{"id":15231,"date":"2020-05-31T18:30:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T10:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jcg.curtin.edu.au\/?p=15231"},"modified":"2020-05-31T18:41:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T10:41:16","slug":"15231-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/2020\/05\/15231-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Degrees 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:20px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-one-half fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:50%;width:calc(50% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.5 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"581\" title=\"LAYLI-RAKHSHA-580\" src=\"https:\/\/jcg.curtin.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/LAYLI-RAKHSHA-580.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-12662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/LAYLI-RAKHSHA-580-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/LAYLI-RAKHSHA-580-400x401.jpg 400w, https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/LAYLI-RAKHSHA-580.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/span><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:31px;\"><h1 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\"><p style=\"text-align: center\">LAYLI\u00a0RAKHSHA<\/p><\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p>Iranian-born artist Layli Rakhsha\u2019s research project is <em>Diaspora and Home: contextualizing the idea of home in Australian contemporary art as visualised by selected Iranian artists<\/em>.Rakhsha\u2019s practice-led research investigates the ways in which Iranian artists living in Australia visualise the idea of home. Her project illuminates how memories from the past and imagination can influence how home is remembered based on the individual\u2019s experiences of migration and displacement. Rakhsha\u2019s studio research explores how home can be defined by personal experiences, social and cultural relationships and attachments to particular place. Her art project is based on exploring the idea of home though the medium of photography and printmaking.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-one-half fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:50%;width:calc(50% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.5 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-2 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"580\" title=\"ALANA-McVEIGH-580\" src=\"https:\/\/jcg.curtin.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/ALANA-McVEIGH-580.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-12660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/ALANA-McVEIGH-580-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/ALANA-McVEIGH-580-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/ALANA-McVEIGH-580.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/span><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-2 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:31px;\"><h1 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\"><p style=\"text-align: center\">ALANA McVEIGH<\/p><\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p>Accomplished ceramicist Alana McVeigh seeks to investigate how multiple streams of inferred and experimental sensory awareness and knowledge has impacted on Australian ceramic art making. Through her own creative practice and the development of an impressive body of work, Alana considers the visual, cognitive and sensual influences that entered Australian ceramic studio practice from China, Japan, Korea and Britain primarily during the 1940 \u2013 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Alana draws on knowledge gathered during visits to Japan, China, Finland, Canada, Denmark, she explores concepts of tradition and <em>experiencing <\/em>within the making, as well as translucency, atmospheric light, and textures. The resultant exhibited works reveal haptic knowledge acquired over the duration of the investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-one-half fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:50%;width:calc(50% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.5 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-3 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"580\" title=\"MARDI-CROCKER-580\" src=\"https:\/\/jcg.curtin.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/MARDI-CROCKER-580.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-12664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/MARDI-CROCKER-580-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/MARDI-CROCKER-580-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/MARDI-CROCKER-580.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/span><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-3 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:31px;\"><h1 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\"><p style=\"text-align: center\">MARDI CROCKER<\/p><\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p>Mardi Crocker\u2019s still life paintings explore the sensorial experience of the everyday\u00a0through the\u00a0depiction of\u00a0familiar and overlooked objects.<\/p>\n<p>Her project explores the potential of still life painting as a contemporary art practice to reflect the modern, lived experience of the everyday and\u00a0pays particular attention to the nature of sensory perception in the realm of the everyday, considering the ways in which the overlooked can disappear or fade from view, be both seen and unseen, and felt and remembered through the body.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mardi\u2019s research seeks to enact an attitude and methodology of attention and immersion that aims not to pass judgement on this area of life, nor to rehabilitate it or give it new primacy, but rather to\u00a0engender, and to offer, a newly attentive attitude to the everyday that allows for, and creates a space in which, the affective moments and textures of this area of life can come into view and be felt.<\/p>\n<p>Mardi graduated from Curtin University with BA of Fine Art with First Class Honours in 2014, where she is also currently completing a PhD in art. Crocker has exhibited in solo and group shows at Spectrum Project Space, Applecross Art Space, Free Range Gallery and Paper Mountain, and currently tutors painting students at Applecross Senior High School as part of the Gifted and Talented Extension program.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-one-half fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:50%;width:calc(50% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.5 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-4 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"579\" title=\"KELSEY-ASHE-GIAMBAZI-580\" src=\"https:\/\/jcg.curtin.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/KELSEY-ASHE-GIAMBAZI-580.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-12661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/KELSEY-ASHE-GIAMBAZI-580-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/KELSEY-ASHE-GIAMBAZI-580-400x399.jpg 400w, https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/KELSEY-ASHE-GIAMBAZI-580.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/span><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-4 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:31px;\"><h1 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\"><p style=\"text-align: center\">KELSEY ASHE GIAMBAZI<\/p><\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p><span lang=\"EN-AU\">Kelsey Ashe Giambazi is an interdisciplinary artist who draws on\u00a0the\u00a0symbolic language of pattern\u00a0and the\u00a0non-verbal communication of dress to present stylised multi-media portraits that narrate stories of the Australian landscape and cultural identity.\u00a0\u00a0Kelsey works within the conventions of Western-constructed exoticism, creating \u2018imaginary aesthetic territories\u2019 where a utopian depiction of cross-cultural diversity can be perceived.<br \/>\n<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-AU\">Kelsey\u2019s recent series of work are informed by a consideration of the spatial arrangements and textile print designs within Japanese\u00a0<i>ukiyo-e<\/i>, \u2018pictures of the floating world\u2019) and\u00a0traditional aesthetic philosophies such as\u00a0<i>wabi-sabi<\/i>\u00a0(beauty of things imperfect) and\u00a0<\/span><i><span lang=\"EN-AU\">y\u016bgen<\/span><\/i><i><span lang=\"EN-AU\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-AU\">(subtley profound, mysterious grace)<i>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>The works can be considered contemporary\u00a0<i>bijin<\/i>&#8211;<i>ga<\/i>(beautiful women prints) and\u00a0<i>kach\u014d-ga<\/i>\u00a0(bird and flower) prints which were a popular form of artistic expression in Edo Japan (1603-1868).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling fusion-equal-height-columns\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:30px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 20px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-4 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-inner-bg-wrapper\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-content-centered\"><div class=\"fusion-column-content\"><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-5 hover-type-zoomin\"><a class=\"fusion-no-lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/jcg.curtin.edu.au\/hd18-floorsheet\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"HD18-digitalfloor-sheet-cover\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/jcg.curtin.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/11\/HD18-digitalfloor-sheet-cover.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-12693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/11\/HD18-digitalfloor-sheet-cover-200x200.jpg 200w, 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