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Past Exhibitions: 2009
3 August - 13 September 2009
Interpretations: Diversity in the Macquarie Collection
Works from the Macquarie University Collection which reflect social and cultural aspects of Diversity.
Curators: Professor Gail Whiteford and Rhonda Davis. The exhibition is scheduled as part of Diversity Week at Macquarie University (3-7 August).
Artists in the exhibition include: Charles Blackman, Judy Cassab, Marc Chagall, John Coburn, James Doolin, Sir Russell Drysdale, Rosalie Gascoigne, Marea Gazzard, Gertie Huddleston, Colin Lanceley, Nerissa Lea, Rosella Namok, Ningura Napurula, Les Saxby, Rollin Schlicht and Tony Tuckson.
21 September - 18 October 2009
Eureka - Ron Oldfield & Wade Tozer
A photographic exhibition of works by Ron Oldfield, Biological Sciences Senior Research Fellow who was a joint winner of the 2009 New Scientist Eureka Prize For Science Photography. The Eureka Prizes are the premier science prizes in Australia presented annually by the Australian Museum. The prizes recognise excellence in the fields of scientific research and innovation, science leadership, science journalism and communication, and school science.
Oldfield shared the $4000 prize for Science Photography for a photograph [photomacrograph: 2mm x 3mm] of a collection of Dictyostelium sp cells, clumped together to form a single slug-like organism.
In the Department of Biological Sciences Dictyostelium has been the subject of much research as a powerful system for studying fundamental cellular processes. In the soil, Dictyostelium consists of amoeba-like, separate, independent cells. However, when challenged by adverse conditions (eg. starvation) the cells aggregate. The cells and structure are colourless. Fibre optics and coloured filters were used by Ron Oldfield to produce the winning photograph of approx. 100,000 cells that had formed a mound or slug. Also included in the exhibition are other photographs by Ron Oldfield, his Eureka Prize trophy, as well as a photomicrograph by Wade Tozer, Postdoctoral Fellow in Plant Ecology, at Macquarie University.
This image of Podolobium scandens [whole leaf section] by Wade Tozer was a shortlisted entry in the 2008 New Scientist Eureka Prize For Science Photography.
21 October - 15 November 2009
Feiyu: Flying-fish Dragon
An exhibition of selected items of East and Southeast Asian pottery held in public and private collections. Curated by Charles Cosgrove, Faculty of Science: Museum Studies [2009] Macquarie University.
The exhibition theme is inspired by a Ming dynasty altar bowl showing two Feiyu: Flying-fish Dragons and the carp who had swam up the river against the current as far as the top of the mountain, finally jumping the last obstacle - the Dragon Gate - before turning into a dragon, as a reward for its refusal to give up its quest.
The Feiyu symbol distinguishes Yongle period pottery (1403-1435) from the majority of other objects made during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644).
The symbol of a flying-fish dragon Feiyu featured as the exhibition theme is interpreted as a reference to China's position as the world's most important seafaring empire in the C14th and C15th A.D.
This creature - identified by dragons' wings, fins, fishtail, but without claws - has been associated with the legend of the wondrous fish-dragon who saved a drowning T'ang period scholar. The flying-fish dragon carried him to the heavens for rebirth as the chief star in the constellation of the Big Dipper.
For further details and information about Library exhibitions contact:
Mr Robin Walsh
Exhibitions Co-ordinator
Macquarie University Library
Tel: (02) 9850 7554
Fax: (02) 9850 7513
Email: robin.walsh@mq.edu.au