RMIT Gallery Exhibition Program 2007 9 10 11 9 MATERIAL EVIDENCE Jenny Watson, Change (detail) 2001, synthetic polymer paint on pre-made canvas; oil and synthetic polymer paint on French bed sheet with Italian organza; ceramic, 40 x 30 cm; 178 x 78 cm; 8 x 5 x 1.5 cm. Collection the artist. Photo: Mick Richards. 10 RICH TEXT Kiron Robinson, Way University Out 2007, neon sign mounted on perspex, 36 x 38 x 8 cm. Photo: Mark Ashkanasy. 11 NEW TRENDS OF ARCHITECTURE Iredale Pederson Hook Architects, Tjuntjuntjara Community House 2001-2005. 12 MARKS AND MOTIFS Sophia Szilagyi, Where shadows lie 2005, colour ink-jet print, ed. 40, diptych, each sheet 12 x 16.5 cm. Print Council of Australia collection. 13 LIVING ELVIS Soda_Jerk with Sam Smith, Pixel Pirate II: 1 18 December 2006 – 17 February 2007 Attack of the Astro Elvis Video Clone (DVD still), 2002–2006 14 SIEMENS – RMIT FINE ART AWARD Exhibition installation image, works shown (left to right) by Angela Watters, Prue Crone, Phoebe Ross. Photo: Sigmar Polke: Music from an Unknown Source Mark Ashkanasy. 15 ECHOES OF HOME Liu Xiao Xian, The couple 2004, camphor wood and bronze, 187 x Music from an Unknown Source presents forty gouaches all created in 1996; 62 x 47 cm (wood), 180 x 55 x 40 cm (bronze). Photo: the artist. 16 FLOATING WORLDS Christopher Köller, Untitled, Shibuya, Tokyo (from the series Floating Worlds) 2003, type C print. together they provide insight into the concerns over 40 years of pre-eminent contemporary German artist Sigmar Polke. An Exhibition of the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen/Institute for Cultural Relations and the Goethe-Institut. 20 June – 28 July New Trends of Architecture Curated by Sigmar Polke and Götz Adriani. in Europe and Asia-Pacific 2006–2007 12 The fourth New Trends project documents current trends in the work of RMIT Gallery Touring Exhibition Beyond Metal: young architects by revealing their past, present and future ambitions in a Contemporary Australian Jewellery and Holloware diverse range of housing, public architecture, urban planning, landscape and Featuring twenty-seven of the most celebrated contemporary practitioners, installation. Presented by School of Architecture + Design, RMIT. Touring to Beyond Metal is characterised by an Australian aesthetic that embraces Patras, Tokyo, Melbourne, Perth, Luxembourg and Shanghai. Commissioners: raw and recycled materials, innovative design and use of technology and a Winy Maas (Europe) and Riken Yamamoto (Asia-Pacific).Architects R & Sie respectfully playful approach to tradition. Presented by the Department of (n) /Francois Roche, Stephanie Lavaux, Jean Navarro (France); B.I.G. Bjarke 2 Foreign Affairs & Trade in association with the Victorian Government and RMIT Ingels Group (former PLOT, Denmark); Polaris architects (Luxembourg); University. Touring India, Chennai, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore (February– 13 JDS Architects (former PLOT, Denmark); NL architects (Netherlands); Enric June); Malaysia (September); Singapore (November–December). Curatorium: Ruiz- Geli/Cloud 9 (Spain); Andreas Angelidakis (Greece); DOGMA OFFICE Suzanne Davies, Carlier Makigawa, Beatrice Schlabowsky, Ray Stebbins for (Italy); Zizi & Yoyo arhitektid (Estonia); Taira Nishizawa Architects (Japan); RMIT Gallery. Artists Helen Aitken-Kuhnen, Roseanne Bartley, Nicholas MADA s.p.a.m. (China); Edge Design Institute Ltd. (Hong Kong); Mass Studies Bastin, Vito Bila, Julie Blyfield, Susan Cohn, Simon Cottrell, Juongmee Do, (Korea); Duangrit Bunnag (Thailand); Sean Godsell Architects (Australia); Mark Edgoose, Robert Foster, Stephen Gallagher, Rowena Gough, Marian Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects (Australia). Public Program 22 June, Hosking, Daehoon Kang, Johannes Kuhnen, Elfrun Lach, Andrew Last, Simone public lecture, RMIT, Building 8 Lecture Theatre. LeAmon, Carlier Makigawa, Vicki Mason, Leslie Matthews, Karl Millard, Chris Mullins, Sean O’Connell, Vanessa Raimondo, Brenda Ridgewell, Beatrice 19 June – 28 July Marks and Motifs: Schlabowsky. Public Program April–May, Beatrice Schlabowsky, Marian Prints from the PCA Collection Hosking artists talks, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi. This touring exhibition showcases forty-five of some three hundred works commissioned by the Print Council of Australia since the 1960s. Marks 2 March – 14 April Fashion Face: and Motifs gives an insight into the historical development of printmaking Fashion Photography by Robyn Beeche 1979–1989 in Australia, particularly the recent emergence of new print technologies, In the heart of London’s fashion world in the 1980s, Australian photographer including photomechanical and digital processes, and the effects these have Robyn Beeche created iconic images for designers and personalities including had on traditional methods such as linocut and woodcut. A QUT Art Museum Zandra Rhodes, Vivienne Westwood, Mary Quant, Divine and Leigh Bowery. Travelling Exhibition and Print Council of Australia 40th Anniversary Project. Working in an era predating digital manipulation of photographic images, Curated by Stephen Rainbird. Artists Ray Arnold, Tatipai Barsa, Yvonne Beeche developed and perfected techniques to create elaborate visual Boag, G. W. Bot, John Coburn, Noel Counihan, Caroline Durré, Lesley Duxbury, 3 illusions including pioneering applied holography. Part of the 2007 L’Oréal Belinda Fox, Juli Haas, Treahna Hamm, Barbara Hanrahan, Cecil Hardy, Euan Melbourne Fashion Festival Cultural Program. Curated by Suzanne Davies. Heng, Tim Jones, William Kelly, Franz Kempf, Grahame King, Deborah Klein, Public Program 7 March, Robyn Beeche, artist talk: ‘Making Faces’. 14 Hertha Kluge-Pott, Les Kossatz, Maria Kozic, Graham Kuo, Alun Leach-Jones, Bruno Leti, Bea Maddock, Diane Mantzaris, Marie McMahon, Arone Raymond 2 March – 14 April Fabsolute: Meeks, Ann Newmarch, Graeme Peebles, Susan Pickering, Cat Poljski, Julie Fashion Illustration by Alfredo Bouret 1940s–1960s Purvis, Sally Robinson, Olga Sankey, Michael Schlitz, Jan Senbergs, Heather Alfredo Bouret’s disciplined hand and observant eye capture the glamour and Shimmen, Melissa Smith, Sophia Szilagyi, Judy Watson, Arthur Wicks, elegance of a golden age of fashion in an exhibition of fashion illustration. Christine Willcocks, Fred Williams. Public Program 28 June, demo- Bouret’s extraordinary drawing skill was in high demand and he created iconic nstration and tour by staff and students at the RMIT print workshop. images for every major couture house in post-war Paris. Fabsolute charts his career, presenting work he created for Balenciaga, Vogue, Tatler, Queen and 16 August – 20 October Living Elvis Glamour magazines and advertising campaigns for British Vogue, Jaeger, While Elvis Presley’s central role in the establishment of modern popular 4 Wolsey and Bally of Switzerland. Part of the 2007 L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion music and visual culture is well established, the relationship between Festival Cultural Program. Curated by Suzanne Davies. Public Program his creative work and the studio traditions of the fine arts is still a work 2 March, Alfredo Bouret in conversation with Robyn Healy. in progress. Thirty years after Elvis’ earthly demise Living Elvis explores aspects of this relationship and re-opens the creative dialogue that visual 1 May – 9 June New Abstraction RMIT 1965–1985: artists have had with Elvis over the preceding fifty years. Presented with the Leonard Crawford, George Johnson, Grahame King assistance of City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program. Curated by Peter Barnes Crawford, Johnson and King were central to the advancement of non-objective and Suzanne Davies. Public Program 16–17 August: Symposium: ‘King art in Melbourne in the post-war decades. Their preference for abstraction Power: Designing Masculinities’. Keynote Presenter: Shaun Cole; Special over the figurative imagery favoured by many other artists ensured a strong Guest Lecturer: Dr Alka Pande. Presented by the RMIT Fashion Program and 15 alternative in the modern art movement in this city. New Abstraction cele- the Frances Burke Centre in collaboration with RMIT Gallery with support from brates RMIT University’s 120th anniversary by honouring these three senior the Australia India Council. Film Program 17 August: Freaky Fridays: Late artists’ significant contribution to RMIT, the Melbourne art community and Night Cult, ACMI Cinemas, Australian Centre for the Moving Image. 7pm: Kid to Australian art as a whole. Part of RMIT University’s 120th Anniversary Galahad. 8.30pm: Live Elvis impersonators. 10pm: Elvis: That’s The Way It Is. celebrations. Curated by Charlotte Skene. 5 November – 17 November 3 May – 9 June Material Evidence: Siemens RMIT – Fine Art Award Jenny Watson Works on Fabric 1981–2005 Now in its seventh year, the prestigious Siemens – RMIT Fine Art Scholarship Material Evidence surveys more than two decades of Watson’s painting on a enables students to further their careers in the field of Fine Arts by assisting research and production costs. Eight students will receive scholarships, 5 variety of textiles such as velvet, silk and hessian. The artist draws on images from life and dreams to create compelling narratives. A Griffith Artworks and comprising five undergraduate travel scholarships and three postgraduate DELL Gallery @ Queensland College of Art travelling exhibition. Curatorium: scholarships to a total of $32,000, as well as one artist receiving the $1000 Holly Arden, Chris Handran, Simon P Wright. Public Program 4 May, Siemens Fine Arts Acquisition Award. An initiative of the School of Art, RMIT Jenny