Levels of insecure employment within the university sector are increasing. Casual and contract staff have no guarantee of on-going employment. However casual and contract workers (both academic and professional staff) make up 50% of the workforce and this figure is...
Image by Farhad Bandesh. The following artworks, writing, poetry and music come from four asylum seekers—Mustafa, Abbas, Farhad, and Behrouz—who have been detained for the past five years by the Australian Government on Manus Island and Nauru. Hundreds of refugees...
This work is inspired by the generations of female activists in the ANU community. All the faces are based on images of activists from the ANU archives. Based on archival images (below) from the ANU Open Research Repository and the Women’s Electoral Lobby history...
‘Look’ is based on a media image of a young boy displaced by conflict. It uses the gaze of the subject and the audience to address the power of witnessing. The audience is free to view the image without confronting the gaze of the subject, or the reality of the...
Of and For Our Bodies – Zoya Godoroja-Prieckaerts In April this year, Zoya Godoroja-Prieckaerts worked together with Clare Jackson to create an exhibition called Tensions Between at the CCAS gallery in Manuka. They used this opportunity to explore the similarities and...
I created this body of work because I was fascinated by the way that identity is shaped through the relationship between parents and children. The identity of a parent and child becomes intertwined, both depending on the other for illumination, shape and...
http://azzahsultan.com/Fibre-Art A lot of the misconceptions directed at Muslim women pertain to false ideas about how Islam treats women. In my art piece Strings, I created portraits of five different Muslim women from different ethnic backgrounds and embroidered a...
In my piece Home Sweet Home I wanted to look more deeply into what it means to be an American Muslim woman. I posted a message on the social media websites: Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram requesting Muslim women to donate scarves in the colours red, white or blue. I...
The Three Graces (2014) 120 cm x 90 cm, oil on canvas. The Three Graces is a work I hold very dear as it was painted in homage to my two of my best friends at a time when I was in dire need of them. The work always serves as a reminder of the importance and power of...
1. The Dead Sea We float lazily in the thick and warm water, careful not to let our faces dip into the mineral concoction. The thick water restricts you from making sudden movements. You slowly learn patience, as you simply accept a lazy attitude. I had to learn...
“Knowledge for Sale” is one of a series of posters that address the corporatisation of universities. The posters are the result of a collaborative research project between Dr Ivo Lovric, a recent graduate from the ANU School of Art and Professor Margaret Thornton, ANU...
Electric. To be risk averse in this neighbourhood is not an option. With pylons passing high overhead to connect others to the grid, residents climb and dangle makeshift cables that carry high voltage electricity down to their homes. It is not uncommon for sections of...
This image comes from a fleeting moment from the car window as we drove home from Castlemaine along the Hume Highway one late Autumn evening. All colour was drained from the landscape rendering the hills, grass and trees deep purple browns and inky blues. The sky...
