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Korea-Australia Visual Arts Program 1994-9

Primarily funded by the Australia Korea Foundation, this project included exhibitions, journalist tours, residencies and secondary and tertiary art teachers' exchanges. Organisations involved were state, university and commercial galleries, art schools, secondary schools and other educational bodies in Korea and Australia. Individual exhibitions within the project were:

Affinities: eleven artists from Korea and Australia
A bilateral touring exhibition shown in Australia and Seoul in 1997-8, generated from participating artists residency connections.

Aurora
A contemporary craft exhibition touring to ten venues in Korea, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Vietnam and Australia, 1996-8.

Australia: Familiar and Strange
An exhibition of ten leading contemporary artists curated by Tim Morrell, Queensland Art Gallery showing in Seoul in 1996.

Neil Taylor and Doh Heung-Rok
An exhibition in 1996 of work by sculptors, Neil Taylor and Doh Heung-Rok selected by curator, Chung Mie-Young, Director of Posco Gallery, Seoul.

Sense/Duration of Sense
A project involving two Korean and two Australian artists each contributing a curated solo exhibition and each showing at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne and the Whan-ki Museum in Seoul in 1997.

Slowness of Speed: Contemporary Korean Art
The second part of the NGV / ArtSonje Center's exchange featuring the work of seven Korean artists whose works combine references to traditional and contemporary life, defined in terms of time and distance. The exhibition was shown at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1998/9 and the Art Gallery of NSW in June 1999.

Unhomely
An exhibition of 11 Australian artists curated by the National Gallery of Victoria which toured to Seoul and Kyongju in 1998, exploring ideas of habitat and identity.

Victorian College Of The Arts/ Hong Ik Exchange
A residency and exhibition exchange between artists and senior lecturers Young Kil Yim, Assistant Professor, Print Making Department, Hong Ik University, Seoul and Jon Cattapan, Head Drawing Department, Victorian College.

Voices of the Earth
An exhibition of traditional and contemporary Aboriginal work owned and curated by Gabrielle Pizzi, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi showing in Seoul in 1996.

Asialink, The University of Melbourne

Korea-Australia Visual Arts Program 1994-9