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Siemens-RMIT Fine Art Awards – Media Morning
RMIT Gallery, in conjunction with Siemens Ltd, is opening its doors for an
exclusive media morning on Thursday, 17 December.
Media are invited to meet the artists and view the 43 entries from RMIT University
postgraduate and undergraduate fine art students that have been shortlisted in the
$32,000 Siemens-RMIT Fine Art Scholarship Awards.
Now in their 9th year, the awards are an example of how business and art provides
exciting opportunities for the practitioners of tomorrow.
All finalists will be available for interview and photographs, with all artwork on
display, from 11am to 12.30pm.
Shortlisted artists include Caroline Kennedy-McCracken, former singer and
songwriter with the successful band Deadstar. Her work in the exhibition, Notation,
is a group of precariously stacked clothes horses, inspired by her composer
husband’s musical and domestic duties.
“Notation is a formal dream of a domestic worker where the patterns of menial
labour become pleasurable compositions,” she said.
Chosen from more than 200 entries from RMIT’s School of Art, the diverse
selection covers ceramics, drawing, fine art, photography, gold and silversmithing,
media arts, painting, printmaking and sculpture.
The exhibition is at RMIT Gallery until 23 January.
Winners will be announced by RMIT Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Daine
Alcorn, at a special presentation at RMIT Gallery on 20 January from 6pm to 8pm.
An embargoed winners list will be available to media attending the media morning.
Each year, the eight winners of the Siemens-RMIT Fine Art Scholarship Awards
receive a combined $32,000 in financial scholarships to further their careers and
studies through five undergraduate and three postgraduate scholarships.
Media opportunity
What: Siemens-RMIT Fine Art Scholarship Awards – Media Morning
When: Thursday, 17 December, 11am – 12.30pm
Where: RMIT Gallery, 344 Swanston Street, Melbourne
More info: www.rmit.edu.au/rmitgallery
For media enquiries, photos and interviews with artists:
RMIT Gallery Media Coordinator, Evelyn Tsitas, (03) 9925 1716, 0418 139 015,
or evelyn.tsitas@rmit.edu.au
16 December, 2009
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