A CONTENTS EDITORIAL A CONTENTS EDITORIAL 4 - 5. Gooooodmorning! Alice Couttoupes: Spring has sprung! Thank goodness too, winter was really Subversive Clay getting to us... EDITORS Penelope Benton 6 - 7. In the spirit of Spring this issue of COFAtopia is all about Kelly Doley shedding that winter coat, taking some risks and getting out Interview with COFA SRC FRONT COVER IMAGE there. Alice Couttoupes Queer Officer Edison Chen Our cover story this issue features Alice Couttoupes who Colonial Gaze, has been selected to exhibit in the prestigeous 2012 Australian Kangaroo Paw 8 - 9. Ceramics Triennale, and was awarded an Arc @ COFA ADG (art Botany and design grant) to get there. We then catch Edison Chen in (detail), ceramics, 2011 Kudos Award the midst of UNSW Queer Week 2012 which is all about supporting and developing Queer community on campus. We LOGO DESIGN Kiera Chevell 10 - 11. announce the judges and prizes for this year’s Kudos Award. WHAT’S ON Then going back out west, we check out the current Desert PRINTING Equinox exhibition featuring works responding to the sun and Arc Office @ COFA solar energy by COFA students and staff in Broken Hill, curated 12 - 13. by COFA Lecturer Allan Giddy. Whilst out there, we visit our THANKS Desert Equinox Exhibition recently refurbished desert studio The Green House at Fowlers Arc @ UNSW Ltd Gap, 115km west of Broken Hill. We finish this all off with a jam-packed what’s on and a rant from COFA SRC International 14 - 15. Officer Alan Fernandez on important International student The Green House issues. Oh and don’t forget to check out the upcoming Kudos Program, some great exhibitions to get to. 18. REMINDER! Upcoming deadlines to remember are: SRC says: International KUDOS AWARD entries due Wednesday 3 October, Officer Alan Fernandez Arc @ COFA Art & Gesign Grants, Group Work Grants, 2013 residency applications to The Green House and 2013 Kudos 19. exhibition proposals are due Friday 5 October, go to arc.unsw.edu.au for all the forms. Enjoy the sunshine! Kudos Gallery exhibition program Love, Arc at COFA xx

WINNER “geez it’s hard to hail a cab in this town, GIVEAWAY Sally Charlton is the WINNER of Best Caption submitted for this pic. She will take home a DYMO LABELMAKER! EMAIL [email protected] with your best caption for this pic they always sneak up behind you!” and you could win one too! 2 What drew Alice Couttoupes: Subversive Clay botanical illustrations or The theme of the you to work in ceramics? cross-sections of Trienniale is ‘Subversive distinctively Australian Clay’. What do you think is I had no intention of COFA BFA Hons Ceramics student Alice Couttoupes has been selected native flowers, mounted subversive about clay? working in ceramics when to present her work at the Australian Ceramics Triennale 2012, and was in entomological boxes. I began my studies Through this work, I’m The theme inferres that also recently awarded an Arc @ COFA Art and Design Grant to get there. at COFA. I had always examining the practice of clay as an art form has the Themed Subversive Clay, the exhibiton features a survey of Australian dreaded the ceramics botanical collection; the potential to challenge and Ceramics Graduates. The exhibition is on from 21 September–1 October component at high dissecting, classifying, contest social, cultural and 2012 at the South Australian School of Art, Adelaide. I recently caught school, having to make ordering and cataloguing political norms and issues. up with Alice to talk about her work, ceramics, and submersive clay ... pinch pots and coiling of natural specimens, and It also suggests that there vessels. I began majoring how this practice parallels is a need for ceramics to in textiles and doing ideas of knowledge and challenge itself! Ceramicists ceramics as an elective. power. The process of need to challenge and I soon realised that my botanical collection transcend the conventional understanding of involves the removal of a artistic approaches to ceramics was very limited, specimen from its original ceramics in order to change and there was endless or natural context and the perception both from potential for working with dissecting it into several within the ceramics world, clay as an art and design separate components, the contemporary art form. One artist, Juz stripping it of its inherent scene, and in the face of the Kitson, was particularly meaning. The stark white, broader public. As a young, influential in determining almost bone-like quality emerging artist, when I tell my passion for ceramics. and aesthetic of porcelain people I do ceramics they She makes collections of relates directly to the assume that I make pots, weird, freakish objects process of botanical and 9 out of 10 throw in that fuse human organs, collection and taxonomy, a bad joke about Patrick animal bones and organic and epistemology (ideas Swayze and Demi Moore’s matter. It confirmed my about the creation of well known wheel-throwing belief that there is a knowledge), as it alludes romance. The ceramics space for ceramics in the to the specimens having scene needs to broaden contemporary art scene been stripped bare, and and stake its claim within - to push boundaries and being given meaning once the arts as a legitimate art shock, to make people categorized or ordered form and vehicle for expres- think and reflect - and according to a Western sion. that this space needs knowledge system. This opening up to access a practice of botanical What do you think you will wider audience. collection and classification do after your degree? allows for some interesting What is the relationship reflections on what Currently I’m completing between the conceptual knowledge really is, and the final subject for my Arts concerns in your work who that knowledge Major, Development Studies. around botany and belongs to. I’m considering doing colonialism and the Honors next year, to really medium of porcelain? What will you be consolidate my practice and exhibiting in the skills. When I finish studying My work explores the Australian Ceramic I would love to be able to intimate relationship that Triennale 2012? find a studio to continue colonial botany played in my practice, but it’s pretty the expansion of empire, I’ll be taking two pieces tough financing a studio and the desire to discover with me, the Kangaroo Paw equipped with a kiln. the New World and its and the Banksia Coccinea. Perhaps I’ll try my luck with exotic species. My an Artstart grant but I’m sculptures mimic, in 3D, not sure for now! 4 5 getting to know the cofa src queer non-female identifying officer: edison chen!

What made you want to Queer Week at University get involved with Queer is so much more than that. Pride Week 2012? It’s a chance for queer students to meet I would say it’d be mostly other queer because of my role as one students who of the Queer SRC Officers share similar MONDAY, 10 September WEDNESDAY, 12 September FRIDAY, 14 September and that i’m responsible for interests and organizing events here at common @ COFA @ COFA @ COFA COFA. But also because it experience, Start of Queer Week COFA Stall (Free Lollies!) Documentary Screening: Paris is Burning Queer COFAKIDS Sushi Pigout! was an opportunity to glam for them to 12pm - 3pm 1pm 12pm - 4pm up and fabulousify COFA learn and grow and affirm Outside the Cofa Library EG02 Lecture Theatre Activities Room (Next to COFA Common Room) as much as I could! The their queer identity, and it over the year. If I didn’t @ KENSINGTON Queer Mid-Week Social @ KENSINGTON campus is nice and all but it also provides more insight 4 pm - 6pm really could use a tad more into the queer community have this role initially I COFA Common Room Sex is Not the Enemy Workshop queer (in everything). for everyone. Overall it’ll don’t know if I would’ve Start of Queer Week Visibility Barbeque! 12pm - 1pm 12pm - 3pm @ KENSINGTON Civil Engineering 701 provide a safer environ- ever have been motivated Science Lawns (opposite Red Centre) What sort of events do you ment where queer people enough to go to Sitting on the Fence Workshop No Homers Mash Up (Icecream) Kensington for the queer 1pm - 2pm 3pm - 5pm have planned? can feel more comfortable The Religious Queer Workshop LAW 101 Queer Lounge, Level 9 Chemical Science Building and loved! It’s also a great collective! (But I’m so 4pm - 5pm We have our visibility stall time to show how grateful I did). I guess LAW 101 Autonomous Cake Eating Session 2pm - 3pm the best thing would be Michael Kirby Guest Speaker Queer Week PARTY! (YAY) on Monday, our queer art fabulous queer students Queer Lounge, Level 9 Chemical Science Building 7pm 6pm exhibition on Tuesday. are of course, and I think opportunities the role Queer Lounge, Level 9 Chemical Science Building provides for experiences (Audience spots have been Œlled) Coming Out By Candlelight On Wednesday we have COFA (let alone UNSW) 6:30 pm a documentary screening really is in need for a bit of and growth. Queer Lounge, Level 9 Chemical Science Building Want to attend events at both campuses? and we’re giving the mid- fun and GLAM. You can catch the free shuttle bus at these week social a makeover(!). times! And on Friday I’m being a What has been the best Go to UNSW Queer Week TUESDAY , 11 September THURSDAY, 13 September little self-indulgent and am thing about being the 2012 on FB for all updates hosting a sushi pigout for COFA SRC Queer Non- and shoot Edison an @ COFA @ KENSINGTON the queerkids just because Female Identifying email for any Queer q’s I can :). There are a lot Queer People and the Law Workshop Officer this year? you have! more events on main Queer Week Art Exhibition(ists) Opening Night 2pm - 3pm [email protected] 6pm Queer Lounge, Level 9 Chemical Science Building campus which Cofakids can I can’t really pinpoint a COFA Common Room attend as well. particular experience that’s Queer Week Movie Night @ KENSINGTON 6pm been specific to the role of M 18, Chemical Science Building Why do you think it is being COFA Queer Officer. Speech Acts and Social Identity Workshop important to have a Being a part of Arc is great, 11pm - 12pm LAW 101 University Queer Pride and I finally went to main Want to know what happens at each Postgrad wine and cheese night Week? campus to visit the queer of our events? Find descriptions on our 6pm UNSW Queer Week 2012 Facebook collective because of the Queer Lounge, Level 9 Chemical Science Building There are a few reasons role. Being involved with page or in our Queer Week Zine! (and I’m not saying mine the UNSW Queer are the most correct ones). Collective has really been a It’s important to celebrate catalyst for a lot of great diversity and culture, but experiences and friend- I personally feel having a ships I’ve had and made 6 7 A major highlight in our particularly with other ARIs documentaries, Das annual calendar is the in Sydney, to emphasise this Platforms presents a cross- Kudos Award for emerging strong likeminded section of the most artists and designers network, and the potential for interesting and important studying at COFA. collaboration and cross- art to a national audience pollination. Earlier this year via Das Superpaper, Das Featuring a whopping they launched a new Cinema and Das 500. $1,500 prize money from commercial venture, Galerie www.dasplatforms.com Arc @ COFA and a stack of pompom, to promote industry donated goodies, contemporary Australian What a hot panel!!!! the award has set off the practice. www.mop.org.au careers of some of COFA’s www.galeriepompom.com Entry to the Kudos Award hottest talent over the past is FREE and open to all decade. Now in its 11th year, Lucy Simpson is a contem- currently enrolled COFA the Kudos Award seeks to porary Indigenous Australian students who are Arc recognise innovation and textile designer, and creator of members - Arc member- excellence across all Gaawaa Miyay. A COFA ship is also free! if you disciplines at COFA. graduate and recipient of an haven’t already joined - Artstart Grant, Lucy draws hurry up!! Each year, the Kudos inspiration from her Gallery Management Yuwaalaraay heritage ushering You can enter up to 2 Committee invite 3-4 in a new genre of Indigenous works created within the industry professionals and Australian design. Her last year. Approximately 45 to select the winners! unique visual storytelling and works will be selected for This year the award will be narrative style has already exhibition and judging at judged by: Ron + George seen her recognised as a Kudos Gallery 16-20 Oct. Adams, Lucy Simpson and designer with big things on Nick Garner. the horizon, being named by As well as the $1,500 Monument Magazine as 1 of 10 Award money for first prize, Ron + George are curators outstanding designers to we have a stack of prizes and Owner/Directors of watch in Architecture and for the judges to present artist run initiative MOP Design Today, and with to their highly commended projects in Chippendale. commendations from the picks: $500 materials from Since its inception in 2003, Australian Design Review as Matisse Derivan, 12-month MOP’s key programming one of the top 10 picks at joint subscription to Artist rationale has been to act Design Made Trade 2011. Profile and Art Almanac, as a career springboard for www.gaawaamiyay.com 2013 Performance Space young and emerging membership, Pictorial artists. In recent years MOP Nick Garner is the Director and spread in DasSuperpaper has been addressing the Producer of Das Platforms, issue 26 and more TBA. changing and growing and is also a COFA graduate. nature of ARIs by also Das Platforms is an Australian- The deadline for entries is supporting mid-career based media project 4pm Wed 3 October 2012. artists who resist or do not presenting, documenting and Entry forms available in have the benefit of promoting new conversations the Common Room, Kudos commercial in the emerging and Gallery on online at representation. MOP also contemporary arts. Developing www.arc.unsw.edu.au/cofa produces high quality content for print and online exhibition catalogues and distribution, as interviews, Awards wil be announced frequently undertakes pictorials, critical articles, on the opening night, strategic partnerships, artists’ videos and 5-7pm Tuesday 16 October.

8 9 WHAT’S ON WHAT’S ON WHAT’S ON WHAT’S ON WHAT’S ON WHAT’S ON

5-6pm This Place has No Horizon 5-7 pm WEEK 8 WEEK 9 MID WEEK SOCIAL Adam Gibson Exhibition opening Food and booze is always on continues to 29 September PLAY: Squiggle Collective WEEK 8 WEEK 9 plus hot traxxx to bop to. Kudos Gallery continues to 6 October COFA Common Room, 6 Napier St. Paddington Kudos Gallery See page 7 for full 5-7 pm MON 17 SEPTEMBER Level 1 E Block 6 Napier St. Paddington QUEER WEEK program PGC Social: Sip a 6-8 pm Vodka Squash With Josh @UNSW @ UNSW COFA Talks 6-8 pm TUE 11 SEPTEMBER The White House, 12-1 pm 12-2 pm EG02, E Block COFA. COFA Talks Mindfulness Meditation Women’s Collective Meeting EG02, E Block COFA. @COFA THU 13 SEPTEMBER G027 Quadrangle Womens Room, Blockhouse WED 26 SEPTEMBER 11am-12pm Building 2-4 pm WED 3 OCTOBER SOCCER @COFA Queer Collective meeting THU 20 SEPTEMBER @COFA 9-9.45 am Room 9.20, Level 9, 1pm @COFA Freedman Foundation R.O.C.K.E.T & SRC present Chemical Science @COFA Film screening:Arthouse Films 1pm Travelling Art Scholarship FREE Student Breakfast! 9-9.45am EG02, COFA Film screening:Arthouse Films continues to 15 Sepetember COFA Common Room, TUE 18 SEPTEMBER ROCKET Collective and EG02, COFA Kudos Gallery COFA SRC present 5-6pm 6 Napier St. Paddington 12-1 pm Meditation. @COFA The Thursday Blender Bender!- MID WEEK SOCIAL 4pm DEADLINE FOR F408, Level 4, F Block. 11am-12pm Free liquid breakfasts COFA Common Room, KUDOS AWARD ENTRIES!!! 6-8 pm SOCCER COFA Common Room, Level 1 E Block COFA Talks @UNSW Moore Park Level 1 E Block. 4-5pm Internships: Slave Labour @ UNSW HOT TIPS or essential experience? 2.30-3.30 pm 5-7 pm 12-1 pm 12-2 pm Sebastian Goldspink -ALASKA Kim Snepbvangers, Kate Sketch Club Exhibition opening Meditation. Women’s Collective Meeting COFA Common Room, Coleman, Anna Lutkaijtis COFA Courtyard Tim Olsen Drawing Prize F 408, Level 4, F Block Womens Room, Blockhouse Level 1 E Block EG02, E Block COFA. (behind the Roundhouse) The Tim Olsen Drawing Prize continues to 22 September @UNSW THU 27 SEPTEMBER 5-6pm @UNSW FRI 14 SEPTEMBER Kudos Gallery 1-3.30 pm MID WEEK SOCIAL 11am 6 Napier St. Paddington COFA at Kenso Art-y Movies @COFA COFA Common Room, Speech Acts and @UNSW Roundhouse Hauser/ 9-9.45am Level 1 E Block Social Identity 6-8 pm Wurth Room ROCKET Collective and LAW 101 12-2pm COFA Talks COFA SRC present @ UNSW Wheelchair Basketball Art Advisors, Poli- The Thursday Blender Bender!- 12-2 pm WED 12 SEPTEMBER Roundhouse cies and Politicians Free liquid breakfasts Women’s Collective Meeting EG02, E Block COFA. COFA Common Room, Womens Room, Blockhouse @COFA Level 1 E Block. 12-4 pm @ UNSW THU 4 OCTOBER Zine Fair! 12-2pm WEEK 10 12-1 pm COFA Common Room UNSW Bike Club Workshop Meditation. @COFA Quad Lawn WEEK 10 F 408, Level 4, F Block 9-9.45am 3-4pm ROCKET Collective and Stich n’ Bitch 12-1 pm @UNSW COFA SRC present Bring your needles Meditation 1-3.30 pm The Thursday Blender and your gossip Room 334 Robert MON 24 SEPTEMBER COFA at Kenso Art-y Movies Bender!-Free liquid breakfasts Common Room Webster Building Roundhouse Hauser/ COFA Common Room, . @UNSW Wurth Room 4-7pm WED 19 SEPTEMBER 12-1 pm 12-1 pm QUEER MID WEEK SOCIAL Mindfulness Meditation Meditation. COFA Queer Collective are @COFA G027 Quadrangle Building F 408, Level 4, F Block taking over the social, 1pm expect rainbows and Film screening:Arthouse Films 2-4 pm 1-2 pm milkshakes and a Britney EG02, COFA Queer Collective meeting YOGA Common Room Room 9.20, Level 9, WEEK 11 E101, Level 1 E Block 3-4pm Chemical Science @UNSW Stich n’ Bitch WEEK 11 @UNSW 12-2 pm Common Room TUE 25 SEPTEMBER 1-3.30 pm Women’s Collective Meeting MON 1 OCTOBER COFA at Kenso Art-y Movies Womens Room, Blockhouse 4-5pm @COFA PUBLIC HOLIDAY!! Roundhouse HOT TIPS 11am-12pm 12-2 pm Kind Of gallery SOCCER TUE 2 OCTOBER FRI 5 OCTOBER Disability Awareness Week COFA Common Room, Moore Park DEADLINE FOR: Free BBQ and Paralympian Level 1 E Block @COFA ART AND DESIGN GRANTS speakers 5-7 pm 11am-12pm KUDOS EXHIBITIONS 2013 Commerce Courtyard Exhibition opening SOCCER, Moore Park THE GREEN HOUSE 2013 GROUP WORK GRANT www.arc.unsw.edu.au/cofa 10 11 broader Broken Hill Also in the Olive Grove is Allan Films showing in NIGHT-SUN-DAY community. Giddy’s “Home”. Intended to communicate tension be- Taking the idea of ‘group tween presence and absence, performance’ into their works, substantiality and insubstanti- two performance pieces by ality, preservation and loss, the COFA students were work is a series of rectangle presented at the iconic Palace light-boxes, placed precisely Hotel to open the exhibition. to imply the existence of a An interactive installation, house at night. The light box “Dinner in the Desert” (top dimensions and relative left) by Penelope Benton and positions exactly replicate Alex Clapham was a response a house formerly existing in and offering to both the pre-potato famine Ireland. desert and The Palace Hotel’s The boxes turn on and off epic landscape fantasy murals independently throughout the A group of COFA students photo by Penelope Benton by Gordon Waye. The lavish night, from afar it’s as though and staff, led by Allan Giddy, feast, drawn from the local lights are turning on and off lecturer in the School of Art landscape facilitated a sort of inside a house, once down in and Director of COFA’s sharing of royalty, as guests the Grove, you realise there Environmental Research took turns to take part of the is no house, just a series of Sebastian O’Reilly, Rocket Launch photo by Lydia Dowman Initiative for Art (ERIA), performance. boxes suspended in the air. recently travelled 16hrs west of Sydney to Broken Hill to This was followed by MFA COFA student Edward Horne meet up with some local candidate Adam Gibson’s and Peruvian artist Sergio and international artists and performance “The Sunset Abugattas Tenaud collabo- install an exhibition through Park”. Presented as an hour- rated with COFA student the desert city. Desert long show, a story was told as volunteers and local kids from Equinox showcases 21 solar a musical “song cycle” the Broken Hill Youth College powered artworks intended combined with a sound scape to create what they called for evening viewing, and video projection. a “hybrid habitat” in their encouraging people to Investigating themes of work “Positive Subtraction” navigate the city in search of isolation and violence played (bottom left). Making mud- installations. out on the backdrop of the bricks from dirt on site, they huge, largely empty, expanse built a maze-like construc- Whilst being about taking art of Australia, Adam’s work tion that slightly resembled a outside for a general photo by Noah Schultz-Byard revealed a darkness, a free-standing house, inside- audience and using solar shadow-land of forgotten out. Ed says “the process is energy to do that, the places and people behind the a central part of this project; exhibition also offered the bright Australian sun. We are we are constructing from Lena Obergfell, Sun’s Out opportunity for artists to soon to see more work by what we take or borrow from engage with one another as Adam at Kudos Gallery in a the ground, as opposed to they met with the challenges solo exhibition that opens on destroying or polluting as a of installing work in Australia’s 25 September. result of the interaction with arid zone. Allan says artists it, and letting the sun act as were selected for the show PhD candidate Hamish a catalyst; in other words an based on perceived ability to Dunlop’s “The Broken Pack” alternative outcome or future”. adapt and improvise work, (mid-left) was installed in The both to and for a remote Olive Grove beside the South Desert Equinox also includes community. The whole event Broken Hill overpass. This works by Alexandra Byrne, aimed to serve as a mecha- piece appears as an inverted Atanas Djonov, Bonita Ely, nism for the exchange of ideas silouhette as a pack of dogs Volker Kuchelmeister, Eva within what became a ‘group and wolves built from LED- Müller, Tool Room, Martin performance’. The act of lit 2L plastic milk bottles are Sims, Helen Sturgess, Kathy making and working providing perched on an old train Yeh, plus a film festival NIGHT- the impetus for interaction, carriage in the grove. They are SUN-DAY (right) curated by both between the individual quite spectacular, especially as Eva Müller and Atanas Djonov. artists involved and with the they appeared howling at the photo by Alex Byrne Julia Featherstone, Gibson’s Compass 12 full-moon on opening night. Exhibition continues to 23 Sept 13 NEED SOME SPACE?

Fowlers Gap Research Sta- from other people if you tion is located approx 115km need something or want to north of Broken Hill in the hook up for dinner. Parish of Hume, County Mootwingee and occupies Late last year The Green an area of 38,888 hectares - House underwent yep - that’s a lot of space! renovation. What was once a literal self-sustaining Whilst run through UNSW, green house with solar there are currently 16 power, self-composting loo, universities sending stu- and pretty basic facilities, is dents there from a number now the most luxurious of different faculties to accommodations on the research a variety of station. A fancy new aspects of the land, as well kitchen has been installed, as COFA’s Imaging the land 3 bedrooms to sleep 4, and Research institute (ILIRI) the bathroom has been Field Trips taking students plumbed up to the mains out there every year. Last with a flushing toilet and year, Artist Profile magazine endless hot-water (the hot supported 13 Australian art- is endless, not the water - ists to visit the station for a it’s still the desert). 14 day arts laboratory, engaging with the arid This land is a magical landscape following and spiritual place that drought breaking rains. lends itself to a number of From this two-week trip responses, interpretations came exhibition ‘Not the and mediums. You could be Way Home’.which is still one of the 20 students , Arc touring nationally until next @COFA subsidise to stay at year. This place, Fowlers The Green House next year! Gap, is a massive expanse We also offer Arc members of space supporting a hive the opportunity to stay at of activity, yet when you the Ochre House, which get there, you can feel like is extremely remote: 15km the only person on Earth - from other people and only amazing. accessible via 4wheel-drive.

The Green House is a free We are currently taking outback artist residency applications for 2013, with program for COFA students deadline on Friday 5 at Fowlers Gap supported October. All COFA students by Arc@COFA, with the who are Arc members are intention of encouraging welcome to apply - Arc extracurricular practice and membership is free. More research. The Green House information and application studio is approx. 1km from forms for The Green House the homestead, meaning are downloadable here you have a sense of isolation but are not too far www.arc.unsw.edu.au/cofa

14 COMMERCIAL GALLERY

ARTIST RUN INITIATIVE

STUDIO

Not sure where to go after your degree? Arc @ COFA Confused about how to approach galleries? ART & DESIGN

creative ideas grow... Arc presents GRANTShelp your

HOT TIPS UP TO $500 FOR... • field trips • opening night expenses • transport / travel costs • exhibition invites / event flyers • materials, framing, printing costs • catering for events Come and join Artist Run Initiative • equipment hire and Commercial Gallery directors • document artwork who will be there to answer all your • registration fees for conferences questions and give priceless advice... • ANYTHING CREATIVE & EXTRACURRICULAR Wednesday 4pm (ie. not part of your studies) Fortnightly from Wk 5 COFA Common Room Level 1 E Block

15th Aug MOP Projects co-director and founder George Adams

29th Aug FirstdraftAmelia Wallin, Gallery Firstdraft director Gallery 19th Sep Kind of Gallery director 3rd Oct ALASKA director Sebastian Goldspink DEADLINE FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER 2012 16 16 16 appln forms at arc.unsw.edu.au/cofa or from Arc Office @ COFA, E105 17 This year COFAtopia is giving over it’s naughty back page to the COFA Student Representative Council (SRC). I EXIST, I INSIST AlexanderTIM Poulet OLSEN The SRC @COFA are a bunch of students who represent YOU! They are there to campaign for your needs to insert a short sentence about exhibition here the larger university body as well as DRAWING PRIZE 2012 make sure your student voice is heard The Tim Olsen Drawing Prize is a collaborative initiative when it comes to national affairs. between the Tim Olsen Gallery and the Department of Drawing and Painting at COFA. With the intention In this issue we hear from of encouraging excellence in drawing the Tim Olsen SRC @ COFA International Officer OpensDrawing 5- 7pm Prize, Tuesday now 21 in February its twelfth year, and the Alan Fernandez. If you want to Closesaccompanying Saturday exhibition 3 March 2012 are important events in the get involved in the conversation, College and School of Art calendar. friend them on FB at COFA Src. SAYS! KUOpensDO S5- G7pmA TuesdayLLER 18Y September 6 NapierCloses St PaddingtonSaturday 22 NSW September 2021 2012 11am-6pm Wed to Fri, 11am-4pm Sat T 02 9326 0034 E [email protected] W THISarc.unsw.edu.au/kudos LAND OF Kudos Gallery is run by COFA students and Hi my name is Alan Fernandez and funded by Arc @ UNSW Limited as the International Officer one of my NO HORIZON Adam Gibson main objectives has been to unite the local students with the International community. Because, Australia is so big, the horizon could almost be said to be “never ending”; as if it is only the limits of our own funnily enough, even though UNSW is one of the vision that creates an ending, whereas in reality, the universities with a big diversity it is very rare to see land stretches on (seemingly) forever. There is mystery in that endlessness. local students mingling around with international students Opens 5-7pm Tuesday 25 September especially with people who are on the exchange or Closes Saturday 29 September 2012 study abroad programs.

Apart from that, a big issue that affects everyone at COFA is the redevelopment which only makes students feel like running away PLAY: from the noise after each class, so this has made creating a SQUIGGLE COLLECTIVE community for International students difficult. A world of endless possibilities are within arms reach and as we all know, it’s more fun with friends. So let’s come together and celebrate the marvelous world of One of the main comments I always come across from collaboration with the Squiggle Collective. exchange or study abroad students is that they came to Australia to meet different people with different backgrounds Opens 5-7pm Tuesday 2 October but mainly they want to meet Aussie students which by Closes Saturday 6 October 2012 the end of their experience they end up saying “I met people from all over the world but very few Australians”.

Food for thought.... KUDOS GALLERY Bye for now, 6 Napier St Paddington NSW 2021 11am-6pm Wed to Fri, 11am-4pm Sat Alan T 02 9326 0034 E [email protected] W arc.unsw.edu.au/kudos 19 Kudos Gallery is run by COFA students and funded by Arc @ UNSW Limited 18 DUE UP TO WK 11 $500 5 OCT

GROUP WORK GRANT

For inspiration & application forms check out our clubs and collectives page at START arc.unsw.edu.au/cofa A RADIO STATION! A NEW A READING GROUP! A MAGAZINE! COLLEC AN ARTIST RUN INITIATIVE! 20TIVE!