Bianca Hester 5 March - 13 April 2008 Wednesday - Sunday 13.00 - 18.00hrs First Thursday Late Night Opening 6 March until 20.30hrs Opening Tuesday 4 March 19.00 - 21.00hrs
The Showroom is delighted to announce that it has invited Melbourne-based artist Bianca Hester to make her first solo show in London during 2008. Hester will be in residence at The Showroom during January - March, making a new sculptural installation that engages the gallery as a place of production and responds to the social-material elements of the local environment of Bethnal Green. As the project develops, the installation will also function as an ad-hoc setting for a series of events.
In Australia, Hester is gaining a reputation for her collaborations and projects that collect activity around temporary structures and public situations. Through her practice, Bianca Hester explores materiality, architecture and social space; in the past this has involved using a range of prosaic materials (such as plasticine, dirt, carpet, ropes and miscellaneous building supplies) to create scattered installations of partial-objects and quasi-architectural constructions. For The Showroom, Hester will assemble an ephemeral installation - consisting of sculptural elements, architectural propositions, video sequences and publications - which will host recordings and improvisations as well as micro-projects with artists and organisations.
In response to Australia's thriving contemporary art scene, The Showroom's Director made a research trip to Melbourne and Sydney towards the end of 2005. Bianca Hester's new commission for the gallery is the result of this research.
Bianca Hester is one of the most exciting emerging young artists working in Australia today. She is a founding member of CLUBSproject Inc, Melbourne, an artists initiated project and has shown in group projects at ACCA and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne and MCA, Sydney. In addition she has been awarded a number of residencies and prizes across Australasia.
Bianca Hester currently lives and works in Melbourne. Hester is a graduate of the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam and RMIT, Melbourne and has recently completed a PhD attached to RMIT.
