University of Melbourne Events Calendar

Unsculpted presents a multifaceted overview of one of Australia’s most respected artists. For over four decades, Tony Clark has explored the capacity of painting to test the boundaries between genres and creative disciplines.   

Clark’s paintings reinterpret motifs from the histories of art, architecture and the decorative arts in ongoing bodies of work that repeat and reconfigure familiar themes, building an iterative visual language that is distinctively his own.

Departing from a conventional survey, the exhibition has been developed in collaboration with the artist and focuses on his sustained interest in the representation of sculpture and sculptural relief through painted form. 

Flashover

Flashover is a monumental multi-screen media artwork reimagining a devastating moment of terror and beauty from the Black Summer fires. Pieced together from the memories of volunteer firefighters, Flashover contemplates the cycle of bushfires fuelled by the climate emergency and our collective inability to break society’s disastrous habitual loops. It evokes fires past, present, and the inferno to come if we refuse to act.

Flashover invites you to look beyond the human viewpoint to encounter bushfires from the perspectives of flora, fauna, and the fire itself by exploring a labyrinth of minuscule and monumental screens. Created by leading artist-researchers from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, distinguished guest artists, and volunteer firefighters, Flashover combines cutting-edge photography, animation, and immersive sound techniques to contemplate bush fires at a stunning level of intimate beauty and awe.

Flashover is a free event, with afternoon and evening slots from 12PM - 4PM and 4PM - 8PM from Tuesday 4 February to Friday 14 February. Audiences are able to move through the exhibition at their own pace. Limited seating is available. Please register for the day and session you would like to attend.

This event is wheelchair accessible. Please note that there some of the spaces have low-lighting.

CREATIVE CREDITS
Concept, Writers, Lead Artists & Directors: CJ Taylor & Robert Walton
Lead Animator & Director: Phillip Wilkinson
Composition & Sound Design: Madeleine Flynn & Tim Humphrey
Installation Design: Kris Bird

PARKING

The City of Melbourne has recently changed the parking restrictions around the Southbank Campus. Parking control hours are now expanded to 7am–10pm, seven days per week, and are capped at three hours. A $2-per-hour fee after 7pm is also now in place. There is no change to the $4-per-hour peak rate between 7am–7pm. Parking inspectors are regularly in the area fining drivers who overstay their meter, so we encourage everyone to be aware and avoid an expensive fine. More information.

ACCESSIBILITY

All venues at the Southbank campus are wheelchair accessible. To read more about access services available at our venues, please visit: https://finearts-music.unimelb.edu.au/access-our-events.