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REAL GRAPHIC BRILLIANCE 

Thursday 8 November 12-4pm

Exhibition Hours: 12 noon - 6pm Daily from Thursday 8 November - Friday 16 November
(closed Friday 9 November)

 

The 2012 Diploma of Graphic Design Graduate Exhibition showcasing The Gordon's cutting edge Graphic Designers, their advanced abilities and innovative approach. This exhibition represents the culmination of their time at The Gordon and promises to be a veritable visual smorgasboard.

This year our graduating students received commendations for their graphic design work. The students' designs were employed to help community organisations, and community focused programs, including Run Geelong, Medimime, Barwon CASA, and many others.

 

HIDE AND SEEK: SELF-PORTRAITS FROM THE CUNNINGHAM DAX COLLECTION

 
Wednesday 3 - Friday 26 October
 

 

Image credit: Ruth Rich My Heart, 2003 charcoal, chalk and watercolour on paper 74.2 x 56.1cm

Hide and Seek brings the viewer face to face with the most potent yet enigmatic form of self-expression; the self-portrait.

Over fifty self-portraits brought together for this exhibition traverse the allusive and fluctuating territory of self-perception, bringing forth totem creatures, symbolic incarnations, monstrous visions and palpable internal pain. This exhibition emphasises the multiplicity and mutability of the self, tackling mortality head on and questioning the relationship between the internal and external.

Hide and Seek explores the tension between what is revealed and what is concealed by someone’s self-portrait. This exhibition raises the question as to how much we can tell about an artist from their self-portrait, and leads us to consider how we might portray ourselves. 

Curated by Juliette Hanson and Anna Takacs

 
 

FASHION THROUGH THE AGES 

 

Thursday 6 - Friday 28 September

 

Throughout history, fashion has both started and reflected the socio and political trends of the time. The Gordon has been at the forefront of these trends through its dressmaking and fashion courses. 

We invite you to explore the past 125 years through an exhibition of fashion through the ages.

Produced by The Gordon marketing department in collaboration with The Gordon's fashion students.

 

 

THE GEELONG REGIONAL ARTISTS EXHIBITION

 

Thursday 9 - Friday 31 August 

 

 Image credit: Joseph L Griffiths Shelters, 2012.

 

 Featuring Isabel Cuevas, Joseph L Griffiths, Rohan Robinson and Richard Szymczuk.

The Geelong Regional Artists Exhibition is an annual event on The Gordon Gallery Calender. Now in its tenth year, this exhibition is designed to celebrate and promote the extraordinary artistic talent of the region. It provides local artists with the opportunity to further develop and professionalise their artistic practise. 

Curated by Anna Briers. 

Exhibition Catalogue​

NOTES FROM THE GORDON DESIGN FILES

Monday 2 - Friday 27 July 
 

 Image credit: Daniela Raissiguier.

An exhibition showcasing recent work by Gordon students from the departments of graphic design, fashion design, interior design and building design. 

 

 

RODCHENKO 120:

Monday 2 - Friday 27 July 
  
 

This exhibition is a homage to the seminal graphic designer, painter and photographer Aleksandr Rodchenko. It celebrates the 120th anniversary of the birth of the Russian avant-garde movement and its role in world culture. Featuring posters by Rodchenko as well as images by twenty of Russia’s leading contemporary graphic designers, the exhibition also includes works by Gordon students who were invited to respond through the medium of poster design to this art historic legacy.

Rodchenko was one of the most versatile Constructivist and Productivist artists to emerge after the Russian Revolution. Influenced by key figures of the Russian avant- garde movement such as Vladimir Tatlin and Suprematist Kasimir Malevich he also drew from movements such as Cubism, Futurism and Dadaism. His work was socially engaged, formally innovative, and opposed to a painterly aesthetic. Rodchenko famously denounced painting and declared its death with the statement: 

"I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: it's all over.” 

For artists of the Russian Revolution, Rodchenko’s radical action was full of utopian possibility. As a reaction against bourgeois artistic norms and practices it heralded the end of easel painting and proposed the end of art itself. This gesture cleared the way for the beginning of a new Russian life, a new mode of production, a new culture. Most significantly, Rodchenko introduced Constructivist forms into the mass visual propaganda of the Bolsheviks. His posters became an icon of the early Soviet state. These works are considered the pinnacle of modern graphic design.

“We had visions of a new world, industry, technology and science. We simultaneously invented and changed the world around us. We authored new notions of beauty and redefined art itself”.

With thanks to the Golden Bee 10th International Biennale of Graphic Design.

  

History in the Making: 125 years of leading & learning

Thursday 3 May – Friday June 1 

Over the past 125 years, there is scarcely a single family, a single organisation, or a single edifice in Geelong that has not in some way been touched by The Gordon.  Follow the development of Geelong and the people who made the region what it is today through an exhibition that shares the stories, photos, records and artefacts of 125 years of leading and learning.

 

TITLED / UNTITLED -

WORKS FROM THE GORDON COLLECTION

 
15 February - 16 March  
 
Bill Bachman / George Baldessin / Sydney Ball / David Beaumont /  Donald Cameron / Patricia Carter / Arch Cuthbertson / Lani Dafter / Lesley Dumbrell / Lindsay Edward / Donna Goonan / Murray Griffin / Phil Hayes / Roger Kemp / David Larwill / Alun Leach-Jones / Bruno Leti /  Diane Mantzaris / Kenneth Paul / Bundit Puangthong / Jeff Raglus / Jan Senbergs / Bevan Shepherd / Dr Ernest (Walter) Smith /  Richard Szymczuk / David Turner / Penny Tweedie / Andy Warhol  

Curated by Anna Briers.

 

Image Credit: Penny Tweedie, Tom Noytuna Using New Telephone at Korlobidahdah to Invite Clan Members to a Ceremony.

Exhibition Catalogue
Titled / Untitled – Works from The Gordon Collection is the first in a series of exhibitions celebrating The Gordon’s 125 year history as an icon in the Geelong community. Yet while The Gordon celebrates its 125th anniversary, the art collection is only 35 years young.   
Titled / Untitled showcases highlights from The Gordon collection. It reveals the dynamic tensions between opposing forces that arise out of a diverse and sometimes incongruent collecting process. It reflects a complexity of reference points, artistic concerns and subject matter.
Bound up in the notion of ‘title’ is the inference of identity and this exhibition includes numerous works that explore its variables and permutations. These include the personal and collective, the urban and regional, the deviant and experimental, the cultural, sub cultural and cross-cultural and within this, the notion of identity as a constant site of negotiation. The term ‘title’ also lends itself to allusions of land and title and therefore raises questions around claim, inheritance, custodianship and ownership.  
Under the banner of Untitled, this exhibition also includes works by influential non objective painters such as Alun Leach-Jones and Sydney Ball who irrevocably changed the direction of Australian painting in 1960s. With their departure from expressive landscapes and bush legends, they were major proponents of a new kind of Australian abstraction influenced by post war American painting. In work by David Turner, we are able to see this movement play out in the context of Geelong. 
 

PAST EXHIBITIONS 2011:

SLYCE - A Second Year Diploma of Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition 

 
Wednesday 16 - Friday 25 November
Exhibition Hours: Monday to Friday 10 am - 4 pm
Opening Night: Tuesday 15 November 5:30 – 8:00pm 

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UNIQUE - A Second Year Diploma of Graphic Design Students Graduate Exhibition 

 
Wednesday 2 - Thursday 10 November
Exhibition Hours: Monday to Friday 10 am - 4 pm

Opening Night: Wednesday 2 November 6 pm
 
 
 
 
  
 
INSPIRED BY NATURE - A BOTANICAL ART EXHIBITION
 
Thursday 20 - Sunday 30 October
 
Exhibition Hours: 10 am - 4 pm Monday to Friday, 1 pm - 4 pm Saturday & Sunday
 
Opening Night Thursday 19 October 6:00 - 7:30pm $15 door charge.
 
 
 
Image credit:
Peonies
Rosemary Donnelly, 2011
Watercolour on paper
 
An exquisite collection of paintings and drawings by members of the Geelong Botanical Artists Group.
 
 
HEARTH - An Exhibition of Prints and Paintings by Shane Howard and Teresa O'Brien.
 
30 September – 7 October.
Exhibition Hours: 10 am - 4 pm Monday to Friday & Sat 8 12 - 5pm
 
Hearth is a component of The Gordon student produced Streets Are Alive, an event taking place in the heart of Geelong and on the Waterfront on October 8 and 9. From theatre to music, exhibitions and dancing, Streets Are Alive is a major free community event for all to enjoy. Visit www.streetsarealive.com
 
 
 

ICONIC SONGS

 
Saturday 8 October 3 - 4.30 pm  (free)
 
An Intimate performance featuring Shane Howard, Neil Murray and Archie Roach.
Hosted by Ross Mueller, Artistic Director, Courthouse Arts


 

A STRANGER IN TOWN 


Thursday 13, Friday 14, Saturday 15 October 7:30 pm

Tickets $35 / concession $28 Ticket sales on www.trybooking.com

 
Image credit: 
Suzanne Cunningham, 2011

Essential Theatre presents: A Stranger in Town - a Musical Fable
Created by Christine Croyden and Alice Bishop
Inspired by the original musical diary of Otto Lampel
Actor/Collaborators: Amanda LaBonte, Sophie Lampel, Jamie MacDonald and Drew Tingwell. Written by Christine Croyden Directed by Alice Bishop. Original Score and Musical Direction by Matt Lotherington with songs and additional dialogue by Otto Lampel. Lighting Design by Richard Vabre.
Otto and his broken heart flee war ravaged Prague, crossing the Atlantic Ocean to a new life in Canada. He finds a fish, a lion, and a girl……. but will the trembling mountain let him outrun his past? Songs, roars, doctrines – these are dangerous things. 

TRADES GO GAGA

Wednesday 21 - Tuesday 27 September

Exhibition Hours: 10am - 4pm Monday to Friday

 Trades Go Gaga showcases eight costumes designed and created by The Gordon's VET in Schools fashion students for the Victorian Training Awards 2011. These costumes investigate a theatrical interpretation of the event's 'trades' theme.

The students used a standard black bodice that was then customised to represent eight different trades. A range of trade-specific materials were re-purposed and recycled from The Gordon's East Geelong  Campus and incorporated into the designs.

The extravagant costumes, reminiscent of something that might belong in the wardrobe of Lady Gaga were worn by VET in Schools modelling students at the event. These dynamic looks were completed by The Gordon's hairdressing and specialist make-up students.
 

EMERGE 2011 - THE GEELONG REGIONAL ARTISTS EXHIBITION

 
Wednesday August 17 - Friday September 2
Exhibition Hours: 10 am - 4 pm Monday to Friday
 
 
 
 

Image credit:
Patsy Bush
The Ankle Biters, 2011
Linocuts, steel, textiles
Various Dimensions

 
Featuring: Bevan Shepherd, Ben Partridge, Patsy Bush, Jiri Tibor Novak, Naomi Macleod, David Hobday and Debra Jackson.
 
 Emerge 2011 is the ninth iteration of the Geelong Regional Artists Exhibition. The mission statement of this annual event on The Gordon Gallery calendar is twofold; to celebrate and promote the extraordinary artistic talent of the region, while nourishing local creative production by providing a launching pad to showcase artist's work, hence raising their profiles and professionalising their practise.
 For this exhibition, seven artists were selected from the four municipalities of the City of Greater Geelong, the Borough of Queenscliff, Surf Coast Shire and Golden Plains Shire with another deliverable being that one of the artists works will be acquisitioned to become part of  The Gordon Art Collection.
Exhibition Catalogue
  

NOTES FROM THE GORDON DESIGN FILES

 
Wednesday 20 July - Friday 5 August
Exhibition Hours: 10 am - 4 pm Monday to Friday
An exhibition of student work from the departments of Graphic Design, Fashion Design, Architecture, Interior Design and Digital Media.
  
Image credit: Roscoe Portelli 2010 graduate.

 

 

31 DRESSES

 
Tuesday, 28 Jun 2011 - Friday, 1 July 2011
Exhibition Hours: 10 am to 4 pm
 
An exhibition by The Gordon's first year fashion students where the same dress is reinterpreted, reincarnated and reinvigorated in 31 different ways.
 
   
 
 

 

 
 
 

 Youth, Interrupted - Works from the Cunningham Dax Collection

 

Wednesday, 18 May - Friday, 3 June
Exhibition Hours: 10am - 4pm
With reference to personal experiences, this exhibition features artworks created by individuals in their teens and twenties whose lives were disrupted by mental illness or trauma.
Paintings, drawings and ceramics, drawn from the Dax Centre, span from the 1950s to the present day.
 


Image credit:
Romy Dwosh,
Serenity Breaking Down, 2007
Earthenware
17x18x7 cm
 
 

PAST EXHIBITIONS 2010
 

The Art of Diplomacy

Following the recent success of the 8 Degrees exhibition, The Gordon is proud to present The Art of Diplomacy, a mixed media exhibition by graduating Diploma of Visual Arts students. The exhibition will showcase a selection of art works including drawings, paintings, sculpture and printmaking in its home at The Gordon Gallery.
 

Up The Garden Path

Up The Garden Path is the first solo exhibition of Geelong artist Deborah Fisher. The exhibition consists of drawings and paintings of Geelong and regional insects, observing the insects directly, with the aid of a magnifying glass.
 

Geelong Regional Artists Exhibition, 2010

The annual Geelong Regional Artists Exhibition at The Gordon Gallery features the original works of eight emerging artists from the Geelong region.
The popular exhibition, now in its eighth year, showcases a diversity of mediums including painting, drawing, photography and performance art.
The event organiser, Jamie Ivarsen from The Gordon says the exhibition celebrates the extraordinary talent of our region and provides artists the opportunity to further develop their career in the art industry.
 

Memories For Safe Keeping' Alzheimer's Australia exhibition

This project is a partnership between Deakin University, St Laurence Community Services and Alzheimer’s Australia. ‘Memories and Safe Keeping’ aims to raise awareness of the importance of communicating the past, present, and future identity of the person who has dementia. Maintaining the social identity of the person with dementia as someone involved in making decisions and planning their future will help to address negative stereotypes of dementia. The project aims to communicate this message through a photo-narrative, photographic exhibition
 
 
 
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