The Georges Mora Foundation is a not-for-profit cultural foundation dedicated to the support and promotion of contemporary art and artists in Melbourne and Australia.
Named in honour of Georges Mora, the renowned restaurateur, art dealer, patron, mentor and cultural catalyst and with Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC DBE as Patron, the Foundation aims to facilitate and encourage new and independent thinking required for the development of art in Australia.
The Foundation offers a biennial fellowship to an artist of repute to explore new thinking and research new ideas. Details of the 2012 fellowship will be posted on this website by 14 February 2012.
2010 fellow ross coulter
ACCEPTING 2012/13 FELLOWSHIP ENTRIES NOW.
Download application form
Visit the blog.
ARTIST:
2010 FELLOW,
ROSS COULTER
WORK:
10,000 Paper Planes: In June last year, the 2010 Georges Mora Foundation Fellow took another step forward in realising his Fellowship project. Ross Coulter managed to pin about 60 people obediently to their seats for 45 minutes in total silence. Nobody spoke – not a squeak was heard as we watched the passage of any amount of white paper planes spiral down through the splendid space of the State Library of Victoria’s reading room – one of the great interiors of Australia.
