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.

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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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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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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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Cathy Hayward, untitled

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In an earlier post I mentioned the Kodak Salon at the Centre for Contemporary Photography. The images here are a selection of works by students in the visual arts diploma at Epping campus who  major in Photo Media (and Printmaking). I counted twelve of their prints at the CCP.

Photo Media students try out a huge variety of techniques and mediums at Epping but gradually direct their energies toward the kind of work they want to continue with after the course. That might be art or commercial, or it may feed into another interest such as painting or printmaking. A lot of graduates also go on to further study in other TAFE courses or university.

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Bernadette Boundy, Angles

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Sally D’Orsogna, Sunday 4pm

Margot Sharman, Joanne

Sue Lock, Reflection

Dania Chaarani, untitled

Interesting blog site with pencil sculptures.  View blog

Hand Held is an object and artist book gallery with a collection of books, zines, posters, postcards, paper arts and eclectic objects. Hand Held is also an exhibition/installation space available to artists for solo or small group shows and installations.