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Missing Persons

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Address: Missing Persons, Room 11-12, Level 4, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street 3000 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://missingpersons.me

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25.01.2022 Important update regarding the coronavirus

25.01.2022 Musée du Strip is a platform for presenting art, often in non-traditional spaces, with an emphasis on community and public interaction. Founded in 2018 and originally based in a lightweight temporary greenhouse on a popular Carlton North median strip, exhibitions have also taken place within the walls of other pre-existing galleries. Its aim is to allow a fun, open-ended and accessible entrance to the possibilities of art, for other artists and the broader community alike.

25.01.2022 Tonight, we’re excited to be launching 'By Chance the Future' a book by Amy Rudder. Registrations to attend the Melbourne book party close soon. Please RSVP via https://www.bychancethefuture.com/ Amy Rudder’s debut book blends travel writing, philosophical treatise, self-deprecating comedy and political criticism; the author highlighting both our very human hypocrisy and genuine attempts to connect, and the singularity and the sameness of our youthful adventures as we attemp...t to individuate from our families and countries of origin. Signed copies will be available tonight at Missing Persons. You can also pick up a copy in Melbourne from Dymocks Books and Metropolis Bookshop For our Sydney friends, please register your interest to attend the Sydney book party at BTWNLNS at 105 Wilson Steet Newtown on Sunday 25 April from 35pm.

24.01.2022 The translation of the French term papier-mâché is chewed paper: the satisfying transition of yesterday’s newspaper broken down and digested into a new sculptural form. It is a pulped and mashed material associated with ceremony, arts and crafts, masks and piñatas a form that possesses an inherent potential of destruction, blind abandon, and the hollow promise of reward. Layers of the past, reimagined for a fragile future. Curated by Maddison Kitching and Louise Klerks, Pa...pier-mâché brings together artists Rachel Ang, Fergus Binns, Matilda Davis, Jason Hamilton, Brendan Huntley, Maddison Kitching, Alasdair McLuckie, Nabilah Nordin, Samantha O’Farrell, The Ryan Sisters and Isadora Vaughan. The artists, through a new medium or extension of their material expertise, engaged in refined child’s play. The tactile and organic process of cut and paste: there is no Command C, Command V shortcut in these claggy explorations. Papier-mâché is at Missing Persons from 7 21 November 2020.

23.01.2022 Following the restrictions implemented by the Victorian Government, Missing Persons will be closed from the 23rd of March until further notice

23.01.2022 The British Journal of Photography interviewed Sarah Pannell about her solo exhibition 'New Harvest' at Missing Persons

22.01.2022 Due to popular demand, Life Drawing is back on Tuesday and Wednesday nights in June. Tickets through Eventbrite

22.01.2022 We've reached our capacity for Wednesday, 3 June. You can purchase tickets to Life Drawing on the 10th, 17th and 24th of June here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/life-drawing-in-june-ticket

22.01.2022 At 10am, tune in to 'The Art Show' on ABC Radio National to catch the presenter Namila Benson, our upcoming exhibitor Nabilah Nordin and Yin Cao, curator of Chinese Art at Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) in conversation about food in art. Listen: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-art-show/ Nabilah Nordin’s ‘Please Do Not Eat The Sculptures’ opens on 8 May at Missing Persons (this is a sold-out event). Yin Cao’s curated exhibition ‘The Way We Eat’ is currently on view at AGNSW. See their website for details.

22.01.2022 IMPORTANT UPDATE: As of Wednesday the 8th of July, all prepurchased tickets to Life Drawing will be refunded in full due to the reinstatement of Stage 3 Restrictions in the Melbourne metropolitan area.

21.01.2022 affordable venue hire for non-profits and commercial projects

21.01.2022 A few words about self-publishing from the author of 'By Chance the Future'...

21.01.2022 We're looking forward to launching Nabilah Nordin 'Please Do Not Eat The Sculptures' tonight at Missing Persons from 6-8pm. Due to our reduced venue capacity, there are no remaining tickets to the opening. This event is completely sold out. We would like to remind people that Facebook scammers have been following this event. Please do not buy tickets for this event on Facebook as these are scam tickets and will not be refunded. We ask all existing ticket holders to help us... make this a covid-safe environment by social distancing where possible, and if you feel unwell, please stay at home. Please note that due to social distancing regulations, you may be required to wait briefly before entering the exhibition.

20.01.2022 A few photos of Amy Rudder's book launch in April. Thanks to photographer Tatjana Plitt and all the great folk who joined us for a very memorable occasion. 'By Chance the Future' is now available from Dymocks Melbourne and Metropolis Bookshop

19.01.2022 'Always The Same' and 'Layer Upon Layer' are two new interactive web videos by The Letter String Quartet. The work is a continuation of 'All That You Hear Is All That Is Heard' an experiment in sound and storytelling set within The Nicholas Building. You can see/listen to 'Always The Same' and 'Layer Upon Layer' here: https://www.theletterstringquartet.com/atyh.html

19.01.2022 Ticketing information for Life Drawing

18.01.2022 Nabilah Nordin's 'Please Do Not Eat The Sculpures' has been rescheduled due to COVID-19 restrictions. Join us on the 22nd of May 2021 for a unique social gathering that brings together food, art and people.

17.01.2022 'Please Do Not Eat The Sculptures' is a social gathering that brings together food, art and people at Missing Persons Moving from the studio to the kitchen and back again, Nabilah Nordin brings her enduring fascination with texture, colour and form to a new series of works that sit somewhere between the abject and the delicious. Oozing gloops of icing and towers of toast meet enormous strings of spaghetti and wonky plastered structures. The hallmarks of Nordin’s practice v...isceral curves, playful and naive mark-making, and impossibly exaggerated forms are intertwined with entrees, mains and desserts. Food serves as a new frontier for Nordin’s ongoing celebration of the sensuous qualities of the tactile and the endless possibilities of material invention. The exhibition questions how both art and food work a type of social magic they both bring people together and stimulate discussion, they lubricate social interactions and catalyse celebration, humour, and collaboration. Together with curator and friend, Sophie Prince, Nordin will explore the makings and boundaries of communities through the union of food and art.

14.01.2022 We are thrilled to be a partner of PHOTO 2021, a new major International Festival of Photography that will take place in Melbourne and across regional Victoria from the 18th of February to the 7th of March 2021. https://photo.org.au/

14.01.2022 Great news for Missing Persons and all of the tenants of the Nicholas Building a two-month rent freeze during the COVID-19 lockdown.

12.01.2022 Get the latest from Missing Persons Melbourne's extended lockdown could affect some of our upcoming exhibitions and events. Scroll down to the bottom of the contact page to subscribe to our mailing list: https://missingpersons.me/contact/

11.01.2022 From 1 May, our Life Drawing class is accepting walk-ins only. Please arrive at 6:30pm to purchase yourself a ticket. Cash and card payments are accepted at the door.

03.01.2022 Join us every Tuesday and Wednesday night. Our classes run from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. Doors open at 6:30pm. No bookings required.

02.01.2022 Save the date: Musée du Strip at Missing Persons 8 to 10 January 2021 https://www.facebook.com/events/391536371807078/

02.01.2022 Missing Persons has rescheduled its group exhibition Papier-mâché until mid-2021. We look forward to celebrating the launch with you on the 4th of June. The exhibition will continue until the 19th of June.

02.01.2022 Missing Persons is available for hire for personal and commercial projects. Including events of up to 20 people from the 1st of June.

01.01.2022 Life Drawing is recommencing in June. The timetable has been changed temporarily as we ease out of COVID-19 restrictions. See more: http://life-drawing.com.au