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ALBURY ART PRIZE
2009
THE ALBURY ART PRIZE IS COMMITTED TO PROVIDING INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS. THIS CATALOGUE, AND THE ARTISTS IN THIS YEARS EXHIBITION, HAVE ALL HIGHLIGHTED KEY INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY PROGRAMS TO DEVELOP THEIR CAREERS
Jacqui Hemsley
Group Leader Cultural Services
Albury City
Denise Keele-bedford
My residency proposal will be looking at the designs, shapes and purpose of ceramic pillows produced in China across the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty 960-1279AD. The most extant examples of ceramic pillows fall within this period. The kilns scattered throughout mid China in Hebei, Henan and Zhejiang Provinces produced an extensive range of pillows in design size and glazes developing the box-shaped and human or animal-shaped pillows presented today.
The pillows designed and manufactured specifically as functional support objects to calligraphic writers, now redundant are collectors items and have shifted from functional to non-functional iconic objects. The shift in perspective assesses history, time and memory and placing the object at a heightened hierachy than previously recognised.
I propose to work with specific decorative pillow designs and through adaptation transferences create a series of lacquerware screen panels.
Let's Play Together
Bi-annual plan for 2009 of Shen Jingdong
Art Director: Wu Hong
Curator: Shen Jingdong
Curator Assistant: Lu Coral
Host: Artintern.net
If you draw, come to show how to play mud.
If you make calligraphy, come to show how to play installation.
The simplest way is to print your work on T-shirt, bag or tea cup.
You could also make your work into toys, variable products, such as a medal.
Please do not think the following instructions as the only choice.
Open your mind and fresh your imagination, make fun and fresh.
Even the idea is hard to be realised.
Join us with the project like Vinci's blueprint.
Anyway, join us in any form, any methods.
Denise Keele-bedford
No 42. black wooden moulds
No. 43 lacquer work
at: Soul Collections Art Gallery
798 Art District - Beijing
MSWPS
Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors
IN CELEBRATION OF THE 100TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
22nd October - 1st November 2009
Denise Keele-bedford
Rite of Function
Laser cut Wood Panels
and Chinese Lacquer
Nu Yishu - Series IV: Nu Red
2009
at
Imagine Gallery - Beijing
Supported by Australian Embassy Beijing
Design: Lao Lv
Curators: Laetitia Gauden and Denise Keele-bedford
Thanks to:
Australian Ambassador Dr. Geoff Raby
Australian Government
Hannah Skrzynski
Jill Collins
Janaline Oh
Daniel Sanderson
Artists 2000 Foundation
Song Ruyi
Ellen Pearlman
Xiao Rong
Phillip Wang
Denise Keele-bedford
24/7 -take a look
I look around and everywhere there is advertising in some form or another. Massive billboards advertising the latest in shoes, fashion cars, techno gadgets, everything for the consumer to spend their money.
In suburban Beijing a ubiquitous advertising board is made from printed vinyl stretched over a framework and illuminated from the inside. I see these along the many narrow streets, attached to the sides of buildings and standing on footpaths, their bright red colours prominent during daylight hours and the advertising text lit at night.
I am intriqued with the 24/7 concept showing that the advertised is available 24 hours per day 7 days per week, is there no time for rest.
When I think of women we are much the same, 24/7 feminine, female with all the attributes of 'the other' human species participating on this earth.
These female advertising boards are not intended to separate you from your hard earned money or to shower you with the latest and best of design and technology. BUT
'24/7 - take a look'
is celebrating women, advertising their attributes, promoting the positive aspects and inviting closer investigation 24 hours per day 7 days per week.
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT ART
THE EWING & GEORGE PATEN GALLERIES
1971 - 2008
Editor: Helen Vivian
Publisher: Macmillan Art Publishing
Denise Keele-bedford
In the beginning
2500 flourescent painted self-adhesive paper dots.
27/2/01 to 16/3/01
The formation of ideas and belief systems is imitiated by a thought process that germinates, grows and develops.
By reflecting on the beginnings of architectural design, this installation refers to the first seeds of light that were the ideas to be developed and built upon to create historical places of worship.
The viewer is invited to contemplate the beginnings of their individual beliefs.
Page 135
Photograph: Ian McKenzie, (Courtesy the artist)
Contemporary Art Studio
Published April 2008 includes 270 Chinese and International artists associated with China.
The publication takes the viewer into the artist's studio where creativity is realised. Artists' statements give an insight to the processes, thinking and issues concerning the artist.
Each artist has a double page showing samples of their artwork and contact details.
Read more at:
Contemporary Art Studio
Devised and Initiated by Shen Jingdong (China) and Denise Keele-bedford (Australia)
Articles by:
Yang Wei - Artist in Studio
Brian Curtin - Asimulasian? thoughts on the National and the Contemporary
Denise Keele-bedford
Pages 70-71
Photgraphs by:
Tony Trembath
John FitzGerald
A Qing
Ian MacKenzie
Chinese Biennale
Organized by: KU ART CENTRE
Curator: Pan Xinglei, Koan Jeff Baysa, Li Shanhu
Curated by: Chinese Base
The first date of issue July 13th 2008
Translation: David Pun
Denise Keele-bedford
Pages 136 - 137
Artist CV, statement, art work image:
dade geng haoma? is bigger better?
is bigger better?
Published 2008
Publisher: Department of Actinology - Cottles Bridge
Designer: Lao Lv
Photograhy: Tony Trembath / Denise Keele-bedford
is bigger better?
2008 Project by Denise Keele-bedford
For more information go to Galleries/is bigger better?
Thankyou
Pifo Gallery
Ku Art Centre
Chinese Base
Tony Trembath
Niu Xiaogang
Walter Magilton
Sun Baijun
Yang Luoshu
Bi Hong Liang
Book for sale in the art work Sales Gallery
is bigger better?
Thankyou
Sun Baijun: Associate Professor and Artist
Yang Luoshu: Woodblock Print maker at Yang Jiabu
is bigger better?
Thankyou for your articles:
Shen Juan (Carol)
Zheng Zuoliang: Grade one Artist of China, former director of the Department of Collections, China National Art Gallery.
'is bigger better?'
For more images and information go to the
'is bigger better?' gallery
For interest in purchasing the book please contact me.
New Chinese Occidentalism
Published 2006
Curator: Pan Xinglei
Assistant Curator: Bai Zheng
Translation: David Pun
Article: Neo-Occidentalism - China's contemporary art in Beijing by
Pan Xinglei, May 2006 at the 'Chinese Base' in Beijing.
Denise Keele-bedford
Page 63
'Character Field'
Chinese paper/ink/organic forms
Installation
Denise Keele-bedford
Page 21 and 34
"She comes from far-away Australia. Her love and understanding on Chinese culture is unreservedly revealed in her environmental art work. In one of her works, the 'Characters Territory', we see Australian local produce held in a sea of bowls made from Chinese calligraphy paper (Xuan paper). a metaphor for Australia and the Pacific Ocean."
Pan Xinglei
2006 Qingzhou International Art Exhibition
Curator: Sun Baijun
Denise Keele-bedford
Page 38
'Luxing' (traveller)
medium: rice and local beans
size: 2000mm x 2000m
One mOOnlit night
Published: September 2007
Photography:
A Qing
Tony Trembath
Supported by: Australian Embassy - Beijing
One mOOlit night
Designer: Lao Lv
Article: Classic and Cross - about Denise's art practice
by Sun Baijun a Copntemporary Chinese Artist
For more information go to galleries/OnemOOnlit night
One mOOlit night
At Imagine Gallery 2007 in conjunction with Zhong Qiu Jie
Chinese Autumn Festival
Nu Yishu - Series One
Forest Forms and Foundry
Exhibition Dates
November 5, 2005 - January 15, 2006
Photography: CC Photography
Design: Beijing Art & Culture Development Centre
Nu Yishu-Series One
Article 'Forest Forms' by Denise Keele-bedford
Thankyou
Laetitia Gauden:
'I greatly appreciate Laetitia giving me the opportunity to exhibit my work at Imagine Gallery. Imagine Gallery is a place where International artists are introduced to Beijingers and internationals. I thank her for her confidence and support in my art making.'
For more images go to galleries/China exhibitions
SUN BAIJUN
CHINESE ARTIST
Published: 2008
Exhibition Coordinator: Denise Keele-bedford
Artistic Advisor: Sun Yifeng
Design: Lao Lv
Photography: CC Photography
Article:
Experimental Ink Wash Painting in Unshakable Faith
On Sun Baijun's Ink Wash Artwork
by artist Guo Xiao Chuan
Article:
On the Miracle of Life: Sun Baijun's Paintings
by Lily Hope Chumley
Translation: Carol Shen
SUN BAIJUN
CHINESE ARTIST
Thanks to:
Artists 2000 Foundation Inc.
Nillumbik Shire Council
Clifton Creative Arts Centre
Chapel on Station Gallery
Churches of Christ Theological College
314 Gallery
Wellspring Centre
Shengtang Culter
For more information and Sun Baijun's artwork go
Exhibition Curator Gallery