Portrait of Becc Ország by Ilona Nelson.
This Wild Song (TWS) is a long term project by Melbourne artist Ilona Nelson. TWS celebrates significant Australian female artists through portraits, interviews, exhibitions and events. Read the full interview with Becc on the TWS website here > thiswildsong.com.au
Houzz.com has featured Becc's studio in Creatives at Home: Becc Orszag in her Converted Garage Studio. Visit the link for more pictures and an interview about Becc's studio space.
Please join us for the opening of Becc Ország's solo exhibition on Friday the 17th June from 6pm. To be opened by Simon Gregg, Curator, Gippsland Art Gallery.
Becc Ország’s Sanctuary is an exploration of paramnesia, in which fantasy is confused with reality. This new series of drawings presents an idyllic yet perplexing world in which the profound coexists with the perturbed.
Read More'Cannot Contain This' - charcoal on four sheets of cotton paper, 200×152 cm, 2009. Winner of Siemens RMIT Fine Art Travelling Scholarship and Acquisition.
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.
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