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Latrobe Regional Gallery Newsletter for the month of June

Latrobe Regional Gallery (LRG) is back with their PROGRAMS & EVENTS this June 2016.

By news@gippsland - 13th June 2016 - Back to News

JUNE

PROGRAMS & EVENTS

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Australia Council for the Arts, Regional Arts Victoria and Creative Victoria are offering an arts grants information session at LRG.

This information session will cover a range of topics relevant to artists, groups and communities seeking funding to deliver their projects. Light refreshments will be provided.

• Opportunities for individual artists
• Opportunities for groups and organisations
• Grant applications assessment criteria
• Peer assessment panels

FREE – RSVP Creative Victoria by Monday 13 June

IN CONVERSATION

5.00pm – 6.00pm Friday 17 June

Artist Leisa Shelton will discuss her art practice, and her work Mapping Australian Media Art which is featured in the exhibition

Experimenta: Recharge.

MAPPING AUSTRALIAN MEDIA ART

6.00pm – 9.00pm, Friday 17 June

5.30pm – 7.30pm, Friday 1 July

Leisa Shelton invites individuals to participate in a conversation with her about significant encounters they have had with media art in Australia – to name the artists that have made an impression on them and marked us as a culture. Notes from each conversation are documented on an individual archive card, stamped and signed, and placed in a hand crafted archive box.

There is one archive box added to the sculptural installation at each venue on the Experimenta Recharge national tour.

Individual archive cards will never be displayed and will only ever be accessed by the artist. The artist will use information on the cards to identify Australian media artists who she may approach to work with in the future on an archiving project. This process is repeated at each venue as Experimenta Recharge tours Australia during 2015–16, building a serendipitous history of media art across Australia.

While Mapping Australian Media Art honours the handmade and the individual, it shifts significance beyond the tangible material produced, marking conversations, collective remembering and the sharing of information as vital, conceptually rich outcomes.

FREE – RSVP Thursday 16 June

SPECIAL EVENT

5.00pm – 9.00pm Friday 17 June

Latrobe Regional Gallery will again be participating in the Latrobe Valley Winter Night Festival which is a community led event.

This event features artworks projected on and inside buildings, art installations, live performances, live music, a rich array of food and design markets set up along Commercial Road and Tarwin Street Morwell.

Come in to LRG and participate in FREE activities including:

• Projections on the facade of the building
• Art activities for all ages
• Shop sale
• Tours
• Performers & Music
• Artist Talk & Mapping Program with Experimenta: Recharge artist Leisa Shelton
• Photo Booth
• And more!

FREE – Drop ins welcome

Image credit: Stuart McFarlane and Darrin Verhagen, A series of small wire objects (many of them uninteresting), 2014. Dimensions variable. Sound, light, code and wood AkE (Audiokinetic Experiments) Lab RMIT, (((20Hz))). Image © the Artist, courtesy Experimenta Media Arts and RMIT Gallery, Photography Mark Ashkanasy.

DICK BISHOP MEMORIAL PRIZE

WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2016 Dick Bishop Memorial Prize is Hayden Jackson.

Hayden has won a fully supported exhibition at LRG from 27 August - 2 October 2016. Congratulations Hayden, we look forward to working with you.

Image credit: Hayden Jackson, Colour Observation #1, 2016, acrylic on canvas, collection of the artist.

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Telephone: 5128 5458

Source: www.gippsland.com

Published by: news@gippsland.com

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