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Eight students from the Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts have been given a fantastic opportunity to work on a project at The Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest. The students have been working on site-specific work at the Gallery, in the form of window-based installation, followed by photo-works that interpret and creatively extend their installations.
The end result of their efforts will be exhibited in an exhibition called 'Framed', which has an opening celebration on Saturday September 17, from 5pm-7pm, at the Gallery.
The end result of their efforts will be exhibited in an exhibition called 'Framed', which has an opening celebration on Saturday September 17, from 5pm-7pm, at the Gallery.
The working process is giving our students an opportunity to experience the formal demands of working as an artist, including fulfilling briefs and submitting proposals. After on-site briefings by Gallery staff, the students developed site-specific proposals which presented a contemporary response to key issues of Australian Modernism and Abstraction.
The proposals were presented to Gallery curatorial staff and the student's course lecturers. Once approval had been given each artist then returned to the studio to produce an artwork designed to be framed, physically and metaphorically, within the window of Lewers House. The installed works were then documented, and further re-figured into a photo based artwork for exhibition.
As previewed in the invitation above, the process has resulted in a lovely body of work that engages with the site and history of one of Western Sydney's important Regional Galleries.
The official opening of 'Framed takes place on September 17. Also being celebrated at the same time is 'C Block', an exhibition of drawings by NADC Fine Arts teacher Catherine O'Donnell, and 'Snapshot' a vibrant exhibition of photography by teenagers.
We hope you can join us on Saturday September 17, between 5pm and 7pm at the Penrith Regional gallery and the Lewers Bequest to celebrate these exhibitions. The full address of the and hours of the Gallery can be found on the above invitation.
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