A unique opportunity to hear internationally acclaimed Irish-born, London-based artist Eva Rothschild discuss her new and recent sculptural works in the lead up the first survey exhibition of the artist’s work in Australia at the ACCA.
In conversation with Max Delany Artistic Director and CEO, ACCA, Rothschild will explore her interest in the social aspect of sculpture and play, along with the influence in minimalism, classical architecture and popular culture, which are just some of the contexts which inform her work, including the major installation, An Array 2016, recently acquired by the NGV.
Eva Rothschild (at ACCA from 28 September – 25 November 2018) is a timely exhibition in advance of the artist’s forthcoming representation of Ireland at the 2019 Venice Biennale.
This event is presented with the National Gallery of Victoria for the exhibition Eva Rothschild, presented by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in association with the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
SPEAKERS
Eva Rothschild was born in Dublin in 1972 and currently lives and works in London. Rothschild was awarded the 2012 Children’s Commission at London’s Whitechapel Gallery and the 2009 Duveen Commission at Tate Britain. In 2011 she was commissioned to produce a new public work, Empire, for New York’s Public Art Fund, with recent public exhibitions including Alternative to Power, The New Art Gallery Walsall, 2016; A Gated Community, Sonneveld House, Rotterdam, 2016; and Sightings, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, 2012.
Max Delany is Artistic Director and CEO at ACCA. He was formerly Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, at the National Gallery of Victoria (2012–2016), and Director, Monash University Museum of Art (2004–2012), where he oversaw the development of MUMA’s award-winning architectural premises on the Caulfield campus. Since 2011 Max has also held the position of adjunct Associate Professor, Curatorial Practice, in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University.
