Date : Thursday 23 November
Time : 9.30 - 2.30pm
Location :
PUBLIC ART AT MUMA: MASTER-CLASS WITH ROSE NOLAN | MUMA
Thursday 23 November, 9.30 – 2.30pm
Explore Monash’s growing collection of public art with Director Charlotte Day and find out about recent commissions by renowned Australian artists including Callum Morton, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Emily Floyd, Ronnie Van Hout, Open Spatial Workshop, DAMP, Esther Stewart, Tully Moore, Kenny Pittock, Sam Songailo, A Centre for Everything and Megan Cope. See how the collection began and how it’s evolving to stimulate cultural participation through encounters with provocative and engaging works.
Then meet acclaimed contemporary artist Rose Nolan who will introduce Give or Take, her new site-specific work adjacent to MUMA. Nolan has built her practice around an abiding interest in the formal and linguistic qualities of words and their relationship to architectural space. Experiment with typography and abstraction to create your own text-based artwork in a hands-on masterclass led by the artist.
Participants will take home a collection of publications and resources for the classroom including MUMA Public Art Walk and the MUMA Public Art Activity Book conceived by illustrator Oslo Davis.
About the Artist: Rose Nolan
Rose Nolan works with text as a readymade – transforming casual sayings, often phrases overheard in public, into bold works that can be read or experienced as abstract graphic designs. The phrase ‘give or take’, for instance, is rarely written down but is often used in conversation to mean ‘plus or minus’, ‘more or less’, ‘approximately’. Enlarged and spelt out along a fifteen-metre wall in red and white ceramic ‘penny’ tiles, Nolan’s GIVE OR TAKE addresses students who access the Caul eld Library regularly, prompting them to consider the different registers of the language they adopt and engage with each day, while reading, writing, listening and speaking.
Cost
$50, includes exhibition catalogue, education resources and lunch
For more information, or to make a booking
Email melissa.bedford@monash.edu or call +61 3 9905 4217 (Tue – Fri: 10 – 5pm, Sat: 12 – 5pm)
Banner artwork: Rose Nolan, GIVE OR TAKE 2017, red and white ceramic tiles. Monash University Collection, Monash University Public Art Commission, 2017. Location: Monash University Caul eld Library. Photo: Andrew Curtis
Image: James Angus, Built unbuilt unbuildable 2015, COR-TEN steel and polyester epoxy paint Monash University Public Art Commission, 2015. Location: 13 Rainforest Walk, Clayton campus. Photo: Andrew Curtis
