Image credit: Energetical (Platform Arts, 2020). Photo by Leiko Lopez.
PANEL dISCUSSION
ASK A CURATOR
THU 12 SEP 6.00-7.30PM
FREE TO ATTEND
(REGISTER BELOW)
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Monday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Tuesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Wednesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday 10.00am - 3.00pm
Sunday closed
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Platform Arts is wheelchair-accessible via our Gheringhap St entrance. Unlocked, accessible bathrooms are available on both ground and first floors.
Some seating will be available. Chairs are stools of various heights, with no back support. Detailed accessibility information can be found here.
For accessibility enquiries, please directly contact us at hello@platformarts.org.au
Artists and the community are invited to attend 'Ask a Curator,' an in-person panel discussion about curatorial practice, gallery protocols, exhibitions, installs, commissions, and more.
The panel includes three curators working across diverse exhibition formats: proud Gunditjmara Keerray Woorroong woman, Tarryn Love (Koorroyarr and YOOKAPA); Ren Inei (Boom Gallery, Geelong); and Simon Lawrie (Lorne Sculpture Biennale, who will be zooming in from Helsinki).
This event is co-presented with Making Change and forms part of the After Walter Hopps open-call exhibition at Platform Arts.
About After Walter Hopps:
Running from AUG 12—SEP 20, this open-call community exhibition invites artists from Geelong, Surf Coast, Bellarine, and other G21 regions to bring in new or existing artworks to exhibit on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information on the exhibition, public events, or how to get involved as an artist, please visit our After Walter Hopps webpage.
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Artist Ren Inei is one half of the team behind Boom Gallery, curating and hanging the exhibitions and liaising with the many artists who show at Boom. Ren completed studies at Deakin University in the early 1990’s and has sustained a consistent art practice since, participating in many exhibitions (both group and solo). His work is rich with texture and tonal depth, achieved through techniques of layering and exploration of differing materials.
Simon Lawrie is an independent curator and writer with extensive experience in spatial practice, public art commissions and site-responsive projects. His approach aims to articulate and augment the experience of place, working closely with artists across sculpture, sound, installation, film and performance to explore tensions between integration and intervention at a given site. Based in Melbourne, he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and a Master of Art Curatorship at University of Melbourne. Major exhibitions include Site and sound: sonic art as ecological practice (2021) and Solid light: Josef Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski (2019).
Tarryn Love is a proud Gunditjmara Keerray Woorroong woman, born and raised on Wadawurrung Country. She is a koorroyarr, teenyeen ngapang, tyeentyeeyt ngapangyarr and wanoong ngeerrang - granddaughter, youngest daughter, youngest sister and proud Aunty. Tarryn is an emerging artist, curator, and producer, whose practice exists in the space of creative cultural expression. She creates under the collective of Koorroyarr which means ‘granddaughter’ in her Mother Tongue, honouring her positionality as a Gunditjmara woman. Koorroyarr represents that the sustainability of cultural practice is in the sharing of knowledge and pays respect to her family and Ancestors, past and living. Tarryn Love’s work represents the distinctiveness of Gunditjmara ways of Knowing, Being, and Doing that is not one way but constantly happening and changing. Overall, she aims to explore her identity in the here and now while centering language and carrying on the work of remembering, reclamation, regeneration, and revitalisation.
