Pat Foster and Jen Berean win Inaugural Jane Scally Developing Artist Award
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Melbourne artists Pat Foster and Jen Berean are the inaugural recipients of the Jane Scally Developing Artist Award, which gives young artists the opportunity to travel internationally and meet with a selected mentor.
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The award honours the life and career of pioneer Melbourne interior designer Jane Scally, a keen art collector and former member of the ACCA Foundation Board.
Foster and Berean plan to use the award to travel to Scotland in March next year to study with renowned artist Martin Boyce (who represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale), and to engage with like-minded Glaswegian artists, many of whom use the built environment in their practice.
Foster and Berean, who have worked collaboratively for ten years, create works that investigate modern urban planning and design practices. Previously seen in ACCA’s NEW09 exhibition, the duo take familiar elements from the built environment, pare them back and resituate them in the gallery environment. In the past they have reconstructed toilet blocks, tram stops and glass ceilings, and in a project for SCAPE, created a forest of tall plinths mounted by sculptural busts from the gallery’s historical collection.
For this award, they were selected by a panel which included Max Delany (Monash Gallery of Art), artist Lou Hubbard and Peter Jopling QC, with ACCA’s Artistic Director Juliana Engberg as convener and Chair.
The Jane Scally Developing Artist Award was established by Peter Jopling QC, a member of the ACCA Board, to honour his late wife, whose career in the design and art industry spanned thirty years. One of Australia’s first interior ‘architects’, Jane championed the then fledgling interior design profession, was pivotal in establishing the interior design peer association and in changing community perceptions about the profession.
Jane was passionate about the role of travel and mentoring in shaping young arts practitioners, helping them achieve world class artistic outcomes. From 2004 onwards, a similar award also in Jane’s honour was awarded to six interior design students at RMIT.
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Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 111 Sturt Street, Southbank.
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Tel: 03 9697 9999. Admission: Free. www.accaonline.org.au
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