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Here’s a set of 64 mini-vids by the mobile politics collective. Work your way past the rather funereal and ungroovy front page, and on the right hand side you will find directional buttons which allow you to see sets of four tiny thumbnails of each video. Well worth the journey, and along the way you’ll find works by Lucien Leon, Ivo Lovric, Charlie Sofo, Dan Bell, Reuben Ingall, Liang Luscombe, and Trish Roan. All ANU School of Art, either alumni, or still with us! Click on an image and you’re there! And there’s another button below if you wish to download. How you get it on your phone is another story…

at ANCA Dickson, next two weeks… but be prepared for darkness and the horror vacui when you read the story…

Bermagui’s annual Sculpture on the Edge provides a great opportunity for current students and alumni to see their work in the context of both professional and amateur sculptural practice. Festivals such as this bring out the best and worst in the idea of art in the public domain – but yes, that’s the reason it’s worth doing. The ivory tower and the white cube do not teach us how our work is understood and appreciated by the culture at large. Directed by Jan Ireland, this years event is significantly enhanced by the contributions from ten current and past graduate students, and others associated with the School. For more pics go to glasscemtralcanberra

Alas the good Burghers of Bermagui paid not the slightest attention to this flash (flesh) event by the interventionist artist Alice Fresco, who commandeers vacant plinths at events such as this. This work, Les Fillettes Mignons, is characteristic of Alice’s aesthetic, and colleagues may recognise her collaborators…

Here’s the manager of the event closing in on Amanda Stuart’s Alpha Myths.

And Dean Allison’s glass sculpture Sight which inverted the whole question of perception and tactility.

And Honours student Dan Lorrimer discovered the effects of scale with his fresh-from-the-workshop Wing Formation.

And here’s your ConvenorWrangler Suzie Bell with recent graduate Bernie Weiss taking in a whimsical piece by photographer Wes Stacey… Now why did black and white seem more appropriate?

The event will close next weekend with another of Yuri Wiedenhofer’s fire sculptures on the beach at Horseshoe Bay. More pics at glasscentralcanberra.

is the title of Pam Lofts’ Alice Prize entry. To be announced tonight…

…recent MPhil graduate of the ANU School of Art Pam Lofts is showing with Helen Maxwell Gallery at Silvershot, in Melbourne.

Visit Megan’s blog and see what ANU School of Art postgraduate alumna Natali Rodrigues has been up to… (Saves me all that assembly!)

Lia was an MPhil graduate (in Ceramics, obviously) in 2006. This piece (from the ‘Nudibranch series’, mid-fire porcelain, 2006, photo by ANU photography) is characteristic of the work she did in the program, and is currently in the border, an exhibition at CraftACT. Lia gives the following account of her motivation in works such as this:

Aesthetically, the visual inspirations for the work are natural forms including plants, coral and sea creatures. This work does not set out to replicate the specifics of particular organic forms but seeks to capitalize on the strange, complex, richly patterned and brightly coloured beauty of the natural world. That said, there are elements of the work that are often confused with actual organic things, and in this way act as a kind of mimesis or an imitation of nature. This creates confusion between representations and the real.

The nudibranch or sea slug is a delightfully strange and weird looking thing. I am drawn to its flamboyance and extravagance – why is a sea slug so ornate? It seems like a fine thing to try to combine with an object that alludes to function in that it acts as a setting off point between the understandable reality of a functional object (vase) and something beyond easy understanding –the animate and inanimate together.

Congratulations to two ex postgrads Catherine Woo (Painting) and Ken Yonetani (Ceramics) who’ve been selected for Handle with Care: 2008 Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, currently on show as part of the Adelaide Festival of the Arts. Ken’s work is featured on the cover of the Broadsheet, Catherine gets a rave in Sebastian Smee’s review (Weekend Australian Review, p18-19). Ken will also be profiled on the ABC program ‘Sunday Arts” feature story, on air between 5:00pm and 6:00pm on Sunday.

“Sweet Barrier Reef” ‘Handle with Care’ The 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Contemporary Art, 3.6mx12.5m, Sugar, Icing Sugar, Polystyrene foam, Ceramics with a performance by 2 costumed girls serving edible sculptures (coral shaped cakes).

Ken gives the following account of the work: Sweet Barrier Reef focuses on the event of coral bleaching. Coral bleaching refers to the process leading to coral death. River waters containing high levels of suspended sediment cause coral death and bleaching. This sediment often comes from harvesting sugarcane, and is known to be one factor leading to bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef. Many large sugarcane fields are located beside coral reefs, leading to coral damage across the globe. In this project, I focus on the connections between consumption and human impact on the environment by creating a reef out of sugar. Here, I do not focus only on the impact of the sugarcane industry; rather sugar is used as a much larger metaphor for our desire to consume and its environmental impact. Sugar becomes a metaphor of human desire. It is also strongly connected to processes of “colonization”, “modernisation” and “consumerism”.