After-life of modernist abstraction

An investigation of the consequences of pluralism for abstract painting. A central theme examines the possibilities for contemporary abstraction to question its own condition and history. The theoretical model of after-life forms facillitates an understanding of modes of abstraction which recombine unresolved, syncretic forms and address domains excluded by modernism.

House for Heraclitus

Notions of Australian identity are still being constructed. In landscape painting, problematic differences of possession, ownership, spirituality and ethnicity are frequently highlighted against perceptions of what landscape looks like and how we might begin to imagine our relationships to where we live. This thesis has explored strategies employed in landscape construction. It has involved establishing connections between landscape painting and alternate disciplines that investigate landscape values, many of which aspire to the successful habitation of our environments into the future.

Home sweet home

This exhibition curated by Deborah walker, presented themes that contributed to the discussion of the connection between philosophy and the visual arts. 

The place

The place is a solo exhibition of acrylic paitings by painter John Forrest, which  represents a story of the place of his childhood in Werribee South in the 1950s. The exhibition featured approximately 80 paintings, including Darker than water, Prayer bridge, Campbells Cove, Good trick Caesar, Goodbye Pete, and Dog days.

Feminine hero body project

Working within painting's conventions, yet breaking from the tradition of rendering the female form according to social codes, allows the affect of everyday experiences to enter the activity of painting. This enables reading and interpretation of artwork that is not confined to social or cultural stereotypes from which feminine identity is often formed.

Raw materials and process chemical recovery in industrial wastewater pollution control

This article illustrates the different methods employed to recover raw materials and process chemicals in various industries. Although only a few industries such as car painting, metal cutting, electroplating, textile, abattoir and pesticide formulation have been illustrated in case studies, almost all the industries can recover raw materials and process chemicals from their waste streams. The case studies show that the investments on new processes or systems used to recover raw materials and process chemicals have a short payback period and hence bring huge savings to those industries. Thus, each industry should try to recover raw material and process chemicals from waste streams.

Dalek in landscape

The work generates theoretical connections between art history, science - empirical experience,and popular culture. Landscape is used as a medium and process to explore these connections. - landscape appreciation and its origins - the coloniser within the landscape (while landscape seems to be complicit with the colonising force, the land itself often underminds it) - landscape and coloniser as cyborg (an organic core with a 'man-made' chassis).

Untitled : live cinema performance

Over the last 30 years Melbourne-based film-maker, writer and academic Dirk de Bruyn has made numerous experimental, documentary and animation films and videos, continuing to maintain a no-budget, independent, self-funded focus for much of his work. De Bruyns distinctive style entails cut-up collages that draw on animation, found footage and fragments of dialogue - dyeing, painting, incising and stencilling the film strip. Live De Bruyn’s anarchic multi projection performances can involve performance, freeform vocal workouts and De Bruyn, ‘bent over and mouthing into a microphone like a demented seagull, totally involved in the relentlessly unravelling collage of home-processed footage’.Penny Webb. Ian Helliwell provided a live electronic soundtrack.