Friday - Day 2
Wake up music featuring Rhys, Ruby, Bill and Thoko
Julie Montgarrett from Charles Sturt University
Julie Montgarrett is an embroiderer - make of that what you will. She is currently a Lecturer in Art and Design in the School of Visual and Performing Arts @ CSU Wagga. Her background as an Artist and Designer over the past 30 years has included more than 50 solo and group exhibitions, numerous public and private commissions and awards, and design practice for diverse sectors of the visual arts industry in Australia and overseas.
These have included costume design and wardrobe for theatre in Australia and the UK and design and drawing for Art and Working Life projects for Australian Unions. She has extensive experience in tertiary education having taught Design for textile and fashion at RMIT in Melbourne; SwinburneTAFE Art and Design and has taught at CSU for the past 12 years. She has undertaken numerous Artist-in-Residencies in Australia and overseas including Harbourfront, Toronto, Canada; Craft Council of the Northern Territory; Curtin University, Perth; University of Tasmania and the Victorian Trades Hall Council Arts Workshop among others. Some of these adventures will be explained.
Justy Phillips from The Tasmanian School of Art
Phillips is an artist and lecturer at the Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Justy continues to explore ideas through expecting good weather, a multi-disciplinary arts practice she established in 2004. Phillips works across a range of media including video, print and text-based installation.
Recent site specific installations include; Port Arthur Project, Ten Days on the Island, 2007, write/here project, Ten Days on the Island, 2006-8, Isolated Places, Hobart, 2005; Quiet Days, installation in Come With Me, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, April 2006; Recent exhibitions include: Fifteen years, Carnegie Gallery, 2008, Hobart; Tides Apart, 56 books, Inflight Art, Hobart, November 2005. Residencies include: Arts Tasmania Cultural and Wilderness Residency, King Island, 2008; Bundanon Trust, 2008. Successful grants include: Arts Tasmania 2005/6, 2006/7, Australia Council for the Arts, CCD 2006/7, Hobart City Council 2006/7.
Nick Pill from RSP (Rising Sun Pictures)
An Advertising and design graduate from Adelaide, Nick Pill made the move from Sydney after hearing a rumour that a Walt Disney Animation Studio was in operation.
Climbing the rungs of the Disney ladder, Nick became Senior Layout Artist and Supervisor working on complex environments, character and prop design, conceptualising and storyboarding sequences, cinematic structure analysis, running teams of up to 10 layout artists, responsible for handing out, checking and approving completed scenes, oh and the everyday creative team management and administrative work.
After 14 years at Disney, Nick moved into the booming digital animation world at Animal Logic, working as Lead Environment Concept Artist on the Oscar winning film "Happy Feet". Here the jobs included environment and prop design, orthographics for the modeling department, colour boards for the lighting department, collating photographic reference for the surfacing department and running a team of six concept artists. His old friend, the pencil, had by now given way to the Wacom Intuos 3 grip pen and Photoshop.
There was no going back - when the call came from Rising Sun Pictures, he relocated back to Adelaide to work on the film "Charlottes' Web" and a constant variety of projects which have included "Harry Potter 5 and 6", "The Ruins", "28 Weeks Later" and "Dark is Rising".
Nick reels in the transformation of 'old school to new tools' experiences and the integral role design and designers play in the viewers' cinematic journey.
Max and Dan from "Oh Really" magazine Sydney
During 2007, Max Berry and Daniel O’Toole were studying at two different art schools within the Darlinghurst area, sharing both a passion for street art and an interest in illustration. Through the establishment of local gallery ‘Rince’, Max and Dan discovered a place to meet like-minded artists, collaborate and exhibit their work. Many have since become the leaders among an emerging Sydney street art scene, working with unconventional mediums and creating artworks in public places. Rince has now closed down, yet the artists that met there have only gotten stronger and more motivated, holding several group exhibitions and gaining some impressive media coverage.
The boys now have a registered company, made a website, self publish and distribute Ohreally magazine, and are just now in the process of opening a new gallery.. where will it end.. world domination.
Don’t laugh, its possible.
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Craig Schuftan from Triple J
Hey! Nietzsche! Leave them kids alone!
Who was the first Emo? Why do Goths love graveyards? Why do metal bands put dots over their vowels when they’re not German? And why do rock stars make that ‘Jesus’ shape on stage? Learn the answer to these questions and more, as Craig Schuftan presents a short history of Romantic Philosophy in the form of a rock festival. Backstage, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Wagner and Nietzsche meet David Bowie, Queen, Depeche Mode, Weezer and My Chemical Romance, and are surprised at how much they have in common. You will be too.
Craig Schuftan is the author of The Culture Club - Rock and Roll, Modern Art and other stuff your parents warned you about, based on his long-running triple j radio segment of the same name. He is currently working on his second book - a history of Romantic thought in rock music entitled; Hey! Nietzsche! Leave them kids alone!
Elli Ioannou from Elli PHOTOGRAPHY Melbourne
10yrs as a commercial photographer specializing in contemporary fashion and portraiture; visual artist; photography educator at RMIT University & PSC (Australia); mentor;
shown 7 solo shows in the last 5 yrs ; significant group shows-
National Gallery of Victoria, Gallery 101 Collins and George Gallery (Melbourne);
recent clients and publications include: BMW, Peugeot, WILLOW, Chanel, Bally, The Age Newsaper, Oyster, Marie Claire & Votre Beaute (Greece) ; photography for charity campaigns include Ralph Lauren Pink Pony, Jeans for Genes and Target Breast Cancer; recipient of numerous awards including BMW Fashion Photography (Melbourne);
currently sponsored by Leica (Australia)
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