Featured Student
Photography credit: Images by Marion Abada www.marionabada.com.au Marion is a current PSC second year student. These images are part of her Photo Impressionism series which applies the concepts of the 19th Century painting style of Impressionism through the medium of digital photography. In these images Marion was interested in exploring the nature of time and how changes to the time of year, time of day or even random fleeting moments create differences in how we emotionally engage with and respond to the world around us.
STUDENT: Emily Goulsbra, 3rd Year Full Time - Commercial Major
ASSIGNMENT: Work in progress/Folio
COMMENT: I have a soft spot for a man with a mustache (don’t ask me why, I just do) and love portraiture, so it only seemed natural to combine the two for my folio. I also like to have an element of humour in my work, so we decided to work a milk-mustache for this shoot. It was incredibly difficult to get a perfect foamy upper lip, but the final result was quite satisfying.
PSC staff Sarina Lirosi’s work has been shortlisted for the Artecycle art prize. Artecyle is an exhibition of sculptures and installations, using reclaimed materials that explores themes of environmentalism and sustainability. Inspired by the venues’ history and a non-acquisitive prize pool of $14,000, it attracts artists from all over Australia.
Artecycle 2012 will be judged by Doug Hall, AM, Australian Commissioner, Venice Biennale, 2011 and former director of the Queensland Art Gallery.
Artecycle 2012 and will feature 27 works to exhibit inside the gallery and in the surrounding grounds.
Winners will be published when they have been announced on 17 May 2012.
Good luck Sarina!
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Incinerator Gallery
180 Holmes Road Moonee Ponds VIC
Exhibition Dates: 17 May-08 July 2012
PSC 2012 Graduation Awards – congratulations to all award winners!
Featured here are PSC Managing Director Julie Moss with Cameron Church awarded for excellence in Photojournalism, with Michael Nimorakiotakis for excellence in the Art major, with Kimberley Munro for excellence in the commercial major and with Deborah Mullins for excellence in research.
STUDENT: Darcy Barrow, 3rd Year Full Time - Art Major
ASSIGNMENT: Work in progress/folio
COMMENT: Since the start of college I have been obsessed with the constructed landscape in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, looking especially at constant redevelopment and contrasts of new and old.
I continually scout locations and look for a banality and isolation that I feel encapsulates the soul of the area itself.
I want the viewer to ask questions about the purpose of the area and how it relates to us as inhabitants; how it excludes us from what was once a natural area.
This particular image is the newest in a series for my final year art folio, a continuation of something I have been exploring since the start of PSC.
I see this photo as a stepping stone into my series for the year, which is an exciting prospect!
PSC tutor Bill Bachman dropped in at the ABC radio studios in Southbank yesterday for a conversation about photography with US lighting legend Joe McNally on Waleed Aly’s Radio National Drive program. The segment will go to air in The Drawing Room timeslot on RN Drive around 7:45PM on Monday May 7, and will be available as a podcast immediately afterwards on http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/
Joe McNally is in Australia for a series of lectures, seminars and workshops throughout May. For details check his website
Image: Joe McNally
Image: Bill Bachman
STUDENT: Donna Stevens, 3rd Year PT
ASSIGNMENT: 3rd Year, 1st Semester Project (Curves of Life)
COMMENT: Inspired by a trip to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, I decided to recreate Dante Gabriel Rossetti paintings in the modern day portrait medium.
I didn’t realise what a production it would be to build a wall of flowers… until it was too late to turn back.
A special thanks to Amy Wright of Wunderplant, Kate Gaskin, Emily Coyle, Alana Holmes and model Emily T from Giant.
These images were lucky enough to be recently featured on Vogue Italia’s – Photo Vogue Selected Images.
Alice, PSC 2nd year full time student has had her first year folio posted on the abc site along with an interview.
Alice McMillan-Drendel comes from Rainbow.
She had told me about the large number of abandoned properties and houses in the area.
They could not be ignored – so for her 1st year semester B major project, Alice decided to document these homes.
As it turns out, this work caught the attention of the producer of ABC Open – Larissa Romensky who has interviewed Alice regarding this project.
Here is the link to the interview.
1000 pounds bend cafe
361 Lt Lonsdale Street Melbourne
Exhibition Dates: 1 May–31 May 2012
This series explores the meeting point between reality and fantasy. The juxtaposition of photo and painting simultaneously unifies and exaggerates the disparity of the subject to her surroundings, as we, the viewer make the journey ourselves into and out of reality.
Third year art major students recently visited Gold Street Studios in Trentham where they participated in the Alternative Processes Workshop.
Students made cyanotypes and van dyke browns.
Gold St studios is run by Ellie Young (who is a PSC graduate)
http://www.goldstreetstudios.com.au/
First year part time student Sharon Johnston has recently been selected for exhibition as part of the Head On Portrait Festival. “The Head On Photo Festival is a major innovative showcase for Australian and international photography, reflecting a vibrant, diverse cross-section of new and traditional photographic practices. It is the largest event of its kind in Australia and the second largest in the world.” (See their website for more info)
Sharon’s image “Bold Commitment” will be screened as part of the festival exhibition in a slide show that runs from 5 May to 3 June in Sydney. This semester, Sharon is also working on an exciting concept with nudes and is about to undertake a shoot on location at Daylesford’s Convent Gallery.
Congratulations Sharon! It’s great to see your passion and hard work paying off for you. We are looking forward to seeing more results from your efforts later this semester.
