2020/21 Applications Now Open
We are excited to announce that applications are now open for the 2020/21 Georges Mora Fellowship!
The Fellowship is awarded each year to an artist who has shown a continuous commitment to the field of contemporary art. In these uncertain times we are pleased to be able to provide an artist with some financial security and ongoing residency support.
The fellowship will receive a cash grant of $10,000, one year's premium membership to the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA), international residency opportunities, access to organisations and individuals with specialist knowledge to support the artist to research, experiment and create. The fellow can choose to annex their research with a secure desk at the State Library of Victoria, providing access to the rich resources of the Library. Please see application guidelines and further information on our website.
The Georges Mora Fellowship is awarded with funds generously donated by arts supporters and with the support of State Library Victoria, Alliance Française de Melbourne, the National Association for the Visual Arts and other partners.
Applications close Tuesday 5th May, 2020.
Past fellow Linda Tegg, ‘Grasslands’, (2014), a site-responsive installation at the State Library of Victoria as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2014.
Collaborative partnership with State Library of Victoria
We are pleased to be continuing our ongoing collaboration with the State Library of Victoria (SLV). Each year the GMF fellow has access to a secure desk at the SLV which provides uninterrupted time to work with the rich resources of the Library, including access to a private study which can be used outside normal opening hours.
The SLV currently has an extensive range of virtual content available to access from home, including; Community Collecting, Digital Collections, Book Club, Online Image Pool, E-books, Journals & Music, and Family History Resources.
Past fellow Brook Andrew (centre) with artist Lhola Amira and Lisa Reihana.
Georges Mora Fellowship Alumni
The Georges Mora Fellowship has a rich history of fellows including; Jude Walton, James Geurts, Inez de Vega, Catherine Evans, Brook Andrew, Trent Walter, Trihn Vu, Philip Brophy, Linda Tegg, Ross Coulter, Cyrus Tang, and Ruth Höflich. Below we have collated some highlights from our past fellows with links to the various projects they are currently working on.
Ibrahim Mahama, ‘No Friend but the Mountains’, (2020). Installation view at Cockatoo Island, part of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, curated by past fellow Brook Andrew.
NIRIN
22nd Biennale of Sydney
Past fellow Brook Andrew is the current Artistic Director of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. For nearly 50 years, the Biennale of Sydney has presented some of the most dynamic contemporary art from around the globe in iconic venues across Sydney. This year’s exhibition, titled NIRIN and meaning ‘edge’ in Wiradjuri, is an artist- and First Nations-led biennale showcasing more than 700 artworks by 101 artists and collectives. A global platform for diverse cultures and perspectives, the Biennale unites people across the world, stimulating dialogue and inspiring change.
The exhibition is no longer open to the public, however, there is easily accessible online programming linked to the seven themes that inspire the exhibition which will be held daily on the Biennale of Sydney’s website and social channels. In a first for the Biennale of Sydney - audiences around the world will be able to engage with NIRIN on the Google Arts & Culture platform. Creating a virtual Biennale that will bring the exhibition and programs to life through live content, virtual walkthroughs, podcasts, interactive Q&As, curated tours and artist takeovers.
At times like these, it is more important than ever that we find ways to connect, to help each other, listen, collaborate and heal – all core themes of NIRIN.
Installation view of James Geurts, ‘International Date Line - 180° Longitude’, (2020).
The Habitat of Time
Arts Catalyst, London
James Geurts is part of the group exhibition The Habitat of Time, at Arts Catalyst, London, curated by Julie Louise Bacon, exploring the role of time as a medium in shaping human and more-than-human worlds.
His work 'International Dateline' measures the start of a new day on the earth, based on a constructed geopolitical line positioned at 180° longitude in relation to the Prime Meridian 0° longitude at Greenwich, London. Read further information about the exhibition on their website.
Image courtesy of Philip Brophy.
Psychosonic Cinema
Resonance FM, London
Renowned Australian soundtrack theorist, and GMF past fellow, Philip Brophy presents 90 minutes of loud and luscious soundtrack dynamite, broadcast weekly on Resonance FM, London, Psychosonic Cinema is a radio series on film soundtracks.
Each week features a selection of tracks which loosely fit a theme. The purpose is to celebrate the widely varied ways musicians and composers have put their sounds into the film score. Psychosonic Cinema enables these great tracks to speak for themselves, and radio is the ideal platform for presenting them. Tune in live here.
Installation by Trent Walter and Stuart Geddes at Aesop The Rocks.
NIRIN NGAAY
Reader for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney
Past fellow, Trent Walter alongside Stuart Geddes have worked collaboratively with the Biennale of Sydney to produce the NIRIN NGAAY reader. The publication, whose title translates to ‘reading the edge’, combines new works by Australian and international artists, commissioned for the occasion, with previously published pieces of note.
As an extension of its physical production, Walter and Geddes brought the reader to Aesop The Rocks in a conceptually and materially dynamic installation designed to appeal to all five senses—an expanded, immersive means of ‘reading’. Reader catalogue available from Biennale of Sydney website.
Installation view of Catherine Evans, ‘Standing Stone II’ Raumaneignung, Milchhof am Pavillon, Berlin, (2019).
Standing Stone
2020 Neukölln Art Prize, Berlin
We are proud to announce that past fellow Catherine Evans was awarded first prize in the 2020 Neukölln Art Prize for her work Standing Stone.
Standing Stone is an exciting attempt to find a system. What looks like an objective diagram is fed by subjective coordinates. The position of the stones on the wall corresponds to the position of the birthmarks on the artists own back. With this poetic mapping, Evans transforms the body into a three-dimensional drawing system. In this way it reaches into the cosmic, the supra-individual. The work is installation and drawing at the same time. The result is a fragile balance of stones and rods, levitation and heaviness, body and line - a metaphor for the artist's existence and for life itself.
Image courtesy of past fellow Jude Walton.