2021/22 Applications Now Open
We are excited to announce that applications are now open for the 2021/22 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 8th September, 2021.
Apply here!
Image courtesy of past fellow Catherine Evans 'Exploded View', 2021.
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.
James Geurts, 'Flow Equation', TarraWarra Biennial 2021. 2 from a series of 4 200 x 140 x 17cm neon, scanned work on paper as site action timber frame with Dibond backing. Courtesy of GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide/Berlin.
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, Ruth Höflich, and Shivanjani Lal. Below we have collated some highlights from our past fellows with links to the various projects they are currently working on.
Image courtesy of past fellow Brook Andrew.
GARRU NGAJUU NGAAY
Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA)
Alumni Brook Andrew’s work, GARRU NGAJUU NGAAY, which was commissioned by and is currently being exhibited at Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA).The exhibition runs until the 4th of October 2021.
As written on Andrew’s website “GARRU NGAJUU NGAAY (magpie, I see) is a wall drawing, incorporating text and neon. It creates an immersive environment of patterns and markings inspired by the Wiradjuri and Gamilaroi traditions of tree and shield carving that have been practiced for millennia. The bold colours – white, black, red, blue and yellow – reference both the Aboriginal Flag and the Union Jack.”
Brook Andrew is represented by Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris and Brussels. His studio is located in Melbourne, Australia on the lands of the Kulin Nations.
Image courtesy of past fellow Ruth Höflich.
To Feed your Oracle
Linden New Art
Ruth Höflich’s solo exhibition ‘To Feed your Oracle’ is currently on show at Linden New Art. As written on the galleries website; ‘In an installation of video, photography and site intervention, To Feed Your Oracle will explore how we might understand, or predict, things that we can’t see and how our expectations might affect how we experience the unknown.’ The show runs till the 22nd of August.
Image courtesy of Trent Walter.
From Australia: An Accumulation
Trent Walter & collaborators
Watch This Space ARI, NT
In March of this year alumni Trent Walter exhibited From Australia: An Accumulation at Watch This Space ARI. The exhibition “is an imagining of Australian nationalism made through drawing, printmaking, community-engaged workshops, publications and exhibitions.” As written on Watch This Space’s website; “Recently there has been a much needed re-evaluation of Australian history and the legacies of colonialism, and the ways this can be addressed through artwork. From Australia builds from this work and extends the trajectory of historical printmaking portfolios by creating an ongoing, inclusive and reflexive examination of collective Australian identity. The project is ongoing.” This project can also be viewed online at fromaustralia.net.
Image courtesy of James Geurts.
TarraWarra Biennial
Slow Moving Waters
Past fellow James Geurts recently exhibited as part of the TarraWarra Biennial: Slow Moving Waters, curated by Nina Miall. Slow Moving Waters responds to two related cues: the idea of slowness, and the gentle, measured flow of the nearby Birrarung (Yarra River). The exhibition’s title comes from the translation of the local Woiwurrung word ‘tarrawarra’, after which the Museum, and its surrounding area of Wurundjeri Country in the Yarra Valley are named. The exhibition “explores processes of deceleration, delay and the decompression of time, proposing a stay to the ever more rapid flows of people, commerce and information that characterise the dynamic of globalisation.”
Although the exhibition has now finished you can still purchase the catalogues online here.
Image courtesy of Catherine Evans.
Catherine Evans' fictionella, Copper, was published as part of the Lost Rocks series. An accumulative event of mineralogical, metaphysical and metallurgical telling, Lost Rocks (2017–21) is a unique library of forty three books composed by forty five contemporary artists from around the world. Part artwork, part curatorial platform and part experiment in publishing as art practice. Increments of absence. This life that is all at once. Love. Grief. Relation.
Catherine Evans exhibition ‘Exploded View’ is currently on show at PhotoAccess including catalogue text by Margaret Woodward. The exhibition runs July 21st - 14th of August. Exploded View is a new work that takes Evan’s personal memory of the 1997 Royal Canberra Hospital implosion as a starting point to examine how digital media acts to distort our perception of time, relation to place and personal and collective memory.
Image courtesy of Philip Brophy.
McClelland sculpture park and gallery
Site & Sound: Sonic art as ecological practice
Philip Brophy’s work Atmosis was exhibited at McClelland sculpture park and gallery as part of the exhibition Site & Sound: Sonic art as ecological practice. You can listen to the artwork online here. As written on Brophy’s website “Atmosis is an ongoing series of impressionistic musical compositions based on slices of real-time location recordings produced in noisy urban/city environments. Each location recording has been transcribed into a musical composition. The chordal drones of air-conditioning ducts, the high-pitched squeal of car brakes, the deep hum of passing trucks - all these typical urban 'noise' generators have been analysed to discern chords and pitches hiding within their apparently-unmusical sound.”
Image courtesy of Cyrus Tang.
Sky Orchestra
Incinerator gallery
Alumni, Cyrus Tang's exhibition Sky Orchestra is on show at Incinerator gallery, 25 June 2021 - 1 August 2021. Sky Orchestra is a project exploring Confucian values of filial piety through the lens of Chinese history and pop culture, and how it relates to the artist’s existence within a Western context. Through Sky Orchestra, Hong Kong-born artist Cyrus Tang, delves into the history and legacy of a poem by a well-known Chinese poet Su Shi of the Song Dynasty, written during the Moon Festival in 1076. Expressing feelings of loss and yearning, the words of the poem evoke the joys and sorrows of human existence from a Buddhist worldview.
Image courtesy of Shivanjani Lal.