Art Forum Program
Semester 1 2001
March 2 - May 25
March 2 Monib Mahdavi
Monib Mahdavi is a young graphic designer based in Melbourne . The main axis of Monib's work is typographic which he builds upon with design principles and methadologies geared toward effective visual communication as a cultural, spiritual and business tool. For Art Forum, Monib will be talking about typography and the role it plays in his work, as well as some more holistic views about design and it's role in the bigger picture in terms of creativity.
March
9 David Noonan
A Melbourne based video artist with an international reputation, David Noonan will be talking about his work in general, and recent projects in particular, and will be showing examples of his work.
March 16 Jacky Redgate
Through an intermix of different geometries, specific artworks and literary, scientific and political formations, Jacky Redgate's work shows the mutability of aesthetics, critical interpretation, art history and artistic intention. The work operates on a number of different registers between different fields: photography, painting and sculpture. And it has, since she began exhibiting in the early 1980's, moved across technologies and though traditions.
March 23 Tony Bishop
A figurative sculptor from South Australia, Tony will be teaching at the School of Art at Hobart until April whilst Bob Jenyns is away overseas.
March 30 Martin Walch
Kevin Murray is a writer and artistic director of Craft Victoria. His talk will pose the question: 'Where to the darkroom?' As photography migrates to the screen, what kinds of art practice will take its place in the darkroom? Presently, the darkoom is a gathering place foran assortment of arts, including ceramics, painting, textile artists and photo-atavists. Perhaps the darkroom has a destiny beyond photography.
April 13 MID SEMESTER BREAK
April 20 Adam Page and Eva Herstzch 'The Better Living Programme'
Adam and Eva are Based in Desden and have wokred as a colloborative team since 1997. They will be in Australia as Artists in Residence at Sydney College of the Arts. For Art Forum they will present a number of their projects realised in public spaces. The work is interventionist and draws attention to the repercussions of mass privatisation and standardisation of public space in cities.
April 27 Susan Cohn
Susan Cohn is a Melbourne based craftworker who produces both jewellery and metalwork for commercial production and exhibition. She is one of the most important artists of the present time with an established national and international reputation, and is the only Australian artist to have a piece produced by the Italian design firm Alessi. Her work is the subject of a major survey show organised by the National Gallery of Australia and touring around Australia, including the Plimsoll Gallery at the School of Art at Hobart.
A Norwegian artist, Ole was artist in residence at 200 Gertrude Street (Melbourne) last year, and is continuing to work in Australia towards a major project involving the history and mythology of the Tasmanian Tiger and pursuing that which is extinct. He will be talking about his own practice, from the establishment of his multiple persona approach, which sees him separate the artistic drives within himself into nine artistic personalities, to the establishment of the collaborative Nesstudio.
May 11 Natalie de Briey
Natalie is the Scottish artist in residence for 2001 at the School of Art at Hobart.
May 18 Hossein Valamanesh
Hossein will present an illustrated slide / lecture about his practice as a visual artist. Touching on some of the earlier work he will concentrate on examples of works from the last decade. Some aspects of the talk will deal with his work in public places and its relation to his studio practice. The talk aims to throw some light on the work by talking about ideas, materials and processes that bring the work together.
May 25 Angela Valamanesh
Graduating from SA School of Art ceramics studios in the late 1970's Angela practiced as a potter until 1992 when she returned to full-time post graduate studies in visual art. A year in Glasgow School of Art with support from a Samstag scholarship served to broaden her practice which currently spans crafts and visual arts and includes collaborative projects with Hossein. Angela's presentation will take the form of a slide / talk highlighting her practice and its development.