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Artist's Camp - Falls Creek This March long weekend, some of Australia's most talented artists will call Falls Creek home for a week of being challenged and inspired by the spectacular surroundings of the High Plains!
| About the Artists...
| Eight incredibly talented artists will be taking part in Artist's Camp 2008 at Falls Creek, including:
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| David Hugh Thomas - paintings and drawings
|  David Hugh Thomas has been a practising artist for over 25 years. He makes paintings, drawings and prints as well as installations and short film. David has exhibited his work at a variety of venues, from artist-run spaces, such as Westspace, to the Heide Museum of Art, A.C.C.A, and the William Mora Galleries. In the nineties, David lived in New York City for 5 years, where he exhibited at the Australian Consulate, and various galleries in Soho, including the Andre Zarre Gallery. David also curates exhibitions, and has worked at the Monash University Museum of Art for many years, where he helps look after the collection.
David H. Thomas and Peter Bennetts founded the Falls Creek Artist Camp in 2005, this year being the fourth event. The aim is, to bring a diverse group of contemporary artists to Falls Creek, experience the exhilarating atmosphere of the High Plains, and provide a suitable ambiance for creating artwork.
Click here to view a recent article from 3008Docklands magazine about David and his work (PDF - 362k).
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| Cameron Robbins - sculpture, installation, drawing machines,etc.
| Cameron's work is based on interaction with natural forces and the elements. He has devised many ways of producing a kind of collaboration between artist and nature. This is evident in the series of Wind Drawing Machines. These mechanical devices are set up in different locations to collect random wind energy and translate it into a strangely readable format of ink drawings on paper, which themselves take on the form of the storm. This work has led to an exploration of the forms of the vortex, the focus of natural energy. Cameron has designed and built a series of Vortex Chambers, in order to study, exhibit, and film this phenomenon.
Further research into the elemental, combined with his musical career on clarinet and saxophone, has lead to the production of the Steam Organ, a self-determining musical device which is built into a large furnace structure. The Organ is allowed to play freely in the fire, expressing the heat, wind and ambient acoustic. Other sound works include The Sea Wailing – a tide-powered organ on the cliffs of South Australia.
Cameron has devised, co-curated, and produced many performance events of large-scale works involving composers, complex instruments, installations, fire and sound. The Current was a Double Venturi event at Melbourne Town Hall, which involved 8 artists and composers creating site-specific works throughout the building. Other events include Construction in Process VI The Bridge opening night and Queenscliff New Year's Eve 2000.
Commissions of a monumental and longlasting outdoor sculptural nature include Meta-pier (2006), and Raphael Stone Circle s(2005), a solar calendar, in outer Melbourne.include Double Vortex(2006) for CH2 (City of Melbourne), Time Beacon(2001) in Altona (VIC), and Double Sump (1997) in Marree, outback South Australia.
Since 1990 he has undertaken many exhibitions, residencies and commissions in Melbourne and around Australia. These include shows at Artspace, (Sydney), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, (Melbourne), Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, and Latrobe Regional Gallery, (Morwell).
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|  |  | 2007: Wind Anomaly by Cameron Robbins - Stainless steel 316, brass, timer, bearings, fiberglass, aluminium and concrete footing 3.8m x 1.5 x 1.5m. This moving piece can be viewed at the front of Huski and was donated to the Falls Creek community as part of Falls Creek Artist Camp III March 2007.
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| He works regularly with a collaborative group, Down Street Studios. The group has produced a number of large-scale installations and commissions.
Cameron is currently a Sculpture Lecturer at RMIT, and is a part-time jazz musician on clarinet and tenor saxophone.
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| Heather Winter - photographer
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| Peter Walsh - painter
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| Geraldine Barlow - curator and writer
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| James Lynch - animation, paintings etc
| The work of Melbourne based artist James Lynch was most recently seen in the exhibitions ‘Uturn’ at Glendale Art College Los Angeles and ‘The Vernacular Terrain’ at Queensland University of Technology and ZAIM Art Space Yokohama. In 2007 his work was also seen in the highly lauded site-specific exhibition ‘Relentless Optimism’ at the Carlton Hotel boutique Melbourne. In 2006 he was commissioned to make new works for the prestigious ‘Anne Landa Award’, for video and new media arts, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales as well as commissions for the new offices of UBS Melbourne and the public art project, ‘Terminus Projects’ at The Worlds Square, Sydney. His work was featured in the large scale survey exhibitions ‘A Short ride in a fast machine’, the 20-year anniversary exhibition of Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, ‘I Thought I Knew But I Was Wrong - New Video Art from Australia’ which toured extensively throughout Asia and ‘2004 - Visual Culture Now’ at the National Gallery of Victoria and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne. In 2005 he was included in ‘NEW 05’, the third edition of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’s annual showcase exhibition focusing on new work by outstanding contemporary artists.
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| Nadine Christensen - paintings
| Nadine Christensen is an active member of the Melbourne art's community. After graduating from the Victoria College of the Arts in 1998 Nadine regularly curated exhibitions, events, coordinated publishing project and was a founding member of artist run organisation CLUBSproject. Nadine has held solo exhibitions at galleries in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra and has participated in group and collaborative exhibitions across Australia and internationally including Tokyo, Los Angeles, Tijuana, Paris and Venice. Her work was most recently included in Parallel Lives, Australian Painting Today, the inaugural beinnale exhibition at the Tarra Warra Museum of Art and in Silenzi, a one time only residency and exhibition at the Prigioni de Palazzo Ducale in Venice. In 2005 her work was featured in This and other worlds, a survey exhibition of drawing practices at the National Gallery of Victoria. In 2004 she was featured in New04 the second edition of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art's annual showcase exhibition focussing on new work by outstanding contemporary artists and This was the future… a survey of three decades of sculpture at Heide Museum of Modern Art. Nadine Christensen is represented by Kaliman Gallery Sydney and Uplands Gallery Melbourne.
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| Peter Robertson - photographer
| Peter's work usually involves photography and subsequent paintings using images from photography. These images usually involve people or groupings of people socializing. They are not portraits, tending to be non-specific in detail; they become generic images. More recently, Peter's work has expanded to include buildings and building sites.
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| Peter Bennetts - photographer
Peter Bennetts Bio 020308
‘Camera at hand, you might find Peter Bennetts on a remote coral atoll in the Central Pacific, topping out on a tropical glacier or skiing a black run in the Alps. When he's not fighting global warming and his own fears you'll find him maintaining the image of those architects & designers most dedicated to the idea of sangfroid. St Kilda, Melbourne-based Bennetts' work appears in The Guardian, Conde Nast Traveller (UK), Travel & Leisure (USA), Time, Domus, Frame and AR.’
| Monument Magazine Issue 51 March 2008
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Peter Bennetts was born in 1967 in Sydney, Australia. He studied photography at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. In 1994 he joined the Gamma agency, Paris. He became contracted to the FDB/Globalphoto agency in 1998. Peter joined the New York, Liaison agency in 1999. His photo reportages include features photographed in Argentina, Chile & Easter Island, China, France, French Polynesia, Fiji, Hong Kong, India, West Papua, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Tuvalu, UK, USA and Vanuatu.
| Clients
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Peter Bennetts has undertaken documentary and corporate photography for major clients and agencies over the past 15 years. National & international clients include Air Nuigini, Aerospace Technologies of Australia, ANZ, American Express, AMP, Australian Tourism Commision, BHP Billiton, Bluescope Steel, Bodyshop, Boeing, CSR, Deloitte Touch Tomatsu, GPO Melbourne, Global Agenda, Goldman Sachs, Greenpeace, Hilton, LG, Lonely Planet, Melbourne University, Miele, Minter Ellison Lawyers, National Australia Bank, National Mutual, Office of the Prime Minister of Australia, Phillip Morris, P&O Nedlloyd, Red Earth, Rockwell Aerospace, Shell, South Pacific Regional Environmental Program, The European Union, the .tv Corporation, the United Nations, Tourism Victoria, VicHealth, VicUrban, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Weber Shandwick Worldwide, Western Mining Corporation, Sunland, and the WWF.
| Architectural Photography
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An accomplished architectural photographer, clients include Allan Powell, Architecture Australia, Architecture Review, Ashton Raggatt McDougall, BKK, Casa Bella (Italy), City of Melbourne, City of Port Phillip, City of Yarra, dedece, DML Property, Davistoc, Delphin Properties, Docklands Authority, Domus (Italy), Edaw, Elenberg Fraser, Fernlund + Logan (USA), Grollo, Hauser (Germany), McGauran Giannini Soon, Lovell Chen, Lyons, Miele, Minifie Nixon, Monument Magazine, Monash University, NMBW Architects, Nobbs Radford, Paul Morgan Architect, Paterson + Pettus, Phaidon, the Powerhouse Museum, Simon Drysdale Architect, the Urban Land Corporation and Wood/Marsh Architecture.
| Awards & Collections
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Peter’s photographs are featured in private collections, museums and libraries, including Heritage Victoria, Latrobe Regional Gallery, the Powerhouse Museum (Sydney), the Victorian State Library, the WWF collection (Gland, Switzerland) and the United Nations (New York).
Peter’s work has been recognized with awards from the Melbourne Advertising & Design Club. With author Catherin Bull, the book ‘New Conversations with an Old Landscape’ was awarded The American Society of Landscape Architecture’s Communications Award of Merit for ‘A beautifully presented assemblage showing the great diversity of works of landscape architecture. High quality photography and clear text reveal the beauty and diversity of the natural and man-made landscape of Australia. 2004 Professional Awards Jury Comments’
| Exhibitions
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Most Recently -
UTS Gallery
Level 4, 702 Harris Street Ultimo Sydney
The Trouble with the Weather: a southern response
3 July - 3 August 2007
"A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves."
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
Changing weather has spelt trouble before. But now the trouble is that we don't quite know what to make of it, and it feels urgent. As the media, climatologists, environmentalists and politicians vie to shape our understanding and emotional responses to what we perceive and know, global warming reverberates through every level of culture. The uneasy relationship between man and nature is unsettled once more.
This exhibition brings together artists to provide a southern response to the trouble with the weather -- aesthetically, conceptually, discursively and pataphysically.
Isabel Aranda (Chile), Jonathan Bottrell Jones (Aus) & Jim Vivieaere (NZ/Cook Islands), Andres Burbano (Colombia), Peter Bennetts (Aus), Elizabeth Day (Aus), Muriel Frega (Argentina), David Haines (Aus) & Joyce Hinterding (Aus), Niki Hastings-McFall (NZ/Samoa), Zina Kaye (Aus), Dani Marti (Aus), Maria Miranda (Aus) & Norie Neumark (Aus), Jason Nelson (Aus), Regina Pinto (Brazil), Janine Randerson (NZ), John Tonkin (Aus), H J Wedge (Aus).
Co-curated by Jacqueline Bosscher, Maria Miranda & Norie Neumark
| Editorial
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'In a climate that too easily confuses exaggerated form and distorted space, for the genuine strength of expression embedded in all fine architecture, Peter Bennetts is one of the few photographers who consistently know the difference. Rather than exploit the hollow tricks of photographic illusion, Bennetts interprets and distills the real qualities of a project, in such a way that smoke and mirrors are not required.'
| Andrew Mackenzie
, Editor
AR
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'Engaging the industry reader as well as the wider community is a vital yet increasingly challenging role for an architectural publication such as MONUMENT. Architectural photographer Peter Bennetts understands this crucial role in educating our readers about the importance of investing in the quality of their environments. While capturing the inherent design quality of the buildings he photographs, Peter also manages to imbue each image with a sense of the power that good modern architecture has in contributing to our cultural identity.'
| Fleur Watson
, Editor
MONUMENT
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Magazine and editorial clients include AR, Architecture Australia, Artichoke, Australian Style, Bauwelt (Germany), Casabella (Italy), Conde Nast Traveller (UK), Domain, Dwell, Figaro (France), Good Weekend, Hauser (Germany), I.D, La Tribune (France), Le Monde (France), Le Nouvel Observateur (France), Life, Melbourne Magazine, Mother Jones (USA), Metropolis, National Geographic (USA), Greenpages, The Age, The Australian, The Big Issue (AU & UK), The Bulletin, The Guardian (UK), The Herald (UK), The Independent (UK), The Sydney Morning Herald, Canadian Business, The Australian Financial Review, Time Magazine, Paris Match, Playboy (Japan), Point de Vue (France), Pol Oxygen, the Sierra Club (USA), Stern (Germany), Travel + Leisure (USA), Vogue France, Vogue Living, (Australia), Wallpaper * and Wired (USA).
| Books
| Time & Tide, The islands of Tuvalu, A large format book of the photographer's work with text by Tony Wheeler featuring the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu was published by Lonely Planet in November 2001. Tuvalu is a nation of low lying coral atolls and islands whose existence is threatened by climate change and rising sea levels. Peter has been a frequent visitor to country, documenting its changing patterns of life and the environment.
With author Catherin Bull, Peter was the photographer of New Conversations with the Australian landscape.
Peter's been a contributor to many books published in Australia and around the world. Book contributions include; the Phaidon Atlas of World Architecture, Lonely Planet's The Travel Book; A journey through every Country, The Cities Book and the One Planet series.
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| Getting Involved in Artist Camp 2008...
| There are a number of events and activities open to the public including:
| Friday March 7th - Eve-"Meet the artist" at the Man Hotel.
| Jon us at the Man Hotel in Falls Creek for your chance to mingle with the participating artists. This will be a great opportunity to find out what makes each artist tick, how they approach their work, and discuss their plans for the 2008 camp.
| Sunday March 9th - 'En plein eir' outdoor painting session at Rocky Valley Dam.
| This popular session is your chance to see the artists at work, out in the open, set against the backdrop of the high plains. Operating from approximately 10am until 3pm, the artists will be able to answer all your questions about their processes and inspiration as they develop their signature pieces from the camp. All welcome.
| Sunday March 9th - Wrap-up evening B.B.Q. on the front Deck of Huski Apartments. Time tbc.
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| Join us and be inspired by this talented and diverse group of artists!
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