Inez de Vega
2014 RECIPIENT OF THE GEORGES MORA FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP
Inez completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2011. She has exhibited across Australia, Milan, Paris, Chicago, Chongqing and Berlin. Recent exhibitions include Nervous Tensions, Careof Organization for Contemporary Art, Milan; The Act of Seeing, Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne, (2014); Portes Ouvertes, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris; Dying Not to Be, Kings ARI, Melbourne, Kar Krash Karaoke, The Substation, Newport; Suite, Art Gallery of Ballarat, (2013); Locus of Control, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne (2012); Greener On The Other Side, International Video Art Festival, Chongqing, China, Hatched 2011, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2011); Show VI, MMX Open Art Venue, Berlin, Germany (2010).
Inez is the recipient of the Art Gallery of NSW Moya Dyring Memorial Studio Scholarship 2013; the Australia Council ArtStart grant 2012; the Orloff Family Scholarship 2011; the Lionel Gell Scholarship and the Maude Glover Fleay Award 2010.
"Through a series of video productions over the past few years, Inez de Vega demonstrates that she possesses a distinct new artistic vision that is intense for its personal symbolism and narrative; that is strikingly imaginative and innovative in its idiom; and which - through its intelligent, passionate drama - makes undeniably commanding and compelling viewing."
- Dr Edward Colless
Author and Head of Critical and Theoretical Studies, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.
Inez de Vega, My Father the Fool, 2011
Still from HD Video, 15:00min
