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Emporium Creative Hub Presents: Justin Balmain

Justin commenced his Creative residency at Emporium in August and will get the chance to talk through his creative practice and current projects in this exclusive presentation. He will speak to his experience working across disciplines (in his most recent projects this has been visual art and film) and the collaboration that drive these projects.

Justin will share a timeline of the project 3-Days without Light, starting at the initial partnership with The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations in Marseille, France

Justine has moved recently to regional Victoria and he will also discuss the benefits and challenges of working between his Gertrude Contemporary studio and Bendigo, and the role that undertaking an Emporium Creative Residency has played in helping to propel his work to the next phase.

He will finish with an outline and sneak peak of some of his current projects and how he intends to use the remaining time as an Emporium Creative Resident.

The Emporium Creative Hub warmly invites you to join us at 5pm on Thursday 10th November for some light refreshments as Justin explores his interesting and inviting career and projects as well as what the future holds for this highly creative resident.

Justin Balmain

Justin Balmain’s research-led approach draws from visual art and narrative storytelling to create artworks indebted to the disciplines of historical and contemporary image making. He has a targeted interest in the intersection of technology and its interactions on our relationships and mediation with the world, observing our subservience to technology and the resultant objects that impose their functionality. His practice explores the strategies and function of objects at the interstice of virtual and actual space, and within the collective imagination.

Balmain’s practice has been exhibited widely in Australia, Europe, the USA and New Zealand, and received support through the Australia Council for the Arts, Create NSW, the National Association for Visual Arts, Ian Potter Foundation, Creative Victoria, Regional Arts Victoria, The Wassaic Project (New York), and he has engaged in local and international artistic partnerships and exchanges with Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Parramatta Artists Studios, Enough Room for Space, Brussels, The Endangered Languages Archive, London and The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations, Marseille, France. Balmain commenced his Masters at the Otago School of Art Dunedin, New Zealand, and completing at the University of New South Wales within the School of Media Arts.