Calendar: December 2014

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post last updated: 5th December

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RMIT student work

While you’re at RMIT visiting ‘Hey Handsome‘ and ‘Greater Than, Less Than‘, make sure you make a quick visit to the basement level of Building 2 to see the student work in the cabinet.

RMIT student cabinet

This is the closest thing to a 1st and 2nd year exhibition we’ll see this year … yes, much sad face.

 

RMIT graduates ‘Greater Than, Less Than’ @ RMIT

You’d be forgiven for not knowing about this exhibition … graduates of RMIT Object-based Practice Gold & Silversmithing are showing some of their work at RMIT Building 2 (level 2, left at the top of the stairs).

They’ve titled the show ‘Greater Than, Less Than‘ and are using the >< signs in the catalogue  … the mathematician in me loves this.

photograph taken with permission

Participating artists are:

• Corin Adams, Cecilia Casillas, Rossmore Childs
• Brooke Everett, Phoebe Harkness, Henry Hazeldine
• Ada Hodgson [website], Vicky Kanellopoulos, Christopher Lee
• Amanda Lo, Tian Lu, Stephanie Martin
• Zeffarniah Montgomery, Jenna O’Brien, Mirinda Oosten (tumblr)
• Natasha Sutila, Julia Tran

I walked away with my works lists scribbled all over, highlighting the pieces I liked.

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Again, I fear my “liked” list would just be a repeat of the artist listing … but I’ll try to keep to a top three:

• Jenna O’Brien’s enameled neckpieces ‘Hyde #1‘ and ‘Jekyll #1‘ are fantastic, and what marvellous feel for colour
• Natasha Sutila’s ‘Composition III‘, an arrangement of painted pins on the wall, is clever and arresting
• Rossmore Childs’s smithed objects pleased me (as smithed objects do!)
• Mirinda Oosten’s ring group is displayed in an especially imaginative manner (below)
  

  photograph taken with permission

• you’ll notice I failed to keep to just three ….

Please be sure to show your support to students and visit.

‘Great Than, Less Than‘ will be at RMIT Building 2 until 5th December 2014.

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2013: ‘Good+as+Gold’  @ fortyfive downstairs

2012: ‘As Above, So Below‘ @ Victorian Artists’ Society

2011: ‘It was like a Fever‘ @ No Vacancy Gallery

2010: ‘Bell Weather‘ @ 1000 £ Bend

2009: ‘Cornucopia‘ @ Guildford Lane Gallery

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RMIT Honours ‘Hey Handsome’ @ First Site Gallery

This is a great show! You simply must pop into RMIT First Site Gallery to see ‘Hey Handsome‘, the exhibition for RMIT Honours students from Object-based Practice, Gold & Silversmithing and Ceramics (phew, still a mouthful).

photograph taken with permission

Participating artists are:

• Sue Buchanan, Pamela Chan, Jia Jia Ji Chen
• Katie Collins, Allona Goren, Kate Jones
• Chris Massey, Lindy McSwan, Thomas O’Hara
• Jana Roman, Lesley Walsh, Kate Wischusen
• Michael Wong, Xuelin Wong

photograph taken with permission

I happened to coincide my visit, quite accidentally mind, with the visit of a Fresh! judge accompanied by RMIT staff. It was interesting to overhear some of the conversation about the work; I do like to hear the perspective of those with a more experienced eye and insight into the actual making of the pieces.

It was all quite gorgeous … if I was to list those I liked I’d probably just be rewriting the ‘participating artists’ listing.

Though if I was forced to choose just three … erm …

• Lindy McSwan’s collection stopped me in my tracks
  

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• Kate Jones’s massive ceramic objects are amazing (centre in below image)
  

  photograph taken with permission

• oh please don’t make me … there are so many to like!

‘Hey Handsome‘ is at First Site Gallery until 5th December 2014.

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Update (28th November): make sure you check out the First Site Event facebook page for opening night photographs

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