BECOMING

BECOMING 

Rhiannon Slatter 

Artist Talk: Tuesday 23rd July at 7pm in Bob Whiteway Resource Centre at Beaumaris Secondary College.

In 2017 Rhiannon Slatter began studying the process of a building coming to life, exploring its underlying structure, architectural language and eventual purpose, its reason for being. The project she chose to follow Beaumaris Secondary College in Bayside Melbourne, a new school designed by architects ClarkeHopkinsClarke that revitalises a rundown precinct and fills a void of public education at this level in its local area. Slatter photographed the school’s construction throughout 2017 up to its occupation by students and staff in 2018 and 2019. The technique of digitally layering these collected images considers parallels between the buildings’ assembly and the learning that now takes place there, seeing education as also occurring in layers; a process of building knowledge in the development of a deep understanding of the world and our place in it.

Becoming is currently on display in Bob Whiteway Resource Centre at Beaumaris Secondary College.

Rhiannon Slatter will be the inaugural participant in the Artist in Schools Program initiated by Bayside City Council, which will take place during term 3 of 2019 at Beaumaris Secondary College.

Becoming will also be exhibited at Bayside Gallery later in the year alongside other key works from recent series.