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MAMA announces selection of local artists to exhibit in 2019-2020

A visitor looks at a series of bright photographs depicted a woman in a red dress
When
2019-01-22
Author
Murray Art Museum Albury

Each year, Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) makes space for artists from the Murray region or artists making art about the Murray region through an annual Open Call.

In a competitive annual application process, artists are selected by a panel to hold an exhibition at MAMA.

In 2018, some our most loved exhibitions came from this program, including photographer Nat Ord’s Rise!, Tallangatta artist Ash Laing’s Flagging Opinion, the large scale detailed canvases by Wodonga artist Cornélia Selover in I Wish You Were There, and the series of streetscapes by late painter Leon deMontignie in the Life and Death of an Unknown Artist.

In 2019, MAMA continues to support and champion artists within the Albury Wodonga region, after a further 10 artists have been selected for the forward program. Collectively, the exhibition program will be formed by artists whose practices are driven by a robust enquiry and investigative approach to their work.

The artists selected to exhibit at MAMA in 2019 as a result of the Open Call include Albury-born Canberra-based Andrew Tenison’s investigations into photographic constructions of memory and identity; a celebration of visual (ceramic) form by Wangaratta multidisciplinary artist Linda Lees and Sydney artist Elizabeth Rankin’s painterly accounts of a well-known 1934 Albury murder case.

A room of white plinths with different shaped abstract ceramic sculptures, the closest is a crescent moon shape on its side on top of a three sided pyramid
Linda Lees

Curves and Crisp Edges
Murray Art Museum Albury, 2019
Image by Murray Art Museum Albury

A black and white photograph of a hand holding an old photo of a soldier
Andrew Tenison

Let Me Imagine You (Untitled 4), 2017
Gelatin silver photograph
Image courtesy of the artist

A painting of a man wearing a suit and glasses and holding a yellow robe
Elizabeth Rankin

Evidence, 2018
Oil and wax on paper
Image courtesy of the artist

Albury artist Chris Ellis continues his visual investigations into the aesthetics, usage and ephemeral qualities of the Murray River in a new series of paintings. Chiltern-based emerging artist and Wiradjuri woman Bethany Thornber’s unique symbolic visual language will explore questions surrounding boundaries, focusing on Chiltern Mount Pilot National Park.

The 2020 Program was postponed until 2021 with new work by Albury artist Barbara Strand, an installation and performative work by Rutherglen artist Glenda Helen Mackay, and new installation by Wodonga sculptor Ken Raff. A local established artist and photographer will coordinate the presentation of a selection of black and white ‘snapshot’ photographs by the late artist Olive Rose Odewahn documenting life around Burrumbuttock, Walla Walla, Albury and surrounds spanning 1920’s – 1960’s.

Chiltern-based multidisciplinary artist Beth Peters has been selected the recipient of the 2019 Susan Moorhead Memorial Award, a biannual initiative run by moMAMA to assist emerging visual artists in the development and realisation of their professional career. Peters’ new exhibition Memory Bags continues the artist’s interrogation into memory, materiality and concurrent themes of presence and absence. MAMA is thrilled to work with Peters to present her work as part of the Spring program.

An acrylic painting with a blue background with a white and red snake with a transparent head painted across the canvas. Simplified pink flowers raise up from the ground
Bethany Thornber

No free parking, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
Image Courtesy of the artist

A painting of trees on a bank behind water reflecting the trees with ripples
Chris Ellis

Reflections Horseshoe Lagoon, 2018
Oil on linen
Image courtesy of the artist

An artwork featuring a series of linked and cascading loops and lines all created in grey lead.
Beth Peters

While counting interludes, 2019
Graphite on paper
Image by Nat Ord

Exhibiting artists will also be invited to give talks, workshops, tours and performances to augment their exhibition, and give the community an opportunity to engage directly with the artists.

MAMA is committed to supporting and working with artists from the Murray region by providing opportunities for career expansion and artistic growth, believing in the power of art and artists to inspire, challenge, and strengthen our community.

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