Installation View: This Wild Song at The Art Room, Photo: Ilona Nelson

EXHIBITION: 'This Wild Song' at The Art Room

June 24, 2017

THIS WILD SONG | EXHIBITION, FORUM, LAUNCH | THE ART ROOM | MELBOURNE | 24 JUNE 2017

This Wild Song (TWS) is a series of over 150 portraits and interviews with Australian women visual artists who have a unique voice by photographer Ilona Nelson.

TWS celebrates the strong female leaders in the arts community. Although the artists being featured are from varying backgrounds, use a diverse range of mediums, and are at different stages of their arts career; they are unified by their unique voices and distinct style. The inclusion of so many artistic mediums in TWS offers a broad synopsis of contemporary Australian art. A special pop up exhibition is being held for the launch only, exhibiting works by 20 of the TWS artists including…

From left: Becc Orszag, The Source of All Things (Birth of the Rivers), 2016, graphite pencil, carbon pencil, 24kt gold leaf on paper, 105x76cm. Jeremy Blincoe, Detatchment, 2016, pigment inkjet print, 100x151cm,

EXHIBITION: 'The Myth-Makers' at Gallerysmith

April 14, 2017

THE MYTH-MAKERS | GALLERYSMITH | MELBOURNE
20 APRIL - 27 MAY 2017

An exhibition by Becc Orszag & Jeremy Blincoe.

Please join us at the opening reception of Becc Orszag and Jeremy Blincoe's exhibition 'The Myth Makers' on Saturday 29th April from 4-6pm.

"The making of worlds just seems to come naturally to some artists. Constrained or frustrated by the ‘real’ world, they create their own where they can investigate and commentate on everything from the environment to religion to the structures of society itself without the constraints of the everyday. They are makers of myths…" Essay excerpt by Dr Ashley Crawford.

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'Cannot Contain This' - charcoal on four sheets of cotton paper, 200×152 cm, 2009. Winner of Siemens RMIT Fine Art Travelling Scholarship and Acquisition. — 'Cannot Contain This' - charcoal on four sheets of cotton paper, 200×152 cm, 2009. Winner of Siemens RMIT Fine Art Travelling Scholarship and Acquisition.

INTERVIEW: In Conversation with Becc Ország

December 12, 2015

by Katie Paine for Nicholas Projects

Melbourne artist Becc Ország creates exquisite drawings that pull their viewer into eerie and fantastical other worlds. Despite an underlying element of the bizarre, Ország’s body of work is steeped in human past and in art history. Histories, both real and imagined, are crucial to Orszag’s practice. In her Immaculate Landscape seriesthere is something of the devotional: perhaps of gilded illuminated manuscripts or fantasies of a Garden of Eden.