Lecture | Anne-Marie May at Holmesglen

ART TALKS: Free Public Lecture

Anne-Marie May

Untitled, 2007. © Reproduced courtesy the artist and Murray White Room, Melbourne.

Anne-Marie May is a Melbourne based visual artist. For two decades, her practice has explored connections across the fields of art, design and architecture.

May was a member of the influential Store 5, an artist-run space in Prahran. The artist and her fellow exhibitors used materials commonly associated with a non-art environment (domestic, industrial) and through process and experimentation, re-purposed and personalised them.

May continues to describe her art as process driven: working with a variety of materials and experimenting with processes that could potentially impose form on to those materials. The artist veers away from adhering to a predetermined plan or concept of form followed by fabrication and her acrylic mobile, Untitled, 2007, which currently hangs in Building 8 at the Chadstone campus is an exuberant example of this. Constructed from thermally formed acrylic, the mobile owes its original inspiration to coral debris retrieved from Darwin’s beaches. The brilliant, circling shadow that it throws on to a neighbouring wall has been intriguing visitors for the past five years.

Anne-Marie has recently exhibited work at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victoria College of the Arts and at Heide MOMA. Her work is represented in various public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, National Gallery of Australia and Artbank.

All welcome, bookings are essential.

Date: 12.30 - 1. 30pm, Tuesday 11th September, 2012

Venue: Room C1.2.02, Holmesglen Chadstone campus, Batesford Road, Chadstone 3148, Melway Ref: 69E1

Contact: Anna Long, Curator 9209 5605, artcollection@holmesglen.edu.au