Inez de Vega's Bed Therapy

Inez de Vega will be therapist-in-residence in the pop-up shipping container gallery in the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art forecourt from 11th to 15th November.

Bringing her own brand of street counselling to weary city dwellers who feel alienated and in need of support, she will provide a welcome source of unexpected comfort (in a cosy bed) for passers by who feel ill at ease with the demands of urban life.

Inez will have one participant at a time join her in bed (though the public can listen in). She will engage her participant in an intimate discussion about their life, the challenges they face and their feelings. Inez’s bed is a place where we are encouraged to admit we carry wounds beneath the veneer of strength that we show to the world.

We are all wounded, yet as we go about our business in the urban environment we are expected to present a robust and uncomplicated exterior. Inez is offering her participants a rare moment of vulnerability in a communal space — where the public might risk an intimate encounter with a caring stranger and access their deeper feelings.

Bed Therapy will take place from 11.30am – 2.30 pm daily. Each therapy session will run for 40 minutes. If you would like to book in for therapy with Inez, please contact ACCA reception on (03) 9697 9999 (sessions are free).

Linda Tegg's Grassland Installation for Melbourne Festival

Linda Tegg's Grasslands, a grand meditation on nature versus culture at the State Library of Victoria, is on exhibition from Sat 11 Oct – Sun 23 Nov as part of the Melbourne Festival. 

Grasslands is an attempt to re-create the pre-settlement grasslands that once occupied the site on which the State Library of Victoria now stands. Working with experts at The University of Melbourne Department of Resource Management and Geography, Tegg selected a plethora of specially grown native plants and grasses.

This project is supported by The Georges Mora Foundation, the State Library of Victoria, the Australia Council, the City of Melbourne and the Melbourne School of Land and Environment, Melbourne University.

Artist: Linda Tegg
Horticulturist: John Delpratt
Landscape Architect: Anthony Magen

Linda Tegg preparing Grasslands

Linda Tegg preparing Grasslands

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Inez de Vega: Three Exhibitions

The 2014 Georges Mora Foundation Fellow, Inez de Vega is presenting work in three  exhibitions:

F Word Contemporary Feminist Art
Ararat Regional Gallery
28 August - 12 October 2014

The Substation Contemporary Art Prize
Substation, Melbourne
15 August  - 12 October 2014

Play
Blindside, Melbourne - Online Exhibition
17 August - 11 October 2014

Inez de Vega, Dying Not to Be, 2013Still from HD Video, 08:00min

Inez de Vega, Dying Not to Be, 2013
Still from HD Video, 08:00min

Linda Tegg Exhibition 'Choir' at West Space

Linda Tegg's Choir will be exhibited at West Space, Melbourne, from 1 -30 August 2014.

Linda TEGG, Choir, 2013Still from HD Video, 07:00min

Linda TEGG, Choir, 2013
Still from HD Video, 07:00min

The two-part video Choir was developed through the Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship at the Centre Intermondes d’Art, La Rochelle with Coup de Chœur.

Linda Tegg was the 2012 Georges Mora Foundation Fellow and in 2013 was awarded an Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship resulting in Linda soon commencing study at School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).  Linda is also the recipient of an Australia Council New Project Grant, the City of Melbourne Arts Grant and an Arts Victoria Grant 2014.

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.

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Ross COULTER10,000 Paper Planes - Aftermath (1) 2011type C photograph156 x 200 cm (image and sheet)National Gallery of Victoria, MelbournePurchased NGV Foundation, 20122012.332(top image) Melbourne Now installation photograph courtesy of National Ga…

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 ANDREWVox: 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, courtes…

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 ANDREWMarks and Witness: A lined crossing in Tribute to William Barak 2011 polyvinyl chrloride, neon, transformerNational Gallery of Victoria, MelbourneFelton bequest 2011Installation photograph courtesy of the National Gallery of Victori…

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

 

 

Ross Coulter is a finalist in the 2013 Bowness Photography Prize

Ross Coulter is a finalist in this year's Bowness Photography Prize with his photograph "...He walks on water"

Exhibited at the Monash Gallery of Art Friday 4 October - Sunday 3 November 2013

Ross COULTER, "...He walks on water", 2013from the series Aussie Jesuschromogenic print100.0 x 127.0 cmcourtesy of the artist Artist’s statement:Drawing on what many consider the first direct self-portrait in the western tradition, the series Aussie…

Ross COULTER, "...He walks on water", 2013
from the series Aussie Jesus
chromogenic print
100.0 x 127.0 cm
courtesy of the artist

 

Artist’s statement:
Drawing on what many consider the first direct self-portrait in the western tradition, the series Aussie Jesus refers to Albrecht Dürer’s iconic painted self-portrait (1500). The photograph attempts to confront the role of the artist, representations of Jesus and notions of Australian identity.