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Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery - Artist in Residence Program
Broken Hill City Council along with Broken Hill regional Art Gallery is pleased to announce that a selection of highly talented national and international artists will take part in its Artist in Residence program.
The program will see artists travel to the city and create three projects that explore and amplify Broken Hill’s position as Australia’s first National Heritage listed city.
The artists will also engage with the community through workshops, exhibitions and other public events to share their skills and further their understanding of Broken Hill.
The Artist in Residence program will run from September 2017 through to late 2018, and further details around each project will be released in the lead up to the program's commencement.
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The program is funded by Broken Hill City Council, and Create NSW. |
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Robbie Rowlands - N E A R N E S SOctober & November 2018
ARTIST TALK AND WORKSHOP Artist Robbie Rowlands will run a one-night workshop as an introduction to his site-specific artistic practice. Set at night limited light we will journey through a site, observing and capturing photography by torchlight. Price: Free - limited spaces** (Please confirm booking directly at the gallery either in person, via Phone (08) 8080 3444 or via email at artgallery@brokenhill.nsw.gov.au) Location: The site will be revealed upon sign up
E X H I B I T I O N ‘Nearness’ is an exhibition that celebrates the rich body of site-specific artistic explorations by Robbie Rowlands as part of the Broken Hill Gallery residency program. Whilst exploring Broken Hill and the surrounding landscape, Rowlands was drawn to moments that captured unique perspectives of his experience. Rather than being drawn to the infinitely vast landscape, Rowlands turned his gaze to specific sites and materials that, in their solitude, offered distinctive qualities that he felt framed his experience. OFFICIAL OPENING AND NIGHT EVENT
Location: Machinery Preservation Society, 479 Crystal Street, Broken Hill (Please RSVP directly at the gallery either in person, via Phone (08) 8080 3444 or via email at artgallery@brokenhill.nsw.gov.au by November 20th, 2018)
Nearness will be on display at the Machine Preservation Society (479 Crystal Street, Broken Hill) from Saturday, 3rd November and Sunday 4th November | 11am-4pm |
James Price – 800 SoulsResearch week: 28 August – 2 September, 2017Drawing and layout: 2017/2018Projection and installation: TBCExhibition: TBC
James Price would describe himself as a 'multi-disciplinary image based storyteller' if it wasn't such a mouth full, so instead he usually opts for 'artist'. He makes art for and about people, and their history. James has created visual art and film works in places as culturally unique as New York, London and Sydney.
His project ‘800 Souls’ aims to capture a very human history of Broken Hill. Through close collaborative consultation, James will find 800 local characters both past and present and then capture their likeness, but in a very different way.
Within a residential space he will fill the walls with these 800 portraits and transform the house in front of our eyes. There will be a lot of interactive community elements to this; we can watch and help James transform a space into public art. |
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Completed Residencies
Capper and Katzki - Broken HillResearch week: 9 October – 13 October 2017Public Exhibition at Community Markets: 14 OctoberFilm shoot: 15 October - 22 October 2017Public Film Viewing: 21 October 2017Workshops and education engagement: 23 October - 27 October 2017Members Dinner: 26 October 2017
James Capper (UK) and Katzki (Australia) will deliver a combination of sculpture, machinery, technology and filmmaking to celebrate the industrial heritage of Broken Hill. 'Capper and Katzki, Broken Hill' is an ambitious project that will combine sculpture and film making to celebrate the unique industrial heritage of Broken Hill. The project will bring together a young creative team from different corners of the world. James Capper is a British artist who creates large industrial looking sculptures that that walk, move and crawl. Like industrial dinosaurs, aided by hydraulics, his work's fascinating combination of sculpture, machinery and technology captivates audiences young and old. Katzki is a celebrated emerging Australian filmmaker who specialises in surreal, emotional moving images. Later this year, along with their dedicated Sydney-based curator Edward Campbell, they will visit Broken Hill where Capper will demonstrate his works in and around the city. Imagine a bright yellow steel spider walking through our streets. You might have seen something that looks like it before, on mining and construction sites you've passed by, but this is not an excavator, it's a 'working sculpture', controlled by the artist and leaving marks in the earth as it crawls by. The team are keen to invite the community to get involved and interact with the works. All of this will be recorded on film by Katzki, whose work has been screened at Aspen Shortfest and Tropfest (Sydney), been viewed over 11 million times online, and been praised by media including The Huffington Post. The resulting film will showcase the beauty of Broken Hill and celebrate our mining heritage by exploring the timeless relationship between man, machine and environment. |
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