Ahmarnya, in collaboration with Arts House, Susie Dee, Kelly Ryall, Rhian Hinkley, Romanie Harper and Richard Vabre have been developing this multidisciplinary solo performance since 2018. The Splendid Anomaly will debut its first season at Arts House in Melbourne from 26th – 31st August 2024.
Monday, February 5, 2024
The Splendid Anomaly: Solo Performance > debuts at ARTS HOUSE in Melbourne, August 2024.
Ahmarnya, in collaboration with Arts House, Susie Dee, Kelly Ryall, Rhian Hinkley, Romanie Harper and Richard Vabre have been developing this multidisciplinary solo performance since 2018. The Splendid Anomaly will debut its first season at Arts House in Melbourne from 26th – 31st August 2024.
Saturday, March 26, 2022
First Responders: Director and Co-Writer > Back to Back Theatre. 2022.
Currently screening on: ABC iView > ABC ME
Co-written and directed by AHMARNYA PRICE animation RHIAN HINKLEY music KELLY RYALL animation assistant ZIA GUL SADEQI text illustration VICTORIA MARSHALL illustrations ARTGUSTO.
producers ALICE FLEMING, NIKKI WATSON executive producers BRUCE GLADWIN, TIM STITZ
Co-written and starring BREANNA DELEO, BEN LECOUTEUR, CAM LECOUTEUR, JAI STOREY, HARRY SCHALLER, PARSA SHABESTANIMONFARED, PRISCILLA RAGESH, SARAH GRAY, KERRY COOK, GRACE FUNSTON, VIVIAN SALTER, CHLOE WEILER, AYDEN HORROCKS, SARAH ALWOOD, JONATHAN SLATER, NATHAN MEAD, LUCAS KENYON, RUPERT STONE, CHARLOTTE FITZGERALD
Ride On Time: Solo Performance > Life Changing Show > La Mama Theatre > War-Rak Festival. 2021
A resurrection of the best theatre we have ever seen. Life Changing Show is a tribute to live performance. Over the course of one evening, a group of Melbourne’s best theatremakers recalled shows they have witnessed that moved them deeply. Life Changing Show was a rebirth of theatre past. A one night only event with: Lou Wall, Beng Oh, Emilie Collyer, Kate Hood, Jamie Lewis, Ahmarnya Price, Zak Pidd, Alice Will Caroline, Ibrahim Halacoglu, and Liz Jones.
Friday, March 25, 2022
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Friday, October 28, 2016
RUMPUS: Solo Performance. 2012 - 2016 .
Photo: Justin Batchelor |
Twenty seven years later the child's messages are found. RUMPUS is the long awaited reply.
RUMPUS is a contemporary performance by Ahmarnya Price. Through a combination of installation, animation, live storytelling, soundscape, lip syncing and bad dance moves audiences are taken on a wild but charismatic tour through the wormholes of time and space. Together, using the structure of the book 'Where The Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak and gathering content from extracts of Ahmarnya's 1989/1990 teenage diary, we examine parallels between the local school yard and the global political arena in order to begin asking how the experience of play turned violent can so easily be created and ultimately 'WHO is going to say STOP!'?
In March 2016 RUMPUS debuted it's first season to sold out audiences at Footscray Community Arts Centre as part of The Festival Of Live Art (FOLA).
Saturday, October 30, 2010
The World At Large: Solo Exhibition > Gilligan Grant Gallery. 2010
mixed media on canvas
H 87cm x W 112cmMarch. Beautiful Way
H 87cm x W 112cm
April. Headache
H 87cm x W 112cm
May. Trouble In Mind
H 87cm x W 112cm
June. The Lady Don't Mind
mixed media on canvas
H 87cm x W 112cmJuly. Grace Kelly Blues
H 87cm x W 112cm
August. Bang On
H 87cm x W 112cm
September. Save Me
H 87cm x W 112cm
October. Asleep And Dreaming
H 87cm x W 112cm
November. Come Into My Sleep
H 87cm x W 112cmDecember. Beginning To See The Light
H 87cm x W 112cm
For ‘The World At Large’ Price has created a series of strange and humorous scenes that place the representational alongside the conceptual. Faces, animals and shapes are made strong and dark against flat beige backgrounds. Figures are out-of-proportion and in distorted perspectives. Each panel is rendered by pencil, oilstick, paint and collage, and is essentially a drawing on a canvas. The result is a fragmented world that seems to extend beyond the frame: a realm of select objects, a textured limbo. In the negative space the elements breathe. They develop relationships both tacit and overt, provoking questions and advancing the plot.
The energy in Price’s work is created by juxtaposition: from individual elements interacting within the frame; from each panel speaking to its pair; and from the works talking across the sequence. The eye is drawn around the canvas to follow the entangled hair of its subjects, the moth emerging from a character’s stomach, the apocalyptic gaze of a magpie. By the lines connecting various parts of a work a story starts to unfold, but it’s a story that’s neither fixed nor explained. Instead it expands as the images recur elsewhere, popping up in different works where they relate to different characters and different objects. The narrative is open-ended and conversational, part of an incomplete whole.
‘The World At Large’ playfully interprets the human condition, measuring the months while rendering chaos into tight images - making sense and non-sense from the flow of daily information. It reconfigures the public and the personal into a world at once meaningful and absurd, unreal and yet strikingly familiar. It’s a world that asks you to follow the lines and join the dots, to read your own story into the sequence. A world where meaning is made in collaboration with the viewer, and the interplay of narrative and image invites your interpretation to round out the tale.