Frances Barrett
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Exhibition
Frances Barrett: Meatus
A project led by Frances Barrett with Nina Buchanan, Debris Facility Pty Ltd., Hayley Forward, Brian Fuata, Del Lumanta and Sione TeumohengaSuspended Moment: The Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship...
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Frances Barrett: Meatus Audio Labels
On this page you'll find audio labels for Frances Barrett's Meatus, This project is led by Frances Barrett with Nina Buchanan, Debris Facility Pty Ltd., Hayley Forward, Brian Fuata, Del Lumanta and Sione Teumohenga. Suspended Moment...
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Program
Meatus Live Performances
Join us for live performances by Frances Barrett, Brian Fuata, Hayley Forward, Nina Buchanan and Sione Teumohenga as part of ACCA’s exhibition Frances Barrett: Meatus.
Drawing on her background in performance, curating and collaborative models of making, artist Frances...
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Exhibition
Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism
Continuing ACCA’s ongoing series of Big Picture exhibitions focussing on contemporary art’s relation to wider social, cultural and political contexts, Unfinished Business is a major exhibition conceived to animate critical, albeit under-represented, practices and debates within contemporary Australian art and society.
Surveying the diverse scope of feminist art practices – including painting, performance, photography and film to community […]
Podcast
In Conversation: Frances Barrett and Daniel Mudie Cunningham
This conversation was recorded in association with the exhibition 'Frances Barrett: Meatus', now showing at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne until 19 June 2022.
In this conversation we hear from artist and curator Frances Barrett and from Daniel Mudie Cunningham, who is head...
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Podcast
In Conversation: Frances Barrett and Daniel Mudie Cunningham
This conversation was recorded in association with the exhibition 'Frances Barrett: Meatus', now showing at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne until 19 June 2022.
In this conversation we hear from artist and curator Frances Barrett and from Daniel Mudie Cunningham, who is head...
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Program
Frances Barrett: Meatus Opening Celebration
Join us to celebrate the opening of Frances Barrett: Meatus, a project led by Frances Barrett with Nina Buchanan, Debris Facility Pty Ltd., Hayley Forward, Brian Fuata, Del Lumanta and Sione...
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Program
Monstrous Chorus: voices, sound, performance
Join us for a panel discussion about the use of the voice in performance and sound practice, in association with Frances Barrett: Meatus. This panel will be co-moderated by Debris Facility Pty Ltd of Liquid Architecture, and Joel Stern, former Liquid...
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Product
Meatus – Frances Barrett
Meatus is a new artists' book by Frances Barrett produced in response to Barrett's 2022 Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship exhibition at ACCA. A ‘meatus’ – to which the title refers – is an opening or passage leading to the interior of the body...
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Frances Barrett: Meatus Exhibition Kit
Frances Barrett: Meatus is an exhibition project led by artist Frances Barrett
Frances Barrett: Meatus is an exhibition project led by artist Frances Barrett
Frances Barrett: Meatus is an exhibition project led by artist Frances Barrett
Frances Barrett: Meatus is an exhibition project led by artist Frances Barrett
Frances Barrett: Meatus is an exhibition project led by artist Frances […]...
Press Release
Frances Barrett: Meatus
Frances Barrett’s much-anticipated exhibition Meatus, part of the celebrated series Suspended Moment: The Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship, will open at ACCA on 2 April 2022, having been postponed since 2020 due...
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Program
Frances Barrett: Tertiary Masterclass
Join us for a masterclass led by Australian contemporary artist, Frances Barrett, in conversation ACCA artist educator Andrew Atchison, around Barrett’s project Meatus.
Drawing on her background in performance, curation and collaborative models of making, Frances Barrett has expanded...
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Artist Frances Barrett speaks about her exhibition ‘Frances Barrett: Meatus’
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Performance: Orifice Oriented Ontologies
Ontologies (000) is an experimental performance program featuring Archie Barry, V Barratt, Allison Gibbs and Sage Pbbbt, in response to ACCA’s current exhibition Frances Barrett: Meatus...
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In conversation: Frances Barrett and Annika Kristensen
Frances Barrett (FB): When I applied for the Fellowship, I applied with an idea for a work that was a sound installation premised on a vocal composition. I really just had this image in my head of an empty space with voices coming out of speakers. After early conversations with yourself and Max...
Press Release
ACCA, CARRIAGEWORKS AND MONA ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF NEW WORK BY THREE WOMEN ARTISTS, MADE POSSIBLE BY THE KATTHY CAVALIERE FELLOWSHIP
Barrett, Sally Rees. Image: Daniel Boud[/caption]
In an unprecedented collaboration, ACCA, Carriageworks and Mona will present concurrent exhibitions of new work by three women artists: Frances Barrett (ACCA), Giselle Stanborough (Carriageworks) and Sally...
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ACCA, CARRIAGEWORKS AND MONA ANNOUNCE THE KATTHY CAVALIERE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
...3 x $100,000 Fellowships for female-identifying Australian artists
Artists Frances Barrett (NSW), Giselle Stanborough (NSW) and Sally Rees (TAS) are the recipients of Suspended Moment: The Katthy Cavaliere...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Temporary Gallery Closure
...and is particularly important in times of uncertainty.
Our forthcoming exhibition, Frances Barrett: Meatus, presented as part of Suspended Moment: The Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship, will appear later this year. It is a project...
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ACCA Exhibition Program for 2022
...including Nadia Hernández, Lucina Lane, Gian Manik, Betty Muffler, Jahnne Pasco-White, Jason Phu, JD Reforma and Esther Stewart.
Frances Barrett’s much anticipated exhibition Meatus, postponed from 2020 due to COVID related...
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Announcing ACCA’s 2020 Exhibition Program
...contexts.
AUTUMN SEASON: CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN SOLO SERIES
FRANCES BARRETT: MEATUS
4 April – 8 June 2020
Led by Frances Barrett, with Nina Buchanan, Hayley Forward, Brian Fuata, Del Lumanta and Sione Teumohenga
Curator: Annika Kristensen...
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Australian Centre for Contemporary Art – 2021 Exhibition Program
November 14, 2021: Frances Barrett: Meatus
Presented as part of Suspended Moment: The Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship, Frances Barrett draws on her background in performance, curating and collaborative models of making to create a project that encompasses new sonic...