Tour: Open House Melbourne - Virginia Rigney
Design Gallery,
Glyn Davis Building (MSD),
The University of Melbourne,
Masson Road,
Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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Join us for a guided tour and floor talk of Taglietti: Life in Design exhibition during Open House Melbourne on Saturday 25 July from 11-12noon in the Design Gallery of the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne by co-curator of the Canberra exhibition Taglietti: Life in Design, Virginia Rigney.
Rigney will outline the curatorial approaches behind the exhibition and its origins in Canberra at CMAG, the history of the Taglietti Studio Archive, key items of interest in the exhibition, and the fascinating cultural background and lineage that placed the Tagliettis in Canberra during a time of optimism, aspirations for global and urban advancement, and the contrasting reception the Tagliettis received with respect to other emigre designers and practitioners of the time.
Virginia Rigney is a Curator, Writer and Creative Producer who has worked with artists, designers and collections to develop exhibitions, publications, digital platforms, installations, short films, and public programs within museums for over 35 years. Her curatorial practice also embraces the expanded field of temporal and permanent public art.
Virginia joined CMAG in 2018 in the role of Senior Curator Visual Arts. Her most recent curatorial projects there include Taglietti: Life in Design (2025-6), Materiality…But not as we Know it (2024), eX de Medici - Sidney Nolan - Guns and Flowers (2023-4), Mandy Martin: From Queanbeyan to New York 1978-1984 (2021-2) and the co-curation of Canberra/Kamberri Place & People, which was awarded the 2023 AMAGA Award for Best Permanent Collection Exhibition.