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.
Read MoreThe Romans practiced Augury by observing the flight of birds. When the omens were good, the battle was begun, or perhaps the new bath-house was opened. Prediction is a fun game. I spent many years working as a forecaster for a government department so I developed a very modest skill in recognising and interpreting omens. James Little and Ben Aitken have obviously been craning their necks in recent months as they prepared Melbourne’s newest ARI space, Nicholas Projects. Their first show is called Inaugural.
Read MoreNew Melbourne gallery Nicholas Projects presents its first ever exhibition 'Inaugural' with works by Natasha Bieniek, Heath Franco, Robert Hague, Tristan Jalleh and Becc Orszag to be opened by Sam Leach 6pm Friday November 6th.
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