Melbourne Art Foundation supports the presentation of Project Rooms at Melbourne Art Fair.
Project Rooms profile the work of innovative and independent artists by presenting new work in a series of spaces in and around the Royal Exhibition Building during the time of the Fair.
Project Rooms create opportunities for developing artists to present innovative and experimental work within the context of a major international visual art event. The Melbourne Art Fair and the selected Project Rooms highlight the diversity of current contemporary art practice, alongside a strong and vibrant gallery scene.
Melbourne Art Foundation has worked to support emerging and independent artists and art spaces through the presentation of Project Rooms at Melbourne Art Fair.
To date the Foundation has exhibited work by:
Miso & Ghostpatrol, Ms & Mr, Brook Andrew, Robert Arnold, Sean Bailey, Chris Bell, Damiano Bertoli, Chris Bond, Justine Cooper, Kate Cotching, Gina Czarnecki, Jonas Dahlberg, Claudia del Fierro, Conrad Dudely Bateman, Chantal Faust, Pat Foster and Jen Berean, Stephen Fox, Emil Goh, Mira Gojak, Tina Gonsalves, Jong Gu Yoon, Kyungah Ham, Concettina Inserra, Raafat Ishak, Kotoe Ishii, Helen Johnson, Natasha Johns-Messenger, Kate Just, Kaori Kato, Cormac Lally, David Lawrey and Jaki Middleton, Silvana Mangano & Gabriella Mangano, Alex Martinis Roe, Tara Marynowsky, Jon McCormack, Rowan McNaught, Andrew McQualter, Tom Müller, Dorota Mytych, Louise Paramor, Harriet Parsons, Scott Redford, Carl Scrase, Sandra Selig, Emma Sleath, Sam Smith, Soda_Jerk, Valerie Sparks, Grant Stevens, Kouichi Tabata, Jensen Tjhung, Michelle Ussher, Ronnie van Hout, Mari Velonaki, Alex Vivian, Anne Zahalka and Emile Zile.
In association with art spaces and artist run inititatives:
Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI), Bus Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Institute of Modern Art, Joint Hassles, Linden - St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, Monash University Museum of Art, Next Wave, Novamedia, Satellite Art Project, Soda_Jerk & Half Dozen, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The South Project (Inc) and West Space.
Artists chosen for the Melbourne Art Fair Project Rooms are provided with an exhibition space and a monetry grant. The Project Rooms offer emerging artists a significant opportunity for profile-raising, in the critical early stages of their chosen careers in contemporary art.
Melbourne Art Fair 2010 Project Room artists will be published May 2010.
