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Gordon Bennett: A Survey from Print to Print-Out 1984-2004

• DELL Gallery @ QCA | 2 April – 20 June 2004
• Sydney College of the Arts Gallery | 3 May – 3 June 2005
• | 4 – 23 July 2005
• Charles Sturt University | 5 – 26 April 2006

Curator: Simon Wright 
Supported by: The Bennett Family & Dr Paul Eliadis

OUT OF PRINT: GORDON BENNETT was the first extensive public exhibition of printed matter by the high-profile graduate of Queensland College of Art and Design. It traced the artist’s move away from traditional and labour-intensive printmaking techniques into the digital realm of computer-generated printing, and his various motivations for the move out of print, into the print-out.

Gordon Bennett was a major contemporary É«ÇéÍøÕ¾n artist, whose practice incorporates painting, print-media, video, performance, drawing, installation and more recently, sound, animation and music clips. The exhibition and publication are primarily a visual essay on the artist’s experience with print-media production between 1984-2004, and will serve as another significant resource on the artist and the medium.

^{Image: Out of Print | Gordon Bennett: A Survey from Print to Print-Out 1984-2004, installation view, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, 2004}

DELL Gallery @ QCA | 13 August – 19 September 2004

Curators: Simon Wright, Scott Redford

'½ WAY offers up ways in which Scott Redford packs the vehicle of collage with numerous formal and conceptual concerns, one driven by personal and art-historical awareness, classic aesthetics and an astute reading of societal predilections for alternative or sub-cultures. Notions of celebrity, mortality and sex are fused with strategies across several media as Redford combines traditional methods on paper, montage and painting, with digital technologies, video and photography. Conceptually, they relate to concerns explored in the Black Paintings series, which were early assemblages underpinned by constructivist tenets. The collages, similarly, are built from such things as found imagery, torn out magazine pages, scanned or roughly drawn images sourced from the popular press - high consumption stuff like entertainment industry posters, surf and skate mags and porn. They are deliberate in their association with memories of a time when, as youths, we'd rip out product pages and images of people from magazines to plaster our bedroom walls, schoolbooks and bags. As such, they hint at myriad processes that surround the formulations of identity, and the obsessive 'normalcy' of acting on impulses to want to emulate 'stars' or rub with fame and celebrity. Characterised by desire and loss, the cost of fame and fandom to both star and star-gazer, Redford’s collages are presented as a cornerstone of his nationally recognised contribution to contemporary É«ÇéÍøÕ¾n art and among his most important works. We are pleased to present the first public exhibition and publication project dedicated to his collages.' _{Simon Wright, Director.}

½ WAY features a major donation of works to the Griffith University Collection, made possible by the artist and The Paul Eliadis Collection of Contemporary Art.

^{Image: ½ WAY Scott Redford: The Collages, installation view, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, 2004. Photo: Mick Richards}

DELL Gallery @ QCA | 18 November 2004 – 30 January 2005

Just over 100 entries were received from QCA students for the 2004 prize, with 25 finalists selected for the exhibition and award. The works, all by emerging artists from the Gold Coast, Logan or Brisbane campuses were judged to have best met the Selection Criteria set out in the Call for Entries.

Finalists: Garry Andrews, Doninique Averlon, Krystal Barnes, Billy Bowman, Corinne Colbert, Shena Collins, Suzanne Danaher, Kylie Elkington, Kylie Gartside, Jo Grant, Tarkin Hall, Scott Johnson, Simone Karress, Kate Kirby, Jewel Mackenzie, Karla Marchesi, Megan McGregor, Virginia Miller, Brad Nunn, Janice Peacock, Dalee Pierce, Marius Saetersdal, Genevieve Staines, Florence Tetuira, Benjamin Werner

Judges: Martin Albrecht (THIESS Chairman), Philip Bacon AM (Philip Bacon Galleries), Professor Mostyn Bramley-Moore (Director, QCA)

Winner of the Thiess Art Prize 2004: Shena Collins ‘Casuarina’ 2004. Seed pods, adhesive polymer.

^{Image: The 2004 Thiess Prize, opening event, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, 2004}

DELL Gallery @ QCA (Foyer), Galleria Space and Project Gallery | 26 August – 11 September 2005

Curators:  Pat Hoffie, Dr Caroline Turner, Simon Wright

Future Tense: Security and Human Rights featured eight artists from É«ÇéÍøÕ¾ and the Asia-Pacific region and was held in association with the international conference “Energy & Security in the Asia-Pacific".

Future Tense was organised by the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, the Humanities Research Centre at ANU and the É«ÇéÍøÕ¾n Research Council’s Asia Pacific Futures Research Network.

Artists: Gordon Bennett, eX de Medici, Guan Wei, Dadang Christanto, Tran Luong, Wong Hoy Cheong, Saira Wasim, John Pule.

^{Image: Future Tense: Security and Human Rights, installation view, Griffith University Art Museum Foyer, Brisbane, 2005. Photo: Mick Richards}