Portrait of Julia

Margot Sharman, a second year Epping student, has just been awarded the New North student photography prize for 2010. New North is the gallery in Melbourne specializing in photography. Margot’s photograph, Portrait of Julia, was given the prize for “… a strong and memorable image of womanhood combined with the innovative use of solarization in the photographic process…”

The prize Margot receives is a $1600 Canon inkjet printer, $500 worth of framing, and an exhibition at the gallery.

The Darebin Community and Kite Festival

Expressions of Interest are sought from artists to: design, create, install and remove one or more interactive ephemeral visual art works during the Darebin and Community Kite Festival on Sunday 27th February 2011. The Darebin Community and Kite Festival is an annual event attracting approximately 40,000 each year. Please find attached an Artists Brief for ParkART at the 2011 Darebin Community and Kite Festival. The festival will be held at Edwardes Lake Park, Reservoir on Sunday 27th February 2011 and as in previous years ParkART will be a feature of the event. The commission is $3000.

Artist’s Brief
Conditions of Engagement

For further information please contact Craig Rogers.

Applications close Wednesday 22nd December 2010.

Late submissions will not be accepted.
Craig Rogers Festivals and Cultural Events Coordinator
Phone: (03) 8470 8211 Mobile: 0419 764 107
Email: craig.rogers@darebin.vic.gov.au

The Advanced Diploma of Creative Product Development.

Interviews for the “The Advanced Diploma of Creative Product Development” will be on Wednesday 10th November.

For interview time and other details please ring 9269 1431.

This is a practical, studio based course where students are encouraged to demonstrate initiative and assume responsibility for the development of their own creative product i.e. photographs, illustrations, paintings etc.  This development is supported by a mentoring program and dynamic group tutorials.

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Click here to view the flexible timetable indicating 2 days of ‘Open Studio Access’.

Recruitment for New Design Graduates

This seminar will benefit new design graduates interested in hearing from others who can offer advice about stepping out into the design world.
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Free bookings
RSVP by Monday 18 October 2010.

Please direct further enquiries to David McLachlan on +61 3 9925 4195 or events@designvic.com
Bookings essential.

To read about the speakers and to register your attendance, please book online.

Seminar details
Wednesday 20 October 2010
6.00 pm to 8.00 pm
Registration: 5.45 pm
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
Federation Square, Melbourne

BAUHAUS GRAPHICS

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I have set up a new blog to present my collection of Bauhaus posters. It’s at Bauhaus Graphics.

The Bauhaus was a German design school that ran for only 14 years, before being closed by the Nazis in 1933. In that short time, it helped to revolutionise design and caused a complete change in the way art and design is taught. We are still feeling its effects.

The posters and printed ephemera I have collected comes from the schools and museums in Germany where the Bauhaus idea is having a revival. The material in the blog is recent design work that has been part of the revival – exhibition posters, books, brochures even postage stamps. They show how the original Constructivist ideas of the 1920s have been filtered through more recent design styles.

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POSTERS

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In place of the usual student works on display at Epping, I’ve put up a selection of art posters I brought back from overseas in May. These come from Vienna and from the Bauhaus in Germnany. Since Epping has a Photo Media stream, the posters feature photography in their layouts.

The one above called Kontraversen is for an exhibition I saw at the Kunst Haus Wien (Art House Vienna). The exhibition was about photographs that had caused public controversies upon their publication, a great idea for a show especially since the wall labels explained what each controversy was. The poster image shows a priest and nun kissing (they were actors) and was part of the famous/infamous Bennetton campaigns of the early 1990s.

I’m working on a full exhibition of just Bauhaus posters, to be shown at the Grenadi School of Design in the city. For more on this, see my photography blog at gregneville.wordpress.com/

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New York photography in Vienna

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Bauhaus photography from about 1930

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CYANOTYPE WORKSHOP

Julia Manly triumphantly holds up her finished Cyanotype print.

.One of photography’s lesser known stories is the wonderful Cyanotype process. Invented in the early 1800s, it has a special distinction because it was favoured by Anna Atkins who is considered to be the first ever female photographer. The technique used to be called Blueprinting and was used for architects’ plans for many decades. Paper is coated with bizarre chemicals (which I won’t go into!) and exposed to sunlight with objects placed on top. After several minutes, the paper is washed in water and a blue image of the object appears. Magic.

Last week, second year Photo Media students from the Epping visual arts course made Cyanotypes in a special workshop at MREAM artist studios in Maribyrnong. NMIT staff member Karenne Rees, who is an expert in this process, took the students to her studio at MREAM and they spent the afternoon making prints.

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Jason Boag washes a print while Janelle Miles looks on.

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The finished results hang up to dry.

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