Working with Commercial Galleries
Monica Rani Rudhar & Dominic Kavanagh
Join us on Saturday, the 18th of July, to hear from Dominic Kavanagh and Monica Rani Rudhar on developing relationships with and working alongside commercial galleries and gallerists as an artist.
Dominic Kavanagh began his career in the arts at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in the curatorial team, working in various roles across exhibitions, commissions and publishing, and supporting the Museum to deliver ambitious exhibitions by Australian and international artists. He moved to the Warmun Art Centre on Gija Country in the East Kimberley, Western Australia, where he spent two years managing the Centre’s exhibition program and assisting senior and emerging artists to develop new opportunities for their practice. He is now Director at Ames Yavuz, Surry Hills, and advises across public, private and corporate collections.
Dominic studied at Sydney College of the Arts where he graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons.) and discovered his enthusiasm for organising exhibitions rather than making them.
Monica Rani Rudhar is an artist based on Gadigal land, working across sculpture, video, and performance. Her practice explores the themes of longing and loss related to cultural identity, tracing intergenerational stories within her family to create space for imaginative possibilities. Born to Indian and Romanian migrant parents, her work is influenced by the forces of cultural conformity, essentialization, and commodification within a settler colonial context. Monica's practice seeks to restore familial histories, traditions, and rituals that have been dispersed by the migration and displacement of her ancestors. Through her auto-ethnographic approach, she translates her family’s fragmented oral histories to reclaim narratives of relationships, resistance, and ritual. These stories intertwine, weaving a personal mythology that manifests their cultural fictions and futures in so-called Australia.
Monica is represented by Ames Yavuz, Sydney.