Melody Spangaro

Master of Contemporary Art

I find myself grappling to navigate the paradox of having an environmental agenda and art practice dependent on materials yet living within socio-political systems that cause irreversible damage to the planet. A Burning Sense of Urgency is a series of large graphite drawings on polypropylene synthetic paper documenting internal and external landscapes. It is a pictorial representation of seeing, sensing and thinking, driven by the desire to understand the current ecological crisis, the scale and complexity of which remain hard to comprehend.

Website

www.melodyspangaro.com

Social

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Enquiries

melody.spangaro@gmail.com

Featured in tour

[De]compositions and [un]severings →

Recipient

Carolyn and Hans Varney Art Award

Melody Spangaro, A Burning Sense of Urgency -36.188:147.774, Graphite on polypropylene synthetic paper, 2021.

Melody Spangaro, A Burning Sense of Urgency -36.188:147.776, Graphite on polypropylene synthetic paper, 2021.

Melody Spangaro, A Burning Sense of Urgency -36.183:147.759, Graphite on polypropylene synthetic paper, 2021.

Melody Spangaro, A Burning Sense of Urgency -36.182:147.781, Graphite on polypropylene synthetic paper, 2021.

Melody Spangaro, Installation view, Slow Violence part 1 & Slow Violence part 2, Graphite on polypropylene synthetic paper, 2021.

Melody Spangaro, A Burning Sense of Urgency, installation view, Graphite on polypropylene synthetic paper, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.

Melody Spangaro, A Burning Sense of Urgency -36. 188:147.776, detail, Graphite on polypropylene synthetic paper, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.

Christina Darras

Darren Tanny Tan

Katie Stackhouse

Melody Spangaro

Melody Woodnutt

Meredith Marshallsea

Michelle Destefano

Nila Shekarvand

Oliver Hämäläinen

Rachel Jessie-Rae O'Connor

Spencer Harrison

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nations, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

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