Together with Ouyang and Jessye, we invite you to join us for the opening of their residency project, Ouyang Yu & Jessye Wdowin-McGregor—Ekphrasis, and to celebrate the full moon and Mid-Autumn Festival celebrated by Chinese and Vietnamese communities here in Naarm (Melbourne).
Booking (free) is essential. Places limited. Press 'Join the guest list to join'.
Location: Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country 39 Sydney Road Bulleke-bek (Brunswick) VIC 3056
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Artist Bios
Ouyang Yu is a Naarm (Melbourne)-based poet, novelist, literary scholar and translator. Over his decades-long writing career, he has published prolifically in both English and Chinese—including the award-winning novel The English Class (2010). His more recent works include the novel Billy Sing (2017) and the poetry collection Flag of Permanent Defeat (2019). He is the recipient of the 2022 Australia Council Fellowship for Literature, the awarding of which has allowed him to focus on his new documentary novel. Ouyang will be collaborating with artist Jessye Wdowin-McGregor as part of our inaugural duo residency.
Jessye Wdowin-McGregor is a Naarm (Melbourne)-based artist whose practice spans video, performance, photography, drawing, and collage. A relationship to place underpins much of her work, and she is inspired by environments that are sometimes at the periphery of attention, particularly within the urban realm. She is interested in our entanglements with other species, the thresholds between body and landscape, the human impact on the natural world, spontaneous forms of urban nature, and the elemental infrastructures that shape our surroundings. Jessye will be collaborating with artist /poet Ouyang Yu as part of our inaugural duo residency.
For more information on their residency project, please visit her Residency page (here) or our News/Stories page.
Image credits:
1) A soft spiral unfurling and an eyeful of aster, 2022, inkjet fine art archival print on Canson Rag Photographique, 46.5 x 39.5 $400 (image/sheet) / 49.0 x 42.0 cm $600 (framed). © Jessye Wdowin-McGregor Photograph: Andrew Curtis
2) Work-in-progress, Ekphrasis residency