Mei Jing’s Master of Arts (Art in Public Space) major research project
utilises the traditional beverage tea as a medium in which to explore
people’s daily life and social relationships. Tea originated in China
and spread to other countries through its trade routes. Tea evokes
memories of the sights, sounds, scents and taste of the moment. Mei’s work addresses relationships between tea, jewelry
and nature. Mei has made and placed intricately constructed jewelry
within public space, choosing sites where her work is camouflaged within
the natural environment. Mei has mapped these different locations
throughout Melbourne and presents the photographic record of her
project. Tea mapping asks audiences to think about their relationship
and presence within public space.
Carolyn Cardinet’s arts project White Nightsreflects on the
mass production of plastic packaging and the impact single use detritus
has on our environment and our future. Her work is a byproduct of human
consumption, the stuff we use or are in contact with in our city daily.
Discarded packaging lies in our back lanes, overflows from our bins and
flies through our city streets, to finally wash up on our seashores.
Carolyn’s collects this packaging and creates stunning assembled
sculptural works. Carolyn is a graduate of the Master of Fine Art RMIT
program.
Season Poem by Wong Weng lo and Wilson Yeung is a
kinetic light based installation that evokes the cycle of the four
seasons: from Spring, Summer, Autumn through to Winter. Their work has
strong connects to Chinese ink painting, Chinese calligraphy and the
traditional Chinese scroll.
Carolina Facelli’s work deals with people and
society through seemingly insignificant objects and details of the urban
complex. Presenting her work in a site responsive manner within nine PS50
project boxes on Orr St she uses historical analytical drawing as a format and
basis for her current Master of Arts (Art in Public Space) research. Carolina
endeavours to investigate the use of drawing as a way of exploring and
understanding the world we live in. The work draws attention onto the
ubiquitous unseen, such as electricity poles in which she finds beauty and
metaphor for society, community and urban functionality.
Ainslie Macaulay’s practice
explores fleeting memories of place through a range of media. Filling twelve
PS50 project boxes with mixed media works including sculpture, projection,
sound and installation she responds to the facing laneway site. Ainslie’s work
is process based as she gathers, interprets, constructs and compiles shared
memories derived from places in Victoria and showcases the collection as part
of her Master of Arts (Art in Public Space) major research project.
Shanghai SkypeLab PS50 exhibiting artists: Esther Konings, Ben Lamason, Susan Rice-Bellman, Sally Richmond, Rose Hawker. Shanghai SkypeLab curatorial team: Maggie McCormick (RMIT University,
Australia), Henning Eichinger (Reutlingen University, Germany) and
Yonglei Ma (ECNU University, China).
Shanghai SkypeLab is a
transcontinental ‘portrait’ of faces and places that maps a specific
point in time on the Asian continent: 15-19 September 2014. Shanghai
SkypeLab investigates perceptions of identity mediated through Blind
Contour Drawing via digital screens. The
project was undertaken as the 2014 Art in Public Space field trip in
collaboration with the School of Design at East China Normal University
in Shanghai.
RMIT Link Arts & Culture's Public Art Collective present the group arts project Seasonal
Stillness. The artists’ present individual series of works within the
mediums of assemblage, animation, projected imagery, resin and
kinetic sculpture. Seasonal Stillness encapsulates works that
aim to inspire viewers to stop within the bustle of their daily lives
and reflect in the stillness of spring. Artists: Chris Dalvean, Hema Veeramohan, Natasha Home, Rachel Prince, Simon Warlond and Rebecca Claire Edwards.
Supported by RMIT Link Arts & Culture arts funding.
RMIT University Master of Art in Public Space student Julie Andrews presents The
in-between space: mapping the liminal psychogeography of the everyday,
as part of her major research project. Julie’s investigation
includes the psychological terrain of the liminal: the in-between space,
of the everyday trance, a place for noticing, escaping and
contemplation: the move to the world in our heads, the imaginary, and a
space from which memories and feeling seduce us.
Julie Andrews
(1962, Melbourne, Australia) creates mixed media artworks, painting,
drawings, ceramics, glass sculptures, assemblage and video
installations. Andrews lives and works as an artist in Bendigo, Central
Victoria, and received her Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2012 at Latrobe
University, Bendigo and is currently completing a Master of Arts (Art in
Public Space) at RMIT.
RMIT University, Master of Art in Public Space student Georgia Mill presents We Are Made
Of Lines as part of her major research project. Georgia’s methodology
is centered around the individual body: its interpretation and
navigation of space and time, how we recall
the journeys we’ve taken, and the invisible thoughts and memories which
form part of our navigation experience and personal narrative.
We Are Made Of Lines is an investigation into line, story telling,
portraiture and mapping; a series of illuminated linear works which
chart peoples’ journeys around Melbourne city, accompanied by
corresponding written descriptions about the individual movements.
Georgia Mill is a visual artist based in Melbourne. In 2011 she
graduated with a Bachelor of Creative Arts from the University of
Melbourne. She has worked as a sculptor, performer and designer in
Melbourne and internationally. During 2012 she worked as a set designer
on St Martins Youth Theatre’s production, Accidentally Ugly and as an
Artist in Residence at Emmy Monash Aged Care Facility in Caulfield,
Melbourne. Georgia was the designer for The Hide, a live art project in
the 2012 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Most recently Georgia received 2013
Punctum Seedpod sponsorship to develop her live art work titled Lines We
Might Have Walked. She is currently undertaking Stage C of the Master
of Arts (Art in Public Space) program at RMIT University.
