MAIL rebecca.delange@gmail.com
INSTA @rebecca__delange
INSTA @rebecca__delange
PRACTICE
I am a current PHD candidate at RMIT University in the School of Art. In 2015 I completed Master of Contemporary Art with first class Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts. Recent exhibitions include Shut Up Mountain at the Bundoora Homestead for the 2019 Darebin Art Prize and at c3 Contemporary Art Space, Knot Not at Bus Projects and Alpha Beta Whatever at Notfair in Melbourne. Currently I teach in the Visual Arts department in the School of Vocational Design and Social Context RMIT, Melbourne.
My practice is concerned with the creation of provisional, object-based installation, assemblage, collage and photography. I am interested in ideas regarding art practice as a vehicle for generating indirect knowledge.[i] My current research looks at ways that the unseen - termed as the unspoken, the invisible, the poetic and the psychological, and defined as something felt and known but evading direct visual representation and perception - can be articulated in the material for the viewer to experience.
I am interested in investigating how the activation of semiotic slippage and disruptions to traditional categories of meaning can be used as methods to evoke the unseen in the material outcomes of the work. I aim to facilitate slips and subtle ruptures to the inherent and attributed semiotic function and meaning of things through strategies of collage, assemblage spatial arrangement, dialogue and material transformation, applied to sourced and re-purposed materials and objects.
Re-arrangement is an essential strategy, components, forms and motifs from prior works embedded with the history of their previous incarnations, are reworked into new assemblages. In this sense I view the work as a temporal collage of different forms, material histories, meaning and ideas, inhabiting a state of flux and resisting a definitive point of articulation. My PHD research project looks at strategies of collage and assemblage, within the context of photography and object based sculpture, as potential methods that can illuminate unseen meaning and new narratives and knowledge from the context of specific and metaphorical sites and landscape.
Rebecca Delange
[1] As articulated by Canadian composer, artist and writer Danielle Boutet in “Metaphors of the Mind: Art Forms as Modes of Thinking and Ways of Being,” in Carnal Knowledge, edited by Estelle Barrett and Barbara Bolt, 29 – 39. London: I.B.Tauris, 2013
EDUCATION
2016 - Current PHD Candidate School of Art, RMIT University
2014/15 Masters of Contemporary Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University
2011/13 Graduate Certificate in Art History & Social Theory, Melbourne University
2008 First Class Honours in Fine Art Drawing at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University
2005 /07 Bachelor of Fine Art Drawing, RMIT University
2004 Certificate III Visual Arts, CAE, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Shut Up Mountain, C3 Contemporary Artspace, Melbourne, April
2018 Night Vision, GoGo Bar, Melbourne, June
2017 Knot Not, BUS Projects, Melbourne, November
2015 Equations, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, December
2014 Plus + Minus, Strange Neighbour Gallery, Melbourne, December
2013 Whiteout, Strines Gallery, Melbourne, June
2012 Civilisation, Rearview Gallery, Melbourne, June
2011 The Forest, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, November
2010 NineteenthNervousBreakdown, Twenty by Thirty, Melbourne, December
2010 Der Wald, Berlin Weekly Gallery, Mitte, Berlin, Germany, August
2010 The Night Garden, TAKT Artist in Residence, Berlin, Germany, July
2010 The Slow Silence, TAKT Artist in Residence, Berlin, Germany, June
2009 Strange Fruit, Polymer KultureHaus Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, September
2009 The Forest has Teeth, Trocadero Gallery, Melbourne, June
2008 Electric Paper 4, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, February
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Shut Up Mountain, ‘Darebin Art Prize’ Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne, September
2019 Alpha Beta Whatever Again, The Wandering Room, April
2019 The Outside is In, ‘28 Beasts’ Melbourne, February
2018 The Outside is In, ‘RMIT ARTLANDS’ Melbourne, September
2017 Alpha Beta Whatever, ‘NotFair’ Melbourne, November
2017 Make A Home In The River, ‘Open House’ True Estate, August, curated by Elvis Richardson and Beau Emmett
2017 Material Restraint, First Site Gallery, RMIT Melbourne, April
2016 Night Vision, ‘Faux Studio’ C3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, December
2016 Spatial Material Dialogue, Platform Art Space, Melbourne, November
2016 ‘Nigredo’ Second Space Gallery, Melbourne, October, Curated by Bon Mott
2016 Stratum, C3 Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne, September
2016 Other Hanger, ‘Cut’ Dirty Dozen Art Space, Melbourne, September
2014 Little Hanger, ‘Fin’ Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, December, curated by Melissa Loughnan
2013 Assembly, Bus Gallery, Melbourne, November, curated by Stephanie Han
2013 Out to Sea, ‘Place’ Swarm Collective, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, December
2013 Enough, ‘Soft Eyes’ TCB Gallery, Melbourne, August, curated by Pip Wallis
2012 The Night Garden, ‘Figure and Ground’ Utopian Slumps,curated by Melissa Loughnan, Jane O’Neil
2011 Heart+Tounge ‘Marten Bequest Winners Showcase,’ National Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, June
2010 Gimme Shelter ‘Paradiso’ The Watermill Centre, Long Island, New York, USA, July
2009 New Life ‘Global Container’ Polymer Kulturefactory, Tallinn, Estonia, November
2009 Things From the Edges, Platform Artists Group, Melbourne, September
2009 Drip, ‘Variable Actions’ The Projects Gallery, Melbourne, August
2008 Swamp Talk, ‘Hyper Realities’ Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, November
RESIDENCIES & PROJECTS
2016 Residency at Cowwarr Art Space – Ceramics Studio, Cowwarr, Victoria, November
2010 Residency and commissioned installation at The Watermill Centre, Long Island, USA, July
2010 Residency at Takt Artist In Residence, Berlin, Germany, May - July
2009 Residency at Polymer Kulturefactory, collaboration with sound artist Adam Gooderham, Tallinn, Estonia, October
2004 Ernabella Project, Mural collaboration with Beth Sometimes, Pukatja, South Australia, March -April
AWARDS & PRIZES
2019 RMIT School of Art Travel Grant, $1,000
2017 RMIT School of Graduate Research Travel Grant, $2,000
2017 RMIT School of Art Travel Grant, $1,000
2015 Australian Post Graduate Award, RMIT University, $58,000
2015 VCA Faculty Graduate Grant, $500
2010 Australia Council Art Start Grant, $10,000
2009 Winner, Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for Sculpture, $25,000
2008 Winner, Wangaratta Sculpture Biennale, Ephemeral Award, $2500
All work, content and images copyright Rebecca Delange
2016 - Current PHD Candidate School of Art, RMIT University
2014/15 Masters of Contemporary Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University
2011/13 Graduate Certificate in Art History & Social Theory, Melbourne University
2008 First Class Honours in Fine Art Drawing at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University
2005 /07 Bachelor of Fine Art Drawing, RMIT University
2004 Certificate III Visual Arts, CAE, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Shut Up Mountain, C3 Contemporary Artspace, Melbourne, April
2018 Night Vision, GoGo Bar, Melbourne, June
2017 Knot Not, BUS Projects, Melbourne, November
2015 Equations, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, December
2014 Plus + Minus, Strange Neighbour Gallery, Melbourne, December
2013 Whiteout, Strines Gallery, Melbourne, June
2012 Civilisation, Rearview Gallery, Melbourne, June
2011 The Forest, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, November
2010 NineteenthNervousBreakdown, Twenty by Thirty, Melbourne, December
2010 Der Wald, Berlin Weekly Gallery, Mitte, Berlin, Germany, August
2010 The Night Garden, TAKT Artist in Residence, Berlin, Germany, July
2010 The Slow Silence, TAKT Artist in Residence, Berlin, Germany, June
2009 Strange Fruit, Polymer KultureHaus Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, September
2009 The Forest has Teeth, Trocadero Gallery, Melbourne, June
2008 Electric Paper 4, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, February
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Shut Up Mountain, ‘Darebin Art Prize’ Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne, September
2019 Alpha Beta Whatever Again, The Wandering Room, April
2019 The Outside is In, ‘28 Beasts’ Melbourne, February
2018 The Outside is In, ‘RMIT ARTLANDS’ Melbourne, September
2017 Alpha Beta Whatever, ‘NotFair’ Melbourne, November
2017 Make A Home In The River, ‘Open House’ True Estate, August, curated by Elvis Richardson and Beau Emmett
2017 Material Restraint, First Site Gallery, RMIT Melbourne, April
2016 Night Vision, ‘Faux Studio’ C3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, December
2016 Spatial Material Dialogue, Platform Art Space, Melbourne, November
2016 ‘Nigredo’ Second Space Gallery, Melbourne, October, Curated by Bon Mott
2016 Stratum, C3 Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne, September
2016 Other Hanger, ‘Cut’ Dirty Dozen Art Space, Melbourne, September
2014 Little Hanger, ‘Fin’ Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, December, curated by Melissa Loughnan
2013 Assembly, Bus Gallery, Melbourne, November, curated by Stephanie Han
2013 Out to Sea, ‘Place’ Swarm Collective, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, December
2013 Enough, ‘Soft Eyes’ TCB Gallery, Melbourne, August, curated by Pip Wallis
2012 The Night Garden, ‘Figure and Ground’ Utopian Slumps,curated by Melissa Loughnan, Jane O’Neil
2011 Heart+Tounge ‘Marten Bequest Winners Showcase,’ National Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, June
2010 Gimme Shelter ‘Paradiso’ The Watermill Centre, Long Island, New York, USA, July
2009 New Life ‘Global Container’ Polymer Kulturefactory, Tallinn, Estonia, November
2009 Things From the Edges, Platform Artists Group, Melbourne, September
2009 Drip, ‘Variable Actions’ The Projects Gallery, Melbourne, August
2008 Swamp Talk, ‘Hyper Realities’ Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, November
RESIDENCIES & PROJECTS
2016 Residency at Cowwarr Art Space – Ceramics Studio, Cowwarr, Victoria, November
2010 Residency and commissioned installation at The Watermill Centre, Long Island, USA, July
2010 Residency at Takt Artist In Residence, Berlin, Germany, May - July
2009 Residency at Polymer Kulturefactory, collaboration with sound artist Adam Gooderham, Tallinn, Estonia, October
2004 Ernabella Project, Mural collaboration with Beth Sometimes, Pukatja, South Australia, March -April
AWARDS & PRIZES
2019 RMIT School of Art Travel Grant, $1,000
2017 RMIT School of Graduate Research Travel Grant, $2,000
2017 RMIT School of Art Travel Grant, $1,000
2015 Australian Post Graduate Award, RMIT University, $58,000
2015 VCA Faculty Graduate Grant, $500
2010 Australia Council Art Start Grant, $10,000
2009 Winner, Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for Sculpture, $25,000
2008 Winner, Wangaratta Sculpture Biennale, Ephemeral Award, $2500
All work, content and images copyright Rebecca Delange
