The 14 Guirguis New Art Prize finalists are all contemporary artists working in ‘new and emerging media’. Viewers can expect engaging pieces across video, sculpture, painting, photography, textiles, installation and sound, which will explore art world and socio-political themes such as illusion and the ‘gaze’, gender, Indigenous culture and traditions, fantasy, fact and fiction. As well as weekly artist talks there will be a forum ‘Disruption & Art’ featuring Abdul Abdullah on Saturday 8 April. The 2017 winner of the third biennial will receive $20,000 and the acquisitive prize will add to the growing FedUni Art Collection.
Carly Fischer, Creating False Memories for a Place That Never Was, Part 2, 2016, installation view, found Australian, Indonesian, African and Polynesian wooden souvenirs, found wooden household objects, pine, Tasmanian oak, balsa, bamboo, MDF, cotton, nylon, rocks, adhesives, acrylic paint and varnishes, and audio soundscape (mixed in collaboration with Mieko Suzuki), dimensions variable Photograph: Matthew Stanton. Courtesy the artist and Arts Academy Post Office Gallery, Victoria
Arts Academy Post Office Gallery
Until 14 May, 2017
Victoria
