A Thousand Words: Art and Storytelling in Melbourne Now

Where

NGV Australia, Federation Square

When

Saturday, 29 Jul 2023, 11:30am - 01:00pm

Event Status

Past event

Featuring

Mia Boe

About the Event

To celebrate the return of Melbourne Now, the National Gallery’s landmark exhibition of new and ambitious local art and design, the Wheeler Centre and NGV come together for an afternoon of art and storytelling.

Join writers Susie Anderson, Anna Emina El Samad and Maya Hodge as they share readings responding to the work of Melbourne Now artists Mia Boe, Deanna Hitti and Kelly Koumalatsos. The artists themselves will then take the stage to discuss the experience of creating work in Melbourne/Naarm that captures their own varied and rich cultural ancestries and heritages, along with host Myles Russell-Cook, the NGV’s Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art.

Please note that Kelly Koumalatsos is no longer able to appear at this event.

Presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria.

Mia Boe Image: Installation view of Mia Boe’s For the angels in paradise 2023 on display as part of the Melbourne Now exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne. Image: Sean Fennessy

Accessibility

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Featuring

Susie Anderson

Susie Anderson writes from the nexus of compassion and resistance. Her poetry and nonfiction are widely published online and in print, such as in Archer, Artist Profile, Artlink, un magazine, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia and in many poetry anthologies. In 2018, she was runner-up in the O... Read more

Mia Boe

Mia Boe is a painter from Brisbane with Butchulla and Burmese ancestry. The inheritance and disinheritance of both cultures is the focus of her practice. Boe’s paintings respond, sometimes obliquely, to historical and contemporary acts of violence perpetrated on the people and lands of Burma and A... Read more

@mia.khin.boe

Anna Emina El Samad

Anna Emina El Samad is an educator, curator and writer based in Naarm. Having completed a thesis on diversity in the arts titled: (Re)claiming the Narrative: Amplifying the Voices of Australian Muslim Artists, Anna has centered her practice around collaboration and seeks to create accessible opportu... Read more

@annaemina_

Deanna Hitti

Deanna Hitti is an Australian artist based in Melbourne with Lebanese heritage. Her multi-disciplinary arts practice spans over 25 years. Referencing historical and cultural material, she highlights the foundations of different ideas and representations of the Middle East. Deanna employs different m... Read more

Maya Hodge

Maya Hodge is a Lardil and Yangkaal emerging writer and curator based on the lands of the Kulin Nation. Her practice is dedicated to disrupting colonial narratives and centering First Nations storytelling and autonomy. Maya’s writing and poetry have been published by Australian Poetry, Kill Your D... Read more

@_waykuu

Kelly Koumalatsos

Kelly is a descendant of the Wergaia and Wamba Wamba tribes of northwest Victoria. Their practice has included sculpture, painting and printmaking. They have explored south-eastern Aboriginal cultural heritage, significantly work producing possum skin cloaks and experimenting with possum skins to pr... Read more

Myles Russell-Cook

Myles is the Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Myles is responsible for the NGV’s collections of Australian Art, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and the Art of Oceania, as well as work by First Nations artists globally. Myles h... Read more