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dc.contributor.author |
Hughes, NA
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9007-3486
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dc.contributor.editor |
Centre, VA |
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dc.date |
2009-06-06 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Australia and The Ballet Russes: In the Wings |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10453/32719
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dc.description.abstract |
In the Wings, one component of the landmark Creative Australia and the Ballet Russes program, presented the work of three contemporary visual artists; Wendy Sharpe, Tania Mason and myself, all of whom had been invited to create new work in response to designs by Ballets Russes artists and The Australian Ballets 2009 Ballets Russes program. The exhibition took place first at the Victorian Arts centre from the 6th of June to the 20th of September, 2009. It then toured Victorian Regional galleries from October 2009 to December 2010. A 32 page full colour exhibition catalogue with essays by the Arts Centre curators, and additional contributions from experts in the field was also produced. Most of the commissioned work was subsequently aquired by the Victorian Arts Centre and is housed in their collection. |
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dc.publisher |
Victorian Arts Centre |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Australia and The Ballet Russes: In the Wings |
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dc.title |
Creative Australia and The Ballet Russes commission |
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dc.type |
Exhibition |
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utslib.location |
Victorian Arts Centre Melbourne and various regional Victorian galleries |
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utslib.for |
1203 Design Practice and Management |
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pubs.embargo.period |
Not known |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Design |
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utslib.copyright.status |
open_access |
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pubs.place-of-publication |
Victorian Arts Centre Melbourne and various regional Victorian galleries |
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pubs.start-date |
2009-06-06 |
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pubs.rights-statement |
This body of work was commissioned by the Victorian Arts Centre to mark the occasion of the centenary of the Ballet Russes. The Ballet Russes is fundamental to the establishment of a modern vision in Australia. Through their scenography and costume design, they introduced Australia to aesthetic modernism. As part of the exhibition project, three contemporary Australian artists were invited to create new work in response to their designs and The Australian Ballet’s 2009 program. My contribution focussed on the work of the late 19th, early 20th century Russian artist and designer Leon Bakst, specifically his Orientalist, decadent and highly detailed costume illustrations for the ballet Scheherezade. Bakst’s illustrations are characterised by dense patterning, high key colours, and eccentric silhouettes. Responding particularly to their decorative details and their unique figuration, this body of work extends Bakst’s costume illustrations by means of abstraction. His designs are reconfigured into a contemporary aesthetic. Influenced by Art Nouveau, Bakst’s biomorphic shapes and oriental motifs in turn are transfigured into hybrid, synthetic forms that feature cell-like decorative detail. Creative Australia & the Ballet Russes was exhibited at the Arts Centre, Melbourne (June–September 2009) before touring to regional Victoria (October 2009–December 2010). A 32 page full colour exhibition catalogue with essays by the curators, and additional contributions from experts in the field was also produced. Four of the drawings were acquired by the Victorian Arts Centre. |
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