Five artists will form this year’s Primavera 2021: Young Australian Artists exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA). Primavera is the MCA’s annual exhibition of emerging artists living and working in Australia, aged 35 years and under. Now in its 30th edition, Primavera continues to be a significant platform for early-career Australian artists and curators to present exciting new work.
The Primavera 2021 artists are: Elisa Jane Carmichael (QLD), Dean Cross (NSW), Hannah Gartside (VIC), Sam Gold (SA), and Justine Youssef (NSW). Primavera 2021: Young Australian Artists considers the multi-faceted concept of resourcefulness, with each of this year’s chosen artists exploring ideas of sustainability and ingenuity within their practice.
This year’s Primavera exhibition is curated by Melbourne-based Aboriginal curator, Hannah Presley. Her practice focuses on the development of creative projects in close collaboration with artists, learning about the techniques, history and community that inform their making to help guide her curatorial process.
Presley is currently Curator, Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Victoria where she recently curated Big Weather in 2021. Previously, she was the inaugural Yalingwa curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art where she curated A Lightness of Spirit is the Measure of Happiness in 2018; and was First Nations Assistant Curator for Tracey Moffatt at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. Presley draws inspiration from her early roles working at Warumpi Arts, with Papunya Community, Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre and later as Curator at the Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne.
For Primavera 2021, Presley brings together an exhibition that embraces each artist’s unique approach to making. Each artist employs techniques shared across generations, materials that hold memory or forms that invite new interpretations of the past. The exhibiting artists will present work of various media including textiles installation, ceramics, weaving, painting and video. MCA Director, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, said: “Hannah Presley has curated an exceptional group of talented young artists for Primavera 2021.
Primavera continues to be a highlight on the MCA’s annual exhibition calendar as it is a springboard for many artists’ careers, introducing the work of younger artists to a wider audience. ”
On the exhibition, curator Hannah Presley, said: “The artists participating in Primavera 2021 are creating works that draw on personal narratives whilst also considering the history and implicit memory that resonates within their selected materials. As this year’s curator, I was interested in exploring the choices each artist makes as their work evolves, what is brought forward and what is left behind.”
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