Author: Vanessa Barbay
Laomedia visual artist and drummer
Graduation Ceremony
I graduated from ANU with my PhD in the visual arts on the 20th December 2013.
Synergy
A Collaborative Art Exhibition during See Change Winter Arts Festival 2014
On Species and AAANZ inter-discipline conferences
Coming up in Melbourne next week are conferences at the University of Melbourne which I am looking forward to. AAANZ inter-discipline and On Species
Endless Summer
Painting after the PhD has finally begun with Endless Summer a good motivation
The Outsider
H.P. Lovecraft’s chilling poem
Collaborating with Theresa
My school mate Theresa Ardler from Wreck Bay agreed to paint into one of the Shroud works with me.
The echidna was fatty so I said we should paint a ring of yellow ochre dots around the body, yellow meaning fat.
Then Theresa said she wanted to paint bands of red and black emanating out from this as the different types of ground the echidna passes over as she travels the land.
The Fleurieu Art Prize
I am a finalist in The Fleurieu Art Prize with two shroud works:
NOW Shoalhaven Art Prize
Jervis Bay and Basin Arts Inc are running the first art prize in the Shoalhaven
For photos of opening night see our facebook page
Antennae
The journal of Nature in Visual Culture has two issues devoted to animals in painting.
My paper is published in the second one.
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