Staff Profiles

Education

Master of Visual Art (Painting and Sculpture) , University of Sydney, Australia , .
Diploma of Fine Art , Prahran College of Fine Arts, Melbourne, Australia , .

Areas of Expertise

Interdisciplinary Sculpture, Performance, Installation, Painting, Drawing, Photography, Video.

Teaching Areas

Installation, Performance, Sculpture, Drawing Painting, Honours.

Current Research Activity

Researching ways to facilitate the delivery of education in a culturally diverse setting, and the significance of cultural diversity in tertiary education at UNSW [inter- faculty project].

Researching environmental issues pertaining to Sculpture to establish a research institute devoted to sustainable resources and new technology in Sculpture, Performance and Installation.

That Taoism may underlie contemporary, intercultural artworks from countries such as China and Vietnam has received little attention from commentators discussing the insights found in art that has its origins in, or quotations from, Asian cultural practices and philosophy. Bonita Bonita Ely plans to analyse the works of artists whose countries of origin have deeply rooted Taoist beliefs to reveal Taoist concepts as integral to their structure. In Bonita's art practice she aims to explore an embodied integration of the viewer using Taoist analysis as a catalyst for advances in the field of inter cultural art. Improvisation of imagery is of particular interest re: Taoist calligraphic art.

Publications

Published Articles

Ely, B. (2003). Taxing Artists. NAVA (National Association for the Visual Arts) Newsletter, (March). ( - ).

Ely, B. (2001). Longevity In Hue. TAASA Review: The Journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia, (9:3). ( - ).

Ely, B. (2000). Inside Mawson's Sleeping Bag: the Poetics of Heroism. Experimental Art Foundation Catalogue, (). ( - ).

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2005, Solo Exhibition. Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

Group Exhibitions

2004, Wild Life Documentary. Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.

2003-2004, Bonsai Landscape: Outside Inside: Fragments in Place. Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.

2003, This was the Future: Australian Sculpture of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and Today. Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC.

2003, Reverb. Mai's Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

2003, Outside In. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

2003, Fieldwork. The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, , Melbourne, VIC.

2002-2003, Hue. 4A Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

2002, Border Panic. Performance Space and Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW.

2001-2002, Inside Mawson's Sleeping Bag, (Installation of photography and text). Touring: Experimental Art Foundation, Sutton Gallery, Bellas Gallery, Stills Gallery, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney.

2000, Spitting and Biting (Prints and drawing assemblage). Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.

Works Exhibitioned in a Competition

2005, National Sculpture Prize. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

Grants

Faculty Research Grant [inter-faculty], UNSW, . (2005),

COFA Online Fellowship, COFA, . (2004),

Fellowships in Innovative Teaching and Educational Technology [ITET], Education and Quality Improvement (UNSW). (2003),

UNSW University Research Support Program, . (2001),

Faculty Research Grant, COFA, . (2001),

Professional Associations

School of Art, University of Hue, Vietnam