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Maya Havilland (PhD candidate in Photomedia and CCR) writes from Derby in Western Australia: “we’ve completed the first week of a collaborative workshop working with a group of 7 women in Derby. Rachel (from the Neighborhood Story Project in New Orleans) and I are facilitating a writing and photography workshop to create a small book on the experiences of learning and education of women here in Derby. We kicked off on Monday, and have been working about 4 hours a day with women… the project will continue for another 2 weeks, so far its been wonderful, busy and rich, lots of great stories and pictures coming out… as well as reflections on the process of doing this kind of work.” Sounds great, looks great, (envy)!

PhD candidate Jan Hogan (Printmedia and Drawing) presents her supervisors with work in progress in her studio and in the ANU School of Art Gallery. Her work (both drawing, lithography and books made of plywood) is concerned with developing a cross-cultural understanding of the land, focussing on the Common at Gundaroo, 50km north of Canberra. All the different phases of her work are moved to and fro from the studio to the common, again and again, and their form evolves through what Jan calls a process of negotiation of ideas, references, memories and experiences. Watch this space! (Click through the thumbnails to see more details)

As topical as these themes might be, they do not always equal a Bill Henson. You’ll have to run to catch them in the work of Jay Kochel (PhD candidate, Sculpture) at Sequence at M16 Gallery in Fyshwick. And you won’t get their subtleties from these snaps: Tide Lines, 1-3, This is not a Pissing Contest, 1-5, and The Night Before the Morning After 1-3 are nevertheless evocative of adolescent experience, but without the patriachal gaze of the venerable BH. No doubt we’ll have opportunities for discussion back at the ranch.

This is the Ontario College of Art and Design, in Toronto, designed by Stirling Prizewinner Will Alsop - you have to check the frenetic website!

Congratulations to Masters graduate in Ceramics Ken Yonetani who has been chosen to represent Australia in the satellite exhibition to be held in conjunction with the 2009 Venice Biennale. Shaun Gladwell will the the official Australian representative in the Australian Pavilion, while four emergent contemporary Australian artists will also be represented at Venice in a show called Once Removed, curated by Felicity Fenner. This group exhibition is to be held at The Ludoteca, a former convent in the city’s Castello district. Together with Vernon Ah Kee, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, the four artists will present a series of installations which are “unified by themes of displacement, Indigenous and environmental issues” according to an Australia Council statement. Shaun Gladwell will create a new work for the version of MADDESTMAXIMUS that will be displayed in the Australian Pavilion.

It seems only yesterday that our Norwegian Glass alumna Lene Lunde was just down the corridor. Since then, back in Norway, she’s been working like crazy for a show that translates as “Glass and Plastic and Stuff: something for the very smallest of us”.

She’s been blowing in the glass studio at the Ebeltof Glass Museum, and the cold work and engraving is done on the farm “accompanied by one dog, seven cats, and twenty chickens”. All very nervous, no doubt, as they watch what happens to all these other animals!

If you’ve been reading the weekend papers, you will have seen both John MacDonald and Sebastian Smee competing to qualify their appreciation of the NGA current exhibition Turner to Monet: The Triumph of Landscape. Now to enjoy a really fine exhibition review by Holland Cottier (in the NYT 14 March 2008) of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Anatomy of a Masterpiece: How to read Chinese Paintings click here, and then click the RELATED article button to The Art is in the Detail. Thanks to Max for alerting us.