Canberra Art Biennial (CAB) presents a panel discussion considering the role of arts festivals as provocation for new directions, experimentation, and upscaling in artist’s practices.
With CAB’s history of artists innovating as they make work for the Biennial, CAB artists will discuss thinking bigger and making bigger, and the impact of this on their practice.
The panel comprises CAB alumni Jacqueline Bradley, Megan Cope and Rosalind Lemoh, in conversation with one artist debuting in the 2024 Canberra Art Biennial: Louis Grant. The panel will be facilitated by Adelaide Rief.
Spanning sculpture, performance and photography, Jacqueline Bradley is an artist concerned with the layers of meaning, history and experience that intersect in contemporary relationship to the outdoors.
Megan Cope is a Quandamooka woman (North Stradbroke Island) in South East Queensland. Her site-specific sculptural installations, video work, paintings and public art investigate issues relating to identity, the environment and mapping practices.
Rosalind Lemoh (b. Sierra Leone) creates sculptural objects, assemblage, light and text-based works that range from miniature to full-body scaled. Underpinning her work are questions around the role of art as memorial and the personal as political.
Louis Grant works between studio glass and interdisciplinary practice, exploring the potential of traditional craft skills to push the boundaries of glass making and contemporary sculpture. The 2024 CAB will be his first Biennial, and an initial look into upscaling to make public art.
