Exhibition21 Jun – 17 Aug 2019
Melbourne Modern: European art & design at RMIT since 1945
In the wake of World War II hundreds of exiled and displaced European artists, architects and designers arrived in Melbourne and sought…
Melbourne Modern: European Art & Design at RMIT since 1945 | A Bauhaus Impact at RMIT?
Speakers: Jane Eckett, Harriet Edquist, Emily Floyd and Robert Owen
To mark the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus school of art and design in Germany, we ask: to what extent have Bauhaus principles impacted the teaching of art, architecture and design at RMIT?
About the Speakers
Dr Jane Eckett is a sessional lecturer in art history at the University of Melbourne
Harriet Edquist is Professor of architectural history at RMIT University and Director of the RMIT Design Archives
Emily Floyd is an artist who works across sculpture, print or public artwork. She grew up in a family of toymakers, where she learnt the craft of creating beautifully constructed wooden objects inspired by Eastern European traditions with roots in Modernist movements.
Robert Owen is one of Australia’s most eminent artists. He is known for his work across art, installation, education and urban design, and was the subject of survey exhibitions at Monash University Museum of Art in 1999 and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2004. Owen represented Australia at the 38th Venice Biennale in 1978. Other recent exhibitions include Fallen Light, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne, 2012; Photographic Abstractions, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, 2012; and The New MCA Unveiled, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2012.
This venue is wheelchair accessible. RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.
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