Every month, we run an 'Art Walk' and invite our audiences to join us for a visit to see another creative space, art exhibition, or display - inside or outside. Join us at NGV this month to see Melbourne Now.
Celebrating new and ambitious local art and design, Melbourne Now will cross a range of contemporary disciplines including fashion and jewellery, painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, video, performance, printmaking and publishing.
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Our focus for the morning visit will be the works of current resident Yoko Ozawa and past resident Ali McCann.
Yoko will be presenting her works as part of the program entitled ' Vessels', developed in collaboration with Craft Victoria. It will feature a display of large-scale vessels by local artists working across ceramics, glass, textile and wood.
Ali will be presenting her work as part of the program entitled ' Slippery Images', which challenges the way audiences think about photography through practice that pushes the boundary of the medium.
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Plan/meeting location:
—Start NGV The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square Level 3 @ 9:55 am for 10:00 am entry.
—End NGV at @ 11:00 am.
Press the ‘JOIN THE GUEST LIST’ button below to join via the button below or send us an email at info@correspondences.work.
Please note: Participation/attendance is free. We ask you to register just so that we know who to look out for on the day!
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Artist bios
Ali McCann (Naarm/Melbourne) is a multi-disciplinary artist well-known for still-life photographs and sculptures. Her work is informed by outmoded photography guides, amateur artworks, and the decor of educational and domestic spaces of the 1970s and 1980s. Working across photography, sculpture, video and performance, her compositions examine the illusionary tendencies of the photographic image and the aesthetics of education, nostalgia and memory.
Japan-born, Naarm (Melbourne)-based artist Yoko Ozawa has been making ceramics since 2003, when her graphic design and Japanese painting studies led her into pottery. Her multidisciplinary practice is informed by a lifelong interest in natural phenomena - seasonal transitions, fog, breeze, rain, light and shadow – the atmosphere between objects and their surroundings (包まれ tsutsumareru) and the Japanese notion of よはくyohaku (blank space).
Image credit: Yoko Ozawa's work 木枯汗褐 Kogarashi – The first cold wind blew (pictured above), presented at Craft in 2021. Photographed by Annika Kafcaloudis