Jan Fieldsend

Name: Jan Fieldsend
Position: Head/Senior Lecturer, Art Workshops; Coordinator: Core Art Workshops
Location: Room 326, Wilkinson Building (G04), 148 City Road, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006
T: +61 2 9351 5920
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W: sydney.edu.au/architecture/about/art_workshop.shtml

Research Portfolio

Top 6 Creative Works

• Solo Exhibitions
  2003 Camouflage, Fremantle Arts Centre,WA
  2001 Camouflage, Manly Art Gallery, NSW


• Invited exhibitions
  2003 6eme Triennale Mondiale D’Estampes, Petit Format, AMAC, Auvergne, France
  2003 Women Beyond Borders, UCLA, Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles
  2001 The Shell Fremantle Print Award Exhibition, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
  2000 The Shell Fremantle Print Award Exhibition, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA


• Curatorial projects
  2004 SEEsaw, Three exhibitions and catalogue to mark the closing of the old Tin Sheds Gallery and opening of the new Tin Sheds Gallery. Redcheck, Margaret Roberts, Split, Bevan Honey, eyefull, Deborah Vaughan, Tin Sheds Gallery Sydney, NSW

Esteem/Standing

Director, Tin Sheds Gallery 1999 to present.
The Tin Sheds Gallery is a contemporary art space that hosts approximately 12 exhibitions per year. The exhibitions are selected to display a wide range of art and architectural practices and thinking. I view the gallery as a 4-dimensional journal whereby scholars(in this case artists and architects) can contribute to knowledge, debate and experience through the production of creative works. In 2006 I will collaborate with The Biennale of Sydney, a major international art festival, to exhibit work by an international artist as part of Artist’s Week. www.biennaleofsydney.com.au

Other projects for 2006 will include: Alan, Jack and Cottier, an exhibition of projects by the foremost architects, curated by Trevor Howells; A Singular Voice: Joan Kerr’s Radical Regionalism – an exploration of the influence of an important art historian, curated by Jo Holder and Craig Judd.

art_workshop: to view current and archived exhibitions.

Being part of Australia’s foremost political poster group, Earthworks Poster Collective in the 70’s, I am invited to speak at various seminars and am consulted by others in their research. I manage the Tin Sheds Art Workshop, Faculty of Architecture holds a valuable archive of over 1000 posters and other historical material relating to post-object art and the women’s art movement.

Doctor of Creative Arts candidature at The University of Wollongong: looks at the relationships between making and thinking in the art practice of a number of Australian artists and in my own practice. It focuses on a number of issues: the relationship between tradition and innovation in art practice; how to speak and write about practice and the imagination; the artist as theorist of making- the thesis is in the art work itself; and finally the role that love plays in the creation of work.