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PUBLIC PROGRAMS
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LOOK WHO'S TALKING
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Be inspired and challenged. Hear first hand from artists, curators and guest speakers. These floortalks and lectures are held regularly during each exhibition season. Discussion focuses on issues arising from current exhibitions and recent developments in contemporary art. Your participation in the discussion is invited and encouraged. No bookings required. FREE.
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Sunday 3 August - Danny Saunders & Benny Merris
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Danny Saunders has worked for Jim Lambie for eight years, from initially assisting with early works on paper such as ‘Master Blaster’, 2001, to now taking on a more supervisory role, overseeing the production of Lambie’s work around the world and managing his studio in Glasgow, Scotland. Benny Merris is an American artist living in Glasgow and assistant to Jim Lambie. Benny completed an MFA at The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) in 2007, makes his own art and currently teaches art at the GSA and Parkhead Psychiatric Hospital.
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Sunday 10 August - Naomi Cass
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Director of the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), curator and writer, Naomi Cass has worked in the fields of contemporary art, craft, design and music. As curator, her exhibitions include Fears and Scruples (University Gallery, University of Melbourne); Material Treasures and Hamish (homely) (with Natalie King, Jewish Museum of Australia); MaleORDER: Addressing Menswear (with Robyn Healey and Seeing Red (Ian Potter Museum of Art) and Tilia Europaea (Linden - St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts). Naomi also produced two programs of contemporary art and music for the Melbourne International Festival; The Many Faces of Percy Grainger, 1997 and Electric-Eye 1998. Naomi has worked with Rosslynd Piggott over many years as curator and writer and will respond to her new work, Extract: in 3 parts.
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Sunday 24 August - Rosslynd Piggott
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Recipiemnt of the fourth Helen Macpherson Smith Commission, Rosslynd Piggott is one of Australia’s most revered and critically acclaimed contemporary artists. Since 1981, Rosslynd has maintained a prolific practice, focusing on 3-dimensional works, painting and drawing in over 20 important solo exhibitions and numerous exhibitions and events, both nationally and internationally. International exhibitions have been held in Antwerp, Belgium, Saitama, Japan and at the 1999 Liverpool Biennial, UK, and studio residencies in Italy and Paris. Rosslynd is represented by Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Milani Gallery, Brisbane and Gallery 360, Tokyo, Japan.
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Sunday 31 August - Gabrielle de Vietri
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Gabrielle de Vietri is the Coordinating Curator of Jim Lambie’s exhibition, Eight Miles High. Gabrielle has managed a range of exhibitions at ACCA, including A Kind of You: 6 Portraits by Roni Horn, 2007; Make It Modern, 2005, at the Deloitte Headquarters; the Republic Tower projects from 2005-2007 and ACCA @ Mirka projects in 2007. Gabrielle graduated from a BFA (Hons) at the Victorian College of the Arts, the Universty of Melbourne in 2005, after studying for two years at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’Aix in France. She currently lives and works as an artist in Melbourne and is the founding editor of the on-going publication, Ideas Catalogue.
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Sunday 14 September - Sarah Guest
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Sarah Guest is an internationally recognised writer and lecturer on gardens and their histories, and has a passionate interest in rare and exotic plants. She has travelled extensively in China, looking specifically at peonies (Paeonia lactiflora hybrids). She writes regularly for The Age, has published numerous books, and regularly speaks to audiences in Australia and overseas. Sarah Guest will draw on some of the themes to be found in Rosslynd Piggott’s exhibition - categories, containments and chaos; the powers and pleasures of observation; beginings and endings.
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Sunday 21 September - Rebecca Coates
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Rebecca Coates is an independent curator and writer, and Associate Curator at ACCA. She is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Melbourne. Previously, from 2002 to 2007, Rebecca curated many group and single artist exhibitions at ACCA including Mike Nelson: Lonely Planet (2006), Uncanny Nature (2006), Truth Universally Acknowledged (2005) and Domenico de Clario: A Second Simplicity (2005). She has also had extensive experience working in a number of galleries internationally. Rebecca will discuss the tracery of interests and influence in Rosslynd Piggott’s work, with specific reference to Rosslynd’s exhibition, Extract: in 3 parts, the fourth Helen Macpherson Smith Commission at ACCA.
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