1999 Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Touring Exhibition

Exhibition
19 Jun 1999 – 18 Jul 1999

About

Each year a newly invited panel of visual arts professionals meet to view the works of preselected artists (aged 20 to 35 years) to select a core of 21 works for the Touring Exhibition. From this selection the Moet & Chandon Fellow is chosen.

The judges this year focused on presenting a coherent exhibition choosing final works which reflect general themes prevalent in youth culture: globalisation, communication and new technology in contrast to ambivalence and social alienation. The 1999 Moet & Chandon Fellow is Kathy Temin, for her work Troubled times.

The final selection of 21 works make up the Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition, an immensely valuable programme. Each year the host gallery receives a $50,000 grant to purchase contemporary Australian art which has benefited hundreds of artists over the years.

With around 10,000 entries since establishment, 260 young Australian artists have been selected to exhibit in the Touring Exhibition, an accolade that significantly encourages wide recognition of their art and talent. Record attendance of approximately 3 million affirms that viewers find the exhibition compelling.

The content on this page is sourced from: Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation 1999 Touring Exhibition. Box Hill, Victoria: Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation, 1999.

The Annual Fellowship

This year's judges are: Mike Parr, highly acclaimed artist from Sydney, Jane Hylton, Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia and Rachel Kent, Curator of The Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne

Over 500 artists applied from which 118 aspirants were preselected working in a broad range of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, performance, photography and multi media.

The choice of the panel is based on an analysis of the artists' development of ideas and the high standard that they have achieved in the works presented.

The annual Fellow is awarded $50,000 cash and a year's residency at a studio located in the historic surroundings of the Abbey of Hautvillers of the House of Moët & Chandon at Epernay in Champagne, France.

Principal Sponsors are Ansett Air Freight, Novotel, Hotel Sofitel, Grand Mercure Hotel, Mount Lofty House, Adelaide Hills, South Australia

Associate Sponsors are Spicers Papers and Perrier

Touring Dates & Venues

The Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition dates and venues are:

  • Adelaide | Art Gallery of South Australia
    10 March – 11 April
  • Sydney | Art Gallery of New South Wales
    21 April – 23 May
  • Canberra | National Gallery of Australia
    19 June – 17 July
  • Melbourne | RMIT Gallery Storey Hall
    20 August – 25 September

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