More highlights

^^^ what a dude!









^^^ mmm cosy and funky
















and some more deciphering:



mmmmmm......but waht does it all meant???

"AHUH! I FOUND IT"

Art & Design Graduand Show 2009

The creative works of over 250 final year Design and Fine Arts undergraduate and honours students from Monash University's Faculty of Art and Design will feature in the annual Graduand Student Exhibition, which will be officially launched on Friday 20th November, 2009.

The of work showcased in this years exhibition derives from the disciplines of interior architecture (interior design); industrial design (product design); visual communication (graphic design); multimedia and digital arts, sculpture, metals and jewellery, painting, photomedia, printmedia and glass.

As you walk about this amazing exhibition/show you suddenly realize that you are surrounded by art, the Faculty of art & design was done in such a way that every where you looked there was art, it was quite clever. However finding your way around was “interesting” to say the least! However the quality of the work was of a high standard.

The art piece that I found particularly interesting was a work done by “Amber Harris” called “E+mc2”. Impressed by the vibrant colour, how it was situated on the wall, and how it communicated the idea (how interpreted anyway) that although every action has
a reaction and most things can be explained there is almost always something in every subject/theory/question (almost like the ever ongoing debate about creation vs evolution) that can not be explained and understood – I see this through the design in which amber has laid out most of the colour paper squares in a geometric which starts as an arbitrary layout as it has come out of the bin, however whist this organization is going on you see to the right, a straight pink line of the same subject matter witch continues from the bin all the way round the wall continuing in a straight line from bin to finish .

Whist the art and shot movie stuff was very well done, the multimedia and visual communication (uni talk for graphic design) was a bit lack luster – the MM didn’t have the wow factor and the Graphic design was a bit average, I would have liked to see more typography as the advertising alluded too.

All in all I found it too be a good exhibition to good too, well done Monash
Pretty good for a uni lol



some of the highlights in our epic journey

deciphering the code a t the train station:



Some highlight of the exhibition:
needless to say i was very impressed








some other highlights...




wait for it....

Transformation - J Space

The Transformation exhibition is all to do with the subject of transformation. The fellow students work made up of sculpture/prints/and digital work. The use of all mediums helps to make the space come alive with the interesting pieces.

“The transformation” can be seen though the digital mediums more (personally),. The through the use of digital mediums the artists are able to put them selfs in to “transformation” situations with the help of green screens and the editing software. From the transforation angle the exhibition has much merit, However to your average passer by some of the work I found, I failed to understand and appreciate.

The statement was made at this exhibition that “digital art is not art” to which the speaker gave her rebuttal. With the overtone being that digital art is a new window to express passion for the arts. While I agree with this I also have my reservations.

Digital art is more then just whacking some images off the net and using as many of the different Photoshop filters as you can to create an “artwork” - this in itself has already been done, and done and done. “Real” digital requires as much in not more effort then that of traditional artwork, :ie if you are to do a collage or build an artwork around (in layers) a central image it MUST be the right dpi and quality, or at least used in a way that masked its lack thereof. Photoshop or image manipulation filters must be used with a purpose or to create a certain atmosphere. With out going into detail digital artwork is very much acceptable ONLY when it is done properly!

If this is not the case the work can be cheapened or look uneducated in its execution. Fortunately this will on be apparent those who are involved in the digital arts industry or who appreciate image clarity. You can have the best conceptual idea however if it isn’t properly executed it can look cheap. Unfortunately that the impression I got when viewing some of the work at the transformation exhibition.

Not all the work I view had this effect, there where some well developed digital art there of a very high standard with no pixelaisation or negative distortion. The sculptor was very interesting also. All in all I enjoyed the exhibition, it was an opportunity to see the depth, understanding and the thought process of my fellow students, which is always a good experience. Below are some example of very well executed digital art work:


Mireille Beaufremez - cubist face

Annie Watkins - Blue Night

Yvone Picot - Foxes in the Chook House

Walker st gallery - Peter Biram & Peter Rowe

Peter Rowe
Recent works on paper
Peter combines collage, and various media to explore colour, space and energy. Torn fragments from a range of photographic images are re-constructed into a surreal landscape comprising a series of layers.

Peter Biram
Environmental reflections with undertones of possible disaster
Peter investigates the fine balance that exists in the natural environment, the Order & Chaos found within nature and the balance of power shifting between the two states.

I found peter Biram work to be vibrant and alive! I quite enjoyed this work because of the life about it, the loud colours the chaotic line work and brush strokes. This brush work coupled with sections of solid dot work not dissimilar to our indigenous artists, however not so similar that it would cause upset. The dot work considered there in was done freehand but straight enough that one could easily be misled into thing that it was done by a machine or computer

I enjoyed his work on two different level or design element & principals, in that I enjoyed both the colour and the subject matter. Witch is somewhat of a rarity for me. I found that his work would look just as good in both black & white and in colour! Not only this but it had amazing texture flowing through it, another aspect that is very high on my aesthetic list. I was most impressed Biram’s work!

Peter Rowe on the other hand, I failed to grasp the aesthetics of his work I found them to be the very opposite of Peter Biram’s work - that being dull and life less, and very two dimensional.
Which was in shier contrast having the art work in such close proximity that made even more obvious the difference between the two! I know that, that was the very intention of the curator, the contrast of the two peters having completely opposites styles. The only thing that I found that this achieved is that it made one artist work better (Biram) and one artist look worse (Rowe).

Having said all of the above I very much enjoyed the view of both works despite my disagreement with the curators layout, Had I arranged the space I would have had Biram’s work set up with another artist with a style similar to that or Piet Mondrian, there couldn’t be a greater contrast!