A new event has arrived in Melbourne’s cultural calendar with the inauguration of the Melbourne Sculpture Biennale. Founded, directed and curated by Adam Stone and Laura Couttie, the exhibition aims to showcase the breadth and diversity of contemporary sculpture in Victoria.
The first iteration of the biennale, titled The Burden of Objects, is being held at the Villa Alba Museum, a heritage mansion in Kew, Naarm/Melbourne. Nineteen Victorian-based artists are involved, all with practices that centre the materiality of sculpture—Yhonnie Scarce, Catherine Bell, Julia Gorman, Louise Paramor, Nathan Beard and Ronnie van Hout among them.
Stone and Couttie said, “We hope that the Melbourne Sculpture Biennale will remind collectors of the dynamism and wonder of the sculptural medium and foster renewed patronage and opportunities for ambitious, critically engaged contemporary sculptural practice.”
View, in pictures, the variety and creativity of the sculptural medium.
Melbourne Sculpture Biennale: The Burden of Objects
Villa Alba Museum
9—13 October