Shelter: On Kindness - Free Public Talk

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Shelter: On Kindness free public talk


Artists, architects and participants from the critically acclaimed RMIT Gallery

exhibition Shelter: On Kindness – part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival


will give a free public talk this week at Federation Square.


Presented by RMIT Gallery and supported by Federation Square, the public talk

will be held at BMW Edge on Wednesday, 21 October, from 12.30pm to 2pm.


Speakers will share their thoughts on the concept of shelter and the response to

RMIT Gallery Director Suzanne Davies’ brief to interpret shelter through a

“kindness” filter.


From Gregory Burgess’ luminous 400 blocks of beeswax to March Studio’s 20

tonnes of ordinary builder’s hardwood stacked into a towering cube, Shelter: On

Kindness forces us to think about how and where we live.


Gallery visitors have delighted in Charles Anderson’s evocative narrative of an

illuminated ceiling, puzzled at the sinister labyrinth of Safe-House by LAB

Architecture Studios and been transported by Robert Bridgewater’s black clouds

and ray of divine light in wood. 


Photos of cattlemen’s huts tap into the national psyche and remind us of hope and

shelter in a harsh world.


The speakers will discuss being part of this vast and complex exhibition and

explain how they came up with their vastly different artistic responses. 


Speakers include: RMIT lecturer and artist Charles Anderson, sculptor Robert

Bridgewater, cattlemen’s huts expert and writer Jane Holth and architects Peter

Davidson, Gregory Burgess and Rodney Eggleston. 


The moderator will be Suzanne Davies, RMIT Gallery Director and Chief Curator.


What: Shelter: On Kindness free public talk

Where: BMW Edge, Federation Square, Corner Swanston and Flinders streets

When: 12.30pm 2pm, Wednesday, 21 October

Bookings: RMIT Gallery, (03) 9925 1717

The talk is a free event – bookings appreciated


For media enquiries: RMIT Gallery, Evelyn Tsitas, (03) 9925 1716 or 0408 139

015.



19 October, 2009






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