MPRG AiR Open Studio: Melanie Cobham, Jordan Marani & Ned Johnson

Next date: Saturday, 18 January 2025 | 10:30 AM to 01:00 PM

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Please join Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery and artists Melanie Cobham, Jordan Marani & Ned Johnson for an Open Studio program at MPRG AiR, Monmar on Sat 18 January, beginning from 10:30am.

These residency artists will be opening their doors, showing and speaking to their work, welcoming the public to get a glimpse of the residency in action.

Event details as per below:

10:30am: Jordan Marani

Jordan Marani makes darkly humorous work involving personal narratives, cynical observations of the human condition and explorations of family, loss and the past. Through painting and sculpture employing bright colour, humour and word play, he explores the funny side of the dark side. Jordan will introduce us to his practice of over 30 years and speak about residency work in development.

11:15am: Ned Johnson

Ned Johnson is an emerging drawer & printmaker, based on the Mornington Peninsula. Ned's work reflects on social and historical narratives and political themes through highly detailed and time-consuming pen & ink based drawings. Ned will show some of his works in progress exploring the built environment at Point Nepean.

12:00pm: Melanie Cobham

Melanie Cobham is a Uruguayan artist and designer based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work permeates the familiar to pose questions on language, colonisation, migration and identity. During her time at the residency, Melanie has been researching the crossovers between landscape and language. At their intersection lies silver, a light-sensitive metal that is the cornerstone of conventional photography. Melanie has been documenting the site on film, using local seaweed to develop the film, building on The Sustainable Darkroom’s research in alternative photography. Melanie will give demonstrations on this alternative film processing method as-well as her experiments with Cuttlefish casting, an ancient technique that involves using washed up, cuttlefish bone as a mold to cast metal objects.

Image: Melanie Cobham, Monmar 2024, analogue photograph developed using local seaweed