22 Nov - 23 Mar

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Melbourne Now celebrates the latest art, architecture, design, performance and cultural practice to reflect the complex cultural landscape of creative Melbourne.

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Roseanne BARTLEY
born New Zealand 1964, arrived Australia 1988
The beginning of I AM – Skittle, soccer ball, baton, mobile phone, putter, baseball 2013
plastic found objects, plastic and glass beads, silk thread
(1) 14.0 x 5.0 cm diameter (skittle), (2) 5.5 x 5.5 cm diameter (soccer ball),
(3) 18.5 x 2.0 x 1.5 cm (baton), (4) 6.5 x 4.5 x 1.0 cm (mobile phone),
(5) 9.5 x 1.8 x 6.5 cm (putter), (6) 5.5 x 5.5 cm diameter (baseball)
Collection of the artist, Melbourne
© Roseanne Bartley

Roseanne Bartley

Born 1964, Auckland, New Zealand; lives and works in Melbourne.

Roseanne Bartley completed both a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours in 1991, and Masters of Fine Art, Gold and Silversmithing in 2006, at RMIT University. Exhibiting locally and overseas, Bartley’s most recent exhibitions include Unexpected Pleasures: The Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and Design Museum, London, 2012–13; Roseanne Bartley: Seeding the Cloud, ObjectSpace, Auckland, 2012; Material, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, 2010; and The world is a circle we live in, Studio 20/17, Sydney, 2010.

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