SAM Talks: Field | Artist conversation with Jen Valender

Join current SAM Selects artist Jen Valender for a fascinating conversation exploring the creation of her moving image work Field, now showing in the SAM Community Gallery. Created during Valender’s time on the University of Melbourne’s Dookie Agricultural Campus for her CoVA Art + Ecology residency, the work explores the relationship between art and the natural world through a series of video works featuring the wildlife and lush, fluorescent canola fields of Dookie. 

This event is presented in partnership with Shepparton Festival.

About the artist

Jen Valender is a multidisciplinary artist who creates performative encounters on and with the landscape that raises questions about the relationship between art and the natural world.

Through moving image, she explores the ways in which art may be used as a navigational tool to investigate human and nonhuman connections. Valender has exhibited widely in galleries and museums in Australia, France, Germany, South Africa, and Portugal and holds a Master of Fine Arts (Research) from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.

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Featured image: Jen Valender, 'Artist as Animal' (2022); Director of photography: Gene Alberts. Image courtesy of the artist © the artist