{"id":112,"date":"2018-05-27T23:52:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T23:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/concordiagallery\/?p=112"},"modified":"2018-05-28T01:22:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T01:22:02","slug":"speak-for-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/concordiagallery\/2018\/05\/27\/speak-for-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak for themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each year the College\u2019s New Women, a\u00a0volunteer support group of the Parents\u00a0and Friends\u2019 Association (P&F)\u00a0generously support Newington\u2019s artist in\u00a0residence program. In Term 1, the\u00a0College welcomed acclaimed Australian\u00a0contemporary artist Ms Mikala Dwyer.\u00a0Mikala worked with Year 11 students\u00a0twice a week for the duration of Term 1 to\u00a0investigate contemporary painting.\u00a0Mikala has been exhibiting significantly\u00a0since 1992 and has received public\u00a0commissions, Australian and\u00a0International Scholarships and is held in\u00a0public and private collections. She\u00a0currently shows with Roslyn Oxley 9\u00a0Gallery and Anna Schwartz Gallery. At\u00a0the end of her residency at the College,\u00a0Mikala exhibited her work alongside the\u00a0Newington boys\u2019 work in an exhibition\u00a0called Speak for Themselves which ran\u00a0from 30 March until 9 April.<\/span><\/p>\n

In reflecting about working with\u00a0Mikala and the exhibition Speak for\u00a0Themselves, student Jack De Lacy said,\u00a0\u201cThe experience became a three-month\u00a0collaborative performance.\u00a0Discussing, listening and painting in\u00a0her studio, I was taken out of the\u00a0Concordia art space and enveloped by\u00a0the physical and spiritual world of\u00a0Dwyer’s practice. It was the inviting\u00a0atmosphere of Dwyer’s studio that\u00a0enabled a collective to form amongst the\u00a0boys, as we worked separately to create\u00a0four unified geometric paintings.\u00a0More than images free of subject\u00a0matter, or a study of complex hard line\u00a0painting, the artworks made by Year 11\u00a0Visual Arts students represent the\u00a0thriving Visual Arts community at\u00a0Newington College.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Having Mikala work collaboratively\u00a0with the Visual Arts students was a\u00a0remarkable experience which helped the\u00a0boys to learn about the processes,\u00a0materials and techniques used by an\u00a0expert in the field. Curator of Concordia,\u00a0Ms Hannah Chapman said, \u201cThe\u00a0mutuality with which Mikala has related\u00a0to the boys\u2019 means they are equipped\u00a0with the confidence to take more\u00a0creative risks and solve material and\u00a0conceptual problems with greater\u00a0commitment and lateral thinking.\u00a0Mikala\u2019s artistic practice considers\u00a0the subjective and objective relationship\u00a0we have as individuals and as part of a\u00a0community. This has provoked the boys\u00a0to identify those two states of being and\u00a0reflect on them in more critical ways.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The College thanks Concordia Gallery\u00a0Curator Ms Hannah Chapman for her\u00a0work with Ms Mikala Dwyer and the\u00a0Visual Arts students as well as the New\u00a0Women P&F Group for so generously\u00a0making the artist in residence program at\u00a0the College possible.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each year the College\u2019s New Women, a\u00a0volunteer support group of the Parents\u00a0and Friends\u2019 Association (P&F)\u00a0generously support Newington\u2019s artist in\u00a0residence program. In Term 1, the\u00a0College welcomed acclaimed Australian\u00a0contemporary artist Ms Mikala Dwyer.\u00a0Mikala worked with Year 11 students\u00a0twice a week for the … read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/concordiagallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/concordiagallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/concordiagallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/concordiagallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/concordiagallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/concordiagallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/concordiagallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/concordiagallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/concordiagallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/concordiagallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/concordiagallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}