These two videos offer a brief insight into 4 years of Hartmut Veit’s socially-engaged art enquiry into the politics of coal, space and place in the Latrobe Valley – starting with the Hazelwood Coal mine fire in 2014 and ending in 2018, a year after the closure...
This video of Hartmut Veit’s “COAL” MFA Graduate Exhibition 2017 at VCA Art Space (Victorian College of the Arts 2017 at University of Melbourne) investigates the complex web of social and political changes affecting communities in transition from...
The meditative exploration of a little pine forest plantation site in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia morphed into the carving of an aerial burial canoe as a ritualistic act to honour and commemorate the life and death of my late father, Gottfried Veit (“Gottfried” is...
This neon and coal sculptural art work questions dualistic and contradictory relationships with coal as a fossil fuel and resource. Being bilingual in German and English for me the word “Gift” has two meanings: Firstly in English the word...
