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‘Works on Paper’ by Alice Parker<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'><FONT FACE="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"> </FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><B>18 Jan. – 7 Feb. 2008<BR>
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Australian Academy of Design<BR>
220 Ingles St, Port Melbourne. <BR>
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Exhibition open to the public <B>Mon-Fri 9am-5pm</B>.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">Alice Parker, a former student of the Australian Academy of Design, returns this January with her exhibition ‘Works on Paper’. <BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">Opening night and media viewing will be held on Friday <B>18 January</B>, 2008, 6-8pm <BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">“This project was initiated through the enquiry of space, and the elements that lie within space - colour, line, composition, scale and texture and resulted in playful and complex paintings, drawings that affirm the primacy of pleasure and expression amid a vortex of shifting polarities - classical order/intuitive expressionism, conscious thought/unconscious desire, breaking the barriers of the established patterns and relationships of painting and drawing”, said Parker today.<BR>
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Parker uses acrylic paint, oil pastel, oil paint, ink, shellac, collage and coloured pencil on paper and board.<BR>
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Parker says her time at the Academy provided her with the ‘fundamental processes of realising and materialising an idea’. Now undertaking further study in the Fine Art Drawing department at RMIT, Parker uses sculpture, painting, drawing and installations to evolve ideas metaphysical into resolved moments. <BR>
The Australian Academy of Design offers the Bachelor of Design Arts with major studies in Advertising, Graphic Design, Photo Media and Visual Arts, and the Diploma of Fashion Design.<BR>
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P</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">lease RSVP for the opening / media viewing to <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>marketing@designacademy.edu.au</U></FONT> or call 03-9676 9000 <BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">For more information on enrolment and upcoming events at the Academy contact Sandra Boyd on 9676 9000 or visit www.designacademy.edu.au <BR>
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