SCAF – Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation in association with UNSW Galleries
proudly presents

Dr Barbara Polla
Geneva-based curator, medical researcher and writer

Introduced by Dr Gene Sherman AM

on Wednesday, 23 July 2014
6pm for a 6.30 pm start.

at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
16–20 Goodhope Street
Paddington

RSVP by Tuesday, 22 July 2014
02 9331 1112 or bookings@sherman-scaf.org.au

Dr Barbara Polla will discuss the fourth iteration of SCAF’s Collection+ series that will showcase the work of Australian-born, London-based artist Shaun Gladwell. Dr Polla is co-curating Collection+: Shaun Gladwell with Paul Ardenne, an accomplished writer and Professor of Art History at the University of Amiens, France. Presented in partnership with UNSW Galleries, Collection+: Shaun Gladwell will be exhibited at UNSW Galleries from 6 March – 25 April 2015.

Concurrent to Collection+: Shaun Gladwell, SCAF will feature a new major commission by Shaun Gladwell, on exhibition at SCAF from 6 March – 25 April 2015.

Dr Barbara Polla is an academic, a medical doctor and researcher, a curator and gallerist, writer, a former Swiss MP and a teacher. Culture and freedom are at the centre of her interests, which span the fields of art and literature.

Barbara is currently a Professor of Critical and Creative Writing at HEAD (Haute école d’art et de design – Geneva University of Art and Design). She is the founding director and curator of Geneva-based gallery, Analix Forever, which has represented emerging and established artists including; Tracey Emin, Vanessa Beecroft, Mat Collishaw, Andrea Mastrovito and Maurizio Cattelan. As part of her focus on promoting young talent and interest in video art and drawing, Barbara founded an award for young video artists at the renowned Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporain in France. She is a prolific writer of essays on art, politics and gender, and contributed an original text on Shaun Gladwell for his recent exhibition Motopoétique, 2014, at the Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France.

Image © Steeve Iuncker Gomez