List of works

Bradley Axiak

Pitt Street 2009 black and white inkjet print from 35mm film

50 x 50 cm

Bradley Axiak Pitt Street 2009 black and white inkjet print from 35mm film

50 x 50 cm

North wall from left:

Reproduction plaster statue on loan from the School of Communication and Creative Arts

Tara Gilbee

Xray Portrait (Stefan) 2000 black and white photograph unique state 45 x 32 cm

Anindita Banerjee

Kalika 2008 digital video

3.23 mins

Jane Bartier

Dalhousie Springs, aerial view 2006 batik on cotton 170 x 115 cm

Amber Smith

How the air suffocates down here.

Lucky, lucky. 2018 found display case, geological and mineral specimens, hand-marbled paper and assemblage

60 x 60 x 15 cm

Joel Gailer

Natural Arch 1998 acrylic paint on box card

50 x 70 cm

Ilona Jetmar

Self Portrait 2002 oil on canvas 81 x 121 cm

Fiona Lee

Potential Unlimited (Level ARI) 2010 framed printed certificates with red circular paper adhesive sticker 30 x 32 cm each

Cameron Bishop

Dumbluck 2008 digital video

7 mins

Cameron Bishop

Near Heide 2008 digital video

7 mins

Tara Gilbee

Untitled Portrait 1999 lost wax cast bronze unique state

50 x 45 x 40 cm

Reproduction plaster statue on loan from the School of Communication and Creative Arts

East wall from left:

Victoria Holessis

Body of work 2016 acrylic boxes, latex and liquid emulsion

40 x 35 x 45 cm each

Wendy Beatty

Untitled 2004 handmade negative Ilford photographic print on black and white paper

75 x 100 cm

Aaron Hoffman

Untitled (door) 2015 aluminium and fluorescent tube

130 x 45 cm

Bradley Axiak

Applecore 2009 colour inkjet print from MD4 35mm film

35 x 53 cm

David Cross

Closer c.1994 colour photograph

100 x 100 cm

Near door:

Anne Wilson and Domenico De Clario Art School Job 2008/2023 digital video

26 mins

Biographies

Bradley Axiak

Bradley Axiak is the Senior Operations Coordinator, for the School of Communication & Creative Arts at Deakin University. After studying professional and creative writing he completed a Bachelor of Media Art (Honours) at Deakin University (2010).

Anindita Banerjee

Anindita Banerjee (PhD) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher that lives and works on the land of the Wadawurrung people of the Kulin Nation. Her research interest includes cultural otherness, authentic identity and the sense of home. Banerjee has exhibited at the Victoria Parliament Melbourne, Customs House Sydney, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata, at the Palazzo Bembo Gallery in Venice in conjunction with the Venice Biennale 2019 and various other institutions and galleries. Her exhibition Ondormohol has been shown at the Art Gallery of Ballarat as part of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale (2021) and a further iteration of Ondormohol - Bhiktoria’s Secrets was exhibited at the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre in Melbourne (2022). Banerjee currently works as the Public Art Officer at the City of Ballarat.

Jane Bartier

Jane Bartier is a visual artist based in Winchelsea, Victoria on Wadawurrung Country. Bartier recently completed her PhD with Deakin University (2021). In this enquiry Bartier sought to unravel understandings of place and process in her practice of looming and walking. Bartier has exhibited widely since 2010 and has extensive experiences in education and textile studies. Bartier completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts, First Class Honours, Deakin University (2016); Diploma in Studio Textile Design, RMIT (200508) (uncompleted); Master of Public Policy, University of New England, New South Wales (1992); Graduate Diploma of Education, University of New England, New South Wales (1982); and a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts), University of Sydney, New South Wales (1975 -77).

Zoë Bastin

Zoë Bastin is an artist. Her expanded choreographic practice considers exhibition, installation, publication and performance as part of the same political project – the reorganisation of societal structures that limit bodies. Bastin holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) and a PhD from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (2015). Bastin has previously exhibited & performed at the Villa Lena Foundazione, Chunky Move, Bus Projects, Dancehouse, Midsumma Festival, Felt Space, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Seventh Gallery, Testing Grounds, BLINDSIDE, Bloc Projects, KINGS Artist Run, MADA Gallery at Monash University, Project Space at RMIT & The Substation.

Biographies

Wendy Beatty

Wendy Beatty has been involved in teaching, education and professional art-based practice for over 15 years. Beatty completed a PhD (2017), Master of Arts (2004), Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours (1999) awarded by Deakin University, and a Graduate Diploma of Education, at the University of Melbourne (2005). Her practice and research, explore the ecological, self and performative aspects of the photographic medium through digital and analogue processes. In her current role, Beatty coordinates Design, Communication and Film, Television, and Animation at Deakin University College.

Cameron Bishop

Cameron Bishop is a Melbourne based artist, writer, curator and lecturer at Deakin University in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. Bishop’s research explores the shifting nature of public space, place-making, and the body as a political, private, and social entity. Bishop often works in collaboration including: Deakin’s Public Art Commission, a curatorial and research initiative with David Cross. PAC recent projects include: Front Beach Back Beach at Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery (2022) and the three series of Treatment exhibitions and public art events at the Western Treatment Plant, Melbourne (2015/17/23). Bishop also has long term collaborations with artist Simon Reis, Bishop & Reis and the Bozo Ink Group and with artist Anne Scott Wilson with the Sounding Histories exhibition at the Mission to Seafarers, Melbourne (2020); and the ongoing VACANTGeelong project.

David Cross

David Cross is a Melbournebased artist, curator, writer and lecturer at Deakin University in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. His practice and creative research extend across curation, performance, installation, sculpture, public art and video. Known for his examination of risk, pleasure and participation, Cross often utilises inflatable structures to negotiate inter-personal exchange. In 2007 Cross founded Litmus Research initiative at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. Focused on the commissioning and scholarship of public art, Litmus produced a number of ground-breaking public art projects including One Day Sculpture, a series of temporary public artworks across five cities in New Zealand (2008-09). Cross was the CAST 2011 international curator in residence in Hobart where he developed Iteration:Again - 13 Public Artworks Across Tasmania. Cross developed the Public Art Commission, a curatorial and research initiative with Cameron Bishop at Deakin University. PAC recent projects include: Front Beach Back Beach at Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery (2022) and the three series of Treatment exhibitions and public art events at the Western Treatment Plant, Melbourne (2015/17/23).

Biographies

Joel Gailer

Joel Gailer is an artist based in Melbourne, whose work explores materiality and reproduction. His multiartform practice explores print, painting, sculpture and performance. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work is included in collections such as the National Gallery of Victoria, University of Southern Queensland, National Art School, Curtin University, RMIT University, Burnie Regional Gallery, City of Fremantle and private collections. He was the recipient of the Fremantle Print Award in 2008 and has been awarded artist residencies at Art Haus in the National Art Gallery Solomon Islands, Megalo Print Studio Canberra and the Art Academy of China. He was awarded a PhD from RMIT University (2017) with an Australian Post Graduate award. Gailer runs the Brunswick based studio Cozens Street and co-founded collaborative performance art project

Performprint

Tara Gilbee

Tara Gilbee is an artist and educator based in Central Victoria. Gilbee received a Bachelor of Fine Art Sculpture at Victorian College of the Arts, the University of Melbourne (1996) and where she completed a Masters of Contemporary Art (2019). Gilbee has exhibited widely in Australia and international. She has a multidisciplinary approach to art making and has worked in collaboration with a range of practitioners with video, sound and live arts.

Simon Grennan

Simon Grennan is a Lecturer in Art and Performance, Visual Arts, at Deakin University where he teaches contemporary art practice. Along with specialisations in painting, drawing, and printmaking, his creative interests extend to video art, interdisciplinary practices and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Grennan holds a PhD in Visual Arts from Deakin University and a Masters degree in Adult Education specialising in the tertiary sector. His primary area of research focuses on landscape as an enquiry parallel to, or cognate with, consciousness research. Grennan is an active practitioner particularly in the disciplines of painting and drawing in the expanded field.

Biographies

Aaron Hoffman

Aaron Hoffman is an artist, writer, and academic whose practice spans installation, performance, sculpture, and digital media, examining fragile states of existence. Through architectural interventions, he explores the relationship between audience, artwork, and artist, confronting the issues and contradictions of our contemporary society, including colonization, identity, sexuality, and the human body. Hoffman completed a Bachelor of Fine Art from Monash University (2015) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) (2016) and a Master in Visual Art from University of Melbourne (2018). He is currently pursuing a PhD at Deakin University, where he is researching protest, intersecting identities, and the driving forces behind the artistic process. Hoffman’s work has been recognized with several awards, including the ART150 Fellowship, the Sutton Emerging Artist Award, and the Yvonne Cohen Sculpture Scholarship. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Australia and Argentina and was included in the Hatched: National Graduate Show at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2016).

Victoria Holessis

Victoria Holessis is a photographic specimen maker and artist based in Melbourne, working in the areas of darkroom practices, alternative imaging, digital technologies and sculpture. She is currently the technical Operations Coordinator of Art & Design at Deakin University, where she also completed a Master of Research (2020) and a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) (2015), graduating with first class honours. Holessis previously studied at Monash University, completing a Bachelor of Fine Art (Photomedia) (2013). Through the use of alternative materials like latex, liquid light and thermochromics within darkroom practices, Holessis’ work examines how we might see, use, and touch photography differently in the contemporary digital age. Holessis’ previous solo and group exhibitions include: From All Points of the Southern Sky (2020), Material Responses. Responses to Materials. (2019), Everyday Research (2019), The Daedalus Project (2017) and Body of Work (2016).

Penelope Hunt

Working predominantly in photography and video, Penelope Hunt’s images explore memory, relationships, and our transitory existence in time and place. Her work spans portraiture and landscapes, focusing on people and places known to her, often involving complex durational studies. Hunt lives and works in Naarm / Melbourne, where she is an artist and educator and is currently a PhD Candidate at Monash University. Hunt has lectured in photography at Deakin University 2019 and prior at Arts Project Australia for over 12 years. Hunt completed her Master of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne (2014) and was awarded Martin Kantor Portrait Prize (2019).