airSPACE - emma stoneman & antonietta covino-beehre
Post Office Gallery, University of Ballarat
To be opened on Thursday 12 December 6.30pm by Dr Jennifer Jones-O'Neill. Deputy Dean, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Education and Arts, University of Ballarat.
Emma Stoneman and Antoinietta Covino-Beehre have developed their recent body of work in 2013 whilst Artists-in-Residence at the Arts Academy, University of Ballarat.
Emma Stoneman’s background is in photography, printmaking, digital art and installation, exhibiting in orthodox gallery, non-traditional commercial and public venues, as well as site-specific works for outdoor civic spaces. Her strong interest in the built landscape has resulted in her art practice predominantly anchored in photography, investigating the poetic forms of human-made structures and exploring allegorical comparisons between the built environment and the function, structure, posture and alignment of the human body - the building blocks of humanity.
Stoneman completed a Diploma of Building Design & Technology in 2005 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in 1999. She has exhibited in Australia, Taiwan and Russia. Her work is held in private and public collections in Australia and internationally.
Antonietta Covino-Beehre’s art practice incorporates multiple disciplines including printmaking, sculpture, drawing and photography. Her recent work explores the 'souvenir', memory and remembrance, together with ideas surrounding nostalgia, cultural identity and place. Inspired by her Italian background, Covino-Beehre conveys meaning through complex layering of objects, text and imagery. Reconfiguring and shifting perceptions of the everyday object or the souvenir, she positions the object as a mirror of identity and self while exploring universal issues surrounding folklore, cultural connection and belonging.
Covino-Beehre obtained her Master of Arts in 2002. She has exhibited broadly in Australia and internationally and is represented in national, state and regional galleries and in corporate and private collections in Australia and internationally.
NB: The PO Gallery will be closed from Sat 21 Dec 2013 until Thu 2 Jan 2014.