Exhibition21 Jun – 17 Aug 2019
Melbourne Modern: European art & design at RMIT since 1945
In the wake of World War II hundreds of exiled and displaced European artists, architects and designers arrived in Melbourne and sought…
Melbourne Modern: European Art & Design at RMIT since 1945 | Artists’ Talk
Two graduates of the RMIT sculpture program, Antonia Sellbach and Fleur Summers, discuss their respective artistic practices. Both employ concepts of play and audience interaction in their work, and both interrogate earlier modernist models of art as an agent of social change.
About the Speakers
Antonia Sellbach is a Melbourne based artist, whose work explores abstraction in relation to thought, sensation, language and serial decision-making. An RMIT alumni, Antonia is also the daughter of émigré artist Udo Sellbach.
Fleur Summers is lecturer in sculpture at the School of Art, RMIT. She focuses on teaching developmental working processes with reference to spatial practice.
This venue is wheelchair accessible. RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.
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