September
For
immediate release
The
Border Crossing Art Project arrives in Adelaide
Opens
6:00pm, Wednesday
September 22
Concludes
Thursday October 14
Light
Square Gallery
Adelaide
College of the Arts
39
Light Square, Adelaide
Visual
artists from Australia, Thailand and New Zealand have collaborated
together and with South Australian artists and art students for a
unique cross cultural initiative called The
Border Crossing Art Project.
Showcasing
the work of artists Wendy Grace Allen (nee Dawson) (New Zealand), Dr. Apichart
Pholprasert (Thailand) and Helen Stacey (Australia), the Border
Crossing
exhibition first opened at The Art Centre Gallery at the
Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok in February. The exhibition will
be on show at the Light Square Gallery during September and October,
before heading off to New Zealand later in the year.
“The
Border Crossing Art Project
is an exploration of collaborative visual arts practice, where the
artists involved - among the first graduates from the University of
South Australia’s Masters of Visual Art program - experiment with
multi-layered techniques that traverse geographical and cultural
boundaries,” explains Helen Stacey, who has coordinated the South
Australian phase of the project. “All of the pieces on show are a
unique discovery of the progressive transformation of our original
work, each of us reflecting on issues relating to land ownership.”
In
addition to the Light Square exhibition, the collaborative research
project also includes a two-day workshop, a public forum, a seminar
and a series of artist floor talks. Up to 16 students, staff and
visual arts graduates from the Helpmann Academy’s visual arts
partner institutions will take part in a collaborative workshop, with
each artist working to interpret the theme ‘border crossing’.
The
Border Crossing Art Project
has been supported by a Helpmann Academy major grant.
Public Forum - ‘New trajectories in regional cross-cultural collaboration’
Light
Square Gallery, 3:00pm Thursday 23rd September
Speakers:
James Bennett, Curator of Asian Art, Art Gallery of SA
Dr.
Pamela Zeplin, SA School of Art and the Border Crossing artists
Acsa Seminar - Eddies and flows: narratives of cross-cultural collaboration
Adelaide
Central School of Art Gallery, 12:00 noon, Friday 24th September
The
Border Crossing Artists
Artists Talks: Light Square Gallery
11:00am,
Thursday 23rd
and Friday 24th September
For
further information contact Chris Bull, Helpmann Academy Marketing
Manager, on (08) 8463 5015 or 0425 615 233
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