Ms Geraldine Burke

Job title:	Lecturer
Qualifications:	BA Fine Arts R.M.I.T. DipEd Art Craft (Melb), MA (Research) Art & Design
Campus:	Peninsula, Building A2, Room 10
Phone:	+61 3 990 44244
Fax:	N/A
Email:	Geraldine.Burke@Education.monash.edu.au

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Teaching commitment

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• EDF2122
  
• EDF3122
  
• EDF4218
  
• EDF2905
  

Research Interests

Creative Laboratories - the merger of art and science; Nature and Technology as Impetus for Image and Process; Refluxus art group - Collaboration in Art Practice and Learning; Investigation of Grass-Roots Art Practice and Use of Natural Resources; Children's Picture Books; Reggio Emilia; Art experiences in early childhood and primary settings; Light and shadow as a medium within the art curriculum.

Geraldine's Masters artwork and exegesis explore how nature and technology provide impetus for image and process. This study locates the place where technology and nature address one another in her art and explores these concepts within a range of environments. She has defined these as worlds within the context of her work. These worlds differ according to how they are represented visually and they encompass a range of themes. The project-based approach that informs her image-making practice is explored in terms of visiting and re-visiting given themes. In doing so she adopts a range of viewpoints. Her exegesis specifically aims to locate the artwork within the current cultural climate that has influenced her; specifically she refers to the mid to late 1990s. (The exegesis is available through the Monash Caulfield Library)

EXHIBITIONS

2001

work in progress for Refluxus exhibition at Bendigo Regional Art Gallery, Curated by Anonda Bell, May - June 2002

Art Animals, Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, (Nov - Dec 2000) Hamilton Regional Gallery, May 2001 and Switchback Gallery, Monash Gippsland August 2001

2000

Nature and Technology, Masters by Research, solo exhibition, Monash Gallery, Caulfield Campus

Celebrating the Exquisite Corpse, Bendigo Art Gallery, June - September, 2000 and touring Regional galleries within Victoria in 2001 (Sponsored by Arts Victoria)

1999

We Are Australian, George Adams Art Centre, Victorian Arts Centre and in 2000 travelled to Volvo gallery, Sydney (May 15 - June 3), Adelaide festival Centre (Aug 17 - Oct 2), will then extend to Canberra Museum and Art Gallery for the official exhibition of the Canberra Multicultural festival (Feb 17 - April 1, 2001); Other venues yet to be confirmed include Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale; Hamilton Art Gallery and the La Trobe Regional Gallery, Morwell. (Sponsored by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs with an extended grant to enable the exhibition to tour throughout the country until end 2001).

1998

'An International Visual Dialogue with Fax Art', Studio One Art Centre, Oakland, California, (participant & project co-ordinator)

'Art-e-bytes' virtual gallery, Monash Faculty of Education (curator & participant)

1997

'Ici, Un Bout Du Monde/Here, One End Of The World', Alliance Francaise, ACT

'Art from Nature', Campus Bure, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji (participant & workshop co-ordinator)

'World in a Matchbox '97', Grand Central Art, City Art Public Space, Melb

1996

'Ici, Un Bout Du Monde', Gentilly, Paris (Cercle d'Art de Gentilly)

'Out of the Box - Demystification of a Biological Function', Yume-Ya Gallery, Melbourne

'Hurt/Earth' - Student exhibition, McClellard Regional Gallery, Langwarrin (curator & participant)

1995

'Industry Award Exhibition' - CAAD Students Western Metropolitan College of TAFE, 333 Collins Street, Melbourne

1994

'Australian Contemporary Art Fair IV', Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne

'Surface ad Symbol - A Tapestry Of Desire' - Argyle St. Studios

1993

'Acquisitive Art Award' - City of Footscray

'The Road/The Car-Contemporary Attitudes' - Exhibition Gallery, Wangaratta and some regional Victorian galleries 1993 & 1994

'Paintings and Painted Objects' (solo exhibition) - Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery

'Staff Exhibition' - Blaxland Gallery

'Count to Ten - Ten Years On' - La Trobe Valley Art Centre

'Count to Ten - Ten Years On' - Artzone, Adelaide

1992

'Roar II, Count to Ten - Ten Years On', Roar Studios

'Australian Contemporary Art Fair III' - Exhibition Buildings, Melb

'Sea and City' -Blaxland Gallery

1991

'Multitude of Peace' - Malthouse

'Post Card Show' - Linden Gallery

'Art Angels' - Blaxland Gallery (1990 and 1991)

1990

'Fitzroy Townhall Exhibition'