Speech Patterns at AGWA

Speech Patterns is an upcoming exhibition featuring work across the careers of Nadia Hernández and Jon Campbell. Both artists draw influence from their upbringings and locations that have shaped them throughout their lives.

Nadia Hernández was born in Mérida, Venezuela, and is now based between Melbourne and Sydney. Her practice is a way of keeping alive her connection to friends, family and place while calling on the spirit of protest to unsettle the given global disorder that has displaced her and her family.

Jon Campbell was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and grew up in Melbourne’s western suburbs. His work is a wryly humorous exploration of the layered and complicated contingencies of the ever-shifting Australian condition as it is embraced, repressed, and rebelled against.

The exhibition runs from Saturday 24 September until the 8 February 2023.

Speech Patterns