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Victoria Boulter Tony Coles Diana Cregan-Reid

Susan Gray Maureen llansen

Sonja llardman Ann elise Johnston Damian Le Goullon Angela Neilson Elaine Rietveld Abby Sawford Alice Steiner Jeanette Taylor Paula Truesdale Jane Westerman

THANK YOU

The Graduating students of the Bachelor of Arts, Visual Arts 1988, would like to acknowledge the extensive help given from the tutors and administrative staff of the Art Department at BCAE Kelvin Grove Campus. A warm thank you is extended for such strong support and advice over the last three years. Also an added thanks to Michael Curtis and Diana Cregan-Reid for their photographic skills.

INTRODUCTION

This being the first Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) Graduating Students' Exhibition, it is a moment of great pride and excitement for everyone within the Art Department and the School of the Arts. Only three years ago we were engaged in the task of selecting our first intake for a course existing only on paper and in our hopes. Since its inception, we have made some "fine tuning" to the course, but its basic structure and objectives have remained intact. These are to give the students a good foundation in practice, together with some understanding of the role of the visual arts in past and contemporary culture.

Twenty-three students started the course, and we are pleased that most of them have stayed the distance. The high percentage of graduates reflects well on the course and on the students. They have been a tolerant and good-humoured group and by their third year mature and weD-disciplined in their art-making. To them, three years has been such a brief period in the potential lifetime of achievement available to them, and to us for providing them the rudiments of their craft. Rudiments is all we can call them; we cannot claim to have made them "artists" .

Our approach has been to guide them toward producing work based on observation, and first-hand experience. The students had the opportunity to experiment in all kinds of media. As might be expected in a course of this nature, most chose painting as their medium, but several chose other media. Overall, they display a good deal of variety and individuality.

This first graduating group will always hold a special place in our memory; for us as well as for them, this is very much our "coming out party" .

We are therefore grateful to Jim Baker for welcoming us to the Museum of Contemporary Art, and providing us with such a splendid space. I am certain that the venue helped to motivate the students to greater effort. I also trust that this association with M.O.C.A. will continue in future years.

There are many people to thank, too many to name individually, but I do want to express my gratitude and congratulations to all members of the Art Department staff, full-time and part-time, for their contributions and guidance, the School of the Arts for its administrative support, the officers of Brisbane College of Advanced Education for their continued support of our efforts. I extend my special congratulations to the graduating students and to their families. The students had complete responsibility for all aspects of this exhibition, the production of the catalogue, curating the exhibition and organising the Opening Night festivities. Finally, I thank Mr Nick Waterlow, former Director of the last two, and most successful Sydney Biennale, who agreed to be external assessor and to open the exhibition.

Dr Joe Airo-Farulla Head, Art Department

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r Julie Antonio Born 22 July 1968 Millmerran, Qld

Always have confidence in your artwork. If you don't have this confidence your art suffers.

I am always aware of the "simple" objects around me. When I see a beater, an iron, a floor, a kettle, or a wall; I see a painting.

"Untitled" Oil on Canvas 122 em x 92 em

JULIE ANTONIO

Kim-Marie Barton Born 7 February 1968 New Britain

Past imagery Present models the classical my environments the visual as I see it.

"Untitled" Oil on Canvas 122 em x 92 em

KIM-MARIE BARTON

Victoria Boulter Born 29 April 1968 Tittensor ,England

"A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden. The roses growing on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it, busily painting them red. Alice thought this is a very curious thing ... "

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

''The Dancing Bear and the Violinist'' Oil on Canvas 62 em x 92 em

VICTORIA BOULTER

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Tony Coles Born 20 September 1968 Brisbane

I have wanted to feel in these pictures, the sense of space and light which I have felt from the sea. The images in the paintings are taken from readily accessible subjects, where the subject is only treated as a strating point. What fascinates me is the liquid quality of light ... also, I love to surf!

"Untitled" Gouache, pastel on Ingres paper 31 Y2 em x 40 em

TONY COLES

Diana Cregan-Reid Born 4 August 1950 Sussex Inlet, NSW

Hints of the past - places and some people.

Concrete - fragility and strength.

Stockpiled - a lot of my other time is spent on building sites.

Individual pieces -concrete 240 em x 22 em x 15 em

DIANA CREGAN-REID

Susan Gray I'm salvaging lost objects, validating their existence.

Born 19 February 1969 Brisbane

"Numero Uno" Tin and found objects 40 em x 30 em x 18 em

SUSAN GRAY

~aureen llansen Born 24 December 1968 ~aryborough

Any honest art is automatically valid. I began to paint the series on College items because these still lifes are born of practicality - not aesthetic. I was peeved with campus bureaucracy and preferred the conversation of cleaners. I enjoy the spontaneity which can occur if one trusts the ethereal leap between the eye and the band - we are given so many random juxtapositions to wonder at in objects and in colour - I love to paint these things.

"Alice in the Studio" Oil on Paper 40 em x 30 em

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MAUREEN HANSEN

Sonja Hardman Born 12 July 1968 California, USA

My drawings have become 'stories' - fragments I'm learning to control. These paperworks have evolved in my student years from a fascination with paper, books, and a consistent working pattern of series to be seen as a whole.

What are they about? A place, the creation of a character, finding a suitable time (past, present, future) and letting it happen on my paper. I try to aim for the themes and feelings that move me greatly, but I'm often surprised at the detours I follow in my journey.

'Untitled' Wax crayon, oil pastel 56 em x 76 em

SONJA HARDMAN

Ann elise Johnston Born 11 May 1968 Brisbane

I am interested in the exploration of my surroundings and environment. Certain objects, materials and surfaces found aU around us are often ignored and discarded as old and used. My work is an emphasis, a "bringing to attention" , that these pieces hold a beauty and aesthetic quality that is seldom recognised.

'Untitled' Wood, glass, eorrigated iron 27 em x 37 em

ANNELISE JOHNSTON

Damien Francis John Edmund Le Goullon Born 10 March 1968 Brisbane

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DAMIAN FRANCIS JOHN EDMUND LE GOULLON

ANGELA NEILSON Born 18 June 1968

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I like to find the extra in the ordinary - to call a spade a shovel and see what happens. The arts are a place for the mind to play.

Postscript: I had the good fortune to grow up in the Mitcheii/Roma district surrounded by familiar people, unpredictable animals, the earth itself and lots of sky.

Tiny Teacup Be's Itself Oil on Canvas 22.5 em x 17 em x 2 em

ANGELA NEILSON

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Elaine Mary Rietveld Born 2 November 1954 The New Forest Hampshire, England

THE AFTER EVENT e.g. A pile of books, bag and keys left on a table.

The tranquility that nature leaves behind.

WHY PAINTING? When I closely observe smaU areas for a painting a whole world of intricate forms and colours are revealed.

"Untitled" Oil on Canvas 60 em x 58 em x 4 em

ELAINE RIETVELD

Abby Sawford Born 7 August 1967

"The simplest things give me ideas"

Joan Miro

I like to use a drawn surface combined with a given surface to create a quietude of space and colour

"Untitled" Collage, mixed media (craypas, crayons pencil) 10 em x 12 em

ABBY SA WFORD

Alice Steiner Born 27 October 1968

Manifesto, Age 20

''Manifesto Landscape'' Watercolour on Paper 15 em x 10 em

ALICE STEINER

Jeanette Taylor Born 29 September 1946 Gym pie

The work is celebratory: my moments of joy arrive with the realisation of line , form, space and colour

I paint what I see.

"Untitled" Gouache on Cardboard 29 em x 26 em

JEANETTE TAYLOR.

Paula Truesdale Born 16 June 1966 Belfast, Nth Ireland

"What must always be sought, what must be found absolutely is the way to recapture with the self the way to the abandonment of the self."

Brancusi

"Bed" Bed end, chair end, easel

PAULA TRUESDALE

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