2009 Guest Speakers

Friday May 29
  Arts Northern Rivers - Visual Arts Speed Dating
  Kathy Cleland - New Media
  Djon Mundine - Beyond Black & White
  Gallery Directors - Art and Money

Saturday May 30
 Tristan Sharp - AGNSW ArtExpress
 James Guppy - Private Dreams & Nightmares
 Julie Rrap - Multiple Bodies
 Fiona Foley - Bearing Witness
 Patricia Piccinini - Nature & Technology
 Hossein Valamanesh - Ideas & Connections
 John McDonald - Art of Australia sponsored by Byron Bay Writers festival

Schools program Friday May 29
  Wendy Ramsay - Introduction
  Dr Craig Judd - Everybody Watches
  Tristan Sharp - AGNS Exhibition Insights
  Julie Rrap - Image & Substance
  John McDonald - Creating a Dialogue & Presenting a Point of View

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Patricia Piccinini

Patricia Piccinini has received worldwide attention for her startling sculptures, digital environments and images that compel us to consider an ecology and biology that blend species in the frontier world of experimental technological and biological environments. Piccinini’s works take us to a post-Darwinian destination populated with fantastical creatures, new communities and bio-ethical conundrums.
Piccinini's current exhibition is on at The Tasmanian Art Gallery and Museum
http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/ -
http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/?base=3307
http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/31/Patricia_Piccinini/

John McDonald

The highly-regarded art critic of the Sydney Morning Herald, John McDonald has recently published his first volume of a brilliant new history of Australian art. McDonald takes us from the times of pre-history, settlement and exploration, to the end of the colonial era. In the first comprehensive overview of the field since the 1960s, he reassesses the reputations of many leading artists, and links their achievements with the broader patterns of social history and ideas.
Along with in-depth discussions of major works, the narrative teems with characters and anecdotes from the era of the First Fleet to that of the Australian Impressionists. The story of Australian art is told in a more vivid and engaging style than ever before, in a lavishly illustrated book destined to take its place as the definitive work on the subject

John McDonald will join FEHVA as a guest speaker at the following events:
 Fri 29 May : FEHVA Schools Program of Lectures, Whitebrook Theatre, Southern Cross University
 Fri 29 May : Speed Dating , Bangalow A and I Hall
 Sat 30 May: FEHVA Lecture Series , Bangalow A and I Hall
sponsored by http://www.byronbaywritersfestival.com

Julie Rrap

Has worked across a wide range of media throughout her 25-year career, including photography, performance, installation and sculpture. Rrap explores the relationship between image and substance, primarily by examining history and gender.
One of the strongest themes Rrap’s work has been the history of representation of the body, particularly that of the female nude. Rrap is also interested in researching the connections between sculptural and painterly representations of the 'nude' and bio-engineered bodies. She often uses her own body as the subject of her photographs and sculptures.
Rrap was a finalist in the Australian National Sculpture Prize and in 2001 she received the Hermann's Art Award. Rrap has received Australia Council Fellowships on three occasions and has undertaken residencies in both Italy and France.
http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/32/Julie_Rrap/
-for interview http://www.artcine.tv

Hossein Valamanesh

Was born in Iran and immigrated to Australia in 1973. He graduated from South Australian School of Art, 1977.

He has completed a number of major public art commissions including An Gorta Mor, memorial to the Great Irish Famine, 1999, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney and 14 Pieces on North Terrace, in Adelaide both with Angela Valamanesh

His work is heavily influenced by his Iranian heritage, invoking the ancient world of Sufi poetry and the mystical whirling dervishes. His work often draws threads between Persian culture and the ancient Indigenous culture and landscape of Australia. Valamanesh's work often uses natural materials such as branches, flames, leaves, sand, mud, seeds and earth and explores issues of cultural identity, history, memory and the relationship between humanity and the natural world.

He was awarded an Australia Council Fellowship 1998. His work is included in most major public Australian art collections. A major survey of his work was held at the Art Gallery of South Australia in mid 2001 and a survey of his more recent work was held at Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, 2002. He lives and works in Adelaide, South Australia.
-for interview http://www.artcine.tv

Dr Craig Judd

is a curator, arts writer and educator who has worked in state and regional galleries through out Australia. He has been an educator and public programs manager for Biennale of Sydney and has
lectured extensively on contemporary practice and historical art both nationally and internationally.

Djon Mundine O.A.M. Bundjalung People

Djon Mundine is a member of the Bundjalung people of northern New South Wales. Djon has an extended career as a curator, activist, writer, and occasional artist and is reknown as the concept curator for the Aboriginal Memorial installation permanently exhibited at the National Gallery of Australia. Djon was awarded an OAM in 1993 and was Research Professor at Minpaku Museum of Ethnology in Osaka over 2005-2006. He is currently Indigenous Curator-Contemporary Art at the Campbelltown Art Centre.

Wendy Ramsay

is the Visual Arts Advisor, Creative Arts Unit, Curriculum K-12 Directorate NSW Department Education and Training. She is a visual arts educator and provides curriculum advice and develops online print resources to support visual arts teachers and students in government schools. Wendy conducts professional development workshop programs for K-12 teachers in metropolitan and regional areas throughout NSW and presents at HSC study days, state, interstate and national conferences and symposia. Wendy consults with a range of art agencies to deliver educational programs.

Fiona Foley

is a Brisbane based artist and Adjunct Professor with the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Foley exhibits regularly in Australia and internationally. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne.

During 2004 Foley undertook international exhibitions and residency’s in New York, USA, and Beyond the Sea, a site specific work installed for Visualise Carlow, Ireland. In 2005 she was invited to create a new work for, Out There, with the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, United Kingdom. In 2006 Foley held a solo exhibition at October Gallery, London, titled, Strange Fruit.

Foley’s Major public sculptures include;
The Edge of Trees – Museum of Sydney, Sydney 1995
The Lie of the Land – Melbourne Museum, Melbourne 1997
Tribute to A’vang – Parliament House, Canberra 2001
Winged Harvest - The Australian National University, Canberra 2001
Witnessing to Silence – Brisbane Magistrates Court, Brisbane 2004
Black Opium – State Library Queensland, Brisbane 2006 (image)
Bible and Bullets – Redfern Park, Sydney 2008

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