Semester 2 2001
July 20 - October 12
Donald Fortescue
Lorraine Jenyns
Sally Smart
Julie Rrap
Jšrg Schmeiser
Kit Wise
Frances Borzello
'Art and Land' Speaker
Gretchen Hillhouse
Jeff Malpas
Janet Laurence
Howard Morphy
Donald Fortescue is an Australian born and trained furniture designer-maker and sculptor who is currently the Chair of the Wood/Furniture Program at the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco. He has been an artist in residence at the School of Art through June and July and the resulting exhibition 'Correspondence' is on a the Plimsoll Gallery from July 7 - 22. There will be a closing reception at Plimsoll at 5.30pm on Friday July 20, following Donald's forum lecture. His lecture will cover his development as a furniture designer-maker and sculptor, show some of the work that will be featured in his forthcoming solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and give some background to the conceptualisation and development of the Plimsoll exhibition 'Correspondence'..
July
27 Lorraine Jenyns
Lorraine Jenyns has recently returned from a period of study leave in Mexico and Spain, where she was artist in residence at the Australia CouncilÕs Barcelona studio for three months. She will talk about the Spanish baroque style which was introduced into the ÔNew WorldÕ, in particular Mexico, in the 18th Century, where it was transformed into the extreme ÔUltra-BaroqueÕ style by Indian artisans. She will also discuss processional religious Art in both Mexico and Spain.
A Melbourne based painter, Sally will be discussing her work, which draws heavily on traditional women's domestic crafts, and which resembles collages. She will be placing particular emphasis on the last five year's series of work titled- The Unhomely body, Femmage Shadows and Symptoms , Parameters Head : A La Ronde and Design Therapy. Sally Smart's work is included in Figure-it, at the School of Art at Hobart's Plimsoll Gallery.
August 10 Julie Rrap - Photography: Myth-maker and Myth-breaker
For many years Julie Rrap has utilised photography as a deconstructive tool; a means to manipulate and challenge dominant narratives. She employs any number of photographic devices and combines photography with other mediums. ' "I am less concerned with photographyÕs essential truthfulness than with its appearance of truth. ItÕs ability to simply provide information Ð true or false, creates an ambiguity of meaning with many conceptual possibilitiesÉ In recent times I have spoken of my practice as photo-informed. This is done to stress that critical dialogues developed within photographic practice have informed much of my thinking. Photography is a useful tool as a medium that positions itself between things: Fine Art and popular culture; the material and the technological; the real and the imaginary. It has the ability to both construct and deconstruct narrative structures. It is the master of deceptive facts and believable fictions. Photography, therefore, occupies a powerful position within contemporary visual culture as both myth-maker and myth-breaker. " Julie Rrap's work is included in Figure-it at the Plimsoll Gallery.
August 17 Jörg Schmeiser
After art studies and some teaching in Hamburg and Kyoto, Jörg Schmeisser visited Australia first in 1976. He was Head of Printmaking at the Canberra School of Art from 1978 to 1997. Residencies and fellowships took him to Jerusalem, Princeton and Hangzhou, recent travels to Angkor and Antarctica. He will be at the school of Art at Hobart for several weeks of Semester 2 as a visiting lecturer in the Printmaking department. For his Art Forum talk; ask that your way be long - drawing and etching elsewhere, Jörg will discuss the 'elsewhere' part of his work.
August 24 Kit Wise
Kit Wise studied Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, and Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London. In 2001 he travelled to New York and Australia en route to Egypt as a Boise Scholar, studying Ômonumental image makingÕ. He has exhibited widely in Europe and his interests include the relationships between sculpture and image making, sculpture and architecture, fresco painting, digital imaging and literary theory. He will talk about developments in his practice working in London in the late 1990s, Rome at the turn of the Millennium, and Australia at the beginning of the 21st century.
August 31 Frances Borzello
Frances Borzello is a writer interested in the social history of art, who has written a number of books and articles on the role of women in art, including The Artist's Model, Junction Books, 1982, Women Artists: A Graphic Guide, Camden Press, 1986 Seeing Ourselves: Women 's Self-portraits, Thames & Hudson, 1988, and A World of Our Own: Women as Artists, Thames & Hudson,2000. She will be in Hobart to take part in the Portrait and Place symposium, organised by the University of Tasmania in conjunction with the National Portrait Gallery. The symposium takes place on September 1st and coincides with the exhibition Figure It, curated by Jonathon Holmes, at the Plimsoll Gallery.
September 7 Speaker from 'Art and Land'
Speaker from Art & Land (showing at Plimsoll Gallery) speaker to be confirmed.
September 14 Gretchen Hillhouse
Gretchen Hillhouse is a sculptor living in regional Victoria who creates object-based work, predominantly in ceramics, metals and glass, and installations. In her talk titled "The Death of Seraphina - the life of an arts worker", Gretchen will discuss her work and her experience as an arts worker in community cultural development projects.
September 21 Jeff Malpas - Putting Things in Place
"All that is, is in place" says the Greek philosopher Archytus, yet place is also often overlooked or forgotten. We talk often about a 'sense of place' and yet seldom do we reflect on what this mean. So why and how does place matter? And what sense are we to attach to place? This talk will briefly explore some of the history of place while also setting out an account of the centrality of place even in the face of its forgetting. Place will emerge as fundamental to who and what we are, as well as to the possibility of the disclosure of what we are, in the experience of art as well as of the activity of thinking. Jeff Malpas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania where he is also Head of the School of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics.
MID SEMESTER BREAK - NO FORUM
Janet Laurence is a Sydney based installation artist whose work often echoes the structures and materials of architecture, but which relies on a more ephemeral and alchemical sensibility. . She has been involved in a number of high profile public art commissions including the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and the award winning Edge of the Trees at the Museum of Sydney.
October 12 Howard Morphy
Howard Morphy is an anthropologist whose interests range widly from art, aesthetics and landscape to social organisation and human adaptation. He has recently published Aboriginal Art (Phaidon Press) and with Marcus Banks, edited the volume RethinkingVisual Anthropology (Yale). He was curator of Anthropology at the Pitt Rivers Museum,Oxford University and has curated many exhibitions including 'Australia in Oxford' and 'In place (out of time)' at MOMA Oxford. He is adjunct curator of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection in the University of Virginia. He is presently researching the biography of the artist Narritjin Maymuru and with Pip Deveson curating 'Yingapungapu' for the new Museum of Australia. His major theoretical interests are the nature of form and the possibility of cross-cultural categories.
End of University Year - No Forum