John Fries Award: Artist Talks
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Cnr of Oxford St and Greens Rd, Paddington NSW 2021
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3–4pm
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+61 2 8936 0888
John Fries Award finalists David Greenhalgh, Nadia Hernández, Elena Papanikolakis and Justine Youssef present a series of talks on the closing weekend of the exhibition for their work in ‘There is Fiction in the Spaces Between’.
Talks moderated by John Fries Award Curator Miriam Kelly.
David Greenhalgh is a remix artist who creates short video essays about issues of social and political power, our ways of perceiving the world, and what the future may hold. The aim of his practice is to extend a hand to the future, through acting as a bricoleur of the past.
Nadia Hernández is a Venezuelan-born, Sydney-based artist, who studied at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2008. Her visual arts practice is informed specifically by the current political climate of her home country and her diasporic experience as a Venezuelan woman living abroad.
Elena Papanikolakis is an artist who explores representations and abstractions of time, place and narrative, by engaging with a variety of found material and material of personal and cultural significance. Her interests lie in exploring and challenging meaning, and her work often investigates narrative structures and the presentation and function of information.
Justine Youssef is a contemporary artist who is currently living and working on the unceded territory of the Darug people. Her practice is site-responsive and attentive to her respective origins in South-West Asia. She works across multiple disciplines through her artistic practice, including performance, video, scent and collaboration.
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.