Artist talk Zev and Verity
Join local artist Verity Nunan and BHAE artist-in-residence Zev Tropp for an informal talk about their work together on Wilyakali country and the surrounding areas. They will explore concepts related to public and private spaces, and how walking and sleeping outside can mediate engagement with the socio-cultural and environmental aspects of these spaces and places. Both artists have been reflecting on themes of care, reciprocity and relatedness, and the limitations of gallery settings, and how to challenge traditional exhibition and art practices through their work in natural environments.
25th August Free to members
Register for details . Kitchen Gallery 10am
Join local artist Verity Nunan and BHAE artist-in-residence Zev Tropp for an informal talk about their work together on Wilyakali country and the surrounding areas. They will explore concepts related to public and private spaces, and how walking and sleeping outside can mediate engagement with the socio-cultural and environmental aspects of these spaces and places. Both artists have been reflecting on themes of care, reciprocity and relatedness, and the limitations of gallery settings, and how to challenge traditional exhibition and art practices through their work in natural environments.
25th August Free to members
Register for details . Kitchen Gallery 10am
BIO Zev:
Zev Tropp is a contemporary artist and arts worker who has worked across small-to-medium arts organisations and galleries. Most recently, he worked as a producer in Public Programming at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, co-directed the ARI 'Small Time Studio' in Mullumbimby and has worked in adult education running workshops in painting and contemporary arts practice . In 2019, he exhibited the solo show New Colour Futurism at Green Monday Studio and curated the Bushfire fundraiser Art From The Heart at Block Projects in 2020. He was a recent finalist in the Hazelhurst Works On Paper prize in 2022, and has recently shown at PROP Gallery No Lies Here and the City Of Sydney - Public Hoardings Project in 2023 and Airspace Projects with Chloe Abdel-Nour - GLIMMERS in 2024. Zev previously produced and ran inclusive Hip Hop nights in Melbourne and has been teaching Yoga/Meditation. Zev is of Jewish-Indian heritage, and studied at RMIT and Victorian College of the Arts, completing his honours in Fine Art in 2019. Zev’s art practice and interests are centred around an engagement with marginalised voices, identities and politics.
BIO Verity:
Verity Nunan is a research-based artist, completing her PhD at Griffith University. She uses a walking-based methodology to explore architectural and artistic place inquiry. Mapping people’s relationship to space and place is the interface of this investigation and negotiating the degree of publicness is a central theme. Her research has been recently published in the Journal of Public Space (2018). Inspiring passion for community engagement, Verity co-founded the Not-for-Profit community organisation Bruns Brekkie (2018) and is a co-founder of Slag Heap Projects (2023) an artist run initiative on Wilyakali Country.
