Rebecca Agnew
STILLS & THRILLS
Afternoon Opening 4-6pm Saturday October 26 2024
October 25 – December 7 2024
Rebecca Agnew is a painter, sculptor and stop-motion animator. Her work explores the human condition in our expanding cultural economy, reflecting on these themes through referencing history, art and artefact she uses the figure and traces of human intervention as a centrepiece.
Agnew holds a Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Otago, Dunedin (2004) and a Master of Fine Arts, VCA, Melbourne (2012). In 2023 Agnew accepted a Residency in Bali, Indonesia, associated with Gertrude Contemporary (2023). In 2015 she was awarded the Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship (2015) with residencies undertaken with Waaw, Saint Louis, Senegal & Theertha Red Dot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Agnew was then a Studio Resident at Gertrude Contemporary (2018-19) and was also was commissioned by Artbank to produce a Stop-motion animation for their permanent collection (2013).
Major exhibitions include Agnew’s inclusion in the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, QAGOMA (2022); Inclusion in “Nationalism in the Wake of COVID” at Macquarie University NSW (2022); Sydney Contemporary (2022, 2021, 2013); Spring 1883 (2023, 2021); NGV Design Week, National Gallery of Victoria (2020); Gertrude Studio Artists Exhibition, Gertrude Contemporary (2018, 2017); Brisbane International Animation Festival (2018); Melbourne International Animation Festival (2018, 2017); Waaw Gallery, Saint Louis, Senegal (2017); Interior 2.1 (TRAMA Centro), Guadalajara, Mexico (2015); & Video Arte Australia Nueva Zelande, M100, Santiago, Chile (2013). Agnew’s work is represented in the Collections of the University of Otago, Dunedin; Artbank and Private Collections in Australia and New Zealand.
Stills & Thrills runs October 25 – December 7 2024
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Open
12-5pm Wed-Sat
& by Appt
Pleysier Perkins
Architect Firm | First Floor Exhibition Space
89 Wellington St St Kilda
Naarm 3182
