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George Paton Gallery
The George Paton Gallery, formerly the Ewing and George Paton Gallery, was founded in Melbourne in the mid 1970s at the University of Melbourne Student Union. History and exhibitions The George Paton Gallery was the central hub for experimental art in Australia in the 1970s and early 1980s. As well as presenting diverse and challenging exhibitions, it fostered a strong community of creative discourse through film screenings, poetry readings, performance events and hosting meetings by marginalised groups of artists and activists. Early influential exhibitions that cement the radical nature of the gallery's first decade include Janine Burke's "Australian women artists: One hundred years, 1840–1940" presented in 1975, and "The Letter Show", presented in 1974, curated by founding Directors Kiffy Rubbo and Meredith Rogers. Later Directors developed their reputations as influential curators in the gallery, including Judy Annear (1980–1982), who went on to be the founding Directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local municipality of City of Melbourne based around its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges. It has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as per 2021 census), mostly residing to the east side of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleks Danko
Aleks Danko (born 1950) is an Australian performance artist and sculptor. The son of Ukrainian migrants, he was born in Adelaide, and educated at the South Australian School of Art (University of South Australia) and the Hawthorn Institute of Education. He started exhibiting in Adelaide in 1970. The first exhibition at Llewellyn Galleries, Adelaide was titled UCK, a collaboration with the poet and artist Richard Tipping. Since then he has held over 45 solo exhibitions and his work has been selected for a number of national and international exhibitions and collections. They include Born to Concrete, the Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2011); The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, 17th Biennale of Sydney (2010); Mortality, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2010); Contemporary Australia: Optimism, Gallery of Modern Art/Queensland Art, Brisbane (2008-9); and International 04, Liverpool Biennial, (2004). Danko's work is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Almanac
''Art Almanac'' is a monthly guide to galleries, news and awards in Australia established in 1974. Monthly art guide ''Art Almanac'' is issued 11 times a year, with alphabetical listings of exhibitions at select Australian galleries, organised regionally. It provides a guide to art services and artist opportunities across all Australian states and territories with city and region maps. ''Art Almanac'' includes a database of over 1,700 artists cross-referenced with galleries, and with this data ''Art Almanac'' has proven to be a useful research resource on Australian art, providing a robust and uniform longitudinal base dataset for industry analysis as a result of the consistent industry practice to list in ''Art Almanac'' as a base level of marketing. An online edition covers art news and ‘what’s on’ listings. History In 1974 George Paton Gallery, at the University of Melbourne, then under the leadership of curator Kiffy Rubbo (1944–1980), with Meredith Rogers, the galle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lip (magazine)
''Lip, A Feminist Arts Journal'', or just ''Lip'', was an Australian interdisciplinary feminist art journal, published between 1976 and 1984. It was the first of its kind in Australia. The magazine was founded by Suzanne Spunner, who had been involved in the organising of the International Women's Film Festival in 1975. The magazine was self-published by a feminist collective during the era of the women's liberation movement,''The Lip Anthology'', Vivian Ziherl (ed.), Kunstverein Publishing, Macmillan Art Publishing, 2013 and its content included a very wide range of feminist positions and interdisciplinary art forms, in addition to work that connected the local scene to a more international network. The magazine was based in Carlton, Victoria. The Lip collective also organised art shows, curated critical Critical or Critically may refer to: *Critical, or critical but stable, medical states **Critical, or intensive care medicine *Critical juncture, a discontinuous chang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Art Register
The Women’s Art Register is Australia's living archive of women's art practice (cis and trans inclusive or gender diverse). It is a national artist-run, not-for-profit community and resource in Melbourne, Australia. Foundation The Women's Art Register was established in 1975 as an inclusive, grass-roots and independent platform for research, education, advocacy and celebration of Australian women artists. It was formed by artists Lesley Dumbrell and Erica McGilchrist, with the then directors of the Ewing and George Paton Gallery at Melbourne University, Kiffy Carter and Meredith Rogers. It began with one hundred contemporary women artists contributing slides of their work and was housed and administered at the Ewing Gallery. In 1977 the Women's Art Register obtained funding from the Victorian Schools Commission for historical research. Artists Anna Sande and Bonita Ely commenced this projectn, known as the Women's Art Register Extension Project (WAREP), in their homes, prepar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Art Movement
The Women's Art Movement (WAM) was an Australian feminist art movement, founded in Sydney in 1974, Melbourne in 1974, and Adelaide in 1976 (as the Women's Art Group, or WAG). Background Such movements had already been created in other countries, in which women artists looked at their position as women in society and their position as artists through a feminist framework. The visit by US feminist art critic Lucy Lippard in 1975 provided the immediate impetus for the creation of the new movement in Australia. She spoke to women-only groups in Melbourne and Adelaide about the creation of archives of women artists' work on photographic slides, known as slide registers, by a network of American women artists who called themselves the West-East Bag (WEB); the idea was to counteract their lack of showing in art galleries. Run as collectives, the groups facilitated consciousness-raising studio and exhibition workshops, aiming to analyse the political implications of personal exper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Grounds
Joan Grounds (born 1939) is an American-born artist. She has been exhibiting in Australia and internationally from 1967. Her solo and collaborative art work is held in the National Gallery of Australia (ceramics), the National Gallery of Victoria ( both film and ceramics) and in the Powerhouse Museum of Arts and Applied Sciences (ceramics). Her hybrid practice incorporated ceramics, sculpture, sound art, film and performance art. Early life and education Grounds was born in Atlanta USA in 1939. She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tulane University in 1962 and a Master of Arts from the University of California The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, ... in 1964. She exhibited in Ghana and the US before coming to Australia in 1969, she currently lives in Melbourne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb north of Melbourne's central business district, with several other campuses located across Victoria. Incorporated in the 19th century by the colony of Victoria, the University of Melbourne is one of Australia's six sandstone universities and a member of the Group of Eight, Universitas 21, Washington University's McDonnell International Scholars Academy, and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities. Since 1872, many residential colleges have become affiliated with the university, providing accommodation for students and faculty, and academic, sporting and cultural programs. There are ten colleges located on the main campus and in nearby suburbs. The university comprises ten separate academic units and is associated with numerous institut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Watson (artist)
Jennifer Watson (born 1951) is an Australian artist known for her paintings that combine text and images. Biography Jenny Watson was born in Melbourne in 1951 and she lives and works in Samford, Queensland. Her formative years as an artist were in the 1970s in Melbourne and London. In 1972, she completed a Diploma of Painting at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, Melbourne. In 1973, she completed a Diploma of Education at the State College of Victoria. She had her first solo show in 1973. Early influences on her practice include conceptual art, feminism and the punk scene in London and Melbourne. Uniquely, her work takes these influences into the domain of figurative painting. She has developed her own visual language that frequently combines text with images. She currently mentors at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Career Watson came to prominence in Australia during the 1980s, a period in Australian art history when the relationship between word ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Brassington
Pat Brassington (born 1942) is an Australian contemporary artist working in the field of digital art, and photography. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, she was named Australia's key surrealist working in photomedia. Brassington's work has been exhibited in Australia and internationally in galleries and festivals. She has been featured extensively in national and international exhibitions, including the 2012 Adelaide Biennial Parallel Collisions; Á Rebours, a major survey exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art ACCA (2012), which toured to thACP Sydney (2013); a solo exhibition in Lönnstrom Art Museum, Finland and the Helsinki Festival (2008); the Cambridge Road series at the IMA (2007); the 2004 Biennale of Sydney; and a major retrospective at the Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne (2002). Her work is held in numerous private and public collections, including the NGA, AGNSW, QAG, TMAG, NGV, AGWA and Artbank. A portrait of Pat Brassington in 2017 was painted by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Melbourne Student Union
The University of Melbourne Student Union (UMSU) is one of two student organisations at the University of Melbourne, Australia. UMSU, incorporated as University of Melbourne Student Union, Inc. (UMSU) provides representation and services for all current students and the University of Melbourne. Following the liquidation of its predecessor, The Melbourne University Student Union (MUSU), UMSU was incorporated on 17 November 2005, following approval by the Council of the University of Melbourne in October of that year. Its first elections were held in October 2005 under the transitional clauses of the constitution. Culture There is a long history of student activities at the University of Melbourne. The Union Band Comp has kick-started the careers of several well-known Australian bands, and an annual comedy review once produced the Working Dog crew. Several Members of Parliament were active within the MUSU, including Sir Robert Menzies (former Australian Prime Minister), Lindsay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micky Allan
Micky Allan (born 1944) is an Australian photographer and artist whose work covers paintings, drawings, engraved glass overlays, installations and photography. Allan has become an influential public speaker and has been invited to be a part of many discussions on feminist politics and present a number of speeches held in galleries across Australia about art photography during the 1970s. Biography Allan was born in Melbourne in 1944. From the age of two, she lived in Japan, before her family moved back to Melbourne in 1950. Allan attended the Melbourne Church of England Girls Grammar School, in South Yarra, where she received an American Field Service Scholarship allowing her to study in the U.S. Allan was heavily involved in painting as a teenager and attended a girls school in Kansas City in 1961. The school held Allan's first solo exhibition when her paintings were displayed in a national art contest. After returning from Kansas, Allan studied Fine Arts at the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
