Artist Talks | Catherine Anselmi, David Helmers, Ro Murray & Mandy Burgess

Join artists Catherine Anselmi, David Helmers, Ro Murray & Mandy Burgess as they discuss their exhibition 'UNruly'. In the exhibition, Anselmi, Helmers, and the collaboration of Murray and Burgess use the strategy of unruliness as an important generator of form to explore unruly themes: the flux of time and matter, transformation, and female determination in old age.

Meeting Place: Gallery 1, M16 Artspace

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Catherine Anselmi is an emerging artist from Sydney with a National Art School MFA following achievements in ceramics in New Zealand. Using varied material and digital technologies, her work explores deep time of life and its co-evolution with matter, emphasising co-responsibility and respect for place and being. Her sculptures will be in the forthcoming Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, 2026.

David Helmers is a Canberra artist with a MFA from National Art School, is a studio artist at ANCA Mitchell. His installations of sculptural experimental porcelain forms explore the vulnerability of life, and reveal processes of emergence - adaption, transformation and transcendence. He has had many solo shows in Australia and has exhibited in Korea, Japan and China.

Ro Murray and Mandy Burgess’ collaborative art practice is in Dhurag and Gundungurra country, Mt Victoria, NSW. After studying at the National Art School, they create large-scale sculptural installations on environmental issues, and wall murals with charcoal. They have exhibited in many sculpture festivals including three Canberra Art Biennials. They each maintain individual art practices.

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