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Item Engaging Faces: The Persistence of Traditional Portrait Painting Practices in a “Post-digital” Age(2018-01-01) Morris, Richard; Rosewell, Colin; Collis, AndrewIn the current global climate of contemporary art discourse, the term “post-digital” variously draws attention to the rapidly changing relationship between digital technologies, human beings, and art forms, an attitude that essentially concerns itself more with “being human” than with “being digital.” While the proliferation of digital imagery—particularly depicting the human face—has become commonplace and ubiquitous to the point of becoming somewhat unremarkable, portrait painting and public demand to see the painted portrait thrive vehemently today. Significantly, and perhaps surprisingly, is the fact that the majority of portrait-painting galleries and portrait-painting prizes uphold the traditional notion that the painted portrait be painted from life; that there must be some personal human encounter between artist and sitter either during or throughout the creation of the work. This article explores the significance of the “painting from life” clause as stipulated by specific gallery and competition stakeholders and its viability as an artistic convention in a period of advanced technological opportunities. It will be shown that such a clause may in fact embody important humanising elements that make it an extremely valuable means of representation in a “post-digital” age.
Item Heutagogy in Action: An Action Research Project in Art Education(2021-07-01) Collis, AndrewThis chapter describes the journey of a teacher (learning leader) and his students (learners) in applying some innovative approaches to enhance learning in a higher education setting. Based on the principles of heutagogy or self-determined learning, the learning leader used action research to implement and investigate some innovative learning experiences in a History of Art class in an Australian university. For both the learning leader and two groups of learners, this experiment in learner-centred learning was very successful because the delivery and receiving of required essential course material became less predictable, less prescribed. This created a sense of spontaneity and discovery of knowledge. Such engagement in the process makes for more meaningful learning and interaction between parties. The impact of implementing a heutagogical approach encouraged other lecturers to re-examine their teaching methods to re-structure some of their units of teaching.
Item Pathway Down to the Garden Gate(2017-08-01) Collis, AndrewThis art work was part of an exhibition that consisted of 11 paintings (mixed media) as well as 6 scratchboard art works done by Avondale lecturer and artist Andy Collis. This exhibition ran from the 27th July to the 11th August 2017 at Gallery KLEI in Sydney.
Item The Bee-keeper(2017-10-01) Collis, Andrew'plein air' landscape painting necessitates layering of streaks of animated direct paint in quite a physical manner. This work, on a fairly large scale, is produced painting directly from nature. The single figure of the bee-keeper is set against the magnitude of the landscape.