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Free Lunchtime Lecture at Homlesglen | Noël Skrzypczak

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Noël Skrzypczak (pronounced Scrip-jack) is a Melbourne artist whose work has consistently addressed the materiality of painting and surface. Her wall paintings, a major one of which was commissioned for the lobby of the Melbourne Crown Metropole Hotel, recall the expressive spontaneity of surrealism and the pour and drip of action painting. The Holmesglen Collection includes three early works by the artist – these are currently installed in the Information Commons, Moorabbin campus. Noël is represented in significant public and private collections throughout Australia and will be speaking at the Chadstone campus in a free lunchtime lecture. Please join us for what promises to be an inspiring discussion. Date: 12.30 – 1.30pm, Thursday 21 August 2020 Venue: Holmesglen, Room C.1.1.33,…

Artist Talk | William Mackinnon | Holmesglen

Happy and Sad (Johnny and Walangkura), 2011 (detail)  acrylic, oil and enamel on linen. 99 x 102 cm © William Mackinnon

Art Talks Free Lunchtime Lecture William Mackinnon William Mackinnon is a Melbourne artist who graduated with a Master of Visual Arts at the VCA in 2008. As the recipient of the prestigious Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship in 2008, the artist used the two year bursary to travel through the Kimberley; working for Papunya Tula Artists as a Field Officer serving the Kintore (NT) and Kwikurra (WA) communities and as artist in residence at Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing. Mackinnon has presented an uncompromising version of indigenous community life - one that finds human strength and dignity amongst a bleak landscape where two cultures collide. The artist will talk about his experiences as a Field Officer, how they are manifest in his…

Art Talk at Holmesglen | Tim McMonagle

That’s the style, Mary 2011 oil on linen, 183 x 183 cm © Tim McMonagle

Tim McMonagle is a painter for whom the process of making a work is as important as the image itself. Painting directly on to linen, with no preparatory sketches, McMonagle characteristically introduces texture and depth through a robust use of impasto, sweeping brushstrokes and intensely rendered detail. His portrait of Melbourne property developer and avid art collector Michael Buxton was shortlisted for the 2012 Archibald Prize. That’s the style, Mary, McMonagle’s stunning 2011 commentary on 21st century materialism is in the Holmesglen Collection. The artist is represented in significant public and private collections throughout Australia and will be speaking at the Chadstone campus in a free lunchtime lecture. Date:: 12.30 - 1.30pm, Thursday 12th September 2013 Venue: Room C1.1.33 at…

Artist Talk | Viv Miller at Holmesglen

Sunbeams and Rocks, 2011 (detail) oil, enamel, pencil and acrylic on linen 180 x 150cm © Viv Miller

Viv Miller Free lunch time lecture The Holmesglen Collection of Contemporary Art includes Viv Miller’s striking painting, Sunbeams and Rocks, 2011. When the artist started making work for the exhibition that included this painting, she acknowledged that the sun was a big subject (metaphorically and literally) to take on. “I was drawn to it because it seemed impossible to create pictures of it. It’s an omnipresent force that you can’t even look at. The most you can do is sneak a glance and feel its assault”. Subsequently, the sun has become a central motif in Miller’s iconography. The artist draws on a range of source material for her work including romanticism, computer graphics, geometric abstraction, graphic art, illustration and animation.…

Artist Talk | Pamela Irving at Holmesglen

Katya (detail) Concrete and Venetian glass 65 x 58 x 35cm Bars Collection, St. Petersburg © Pamela Irving

Art Talks: Free Lunchtime Lecture Pamela Irving Pamela Irving is a prominent Australian artist who specializes in bronze, ceramic and mosaic sculptures as well as printmaking and copper etchings. Pamela’s exuberant work is held in public and private collections throughout the world. Part of her most recent mosaic commission was unveiled last year at the Luna Palace building to commemorate Luna Park’s 100th birthday. Join Pamela for a fascinating discussion of her life and work as an artist. Date: Wednesday 8 May 2021 12.00–1.00pm Venue: Holmesglen, Room C1.1.33 at Chadstone campus, Batesford Rd, Chadstone. Melways ref: 69 F1 Bookings are essential, please contact Anna Long Email: artcollection@holmesglen.edu.au Phone: 03 9209 5605 Website http://www.holmesglen.edu.au/showcase/events/art_talks_pamela_irving  

Lecture | Anne-Marie May at Holmesglen

ART TALKS: Free Public Lecture Anne-Marie May Anne-Marie May is a Melbourne based visual artist. For two decades, her practice has explored connections across the fields of art, design and architecture. May was a member of the influential Store 5, an artist-run space in Prahran. The artist and her fellow exhibitors used materials commonly associated with a non-art environment (domestic, industrial) and through process and experimentation, re-purposed and personalised them. May continues to describe her art as process driven: working with a variety of materials and experimenting with processes that could potentially impose form on to those materials. The artist veers away from adhering to a predetermined plan or concept of form followed by fabrication and her acrylic mobile, Untitled,…

Art Talks: Simon Terrill at Holmesglen Collection

Simon Terrill, Balfron Tower, 2010 © Reproduced courtesy the artist and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

Art Talks: Simon Terrill Simon Terrill uses photography to investigate the relationship between built environments and personal narrative. Even when vacant, sites captured in his work are heavily laden with a sense of human presence and activity. The movement of crowds, wear and tear carved by constant use and intimate histories imparted by those passing through resonate in Terrill’s compositions. The artist is also known for fastidiously directed, composed and constructed crowd scenes such as the monumental Balfron Tower - a print of which is now in the Holmesglen Collection and a work that required months of meticulous organisation to realise. Liaison with an East End London council, residents and funding bodies lead to a single image in which an architectural monolith…

Art Talk: Penny Byrne

© Penny Byrne, Green Wash Warrior Rides in to Save the Planet, (detall) 2010. Holmesglen Collection of Contemporary Art. Reproduced courtesy of Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art.

Art Talks: Free Lunchtime Lecture Penny Byrne Penny Byrne has been described as a political cartoonist who uses ceramics. Highly regarded as a leading authority on ceramic restoration, Byrne started making her own work in 2001; it covers a range of contemporary issues from the environment to Australian and American politics and lampoons the failings of contemporary society. The artist’s reworked ceramic figurines - often made from the kitsch remnants of someone else’s interior design disaster - have captured people’s imagination and incited much commentary with their witty and unapologetic imagery. Penny Byrne will be speaking about her career as an artist and conservator (and the move from the latter to the former) in a free public lecture at the…