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I explore the ways that artists respond to the extermination that took place in
Eastern Europe during World War Two and how incongruous combinations of
ideas, technologies and contexts can generate surprising results, generate new
meanings and alter the way that audiences engage with memory and history.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr Kathy Temin is a contemporary artist and Senior Lecturer at Monash University
in the Faculty of Art and Design, Melbourne. She completed a Master of Fine Arts
at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1992-1993, PhD in Fine Arts at the Victorian
College of the Arts/The University of Melbourne in 2007.
She is currently completing a major sculpture My Monument: Black Garden for
the Level 2 Project space at the Art Gallery of New South Wales that will be
exhibited from September 1 - November 20, 2011. During 2010 she curated the
Aftermath: Art, Memory, History exhibition at the Monash Faculty Gallery as part
of the Aftermath conference and organized the symposium, hosted by the
Australian Center for Jewish Civilization.
She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally since 1990. Selected
solo exhibitions: 2010 My Landscape at Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New
Zealand; 2009 Kathy Temin 20 year survey exhibition at Heide Museum of Art,
Melbourne; My Monument: Black Cube, Anna Schwartz Gallery Melbourne; 2007
Indoor Gardens, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney. Selected Group; 2009 Soft
Sculpture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; 2008 Contemporary
Australia:Optimism, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane;
Open Plan Living: ART TLV, Helena Rubenstein Pavilion/Tel-Aviv Art Museum,
Israel; 2006 High Tide: New Currents in Art from Australia and New Zealand,
Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland.
Since 2008 she has been the recipient of an Australia Council Fellowship and in
2009 received an Arts Victoria Presentation and Arts Victoria Creation grant. Her
work is represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Sydney and by Anna Schwartz
Gallery in Melbourne.
IAN HOWARD
Physical Barriers, Virtual Freedoms- protection vs creativity amidst a global crisis
Presentation working title:
Physical Barriers, Virtual Freedoms- protection vs creativity amidst a global crisis.
Through performative ‘at site’ art practice- interactive participation experiences,
observations, documentation, and subsequent studio analysis and speculation
combine to produce new images of, and insights into, a range of border issues.
This art practice engagement with topics typically dealt with via the political
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