Young Curators
YOUNG CURATORS PROGRAM
“You need a network, face time and cross-pollination. Without professional experience how would children know this is something they could do? That’s why it is important.”
– Jasper Knight
3:33 Art Projects has created an innovative art program, the Young Curators, to partner with secondary schools to support education in the arts and provide unique experiences for the students, the school and the broader community whilst supporting Australian artists. The program connects students with a leading Australian visual artist to host an art exhibition at their school, working as a curatorial team to research, develop, select and stage the exhibition, providing valuable insights into various perspectives of the creative art industry. We visit artist studios, commercial gallery shows, collectors, art fairs and museums, as well as 3:33 Art Projects’ exhibitions to open their minds to what is possible in a non-traditional gallery setting.
3:33 Art Projects is currently working with leading artists Jasper Knight, Euan Macleod, Vanessa Stockard and McLean Edwards at schools including International Grammar School, Knox Grammar School, Abbotsleigh School, and Trinity Grammar School.
Reg Mombassa: Aussie Accumulation
Knox Grammar School and Tumbi Umbi Campus present Reg Mombassa. 31 May 2022 to 14 June 2022
Euan MacLeod: Plein Air
Abbotsleigh and Hornsby Girls High School present Euan MacLeod. 30 March 2022 to 14 April 2022
“Young Curators have focused on Euan MacLeod's practice of plain air, selecting more than 60 paintings and drawings. These works are taken from Hong Kong and China, visits home to New Zealand and Australian beach holidays. Along with these works is a series that reflect on the development of MacLeod's ideas from sketch, to print and to canvas.
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As young curators, our artistic journey with Euan MacLeod has become one of insight, inspiration and collaboration. Following the fresh trail of MacLeod’s oeuvre, through the home of Max Germanos to the artist’s studio, we witnessed the unification of his mind, eye and hand as his emotions and thoughts were artistically transposed onto canvas and paper. For the first time, the backstage of the contemporary art scene was unlocked to us through this opportunity to synthesise and curate the works of Euan MacLeod” - Young Curators
"with en plain air I really do use what's in front of me rather than think about 'finished' paintings. They really are about enjoying myself. These paintings can be an end in themselves or like the yellow mountains one can be used to develop further works" - Euan MacLeod
Euan MacLeod appears courtesy of King Street Gallery on William.
Vanessa Stockard↓
Abbotsleigh Young Curators present Vanessa Stockard. Until 20 February 2020
In the third iteration of our Young Curators program, eight students from Abbotsleigh conceptualised and staged a survey exhibition of works by Vaness Stockard.
Born in 1975 in Sydney, Vanessa Stockard spent her formative years in a small country town in the Mid North Coast of New South Wales. After graduating from the College Of Fine Arts (COFA) Sydney in 1998 with a BFA, Stockard launched head–first into the avant-garde art scene in the bohemian village of Glebe in Sydney's Inner West. Her ethereal works are a window into the soul of a talented and complex artist, one whose legacy is bound to resonate well past her generation. The existential nature of her atheistic musings say something profoundly visceral about our understanding of reality. Stockard’s intimate paintings deal with isolation and sadness whilst seeking to redefine what it means to feel love. The artist believes not in failure, but in continued discovery of things unseen. Painting from memory, she conjures narratives filled with domestic pets, infusing the personification of virtue and vice into the everyday canine and feline status quo. Cats with their fluffy comical exteriors yet instinctual urge to kill and a tendency to be cruel to their prey, dogs with their providence of happiness and friendship flung back to Churchill’s metaphor for depression.
Jasper Knight: Industrial Evolution↓
In the second iteration of the Young Curators Program, seven students from Knox Grammar School – in Years 8 to 11 – have worked closely with renowned Australian artist Jasper Knight over the past four months, researching, developing, selecting and staging an exhibition of his works. Following a visit to the artist’s Sydney studio for a demonstration, walkthrough and painting workshop, the students then visited Clayton Utz to see our Art Partnership in action, with dual exhibitions by Reg Mombassa and David Griggs. A private exhibition tour with Reg Mombassa and one of our curators gave the boys insight into the curatorial process. Lastly, we took the students to Jasper's exhibition 'Elevator Music' at Chalkhorse to see the artist’s work on display in a commercial gallery. The students admired Jasper’s construction works as their school has been under construction. The exhibition will feature new paintings based on images taken by the students of this construction.
Young Curators at Knox Grammar School present Jasper Knight, 12 – 29 November 2019
Euan Macleod↓
The inaugural Young Curators exhibition was Archibald Prize winner Euan Macleod at Trinity Grammar School. Over a six month period, five Year 10 and Year 11 Trinity Grammar School students visited Euan Macleod's studio and solo exhibition with 3:33 Art Project at Clayton Utz, and were given generous access to Euan Macleod's archives. Choosing to focus on the theme of the guardian figure, they selected over 40 paintings, sketches and preliminary drawings spanning 1983 to 2019, touching on key periods of Macleod's work – including his family portraits of the late 1980s–1990s, the Lyttelton Harbour paintings beginning in the early 2000s and the Gallipoli and Colossus paintings since 2010.
