National Gallery of Victoria to exhibit works of two past Georges Mora Fellows

Two former Georges Mora Fellows, Brook Andrew (2013, with Trent Walter) and Ross Coulter (2010), will have their work exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2017.

Brook Andrew: The Right to Offend is Sacred

Brook Andrew’s exhibition presents his most memorable works, alongside formative works that have had limited exposure. It will also include new sculptural work which will draw on the artist’s extensive personal archive and respond to important themes in his practice that issue from and resonate in books, objects, photographs and postcards, newspapers and the media.

3 March to 4 June 2017
NGV Australia, Federation Square
Free Entry

Ross Coulter: Audience

Audience is a photographic series that documents audience members who were photographed in more than seventy Melbourne galleries and museums between 2013 and 2016. Coulter invited members of the local art community to attend a photo-shoot and they were instructed to imagine viewing a performance art event. Drawing on the visual language of 1970s performance art documentation, the work constructs a photographic archive of audiences. As an installation, comprised of more than 400 photographs, the work is a form of performance for the camera, whilst also recording the appearance, dress and body language of various social groups at a particular moment in time.

17 March to 16 July
NGV Australia, Federation Square
Free Entry

We are delighted to see our former Fellows achieving such recognition for their work. We hope you will join us at their exhibitions!

pictured: 
Brook ANDREW
dhalaay yuulayn (passionate skin) (2004) 
enamel paint on anodised aluminium and wood, neon
125.0 x 170.0 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds from the Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2005
2005.72
© Brook Andrew, courtesy Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Brook Andrew & Ross Coulter in Melbourne Now at NGV

Ross Coulter's  10,000 Paper Planes -  Aftermath (1)  was acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria in 2012. This work was created during Coulter's Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship residency at the State Library of Victoria in 2011. The large scale photograph will be on display, alongside the other two photographs that resulted from the performance event, as part of the NGV exhibition Melbourne Now from 22 November 2013 until 23 March 2014. Read Senior Curator of Photography, Susan van Wyk's text about the performance and documentary photograph HERE.

Ross COULTER
10,000 Paper Planes - Aftermath (1) 2011
type C photograph
156 x 200 cm (image and sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation, 2012
2012.332
(top image) Melbourne Now installation photograph courtesy of National Gallery of Victoria.

Brook Andrew's work in Melbourne Now is the large scale Vox: Beyond Tasmania, 2013 pictured below.

Brook ANDREW
Vox: Beyond Tasmania 2013.
Wood, cardboard, paper, books, colour slides, glass slides, 8mm film, glass, stone, plastic, bone, gelatin silver photographs, metal, feather. 267cm x 370cm x 271cm.
Melbourne Now installation photograph, courtesy of National Gallery of Victoria & Tolarno Galleries

Brook Andrew's inclusion in Melbourne Now is a continuation of the artists relationship with The National Gallery of Victoria. Key works by Andrew in the NGV Permanent Collection include Sexy and dangerous 1996; printed 2005, a computer-generated colour transparency on transparent synthetic polymer resin acquired by the gallery with funds from the Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2005 and Polemics, 2000, neon, mirror, transparent synthetic polymer resin, Gift of the artist, 2002.

Brook Andrew was one of three contemporary artists selected for The Barak Commissions in 2011, commissioned by The Felton Bequest to create works that pay homage to the celebrated Wurundjeri artist William Barak. His resulting installation at NGV Australia was, Marks and Witness: A lined crossing in Tribute to William Barak 2011.

"...Marks and Witness uses Wiradjuri designs of zigzag and diamond to represent Barak’s use of possum skin cloak designs of both moieties in his drawings. The zigzag and diamond designs on opposite walls are connected through neon lines to add another dizzying perspective that represents fire and Barak’s strong ideas and understanding of culture." - Brook Andrew 2010

Brook ANDREW
Marks and Witness: A lined crossing in Tribute to William Barak 2011 
polyvinyl chrloride, neon, transformer
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton bequest 2011
Installation photograph courtesy of the National Gallery of Victoria & Tolarno Galleries

Brook Andrew exhibition '52 Portraits' at Tolarno Galleries

Exhibition dates: 15 June – 20 July 2013

Photograph by Christian Capurro
Installation shot of Brook ANDREW exhibition  '52 Portraits' 

Image courtesy of the artist & Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Read more about the exhibition HERE.