Kauai Civil Defense Agency Presentation

April 2015:

It was great to meet with Elton Ushio, (Civil Defense Manager) and the generous people at the KCDA - Hawaii.

Kauai: Hanalei Bay.

ABC Interview

An interview to support 'synthetica' at Wangaratta Art Gallery exhibtion and floor talk.

Link to interview

Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre

It has been a wonderful opportunity to have the support and guidance from the insightful staff at the JATWC. The generous information they provide our region is humbling.

 February 2015.

Latrobe University Art Collection

'Conceal' and 'Reveal' (charcoal drawings - 200 X 100cm, 2013) have been acquired by the La Trobe University Museum of Art. The La Trobe University Art Collection is considered a major public art collection, comprising post war and contemporary Australian art works. The collection covers most media and periods of Australian art.

Bendigo Art Gallery

I have been selected as a finalist for the 2014 Paul Guest Drawing prize.

The Paul Guest Prize is a non-acquisitive cash prize of $12,000 which is held every two years, highlighting contemporary drawing practice in Australia. The Prize was initiated by former Family Court Judge, the Honourable Paul Guest QC and encourages artists from across Australia to engage with the important medium of drawing and to create challenging and unique art works.

2014 Stuart Black Travelling Scholarship Award.

I have been awarded the 2014 Stuart Black travelling scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to enable a graduate from the Victorian College of the Arts (school of art), who specialises in drawing, to undertake travel overseas.

I am particularly interested in further exploring the slippage between representations and experience of environments, from virtual to the tangible, especially in representing the catastrophic. 

I wish to investigate the possibility of working with communities on the Indonesian archipelago to respond to issues surrounding rising sea levels and its effects and causation.

Virtual + Tangible

'Simulant' (Synthetic polymer) and 'Stages of descent' (Charcoal on paper) explores the transfer of digitally generated imagery from screen to the tangible.

Virtual <<<<  >>>> Tangible

South Korea - POSCO museum - 2014

Vertigo - Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Taipei

'To create a sense of disorder and chaos within the exhibition space'. The curator - Claire Watson selected works that reflect this tension between control and movement.

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2014-05-09/australian-exhibition-brings-vertigo-to-asia/1308536

Perception of Space

Glen Eira City Council Gallery
16th May - 15th June 2014

Blurring the notion of private and public, this exhibition showcases major art works by leading and emerging Australian and international artists from the Justin Art Collection, developed with the vision of Melbourne architect Charles Justin who with his wife Leah share a desire to make their art collection accessible to the wider community.
Curated by Diane Soumilas, the exhibition provides a fascinating insight into the Justin Collection, developed around a collecting theme that broadly addresses perceptions of space in contemporary practice, geometric abstraction, minimalism, architectural and fractal patterning, urban spaces and the virtual. Contemporary video, digital prints, painting, photography, sculpture and drawing.

Residency - Bandung Institute of Technology

Confirmed for August/September 2014 Residency program. 

ITB Institut Teknologi Bandung, Wesy Java - Indonesia

Established in 1920, ITB is the oldest technology-oriented university in Indonesia.

Howard Arkley Award NotFair 2014

Beat magazine interview

Artist profile (BEAT magazine) May-June 2014.

Perceptions of Space

Justin Collection - Glen Eira City Council Gallery

16 May–15 June 2014

Blurring the notion of private and public, this exhibition showcases major art works from the Justin Collection by Australian and international artists. The Justin Collection was developed with the vision of Melbourne architect Charles Justin who with his wife Leah share a desire to make their art collection accessible to the wider community.

Curated by Diane Soumilas, the exhibition provides a fascinating insight into the Justin Collection, which has developed around a collecting theme that broadly addresses perceptions of space in contemporary practice, geometric abstraction, architectural and fractal patterning, urban spaces and the virtual.

'Vertigo' opens tonight at MOCA Taipei!

Asialink touring exhibition

'Surge' - Plymouth College of Art 2014

'Surge', a group exhibition about contemporary drawing and mark making at the Plymouth College of Art - PCA. The exhibition will run from 17 March until 12 April 2014.

Information

Vertigo, an exhibition curated by Claire Anna Watson

 Exhibition Essay

ABC - 'The world' - Vertigo

The 'Vertigo' Asialink/BLINDSIDE touring exhibition has arrived in Indonesia. Kesha West from the ABC did a nice profile on the exhibition including some interviews with the artists.

Exhibition dates and venues:

Indonesia  |  20 March – 15 April 2014  |  Galeri Soemardja – Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung

Taiwan  |  9 May – 8 June 2014  |  Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei

South Korea  |  August 2014  |  POSCO Art Gallery, Seoul

Vertigo, an Asialink / BLINDSIDE  touring exhibition curated by Claire Anna Watson, presents works by ten of Australia’s most cutting edge contemporary artists: Boe-lin Bastian, Cate Consandine, Simon Finn, Justine Khamara, Bonnie Lane, Kristin McIver, Kiron Robinson, Tania Smith, Kate Shaw and Alice Wormald.
The artists interrogate contemporary life, exploring the fracture, chaos and dislocation that arises in the human condition and in a world which is imbued with flux and change. The experience of dizziness and a loss of perspective are explored within a world that is gripped by an acceleration of time and pace.
Presenting sculptural works, painting, neon, collage, drawing and video, the artists disrupt the ordinariness that can pervade life, building new narratives of human experience. By conveying feelings of anxiety and humour, or by using absurd gestures, the artists in Vertigo attempt to make sense of the world around them, with dizzying effects.

Exhibition catalogue downloadable here

Records of matter in motion and responses to changing material states are explored in this exhibition which discusses drawing and mark making through an examination of the practice of three contemporary artists; Simon Finn, Ruth Simons and Jayne Wilton.
In Surge, the concept of ‘the line’ and the dominant place that drawing holds in each selected artist’s practice will be discussed through considering the impact of drawing in the process of making digital, photographic and sculptural work, whilst acknowledging the potency of the unique and fragile hand drawn mark on paper.
The use of traditional drawing techniques and materials will be contrasted with processes which animate drawings, document drawing, or become three-dimensional drawings.