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What happens at Bella Plus? Brown Council, Performance Art : Group Action (production still) 2014

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Find out more about Brown Council’s work here or visit the artist’s websitehere website Visit the Bella Room! Brown Council, Performance Art (installation view) 2014Brown Council, Group Action (production still) 2014

Bella Plus participants create artworks in the Creative Studios. Images courtesy and © MCA Make art in the Creative Studios

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Nicholas Folland, The door was open , Museum of Contemporary Art, donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Wendy Foard and Peter Bate, 2009 Lynette Burida, Pandanus palm coil weave basket, date unknown, Museum of Contemporary Art and Maningrida Arts & Culture with financial assistance from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Board of the Australia Council, 1994 What is contemporary art?

Robert Owen, Sunrise #3 2005, Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased 2005 This is a painting made by an Australian artist called Robert Owen. It is painted on the wall of the gallery! Wall painting

Woven Water hangs from the ceiling. We can look at it from different angles as we move around the space. We call this kind of artwork an installation because the sculpture responds to the space it is in. See more of Maria Fernanda Cardoso’s ‘animal’ sculptures here.here Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Woven Water, Submarine Landscape 2003, Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased with the assistance of Geoff and Vicki Ainsworth and donors at the 2005 Bella Dinner, 2006 Installation

Video The artist, Shaun Gladwell filmed himself on his skateboard. You may see this video artwork during your Bella Plus visit to Volume One: MCA Collection. Shaun Gladwell, Storm Sequence (still) 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Andrew and Cathy Cameron, 2011

What did you see at the MCA? Stephen Birch, Untitled (detail) 2005, Museum of Contemporary Art, gift of the Estate of Stephen Birch, 2008 Brown Council, The One Hour Laugh (still) 2009, Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased with the assistance of Dr Edward Jackson AM and Mrs Cynthia Jackson AM, 2011 Nicholas Folland, The door was open , Museum of Contemporary Art, donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Wendy Foard and Peter Bate, 2009

Thank you for joining our Bella Plus Program! Brown Council, Performance Art (Still) 2014, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia for the Jackson Bella Room, Image courtesy and © the artist, Photograph: Alex Davies Bella Plus participants create artworks in the Creative Studios. Image courtesy and © MCA