About This Project

ADA Consulting proudly developed the art strategy for the newly opened Melbourne Place Hotel.

Across ten storeys, the hotel features a collection of 20 photographic portraits by Melbourne-based, internationally renowned artist, Atong Atem.

Melbourne Place also features a large-scale screen, directly visible from Russell St, which exhibits the video works of five contemporary Australian artists. The large scale screen exhibits Banksia, Atong Atem’s first video work, which considers the relationship between space and identity in Australia, which she explores through her own experiences of Australian space as a woman of South-Sudanese heritage.

To exhibit on the three-storey screen, Andy has also selected the video work, Waa and Wattle, of Kent Morris, a Barkindji man living on Yaluk-ut Weelam Country whose works are crafted from single photographs taken on Country. Waa and Wattle reveals the interactions between the built environment and the ongoing presence of First Nations people, history and landscapes.

Tristan Jalleh is a Malaysian-Australia artist whose multiform practice allows him to build immersive installations that interweave his personal photography with the digital realm to explore how physical and digital realities intersect. The dynamic digital presence at Melbourne Place will pioneer the hotel art scene and Jalleh’s work, Future Plants, is a strong contribution to distinctly Melburnian presence.

Cameron Robbins has over three decades’ experience exhibiting in Melbourne and is the only Australian artist to have a permanent solo exhibition at MONA. Robbins will also exhibit his video work, Structure of Vortices, at Melbourne Place. Robbins produces site-specific installation works that physicalise the rhythms of nature through his meticulous engineering of the natural sites he practices in.

The screen also features the work of Brodie Kokkinos, an emerging Australian artist whose work spans installation, photography, video and animation. Kokkinos’ conceptual practice creates a participatory culture where the audience is central to the artwork. In Exchange for Silence, reflects the collaborative and dynamic approach to the video art at Melbourne Place.