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Mighty chuffed to be a finalist in the biennial Geelong Gallery Acquisitive Print Award 2023, with Served Bold, pigment inks on rag.
Being amongst a roll call list extraordinary artist is a huge privilege.
Exhibition dates: Saturday 29 July to Sunday 8 October
The third edition of the ACU Art Collection catalogue, Contemporary visions, excitingly features Chris Orr’s work Motherboard Portal Verde on the cover. Description of the work inside is written by Stephen A Russell.
The work was acquired by the ACU Gallery in 2019.
Tuesday 18 October to Monday 7 November 2022
After a 2 year lockdown delay, this boutique art concert is terrorising the established walls of Mario’s in Brunswick St.
Thankyou @artseleven & Mario’s for the invite and thank you @melanie_caple for the clever curation.
Get yourself in for a feed on art, food and wine!
Thrilled to cop a 2 week slot on the coveted Bakehouse Studio walls on Hoddle St, Richmond in September 2022. Thank you Helen and Quincey for the opportunity to spread my scent!
Video of the Sacellum exhibition, June 2022 at fortyfivedownstairs.
Interview on JOY FM Sunday Arts program (5 June 2022) for Sacellum and Gavin Brown’s After the Fire at fortyfivedownstairs
Promotional video for the Sacellum exhibition, June 2022 at fortyfivedownstairs.
Exhibition at fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne.
Exhibition Runs Tuesday 7 June – Saturday 18 June 2022. Open night Friday 10 June, 6pm – 8pm
Tues to Fri: 12pm – 6pm, Sat: 12pm – 4pm, Tues & Fri evenings 6pm – 8pm
Previews by appointment chris@chrisorr.com.au
sacellum: a small chapel within a church, or a sanctuary dedicated to a deity
Sacellum is an infected confection of the sacred and technology. A melancholic wink at consumerism and spirituality. A dialogue between a certain past and an uncertain future.
The artist reclaims engravings of Renaissance images and layers them with a mélange of modern detritus – from aluminium cans to discarded laptop motherboards – scanned at ultra-high resolution to reveal surprising new views and hidden landscapes.
Technology is as omnipotent and omnipresent as religion once was, controlling what we see and feel, for better or worse. In the past, priests and preachers were the exclusive producers of cultural propaganda, but today this role is subsumed by the ubiquity of our devices and our connection to the internet.
Sacellum is a contemplation of this control of our hearts and minds; a moving patternation of the contemporary and the classical. The portals of belief continue to look over us, providing a glimmer of hope for what lies ahead.
After many Covid delays, the Banyule Works on Paper 2021 exhibition finally opened on 25 February 2022.
Image: Gethsemane (Garden of Tears), 2021, pigment inks on Moab cotton rag.
Chuffed to be shortlisted for the 2021 Geelong Acquisitive Print Award! Announcement here.
Image: ‘Miss Information’, (pigment inks on Moab cotton rag). A Covid conversation.
Street front art @melbournestyle_gallery in Clarendon St, Sth Melbourne for the week 13-20 March 2021, part of The Art Hunter’s “10 artists in 10 weeks”.
I was interviewed during lockdown by Stephen A Russell for a series in The Age on ‘Artists in the Time of COVID-19’.
Chuffed to be acquired by ACU Melbourne Gallery as part of their modern collection. It’ll be nice to be hung amongst such accomplished artists.
She’s still in production but it struck me how she is face masked and sealed in her isolation acid green acrylic box.
Motherboard Portal Verde, 2019
Making my own acrylic box frames for Linden postcard show. Cutting and gluing acrylic is an absolute bastardy challenge of precision and timing …and a snowstorm of acrylic dust.
This piece is Circuit Queen Rød
Chuffed to be selected as a finalist in the ‘Banyule Award for Works on Paper’ prize with this piece Motherboard (Calefaction).
Exhibition Opens Saturday 25 May 2019, 2pm – 4pm
Exhibition Runs Tuesday 21 May – Saturday 1 June
Tues to Fri: 11am – 5pm, Sat: 11am – 3pm
After the success of his Bone Idol exhibition on the walls of fortyfivedownstairs in 2015, Chris Orr returns with a new show.
Conventicle is an unorthodox assemblage of Renaissance and Georgian engravings blanketed in everyday detritus, modern ephemera and classical stencils.
A diet of ever-changing colour, with velvet hues, flourescent outbursts and unexpected complexions.
Old soft drink cans, disregarded packaging and discarded motherboards are expertly re-assembled in an exciting declamatory recitation of social archaeology.
Example of acrylic blocks of Dolly and Bone Idol prints now in limited production.
Print of Sun Shone 2 in the art auction at Fitzroy Primary School.
Sitting pretty amongst the kooky artwork of all the kids. #art#melbourne #fitzroyps
Chris Orr exhibited works in Bone Idol at 45downstairs in June 2015. Order artworks here.
The works of the Bone Idol exhibition are pigment prints to archival rag paper or premium semi gloss, printed by JCP Studios in Melbourne.
Images are float mounted and framed in Tasmanian oak by Greg von Menge framers.
