Monash Memo - 25 July 2001

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Monash artists to enjoy the Boyd influence

Two Monash art and design staff have been awarded artist residencies at the late Arthur Boyd's Bundanon properties in New South Wales.

Under the Bundanon Trust's artist-in-residence program, photomedia coordinator Ms Danielle Thompson and printmaking studio technician Mr David Frazer (pictured) are both spending five weeks exploring their creativity on the Bundanon properties.

Ms Thompson, whose works feature large seascapes, will spend her time at Bundanon photographing the Shoalhaven River that Boyd himself painted numerous times.

"My work is abstract with quite extreme colours from different times of day," she said.

She will be exhibiting some works resulting from the Bundanon residency and other trips to King Island and Sorrento early next year at Gallery 101 in Melbourne.

Mr Frazer intends to use his residency as a transition period in his journey as an artist.

"I'm looking at it basically as a chance to experiment and explore new ways of doing things. I'll be going for walks in the bush, drawing and painting and generally trying to loosen up," he said.

He will also be displaying work at a show at the Australian Gallery in Melbourne in November.

Faculty Gallery manager Mr Malcom Bywaters said the two residencies were a continuation of Monash's special relationship with Bundanon, where he was the first artist-in-residence at the new complex, which opened in 1997.

"It is my great hope that many other Monash staff will successfully apply for residencies at Bundanon and transfer the experience they gain there to our students as they break into the professional art scene," he said.