John Fries Award: Artist Talks
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CNR OF OXFORD ST AND GREENS RD, PADDINGTON NSW 2021
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10AM - 11AM
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(02) 8936 0888
John Fries Award finalists Madison Bycroft, Jenna Lee, Hayley Millar-Baker and The Ryan Sisters present a series of artist talks to celebrate the opening weekend of the exhibition ‘There is Fiction in the Spaces Between’.
Talks moderated by John Fries Award Curator, Miriam Kelly.
Madison Bycroft is an artist born in Adelaide/Kaurna Yarta, Australia, who is currently based between Marseille and Adelaide. Bycroft is a graduate from the University of South Australia, and the MFA program at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, NL which was supported by the Anne and Gordon Samstag Scholarship in 2014–2016.
Jenna Lee is a mixed race Larrakia, Wardaman and Karajarri, Asian (Japanese, Chinese, Filipino) and Anglo Australian woman whose contemporary art practice explores the transformation of the colonial printed word through the ritualistic acts of analysis, destruction and reconstruction, seeking to translate the page into a new tangible language.
Hayley Millar–Baker (Gunditjmara, AU) is a research-driven, contemporary artist based in Melbourne. Utilising her mediums of photography, multimedia, and research, Hayley examines human experiences of time and memory, resulting in monochromatic photographic works — often in series that divulge her storytelling methodology.
The Ryan Sisters is a collaboration between sisters Pip Ryan and Natalie Ryan which exists outside their own practices. Together they explore ideas that are associated with humour, horror, death and the absurd. Using combination of spatial installation and intervention they reference these themes while playing with dualities that exist between the merging of their identities.
Miriam Kelly is a curator of contemporary art and currently holds the position of Curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in Melbourne (2018–), and Curator of the John Fries Award 2019–20.
Since 2010, the John Fries Award has recognised the contribution and achievement of early career practitioners from Australia and New Zealand. The Award matches the philanthropic support of the Fries family with the Copyright Agency’s enduring commitment to the career development of artists. As a result, the Award has profiled an outstanding group of more than 120 finalists and winners.
The 2019 exhibition 'There is Fiction in the Spaces Between' brings together eight individuals and two collaboratives, and while their practices are diverse, their work is thematically linked by way of engagement with ideas of narrative.