Rebecca Ann Hobbs in Conversation with Ema Tavola

ST PAUL St Forum presents Rebecca Ann Hobbs in conversation with  Ema Tavola, Saturday July 10 at 1pm.

Hobbs will discuss her artistic practice in the context of her exhibition Failing, Falling, Flying at ST PAUL St Gallery. Working across the fields of photography and video Hobbs explores the conventions of art and life through the absurd, surreal or awkward moment.

Hobbs first came to public attention in 2001 with her photographic series Suck Roar a collection of staged self-portraits with animals. She was the recipient of Australia’s premier graduate award, the Samstag Scholarship in 2002, a finalist in the 2009 Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award and has work in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. She has exhibited extensively in Australia including at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, the Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen and the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. Rebecca Ann Hobbs is a lecturer at Manukau Institute of Technology

Ema Tavola is a visual artist and curator of Fijian and New Zealand Pakeha ancestry, currently living in South Auckland. She works as the Pacific Arts Co-ordinator for Manukau City Council managing Fresh Gallery Otara, a community gallery profiling new Pacific art from Manukau.