MPRG AiR Open Studio Darcey Bella Arnold & Bridget Hillebrand

Join us at MPRG Artist-in-Residence for a day of activity.

Following a morning cyanotype workshop with Dianna Wells, Darcey Bella Arnold & Bridget Hillebrand are generously opening their residency studios to the public.

Residencies are often spoken of as being generative for an artist's practice, opening new questions and possibilities. This is an amazing opportunity to hear from two artists amid working, making & responding to a new space & site.

Open Studio

1:30pm Darcey Bella Arnold in conversation with artist, VCA lecturer & partner Simon McGlinn. Darcey & Simon will discuss artist & family life and Darcey's sculptural practice in lieu of her very recent involvement in the Melbourne Sculpture Biennale, Villa Alba Museum, 2024, and the generation of new work for the Lorne Sculpture Biennale, 2025.

2:30pm Bridget Hillebrand, presents images and words from her Lost Seeds Project, a series of site specific works at Monmar, that reflect on the generations of native seeds lost to the lime burning industry. Courtesy of Peninsula Plants, Coastal Banksia, Moonah & She oaks seedlings (trees affected by the lime burning industry) will be available for free for visitors to take home.

Location & Parking: Please meet in the small gravel carpark at the beginning of Franklands Drive. If full, there is a large carpark on the left of Defence Rd, opposite Franklands Drive. There will be signage on site with directions to the Cottages.

Access: Unfortunately, there cottages are not wheelchair accessible.

 

Darcey Bella Arnold works across drawing, printmaking & sculpture and her practice is informed by experience & research. Beginning with the personal as a departure point, Darcey's work drifts between language, art history and pedagogical theses. Holding a BFA, Drawing, Victorian College of the Arts (2007) and BFA, Honours, Monash University (2009), Darcey has exhibited extensively in Melbourne, interstate and overseas, has been awarded residencies in Ubud, Bali Indonesia & Los Angeles, U.S.A, and was 2020 - 2022 Gertrude Contemporary studio artist.

Darcey is represented by ReadingRoom, Naarm/Melbourne.

ReadingRoom, Melbourne (areadingroom.com)

Darcey Bella Arnold

 

Dr. Bridget Hillebrand is a Naarm/Melbourne based interdisciplinary artist working across print, artist books, time-based media and installation. Her visual research explores the relationship between the physicality of making images as a response to the corporeal dimension of the experience of place, and recent projects specifically look at the shifting ecology of ocean and river systems. Bridget holds a PhD, Monash University, has exhibited internationally & is represented in major public and private collections in Australia and overseas. In November, 2024 her installation ‘River’ will be exhibited at the Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy.

 

Bridget Hillebrand | Bridget Hillebrand is an Australian artist/printmaker.

 

When

Location

Police Point Shire Park, Portsea. (Parkland at the entrance to Point Nepean National Park)

Please meet at the small gravel car park at the beginning of Franklands Drive. After entering Police Point Shire Park, Franklands Drive is the first street on the right.

Signage on site will direct you to the residency cottages.

MPRG Artist-in-Residence, Franklands Drive, Portsea, 3944, View Map