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
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
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
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
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
New treatment for a common wrist injury
Groundbreaking bioengineering and 3D printing technology at Griffith is creating hope for sufferers of Scapholunate Interosseous Ligament (SLIL) injury, the most common of wrist ligament injuries.
SLIL injuries cause dislocation of scaphoid and lunate bones and can be career-ending for an athlete and result in long-term disability for others.
Typically, SLIL injuries are surgically treated, but have poor prognosis, with patients developing functional limitations and severe hand/wrist osteoarthritis, which impairs long-term health and imposes substantial economic burden.
Many Australians suffer a SLIL injury each year due simply to an active, outdoors lifestyle. Meanwhile, the traditional reconstruction technique involves surgical procedures which can typically result in losing up to a third of wrist functionality and strength.
Pioneering technique
However, Gold Coast Health and Griffith’s Professor Randy Bindra and Professor David Lloyd from Gold Coast Orthopaedic Research, Engineering and Education Alliance (GCORE), in conjunction with colleagues from Orthocell and the Universities of Queensland and Western Australia, are
Australia Awards marine fellowship brings Vietnamese ministry reps Down Under
In March, 15 representatives from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in Vietnam travelled to Australia to take part in a two-week Australia Awards Fellowship focusing on human resource development in coastal and marine management in Vietnam.
Funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the fellowship was designed to enhance the capacity of Vietnam government ministries in developing policies and instruments to improve coastal and marine sustainability, resilience and growth.
Mrs My Doan Thi Thanh, Deputy General Director of the Department of Legal Affairs in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in Vietnam, says the fellowship is “designed very well” and will be very useful for their country.
“We have acquired a lot of knowledge, which we can now apply in Vietnam for better coastal management and coastal resource management along the Vietnam coast,” she said.
The fellows’ visit to Australia helped maximise their global awareness and knowledge of these
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