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Coulour photograph of University of Ballarat Vice-Chancellor Kerry Cox and the first students of the Arts Academy on the new Campy Street Campus.
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Coulour photograph of University of Ballarat Vice-Chancellor Kerry Cox and the first students of the Arts Academy on the new Campy Street Campus.
After a quiet period, interest in bookplates in Australia began to increase in the early 1970s, Entrepreneurial art and book collectors such as Edwin Jewell and others commissioned multiple bookplate designs from a range of well known fine artists. At a 1997 meeting in Melbourne of the Ephemera Society of Australia Edwin Jewell and others announced the formation of the Australian Bookplate Society. The society was instrumental in promoting the art of the bookplate through establishment of the Australian Bookplate Design competition. The competition includes a design award for secondary schools students.
Signed Irena Sibley lower right below image
bookplate, printmaking, australian bookplate design award, keith wingrove memorial trust, mirka mora
honeyeater with gum leaves and flowers in oval liner framework with raindrops and plants external.
Irena Sibley
bookplate, printmaking, australian bookplate design award, keith wingrove memorial trust
After a quiet period, interest in bookplates in Australia began to increase in the early 1970s, Entrepreneurial art and book collectors such as Edwin Jewell and others commissioned multiple bookplate designs from a range of well known fine artists. At a 1997 meeting in Melbourne of the Ephemera Society of Australia Edwin Jewell and others announced the formation of the Australian Bookplate Society. The society was instrumental in promoting the art of the bookplate through establishment of the Australian Bookplate Design competition. The competition includes a design award for secondary schools students.
Signed Irena Sibley in pencil lower right below print.
bookplate, printmaking, australian bookplate design award, keith wingrove memorial trust
Signed Irena Sibley in pencil lower right beneath print.
bookplate, printmaking, australian bookplate design award, keith wingrove memorial trust
Signed Irena Sibley in pencil lower right
Signed Irena Sibley in pencil lower right beneath plate
Signed Irena Sibley in pencil lower right below print
Signed Irena Sibley in pencil below print.
Signed in pencil Irena Sibley
Irena Sibley
After a quiet period, interest in bookplates in Australia began to increase in the early 1970s, Entrepreneurial art and book collectors such as Edwin Jewell and others commissioned multiple bookplate designs from a range of well known fine artists. At a 1997 meeting in Melbourne of the Ephemera Society of Australia Edwin Jewell and others announced the formation of the Australian Bookplate Society. The society was instrumental in promoting the art of the bookplate through establishment of the Australian Bookplate Design competition. The competition includes a design award for secondary schools students.
pencilled 14/100 PmcCann
printmaking, australian bookplate design award, keith wingrove memorial trust, drawing, computer
An abstract painting on canvas.
horsham student collection, abstract, available
After a quiet period, interest in bookplates in Australia began to increase in the early 1970s, Entrepreneurial art and book collectors such as Edwin Jewell and others commissioned multiple bookplate designs from a range of well known fine artists. At a 1997 meeting in Melbourne of the Ephemera Society of Australia Edwin Jewell and others announced the formation of the Australian Bookplate Society. The society was instrumental in promoting the art of the bookplate through establishment of the Australian Bookplate Design competition. The competition includes a design award for secondary schools students.
printmaking, australian bookplate design award, keith wingrove memorial trust, drawing, computer
Typed letter with list of this ewho were attending a reunion to be held in Ballarat on 23 August 1937.
ballarat teachers' college, ex-students' association, reunion, t.j. ryan, m.c. campbell, j.m. tomlinson, a.m. kerr, d. millman, j.c. warrick, c.v. merlin, k.s. clarke, l.e. krause, p.g. law, philip law, g.g. mitchell, a.h. bryant, r.r. watson, h.j. parker, r.p. warriner, e.o. jones, m. skene, j.h. mcnaughton, j. heard, e. mcinerney, w.i. young, l. merlin, n.v. cocks, g.c. ingpen, r. mclean, t.m. stuart, r.s. southwell, g.c. mcleaod, v.t. bellingham, r. row, a.m. giles, n. larkan
5 handwritte letters on George Ruffle letterhead.
george ruffle, the international company
Letter on J.W. Banfield letter head (Ararat Advertiser)
j.w. banfield, ararat advertiser, printer
After a quiet period, interest in bookplates in Australia began to increase in the early 1970s, Entrepreneurial art and book collectors such as Edwin Jewell and others commissioned multiple bookplate designs from a range of well known fine artists. At a 1997 meeting in Melbourne of the Ephemera Society of Australia Edwin Jewell and others announced the formation of the Australian Bookplate Society. The society was instrumental in promoting the art of the bookplate through establishment of the Australian Bookplate Design competition. The competition includes a design award for secondary schools students.
roundal of Kookaburra on branch
pencilled in 3/10 with P.J.Webb
bookplate, printmaking, australian bookplate design award, keith wingrove memorial trust, linocut,
After a quiet period, interest in bookplates in Australia began to increase in the early 1970s, Entrepreneurial art and book collectors such as Edwin Jewell and others commissioned multiple bookplate designs from a range of well known fine artists. At a 1997 meeting in Melbourne of the Ephemera Society of Australia Edwin Jewell and others announced the formation of the Australian Bookplate Society. The society was instrumental in promoting the art of the bookplate through establishment of the Australian Bookplate Design competition. The competition includes a design award for secondary schools students.
Image of dancing woman with headset incorporating name and Ex Libris
2/4 signed V Stanic
bookplate, printmaking, australian bookplate design award, keith wingrove memorial trust
I'm a Year 11 student ... want to be a graphic designer.
After a quiet period, interest in bookplates in Australia began to increase in the early 1970s, Entrepreneurial art and book collectors such as Edwin Jewell and others commissioned multiple Bookplate designs from a range of well known fine artists. At a 1997 meeting in Melbourne of the Ephemera Society of Australia Edwin Jewell and others announced the formation of the Australian Bookplate Society. The society was instrumental in promoting the art of the bookplate through establishment of the Australian Bookplate Design competition. The competition includes a design award for secondary schools students.
Image of a contorted person.
2/4 Signed T Evers
print, linocut, ink on paper
After a quiet period, interest in bookplates in Australia began to increase in the early 1970s, Entrepreneurial art and book collectors such as Edwin Jewell and others commissioned multiple bookplate designs from a range of well known fine artists. At a 1997 meeting in Melbourne of the Ephemera Society of Australia Edwin Jewell and others announced the formation of the Australian Bookplate Society. The society was instrumental in promoting the art of the bookplate through establishment of the Australian Bookplate Design competition. The competition includes a design award for secondary schools students.
3/4 signed S Gillespie
bookplate, printmaking, australian bookplate design award, keith wingrove memorial trust
Inscribed in biro below image 2/3 N Colby
Inscribed in biro below image 2/3 Vicki Green
Inscribed in biro 2\3 Rachel Chapman
Subject inspired whilst studying the Bahaus art period. I love to experiment with shapes and colours. I like the way my image is a different picture when held upside down - a surprise for the reader.
After a quiet period, interest in bookplates in Australia began to increase in the early 1970s, Entrepreneurial art and book collectors such as Edwin Jewell and others commissioned multiple bookplate designs from a range of well known fine artists. At a 1997 meeting in Melbourne of the Ephemera Society of Australia Edwin Jewell and others announced the formation of the Australian Bookplate Society. The society was instrumental in promoting the art of the bookplate through establishment of the Australian Bookplate Design competition. The competition includes a design award for secondary schools students.
bookplate, australian bookplate design award, keith wingrove memorial trust, acrylic paint, digital print
Gwyn HANSSEN PIGOTT (1935 - 11 July 2013) Born Ballarat Gwyn Hanssen-Pigott completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Melbourne University in 1954. She spent three years apprenticed to Ivan McMeekin at Sturt Pottery, Mittagong, New South Wales. As a teenager she was taught to through by Neville Bunning, Ceramics lecturer at the Ballarat Technical Art School (a division of the Ballarat School of Mines). Between 1958 and 1965 Gwyn Hanssen-Piggott worked at various potteries in the United Kingdom, including Winchcombe Pottery in Gloucestershire, Leach Pottery at St Ives, and Wenford Bridge Pottery and Aldermaston Pottery in Berkshire. In 1960 she established her own studio in London. The essence of her work is purity, simplicity and form. She worked with porcelain for strength and for its translucent nature, and fired with wood to add a dine ash bloom to glazes. In 1992 Gwyn Hanssen-Piggott visited the Ballarat School of Mines Ceramics students, under the direction if lecturers Neville French and Prue Venables In 1994 she was artist in residence at the Ballarat School of Mines for six months. Gwyn Hanson Piggott received the Order of Australia Medal in 2002. Born Gwynion Lawrie John at Ballarat on 01 January 1935, Gwyn Hanssen Piggott died in London on 11 July 2018 London where she was for a solo exhibition of her new work. It is believed this work was presented at the time of Gwyn Hanssen Piggott's residencey in Ballarat.. It is part of the Federation University Art Collection which features over 2000 works and was listed as a 'Ballarat Treasure' in 2007.
Australian Studio Ceramics
A bottle and two tumblers by renowned ceramicist Gwyn Hanssen-Piggott.
art, artwork, ceramics, bowl, ballarat, gwyn john, ballarat school of mines, gwyn hanssen pigott
This work was designed by Marlene Drysdale and Lynne Holten, and was created by a large group of artists made up of Aboriginal students from the Morwell KODE school, campus staff and students at teh CAIS Centre, and elders and community members from the region,
An exterior mural in the ampitheatre at Gippsland Campus. The theme of the mural is 'Reconciliation through Education'.
aboriginal, mural, gippsland campus art collection, marlene drysdale, lynne holten, reconciliation
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