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The Samstag Alumni

The 2005 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships

Mikala Dwyer | Michael Graeve | Michael Kutschbach | Viveka Marksjo |  Edward Wright | Jemima Wyman |

The great shadow of Modernism casts itself across all these works, as it casts itself over everything else. It is quite inescapable. Here, the phenomenon of Modernism is both revered - as is evident in the artists' use of materials, tools and techniques that carry an aura of sleek modernity - and decried......Modernism is (or was) a hydra-headed monster and these artists, like most of those who set out to escape it, end up by paying it homage. It is, after all, the only reference point we have, for better or for worse, and we construct Modernism in a multitude of ways, each according to our own needs.

Peter Timms
from his Samstag catalogue essay;
Art in an Age of Anxiety

 

Michael Kutschbach
Born 1975, Melbourne, Victoria
2005 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship
MFA, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK
2004 Master of Visual Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide
1996 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1992 Advanced Certificate of Art and Design, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne

 

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