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THE ECOLOGIES PROJECT Lisa Stewart, Brainstone to Birdman 2007 video still, courtesy of the artist LAURENCE ABERHART | LAUREN BERKOWITZ | CHRIS BOND | ANGELA BRENNAN | PAUL BUWANG BUWANG JANET BURCHILL AND JENNIFER McCAMLEY | JOYCE CAMPBELL | MIKALA DWYER | MICHAEL CORRIDORE PETER DOMBROVSKIS | BRODIE ELLIS | ANNA EPHRAIM | GALI YALKARRIWUY GURRUWIWI | ANDREW HAZEWINKEL SUSAN JACOBS | ASH KEATING | NICK MANGAN | DHUWARRWARR MARIKA | MANDY MARTIN | VERA MÖLLER JAMES MORRISON | ANNE NOBLE | HENRY NUPURRA | RAQUEL ORMELLA | FIONA PARDINGTON | LUKE PITHER ADAM PYETT | STUART RINGHOLT | EWEN ROSS | SANDRA SELIG | ANDREW SINCLAIR | EILEEN YARITJA STEVENS LISA STEWART | RICKY SWALLOW | CHRISTIAN THOMPSON | MICHELLE USSHER | ROHAN WEALLEANS ROY WIGGAN | JOHN WOLSELEY | CURATORS: GERALDINE BARLOW AND DR KYLA McFARLANE MEDIA KIT THE ECOLOGIES PROJECT The Ecologies Project Exhibition Dates: Monash University Museum of Art, 17 September – 22 November 2008 Top: Susan Jacobs Side effect 2008 (detail), wood, graphite, charcoal, courtesy of the artist Above: Michael Corridore Untitled 9 2006, Type C photograph, courtesy of the artist Monash University Museum of Art MUMA Ground Floor, Building 55 Monash University, Clayton Campus Wellington Road, Clayton Postal: Monash University VIC 3800 Melbourne, Australia Tuesday to Friday 10am-5pm Saturday 2-5pm T: 61 3 9905 4217 E: [email protected] www.monash.edu.au/muma Free entry MEDIA KIT THE ECOLOGIES PROJECT Introduction What is this project that we are now undertaking, as we globally seek a new balance with the ecological systems that sustain us? Will endgame, apocalyptic visions drive change, or can our wonder in the natural world inspire the creation of a brighter future? Artists have long drawn inspiration from nature, as well as being advocates for a sustainable relationship between humanity and the environment. Now that a need for change has become broadly accepted, what role for art? Even with this accepted impetus to action, the particular paths we might take are unclear. It is an exciting and unsettling time as we sit between the darkest and most hopeful of futures. We must grapple with a myriad of abstract and interconnected systems, economic, environmental, social and philosophical. At this moment in time, art offers a lens through which we can examine the world as well as a kind of metaphorical thinking that can sharpen our perception of the relation between these complex parts and their impact on a dynamic whole. The Ecologies Project includes work by 40 artists exploring issues of sustainability, climate change and the idea of ecology as both form and metaphor. PRE-OPENING CURATORS’ TALK Saturday 20 September at 1.30pm Geraldine Barlow and Dr Kyla McFarlane OPENING FUNCTION Saturday 20 September at 2.00pm Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton Campus With opening remarks at 2:45pm by Professorial Fellow John Thwaites, Chairman of the Monash Sustainability Institute, and Former Deputy Victorian Premier and minister for Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change Above: Michelle Ussher Willy won’t he 2007 watercolour, pencil and acrylic on paper, Artbank Collection. Below: Peter Dombrovskis, Morning mist, Rock Island Bend, CATALOGUE A 68 page colour catalogue will be produced for The Ecologies Project featuring text by exhibition curators Geraldine Barlow and Dr Kyla McFarlane and selected text responses by researchers from a range of Monash University departments including the Monash Sustainability Institute. 1979, image courtesy Liz Dombrovskis SPECIAL PRESENTATION Sunday 26 October 2008 11.30am PGAV Get into Art! Open Day event Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton Campus THE AURA OF IMAGE: Associate Professor Robert Nelson, Associate Dean, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University and art critic, The Age in conversation with curators Geraldine Barlow and Dr Kyla McFarlane, discussing the role that Peter Dombrovskis’ iconic image Morning mist, Rock Island Bend, Franklin River played in the ‘Save the Franklin River’ campaign and how artists are advocating for a more sustainable future. Bookings required: 03 9905 4217 or [email protected] For additional Education and public programs during The Ecologies Project see MUMA website www.monash.edu.au/muma Media Contact For further information or image requests please contact Danny Lacy, Program Administrator 03 99051618 or [email protected] THE ECOLOGIES PROJECT LAURENCE ABERHART | LAUREN BERKOWITZ | CHRIS BOND | ANGELA BRENNAN | PAUL BUWANG BUWANG JANET BURCHILL AND JENNIFER McCAMLEY | JOYCE CAMPBELL | MIKALA DWYER | MICHAEL CORRIDORE PETER DOMBROVSKIS | BRODIE ELLIS | ANNA EPHRAIM | GALI YALKARRIWUY GURRUWIWI | ANDREW HAZEWINKEL SUSAN JACOBS | ASH KEATING | NICK MANGAN | DHUWARRWARR MARIKA | MANDY MARTIN | VERA MÖLLER JAMES MORRISON | ANNE NOBLE | HENRY NUPURRA | RAQUEL ORMELLA | FIONA PARDINGTON | LUKE PITHER ADAM PYETT | STUART RINGHOLT | EWEN ROSS | SANDRA SELIG | ANDREW SINCLAIR | EILEEN YARITJA STEVENS LISA STEWART | RICKY SWALLOW | CHRISTIAN THOMPSON | MICHELLE USSHER | ROHAN WEALLEANS ROY WIGGAN | JOHN WOLSELEY | CURATORS: GERALDINE BARLOW AND DR KYLA McFARLANE Professor John Redmond, Chair, and Max Delany, Director, MUMA, cordially invite you to the opening of The Ecologies Project Exhibition Dates 17 September – 22 November 2008 Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton Campus SPECIAL PRESENTATION Sunday 26 October 2008 11.30am PGAV Get into Art! Open Day event Monash University Museum of Art PRE-OPENING CURATORS’ TALK Saturday 20 September at 1.30pm Education and Public Programs THE AURA OF IMAGE: Associate Professor Robert Nelson, Associate Dean, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University and art critic, The Age in conversation with curators Geraldine Barlow and Dr Kyla McFarlane, discussing the role that Peter Dombrovskis’ iconic image Morning mist, Rock Island Bend, Franklin River played in the ‘Save the Franklin River’ campaign and how artists are advocating for a more sustainable future. Bookings required OPENING FUNCTION Saturday 20 September at 2.00pm Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton Campus With opening remarks at 2:45pm by Professorial Fellow John Thwaites, Chairman of the Monash Sustainability Institute, and Former Deputy Victorian Premier and Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change Wed 24 September 12.30pm Susan Jacobs Lunchtime Art Forum Faculty of Art and Design, Caulfield campus Wed 8 October 10.30am-12pm Seniors Week event Frances Saunders, Actively gardening for a sustainable future. Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton Campus Bookings required Monash University Museum of Art MUMA Ground Floor, Building 55 Monash University, Clayton Campus Wellington Road, Clayton Postal: Monash University VIC 3800 Melbourne, Australia Tuesday to Friday 10am-5pm Saturday 2-5pm T: 61 3 9905 4217 E: [email protected] www.monash.edu.au/muma Free entry Lisa Stewart, Brainstone to Birdman 2007 video still, courtesy of the artist