Artist floor talk: Darcey Bella Arnold

Saturday 22 August, 12–1pm

Darcey Bella Arnold stands in her studio surrounded by her works of large resign orange peels.

Join Melbourne artist Darcey Bella Arnold and curator Annika Aitken for a floor talk on our current exhibition Poetry goes no further than language. Moving through the exhibition, this conversation will explore Arnold’s new responsive body of work and her enduring interest in how language, image, and systems of meaning can be taken apart and reassembled. 

Please note this talk will be in English.

Photography by Carmen Zammit.

 

Event Details

Saturday 22 August
12–1pm

RSVP HERE

Access

Buxton Contemporary is fully wheelchair accessible. Find detailed information about building access and available resources on our Visit page. Please contact the gallery at buxton-contemporary@unimelb.edu.au or on 03 9035 9339 if you have any questions or would like to request an accommodation.

About the experts

Darcey Bella Arnold works between painting, sculpture and drawing in a research-based practice that anatomises language to annotate its necessity, fallibility and creative potential. Arnold deploys strategies of metaphor, double entendre, repetition and humour to examine personal archives, obfuscate conventional symbolism and re-examine cultural touchstones. Arnold’s work has been shown in institutions and museums across Australia including the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne; UNSW Galleries, Sydney; Geelong Gallery, Geelong; La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Western Australia. Recently, Arnold’s work was included in the inaugural Melbourne Sculpture Biennale (2024) and commissioned in the Lorne Sculpture Biennale (2025).

Annika Aitken is a writer, editor and curator based in Naarm (Melbourne). She is currently Curator, Art Museums at the University of Melbourne where she works on exhibitions and publishing projects across Buxton Contemporary and the Potter Museum of Art. She has managed a range of arts projects across state, local government and the private sector, and collaborative projects with artist-run organisations.

Buxton Contemporary acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the unceded land on which we work, learn and create, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong peoples, and the wider Kulin Nations. We acknowledge their continuing care for Country and recognise that Australia’s First Peoples art and cultural practices have thrived here for millenia.