Artspace

2019 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship

Harriet Body, Nick Dorey, Amala Groom, Shivanjani Lal, Make or Break (Connie Anthes and Rebecca Gallo), Katy B Plummer, JD Reforma, Linda Sok, Leyla Stevens, Shireen Taweel and Jelena Telecki

Curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor and Elyse Goldfinch

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Exhibition Opening
Friday 15 November, 6–8pm

Exhibition dates
16 November – 15 December, 2019

Artist Talks
Saturday 16 November, 2:30pm

Open Studios
Saturday 16 November, 1–4pm
Open studios with the 2019 Artspace One Year Studio Artists

The NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship is Artspace’s key exhibition for profiling the dynamism and breadth of emerging contemporary artistic practice in NSW.

2019 Recipient: Shivanjani Lal

2019 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship Finalists. Photo: Anna Kucera

Overview

Valued at $30,000, this Fellowship is offered by the NSW Government through Create NSW to enable a visual artist at the beginning of their career to undertake a self-directed program of professional development. With over 100 years of history, the Fellowship is a key exhibition for profiling the dynamism and breadth of emerging contemporary artistic practice in NSW. Now in its 23rd year at Artspace, it continues to define new generations of contemporary art practice for both artists and audiences.

Each year Create NSW convenes an independent judging panel of esteemed colleagues to determine the finalists, whom Artspace acknowledges for engaging with insight and passion in assessing what was again a highly competitive round of proposals.

Curators Alexie Glass-Kantor and Elyse Goldfinch will work closely with each of the artists through the development of the exhibition. Of the eleven finalists, one artist will be awarded the Fellowship at the opening night of the exhibition, Friday 15 November, 2019.

2019 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, installation view, Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Zan Wimberley
Jelena Telecki, 'Fallen Monuments', 2019, installation view, 2019 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace, Sydney, courtesy the artist. Photo: Zan Wimberley
Shivanjani Lal, 'Palwaar', 2019, installation view, 2019 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace, Sydney, courtesy the artist. Photo: Zan Wimberley
Amala Groom, 'One and the Same (i)', 2018, installation view, 2019 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace, Sydney, courtesy the artist. Photo: Zan Wimberley
Linda Sok, 'For my ancestors (ritual for the dead)', 2018–19, installation view, 2019 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace, Sydney, courtesy the artist. Photo: Zan Wimberley
Leyla Stevans, (left) 'Kidung/Lament', 2019; (right) 'rites for the missing', 2019, installation view, 2019 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace, Sydney, courtesy the artist. Photo: Zan Wimberley
Harriet Body, 'So Many Births, So Many Lives', 2019, installation view, 2019 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace, Sydney, courtesy the artist. Photo: Zan Wimberley
Shireen Taweel, (on plynth, left to right) 'mounir', 2016; 'du’aa', 2016; (sound piece) 'The Call', 2019, installation view, 2019 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace, Sydney, courtesy the artist. Photo: Zan Wimberley
JD Reforma, (video) 'Ghost in Translation (any person, or any tree)', 2019; (walls) 'Whitewash', 2019, installation view, 2019 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace, Sydney, courtesy the artist. Photo: Zan Wimberley
Katy B Plummer, 'HISTORY WILL MAKE WRECKAGE OF US', 2019, 2019, installation view, 2019 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace, Sydney, courtesy the artist. Photo: Zan Wimberley
Nick Dorey, selected works for the 2019 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace, Sydney, courtesy the artist. Photo: Zan Wimberley
Make or Break, 'Institutional Waste #1', 2019, installation view, 2019 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace, Sydney, courtesy the artist. Photo: Zan Wimberley