Queensland College of Art graduate Mandy Quadrio is one of 30 emerging artists from across Australia chosen to exhibit at the Hatched National Graduate Show.
The prestigious exhibition at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art has been running since 1992, and showcases the country’s best up-and-coming artists.
The works on display this year span a range of disciplines including painting, sculpture, installation, sound and video.
Mandy said her selection for Hatched was “a really big deal”.
“It’s an amazing opportunity to showcase my work at a national level, I feel quite privileged,” she said.
Mandy’s sculptures, which formed part of her Honours project, are made from a range of materials, including steel wool, kelp, shells and string. Viewers can move around and through the works – some of which hang suspended in midair, while others are freestanding.
The collection, Holes in History, refers to the invisibility and attempted erasure of the Indigenous palawa women of Tasmania – Mandy’s
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Queensland Conservatorium celebrates a blockbuster orchestral season
The Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University is launching a blockbuster orchestral season featuring a host of high profile guest conductors, epic repertoire and a dazzling finale at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.
The first concert will feature the fiendishly difficult Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz, conducted by Queensland Conservatorium Deputy Director Peter Luff.
Associate Professor Luff said it was one of the most famous and challenging pieces in the orchestral canon.
“It is a gigantic piece, with five movements – it takes the players and the audience on a rollercoaster ride,” he said.
“Technically it’s very difficult, and each movement is dramatically different.
“Leonard Bernstein described it as the first musical expedition into psychedelia, and it was said that Berlioz wrote some of it under the influence of opium.”
The piece also features two gigantic church bells, borrowed from the Western Australia Symphony Orchestra and weighing several hundred kilos.
Associate Professor Luff said they helped ensure the performance stayed
Key Vietnamese reps engage with Australian logistics sector at networking event
A networking dinner took place on Thursday 8 March celebrating the first week of a study tour that welcomed 17 key representatives from Vietnam to Canberra and Melbourne to learn about Australia’s system of Vocational Education and Training.
The activity was a part of the Australian Government-funded program “Promoting Industry Linkages with Vocational Education and Training (VET)” through Aus4Skills, an Aus4Vietnam investment.
The dinner, held at Rydges in Melbourne, was a highlight of the first week of the study tour, and involved invited guests from the Australian logistics sector and training organisations.
Managed by Aus4Skills and hosted by Griffith University’s International Business Development Unit, the networking event gave the Vietnamese a chance to network with representatives from the Victorian Transport Association and the Australian Logistics Council.
Key representatives from Australian Industry Standards (AIS) also attended the event including the CEO, Mr Robert Adams, who gave the keynote speech and Mr Laurie D’Apice, AIS Board Chairman
Photography graduate scoops top awards
Queensland College of Art alumnus Adam Ferguson has scooped two of the world’s most prestigious photography prizes for his striking portraits of Nigerian girls recruited as suicide bombers by Boko Haram.
Adam was named Photographer of the Year at the Pictures of the Year International competition and took out top prize in the People and Stories category of the World Press Photo awards for the series of images commissioned by The New York Times.
Taking inspiration from a famous Nigerian painting, Adam perfected the set up in his studio in New York before heading to Nigeria, where he shot all 83 portraits in a single day.
“These girls are impoverished and marginalised, but the journeys they had undertaken commanded such bravery,” he said.
“In homage to this bravery I tried to present the women as dignified and beautiful, hoping to transcend the more mainstream narratives we have seen around the Boko Haram phenomenon.”
Adam first gained recognition for his
Griffith holds follow-up NDIS Jobs Roadshow
Providing industry relevant employment for Griffith Health students is the aim when Griffith will again team up with WorkAbility Queensland in a Jobs Roadshow.
To be held at Griffith’s Gold Coast campus on Monday 30 April, the NDIS Jobs Roadshow will offer Griffith students the chance to engage in speed interviews with organisations seeking to recruit for positions becoming available via the roll out of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
An anticipated 10-12 disability services organisations will participate in the Roadshow, including House with No Steps, Centacare and Epilepsy Queensland. All are looking to recruit students studying health-related disciplines for a large number of casual, support worker positions located in and around the Gold Coast region.
The event ‘Welcome’ will take place in G16_1.08, with the speed interviews then taking place in the G07 Function Centre in the Link Building.
“As expected, after the success of the Logan Roadshow event in November 2017, demand for the Gold Coast
Unravelling the genetics of stuttering
Australian researchers seeking QLD volunteers for nation’s largest ever ‘Genetics of Stuttering Study’
Researchers from the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Speech and Language are calling for Queenslanders aged seven and above with experience of stuttering (past or present) to volunteer for the nation’s largest ever ‘Genetics of Stuttering Study’.
Three thousand Australian volunteers are required for the study. The study aims to pinpoint the genes that predispose individuals to stuttering, which could revolutionise future research into the causes, treatment and prevention of the disorder.
Co-chief investigator, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence for Speech & Language Genetics of Stuttering Study, Speech Pathologist, and Pro Vice Chancellor (Health) at Griffith University, Professor Sheena Reilly says the study outcomes may open the door for new treatment opportunities for stuttering in the future.
Finding the genes
“Finding genes associated with stuttering will help identify biological pathways involved and unveil new therapeutic opportunities to treat the disorder,” says
The medals won by Team Griffith at GC2018
Team Griffith has completed the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games with a remarkable haul of 40 medals.
Students, alumni, staff and athletes from Griffith Swimming Club performed heroically throughout the Games to secure 23 gold, 7 silver and 10 bronze medals.
Public Health student and swimmer, Emma McKeon, led the way with four gold and two bronze medals, followed closely by Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice student, Stephanie Morton, who claimed three gold and a bronze in the track cycling at the Anna Meares Velodrome.
The full list of Team Griffith medal winners at GC2018 is as follows:
Emma McKeon (Swimming)
Bachelor of Public Health student, Griffith Swimming Club
Gold, Women’s 100m Butterfly
Gold, Women’s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay
Gold, Women’s 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
Gold, Women’s 4 x 100m Medley Relay
Bronze, Women’s 200m Freestyle
Bronze, Women’s 200m Butterfly
Stephanie Morton (Track Cycling)
Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice student
Gold, Women’s Team Sprint Final
Gold, Women’s Sprint
Gold, Women’s Keirin
Silver, Women’s
Griffith’s Compounds Australia facility secures new automated compound storage system
Compounds Australia at Griffith University has announced that it has finalised the purchase of the state-of-the-art Hamilton Verso M3 automated compound storage system.
Based at the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery (GRIDD, Griffith University), the Hamilton Verso M3 complements Compounds Australia’s suite of sophisticated compound management and logistics infrastructure and will provide storage for 10,000 plates and 430,000 tubes under tightly regulated environmental conditions. The system will be installed in mid-2018. The Hamilton Verso M3 offers an automated sample storage system with a flexible internal configuration to accommodate a wide range of labware and seamless integration with liquid handling robotics.
“The acquisition of the Hamilton Verso M3 Store delivers on Compounds Australia’s commitment to support world class Australian drug discovery research through high quality compound management and logistics,” Compounds Australia’s Manager Moana Simpson said.
The Verso M3 will house the new Australian Drug Discovery Library, which forms part of the Hit ID Platform
Lending a helping hand to graduates pays off for Professor
Griffith University’s Professor Cordia Chu from the School of Environment and the School of Medicine has been awarded a Special Commendation for Excellence in Graduate Supervision at the annual Australian Council of Graduate Research (ACGR) Awards, held in Adelaide on Monday night.
Professor Chu was one of two recipients of the special commendation chosen from a pool of academics at the awards, which highlight exemplary graduate research supervisors and leaders from across Australia.
“It means a lot to me to have this recognition for research supervision work. It’s a national award and to work with the creme of the crop is quite a privilege,” Professor Chu said.
“We have a great multicultural research culture in my group, where there is critical thinking, debate, and a high completion and publication rate. We try to nurture researchers to conduct research that addresses health issues of global significance, and the impact that our students have on the
Coral reefs create their own ‘cloud umbrellas’ to stay cool
Our coral reefs are feeling the heat – and new research from a team that includes Griffith University researchers has found that corals are making ‘cloud umbrellas’ to stay cool.
Associate Professor Albert Gabric, Dr Roger Cropp and Dr Dien van Tran from the Griffith School of Environment and Science were part of the team that included researchers from Southern Cross University and the University of Southern Queensland whose findings were published in the journal AMBIO.
The team’s analysis of a 15-year time series of satellite-derived data on atmospheric aerosols over the reef revealed that corals are seemingly protecting themselves from ‘stresses’ – such as high water temperatures and high irradiance and the bleaching events related to them – by producing and releasing aerosols into the atmosphere to create an ‘umbrella of cloud cover’ to help cool them down.
Associate Professor Gabric has worked in marine aerosols for 25 years and said while the