Glenn Carter worked on this piece over the course of his MVA at the ANU School of Art, using the resources of both the School’s Glass Workshop and the Canberra Glass Centre. It is simply titled Lens. Glenn writes:

It was a commission by the Plymouth City Museum and Art Galleries. Its motivating theme is based around the idea of the piece as a reflection and focus for the close examination and observation of the monumental and the microscopic holdings of the collection of the Plymouth City Museum and Art Galleries, encompassing visual, decorative, social and natural history collections. The three repeated images in the glass are drawn from the scales of a butterfly’s wing. This image acts as  a conduit for the changing natural light which  passes through the image and is transferred across the gallery floor.

The medium is painted, stained and laminated glass. It is 107 cms in diameter and 30cms thick. Weight 85 kilos.

Jan Hogan, PhD, in relaxation mode… Congratulations!

“What emerges from this show is not just the familiar sense that the best art being made in remote communities rivals the best in contemporary fine art. Rather, one takes away the conviction that other artists are now equally predominant: conscious artists, indigenous artists in the flow of Australian life.”

Unwittingly, Rothwell takes a step into a theoretical no-man’s-land: he makes the distinction between indigenous work that is assured, professional, competent which, “for all their splendour, are outshone by less accomplished, more poignant works”. In this manner he opposes this tendency in the established bush art centres with the little-known urban artists “often naive in technique” – which he seems to prefer. One more step and he’ll be talking about outsider art and indigenous art in the same breath! Boom!

The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory has a virtual exhibition of the Award show.

On 5th July, recent MPhil graduate Victoria Lees will be exhibition some of the work from her graduating exhibition in Fixity at Seedling Art Space, Adelaide.

Heather Burness (MPhil 2004) is showing new work in Adelaide at artroom5
- a zoom on this work: Journey to the Wimmera/ Layers in the sand/ Blood #1” etching from plates inserted into salty groundwater flow near Tarranyurk, 2007 tells us it is not easy to reproduce.