Daily Orchids

17 February to 6 March 2021

Opening: 6.00pm, Friday 19 February 2021

EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION

Itamar Freed and Courtney Scheu are visual and dance artists who collaborate and create work in response to place. This exhibition will showcase works created across two residencies, Airie - Artist in Residence in Everglades National Park, Florida, USA and the Crows Nest Chambers Island, Sunshine Coast. Through these works the artists research time, place, displacement, isolation, the wilderness and the tamed. 

Itamar Freed BIO

Born in 1987 in New York City, works and lives in London, UK. He has an MA in photography from the Royal College of Art, London 2018. He is the 2016 recipient of the Clore Bezalel Scholarship for an MA at the RCA valued over 70,000 GBP. Freed received his BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design 2012. Freed was selected to exhibit in the prestigious BEERS London Summer Marathon and will present a solo exhibition in 2020. Freed also won the first place prize for the EPSON Award for Excellence in Photography 2012. Freed showcased at Museum of London, Christie’s Auction House and Grosvenor House, London, Pulse Miami, Volta New York, Nordart 2018, Germany, and Haifa Museum for Art. His work resides in private and public collections worldwide - the JP Morgan chase art collection, Estee Lauder, Lauren and Mitchell Presser Photography Collection and American Embassies collection.

Courtney Scheu BIO

Courtney Scheu is an independent dance artist - performer, choreographer and educator. Scheu is completing Gaga Teacher Training with Ohad Naharin, Batsheva Dance Company (Tel Aviv) supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust. In 2019, Scheu collaborated with Itamar Freed as AIRIE - Artist in Residence in Everglades within the UNESCO World Heritage Everglades National Park, Florida, USA. Scheu was recently an Artist in Residence in the Crows Nest, Sunshine Coast through RADF Sunshine Coast and Arts Queensland. She presented new a contemporary dance work created in collaboration with Freed in Supercell Dance Festival Brisbane 2020, Horizon Festival Homegrown 2020 and Tempo Dance Festival 2020. In London, Scheu presented work in the Emerge Festival 2017 by C-12 Dance Theatre and Resolution 2018 at The Place. Scheu is committed to contributing to conversations of dance, education and the cultural landscape of Australia.