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TIDELAND: Works from the SECCA Collection

When
14 Feb — 10 Apr 2025

Where

SECCA

(Left) Julian Meagher. Inlet #13. 152 x 122cm. Oil on linen, 2017

(Right) Julian Meagher. Inlet #9. 152 x 122cm. Oil on linen, 2017

SECCA Collection. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.

Exhibition menu image: Tony Albert, Piracy II, 2020. SECCA Collection. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.

TIDELAND

14 Feb – 10 Apr 2025

Drawn from the title of the 2005 psychoanalytic fantasy film by Terry Gilliam, TIDELAND includes a curated selection of artworks drawn from the SECCA Collection exploring the aesthetics and symbolism of waterbodies, perspectives on regionalisms, and contested views on landscapes.

FREE entry. All welcome.

Exhibition launch Friday 14 February, 6-8pm.
Free event. All welcome.

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This exhibition at SECCA will also be the foundation for the ‘Tideland: Art + Word’ project. This project is a new collaboration between the South East Centre for Contemporary Art (SECCA), the Bega Valley Shire Library, and the South Coast Writers Centre, that aims to explore a multidisciplinary interpretation of works from the SECCA public art collection. The project will encourage regional writers through the practice of ‘Ekphrasis’ writing (poetry inspired by art) to creatively respond to 10 artworks in the planned ‘Tideland’ exhibition at SECCA. This poetry opportunity is a first for the Bega Valley and recognises the strong connection between visual art forms and the written word.

Submissions for the ‘Tideland: Art + Word’ project are open from 16 Dec 2024 and close 31 Jan 2025. 

Scroll down to view all ten selected artworks for the Ekphrasis poetry submissions.

To enter and find out more see entry portal here > Tideland: Art + Word Ekphrasis Poetry Challenge

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The project will also engage contemporary text-based artist and poet, Caren Florence, to create new work in response to artwork from the collection


Tideland: Art + Word project launch
Friday 28 February, 5-8pm
SECCA galleries
The announcement of the 10 chosen Ekphrasis poems will also feature new spoken word poetry performances from established Bega Valley poets, including Gabrielle Journey Jones, Rae Kennedy, and Nick Whittock. The event will also include an open mic session.
Free event. All welcome.

 

The Regional Arts Fund is an Australian Government initiative that supports sustainable cultural development in regional, remote and very remote Australia.

This project was made possible by the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund, provided through Regional Arts Australia and Regional Arts NSW.

Larger versions of the images below are available on request. Send an email to secca@begavalley.nsw.gov.au with the title of the image you would like, and it will be sent to you by return email.

Artworks

Tamara Dean, 'Endangered 7'. Pigment Print ed 2/8 framed 165 x 115.5cm. SECCA Collection.

Colleen Dixon, Women Gathering Eggs, 2006. Print 1/5, OP, 30 x 20cm. SECCA Collection.

Anneke Paijmans, 'Tathra firies', 2018. Nine glazed ceramic 10 x 15cm. SECCA Collection.

Ken Done, Beach, January 1, 1998, 1998.

Oil and acrylic on linen. 200 x 150cm.
Gifted to the SECCA collection through the Australian Governments Cultural Gifts Program
Signed and dated '98' lower right. 

Julian Meagher, Inlet #13, 2017. Oil on linen 

152 x 122cm
SECCA Collection
Donated through the Australian Governments 
Cultural Gifts Program

Tony Albert, Piracy II, 2020. Sandblasted commiseration plate, 26 cm diameter. Donated through the Australian Governments 

Cultural Gifts Program.

G.K. Townsend, Sydney Beach, 1963. Oil on canvas, 40x50cm. SECCA Historic Collection gifted by the Bega Valley Arts & Crafts Society.

Major James Tylor, Panorama of Sydney, c. 1821. Lithograph. Donated by Graham Farram to SECCA Collection.

Idris Murphy, Mudslide Riverbank, 1988. Oil on linen (diptych) 152.5 x 240cm. SECCA Collection.

Heather Burness, Cultural Flow/ upstream/ downstream/ between the banks #1 #2 #3 #4, 2010. Intaglio prints. 143 x 94cm each, framed. SECCA Collection.