Hobart College Newsletter 2 2012 - Tasmanian Academy

FooD Fair 2012
This year’s food fair was held just before Easter and, once
again, it went off! Each year seems busier and better
than ever; that could be because, for students at least,
the concept of the Fair doesn’t have time to go stale and
there’s always enthusiasm and a willingness to try just
about anything. John X was a generous and affirming
“special guest” who revved everyone up before the
Lion did his/her thing up the stairs marking the start of
sixty minutes of frenetic selling and eating. Right now, it
looks like the takings are up on previous years and all
profits will find their way to a worthy cause outside of
our College community. Congratulations and thanks to
everyone involved.
Jill Chisholm
St PatricKS Day BreaKFaSt
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art raGe 2011
Well over a decade ago, The Queen Victoria Museum
and Art Gallery, inspired by interstate regional galleries’
highly successful year 11 and 12 showcase exhibitions,
embarked on their local version, Art Rage. While the
Tasmanian School of Art have generously hosted the
southern hang of this show for the past few years, 2012
sees the show exhibited for the first time in the acclaimed
Plimsoll Gallery. Showcasing the absolute best of the
Art Production and Art Studio Practice students in this
state, Hobart College is represented by five candidates.
For two years Ashley Young has astonished his audience
with exquisite renderings of the human form and the
chosen work for this show is his personal apotheosis.
Jade Young produced a photographic documentary of
the relationship between the figure, the goddess and the
permeating vapour of the muse. Annie Swanton ( pictured
left) takes us beyond the notion of the photograph as
evidence of an encounter to a visual re-construction of
what normally is expressed to us in the language of poetry.
Louise Arberle decodes the surfaces of personalities and
their associated persona within our world. Her virtuoso
paintings play with the irony of portrait or cliché. Matilda
Holstein explores digitally the childhood discomfort of
stories and fairytales that ironically confront us rather
than comfort us.
Wayne Brookes