Description

Join us for an onsite walk + talk with Dr Raafat Ishak and Fiona Hall, hosted by Dr David Sequeira, to celebrate their permanent artworks at the new Anzac Station. Don't miss this opportunity to walk through the concourse level of the station and see the permanent artworks while hearing the stories and inspirations behind both works, before an audience Q+A.

Printed onto the glass wall panels in the Albert Road entrance, Ishak’s Future Wall Painting acknowledges the architectural and cultural landmarks of the St Kilda Road precinct through abstract forms and geometric drawings, referencing Australian pre-contact, colonial, and military histories as well as architectural references to monuments and buildings associated with the St Kilda Road ceremonial boulevard.

Hall’s Anzac Station artwork recognises military service through the story of two Victorian-bred carrier pigeons, awarded the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross. Bronze sculptures of the pigeons perch on either side of the station’s entrance from the Shrine of Remembrance Reserve. The artwork also includes images of plant species with links to Australia’s military history including Lone Pine, Gallipoli Oak, Gallipoli Rose, Flanders Poppy, Lombardy Poplar and Rosemary, etched on glass wall panels on either side of the pigeons. These plant species grow where Australians fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front during the First World War.

This event will take place on the concourse level of Anzac Station and will not visit the platform level. This is a standing walk + talk/tour event with limited seating available.

Artists

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  Dr Raafat Ishak

  Dr Raafat Ishak was born in Egypt and lives and works in Melbourne. He has an undergraduate degree in fine arts from the Victorian College of the Arts, a post-graduate degree in architecture history and conservation practice from the University of Melbourne, and a PhD from Monash University.
  Working across painting, sculpture, installation and site-specific drawing, Ishak's practice is informed by the history of painting and architecture. His practice is generated through ubiquitous acts of research, experimentation, withdrawal, exclusion and fatigue.
  He has been awarded a number of Australia Council grants including residency at the Cite International des Arts in Paris in 2013. His work is held in many significant public and private collections. He is a founding member of Ocular Lab Inc and is Head of Painting at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.

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  Fiona Hall

  One of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, Fiona Hall was born in Sydney and lives and works in Hobart. Hall works across a broad range of media including painting, photography, sculpture and installation, often employing the forms of museological display.
  Hall is best known for works that transform everyday materials into vital organic forms with both historical and contemporary resonances. Hall’s sculptures are characterised by their intricate construction and recurring themes of environmentalism, globalization, war and conflict.