About Angela Valamanesh
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Angela Valamanesh
is an Art, Architecture and Design research
student. In 1996, she was awarded an
Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship
Angela has participated in a number of SASA Gallery exhibitions including Heartlines (2010) and Surface, Given the Face (2006). She is the postgrad student representative on the Gallery Advisory Committee.
Angela and Hossein Valamanesh (pictured) each received a Member of the Order of Australia Award in June 2010. This is a great honour for both artists, for the school and for Australian visual arts. Queen's Birthday Honours: AM is twice as nice
Angela: 'I think there are some similarities between making functional or non-functional objects…the same care and pleasure…the differences are to do with ideas; the objects remain small in scale, often in a group or sequence, and quiet in their nature.' Angela Valamanesh by Cath Kenneally - extract (Wakefield Press 2009)
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Birds Have Fled (detail) 1995, image courtesy of the Samstag Program |
Birds Have Fled (detail) 1995, image courtesy of the Samstag Program |


