ACCA @ MIRKA
AT TOLARNO HOTEL
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Viv Miller
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Opens from August 22, 2007
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 A selection of works by Viv Miller exploring the ‘lightness and heaviness’ of the natural world, will be the next to feature at the ACCA @ Mirka at Tolarno Hotel.
Miller uses a range of materials and textures, from the painterly to the plastic, to create sublime, highly layered drawings and paintings of the natural world. Volcanoes erupt and cherry blossoms bloom in works that playfully explore the limits and problems of representation and expression.
Based in Melbourne since 2004 and a former resident of the Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Viv Miller’s practice is both abstract and representational, influenced by natural imagery, computer graphics, ‘bored looking doodles’ and Japanese and Western artistic traditions.
Born in 1979, Viv completed a Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) at the University of South Australia in 2000, and was subsequently awarded a studio residency at the Experimental Art Foundation. In 2004 she moved to Melbourne and undertook a two year studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces. She has exhibited widely across Australia in a broad range of artist-run, government funded and commercial galleries, and is represented by Melbourne gallery Neon Parc.
In this exhibition, Miller explores lightness and heaviness, and how these properties mark out our understanding of the world, both physically and conceptually. “I like to imagine them as if they could be directly distilled and captured within the confines of a painting or a drawing”, she says.
“I love the fantasy of Viv’s works,” says ACCA’s Artistic Director Juliana Engberg. “There is another worldliness about them. I suppose it is the combination of the sci-fi meeting the natural world that her paintings explore. In her imagination the brittle digital world morphs into a playful organic extravaganza.”
ACCA @ MIRKA is a collaboration between the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Mirka at Tolarno Hotel, presented by Sanpellegrino. ACCA will curate four projects by emerging Australian artists each year, continuing the tradition of bringing great contemporary art to this unique and historic restaurant space.
For further media information: Katrina Hall - 0421 153 046
kathall@ozemail.com.au
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Mirka at Tolarno Hotel
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With the opening of Mirka at Tolarno Hotel Guy Grossi returns to the original kitchen in which he first started cooking the ‘sofrito’ with his father and Mirka Mora restores the joyous murals she painted in the main dinning room during the 60s. An amazing piece of Melbourne’s cultural and culinary history has come full circle launching an exciting new chapter in the life of a Melbourne icon.
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ACCA
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The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art is Melbourne’s leading contemporary art gallery presenting the most challenging, innovative and creative visual art of our time. ACCA brings the latest and most significant artwork by living artists from around the world to Melbourne audiences, and commissions new artworks by local and international artists.
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