EXHIBITION DESIGNER, National Gallery of Victoria, 35 temporary exhibitions designed, including those below, management of the permanent collection design and design writer for the NGV Blog.
Salvador Dali: Liquid Desire
Attracting over 332,000 visitors, the first comprehensive Salvador Dalí retrospective staged in Australia as part of NGV's Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series included more than 200 works of painting, drawing, watercolour, etchings, sculpture, fashion, jewellery, cinema and photography. The Dalí Kids space delighted nearly 14,000 youngsters during the course of the exhibition.
Design
Communication
3D scale models, technical drawings, plans, elevations, and digital 3D CAD models (including fly through animations), share preliminary design intentions with curators, international lenders, conservation staff and security.
Curators: Dr. Ted Gott, Laurie Benson & Sophie Matthiesson.
Exhibition Designers: Johanna B Kelly & Daryl West-Moore
Photo credits: National Gallery of Victoria & Johanna B Kelly.
For more on this exhibition visit NGV.
Ballet & Fashion
A collaboration between The Australian Ballet and the NGV, Ballet & Fashion showcased collaborations between couture fashion designers and international dance companies spanning the past three decades. Opening The Australian Ballet’s 50th birthday week, this exhibition design was inspired by muse Robert Wilson, who'd created some of the sets for the original ballet performances featured.
Costumes L&R: Christian Lacroix Costume for the Lead Can Can Dancer, 1988, Gâité Parisienne, American Ballet Theatre Collection, New York @ NGV International
Costumes below by Akira Isogawa (Romeo & Juliet for The Australian Ballet) 2011. Sketches Left: YSL Les Forains
Right: Toni Maticevski Aviary: A Suite for the Bird.
The tiered
Viktor & Rolf costume for Netherlands Dance Theatre '2 Lips and Dancers and Space' was programmed to light up in the gallery as it did on stage.
Photo credits: NGV & Johanna B Kelly.
Exhibition 'making of' video here.
Curator: Roger Leong
Exhibition Design: Johanna B Kelly
Read more on exhibition design @ the NGV Design Blog.
Harrell Fletcher
The sound we make together (Melbourne)
Exhibition Design: Johanna B Kelly Contemporary Art Curator: Alex Baker Photo credits: National Gallery of Victoria and Johanna B Kelly.
Harrell Fletcher's collaborative exhibition at Federation Square asked locals to select NGV collection works to be displayed alongside their own works specifically created for the exhibition, alongside photographs of them collaborating with Fletcher. Focusing on sustainable materials to enhance community quality of life and slow architecture, this exhibition design was made of 100% recyclable materials, that went on to be recycled again for the first time in NGV history as part of a sustainable design initiative.
DIY style furniture was built using the same sustainable X Board used throughout the exhibition, from signage to plinths, seating to frames, the craft board reflects Fletcher's DIY punk aesthetic.
An homage to 'zine culture and introduction of cradle to grave sustainable design practices within the NGV Design Dept as part of a broader reflection on what it means to be community and therefore responsible for the community.
BLACK IN FASHION
FROM MOURNING TO NIGHT
This fashion and textiles exhibition explored the symbolism and enduring use of black in Australian and international fashion. The garments and portraits exhibited ranged from seventeenth to twentieth centuries, representing contradictions of death, power, elegance, urbanity, subversion and sex appeal through fashion and painting. The exhibition design employed lace imprints as glass decals on cases.
Curators: Roger Leong, Paola Di Trocchio, Dani Whitfield & Laura Jocic.
Exhibition Designers: Johanna B Kelly, Diana Dzelalija, Katherine Horseman. For more visit NGV.
BERTRAM MACKENNAL
The Fifth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project
Australia’s best known sculptor, Bertram Mackennal, featured sculptures of mythological and allegorical nudes.
