Project Rooms 2010

Project Rooms profile the work of innovative and independent artists by presenting new work in a series of spaces in and around the Royal Exhibition Building during the time of the Fair.

Project Rooms create opportunities for developing artists to present innovative and experimental work within the context of a major international visual art event. The Melbourne Art Fair and the selected Project Rooms highlight the diversity of current contemporary art practice, alongside a strong and vibrant gallery scene.

Artists, Curators and Art Spaces selected for Melbourne Art Fair Project Rooms are provided with an exhibition space and a monetary grant from the Melbourne Art Foundation.  Project Rooms provide emerging artists significant profile raising opportunities, in the critical early stages of their artistic careers.

 
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    Artspace

    Artspace commissioned new projects by two New Zealand artists who work across a range of mediums: Campbell Patterson and Seung Yul Oh.

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    Twitcher

    Twitcher, curated by Peter Fay and Wendy Foard, offered a unique insight into beginning a collection and included artists: Alan Constable, Leo Cussen, Riley Dixon, Dorothy Berry, Cameron Noble and Charlie Sofo.

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    Campbelltown Arts Centre

    Artists Brown Council, Agatha Gothe-Snape and Tom Polo worked collaboratively to transform the Campbelltown Arts Centre Project Room into an active space that examined the contemporary state of play of artistic production and reception, and the future of collaborative interdisciplinary practice.

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    Centre for Contemporary Photography

    Centre for Contemporary Photography presented Print Resolution: new commissions and recent projects by Melbourne–based artists Christian Capurro, Tony Garifalakis and Arlo Mountford exploring the use of the book within artistic and photographic practice.

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    Experimenta

    'Pop Up' Experimenta paired the ephemeral with the enduring, throwing photon street art up and onto the Royal Exhibition Building, artists included: Blendid Interaction Design,  Lachlan Tetlow Stuart and Cake Industries.

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    Gertrude Contemporary

    Gertrude Contemporary presented new work by Nathan Gray commissioned for Melbourne Art Fair 2010.  In this new work Nathan refines his vocabulary of objects, reconfiguring them on a personal scale and highlighting the unpredictability of their interconnections.

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    Hell Gallery

    Hell Gallery presented new work by Brendan Huntley.  Brendan explores what it is to be human by infusing inanimate objects with lifelike sensibilities.

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    Sofitel Melbourne On Collins

    Melbourne Art Foundation and Sofitel Melbourne On Collins presented an off-site Project Room in Sofi's Lounge profiling new works by Emily Ferretti.

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    Sticky Institute

    Sticky Institute's Project Room featured zines currently available at Sticky.

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    TCB Art Inc

    Artists Rob McHaffie and Lisa Radford presented a curated exhibition of works that reflect the spontaneous and personal reactions of selected artists to living in a complex and multilayered world.