About the Series
Prepare to be surprised, engaged and enthralled as our hosts and their guests shake up and explore a whole range of diverse topics and themes.
Welcome to MCA on The Rocks, a talk-show inspired series of conversations offering a fresh way to explore art and ideas. Each season we invite a dynamic Sydney thinker and personality to curate a series of conversations drawing on themes from our current exhibitions.
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Ticket price includes a glass of wine
NEXT UP
We are thrilled to announce that we will be kicking off our inaugural season with arts aficionado, journalist, radio and television presenter Fenella Kernebone!
Fenella has pulled together an exciting and diverse team of panelists working across the visual and performing arts, architecture, politics and even stand up comedy and will be asking them the big questions…. Why do we love to hate the suburbs? Is bigger always better? And is it okay to not like contemporary art?
MEET OUR HOST…
Presenter: Fenella Kernebone
Most well known for: A little of this and a little of that in the arts, design and music world
Interests: design, art, music – go figure.
Favourite quote: “Best time to solve a problem is … like … immediately”. Something an Aussie artist once said to me in an interview. Great advice for procrastinators – ie me.
Exhibitions used for inspiration for this series: Anish Kapoor, South of no North and JEFF WALL Photographs
March 21- 'Bigger is better’
Using Anish Kapoor’s large scale artworks as the starting point for discussion, join host Fenella Kernebone and her panel as they explore stardom, public space, and architecture as they attempt to answer the question: Is bigger always better?
Presenter: Fenella Kernebone, with panellists:
Jeff Khan, Co-Director, Performance Space
Tarsha Finney, Senior lecturer, UTS School of Architecture
Brendan Maclean, Actor, musician, Radio host
April 18- The Suburbs will be the death of us…
Drawing Inspiration from the exhibition South of no North which brings together three artists whose works are connected by an interest in the vernacular and a regional sense of place, join host (and previous resident of the suburban wilds of Homebush Fenella Kernebone as she and her panel explore our love hate relationship with the suburbs.
Presenter: Fenella Kernebone, with panellists:
Tara Moss, Writer and Presenter
Ben Quilty, Artist
Anthony Burke, Head of UTS School of Architecture
Photography: Michael Kery
Panellists at MCA on the Rocks – The suburbs will be the death of us…
From left to right: Presenter Fenella Kernebone left, Tara Moss, Ben Quilty and Anthony Burke.
May 16- I love you but…
For her final event as host of MCA on The Rocks, Fenella Kernebone will be calling in the big guns with MCA Director Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, Artist Brook Andrew and Comedian Hannah Gadsby, to explore our sometimes conflicted relationships with contemporary art. Join them for this candid discussion as they ask the question we’ve been too afraid to ask until now – Is it ok to not like contemporary art?
Presenter: Fenella Kernebone with panellists:
Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Brook Andrew, Arist and Curator
Hannah Gadsby, Comedian
Panellists at MCA on the Rocks – I love you but… Brook Andrew speaking, with presenter Fenella Kernebone left, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor right and Hannah Gadsby far right.