Boundaries : Transcended
Watt Space Gallery
27 Sep - 06 Nov
Exploring themes of migration, community, and memory with a collaborative project.
Boundaries : Transcended explores themes of migration, community, and memory, with a collaborative project initiated by Alice Neikirk and ceramicist Mojgan Habibi which is titled the Unity Project. Working with a number of local schools and community groups*, this project created over 700 miniature houses acknowledging refugee resettlement in the Hunter Valley.
These works are exhibited alongside text, AI images, video and neon sign installation works by Carolyn McKay exploring Australia's refugee detention policies, and Emma Stanistreet's clay vessels and interactive weavings.
Also contained in the exhibition is another project that Alice and Mogjan have also worked together that uses sound to highlight the experiences of migration and diaspora, which are echoed through the ceramic forms of traditional Iranian water urns.
Through the work of Belongings and their direct connection to refugee and migrant stories, a number of these groups are engaged and connected within the University, and collaborations like The Unity Project in Boundaries: Transcended, highlights the role of visual culture in bringing together shared experience and facilitating healing to link our communities together.
BOOK LAUNCH | Equity in Higher Education: Time for Social Justice Praxis
Please join us to celebrate the publication of ‘Equity in Higher Education: Time for Social Justice Praxis’ by Professor Penny Jane Burke and Dr Matt Lumb at Watt Space Gallery on Tuesday 1 October at 5.30pm.
The book draws on a decade of work from the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education to provide insights and tools with which to challenge the entrenched inequalities at play within and through higher education.
Equity is a core focus at the University of Newcastle and the University Galleries, and a guiding principle in the University’s Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education. The convergence of ideas such as “memory, resilience, identity and place” explored in the exhibitions at Watt Space Gallery in Boundaries: Transcended and Belongings by Distil Immersive, make it a meaningful backdrop for the launch of ‘Equity in Higher Education: Time for Social Justice Praxis’ by Professor Penny Jane Burke and Dr Matt Lumb
The book will be officially launched by Jane Kenway, Emeritus Professor at Monash University and Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University, Nathan Towney, Pro-Vice Chancellor Indigenous, Strategy and Leadership and Head of the Wollotuka Institute, the University of Newcastle, Kristen Allen, Convenor Enabling Pathways, Pathways and Enabling Pathways and Academic Learning Support Centre, the University of Newcastle, and Professor Jennifer Milam, Pro-Vice Chancellor Academic Excellence, the University of Newcastle.
Please RSVP your attendance for catering purposes to cehee@newcastle.edu.au by Friday 27 September.
ARTISTS & COLLABORATORS
Curators: Alice Neikirk & Mojgan Habibi
* With help from Hunter Community Languages, Mosaic Multicultural Youth, the Multicultural Action Group, Newcastle Library, Open Foundation students, Children's University, Hunter School of the Performing Arts, Refugee Hub and the Moree Community Art Centre.
IMAGE CREDIT
The Unity Project 2024, Hand-formed ceramic houses, various sizes, image courtesy Alice Neikirk and The Unity Project
These works are exhibited alongside text, AI images, video and neon sign installation works by Carolyn McKay exploring Australia's refugee detention policies, and Emma Stanistreet's clay vessels and interactive weavings.
Also contained in the exhibition is another project that Alice and Mogjan have also worked together that uses sound to highlight the experiences of migration and diaspora, which are echoed through the ceramic forms of traditional Iranian water urns.
Through the work of Belongings and their direct connection to refugee and migrant stories, a number of these groups are engaged and connected within the University, and collaborations like The Unity Project in Boundaries: Transcended, highlights the role of visual culture in bringing together shared experience and facilitating healing to link our communities together.
BOOK LAUNCH | Equity in Higher Education: Time for Social Justice Praxis
Please join us to celebrate the publication of ‘Equity in Higher Education: Time for Social Justice Praxis’ by Professor Penny Jane Burke and Dr Matt Lumb at Watt Space Gallery on Tuesday 1 October at 5.30pm.
The book draws on a decade of work from the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education to provide insights and tools with which to challenge the entrenched inequalities at play within and through higher education.
Equity is a core focus at the University of Newcastle and the University Galleries, and a guiding principle in the University’s Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education. The convergence of ideas such as “memory, resilience, identity and place” explored in the exhibitions at Watt Space Gallery in Boundaries: Transcended and Belongings by Distil Immersive, make it a meaningful backdrop for the launch of ‘Equity in Higher Education: Time for Social Justice Praxis’ by Professor Penny Jane Burke and Dr Matt Lumb
The book will be officially launched by Jane Kenway, Emeritus Professor at Monash University and Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University, Nathan Towney, Pro-Vice Chancellor Indigenous, Strategy and Leadership and Head of the Wollotuka Institute, the University of Newcastle, Kristen Allen, Convenor Enabling Pathways, Pathways and Enabling Pathways and Academic Learning Support Centre, the University of Newcastle, and Professor Jennifer Milam, Pro-Vice Chancellor Academic Excellence, the University of Newcastle.
Please RSVP your attendance for catering purposes to cehee@newcastle.edu.au by Friday 27 September.
ARTISTS & COLLABORATORS
Curators: Alice Neikirk & Mojgan Habibi
* With help from Hunter Community Languages, Mosaic Multicultural Youth, the Multicultural Action Group, Newcastle Library, Open Foundation students, Children's University, Hunter School of the Performing Arts, Refugee Hub and the Moree Community Art Centre.
IMAGE CREDIT
The Unity Project 2024, Hand-formed ceramic houses, various sizes, image courtesy Alice Neikirk and The Unity Project
