Welcome to
Fine Art at Monash.  I'm Professor Luke
Morgan,
Director of Art History and Theory in
the Department of Fine Art
and Coordinator of the Bachelor of Art
History and
Curating.  I'd like to thank you for
joining us.  I'll start
by acknowledging and paying respect to
the Elders and Traditional Owners of the
land on which our four
Australian campuses stand. In Fine Art
we acknowledge the enduring cultural
traditions of
Indigenous communities and art practice.
We not only embed
Indigenous cultural contexts within the
core units of our courses
we ensure that all fine art students
study an art history unit in
Indigenous Australian art which is
delivered by our Associate
Dean Indigenous and practicing artist
Brian Martin.
What makes Monash History and
Curating different I think first of all
the most important difference is that in
fact the Bachelor of Art History and
Curating is one of the only
curating courses offered at
undergraduate level
in Australia and I think I'm right to
say that it's the only one offered in
Victoria.
So on that level alone it's unique at
Monash
you'll thrive in a creative community
that encourages
your freedom of expression working
alongside artists
art writers and curators you'll develop
an understanding and specialized
knowledge of art and the art world.
At the same time you'll develop strong
visual and communication skills.
Curators influence the way we encounter
visual art
and give shape to the experience and
value we derive
from our engagement with artworks.
Exploring past
and present curatorship you'll develop
your curating skills alongside a deeper
understanding of the significance of the
curator's role.
In our teaching we value your ideas
as we develop your skills.
You'll develop and engage your ideas in
tandem with
learning new skills techniques materials
and mediums, these include
from first year an introduction to
curating
in which you'll learn the practical
skills of installing a range of media
including video and two-dimensional
works.
throughout your degree your work with
some of Australia's best-known
contemporary artists,
art historians and curators.
So there are two ways in which you can
study art history
and curating we offer a standalone
degree
the Bachelor of Fine Art with
specialization in Art History and
Curating. It's
three years full-time you can also
combine the BAHC that is the Bachelor of
Art History and Curating
with another degree so you could for
example combine
your studies in art history and curating
with a degree in Arts
that is humanities and social sciences,
or Business or Media
Communication. Our history and curating
students undertake
five core curating units as well as a
suite
of art history and theory units. The core
units
teach you technical skills such as
digital imaging as well as providing you
with the opportunity to undertake an
industry placement.
They also allow you to learn about key
moments in art history.
You could, for example, explore Italian
Renaissance and Baroque art
you're studying modern and contemporary
art you have the opportunity to
study Asian art, photography and film and
Indigenous art.  The core units
train you in key industry skills so
looking at this course map
all the units in light blue here
are core art history units so these
provide you
with comprehensive knowledge and
understanding
of these historical and contemporary
moments in art history. The units in
olive green are core curating units
history theory and practice of
curating.  The blocks that you see
in dark blue are electives you can
choose what you study here from anywhere
in the university
so you could pursue your own interests
and whatever it might be
from languages to philosophy to
studio units in the two other
departments of the faculty
that is Design and Architecture and
double-degree students
complete two degrees as I've said over
four years instead of six. The way that
works in practice is that
double degree students complete only the
core units
of both degrees.  Now to move on to
potential careers for graduates of the
art history and curating program at
Monash as you can see
it leads into careers as an art
historian
or theorist like myself as a curator,
writer, museum director, gallery manager,
photography
advertising, conservation, collection
management.
During the course of the degree you'll
have all kinds of other
opportunities as well to engage with
contemporary art
practice with curating
with museums and industry and just to
make that point i have on the screen at
the moment
an image documenting an exhibition by
a recent graduate of
art history and curating as Beatrice
Rubio-Gabriel.
Beatrice a curator writer and
contemporary artist who
will soon start a curatorial internship
with Monash University Museum of Art and
she
won this curatorial internship. It was a
prize awarded to her and two fellow
Fine Arts students at the 2019
MADA Now Graduate Exhibition.
She also has plans to complete a
curatorial residency in Budapest.
What you're looking at here is the
exhibition that she staged at
Monash University's Clayton campus in
the MPavilion
and it includes works by
Monash Fine Arts students. We have
multiple
specialized workshops which would be
available to you one of the unique
aspects of
this degree in curating an art history
is that it's
located in a contemporary art school
and so you have access not just to
students
studying to become artists but the
wide range of specialist workshops and
and so on. So you'd explore all forms of
contemporary art from
painting, drawing, photography, sculpture,
jewellery, glass and printmaking.
You have the opportunity to study video,
art film,
installation practices and learn
3D printing and modeling processes
for artists. You will of course also
be taught by academics and key
industry figures practicing
often nationally and internationally
known artists,
art historians, writers and educators.
So just to give you some sense of that
our Head of Department is
Kathy Temin commissioned by Kanye West.
My own work includes on my most recent
book which is the study of
the grotesque and the gigantic in
renaissance or 16th-century
landscape design. Our Deputy
Head of Fine Art Spiros Panigirakis is
works across installation and
publication practices.
Emily Floyd is a third year lecturer
in fine art.  Many of you may already
know this work of hers which is visible
from the East Link
freeway. Helen Johnson highly regarded
painter
who teaches studios in painting.
Brook Andrew indigenous artist
and curator he's in fact the curator of
the
Sydney Biennale this year and there's
Peta Clancy
who's a photographer and heads our
photography
program. Professor Rex Butler
a well-known Australian art historian.
This is a collection
of reviews of exhibitions
of contemporary art in Australia. Daniel
von Sturmer
recently completed public artwork for
the Geelong
Performing Arts Centre. We also regularly
invite artists and curators
to teach into our units. A good example
of that
is the final year the curating unit
is co-taught with a curator from the
Monash University Museum of Art.
You'll also gain industry experience on
campus through
access to the Monash University Museum
of Art, 
MADA Gallery which is a faculty
exhibition space and Intermission
which is the student-run art gallery.
Integrated learning is embedded into the
course structure of the
degree not not only through everyday
connections with artists writers and
curators
but also through a an actual internship
a placement at a gallery. During the
course of your degree you
have multiple opportunities to hear from
visiting
or guest artists, curators, art historians
and theorists from around the world in
our weekly Art Forum
talk series.  We also offer professional
development units which
teach you more about what a career as a
curator
would entail you'll also curate
part of the exhibition in MADA Now
which I've already mentioned that's our
graduate exhibition
held every year for the public and
industry to
visit. You have an opportunity to travel
to
Prato in Italy, it's a small town
almost almost untouched by tourism
but close to Florence it's about a 20
minute train ride from Florence.
Now Monash has a campus in Prato
it's one of the only Australian
universities to have a permanent base
in Italy as a BAHC student you can apply
to spend two months studying in Italy.
It's an intensive two months but it's an
extraordinary
experience you study renaissance and
contemporary art in
context which means that you're you know
physically able to
see for example fresco cycles in situ
in the location for which they were made
rather than
you know in via slides in a dark room
at Caulfield or from a book. You're
also taught by
leading contemporary artists, you
are exposed to life in
another culture. This is I think
an extraordinary and very valuable
potential part of the degree
and of what we offer through the
department of fine art.
There's information here about how
you apply to undertake the degree
and if you have a question there's a
live
chat and as it says don't forget to add
the
Art. Design and Architecture course guide
to your swag bag
and there's some links there where you
can find out more.
Thank you for listening to this
presentation and
i hope i'll see you on campus in the
near future
