Artist & Curator in Residence - Helen Grace & Julie Ewington
Helen Grace and Julie Ewington, will take part in three residencies as an artist and curator in residence, exploring Helen Grace’s photographic and filmic output over the past 50 years. The residency involves an open process of archival enquiry, and iterative exhibition hang, which invites audiences to explore the curatorial process and exhibition in chaptered form. This program will be accompanied by public forums and open-door events. Each residency builds on the relationships and is reactive to the needs of the participants and the community.
Residency #3: Projects | Projections
9 October to 21 October 2022
Project Media Lab
Projects | Projections is the final residency in Wagga Wagga in 2022 by artist Helen Grace and curator/writer Julie Ewington. In this culminating residency Grace and Ewington will work with locally-based creatives, and will also scope future events. These forward projections include a workshop to develop photographic and video projections in public spaces, and the development of a solo exhibition for 2023 for a Wagga Wagga artist. Grace and Ewington will also contribute to the Future Photographers Lab being presented by F. Stop Workshop in the Gallery’s New Media and Project Lab.
Artists and members of the public are welcome to attend events which are coming soon.
Bookings required.
Residency #2: Serious Undertakings – Weekend Film Forum
Saturday 30 July & Sunday 31 July, 2pm - 4pm | Project Media Lab
Do you like nothing better than a winter afternoon watching and discussing film?
Join us for a weekend of films by artist and filmmaker Helen Grace. Hear 10 local residents respond to Helen Grace’s work. Join the conversation with curator and writer Julie Ewington.
Residency #1: Justice for Violet and Bruce
Saturday 4 June - Sunday 17 July | Project Media Lab
Justice for Violet and Bruce’ focuses on the historical domestic murder court case which took place in Sydney in 1980. A perceived miscarriage of justice for these victims of domestic abuse led to a community campaign which resulted in legislative change to allow the admissibility of ‘provocation’ in criminal sentencing. Campaign photographs taken by photographer Helen Grace showcased for the first time alongside street posters and a campaign banner on loan from the National Museum of Australia. Curated by Julie Ewington.
Meet artist & Curator in Residence
Helen Grace
Helen Grace (b Gunditjmara Country) is an artist, writer and teacher, based in Sydney (Wangal Country, Eora Nation) and (formerly) Hong Kong and Taiwan. Helen is an award winning filmmaker, photographer and new media producer and her work is currently on show in Know My Name, National Gallery of Australia. Her suite of works, And awe was all we could feel, will be shown in May at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Melbourne as part of PHOTO2022. Her photomedia work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of NSW and Art Gallery of South Australia as well as private collections, nationally and internationally.
Julie Ewington
Julie Ewington is a curator, writer and broadcaster based in Sydney. Her chief pleasure as a curator is working closely with artists, assisting them to bring their particular version of the world, and their fresh ideas about it, to new audiences and new conversations.
From the mid-1980s Julie worked as a curator in Australian galleries and museums. Between 2001-2014 she led the Australian Art department at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, and was a contributing curator for Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art between 1996-2012, working with both Southeast Asian and Australian artists. Recent curatorial projects include The Sculpture of Bronwyn Oliver, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria (2016); Unfinished Business: Perspectives on Art and Feminism, at ACCA, Melbourne (2017); and The Housing Question: Helen Grace, Narelle Jubelin and Sherre DeLys, for Penrith Regional Gallery. (2019).