Ely | The College of Fine Arts
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Ms Bonita ElyMFA Syd., DipArt PIT Position: Senior Lecturer; Head of Sculpture, Performance and Installation Studies School/Department: School of Art |
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| Room: | FG04 | |
| Phone: | +61 2 93850752 | |
| Fax: | +61 2 93850719 | |
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Introductory Profile:
Bonita Ely has been a leader in environmental art since the 1970s and is a founding member of the
Environmental Research Institute for Art (ERIA) at COFA. Her pedagogic research explores ways to
facilitate the delivery of art education in culturally diverse settings, and her online
course, Cross Cultural Sculpture, specialisies in this innovative approach.
Exhibited in prestigous international venues such as Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin,
Harbourfront, Toronto, and the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Canberra, her work has been
selected for surveys of contemporary Australian art such as Fieldwork, the opening of the Ian
Potter Centre for Australian Art, Melbourne, and the National Sculpture Prize, NGA (2005).
She has produced three public sculptures for the City of Hue, Vietnam [1998, 2002, 2006].
Bonita Ely has a diverse, interdisciplinary practice, her methodology based on the premise
that a particular idea and context requires the deployment of particular mediums and disciplines.
She brings this eclectic approach to the curriculum of the SPI Area at COFA.