February 2012
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Profile of Sarah Parker: Coordinator of Reverie...
Sarah Parker is the founder and coordinator of Reverie Projects. She was introduced to Villa Alba when she was just 14 by her mother who was, and still is, involved with the house. This was the beginning of a long and intense love affair with the space.
Sarah saw the house as an inexhaustible source of creative inspiration and potential. The house has had a formative influence over her own art...
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End of Submissions
The open submission period has come and gone! We’ve received some really interesting applications and are in the process of going through them. The show is beginning to take shape and it’s getting exciting! Can’t wait to share the list of the participants with you here. We’ll be posting some information about all the artists involved with links to their websites so you can...
January 2012
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Narrative Space - Submissions Open
Narrative Space is the next installment in the series of exhibitions being held at Villa Alba, co-ordinated and curated by the Reverie Collective. The exhibition’s thematic focus is built around an investigation of the relationship between a house and its history and the way a particular space is conditioned by the narratives that unfold within it. We want to explore how a space can become...
More images to come… but first an overview about the upcoming exhibition and profiles of the Reverie Collective members
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A bit about the house...
Villa Alba is a treasured and historic mansion built between 1882 and 1884 during the Marvelous Melbourne boom era. The house was decorated with ornate murals in each room, painted by the Italian artisans who came to Melbourne to paint the Melbourne Exhibition Building. Originally owned by William Greenlaw, the General Manager of the Colonial Bank of Australasia from 1877 to 1892, the house was...
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Welcome
Welcome to the Reverie at Villa Alba blog. We are an association of artists and designers working with the Villa Alba Museum to organize a series of exhibitions that will bring artists in contact with the house and invite them to create work that responds to the space. Our forthcoming exhibition ‘Narrative Space’ is scheduled for May, 2012. We will be posting about the...
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