PHOTO 2024 Jill Orr – The Promised Land Refigured: Linden New Art

Jill Orr

24 Feb - 19 May 2024

Jill Orr’s The Promised Land Refigured is an exhibition that reworks the original project created in 2012 with new insights that have emerged in the past eleven years. The original series centred around a slot-together, life-size, skeletal boat that does not float. Performed in sites around St Kilda, including Station and Princes Piers, sites of migrant arrival, and along the Yarra River, the entry point for colonial expansion, it ruminated on the diverse history and impact of those arriving on these shores by boat.

This new series, a sculptural and photographic installation, builds on the original, and explores a new wave of movement by sea. Framed by the impact of Australia’s policy of turning back asylum seekers who arrive by boat, The Promised Land Refigured engages with the anticipated issue of global homelessness, due to the outcomes of mass destruction of homes and environments resulting from climate change.

This exhibition is presented as part of PHOTO 2024 International Festival of Photography.

MEET THE ARTIST : Join us for a relaxed afternoon of conversation with Melbourne-based artist Jill Orr and Director of Linden New Art Dr Vincent Alessi, as they discuss Orr’s current exhibition, The Promised Land Refigured, in the relation to the issues of global homelessness and climate change.

WHEN > Sunday 3 March 2024
TIME > 1PM to 2PM
VENUE > Linden New Art, 26 Acland Street, St Kilda
COST > Free, All Welcome

CURATORS TOUR : Join Dr Vincent Alessi, Director of Linden New Art and Curator, for a special tour of our current exhibitions, Jill Orr > The Promised Land Refigured, and Aaron Christopher Rees > Mirage, as he introduces you to the artists’ practices and ideas behind the exhibitions.

WHEN > Saturday 23 March 2024 + Sunday 12 May 2024
TIME > 1PM to 2PM
VENUE > Linden New Art, 26 Acland Street, St Kilda
COST > Free, All Welcome