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69 Capel Street, West Melbourne VIC 3003

Open 12pm-5pm, Thursday - Sunday

Disability Access: KINGS Artist-Run is a wheelchair accessible venue. Unfortunately, there is no wheelchair accessible toilet. Please contact the gallery with any access requirements and we will endeavour to support your visit.

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Kings Artist-Run provides a location for contemporary art practice, supporting distinctive experimental projects by artists at all stages of their careers.
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KINGS Artist-Run acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we operate.

We offer our respect to Elders both past and present and extend this offer to all Australian First Nations people.

Tess Landells

Melbourne based artist Tess Landells uses video, text and performance to negotiate the tensions between reality and screen culture. Through an earnest and honest embodiment of herself as ‘the fan’, her work mines historic and contemporary Hollywood archives for tropes and motifs. She looks to not just what it means to view another on the screen, but the broader effect this gazing has on culture as whole. The desire and obsession for idols is symbolic of a deeper discussion about power dynamics of possession and surrender. Tess completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the VCA in 2018.