NetsVictoria

Exhibitions

• Cut with the kitchen knife
• Dreamweavers
• Spirit in the Land
• Jus' Drawn: The proppaNOW collective
• Past Exhibitions
  • Mary and Max: The Exhibition
  • The Stony Rises Project
    • Vicki Couzens
    • Lesley Duxbury
    • Ruth Johnstone
    • Seth Keen
    • Gini Lee
    • Jenny Lowe
    • Marion Manifold
    • Carmel Wallace
    • Kit Wise
    • Laurene Vaughan
    • Curator - Lisa Byrne
    • Curator - Harriet Edquist
    • Destinations
    • Project Team
  • The Shilo Project
  • Simryn Gill: Inland
  • Other side art
  • Objects to Live By / The Art of John Meade
  • Hall of Mirrors
  • How you make it
  • Loop
  • Enchanted Forest
  • Murray Cod: The biggest fish in the river
  • Come on the Scene
  • The world in painting
  • Walk

The Stony Rises Project brings together ten contemporary artists and designers in an investigation of the rich, layered histories of the Western District of Victoria, in an exhibition developed by RMIT Design Research Institute which will tour regional Victoria in 2010-2011, managed by National Exhibitions Touring Support (NETS) Victoria.

Following a four-day artists’ camp in April 2009, works were made in response to the area to the southeast, south and southwest of Lake Corangamite distinguished by the basalt rocks erupting from the landscape forming Stony Rises, as well as volcanic cones and crater lakes. Designers, artists, curators and community members were able to interact with and learn from each other in order to create informed works. The resulting exhibition focuses on the histories of the area, the intricate relationships of people with place, foreigners on new lands, and colonial and Indigenous narratives.

A fully illustrated publication Designing Place. An Archeology of the Western District has been produced, with essays by project curators Lisa Byrne, Professor Harriet Edquist, Associate Professor Laurene Vaughan and other scholars to accompany the exhibition. This publication and exhibition have facilitated a unique collaboration and intersection of creative practices – the artist, the designer, the architect, the landscape architect, the historian, the geologist, and the landscape archeologist.

The Stony Rises Project will be launched at RMIT Gallery from Friday 23 July until Saturday 11 September 2010.

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