slow recall of hazy memories. Several expressive painting styles are used, hinting at different moods, different life phases and perhaps varying degrees of inebriation. Jay Sullivan

 

 

 

 


Self Portrait with guitar (detail) oil on canvas; Haircut (detail) oil on canvas; Portrait of Tom (detail) oil on canvas