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BOLDER

  • Detail of Prowl, Steven Tran, 2021. Photographed by Andrew Curtis
    Detail of Prowl, Steven Tran, 2021. Photographed by Andrew Curtis
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BOLDER
Launch Event: 28 September 2022 6pm – 8pm

Exhibition Date: 15 September – 30 October 2022

Tech-supported sessions: 8 October 2022, 11:00am – 2:00pm and 15 October 2022, 11:00am – 2:00pm

Content warning: This exhibition contains high-sensory content including bright colours and animations with fast movements and sound.
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“My favourite thing about this exhibition is that it is in my style and I recognise myself” – Steven Tran 

BOLDER is an interdimensional art exhibition that celebrates visibility and individuality by artist Steven Tran. Building on his first solo exhibition, BOLD in 2021, BOLDER takes Steven’s drawings and paintings to new realms with Augmented Reality (AR) and expanded sensory experiences. Using his abstract style, Steven encourages his audiences to be distinct, daring and different.  

This exhibition provides viewers with new ways of seeing, hearing and experiencing. It showcases delightful patterns, encouraging audiences to be visible and to be BOLD. Steven invites each and every person to step into his imagination and journey through spooky staircases, where structures evolve and explode.  

Collaborators include:

  • Victoria University Hive Lab
  • Ben Monaghan (Mixed Reality Developer)
  • Elijah McDonald (3D Developer)
  • Kati Elizabeth (Product Manager)
  • Khuyen Phung (Lead UI designer)
  • Phoebe Watson (Game Designer)
  • Robert Stephenson (Animator)
  • Todd Watts (Animator)

Two tech-supported sessions will be available for visitors who require additional support to navigate the Augmented Reality. These sessions will have a gallery assistant present. 

Launch Event: 28 September 2022, 6pm – 8pm
Exhibition Date: 15 September – 30 October 2022
Venue: Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 

Opening hours:
Tuesday to Friday: 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm 

This event is presented by Footscray Community Arts as part of the ArtLife Residency Program. BOLDER is part of The Big Anxiety, Melbourne Naarm, co-presented by RMIT University and UNSW.

Date & Times
When

15 — 30 October 2022

Venue
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery
Cost
Accessibility

Access for Exhibition:
BOLDER is an Augmented Reality exhibition. This means that digital overlays can be seen through an app on a device, such as an iPad.

Five (5) iPads are supplied within the exhibition so that visitors do not need to rely on personal devices to experience the work. iPads have a hand strap on the back of them, which allows visitors to move the screen’s orientation to their preference.

Two tech-supported sessions will be available for visitors who require additional support to navigate the Augmented Reality. These sessions will have a gallery assistant present. 

These sessions are:
Saturday, 8th October 2022, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm.
Saturday, 15th October 2022, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm. 

Footscray Community Arts is a wheelchair accessible venue. 

The nearest accessible toilet to the exhibition is a few metres past the Roslyn Smorgan Gallery down the hallway, through the first doorway on the left.

Getting there:
To get to Footscray Community Arts by public transport, catch the train to Footscray Station. Footscray Community Arts is approximately 500 metres away from the station down Bunbury Street (accessed from platform 4). Please note that this street is dimly lit at night with some uneven concrete on the footpath. 

Accessible parking and a taxi/drop off area are located on the Moreland Street side of Footscray Community Arts, approximately twenty metres from reception and the Roslyn Smorgon Gallery. 

Access for Launch Event:
The launch event for BOLDER will be Auslan interpreted. An Auslan Interpreter will be present during the speeches and formalities of the event.

Seating will be provided in the gallery and gathering areas. Patrons are free to come and go as they choose.

A quiet space will be available throughout the event. This space will be located in a room past the toilets in a room marked “Visual Arts Studio”. The room will be low-sensory with lamps, cushions and armchair seating. 

Access notes for BOLDER

Meet the Artist
  • Steven Tran
    Steven Tran

    is a contemporary artist and dancer, currently undertaking an ArtLife Residency at Footscray Community Arts. Steven’s work features bright colours and intricate patterns, building structure and new worlds with his own sets of rules and regulations. He works across the senses, often making art about music and movement. Steven derives inspiration from his favourite songs, patterns he sees in nature and the architecture of buildings from the urban environment in which he lives.   

    Steven’s work has featured in group shows for West Projections Festival and Due West Arts Festival in 2019, where he exhibited drawings for group site activation, “Sometimes I Just Miss Hearing Their Voice”. During Melbourne’s extended lockdown in 2020, Steven co-curated exhibition, ARISING, a virtual and on-site exhibition showing work from 32 artists. Steven produced his first solo exhibition, BOLD in 2021, where he took the opportunity to experiment and deepen his ideas with a new series of paintings and drawings.  

    IG: @stevo.itsartist

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