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Huyghue House 15 Camp Street
Alfred Deakin Place
Neo-Gineering: Group Exhibition
Neo-Gineering: A Perfect Showcase For STEAM-Driven
Ballarat. The interface between technology and culture
and the arts has always been permeable.
Our Australian landscape bears evidence of engineering
works that are tens-of-thousands of years old, signals of a
culture that integrated place and persons in ways we are just
beginning to re-discover. Artists since time immemorial have
experimented with the tools, materials, and physics involved
in creating their work; have documented land- and soundscapes
evolving with the rise of the industrial age, and in
latter generations have made the products of engineering and
technology itself the subjects of their artwork.
With the new Backspace Gallery exhibition Neo-Gineering,
seven artists of varying disciplines - painting, photography,
sculpture, fashion, installation, and media – come together
to comment on and celebrate the ways that their creativity
incorporates and benefits from the ideas of engineering.
In this dance of concepts and creation, visitors can experience
the immersive colourful animations of children’s art by Margie
Balazic, alongside Ian Kemp’s photographs where images of
ancient fossils are captured in emulsion and paper by just a
flash of light.
Illuminated illustrations and repurposed skate boards by
Casey Tosh bring ‘street’ credibility to the mix, while the soft
engineering of Kat Pengelly’s neoprene fashion speaks of
future street style. Painter Dale Braybrook bridges ancient
and nano engineering, Zlatko Balazic explores diverse
outcomes of combining light and sound through his multiple
kinetic artworks, and Ellen Sorensen’s paper engineering
illustration is a masterful marriage of imagery and effect.
As Ballarat embraces STEAM (science, technology,
engineering, arts, mathematics) as the foundation for its
re-branding as a Creative City, Neo-Gineering shines as a
showcase of how Ballarat’s artists are already early adopters
of the Brave New World.
Backspace Gallery is an initiative of the City of Ballarat Arts and Culture
Unit, dedicated to supporting local and regional artists by exhibiting quality
contemporary visual art, design and craft.
Located in historic Huyghue House:
Alfred Deakin Place, 15 Camp Street in the CBD
Backspace Gallery exhibition is open to the public
Thursday - Sunday 12 – 4pm
further information contact Deborah Klein:
heidizukauskas@ballarat.vic.gov.au
10 September 2018 ARTeFACT Newsletter