Join us as we launch These Stories Will be Different by award-winning Australian artist and filmmaker Zanny Begg. This fascinating exhibition brings together five of Begg’s video works to Wagga Wagga, including; City of Ladies (with Elise McLeod, 2017), The Beehive (2018) and Stories of Kannagi (2019).

Stay with us to hear Zanny Begg in conversation with Helen Grace.  Event starts at 11am.

These Stories Will be Different reimagines a medieval feminist utopia, probes the unsolved murder of a high-profile anti-gentrification campaigner and explores the connections between love, loss, and language in migrant communities in Australia.

These Stories Will be Different opens on Saturday 30 July.

About the Artist:

Zanny Begg is an award-winning artist and film-maker whose work has been widely exhibited in Australia and around the world including in various biennials and exhibitions. She is the 2017 recipient of the inaugural ACMI and Artbank film commission, the 2016 winner of the Incinerator Art Award, Art for Social Change, and the 2016 winner of the Terrence and Lynnette Fern Cite Residency Paris and has been selected for the Melbourne International Film Festival, the Antenna Documentary Festival and Soho Film Festival (NY). She was included in the 2017 iteration of The National at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia with her collaborative work (with Elise Mcleod) The City of Ladies.

Born in 1972 in Melbourne and now living in Bulli, near Sydney, Begg’s practice, which is often collaborative, incorporates film, drawing and installation, with a particular interest in exploring hidden or contested histories. Zanny’s work uses humour, understated drawings and found cultural artefacts to explore themes of gender, activism and migration and the ways in which we can live and be in the world differently. This has included working with macro-political themes, such as globalisation protests, and in micro-political worlds, such as with children in prison.

Zanny has a PhD in Art Theory and is a lecturer at UNSW Art + Design and is on the Artist Advisory Board for the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

A UNSW Galleries and Museums & Galleries of NSW touring exhibition. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

This residency is supported by the NSW government through Create NSW.