Creative Industries | The Artist's Journey
5:30pm Friday 10 May 2024
Creative Industries | The Artist's Journey
Sonia Leber and David Chesworth
North Queensland artists are encouraged to join Umbrella for this opportunity to learn about the work of Sonia Leber and David Chesworth. Sonia and David live and work in Naarm/Melbourne and are known for their distinctive video, sound and architecture-based installations that are audible as much as visible. Leber and Chesworth’s works are speculative and archaeological. They often involve communities and elaborate on research in places undergoing social, technological or local geological transformation. Their works emerge from the real but exist significantly in the realm of the imaginary; hinting at unseen forces and non-human perspectives. Sonia and David will draw on aspects of their expansive international career to provide important professional development advice to artists, with a particular focus on their past works and creative process.
Sonia and David’s work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions at National Gallery of Victoria; Casino Luxembourg Forum d'art Contemporain, Luxembourg; TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville; Messums Wiltshire, UK; Fondation Fiminco, Paris; UNSW Galleries, Sydney; annex M, Megaron, Athens; Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland; Index, Stockholm; Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne; Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; Venice Biennale; and Biennale of Sydney.
This event will take place during their month-long residency in May as they create their new, highly detailed soundscape, Shapes of Listening. A site specific response to the landscape, sounds and people of Gurambilbarra and Thul Gari Wadja (Townsville). The residency is part of a co-commission between PUNQ (Pop Up North Queensland) and AFCM (Australian Festival of Chamber Music) and will be on display at Dancenorth from 26 July – 11 August 2024. A full project history can be found at www.leberandchesworth.com.
This event is free and bookings are not required.
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Acknowledgement of Country
Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts respectfully acknowledges the Wulgurukaba of Gurambilbarra and Yunbenun and the surrounding groups of our region; Bindal, Gugu Badhan, Nywaigi, Warrgamay, Bandjin and Gudjal as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we gather, share and celebrate local creative practice. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the first people of Australia. They have never ceded sovereignty and remain strong in their enduring connection to land and Culture.
Umbrella is a Dealer Member of the Indigenous Art Code. This means we are committed to fair and ethical trade with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, and transparency in the promotion and sale of artwork. As a Dealer Member and signatory to the Code we must act fairly, honestly, professionally and in good conscience in all direct or indirect dealings with artists.
Acknowledgements
Umbrella is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, part of the Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, state and territory governments. | Umbrella is supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation and receives funds through the Australian Cultural Fund. | Townsville City Council is a funding partner of Umbrella's program.