Light Square Gallery Art Exhibition Opening Adelaide, South Australia - 22nd September 2010

Christie Anthoney (right), Creative Director, TAFESA, and family

Pro Vice Chancellor UniSA, Professor Pal Ahluwalia with project supporters(right)

Orapin Plummer, President of the Thai Culture Association South Australia

The Earth's waters are both boundaries and pathways for peoples, objects and ideas.

Fumio Nanjo

Light Square Gallery Art Exhibition Opening Adelaide, South Australia - 22nd September 2010

Workshop artist Mike Sara and family

 

 

 

 

Chris Bull from Helpmann Academy and workshop artist Sheila Whittam

 

Workshop artist, Lauryn Arnott (right) with friends

More photographs from the exhibition opening to follow in subsequent posts.

Photos courtesy of the Helpmann Academy.

The Earth's waters are both boundaries and pathways for peoples, objects and ideas.

Fumio Nanjo

Light Square Gallery Art Exhibition Opening Adelaide, South Australia - 22nd September 2010

AC Arts - Light Square Gallery - Adelaide, South Australia

Edward James (Helpmann Academy) and Helen Stacey

Aboriginal Artist, Betty Sumner singing a lullaby to baby Azaria held by her mother curator/artist Wendy Grace Allen

Exhibition supporters

Betty Sumner (workshop participant and Aboriginal art consultant)

Exhibition supporters

More photographs from the exhibition opening to follow in subsequent posts.

Photos courtesy of the Helpmann Academy and Wendy Grace Allen.

The Earth's waters are both boundaries and pathways for peoples, objects and ideas.

Fumio Nanjo

Press Release

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.

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  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

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  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

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  Artists Talks: Light Square Gallery

11:00am, Thursday 23^rd and Friday 24th September

For further information contact Chris Bull, Helpmann Academy Marketing Manager, on (08) 8463 5015 or 0425 615 233

The Earth's waters are both boundaries and pathways for peoples, objects and ideas.

Fumio Nanjo

Introducing Christobel Kelly - Workshop Participant, Adelaide, South Australia

Christobel Kelly
This work is concerned with the realm of the imagination. Its intention is to codify the threshold we step over when we slip into a private narrative.

There is always a border we cross when our thoughts- prompted by experience- run towards imaginary places. This work reflects our ability to make up stories about what we see which are both universal, and individual at the same time.

The image has as a reference point, the first sentence of any book that elicits and commands the minds eye.

Text written by Christobel Kelly.

The Earth's waters are both boundaries and pathways for peoples, objects and ideas.

Fumio Nanjo

Introducing Lindi Harris - Workshop Participant, Adelaide, South Australia

No Borders 


Lindi Harris
This work describes my relationship to the Australian landscape and the British Isles, and evokes the power of sacred sites. It alludes to the nomadic nature of humanity, our desire to hold onto memories and objects of the past, and the effect of climate change and erosion on the built and natural landscape. Standing stone circles were constructed in the British Isles as early as 3400 BC and remained in use as astronomical observation devices until around 1500 BC, at which time northern Europe experienced a “global cooling”.1 Populations abandoned the Orkney and Shetland Islands to the north of Britain, and the Hebridean Islands to the west. Due to the subsequent lack of human activity and the peat moss that slowly covered all evidence of early civilisation, these regions today host some of the most well preserved Neolithic sites in the world. The earliest known examples of the Celtic cross, found in France and dated from 10 000 BC, are carved “ancestor stones” thought to contain the spirits of the dead. The Standing Stones of Callanish were originally laid out in the formation of a Celtic cross.2 The evolution of Uluru, central Australia, began over 900 million years ago.3 The warm reds and soft curves and contours of Uluru contrast with the angular cold grey of the Standing Stones of Callanish. As a small child emigrating in the 1960’s from the Northern hemisphere to the Southern, it was this dramatic change in light and colour that left a life-long sense impression. Both the Standing Stones and Uluru hold cultural significance to the people who live amongst them.

Processes and mediums used in this work include linocut, collograph, ink and pastel drawing and collage. Papers are Japanese Kozo, Hahnemuhle and silk paper.

Collaborating on The Border Crossing Art Project

At this stage I have selected another artists work and commenced initial studies with it. What I have learnt is how easy it is to choose similarity. I selected a piece that reflected my own values/ethics/style/medium and I feel very comfortable with it. I knew instantly how I would proceed-or at least had a couple of very clear directions to move in. How would it have been if the piece had been selected for me? If I had been required to respond to a work I didn't immediately understand? Crossing borders is uncomfortable and we avoid it where we can. This project has highlighted my discomfort with that I do not understand. And yet it is difference that attracts me. A paradox. 

About Lindi Harris

British migrant 1966 

Art student since 1966 (aged 5) when I questioned my mum about why the teacher said I was wrong because I had drawn the strokes the wrong way-my mum (an artist) told me the teacher was wrong. 

Early Childhood Education Diploma 1980 

SACAE Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling 1995 

University of South Australia Cert IV Art Practice 2001 

TAFE SA Currently student of Bachelor Degree of Visual Arts and Design 

Text written by Lindi Harris

  

The Earth's waters are both boundaries and pathways for peoples, objects and ideas.

Fumio Nanjo