Monash architecture an inspiration for art
Narelle Jubelin, The Gray Cloth (glass transcriptions) 2011-12; Caulfield Technical School E Block, architect Percy Everett, c.1950 (now Faculty of Art Design & Architecture, Monash University)
Art comes face to face with architecture in Vision in Motion, a major project and survey exhibition by artist Narelle Jubelin, opening at the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) on Tuesday 24 April 2012.
Vision in Motion features Jubelin’s intricately sewn petit point embroideries of the past three decades, alongside works inspired by architecture and the built environment.
These works include handwritten replications of text from a 1914 utopian satire ‘The Gray Cloth and Ten Percent White: A Ladies Novel’ by Paul Scheerbart onto the glass windows of the round stairwell of Percy Everett’s modernist building located on the intersection of Sir John Monash Drive, Dandenong Road and Bourke Road at the south-eastern end of the Caulfield campus.
Originally designed for the Caulfield Technical School, this iconic local example of modernist architecture now houses Monash University’s Faculty of Art Design & Architecture.
According to the artist, the exhibition is “both a swansong to an earlier modernist moment when universities became progressive sites for the new, and a lamentation for their imminent change, restructuring and loss.”
Vision in Motion will be on display at MUMA, Caulfield campus, from 24 April to 7 July 2012.
For more information visit the MUMA website.