Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Saturday 29 July
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location
NGV Australia, Federation Square
The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Federation Square
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Reflect on the creativity, culture and contemporary life of Melbourne in a cross-artform collaboration between the Wheeler Centre and the National Gallery of Victoria.
To celebrate the return of Melbourne Now, the National Gallery’s landmark exhibition of new and ambitious local art and design, the Wheeler Centre and NGV come together for an afternoon of art and storytelling. Join writers Susie Anderson, Anna Emina El Samad and Maya Hodge as they share readings responding to the work of Melbourne Now artists Mia Boe, Deanna Hitti and Kelly Koumalatsos. The artists themselves will then take the stage to discuss the experience of creating work in Melbourne/Naarm that captures their own varied and rich cultural ancestries and heritages, along with host Myles Russell-Cook, the NGV’s Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art.
Presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria.
Mia Boe Image: Installation view of Mia Boe’s For the angels in paradise 2023 on display as part of the Melbourne Now exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne. Image: Sean Fennessy
Featuring
Susie Anderson
Susie Anderson writes from the nexus of compassion and resistance. Her poetry and nonfiction are widely published online and in print, such as in Archer, Artist Profile, Artlink, un magazine, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia and ...
Mia Boe
Mia Boe is a painter from Brisbane with Butchulla and Burmese ancestry. The inheritance and disinheritance of both cultures is the focus of her practice. Boe’s paintings respond, sometimes obliquely, to historical and contemporary acts of violence perpetrated on the people and lands of Burma and Australia.
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Anna Emina El Samad
Anna Emina El Samad is an educator, curator and writer based in Naarm. Having completed a thesis on diversity in the arts titled: (Re)claiming the Narrative: Amplifying the Voices of Australian Muslim Artists, Anna has ...
Deanna Hitti
Deanna Hitti is an Australian artist based in Melbourne with Lebanese heritage. Her multi-disciplinary arts practice spans over 25 years. Referencing historical and cultural material, she highlights the foundations of different ...
Maya Hodge
Maya Hodge is a Lardil and Yangkaal emerging writer and curator based on the lands of the Kulin Nation. Her practice is dedicated to disrupting colonial narratives and centering First Nations storytelling and autonomy ...
Kelly Koumalatsos
Kelly is a descendant of the Wergaia and Wamba Wamba tribes of northwest Victoria. Their practice has included sculpture, painting and printmaking. They have explored south-eastern Aboriginal cultural heritage, significantly work ...
Myles Russell-Cook
Myles is the Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Myles is responsible for the NGV’s collections of Australian Art, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and the Art of Oceania ...