“Choir”
Linda Tegg
1 Aug → 30 Aug 2014

Choir is video work that focuses on the interplay between ‘real’ and performed behavior, as well as the struggle to find one’s own voice amongst others. By containing a series of oppositional forces within the structure of the choir and image, I am exploring relationships between the group and the individual.

Choir was developed through the Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship at the Centre Intermondes d’Art, La Rochelle with Coup de Chœur. There I began exploring the structure of choirs and recalling my own silent experiences within them. Over the course of two months I worked with Coup de Chœur and confronted many of my own anxieties around speaking French and participating in massed singing activities.

Linda Tegg is a Melbourne-based artist who completed a Bachelor of Arts (Photography) at the RMIT University in 2002, participating in the Parsons School of Design Program in New York from 2001-02. She competed a Master of Visual Arts in 2008 and a Master of Fine Art (research) at the Victorian College of the Arts 2010. Tegg has exhibited across Australia, France, Switzerland, Japan, New York, Mexico and The Netherlands. Recent solo exhibitions include; Choir, Centre Intermondes, La Rochelle, 2013; Coexistence, MARSO Galleria, Mexico City, Goat Study, Utopian Slumps Project Space, Melbourne, 2012; Animal Studies, Alpineum Produzentengalerie, Luzern, Unknown Animal, Echo Galleria, Mexico City, 2011; Horse Video Study, Neue Gallery, Bern, 2010; Heart Rate Project, Kings ARI, Melbourne, Heart Rate Project, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia Project Space, South Australia, 2007; Selected group exhibitions include New13, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2013; Black Box<>White Cube, The Arts Centre, Melbourne, Tree Line, Level ARI, Brisbane, 2011; Sub 12, The Substation, Worm Mountain, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, 2010; Self Timer / Dancer, Sutton Project Space, Enclosure, Alliance Francaise, Melbourne, 2009;

The artist has been selected as the Ann and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholar 2014 and is the recipient of an Australia Council New Project grant, the City of Melbourne Arts Grant and an Arts Victoria Grant 2014. Tegg was the 2012-13 Georges Mora Foundation Fellow and was recipient of the Australia Council ArtStart grant, the Arts Victoria International Exchange grant 2011, the KPMG Art Award 2010, the Australian Postgraduate award 2009-10, the Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Traveling Fellowship 2009, National Gallery Women’s Association Postgraduate Encouragement Award, Alliance Française Award, Fiona Myer Award, ANZ Art Award People’s Choice in 2008.