Tessa Laird | A Velvet Ant, A Flower and a Bird | Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Tessa Laird has new and recent work in "A velvet ant, a flower and a bird" at the Potter Museum of Art in Melbourne Australia. evokes a garden of knowledge anchored by three familiar figures from nature — a velvet ant, a flower and a bird. These entities represent a parliament of beings, each carrying symbolic and metaphorical weight that encourage us to reimagine what intelligence means.
Drawing from the University of Melbourne’s Classics, Biology, and Art collections, alongside new commissions and performances; the exhibition co-mingles historic and contemporary art to envision intelligence as living, continually evolving, interconnected and interdependent.
Guest curated by Professor Dr Chus Martínez, Head of the Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Switzerland.
A programme of performances, talks and conversations will be held on Friday 20 and Saturday 21 February. Full programme details will be available on the Potter Museum of Art website.
Exhibition artists:
Adrian Mauriks, Agnieszka Polska, Alan Craiger-Smith, Alexa Karolinski & Ingo Niermann, Alexandra Copeland, Ann Lislegaard, Anouk Tschanz, Anthony Romagnano, Archie Barry, Barbara A Swarbrick, Benjamin Armstrong, Brent Harris, Carol Murphy, Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran, David Noonan, Derek Tumala, Din Matamoro, Eduardo Navarro, Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, Harold Munkara, Heather B Swann, Helen Ganalmirriwuy Garrawurra, Helen Maudsley, Ian Wayne Abdullah, Inge King AM, Ingela Ihrman, Jane Jin Kaisen, Joan Jonas, John Pule, Josie Papialuk, Judith Pungkarta Inkamala, Julia Mensch, Kate Daw, Lauren Burrow, Liss Fenwick, Lorraine Jenyns, Malcolm Howie, Margaret Rarru Garrawurra, Marian Tubbs, Mel O’Callaghan, Mia Boe, Miles Howard-Wilks, Nabilah Nordin, Naomi Hobson, Neha Choksi, Noemi Pfister, Noriko Nakamura, Percy Grainger, Pippin Louise Drysdale, Rivane Neuenschwander & Cao Guimarães, Rosslynd Piggot, Rrikin Burarrwaŋa, Salvador Dalí, Taloi Havini, Tamara Henderson, Teelah George, Tessa Laird, and Tony Warburton.
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