Gina Mobayed in conversation with Karen Black and Jodie Whalen

Gina Mobayed in conversation with Karen Black and Jodie Whalen

Saturday 20 July 3pm – 4pm

Admission $10.00. NAS students free. Bookings essential

Join Gina Mobayed, guest exhibition curator in conversation with artists Karen Black and Jodie Whalen. Together the trio will discuss and reflect on the ​‘undo the day’ exhibition rationale, and emerging themes regarding human instinct, liminality, the blurred lines between darkness and light, and sitting with ambiguity while reaching for hope.

GINA MOBAYED

Gina Mobayed is a curator and consultant specialising in contemporary art and culture. She works with living artists to develop new work for all presentation and collecting platforms. She is currently delivering public art programs and strategic deliverables in arts and culture for major infrastructure in NSW at Cultural Capital, as well as advocating for and working one on one with artists to support their career development. She was Director, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery and has held roles at Artbank, MCA and Grantpirrie Gallery. She was a co-director on the 2015/2016 Firstdraft board.

KAREN BLACK

Karen Black’s works move intuitively between abstraction and figuration, exploring the full scope of human relationships. Intimate and raw, she transforms traditional representations of the body through painting, drawing, ceramics and sculpture, unravelling fundamental experiences of desire, emotion and vulnerability. Black’s works have been curated into exhibitions at significant institutions, including the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, and the Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane. She lives and works on Gadigal Land, Sydney, and is a lecturer at the National Art School. Karen Black is represented by Sutton Gallery, Naarm/​Melbourne and Ames Yavuz, Gadigal/​Sydney & Singapore.

JODIE WHALEN

Jodie Whalen is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and academic based on Darug and Gadigal Lands, Sydney. Working across performance, video, sound and installation, her practice is informed by appropriation of imagery and symbols, both from personal and public spheres, exploring liminality, ritual and processes of change. Whalen has been involved in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Artspace, Carriageworks, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Firstdraft and Performance Space.

Image credits: Installation shot Zan Wimberly