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Each year SAM goes local across December and January, spotlighting the practice of local artists with three exhibitions.
SAM Local Spotlight profiles the work of one artist with a solo exhibition. This initiative encourages, stimulate and promote local and regional cultural activities as part of SAM’s annual program, enabling artists to experience working in a professional museum context. Exhibitions are programmed up to six months in advance.
Shepparton Art Museum is pleased to announce the artist showcased in this December’s local spotlight exhibition is Echuca-based, Tarli Bird.
I’m excited about exhibiting at SAM with a project that combines my passions in life: sport and art. As an elite distance runner I’m always fascinated when people regard sport and art as being polar opposites. I find athletes and artists contain very similar attributes that I’m looking forward to highlighting in my exhibition.
I hope to break down the barrier between the sports field and art gallery through my exhibition and drawing into the gallery new viewers. My exhibition will have the heart rates of local runners after a running race transferred onto individual music metronomes which will communicate their internal body externally to be watched. The metronomes will continue to perform for the duration of the exhibition providing a visual and audio representation of how the bodies experienced the race. The viewers can determine for themselves which individual has pushed their body to the furthest limit.
Tarli is an artist and art teacher who works at Echuca College.
Website: www.tarlibird.com
Instagram: @tarlibird
Exhibition Dates:
Saturday 10 December 2016 to Sunday 15 January 2017
Image: Tarli Bird, courtesy the artist.
