Archive of Exhibitions

Places of Worship
Claudia Terstappen
13 October - 23 November 2005

This exhibition features photographic works that explore the ideas of cultural memory and the inherent spiritualities of object and place. The artist's major focus on the interrelationship between religion, superstition and science, is expressed by a selection of large scale photographic prints, including a number of landscape photographs based on sacred places around the world.

The artist's own collection of over 100 religious and spiritual objects and artifacts gathered from around the world also forms part of the exhibition.
Claudia Terstappen was appointed Professor of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University in 2004.

For more information on Claudia Terstappen, please visit Claudia's Research Profile. Download "Claudia Terstappen - Places of Worship" (pdf 84Kb) Media Release

Image caption: Claudia Terstappen, from 4 chapels: Cruz del Romero , 1994, photographic print, 300cm x 300cm.

PAVILIONS FOR NEW ARCHITECTURE
Curators: Max Delany and Geraldine Barlow

Participating practices: BKK Architects, Cassandra Complex, Elenberg Fraser Architects, Harrison & Crist Architects, Iredale Pederson Hook Architects, Jackson Clements Burrows, Minifie Nixon Architects, Neil & Idle Architects and Staughton Architects.

PAVILIONS FOR NEW ARCHITECTURE will be presented across two venues:

• Faculty Gallery,
  Faculty of Art & Design,
  Caulfield Campus:
  01 September - 05 October 2005
• Monash University Museum of Art,
  Clayton Campus:
  07 September - 29 October 2005

Taking the pavilion as its subject, and as a lens through which to view the practice of architecture, curators Geraldine Barlow and Max Delany at Monash University Museum of Art have commissioned a series of prototypes for pavilions at 1:3 scale, from a number of Melbourne-based architectural practices formed over the past decade - offering the gallery as a spatial field in which the talents of a distinctive group of practices are given the opportunity to explore an ideal architecture.

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Image caption : Black Kosloff Knott Pty Ltd Architects, Wrap House, 2003. 

The HAT Project: Here and There Australia/UK
Curated by Barney Hare-Duke
30 June - 10 August 2005

This exhibition considers current issues and design trends in contemporary jewellery making, documenting the impact of new geographies and cultural contexts on the work of seventeen Australian and UK jewellers who have completed a three month "Here and There" exchange residency.

Opening night: Wednesday 29 June 2005 6-8pm

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Image caption: Junko Mori, work in progress, HAT Project. Photgraph: Johnny Macgee.

Masters Examination Exhibitions
01 June - 25 June 2005

These short examination exhibitions offer the public a chance to experience and enjoy the work of graduating research candidates. Examination of Masters candidates is an academic process that recognises visual projects as the outcome of research.

Image caption: Nadia Mercuri, Masters of Fine Art Candidate - Glass Studio, 2005

25 Years
Monash Glass
Curated by George Aslanis and Nick Wirdnam
05 May - 25 May 2005

This exhibition acknowledges the high technical and conceptual standards of Australian glass artists, with a specific focus on the achievements of thirty-six Monash Glass graduates, now practising within Australia, and internationally.

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Image caption: Barbara Veall, "Departure Points", 2004, handblown glass, 26.5cm x 11cm x 11cm.

PHD Examination Exhibitions
18 - 29 April 2005

These short examination exhibitions offer the public a chance to experience and enjoy the work of graduating research candidates. Examination of PhD candidates is an academic process that recognises visual projects as the outcome of research. Includes works from Mark Dober, Nicholoas Nedelkopoulos, and Louiseann Zahra.

Image caption: Nicholas Nedelkopoulos, "A Female Barrister", 2004, pastel, 28cm x 38cm.

Academici: The Australia Council Visual Arts/Crafts Board Rome Studio Residency, 1999-2004
Curated by Kit Wise, Honours Course Coordinator and Studio Coordinator of Drawing, Department of Fine Arts.
17 March -13 April 2005

This survey exhibition of the first five years of the Australia Council Rome Studio aims to critique the ?Grand Tour? tradition. It will consider how the artists? time overseas has influenced, changed, realigned or reconstructed their practices, and the cross-cultural, cross-disiplinary discourses that their time at the Accademia Britannica has enabled. Includes works by Euan Heng, Sebastian di Mauro, Christine Morrow and Alex Pittendrigh.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

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Image caption: Academici installation shot, Faculty Gallery, March 2005.

New Figuration in Vietnamese Painting and Sculpture
Curated by Annette Van den Bosch and Tran Thi Huynh Nga
10 February - 10 March 2005

This exhibition features painting, sculpture and works on paper from a younger generation of five professionally trained artists. Critical of their own society and aware of a need for change, these artists demonstrate the new tendencies in art from central and south Vietnam.

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Image Caption: Nguyen Thai Tuan, detail: Untitled, 1999, oil on canvas, 116cm x 81cm.