Past exhibitions

When: 12 February – 5 April 2024

Image: Laura Skerlj, Cloud (I) 2023, oil on linen, image © and courtesy of the artist.

Deakin University Art Gallery presents Conversations in space: a group exhibition in the form of an inter-generational dialogue between artists and objects in virtual and real spaces. Curated by Deakin’s James Lynch the exhibition presents new works by senior Australian artist Helen Maudsley alongside works by Alex Hobba, Noriko Nakamura and Laura Skerlj. Conversations in space is an interplay between painting, animation and sculptural practices focusing on object relations and their proxies and stand-ins, in a flat time world: where our world view appears constantly moving but much remains the same.

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From left clockwise around gallery:

Alex Hobba
Piss Trough  2020
digital video consisting of 3D render animation
1:24 mins, looped
courtesy of the artist

Laura Skerlj
Untitled (orb)  2023
Untitled (sparkler)  2023
Untitled (fizzy)  2023
Untitled (trance)  2023
Untitled (bouquet)  2023
Untitled (limbo)  2023
Untitled (moth)  2023
Untitled (cloud)  2023
all works are oil on linen
courtesy of the artist

Helen Maudsley
Know Thine Own Self  2022
The Power of the Written Word; Without the Written Word, Art Doesn’t Exist.  2020
The Coil, the Circle & the Rectangle. Into the Trees & the Landscape. Into the Distance.
Unless Art is Written About, it Doesn’t Exist.  2020
Linkages of Different Kinds. The basic 4 shapes; the square, the circle, and the triangle.
And the Golden Ratio.  2022
The Coil, the Screws, the Rectangle, and the Chain that Hangs
Colours and Tones, not mixed, but Calling to Each Other.   2022
all works are oil on canvas
courtesy of the artist and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

rear wall:
Helen Maudsley
Nudes  1986
watercolour and gouache on paper and artist frame
Gift of the artist, 2007
Deakin University Art Collection
courtesy of the artist and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

Noriko Nakamura
Milking my heart  2019
Rib Bone  2017
Untitled  2016
Secret  2017
all works are carved Mount Gambier limestone
courtesy of the artist

Alex Hobba
Cockfighter’s Ghost  2023
digital video consisting of 3D render animation with AI voice acting and human voice,
sound design by Christopher Maruca
6:36 mins
courtesy of the artist

When: 24 October–15 December 2023

Co-curated by Stephen Wickham and Leanne Willis, this exhibition is a celebration of thoughtful engagement with ideas. Text – Re read acknowledges the importance of words, texts, articles and books, from illuminated manuscripts to la poésie concrete, words and the ideas therein that remain central to art-making and its reception.

Much has been said about the inspirational muses and the ‘Eureka moment’ – the flash of insight where sources and origins are revealed and then manifested. This exhibition highlights a slow consideration of the complex relationships between artists, artworks and the ideas embodied in books and many other material sources. Text – Re read is the second exhibition of the Deakin University Centre for Abstract+Non-Objective Art, The Void: Visible. Abstraction & Non-Objective Art being the inaugural in November 2017.

Participating artists include: Andrew Christofides, Tracey Coutts, Janet Dawson, Lesley Dumbrell, Suzie Idiens, Raafat Ishak, Simon Klose, Sean Loughrey, Andrew Rogers, Wilma Tabacco and Stephen Wickham.

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Artwork left to right on Gallery wall

Janet Dawson

Easter Sunday Moon, 2019, acrylic and oil on panel

Deakin University Art Collection, purchase 2023.

Janet Dawson

Untitled, 2021, charcoal on paper, Deakin University Art Collection, donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Anouk Hulme in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

Janet Dawson

Parts of Fortune, 1981, sprayed stencil, Deakin University Art Collection, purchase, 1981

Raafat Ishak and Sean Loughrey

Fanflag 7, Ocular Lab, 2006

Courtesy of the artists and Sutton Gallery

Andrew Christofides

Eternal Space I, 2015

acrylic on canvas

Andrew Christofides

Eternal Space II, 2015

acrylic on canvas

Andrew Christofides

Eternal Space III, 2015

acrylic on canvas

Tracey Coutts

Untitled Series 1 (lines contract in), 2013

oil on marine ply

Tracey Coutts

Untitled Series 2 (lines expand out), 2013

oil on marine ply

Tracey Coutts

Weave, 2016

acrylic on marine ply

Suzie Idiens

Untitled #9 (Pink Vertical) 2016

MDF, Polyurethane

Suzie Idiens

Untitled #10 (Blue Vertical) 2016

MDF, Polyurethane

Suzie Idiens

Untitled #3 (Blue Wedge) 2017

MDF, Polyurethane

Lesley Dumbrell

Gridelin, 2007

oil on linen

Courtesy of the artist and Charles Nodrum Gallery

Simon Klose

Upper left:

Simon Klose

no title, orange/black, Dec.2022

Lower left:

Simon Klose

no title, green black/cream yellow (oil /gold), June 2023

Right:

Simon Klose

no title, orange/pale green, April 2023

Wilma Tabacco

Lariat, 2022

oil on linen

Courtesy the artist and Gallerysmith

Stephen Wickham

Artwork left to right:

Stephen Wickham

Ink pen on paper, 1986-1991

Stephen Wickham

Black Cruciform as Stupa Floor Plan 1996, oil on linen, Deakin University Art Collection, donated by the artist 2017

Stephen Wickham

But it’s getting there, 2023, oil on Linen

Artwork left to right on floor in centre of Gallery

Andrew Rogers

Artworks left to right:

Andrew Rogers

I Believe I, 2021, bronze and stainless steel

Andrew Rogers

I Believe II, 2021, bronze and stainless steel

Andrew Rogers

I Believe IV, 2022, bronze and stainless steel

Cabinet contents – cabinet 1 left side

Left to right:

Lesley Dumbrell

Book:

Ian Paterson, A Dictionary of Colour – A lexicon of the language of colour, Thorogood Publishing Ltd, London, 2003

Suzie Idiens

Book:

Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present. Guggenheim Museum Publications. 2004. ISBN: 0-89207-308-X. Skinning Art. Mark C. Taylor. Page 25.

Stephen Wickham

Book: 

Kasimir Malevich’s Black Square and the Genesis of Suprmatism 1907-1915W. Sherwin Simmons Garland Publishing, Inc, New York & London. 1981.  ISBN 0-8240-3942-4   AACR2 Display page 314.

Wilma Tabacco

Book:

Charta: Dal papiro al computer, G. M. Cardona, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, S.p.A., Milano

Simon Klose

Book:

Exhibition Catalogue, Two Decades of American Painting, Waldo Rasmussen (Lucy Lippard, G.R. Swenson), The Museum of Modern Art, New York Date 1967

Tracey Coutts

Artist book

Rotated Cube, 2014

artist book printed on Sovereign Offset 180gsm paper

Tracey Coutts

Book:  

Design Rehearsals – conversations about Bauhaus lessons. Spector Books, Leipzig. 2019.  ISBN 978-3-95905-270-2.  Part 2: Questioning Knowledge.   Tim Ingold In Conversation page 97.

Raafat Ishak and Sean Loughrey

Book:

El Lissitzky. Life-letters-texts. Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers. Introduction by Herbert Read.

Published by Thames and Hudson, London, 1980.

Janet Dawson

Book:

First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, James R Hansen, Simon & Schuster USA, 2005. ISBN 0-7432-5631-X

Cabinet contents – cabinet 2 right side

Left to right:

Andrew Christofides

A series of 12 working drawings, 2014 - 2021

Andrew Christofides

Book:

The Civil Architecture of Vitruvius, 1813 edition.  Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. Translated by William Wilkins, London, Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars. For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 1812.

Andrew Rogers

Andrew Rogers

Cast bronze plaque with work relating to the text Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind.

Book:

Sapiens; A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari, Harper; Illustrated edition, 10 February 2015 [English]

ISBN 9780062316097

When: 23 August–13 October 2023

The Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award is an annual competition showcasing outstanding sculptures from artists across Australia. An exhibition of finalists' work is held each year in August to October at the Deakin University Art Gallery.

_{Image: Installation image of the 2023 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University Art Gallery, August 2023, photography Simon Peter Fox.}

2023 finalists

• Samara Adamson-Pinczewski
• Ourania Amvrazis
• Anindita Banerjee
• Gillian Bencke
• Annette Bukovinsky
• Melanie Cobham
• Amy Cohen
• Emma Coulter
• Augustine Dall'Ava
• Julian Di Martino
• Naomi Eller
• Carly Fischer
• Gail Hastings
• Patrick Heath
• David Jensz
• Linda Judge
• Tala Kaalim
• Sam Kariotis
• Alicia King
• Jo Lane
• Jenna Lee
• Shirley Macnamara
• Carolyn Menzies
• Dónal Molloy-Drum
• Kendal Murray
• Lori Pensini
• Kirsteen Pieterse
• Kenny Pittock
• Daniel Press
• Nina Sanadze
• Louise Skacej
• Vipoo Srivilasa
• Hiromi Tango
• Natalie Quan Yau Tso
• Carmel Wallace
• Bettina Willner-Browne
• Alana Wilson
• Ching-Yee Wong
• Petr Zly
• Simon Zoric

Supported by Community Bank at Deakin University.

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Artworks left to right on gallery walls, then middle to end.

Linda Judge, Reconstituted Orange, wooden log, plastic lids

Natalie Tso, your spit is my nest, my saliva and guar gum on isomalt crystals (sugar) coated with nail polish varnish

Melanie Cobham, Melodies for Migrants, music box, expired passport

Jenna Lee, Dilly Can, pages of Aboriginal Words and Place Names, book binding thread, book cover board, Courtesy of MARS Gallery

Nina Sanadze, Gramophone: Rethinking, reworking, reshaping… monuments… what are the possibilities… (series), clay, resin, hydrostone, acrylics, glue. Sculpture incorporates a replica of a studio plaster model of a revolutionary by Soviet monumental sculptor Valentin Topuridze (1907-1980), Courtesy of Daine Singer

Sam Kariotis, Preservation, cardstock, tin

Kenny Pittock, Koala Teddy, acrylic on ceramic, Courtesy of MARS Gallery

Lori Pensini, Farm yard, oil on xanthorrhoea heart wood (grass tree heart wood), Courtesy of Gallerysmith, North Melbourne

Carolyn Menzies, Rewilding, acrylic, sponge, gouache, tapestry fragments, glass-head pins and glue

Carmel Wallace, Lone Pine Colony, pine needles, hair, thread

Bettina Willner, Wave Motion, stoneware glazed ceramic, Courtesy of Saint Cloche Gallery, NSW  & Lennox St Gallery (formerly Metro Gallery), Victoria

Kirsteen Pieterse, Subsidence, acrylic and stainless steel, Courtesy of Utopia Art Sydney

Alana Wilson, Map of Fragility, stoneware with magnesium markings and shell salt flashing, Courtesy of ReadingRoom

Carly Fischer, Slip II 2023, concrete & basalt aggregate, ceramic, acrylic paint

Dónal Molloy-Drum, The Leaning, stainless steel, wood veneer, Courtesy of Flinders Lane Gallery

Anindita Banerjee, Sand Time, blown soda lime glass, wood charcoal, recycled glass jewellery, old dupatta, Mahaprasad

Julian Di Martino, Deceased estate (dressing table), wood, acrylic paint

Augustine Dall'Ava, Paradox no 10  2022-23, painted wood, painted stone, travertine

Naomi Eller, Navigation home 2022-23, ceramic, pigment, wax, gold leaf, steel plinth

Gillian Bencke, Amphora, felt, velvet, sequins, glass beads, thread, buttons, found items, lead

Samara Adamson-Pinczewski, Conical 2, acrylic and iridescent acrylic with UV gloss on ABS resin (SLA), Courtesy of Charles Nodrum Gallery

WONG Ching Yee (Jenny), Mask (III) – Forward, porcelain, acrylic board

Shirley Macnamara, The Gathering Laga Bag, spinifex, ochre, kangaroo bone, galah feathers, porcupine (echidna) quills, bullock bone, silver wire, gold leaf, spinifex resin, polymer fixative, Courtesy of Alcaston Gallery

Daniel Press, Revenants of Queen's Square, wax

Kendal Murray, Freelance Chance, Expanse Enhance, mixed media of metal, fabric, paper, polyurethane, wire, paint, Courtesy of Flinders Lane Gallery

Patrick Heath, Death Mask, plaster, milk varnish

Annette Bukovinsky, Recompense, fired clay, cardboard and plastic, Courtesy of Stanley Street Gallery

Louise Skacej, Lake Spomin, bronze

David Jensz, "Spin", river stone, lead, Courtesy of Australian Galleries

Simon Zoric, Untitled (Blue), aluminium, automotive paint, quartz, apatite, Courtesy of Lon Gallery

Jo Lane, mid-air, marble, rope and wax, Courtesy of Oigall Projects

Amy Cohen, Finding Space, raffia and Manila hemp paper raffia

Alicia King, Aeolian Dust , iron, resin, mineral pigments

Hiromi Tango, Ou Ka 桜花 | 謳歌 (Flower Song), textile and mirrored Perspex, Courtesy of Sullivan+Strumpf

Emma Coulter, Double tuck, enamel on steel, Courtesy of James Makin Gallery

Tala Kaalim, Avoir le Beurre et l'argent du Beurre, glass

Gail Hastings, Space holder lost when one day relocating its half-cylinder space, half-cylinder of space, acrylic on wood

Petr Zly, Finding the Floor, polylactide, polyurethane, steel, acrylic, pigments

Ourania Amvrazis, Speculative Futures: a simulation of future cities constructed through sound, PLA

Vipoo Srivilasa, Kiln God Altar, porcelain, earthenware, stoneware, air dry clay, mixed media, gold luster, gold leaf glaze, acrylic paint and glaze, Courtesy of Scott Livesey Galleries

Fayen d’Evie is an artist and writer, born in Malaysia, raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, and now living in the bushlands of Jaara country, Australia. This exhibition celebrates d’Evie’s far reaching and influential practice that explores access as a force of new creative potentialities. Using sound, touch, movement, performance and language d’Evie expands upon the limitations of the visual arts.

This exhibition surveys recent projects with a range of interdisciplinary collaborators including, among others, performance maker Alex Craig, dancers Benjamin Hancock and Anna Seymour, printmaker Trent Walter, and paintings by the San Francisco-based artist and advocate Jennifer Justice. Curated by James Lynch.

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_{Fayen d’Evie and Trent Walter
Janaleen sings, and hides 2017
tactile screenprint and 3-channel audio description
printed by Trent Walter, Negative Press
© and courtesy of the artist}

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From left clockwise around gallery:

Jennifer Justice
Bourgeois and Brâncuși in Conversation  2023
acrylic on paper
courtesy of the artist

Jennifer Justice
Tornado 2023
acrylic on canvas
courtesy of the artist

Fayen d’Evie, Trent Walter and Bryan Phillips
Janaleen sings, and hides. 2017
unique state tactile screenprint with debossing and sound
printed by Trent Walter, Negative Press

Andy Slater
Hauntings (HM Castlemaine) 2019
site-specific sound recordings

Fayen d’Evie, Anna Seymour and Pippa Samaya
Shape of an Echo 2019
digital video with sound
13.5 mins

Hillary Goidell
To Catch a Thing in Flight 2020
digital video featuring audio description
13.04 min

Fayen d’Evie and Benjamin Hancock
Essays in vibrational poetics {~} ...  ,  ...  ;  ... (2nd edition)  2021
digital video with sound
18.13 mins

Fayen d’Evie
Essays in vibrational poetics {.} Acknowledging Margaret Woodward, Núria López, Mrs Eaves, and women who painted the caves in tactile poetics 2019
granite, quartz, marble, bronze, ochre, charcoal
courtesy of the artist

Aaron McPeake and Fayen d’Evie
Resonant Cuts 2011
bronze bell slices  
courtesy of the artists

Fayen d’Evie and Benjamin Hancock
H(e)R {~~~} ... , ... ; x 2021
digital video without sound
6.23 mins

Fayen d’Evie and Benjamin Hancock
H(e)R {~~~} … , … ; x ; o 2022
Fayen d’Evie and Benjamin Hancock
digital video featuring audiodescription  
10.43 mins

Fayen d’Evie and Benjamin Hancock
{~~~} ... , ... ; x // typographic notes 2021
digital video without sound
12.17 mins

Fayen d'Evie, Anna Seymour, Vincent Chan and Trent Walter  
Essays in gestural poetics {;;}  // We get in touch with things at the point they break down. // Endnote: The ethical handling of empty space. // Care is a cognate to grief. 2021
three framed screenprints and six tactile UV prints

Fayen d’Evie and Trent Walter
Ascending/Descending Sonic Shadows 2019
photopolymer relief prints, embossing with Braille and laser-cut, soft cover artist book
printed and published by Negative Press Melbourne with assistance by Chelsea Collins and Lizzie Boon
sewn by George Matoulas, Braille by Nigel Herring at Pentronics, text layout by Hayden Daniel

Fayen d’Evie and Benjamin Hancock
{~~~~} Further Toward, Further Toward A Deconstruction of Phallic Univocality: Deferrals 2022
digital video without sound
26.41 mins

Fayen d'EVIE
Ex- [excerpt restaged]  2011/2023
engraved steel, acrylic paint, dye sublimated painting

When: 10 July–9 August 2023
Venue: Deakin University Library, Building V, Melbourne Burwood Campus
Open to the public Monday to Friday 8am–5pm, Saturday and Sunday 1–5 pm. Entry is free.

Paul Laspagis is an accomplished artist who lives and works near Deakin University’s Burwood Campus. Born in Limnos, Greece in 1949 and migrating to Melbourne in 1957, Laspagis studied at the National Gallery Art School with John Brack and Alun Leach-Jones. Laspagis then spent over 10 years working in art education. He is a dedicated artist using oil on canvas, drawings and in print media who has exhibited extensively in Melbourne and overseas.

The works on display show two different aspects to this artist’s work: the first being the human figure and second being the landscape. Although the pictures appear abstracted, there are clear visual references to people and place. Laspagis travels to the landscape of the Yarra Valley and works directly on drawings whilst in the bush. He then returns to the studio and translates those drawings into works that celebrate the underlying origin of the structure and form.

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<sub>Image: Paul Laspagis, Yarra Valley 2017
Oil on canvas, 183 x 130 cm  

Collection of the artist
Photography Rodney Denholm
© copyright and courtesy of the artist 

Image description: An abstracted painting
consisting of small cross-hatched blue,
purple, olive green and white cross-hatched
sections that form an undulating landscape vista.</sub>

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From left clockwise around gallery:

Paul Laspagis
Figure activating space  2022
oil on canvas
From the artist’s collection

Paul Laspagis
Seated figure  2022
oil on canvas
From the artist’s collection

Paul Laspagis
The sun over the Yarra Valley I  2017
oil on canvas
From the artist’s collection

Paul Laspagis
Yarra Valley  2017
oil on canvas
From the artist’s collection

Paul Laspagis
Lysterfield Landscape  2018
oil on canvas
From the artist’s collection

Paul Laspagis
A subliminal order – Lysterfield 2018
oil on canvas
From the artist’s collection

Paul Laspagis
The sun over the Yarra Valley II  2019
oil on canvas
From the artist’s collection

When: 18 April–9 June 2023

As well as the Deakin University Art Gallery, this exhibition will also be displayed in the Deakin University Library, Melbourne Burwood Campus (open 8am–9pm seven days a week, closed ANZAC Day, Tuesday 25 April 2023).

When we inhale and exhale, our bodies transform through the process of inflation and deflation. Drawing on the inflatable form as both material and metaphor, Conflated brings disparate artists together to explore bodies, environments and cultures through contemporary art. Here, the cycle of breathing serves as a framework through which a wide array of experiences, behaviours and expressions are examined.

Conflated is a NETS Victoria touring exhibition, curated by Zoë Bastin and Claire Watson. Participating artists include Zoë Bastin, Andy Butler, David Cross, Bronwyn Hack, Amrita Hepi with Prue Stent and Honey Long, Christopher Langton, Eugenia Lim, James Nguyen and Steven Rhall. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.

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_{Zoë Bastin
Enough 2021
HD video with audio
© and courtesy of the artist and NETS Victoria}

_{This project has been assisted by the Australian Government's Visions of Australia program and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.}

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From left clockwise around Deakin University Art Gallery gallery:

James Nguyen
Inhaleinhaleinhale 2021
sound file, 22 minutes
commissioned by NETS Victoria
courtesy the artist

Amrita Hepi, Honey Long and Prue Stent
Omphalus 2021
digital video, 3 minutes 30 seconds
commissioned by NETS Victoria
courtesy the artists, Anna Schwartz Gallery and ARC ONE Gallery

David Cross
Pair  2021
installation, PVC vinyl
commissioned by NETS Victoria
courtesy the artist

Steven Rhall
Hermetic Rituals 2020
digital prints on Dibond, found image, found floatation devices, remediated performance, timber commissioned by NETS Victoria
courtesy of the artist and MARS Gallery

Christopher Langton
Breathe In Breathe Out 2021
PVC, silicone, polyurethane, hybrid polymer, thermoplastic polyester, pigment, fibreglass, acrylic, plywood, jacket, backpack, fake fur, air valves and air commissioned by NETS Victoria
courtesy the artist and Tolarno Galleries

Andy Butler
Live to your Potential
(After Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog) 2018
HD video with audio, 5 minutes
courtesy the artist

Eugenia Lim
Wearable Shelters from Shelters for Kyneton (triadic transfer) 2022
Shelters for Kyneton (triadic transfer) 2022
HD video with sound, 7 minutes 40 seconds, hand-sewn mylar Artist, Performer: Eugenia Lim; Cinematographer: Tim Hillier; Movement consultant, Editor, Sound: Zoe Scoglio; Costume designer: Ellie Boekman; Performers: Jennifer Anderson, Steve Boulter; Kyneton Contemporary Art Triennial Producer: Angela Connor; Production assistant: Kent Wilson; Wearable shelters designed by Eugenia Lim in collaboration with, and sewn by, Ellie Boekman; Metal fabrication: Dale Holden commissioned by Kyneton Contemporary and NETS Victoria courtesy the artist and STATION GALLERY, Melbourne

All works are © and courtesy of the artists

From left clockwise around Deakin University Burwood Campus Library Gallery:

Bronwyn Hack
Alfred 2021
mixed media and inflatable soft sculpture
commissioned by NETS Victoria
courtesy the artist and Arts Project Australia

Zoë Bastin
Enough 2021
HD video with audio, 4 minutes 47 seconds,
Mylar balloon and fan
Costume designer: Eve Maxwell; Videographer: Clayton Smith
Director: Louis Roach; Composer: James Rushford
Choreography assistant: Hayley Does
Sculptural assistant: Brigit Ryan
Artist assistant: Molly Stephenson
commissioned by NETS Victoria
courtesy the artist

When: 13 February – 5 April 2023

This exhibition features artworks by current lecturers and teaching staff from Deakin University’s School of Communication and Creative Arts, that were created while they attended art school. Art School Confidential celebrates creative discoveries in all their varied forms and the importance of a creative education experience. It explores the histories of artistic endeavours at the university and the transit of artistic practices over time.

Contributions by Bradley Axiak, Anindita Banerjee, Wendy Beatty, Cameron Bishop, David Cross, Joel Gailer, Tara Gilbee, Simon Grennan, Aaron Hoffman, Victoria Holessis, Penelope Hunt, Todd Johnson, Ilona Jetmar, Katie Lee, Sean Loughrey, Amber Smith, Sorcha Wilcox, Annie Wilson, Bruce Zhou and others. Curated by James Lynch.

^{Image: Marta Oktaba, In the studio 2023, ink on paper. © and courtesy of the artist. Image for promotional use only.}

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Artworks as they appear from left clockwise around gallery:

This exhibition celebrates the recent gift and long-term loan of artworks from the family of pioneering art collectors Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh to Deakin University.

Curated by James Lynch this project highlights the significance of these leading Naarm/Melbourne collectors of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and their dedication to artists, new ideas, risk taking and the importance of living creative and cultural lives.

^{Image: Geoffrey PROUD, Nadine and Geoffrey 1967, charcoal and oil on composition board, Deakin University Art Collection. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Irwin Hirsh in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021 © Sue Proud and courtesy of Fellia Melas Gallery Sydney}

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All images are copyright and courtesy of the artists and their estates. From left, clockwise around gallery:

Peter Corlett
The leg through the ceiling 1966-67
Fibreglass and resin
On loan from the collection of Irwin Hirsh

Mike Nicholls
Samson 2004
Carved timber (gum) with iron oxide patina
2021.88
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Anouk Hulme in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

Judy Watson
Language group: Waanyi
Heartwood 2004
Colour lithograph
2021.82
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Anouk Hulme in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

Louis Karadada
Language group: Woonambol
Untitled (Wandjina figure and boomerang) 2000
Etching on paper
2021.80
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Anouk Hulme in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

John Howley
Portrait of Etta Hirsh 1971
Oil on canvas
On loan from the collection of Anouk Hulme

Guy Stuart
Portrait of Emmanuel Hirsh 1990
Oil on canvas
On loan from the collection of Anouk Hulme

Geoffrey Proud
Nadine and Geoffrey 1967
Charcoal and oil on paper on composition board
2021.63
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Irwin Hirsh in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

Peter Clarke
Untitled 1966
Synthetic polymer paint and PVC on canvas
2021.67
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Anouk Hulme in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

Guy Stuart   
Man’s Money Toy I 1966
Spray enamel and collage on paper
2021.69
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Irwin Hirsh in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

Robert Jacks  
Untitled 1968
Untitled 1968
Watercolour and pencil on paper
2021.74.1-2
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Anouk Hulme in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

Janet Dawson  
Untitled 1972
Charcoal on paper
2021.72
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Anouk Hulme in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

Jim Lawrence
Sigmund Freud 1982
Carved timber and paint
2021.62
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Irwin Hirsh in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

Jan Senbergs       
Diagram for Orderly Living 1975
Oil and silscreen on canvas
LT2021.92
On long term loan from the collection of Anouk Hulme

Bob Jenyns
Sculpture Design 1979
Coloured pencil on paper
1979.33-41
Purchased, 1979

Murray Walker    
Untitled 1988
Found timber and epoxy resin
2021.66
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Anouk Hulme in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

Guy Stuart  
Untitled 1978
Untitled 1978
Untitled 1978
All works watercolour on paper
2021.70.1-3
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Anouk Hulme in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

Joel Elenberg  
Untitled 1977
Watercolour and pencil on paper
2021.55
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Irwin Hirsh in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

John Scurry    
After the Party 1982
Gouache and pencil on paper
2021.56
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Irwin Hirsh in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

Tom Fantl
Untitled 1981
Colour litograph
2021.58
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Anouk Hulme in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

Bob Jenyns    
Last Fellow (Ronald Ryan) 1988
Painted timber
2021.61
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Irwin Hirsh in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

Domenico De Clario
A snowy light filled room 1987
Oil on shaped canves
2021.85
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Anouk Hulme in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

Alberr Shomaly      
Untitled  1971
Untitled  1971
Untitled  1972-73
Colour Chart 1973
Untitled not dated
Silkscreen, lithograph and colour photographic prints on paper
Paint and collage on paper
2021.75-79
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Anouk Hulme in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

Anne Hall
Untitled (Two figures) 1977
Oil pastel on paper
2021.60
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Irwin Hirsh in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

David L Wiggs    
Apprentice 1985
Paint on tin, timber and electrical components mounted on ply
2021.64
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Adrian Hirsh in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

Mark Strizic    
The Peripatetic Theme 1972
Colour photograph
2021.83
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Anouk Hulme in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

John Cato    
Drift 1990
Black and white silver gelatin photograph
1991.11
Gift of the artist, 1991

Bill Henson    
Untitled (from the Kindertotenlieder series) 1976
Colour photograph
LT2021.90.1-16
On long term loan from the collection of Anouk Hulme

When: 4 October – 16 December 2022

Deakin University Library, Burwood Campus, Building V.

Continuing in the Burwood Campus library gallery space until 16 December is the exhibition Who am I and how am I to live? Developed by senior lecturer Shane McIver, first year health students reflect on climate change and the environment through photography. All works were produced in 2022 and are digital colour photographs, inkjet printed on Ilford papers.

^{Image by Kaylah Karwan. Image: cobblestone laneway surrounded by brick walls covered with weathered posters, an overcast sky looms overhead.}

This is the 12th year of the award, and we were pleased to receive 306 entries, from which 41 works were selected. Congratulations to our finalists and Scotty So for his winning entry, Surburbkin in Red, 01. Exhibition closes at 5pm, Friday 21 October.

^{Scotty So, Surburbkin in Red, 01, nylon, metal. Winner of 2022 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award. © and courtesy of the artist.}

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The external judges were Lyndel Wischer and Robert Hague, with Leanne Willis representing Deakin.

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Left wall
Mark Eliott, Cloudy head
Scotty So, Surburbkin in Red, 01
Vicki West, Kelp Vessels
Wendy Teakel, Stockpile
Jess Taylor, Shelob
Jayanto Tan, Late Night Movies (sorry angel, call me by your name)
Zoran Bogdanovic, Basalt Quarry Sunset
Brad Gunn, Flopsy Large
Helen Earl, Triumph of Galatea (After Raphael)
Fleur Brett, Caught up in this
Sarrita King, Coolamon – Language of the Earth
Catherine Bell, Bouquet #1 (Lily) Bouquet #2 (Pansy)
Nat Thomas, Failed State

Centre wall

Kenny Pittock, The News
Emily McGuire, Demarcations II
Chloe Tizzard, Delphi
Samara Adamson-Pinczewski, Around the Corner 9
Susan Reddrop, Hedonism
Barry Jackson, ground zero
Sherrie Knipe, Off Guard
Miho Watanabe, Awareness of Between-ness: Memory and Time "Street trees at England"
Jodi Stewart, History vs Reality
Petr Zly, On The Occasion of The Endless Sea
Peter Vandermark, Seating Arrangement #6
Tracey Lamb, Essential Elements
Ron Robertson-Swann, Krak des Chevaliers

Right wall 
Jos Van Hulsen, Emotional Baggage
Adrienne Doig, Goddess Complex
Sue Anderson, Waves of emotion
Elizabeth Colbert, In Transition
Ewen Coates, Accidental Embrace
Vittoria Di Stefano, Nocturne
Belinda Piggott, Stilled, for a moment to contemplate
Amalia Lindo, The Cloud is of the Earth (v. 1)
Moya Delany, DON'T GO

End wall
Ayako Saito, Artemis Bow
Nuha Saad, Sunburst (XOX)
Deb McKay, Twist
Helen Philipp, Afterburn
Hiromi Tango, Red Moon 赤い月 Akai Tsuki

Artwork included in the virtual tour of the exhibition, From the Heart of Bangladesh, on display at the Deakin University Burwood Library, Melbourne Burwood Campus from 26 August to 30 September 2022.

All artwork from the Atiq and Nira Rahman Collection.

Image: Rafiqun Nabi, At Noon in the Field, 2014, Acrylic on Canvas, 89 cm x 89 cm, From the Atiq and Nira Rahman Collection © and courtesy of the artist

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Left wall
Shahabuddin Ahmed, Stretching, 2019, Oil on Canvas
Shahabuddin Ahmed, Cosmos, 1990, Oil on Canvas
Monirul Islam, Black Angel, 2015, Collage and Oil on Paper
Monirul Islam, Maya's Dream, 1986, Etching and Aquatint

Middle wall
Qayyum Chowdhury, Untitled, 2008, Water Colour
Qayyum Chowdhury, Symphony 4, 2014, Acrylic on Canvas
Samarjit Roy Choudhury, Flying Birds, 2017, Acrylic on Canvas
Ranjit Das, Images and Reflections 3, 2014, Acrylic on Canvas
Sheikh Afzal, Untitled, 2011, Acrylic on Canvas
Farida Zaman, Sufia and Fishing Net, 2014, Acrylic on Canvas
Ferdousy Priobhashini, Nightly Shrine, 2017, Metal
Mohammad Iqbal, Distant Skies 22, 2021, Oil on Canvas
Karu Titas, Jol Jochnai (In Luminescence), 2012, Acrylic on Canvas
Kanak Chanpa Chakma, Festival, 2016, Acrylic on Canvas
Jamal Ahmed, Gypsy Woman, 2012, Acrylic on Canvas
Biren Shome, Bangabandhu-11 (The Friend of Bengal), 2016, Acrylic on Board
Rafiqun Nabi, Janak (The father of the nation), 2011, Water Colour
Rafiqun Nabi, At Noon in the Field, 2014, Acrylic on Canvas
Biren Shome, Motherland-2, 2019, Acrylic on Canvas
Samar Majumder, Inspiration of Liberation War, 2022, Acrylic on Paper
Kanak Chanpa Chakma, A Golden Day, 2018, Acrylic on Canvas

Right wall
Monsur Ul Karim, Janani 1 (The mother I never knew), 2017, Acrylic on Canvas
Rokeya Sultana, Stardust, 2020, Tempara on canvas
Abdul Mannan, Portrait of Tagore, 2010, Pencil on Paper
Farida Zaman, Memorable, 2021, Acrylic on Canvas
Shahabuddin Ahmed, Tigre du Bengal (Bengal Tiger), 2011, Oil on Canvas
Shahabuddin Ahmed, Bull, 2020, Oil on Canvas
Abdus Shakoor Shah, Story 1, 2017, Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
Sahid Kazi, Crow, 2017, Acrylic on Canvas

Also visible outside the exhibition space
Judy Holding, Kadjimulk's Tree, 2004, powder coated aluminium and steel, 250 x 130 x 51 cm, Deakin University Art Collection. Purchase 2008.

When: 19 July–26 August 2022
Where: Deakin University Art Gallery, Building FA, Melbourne Burwood Campus

The Deakin University Art Gallery is pleased to present Holding in the hand, an exhibition featuring newly commissioned and rarely seen artworks by artists Scott Duncan, Marta Oktaba, Rachel Schenberg, Michael Staniak and Evan Whittington. In an era in which direct touch and proximity to others are avoided; holding onto something precious, being held and sensations of tactility have extra meaning. Holding in the hand explores the ways a new generation of emerging artists consider the hand and the haptic as symbolic sites of interface and communication. It investigates the integration of artistic processes, media and materials creating new forms, meta-languages and hyper-surfaces, to better understand our digital and mediated worlds.

Marta OKTABA
Stuck on the internet 2020
ink on found paper
© and courtesy of the artist

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All works are copyright and courtesy of the artists and their galleries.

From left clockwise around gallery.

Michael STANIAK
HDF_330 2017
casting compound, acrylic on board and steel frame
courtesy of the artist and Station Gallery, Australia

Scott DUNCAN
The Sun sets on the Congress 2022
earthenware, under glaze and glazes
courtesy of the artist and Egg and Dart Gallery, Sydney

Marta OKTABA  
Untitled 2020
Untitled 2020
Dance with me 2017
Untitled 2020
Stuck on the internet 2020
Find the Sun and the Moon 2020
all works are ink on found paper and adhesive
courtesy of the artist

Michael STANIAK
PNG_102 2015
casting compound, digital UV print, acrylic on board and steel frame
courtesy of the artist and Station Gallery, Australia

Evan WHITTINGTON
Purple Hands (Radio Slave on Rinse FM) 2019
two channel digital video without sound
courtesy of the artist

centre:

Scott DUNCAN
David 2020
earthenware, under glaze and glazes
courtesy of the artist and Egg and Dart Gallery, Sydney

Scott DUNCAN
Recycled Prawns 2021
earthenware, under glaze and glazes
courtesy of the artist and Egg and Dart Gallery, Sydney

Rachel SCHENBERG
Observation Station 2022
copper frame, bronze ring, miniature OLED display, HD video (Friday 12pm at Observatory Hill NSW, finger-to-the-wind weathervane, westerly winds/due east, the sky opens up to a day)
courtesy of the artist

centre:

Scott DUNCAN
Saturn 2021
earthenware, under glaze and glazes
courtesy of the artist and Egg and Dart Gallery, Sydney

Michael STANIAK
BMP_031 2015
casting compound, digital UV print, acrylic on board and steel frame
courtesy of the artist and Station Gallery, Australia

Rachel SCHENBERG
a silver’s worth of orange
a pepper’s worth of
(gold)  20193 copper frames, 3 miniature OLED displays, 3 HD videos
courtesy of the artist

When: 24 May – 8 July 2022
Where: Deakin University Art Gallery, Building FA, Melbourne Burwood Campus

The Garbage and the Flowers is a collection of painted plastic artworks spanning over fifteen years by artist Sarah Goffman. Disposable PET bottles and single use plastic packaging have been carefully upcycled by Goffman through her creativity and artistic skill since the early two-thousands. Using the histories of ceramic design and decoration to mimic, copy and transform, Goffman recreates objects of desire from the refuse of consumer culture, creating complex artistic artefacts for our time. Curated by James Lynch, Deakin University.

Sarah Goffman
Plastic Arts 2009
PET plastics, acrylic and enamel paint 
© and courtesy of the artist
photo by Mike Myers

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From left clockwise around the gallery:

I wish this were bigger 2018
cardboard, spray enamel, found PET, permanent marker, adhesive, silicon and metallic paper

Plastic Arts 2005–2022
acrylic, MDF, found PET and various plastics, concrete, spray enamel, permanent marker, water, bamboo, pins, adhesive, resin, agate, glass, costume jewellery, ceramic, and Posca pen

Scholar’s Desk 2005–2022
found PET and various plastics, acrylic, mirror, oil paint, concrete, spray enamel, permanent marker, cotton thread, glass, paper, wood, wire, pencil and plastic chair

Left tall glass cabinet
from top to bottom:

Tahara 2016
found PET and various plastics, adhesive, wire and gemstone

After Daniel 2021
found PET and various plastics

Black and Gold 2012
found PET and various plastics, synthetic polymer paint and spray enamel

Right tall glass cabinet
from top to bottom:

Funeral Urn 2022
Plastic Arts 2005
Plant Pot 2012 found PET and various plastics, hose, ceramic, spray enamel, permanent marker, adhesive and cycad branch

I am a 3D printer 2017
acrylic, found PET and various plastics, spray enamel and adhesive

Smoking Table 2022
faux satin, found PET and various plastics, spray enamel, synthetic polymer paint, permanent marker, acrylic, synthetic leather, branch and granite

When: 5 April–15 May 2022
Where: Deakin University Art Gallery, Building FA, Melbourne Burwood Campus

The Deakin University Art Gallery is pleased to present 'There we were all in one place' – an early career survey exhibition of cross-cultural artist Hayley Millar Baker (Gunditjmara). From 2016 to 2019, Hayley Millar Baker produced five photographic series. Made almost exclusively in black and white, the photographs use historical reappropriation and citation, in tandem with digital editing and archival research, to consider human experiences of time, memory and place. Millar Baker’s layered photographic assemblages affirm Aboriginal experience and culture within the Australian imaginary to form a complex image narrative of place, family, identity and survival. Curated by Stella Rosa McDonald, this project is a UTS Gallery and Art Collection Touring exhibition. The exhibition is accompanied by a unique Learning Experience designed by Wiradjuri curator and educator Emily McDaniel in consultation with the artist.

I'm the Captain Now 2016

inkjet on cotton rag
7 parts, 20 × 20cm (each)

_{Courtesy the artist and Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne}

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Artworks in the exhibition clockwise around the gallery from left.

Toongkateeyt (Tomorrow) 2017

Even if the race is fated to disappear 1
(Peeneeyt Meerreeng: Before, Now, Tomorrow)
inkjet on cotton rag
125 × 85.5cm

_{Deakin University Art Collection
Purchased 2019
Courtesy of Deakin University Art Collection}

Even if the race is fated to disappear 2
(Peeneeyt Meerreeng: Before, Now, Tomorrow)
inkjet on cotton rag
158.5 × 85.5cm

_{Deakin University Art Collection
Purchased 2019
Courtesy of Deakin University Art Collection}

Even if the race is fated to disappear 3
(Peeneeyt Meerreeng: Before, Now, Tomorrow)
inkjet on cotton rag,
120 × 80cm

_{Monash University Collection
Purchased 2018
Courtesy of Monash University Museum of Art}

Even if the race is fated to disappear 7
(Peeneeyt Meerreeng: Before, Now, Tomorrow)
inkjet on cotton rag
145 × 85.5cm

_{Deakin University Art Collection
Purchased 2019
Courtesy of Deakin University Art Collection}

I’m the Captain Now 2016inkjet on cotton rag
7 parts, 20 × 20cm (each)

_{Courtesy the artist and Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne}

Cook Book 2017–19

inkjet on cotton rag (diptych)
16 parts, 55 × 55cm (each)

_{Courtesy the artist and Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne}

A Series of Unwarranted Events 2018

Untitled (So he mixed arsenic with half the flour and a raging thirst was created)
inkjet on cotton rag
80 × 100cm

Untitled (The circumstances are that a whale had come on shore)
inkjet on cotton rag
67 × 67cm

Untitled (The theft of the White men’s sheep)
inkjet on cotton rag
80 × 100cm

Untitled (The best means, of caring for, and dealing with them in the future)
inkjet on cotton rag
80 × 100cm

_{Courtesy the artist and Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne}

The Trees Have No Tongues 2019

Untitled (Flight) inkjet on cotton rag
90 × 68cm

Untitled (Taming) inkjet on cotton rag
90 × 68cm

_{Courtesy the artist and Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne}

When: 15 February–25 March 2022
Where: Deakin University Art Gallery, Building FA, Melbourne Burwood Campus

Over the last two decades Naarm/Melbourne based artist Charlie Sofo has used the habitual activities of daily life as forms of poetic expression. This exhibition at the Deakin University Art Gallery featured Sofo’s video and moving image artworks spanning the last ten years. Tutto, the Italian word for everything, explores Sofo’s interest in the over-production of things, where the dream of an abundant life intersects with the nightmare of endless growth. Focusing on the unexceptional moment, Sofo finds pleasure and humour in ordinary desirous things.

^{Charlie Sofo, 'Undone 2019', digital video still image © Courtesy of the artist and Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney}

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From left clockwise around gallery:

Cats 2011
1 minute 2 seconds

Cracks, faults, fractures 2012
2 minutes 8 seconds

Tracks 2013
1 minute 2 seconds

33 Objects 2013
1 minute 28 seconds

At The Moment 2013
55 seconds

Library 2019
1 minute 9 seconds

Undone 2019
52 seconds

Cinecitta 2021
13 minutes

The whole universe 2021
8 minutes

Grip 2021
3 minutes 4 seconds

All works are digital colour video with sound.

When: 15 November – 15 December 2021
Where: Deakin University Art Gallery, Building FA, Melbourne Burwood Campus

The Deakin Contemporary Small Sculpture Award provides a fascinating snapshot of contemporary sculpture practice in Australia. Congratulations to the 2021 Contemporary Small Sculpture Award winner, Michael Le Grand for his sculpture ‘Transit’.

Learn more about the winner

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Featuring a selection of precious artworks from the City of Whitehorse Art Collection, this exhibition looks at how the local environment and landscapes have changed through time. It includes stunning examples of the work of well-known artists such as Louis Buvelot, E. Phillips Fox, Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts alongside contemporary artists William Breen, David Frazer, Mary Tonkin and Rosalind Atkins. Curated by Jacquie Nichols-Reeves, City of Whitehorse.

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^{Louis BUVELOT, Switzerland/Australia 1814-1888, The Big Tree, Gardiners Creek c.1869, oil on linen. Purchase 2004, City of Whitehorse Art Collection. Image courtesy City of Whitehorse}

When: 14 April–11 June 2021
Where: Deakin University Art Gallery, Building FA, Melbourne Burwood Campus

Held in collaboration with Deakin University Art Gallery, Grounded in Flux is a reflexive exhibition of the NIKERI Institute that celebrates the research strengths and community engagement of this important Deakin Institution. NIKERI (National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation Institute) grew from the 33 year legacy of IKE (Institute of Koorie Education) and continues to be a leader in the teaching of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People through Deakin’s unique community-based learning model. Grounded in Flux includes a celebration of ‘Sovereign Threads’ drawn from the unique collection of Gary Foley, video installations celebrating the Institute, and a sandpit installation by Dr Tyson Yunkaporta.

Curated by Kiri Wicks, Rebecca Gerrett-Magee and Leanne Willis.

^{Ms Kiri Wicks and Dr Jenny Murray Jones, “Connected to Country, a discussion with community”, © image supplied by the artists.}

When: 10 February – 26 March 2021
Where: Deakin University Art Gallery, Building FA, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood VIC 3125

Deakin’s 2021 exhibition offers a re-staging of the original event in Venice, complete with various provocations and documentation of a diverse range of place-based creative responses. The artists were also invited to respond to a new provocation offered by the curators, completed in-situ at the Deakin University Art Gallery. This series of new artistic expressions are juxtaposed with the original works that together look at the importance of collaboration, time-based and site-specific research.

^{Sandy GIBBS, Jondi KEANE  and Patrick POUND
The Spacer 2019
Digital video of public actions in Venice
© and courtesy of the artists and the Public Art Commission}

When: 17 February – 27 March 2020

This exhibition features newly commissioned and rarely seen wall-based and site responsive artworks from artists Julia Gorman, David Harley, Kerrie Poliness and Kenny Pittock. Extending the usual academic reach of the gallery, these ambitious new artworks were conceived and produced with direct student participation and collaboration. The exhibition was shown at both our Melbourne Burwood and CBD gallery and was curated by James Lynch, Deakin University.

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_{Kerrie Poliness
BBKO 2014, SMOBK 2020
Coloured adhesive tape
Dimensions variable
Deakin University Art Gallery
Courtesy of Anna Schwartz Gallery
Image: Polo Jimenez}

When: 30 October–13 December 2019, daily 8.30am–8pm
Where: Deakin University Burwood Library Gallery Space, Foyer Building V, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood VIC 3125
Entry: Free 
Info: +61 3 9244 5344 / artgallery@deakin.edu.au

Now in its third year, the annual student art exhibition features works by students undertaking units 1 and 2 in VCE art at the Presbyterian Ladies’ College. Using a variety of materials, techniques, and processes, students will explore an area of personal interest related to culture and contemporary practices. Deakin University Art Gallery aims to provide opportunities for students undertaking units in VCE art and studio arts to gain theoretical and practical knowledge of the art industry.

Curated by Vanja Radisic, Deakin University.

_{Presbyterian Ladies' College students’ works, details}

When: 30 October–5 December 2019, Tuesday to Friday 10am–4pm during exhibitions (closed public holidays)
Where: Deakin University Art Gallery, Building FA, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood VIC 3125
Entry: Free 
Contact: +61 3 9244 5344  or artgallery@deakin.edu.au 

This exhibition showcases a number of important acquisitions to the Deakin University Art Collection. The University’s Art Collection is constantly changing and evolving but is always reflective of the diverse cultural life at Deakin; brave, accessible, inspiring, stylish, and savvy. This exhibition features treasured examples of leading and emerging Australian painting, sculpture, photo-media, and artist books that have been donated or purchased for the Collection in recent years.

Curated by Leanne Willis and James Lynch, Deakin University.

_{Peta Clancy Fissures in Time # 2017, archival pigment print
image © and courtesy of the artist. Deakin University Art Collection}

When: 24 July–1 September
Where: Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne Burwood Campus 
Building FA, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, VIC 3125
Tuesday to Friday 10am – 4pm

Deakin University Downtown Gallery
Deakin Downtown, Level 12, Tower 2 Collins Square,
727 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3008
Monday to Friday 9am – 5 pm

_{Todd Johnson 3 weeks, 2 days, 4 hours (detail) 2018
digital inkjet print
image © and courtesy of the artist}

Deakin University Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of current Deakin Higher Degree by Research candidates from the fields of Art and Performance. The exhibition showcased the interdisciplinary and experimental approaches to art making and how practice-based research is informed through the everyday. The exhibition included a special performance at Burwood Open Day on Sunday 25 August. Artists include Todd Johnson, Victoria Holessis, Jan Nelson, Kirsten Lyttle, Rachel Hanlon, Maddie Leach and Lynda Roberts. Curated by James Lynch, Dr David Cross and Dr Jondi Keane.

When: 29 May–12 July 2019
Tuesday to Friday 10am–4pm, Open only during exhibitions
Where: Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne Burwood Campus 
Building FA, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, VIC 3125

In its tenth anniversary year this annual acquisitive award and exhibition is organised by the Art Collection and Galleries Unit displaying the work of the 2019 finalists.

Congratulations to the winner of the 2019 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award:

Kate Ellis for ‘Untitled. Poodle Paw 2019’

JUDGING PANEL STATEMENT

In selecting ‘Untitled. Poodle Paw 2019’ by Kate Ellis as the winner the judges felt that the work was beautifully resolved and crafted. The work is a seductive object with a sense of mystery or strangeness, where experimental materials have been refined to articulate the artist’s ideas in a commanding way. The inscribing of the lines on the delicate surface give it a sense of being a ritualistic or sacred object that could have been from hundreds of years ago or could be from the future. It has an inherent sense of melancholy and ambiguity which creates a feeling of magic, inferring a deep understanding of art history combined with an appreciation and exploration of contemporary art. The viewer is challenged to consider the value we place on animals, perhaps one day this may be all we have left to reflect on as we are encouraged to look beyond the surface to the structures that are hidden underneath and consider their meaning.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE WORK

Materials
Beeswax, damar resin, silk thread, acrylic fur, poodle fur

Technique
Initially modelled in a high grade plasticine by hand, the piece is then cast in beeswax to achieve a translucent, 'perfect' wax. Silk thread spirals are then pressed by hand into the surface of the wax. The fur tufts are hand sewn.

Artist statement
The fur of the coiffed poodle has a softness, an immaterial quality, ambiguous boundaries; yet the weightlessness is also suffocating and there is a sense of a heavier gravitational field. Under their coats poodles are dogs, descendants of the wolf. They are wild creatures, manicured for an interior dependent existence.

When: 27 May–12 July
Where: Deakin University Downtown Gallery
Deakin Downtown, Level 12, Tower 2 Collins Square, 727 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3008

WANG Ying, member of China Artists’ Association, Director of Education Calligraphy and Painting Association, China.

Since an early age, WANG Ying has had a passion for painting and calligraphy. He studied Western painting in Beijing Children’s Palace as a teenager and took extra studies in the Fine Arts Department while studying at Capital Normal University; successively studying with famous calligraphers and painters such as Xuetao Wang, Xuguang Zhang and Zhibin Liang.

An accomplished artist, WANG Ying has exhibited his work around the world, including at the UN in New York in 2012 (attended by then United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and his wife); joint exhibitions with Nobel Prize Laureate Sir Konstantin Novoselov in 2015 at Leeds University and in 2018 at Manchester University and most recently a solo exhibition at Huddersfield University, UK, from which Prince Andrew, Duke of York collected a work. WANG Ying is currently the Education Counsellor of the Education Office of the Chinese Consulate General in Melbourne.

This exhibition features watercolour and ink scenes of cities and landscapes he has visited from England to his current home in Melbourne. Familiar scenes are captured in lyrical beauty with fascinating contrasts between the sharp Australian light and the flowing hills of England. All elegantly captured in a blend of traditional Chinese and contemporary Western oeuvre.

^{_{Image: WANG Ying, Impression of Geelong Harbour, 2019, watercolour and ink on paper, 41 x 30 cm © the artist Image courtesy the artist, photography Simon Peter Fox}}

When: 27 May–12 July 2019
Daily 8.30am–8pm, free entry
Where: Deakin University Burwood Library Level 1
Building V, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood VIC 3125

Displaying the winners and other acquisitions from the last ten years of the Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture award, this exhibition provides a fascinating snap shot of contemporary sculpture.

^{Curated by Leanne Willis and Claire Muir, Deakin University.}

8 April–17 May 2019

Baranbinja artist Ralph Rogers explores his cultural and ancestral connections to Brewarrina and the history of aqua culture associated with the area. Stories about the creator Byamee, which are central to the kinship of the Baranbinja and Ngemba people of North West New South Wales, are deeply and vibrantly expressed. The Torch supports current and former Indigenous offenders in Victoria through its Indigenous Arts in Prisons and Community program. The program provides art, cultural and arts vocational support to Indigenous men and women who are greatly over represented in the criminal justice system. Opportunities to create new pathways through art and culture and reduce recidivism are central to the program.

Curated by Kent Morris, The Torch

^{RALPH ROGERS - Byamee, Brewarrina 8 APRIL – 17 MAY 2019 Ralph Rogers Tribute to My Grandmother, Evelyn Crawford (detail) 2018 acrylic on canvas 191 x 137 cm © the artist and courtesy of the Torch}

10 April – 17 May 2019

Whether it be one of the massive stone structures for the largest contemporary land art undertaking in the world, or a large-scale public sculpture in metal, every work has its genesis in an idea which is brought to life in a maquette. This exhibition explores the journey of an artwork from Maquette to Major Sculpture though an exhibition of the work of Andrew Rogers, titled Evolution. This exhibition of maquettes and sculptures will be framed by installation images of his large-scale public works. Andrew Rogers is a leading contemporary Australian artist whose work is exhibited in major galleries across Australia and internationally. His work can be found in prominent public and private collections around the world. Curated by Leanne Willis, Deakin University.

^{ANDREW ROGERS: Evolution From Maquettes to Major Sculptures 1996–2019 10 APRIL – 17 MAY 2019 Andrew Rogers I Am (detail) 2014 stainless steel 65 x 30 x 24 cm © the artist and image courtesy the artist.}

13 February - 29 March 2019

This ambitious exhibition brings together contemporary Australian artists working with mirrors, mirrored surfaces and reflections, transforming three separate galleries across the Deakin University campuses into a series of dizzying spatial encounters.

The project engages increasing audience desire to see images of themselves reflected in exhibitions and also considers how contemporary culture often represents itself as a duplicate or double. Key historical examples will frame the exhibition inviting the viewer to speculate on what they see and how our experiences of representation have changed over time.

Curated by James Lynch, Deakin University.

^{Meng-Yu Yan
New moon cleanse I  2018
framed digital print on Ilford gold mono
35 x 45 cm (framed)
© the artist and courtesy of Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney}

31 October–14 December 2019

This exhibition features the private collection of artist John Nixon, who over the last fifteen years has acquired a ceramic collection of over 500 pieces. This exhibition showcases the incredible work of ceramic artists from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s who were working in and around the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. The exhibition demonstrates how one person’s passion, knowledge and dedication to an art form has transformed the everyday act of collecting into a cultural treasure. This exhibition is the second in a series of exhibitions especially dedicated to the art of collecting. Curated by James Lynch, Deakin University.

_{A selection of works (from left) by Eric Juckert, Charles Wilton,
Artur (Artek) Halpern and McLaren Pottery. Image of selected
works from the collection of John Nixon courtesy of the owner.}

31 OCTOBER – 12 DECEMBER

In its second year, the Annual Student Art Show 2018 features works by students from the Keysborough Secondary College. Students are exploring personal and social identities by engaging with ‘Self-Concept’, a term widely used in contemporary psychology to describe how we perceive and evaluate ourselves, as well as, how we think others perceive us. In this body of work the students, as artists, are responding to the challenge of communicating the deeply personal nature of the ‘self’ to the unknown viewer using only the visual and the sensory as tools. Deakin University Art Gallery aims to provide opportunities for students studying VCE Art and Studio Arts to gain theoretical and practical knowledge of the art industry.

Curated by Vanja Radisic

12 September to 19 October

Deakin is immensely proud to celebrate 40 years since our first students walked into the graduation tent at the Waurn Ponds Campus in Geelong. From humble beginnings to a global university with over 56,000 students and over 230,000 alumni, our University and alumni have developed and prospered together. This exhibition explores the early years of Deakin and the vibrant Waurn Ponds Campus life. It recognises our alumni as the beating heart of the University’s story, to be treasured and acknowledged as integral to the success of Deakin and its positive impact on the world.

_{Image:
Deakin University Waurn Ponds Campus circa 1978
image courtesy of Deakin Archives}

5 September–19 October

In its tenth year, this annual acquisitive award and exhibition is organised by the Art Collection and Galleries Unit at Deakin University. This exhibition of finalists’ works provides a fascinating snap shot of contemporary sculpture.

We are pleased to congratulate Hannah Toohey on winning the 2018 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award for her work titled, Archaea No 4.  Ms Toohey won the $10,000 prize and her sculpture will become part of the Deakin University Art Collection.  The finalists and winners were selected by the judging panel including Lisa Byrne, Director of McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Robyne Latham, practising artist and former Deakin academic and Leanne Willis, Senior Manager of Art Collection and Galleries representing Deakin University.

In selecting Archaea No 4 as the winner the judges felt the work was well executed with a clarity of construction resulting in a fascinating tension between the formal nature of the spheres and the elongated stick like legs.  They also felt it was well resolved as a small sculpture in its own right and enjoyed its poise which contrasted with the whimsical nature of the work and its implied sense of movement.

The accompanying Contemporary Small Sculpture Exhibition features the 40 shortlisted works and is open at the Deakin University Art Gallery until October 19.

Finalists 2018

25 July–7 September 2018

Paint, Painting, Painted is an exhibition featuring emerging Melbourne artists Matthew Dettmer, Sarah Gosling and Laura Skerlj. Working with divergent approaches to painting and painting processes, these artists have been born into an internet era defined by a proliferation of images, big data and social media. Amidst this state of constant distractions, the artists consider how subjectivity manages to impose itself, even when we are not looking. Curated by James Lynch, Deakin University.

^{Matthew Dettmer
Hippy Pocket (detail) 2018
Image courtesy of the artist}

25 July-26 August

In 1818 Mak Sai Ying arrived in Sydney as the first known migrant of Chinese descent – the start of a 200-year journey of the Chinese community in Australia. At this 200 year milestone, the Australian population now comprises over 1.2 million Chinese Australians – a community that has influenced the evolution of contemporary Australian Society and, in the future, will play a pivotal role in the shaping of Australia as a nation, particularly in its engagement with the Asia Pacific region. Deakin University is celebrating this bicentenary by staging an exhibition called Wearing Your Heart On Your Sleeve, a journey about a personal and collective identity reflected through the garments Chinese Australians have worn over the past 200 years in Australia.

^{Wedding portrait of Sam Chung Gon
and Queenie Young in Sydney c1920s
Donated by Frank Chinn, Chinese Museum Collection}

28 May–20 July 2018
Deakin University Downtown Gallery, Level 12, Tower 2 Collins Square
727 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3008

The Torch supports current and former Indigenous Australian offenders in Victoria through its arts in prison and community program. The program provides art, cultural strengthening and arts vocational support to Indigenous Australian inmates and parolees, who are greatly over-represented in the criminal justice system. Opportunities to create new pathways through art and culture, and reduce recidivism are central to the program. This exhibition builds from successful exhibitions at Deakin in 2017 and is curated by artist and The Torch CEO Kent Morris (Barkindji).

^{Robby Wirramanda
Wergaia Wotjobaluk
New Beginnings #2 2017
Acrylic on canvas
61 x 92 cm}

29 June–18 July
Deakin University Burwood Library Gallery Space 
Foyer Building V, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood VIC 3125

Brody Xarhakos started painting as a teenager. With his love of street art, which grew into a stirring passion, he created and explored the realms of painting in the outside world. He studied at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2014 predominately in the medium of painting, and now, more recently, with the moving image, projection and digital soundscapes. This exhibition consists of paintings that were created to be used as activators and discussion points in a peer mentoring workshop with Deakin's Helping Students program coordinators.

Xarhakos questions whether mentoring communities could be the ugly machinery of the new capitalism or whether they are an expression of genuine interplay, reciprocity, exchange and learning? This collection of works explores metaphors created collaboratively and re-imagines them with a gentle energy and openness, gesturing towards further dialogues.

^{Brody Xarhakos
Diamond, 2017
Acrylic on canvas, 122x92cm 
Collection of the artist
Image courtesy of the artist}

30 May–13 July 
Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne Burwood Campus
Building FA, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood VIC 3125

Immersed is a collection of portraits of First Nations women that celebrates resistance against patriarchal colonialism. Each woman presents herself as she wants you to see her. The portraits offer a glimpse of individual resistance, power and beauty.

'First Nations women are over-represented in systems of control. Our lives are treated as an inconvenience to white society. Our existence unsettles white Australia because it is a reminder that First Nations people are still here, that sovereignty was never ceded. Even though we are surrounded by ugliness, we immerse ourselves in the fight for equality and justice. Unashamed and unapologetic, this collection invites you to see First Nations women as we see ourselves.' - Artist statement, from email conversation, January 2018.

^{Boneta-Marie Mabo
Nayuka Gorrie, 2018 (detail)
Image courtesy of the artist}

9 April – 27 June 2018
Deakin University Burwood Library Gallery Space
Foyer Building V, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood VIC 3125

Deakin University joins with other Melbourne galleries to acknowledge the 50th anniversary of the National Gallery of Victoria's inaugural exhibition The Field. The exhibition includes works by George Johnson, Normana Wight, Stephen Bram, John Peart, Graeme Johnson, Robert Rooney, Janet Dawson, Sydney Ball, Wilma Tabacco and Stephen Wickham, along with other non-objective and abstract art from the Collection of Deakin University.

The Centre for Abstract+Non-Objective Art is a new area of specialty for the University Collection.

^{Logo design: Stephen McLaughlan}

9 April – 25 May 2018
Deakin University Downtown Gallery, Level 12, Tower 2 Collins Square
727 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3008

Artist Gosia Wlodarczak's latest project is a series of 31 performances that took place each day throughout December 2017. While dressed up in designer garments selected from her extensive wardrobe collection, Wlodarczak completed various domestic chores around her home, which were in-turn documented by photographer Longin Sarnecki and uploaded onto social media for interaction.

The entire set of 31 photographs will be exhibited as a series of high-resolution archival prints at Deakin University’s Downtown Gallery. Wlodarczak’s project sets out to establish a dialogue between the two phrases: the artist is always working and women's work is never done.

^{Gosia Wlodarczak
Artist Not @(at) Work, 31 Domestic Jobs for December, 2017
Digital photograph archival print on paper
Photo by Longin Sarnecki, courtesy of the artist}

11 April – 18 May 2018
Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne Burwood Campus
Building FA, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood VIC 3125

Printmaking stimulates visualisation and exchange in the activities of Wollongong based artist Lucas Ihlein. Across his work involving socially engaged art, agriculture and environmental management, he expresses an affinity with print media.

This exhibition surveys his printmaking activities focussing on artist-led contexts including Squatspace, Big Fag Press and Teaching & Learning Cinema. The exhibition presents editioned and intervention/performance related artworks highlighting Ihlein’s promotional flair, appreciation for the economies of print and commitment to grassroots change. This exhibition is supported by the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University.

^{Works by Lucas Ihlein and collaborators.
Curated by Jasmin Stephens}

^{Donna Squire
Alecia Bellgrove 2018
Digital photograph
Image courtesy of the artist}

12 February – 29 March 2018
Deakin University Downtown Gallery, Level 12, Tower 2 Collins Square
727 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3008

YOLO is a social media acronym meaning You Only Live Once. Pamela Irving’s ‘YOLO Man’ character started life in her murals at St Kilda’s Luna Park and were most recently shown at the Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics in Chicago, USA.

In this series of original ink drawings and mosaics to be exhibited for the first time in Australia, YOLO Man is depicted carrying a variety of apocalyptic figures on his head, hands and sometimes even his tongue. Often struggling due to the gravitas of those that burden him, YOLO man however manages the task with great optimism.

Irving appropriates imagery from both well-known and obscure
mosaics, drawings and paintings about the apocalypse. YOLO Man is a much loved character of the artist and a great edict to live by.

^{Pamela Irving
Yolo Man & Bruegel's Barrel Bug (detail) 2015
Ink on paper
Image courtesy of the artist}

13 February – 29 March 2018
Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne Burwood Campus
Building FA, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood VIC 3125

View catalogue here

The English tradition of a drawing room was a dedicated space in the house designed to entertain visitors. Historically, a ‘withdrawing’ room was a room to which the owner of the house, family members or distinguished guests could withdraw for privacy to encourage social interaction, play, comedy, story-telling and drama.

The Drawing Room is an exhibition in the form of a series of short
residencies by Australian artists: Anastasia Klose, Euan Heng, Kenny Pittock and Zilverster - Sharon Goodwin and Irena Hanenbergh. The exhibition focuses on the qualities of drawing as a medium of thinking and talking: exploring the intimate, informal, immediate and conversational nature of putting pencil to paper and sharing this with others.

^{Kenny Pittock
Me drawing Phil Jupitas drawing McCubbin 2017
Digital photograph of felt tipped pen on paper
Image courtesy of the artist}

5 February – 9 March 2018
Deakin University Burwood Library Gallery Space
Foyer Building V, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood VIC 3125

Family archives provide a rich source material for artist and current Deakin PhD candidate Ilona Jetmar. Family photographs, stories and cultural objects are the starting point of her creative process becoming re-purposed and recontextualised.

Through her painting practice Jetmar attempts to reconcile and connect with lost heritage whilst revealing the dislocated cultural practices of the Hungarian diaspora. These works look for the hidden element in images that causes us to react – the punctum.

^{Ilona Jetmar, #616 Eszter R 2017
Oil on linen
Image courtesy of the artist}

4 December 2017 – 2 February 2018
Deakin University Downtown Gallery, Level 12, Tower 2 Collins Square
727 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3008

New photomedia from the Deakin University Art Collection 
Kent Morris, Polixeni Papapetrou, Patrick Pound, Zan Wimberley and Anne Zahalka

One reason afterimages occur is from an over exposure to images. When the eye is over stimulated, images are said to be moved to a new area of our cerebral cortex, redoubling the image. Long after the first representation appears, afterimages occur prolonging the effect of the image in our brain. Knowledge of how images function has evolved over time to include social, political, cultural and neurological developments. From theories of the copy and appropriation from the 1970s and 1980s to new discourses around images as digital meta-data, the way images are used, transferred and the ways they transform our experience is a rich subject for contemporary artists.

This exhibition surveys a selection of recent acquisitions to the Deakin University Art Collection. The artists: Kent Morris, Polixeni Papapetrou, Patrick Pound, Zan Wimberley and Anne Zahalka have worked with traditions of photography for some time. Whilst Wimberley and Morris are considered emerging artists, Papapetrou, Pound and Zahalka have been working consistently for over four decades. Imagery taken by a camera, existing pictures and representations are starting points and the raw materials for their various investigations and artistic research. They use methods of remembering and memorializing, appropriation, the archive, collecting, aggregation and the built environment in their approaches to understanding the after effects of images.  Images no longer just depict the world around us but actively now shape and produce the various realities in which we live our lives.

James Lynch
Curator - Art Collection and Galleries
Advancement

1 November – 15 December 2017
Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne Burwood Campus
Building FA, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood VIC 3125

'In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity.' - Malevich

Instigated by artist Stephen L Wickham, The Void Visible. Abstraction & Non-Objective Art is an exhibition with fellow artists and close colleagues Stephen McCarthy, Andrew Christofides and Wilma Tabacco. Featuring important works from this genre the artists will investigate the various legacies and continuities within the practice of Abstraction & Non-Objective Art in the context of contemporary Australian Art.

_{Wilma Tabacco, Night Flight 2008-09
Oil on linen, 152x183cm
Image courtesy of the artist
Photography: Simon Peter Fox}

14 September – 20 October 2017
Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne Burwood Campus
Building FA, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood VIC 3125

Drawing moves between materials like steel, the body and voice in the work of artist Hannah Quinlivan. Working in collaboration with artists, classically-trained vocalists and dancers, Travelling Light explores the notion of adaptation in a time of constant motion. The question of movement seems to haunt our times. Some move freely while others are forced to stand still – creating new types of tension. This exhibition based on a series of dance, movement, sound and sculptural urban interventions developed in Berlin, culminates at the Deakin University Art Gallery at Burwood Campus.

Images and footage from the official opening night on Wednesday 13 September, including a special performance of Transition with vocalists Louise Keast and Shikara Ringdahl, can be found on our Facebook page.

Visit our YouTube page to watch the Deakin Alumni Webinar from 6 September, Travelling Light with Exhibition Artist Hannah Quinlivan.

26 July – 8 September 2017

This exhibition at the Deakin University Art Gallery brings together thirteen artists and current Higher Degree by Research candidates in the fields of Art and Performance within the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin. Co-curated by Professor David Cross, Dr Patrick Pound and James Lynch. This large scale exhibition expands across four locations at Deakin University including the Art Gallery and the main library gallery space at Melbourne's Burwood Campus, the Pop Up gallery at Deakin Downtown and The Project Space at the Geelong Waterfront Campus.

• Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne Burwood Campus
  Building FA, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood VIC 3125
  
  Artists featured: Anindita Banerjee, Jane Bartier, Bindi Cole Chocka, Shane McGrath and Monique Redmond.
• Deakin University Downtown Gallery, Level 12, Tower 2 Collins Square
  727 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3008
  
  Artist featured: Jem Noble.
• Deakin University The Project Space, Geelong Waterfront Campus 
  Corner Cunningham St and Western Beach Rd, Geelong, VIC 3220
  
  Artists featured: Sandy Gibbs, Merinda Kelly, Raffaele Rufo, Amber Smith, Dario Vacirca and Sorcha Wilcox.
• Deakin University Burwood Library Gallery Space
  Foyer Building V, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood VIC 3125
  
  Artist featured: Shelley Jardine

7 June – 14 July 2017
Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne Burwood Campus
Building FA, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood VIC 3125

In its ninth year, this annual acquisitive award and exhibition is organised by the Art Collection and Galleries Unit at Deakin University.

Applications for the award closed on 13 April 2017 and the winner, Melbourne-based artist Richard Stringer, was announced at the launch of the five-week exhibition of finalists' works on Tuesday 6 June.

Deakin Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jane den Hollander, presented Mr Stringer with the $10,000 acquisitive prize for his work titled, House on Fire. The piece will now become part of the Deakin University Art Collection.

Download the media release about the Contemporary Small Sculpture Award winner (PDF, 120.2 KB)

_{Deakin Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jane den Hollander, with the Contemporary Small Sculpture Award winner, Richard Stringer.}

29 May – 14 July 2017
Deakin University Downtown Gallery, Level 12, Tower 2 Collins Square
727 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3008

The Torch supports current and former Indigenous offenders in Victoria through its indigenous Arts in Prisons and Community program.

The program provides art, cultural strengthening and arts vocational support to Indigenous inmates and parolees who are greatly over represented in the criminal justice system.

Opportunities to create new pathways through art and culture and reduce recidivism are central to the program.

_{Namib Mata Mata, Yorta Yorta/Muthi Muthi, Magpie Goose Hunting,
Acrylic on canvas 2016, 131x100 cm}

30 March – 12 May 2017 and 7 June – 14 July 2017

In the 1950s, the wool trade epitomised the Australian way of life. Australia's export economy rode high 'on the sheep's back'. In this captivating exhibition, photojournalist Francis Reiss documents the life and times of a rural enterprise at Burren Burren, near Collarenebri, New South Wales. Enduring images of Rex White and his family, taken in 1951, offer a glimpse of the 30,000 acres and 5000 sheep that symbolise a successful farm at the height of the wool boom in Australia.

_{Francis Reiss, Rex White
The iconic farmer 1951
Re-printed 2013}

26 April – 26 May 2017

Jessie Bullivant, Lauren Burrow, Eugene Carchesio, Laresa Kosloff, Rob Mchaffie, Ian Milliss, Elyse De Valle and Simon Zoric.

Increasingly we are asked to be improving ourselves seemingly 24/7. The pressure to be transforming into something better is constant but for what purpose and what reward? Unproductive Thinking mediates on these ideologies. How do artists engage their time and how does the production of art differ from the incessant push to be always efficient, diligent and productive members of society. Unproductive Thinking features the humorous, poetic and mundane means artists employ to seek out imaginative alternatives.

The exhibition features work by Australia's leading emerging and established artists displayed throughout Deakin University's Burwood campus.

This was a one-time-only opportunity to have a fascinating, intimate and up-close look into the extraordinary, hyper-real sculptures of this very talented Australian artist.

Guest curated by Carly Grace and Michelle Mountain through the Deakin University Museum Studies Alumni Program.

_{Anna Varendorff with Haima Marriott Bouba (detail), 2016
Brass, light and sound, dimensions variable
Photo: Haima Marriott}

8 June – 15 July 2016

In its eighth year, this annual acquisitive award and exhibition is organised by the Art Collection and Galleries Unit at Deakin University. One outstanding entry is awarded $10,000 and becomes part of the Deakin University Art Collection.

Melbourne artist Geoffrey Bartlett was selected from an exceptional field of 305 entries from around the world to receive the 2016 award for his striking work titled Fusion Revisited. 

Previous winners include artists: Kendal Murray 2015, Mikala Dwyer 2014, Michael Sibel 2013, Lisa Roet 2012, Stephen Bird 2011, Robert Hague 2010 and Stephen Benwell 2009.

_{Deakin University Small Sculpture Award (installation view) 2016}

13 April – 27 May 2016

Still in progress... is an exhibition of work by current Deakin University PhD Students enrolled in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. It includes works by artists Sandra Minchin-Delohery, Todd Johnson, Kirsten Lyttle, Danielle McCarthy, Greg Penn, Ron Gallagher, Rachel Hanlon, Louise Morris, Ilona Jetmar, Alison Bennett, Keith MacDonald and Daniela Bertol.

_{Gregg Penn, Free of Internal Dialogue, 2016
Video still
Image courtesy of the artist}

24 February – 31 March 2016

An exhibition of artist books, assemblages, collages and installations that bring to life social histories and questions of identity. The exhibition offers viewers an immersive experience rich in imagery that navigates residues of the past and creates new propositions for Australian identity and historical awareness.

MYTHO POETIC is organised by the Gympie Regional Gallery and toured by Museums & Galleries Queensland. It has been assisted by the Gordon Darling Foundation and the Australian Government through the Ministry for the Arts' Visions of Australia program.

_{Glen Skien, Constellations, 2013
Collage, photo transfer and encaustic on paper, variable size.
Image courtesy of the artist and Museums & Galleries Queensland.}

28 October – 11 December 2015

Where are the Originals? slows down the frantic pace of photography in the modern era, pausing for a breath in our rush to capture every moment by taking an over-the-shoulder look at photography and interrogating it. Amongst other things this exhibition posits the view that once an idea has been stretched, almost to breaking point, it will return inevitably to the original.

Lyssiotis' process of scratching, erasing, sanding and over drawing an existing image is a way of drawing those photographs, which have been made and already reproduced back to their essence… light. So that the immediacy of photography goes arm-in-arm with the meditative nature of drawing.

Based on two series of works, 'Men of Flowers' and '… & Now?' these works look at the challenge of making visible that which the initial photographer has not foreseen, revealing, in the process, what was hidden in the original, with a view, always, to reach for those unexpected levels of poetry (and perhaps humour).

Curated by Leanne Willis

_{Peter Lyssiotis, … & now? III (detail), 2009
Giclee print
Deakin University Art Collection
Photo: Simon Peter Fox}

28 April – 29 May 2015

Found in Translation: Deakin University Art Gallery is part of Gosia Wlodarczak's ongoing Instruction Drawing project. Taking a drawing produced during a residency at the Western Washington University Art Gallery in 2012 as her starting point, Wlodarczak has developed two pictorial alphabets, each letter of the English alphabet represented by a small detail of this drawing.

Using these pictorial alphabets, Wlodarczak has created a series of three site-specific wall drawings, each containing encoded texts. The first has been completed by the artist; the second, by Deakin University Art Gallery staff using a manual provided by the artist, 'Instruction for the Maker'; and the third will be a collaboration with visitors to the exhibition.

Texts selected by the artist and University staff, which relate to project and to the specific context of the University setting, are encoded within two of the drawings, which may be decoded using a set of instructions provided by the artist 'Instruction for the viewer'. Visitors to the exhibition are invited to contribute a word to the project, which the artist will translate into a third wall drawing during a four-day residency from 28 April to 1 May, culminating in a collaborative concrete poem.

Gosia Wlodarczak extends the practice of drawing in performative, interactive and conceptual projects that respond to her direct environment and explore the idea of drawing and language being coded modes of communication.

_{Gosia Wlodarczak, Dust cover Eero Saarinen womb sofa, 2012
Performance with pigment marker, acrylic, stains and marks on canvas.
Deakin University Art Collection
Photo: Longin Sarneci}

18 February – 5 April 2015

George Gittoes: I Witness is the first major survey in Australia of the work of leading Australian artist and filmmaker George Gittoes. Gittoes is a nationally significant and internationally recognised Australian artist best known for creating works in regions of conflict and upheaval around the world including Rwanda, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Known for working in areas of international conflict, here Gittoes sharpens his eye around the moral, ethical and spiritual dimensions of being human.

Curated for Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre by Rod Pattenden, George Gittoes: I Witness presents the major themes explored throughout Gittoes' 40 year career, with a diverse body of work that includes paintings, drawings, printmaking, artist diaries from the fields of war, installation and film.

It is drawn from the artist's and other private collections with many works never having been seen publicly in Australia.

A Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre touring exhibition.

_{George Gitttoes, Night Vision (detail), 1993–1994
Oil on canvas
Photo: Simon Peter Fox}