Hatched Forum: Zones of Transition

17 April 2010
PICA Performance Space

Zones of Transition

The forum examines the varied zones of transition that artists may navigate in the development of their careers; from art school to artist run initiatives, from group to solo shows, from part-time to full-time professional artistic careers, and from home town to national or international representation.

Hailing from the London, Rebecca Heald will bring her gallery, museum and professional experience to bear on the topic, whilst the highly respected Callum Morton will discuss his prolific artistic career and life after art school. Donal Fitzpatrick offers his views on local art scenes across Australia; overall ensuring a lively discussion that is not only pertinent to art students, but to the wider industry.

Speakers:

Callum Morton
Internationally renowned Melbourne based artist, Callum Morton has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and overseas. He represented Australia at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007) and held a major solo show of his work at PICA in that same year. He has recently exhibited at the Scape Biennial, New Zealand (2008); The Fundament Foundation, the Netherlands (2009); and the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art (2010).

Professor Donal Fitzpatrick
Head of School of Design & Art, Curtin University. Prof. Fitzpatrick has recently had positions as Head of Fine Arts at Charles Darwin University, Queensland University of Technology and Otago School of Arts in Dunedin, New Zealand. As a visiting lecturer, he has held several posts at international institutions, which include Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Marseilles, France; University of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam; and the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic.

Rebecca Heald
Rebecca Heald is Director of New Contemporaries, the annual exhibition of work by new and recent fine art graduates in the UK. She has previously worked across curatorial and education departments at Sadie Coles HQ, Tate Britain, and the Hayward Gallery. Before working in galleries she was Arts and Features Editor at telegraph.co.uk and has published widely on contemporary art.

PICA Director, Amy Barrett-Lennard, will chair an open Q&A session following the presentations.