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2001 Exhibitions and public programs
Nicolette DUANCE Tradition, Profession 2001 3D image of CAD model 8 March - 7 April 2001 TEN10 : Anniversary Objects.
In 2001,the Art Museum is presenting two special exhibitions in celebration of the University of South Australia's tenth anniversary.
The first of these, TEN 10 :anniversary objects recognizes the achievements of architecture and design graduates from UniSA's Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design. Selected graduates of the School were invited to reflect on their practice over the past decade, by developing speculative installations and objects using only two materials; one must be white, the other expressive of the tenth anniversary, tin or aluminium.
The intersection between architecture, interior architecture and industrial design is fertile ground in which to examine material culture at a number of levels of conception and production. However, the exhibition TEN 10: anniversary objects also offers special insights into emerging and maturing practice.
An Art Museum exhibition. Catalogue essays by Rachel Hurst, Dr Michael Tawa and Dr Keith Eggener.
Sue SAXON the tears i cried for you (detail) 1999 35 glass vessels, cork, wax, tears aluminium brackets each 20 x 2 (diameter) cm courtesy the artist
19 April - 26 May 2001 Water Medicine
Water Medicine is an exhibition in which water has been either integral to the making of the artists' works, or has provided a thematic and conceptual frame. The physical, poetic, ritualistic, spiritual and symbolic attributes of water are imaginatively and skillfully pushed in many directions by the eleven participating artists, as they conjure something precious from the most common element.
The preciousness of water and the urgency of its conservation is of increasing visibility in our society. It is now a 'commodity', a source of local, national and international tension, yet, at the same time there is something very plain and ordinary about formless, colourless water. Water cleanses, nourishes, corrodes, slakes, spills, and is the substance of our tears. Before history itself, humans fabricated vessels and methods to contain and control water. What we see reflected in water, timelessly, is an image of ourselves as mortal beings.
A John Curtin Gallery touring exhibition managed by Art on the Move. Catalogue essays by Dr Kevin Murray and Dr David Dolan.
7 June - 14 July 2001
The Child in Contemporary Photography
Telling tales is an exhibition of photographs of children and childhood. The photographers variously recreate memories of childhood, explore childhood through the family album and found images, or create theatrical tableaux which represent more sinister and haunting views of the displaced and dispossessed.
Representations of children are culturally loaded and marked with a symbolic importance that can render them almost as sacred. The child is a symbol of all that is pure, innocent and full of the promise and aspirations invested by contemporary society. While commonly described as 'the best years of one's life', the memory of childhood is laden with a powerful nostalgia, upon which we project our pain, joy and desire.
A Monash University Gallery touring exhibition. Catalogue essay by Anne Marsh.
26 July - 1st September 2001
Orbit
Orbit, the second exhibition organised by the Art Museum to celebrate the University of South Australia's tenth anniversary, considers the historical and contemporary success of one of Australia's foremost and oldest art schools, the South Australian School of Art (SASA). Established in 1851 as the School of Arts, from its earliest days the school has claimed a distinguished reputation for launching artists of quality and influence into long-term 'orbit '.
Orbit features the work of some exemplary SASA educated artists and designers of our time, whose practice and accomplishments have earned them national recognition since graduating, and who have continued to make dynamic contributions to contemporary visual arts practice. The exhibition represents many of the diverse disciplines and philosophies pursued at the School in recent years.
Art schools are exciting places of change. They enjoy a growing, if controversial, cultural influence. They are grappling with an expanding educational brief and new institutional circumstances, while rethinking the once-singular role of preparing artists for their unusual and difficult careers. Strong evidence of community interest in the visual arts, along with the huge capital investments still being made, nationally, in 'top-end' art museum infrastructure, suggest opportunities and a continuing demand for visual arts education. Against this backdrop of significant challenge affecting all Australian art schools, Orbit provides a valuable benchmark of high achievement in fine art and design.
An Art Museum exhibition. Catalogue essay by Professor Ian North.
13 September - 20 October 2001
Home is where the heart is
Home is where the heart ishttp://www.unisa.edu.au/amu/http://www.unisa.edu.au/amu/.examines attitudes of 'belonging' in Australia.
The exhibition focuses on the work of women artists and on work, which revitalizes traditional female craft-forms as the means of exploring current issues of identity, gender, nationality and place. These issues are at the heart of contemporary Australia's continuing quest to renegotiate its relationship with its past and with the place we all call 'home'.
The exhibition and historical material presented in the catalogue show that Australian women have been pioneers in coming to terms with a new land and with the indigenous culture of Australia.
A Centenary of Federation project through the Country Women's Association. Catalogue essay by Mary Eagle.
Art and Land The landscape infuses the psyche of all Australians, and visions of the land have long been projected as fundamental to Australia's national identity. Art & Land explores contemporary views of the landscape in painting, drawing, sculpture and sound by twenty Australian artists. It is not an exhibition about heroic visions of landscape, but rather an exploration of cultural issues around the concept of 'the land', such as history, politics, science, aesthetics and spirituality, and the notion that representation of the land is culturally constructed. A touring exhibition organised by Noosa Regional Gallery on behalf of Asialink. Catalogue essay by Kevin Wilson. |
Nik KARALIS, Woods Bagot 
Tracey MOFFAT 
Hossein & Angela VALAMANESH 
Helen FULLER 
Walala TJAPALTARRI