visual artist creative mentor art in public & private spaces
Art & the possibilities that evolve
NEW COMMISSION 2022/23
Moonee Valley City Council Public Art Commission
'I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded an Arts Commission with Moonee Valley City Council. This project will allow me to further explore my interest in the construction of patterns in architecture. Ornamentation is disappearing, there is a place for it here at the Flemington Community Hub, where it can be applied to a functional form to celebrate all that which connects community. These 7-metre internal/external facades have the capacity to display patterns and motifs; and this familiarity can be border-crossing. Patterns connect community'.
'This Art Project was given its title during an initital consultation with Aunty Gail and Aunty Julienne. 'Buwi Birrip Djerring ~ Weave Thread Create Together' was launched to inspire the Community at large to be a part of the history of this new public site; elements of their story in a composition of patterning and imagery, an optical attraction in placemaking of patterns inside and out.'
Rosa Mar Tato Ortega
Australian Visual Artist
Buwi Birrip Djerring ~ Weave Thread Create Together Manifesto
to observe
honouring the importance of listening to history
Allowing the unfolding
It’s about conversations, food, nature, architecture, placemaking
and
embodying a unique response to site,
Waterways,
identity,
the land,
the environment
and
honour
and pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging.
Rosa Mar Tato Ortega
Australian visual artist
Creative Mentor
February 2022
My Maggie (Ode to Judith Wright)
My Maggie (Ode to Judith Wright) Detail 2021 Voile (silk) and Thread
This work was featured in the Stitching Change exhibition at FortyFiveDownstairs Gallery – 45 Flinders Lane Melbourne &
Assembly Point; managed by Creatives Spaces, a program of the City of Melbourne.