A curatorial conversation recorded live in the gallery between TarraWarra Director, Victoria Lynn, and artist David Noonan.

While not a guided tour, this recording is an interesting insight into the solo contemporary exhibition 'David Noonan: Only when it’s cloudless, curated by Victoria Lynn'.

David Noonan In Conversation With Victoria Lynn

Pause, observe, reflect. Take ten minutes today to fully observe an artwork with this slow art session guided by TarraWarra Museum of Art Educator, Sarah Metzner.

Start with a few mindfulness activities then progress to observing your chosen artwork.

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Photo by T J Garvie.  Artwork: ‘David Noonan: Only when it’s cloudless’, curated by Victoria Lynn. Installation view, TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne  

Visual description: A museum visitor observes artwork at the David Noonan exhibition. Before them are collage on paper artworks hung framed on a white gallery wall. The visitor wears a dress with a pattern of thin blue and white stripes.

Slow Art With Sarah Metzner

A thought-provoking discussion and a moving musical performance responding to the exhibition Sidney Nolan: Myth Rider.

The Sidney Nolan: Myth Rider Forum features an introduction to the TarraWarra exhibition by the curator Anthony Fitzpatrick, and presentations by Jane Clark (art historian, writer and lecturer and Senior Research Curator, Museum of Old and New Art) who discusses the artist’s intellectual and performative approach to making art in ‘Sidney Nolan: thinking fast and slow and painting like a boxer’ and Sarah Midford (Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University) who highlights the connections that Nolan drew between the Gallipoli campaign and the Trojan War in ‘Mythmaking from Achilles to Anzac’.

Concludes with a performance by the contemporary composer and multi-instrumentalist Rosie Westbrook, who premieres a new composition for double bass commissioned by TarraWarra Museum of Art which she has produced in response to the exhibition.

Image: Sidney Nolan, The Myth Rider 1958 –1959, Private Collection © The Trustees of the Sidney Nolan Trust / Bridgeman Images. Copyright is now managed by the Copyright Agency. Photo © Agnew's, London / Bridgeman Images.

Sidney Nolan Myth Rider Forum

Recording from Forum - Sunday 8th October 2023.

Artists Brooke Wandin (Wurundjeri) and Peta Clancy (Bangerang) in discussion about their works and the collaborative processes involved in The Soils Project. Having worked in close collaboration with the Wandoon Estate Aboriginal Corporation (Coranderrk) to realise their projects, the artists discuss their interpretation of soil and the protocols involved in developing their projects.

The Soils Project is an ongoing research-based experimental project. It is a collaboration between TarraWarra Museum of Art; Struggles for Sovereignty, a collective based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; and leading contemporary arts museum the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

About the speakers:

Brooke Wandin (Wurundjeri)

Brooke Wandin is a Wurundjeri educator, language worker and artist. Brooke has developed and facilitated a range of cultural educational programs, providing Wurundjeri cultural and historical education for preschool to tertiary students. She is also one of the Directors of Wandoon Estate Aboriginal Corporation. In 2022, she was the recipient of the Indigenous Victorian Aboriginal Cultural Research Fellowship at State Library Victoria, where she examined materials relating to Woiwurrung language to assist in the development of a Woiwurrung language database.

Peta Clancy (Bangerang)

Peta Clancy is a Bangerang artist living on Wurundjeri Country. She is a researcher in the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous practice-based research Lab at MADA (Monash University Art, Design and Architecture Faculty ). Clancy has been awarded numerous grants, including a Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Board, in 2023. Her photographic installation Confluence, developed and realised on Wurundjeri Country at the confluence where Merri Creek meets the Birrarung, was exhibited in the group exhibition Slippery Images curated by Maggie Finch for Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2023. Her artwork has been exhibited widely at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kaliningrad Branch, Russia; Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida; Bendigo Art Gallery; and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Her work is represented in major public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Victoria; Bendigo Art Gallery; Ballarat Art Gallery; RMIT Collection; Artbank; and Parliament House Art Collection.

The Soils Project: A Focus on First Nations

Recording from Sunday 20th August 2023.

Listen a stimulating discussion recorded live in the Museum about multiple aspects of The Soils Project with Charles Esche, Director, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; and Dr Victoria Lynn, Director, TarraWarra Museum of Art; in conversation with Dr Michelle Antoinette, Monash University.

The title of The Soils Project comes from Munir Fasheh, who proposes four ‘soils’ as core to life on earth. They are earth soil, cultural soil, communal soil and affection-spiritual soil. These are the soils that humans must nurture in order for us and all life on the planet to be cared for and nurtured by the soils in return. In what ways can the metaphor and matter of soil enable museum and cultural workers (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) to rethink the very structures that have been developed by western modernity and coloniality?

The Soils Project forum: Decoloniality and the Museum

Opening speech by Tony Clark for the Howard Arkley (and friends...) exhibition at TarraWarra Museum of Art

Howard Arkley (and friends...) Opening Speech

TarraWarra Biennial 2012: Sonic Spheres 
5 August to 9 December 2012
Curator Victoria Lynn

The TarraWarra Museum of Art will present the third iteration of its biennial in an assemblage of contemporary Australian visual artworks engaged with music, sound and voice.
The exhibition will include drawings, musical scores, sculptures made from musical instruments, paintings and video. These works invite us to listen to art, to find new sounds and melodies. Many of the artists will perform live with their art works during the opening weekend of the exhibition.

For more details visit http://twma.com.au/exhibitions/event/tarrawarra-biennial-2012-sonic-spheres

'June'
Marco Fusinato: guitar, electronics
Recorded: S2, Melbourne 2012

Marco Fusinato also has a long history of working with (and making) free noise. His primary focus is on the unconventional use and mis-use of the electric guitar and related electronic devices. His recent solo recordings include Ambianxe, 2010 (Spring Press, New York) and Ripping Skies 2009 (No Fun Productions, New York). Fusinato has collaborated with many fellow noise thinkers from Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth to Bruce Russell of The Dead C. Presented as part of the 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival, Fusinato co-curated the major international exhibition 21:100:100 which featured a hundred sound works by a hundred artists from the 21st Century. He also curated the series YOU DON’T HAVE TO CALL IT MUSIC: music by visual artists and the noise festival HATRED OF FANTASTIC. His forthcoming solo LP L’ Origine/Tema will be released this year by Penultimate Press, London.

http://twma.com.au/exhibitions/event/tarrawarra-biennial-2012-sonic-spheres

Marco Fusinato, except from 'June', TarraWarra Biennial 2012: Sonic Spheres CD

Making Her Mark: Selected Works from the Collection offers a new appraisal of the work of leading women artists held in the collection of TarraWarra Museum of Art. The exhibition explores the themes arising from works by women artists in the collection—such as memory, landscape and abstraction—and also includes a modest selection of works by male artists that amplify these images, ideas and styles.

This audio guide is narrated by Victoria Lynn, exhibition curator and Director of TarraWarra Museum of Art. It accompanies a virtual tour of Making Her Mark available here: my.matterport.com/show/?m=LzrVdYsSA3K

Image: Melinda Harper
'Untitled' 2002 (detail)
oil on canvas
182.7 x 151.8 cm
TarraWarra Museum of Art collection
Gift of Eva Besen AO and Marc Besen AO
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program 2012
Courtesy of the artist

Making Her Mark - Audio Guide

Making Her Mark - Rosalie Gascoigne

As part of the exhibition 'Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce', TarraWarra Museum of Art has invited two local community members to offer their interpretations and thoughts on a number of artworks by Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce. 

NIKITA ALDRIDGE (Tracks 1-3)
Nikita Aldridge is a proud Taungurung woman who was born and raised on Wurundjeri land. Nikita is passionate about her culture and she loves learning new things about it every day. Nikita has a deep appreciation for the arts and has a dance background, which has led to her performing in many musical theatre productions. Nikita is honoured to work alongside TarraWarra Museum of Art to help bring the 'Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce' exhibition to life.

KAITLYN HEALY (Tracks 4-6)
Kaitlyn Healy is a proud Dhagung Wurrung First Nations woman living at the bottom of the Great Divide in the Yarra Valley. Kaitlyn has a passion for art, as well as the connection she and her ancestors have to country. With this passion, Kaitlyn aspires to create her own journey and express it through art to help ground and remind her of what truly belongs to her: her culture.

Photo: 'Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce', installation view, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Photo: Andrew Curtis.

Yhonnie Scarce, 'Hollowing Earth'

Judy Watson, 'standing stone, kangaroo grass, bush string'

Judy Watson, 'standing stones, gumbi gumbi, stone tool' and 'standing stone, ochre net, spine'

Yhonnie Scarce, 'Only a mother could love them'

Judy Watson, 'spot fires, our country is burning now'

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