SAM Talks: Field | Artist conversation with Jen Valender

Join current SAM Selects artist Jen Valender for a fascinating conversation exploring the creation of her moving image work Field, now showing in the SAM Community Gallery. Created during Valender’s time on the University of Melbourne’s Dookie Agricultural Campus for her CoVA Art + Ecology residency, the work explores the relationship between art and the natural world through a series of video works featuring the wildlife and lush, fluorescent canola fields of Dookie. 

This event is presented in partnership with Shepparton Festival.

Event details:

Date & time: Thursday 11 April,  6:00pm - 7:30pm

Location: Shepparton Art Museum. 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton VIC 3630

Cost: FREE - registrations essential

Featured image: Jen Valender, 'Artist as Animal' (2022); Director of photography: Gene Alberts. Image courtesy of the artist © the artist