Our November meeting is at a special time, 5:00 pm, Sunday 24 November AEDT to accommodate overseas times for guest artist Luca Idrobo who will talk about his walking art practice with Melinda Hunt, curator of the upcoming exhibition Walk With Me at Draw Space gallery in Newtown, NSW. Don’t miss this special, pre-exhibition, opportunity for us to meet and talk with these walking artists.
Topic: AWA Monthly Meeting: Melinda Hunt in conversation with Walking Artist’s Luca Idrobo and Linda Knight.
Time: Nov 24, 2024 05:00 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
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Once the primary mode of transport, part of the continuum of human history, walking in the First World is now consciously chosen, an act of resistance against loss of time, space and embodiment. Since the 1960s, when art transitioned from object-making to an investigation of ideas, valuing process over product, opportunities arose for the artist to see the body as a medium and walking as an ordinary activity from which the extraordinary can be derived.
WALK WITH ME GROUP SHOW
Open from 6pm Thursday 28 November until 5pm Sunday 22 December
Curated by walking artist, Melinda Hunt, WALK WITH ME will present six projects that foreground preoccupations with and responses to habitat loss and species extinction, connection with urban ecologies, the colonial project, artistic and scientific activity centred on walking, and site-specific atmospheres, among other concerns. Each project generates drawing as an output.
WALK WITH ME features the work of:
Alexandra Crosby, Ilaria Vanni, Sarah Jane Jones @mappingedges and Holly O’Neil @hollyohneil
Melinda Hunt @melinda.ink
Luca Idrobo @lucaidrobo
Linda Knight @lk_inefficient_urban_maps
Kiera O’Toole @kiera_otoole_artist
Mia Salsjö @miacerasalsjo
The exhibition will feature four events where participants walk and draw in surrounding suburbs. Visit drawspace.org for details.
