Join us in celebrating our second opening series of the season, with exhibitions by four incredible female artists; Matilda Nona, Sue Healy, Hannah Parker and Melody Woodnutt.
10am – Doors Open
11:30am – Artist Talk | Hannah Parker Abstract Landscapes
12pm – Artist Talk | Melody Woodnutt The Apparition
12:30pm– Artist Talk | Sue Healey ON VIEW: ICONS
1pm – Official Opening and Acknowledgements
- Ashleigh Campbell, CEO NorthSite Contemporary Arts
- Henrietta Marrie, AM, CIAF Co-Patron
- Guest Speaker – Cathy Hunt, Executive Director, WOW Australia
2pm – Artist Talk | Matilda Nona Bupungu
2:30pm – Free Performance | Melody Woodnutt
Performance details: Untitled (Opening Act)
Duration 23 mins
A short performative evocation to illuminate the exhibited death shroud. The shroud is intended to be an apparition emergent from a long buried boat ruin. The sound, lighting and 16mm film work together to expand this apparition and create a portal into a speculative other world — one which is conjured for an unfinished boat ruin that never saw the sea.
In its heart, the artwork acts to offer a radical optimism that objects of persistence (material, societal, political) can undergo change through the constructive efforts of transfiguration.
This transfiguration allows a familial boat ruin to reach a poetic, new material form after the original boatbuilder’s death.
Performance Credits: Concept and Sound: Melody Woodnutt | Lighting Design: Lara Gabor | Violin: Adam Cadell | Percussion: Melody Woodnutt and Zela Papageorgiou | Additional Music track “Faster Than Cold” by Lawrence English and Philip Samartzis. Original Boat fragment by Frank Woodnutt.
This exhibition and opening performance is supported by the University of Melbourne Faculty of Fine Arts and Music and the VCA Foundation.
