Making Art Work
  • Installation view: 'Making Art Work', IMA Belltower. Photo: Marc Pricop.

  • Installation view: 'Making Art Work', IMA Belltower. Photo: Marc Pricop.

  • Installation view: 'Making Art Work', IMA Belltower. Photo: Marc Pricop.

  • Installation view: 'Making Art Work', IMA Belltower. Photo: Marc Pricop.

  • Merinda Davies 'Imprints' 2020. Photo: Marc Pricop.

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Making Art Work

IMA Belltower at the Judith Wright Arts Centre

14 October–19 December 202014 Oct–19 Dec 2020

#MakingArtWork

Making Art Work—a commissioning initiative responding to the COVID-19 lockdowns—launched in June with artworks presented online via makingart.work. Since re-opening, IMA Belltower at Judith Wright Arts Centre has become a project space to physically present these works at the gallery.

This latest iteration of Making Art Work at IMA Belltower includes works from the third commissioning round of the project as well as a number of live activations.

What’s on:
Merinda Davies will perform Imprints: Saturday 17 October, 11am–2pm
Poetry Salon with Jarad Bruinstroop, Pascalle Burton, Mindy Gill, and Ella Jeffrey: Saturday 17 October, 4–5pm
Shandy Bris 69 Queer Dance Party (live stream): 24 October, 7–11pm
Live performance, ∑GG√E|N: Saturday 24 October, 3–4pm
Live performance and discussion with Kinly Greyendless part II: paradise: Saturday 21 November, 11am–1pm
Reading and discussion with Jacqui Shelton: Saturday 21 November, 1.30–2.30pm

About Making Art Work:
Taking place across 2020, the project will see over 40 artists create new works that reinforce the importance of creative labour in a time when the cultural and economic value of art has been diminished. Drawing from the politicised language of our current crisis, each artist has been asked to respond to the provocations posed by four curatorial pillars; Unprecedented TimesIndustrial ActionsPermanent Revolution, and Relief Measures.

Artists

Mia Boe, Hannah Brontë, Michael Candy, Emil Cañita, Merinda Davies, Chantal Fraser, Natalya Hughes, Peter Kozak, Archie Moore, Shandy, David Spooner, Grant Stevens, and Tyza Stewart.

The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

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