SCAF – Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

In association with Fugitive Structures 2014
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation proudly presents

James Grose, National Director, BVN Donovan Hill and
Gene Sherman, Executive Director, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

in conversation with Tel Aviv-based  architects

Liat Muller and Uri Reicher

of Sack and Reicher + Muller

Sack and Reicher + Muller have been selected for
Fugitive Structures 2015, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation‘s annual architectural initiative.

Saturday 22 March
2.30 – 4 pm

Free event, bookings essential / limited numbers

RSVP by Wednesday, 19 March 2014
02 9331 1112 or bookings@sherman-scaf.org.au

at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
16-20 Goodhope Street
Paddington

Fugitive Structures 2014

AR-MA: Trifolium
21 March – 20 September 2014

Tomahawk // Archer Breakspear: Poly
21 March – 3 May 2014

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Speakers:

Uri Reicher is an architect, formerly an Associate at Foster + Partners, and since 2012 a founding partner of Sack and Reicher, together with Matanya Sack. The studio specialises in architecture and landscape projects which bring together site and expanse, culture and ecologies, programmes and perspectives. Their work ranges from sensitive interventions, such as a tourist centre in the Jerusalem mountains, to large-scale masterplans, among them a 130 ha ecological park in central Israel, combining agriculture and re-wilding of original oak maquis.

Liat Muller founded matter (2012), an architecture and design studio committed to the integration and re-interpretation of materials in design. She previously worked with London-based Architectural firm Zaha Hadid Architects on projects including the Heydar Aliyev Centre (Baku, Azerbaijan) and The Riverside Museum of Transport (Glasgow, Scotland).

The two studios have recently formed Sack and Reicher + Muller, an interdisciplinary collaboration working on projects of various scales from buildings and landscape to interiors and interactive design. Their Israeli Pavilion design (see above image) was shortlisted for Expo 2015 Milan. Recent projects include; a proposal for the renovation of Acre Auditorium, a restaurant and courtyard in central Israel, and a strategic consultancy for an art institution.

James Grose has achieved a high level of accomplishment in the architectural profession through design innovation, built works, awards, professional leadership, conferences and publications. He started his own practice, Grose Bradley Architecture, in the late 1980s before becoming a principal of BVN Donovan Hill through a merger in 1998. James was appointed as National Director of the studio in 2006 and has led the BVN Donovan Hill project team in a number of benchmark projects, from the seminal Campus MLC in North Sydney through to the award-winning Brain and Mind Research Institute at The University of Sydney, and more recently, The Kinghorn Cancer Centre in Sydney, the ASB North Wharf in Auckland, New Zealand, and the Australian Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand.

Dr Gene Sherman AM is Chairman and Executive Director of Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF). She has a specialised knowledge of art and French literature and prior to founding the gallery she spent seventeen years teaching and lecturing at secondary and tertiary levels. She is currently Deputy Chair of the Board of the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, a member of the Tate Modern Asia-Pacific Acquisitions Committee and on the Art & Australia Advisory Board. Gene was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government (2003) for her contribution to culture. She received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from The University of Sydney (2008), and was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (2010).