October 2009

 2009 Last Lecture: 

Each year, the ANU  student body nominate one member of the teaching staff to give the annual Last Lecture.  This year,  the School of Art's Photography and Media Arts Workshop lecturer, Paul Kirwan, has been chosen.  More info . . .  

September 2009

 Beginning Middle End: School of Art Gallery 5/9/2009 - 24/9/2009.

Download the program.

 August 2009

Artwork: a recent exhibition by staff, School of Art Gallery 
Download the catalogue here.

 July 2009

Tracy Pateman,  Honours student in the Gold and Silversmithing Workshop, was awarded the The P.J. Williams Award for innovative design in gold and silversmithing ­ holloware, flatware or sculptural objects at the 2009 Contemporary Australian Silver & Metalwork Exhibition.

 June 2009

School of Art Textile Honours student Daniel Edwards has recently been awarded the American Tapestry Alliance Student Award 2009 for his work interpreting the craft movement of the 1970's.  The work imagines the period of its vindication and celebrates the number of men working across all craft areas.

May 2009

School of Art PhD candidate, Amanda Stuart (Sculpture) was successful twice over at the recent ANU-wide Research Fest. In a vote of confidence for the place of Practice-led Research in the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Amanda won both the Judge’s Award of $1000 for the Research Notes competition, plus the audience favourite (Prize of 2009 Full membership to ANU Fitness Centre). 

May 2009

In the School of Art Gallery in May: Two Exhibitions from the Gold and Silversmithing Workshop
Johannes Kuhnen: a survey of innovation (main gallery, 30 April – 30 May 2009)
and . . . .

ALUMINA: recent work by gold and silversmithing workshop graduates (foyer gallery, 30 April – 30 May 2009)

 April 2009

Congratulations to School of Art Alumni:

2009 National Indigenous Ceramic Art Award
Dr Danie Mellor (BA Visual Art Hons 95, Phd 05) won first prize in the National Indigenous Ceramic Art Award, currently on view at Shepparton Art Gallery, for his work Materially Cultured (an allegorical scene of a bastard history).
Janet Fieldhouse (BA Visual Art Hons 04, M Phil 09), a former winner of the competition in 2007, won third prize for her work Armband.

2009 Wynne Prize
Lionel Bawden (BA Hons Painting 1998), has been awarded the 2009 Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW for his work The amorphous ones (the vast colony of our being).

Danie Mellor and his winning work
Photo: Rick Connors