Two woolly wonderland enthusiasts at the NPG
THE National Portrait Gallery is, for the third year in a row, throwing a free festival from 10am to 4pm – the Winter Festival, complete with Chill Zone, Ice Sculptures, Sideshows, Woolly wonderland, Warm up Canberra, Live music, Bling your Beanie, Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow and Pokémon lures.
Bookings not required, free event but donations are welcome. Details at npg.gov.au
Events:
At M16
M16 at 21 Blaxland Crescent Griffith is having Artists and Workshop open studios this Saturday, August 6, 12 – 4pm. Official Opening at 12.30pm by Gai Brodtmann, Member for Canberra. All welcome.
Talk:
“ANITA Heiss: Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms” at Muse Café, East Hotel Kingston, Sunday August 7, 2-3pm. Indigenous literature activist, chick-lit writer extraordinaire, Twitter tragic and ‘creative disruptor’ Anita Heiss has turned her attention to the Cowra breakout and will be in conversation with Prof Peter Radoll, Dean of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leadership and Strategy at the University of Canberra. Charge is $10 which includes a glass of wine/soft drink. Bookings to musecanberra.com.au
Arts business:
STUDIO 16 at M16 is a 24 sqm space available from September 1. The current monthly rent is $274 (excluding GST) and the dimensions are approx 6 x 4m with a ceiling height of 3.3m. If you’re an artist looking for a great studio then M16 is looking forward to receiving an application from you. To download an application visit m16artspace.com.au
THE Embassy of Spain in Canberra has decided to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Miguel Cervantes’s death with a project called “Money to read”, where $ 1,500 goes to an Australian citizen or permanent resident to read, silently, his great novel “Don Quixote” (in English) at the National Library during Oct-Nov this year. Entries close Thursday, September 22 at moneytoread.com
“BIJOU,” the musical/narrative show by Chrissie Shaw and Alan Hicks about life in the Parisian demi-monde, is heading for the Big Smoke. Now they’re raising funds to hire the Sydney publicist and also to engage an AUSLAN interpreter for a performance for people with hearing loss. pozible.com
SOUNDOut is proud to present the first in its Cd collection “Swarm”, featuring vocals by French Artist Guylaine Cosseron, drumming from USA Artist Stephen Roach and sax sounds from Rhys Butler and Richard Johnson. The cover features photography of Jeremy Hegge and design by Rhys Butler. To order email vortexrec@gmail.com $20 (+ postage) payment to paypal.me/SoundOut
THE GRIFFYN Ensemble is running a 100-day fundraising campaign to help support musicians to travel to Canberra, purchase sheet music, and work with collaborators. All donations are tax-deductable. Donations can be made through the Australian Cultural Fund with the following link: australianculturalfund.org.au
Books:
DAVID Pauly is a local author whose debut novel, “The Fourth Age: Shadow Wars,” a fantasy/fiction talehas just been released on Amazon. In it a desperate Elven ship flees the war torn shores of Nostraterra. Visit https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/648795
KRISTY EVANGELISTA is a new author based in Canberra, and has just had her first short story published in an anthology called “Defying Doomsday” by Twelfth Planet Press. the brainchild of book blogger/scientist Tsana Dolovich, it’s an anthology of apocalypse fiction and Evangelista’s story is called “No shit”, about a young woman with Crohn’s disease, looking for other survivors in a world decimated by plague. She will be doing a book signing/launch at Harry Hartogs in Woden, 1pm this Sat August 6. All welcome.
POET JOHN Walker of Queanbeyan was astonished to hear a radio program poet declare that “orange” was one word in the English language that didn’t rhyme with anything else. ‘Rubbish’, he said to himself….and the results can be seen in his book, “The Loaded Doggerel – reflections of a ten pound pom forty years on,” (Echo Books – available online as paperback for $24.95 or downloaded as an e-book for $9.95 from echobooks.com.au).
Film:
Darine Hamze and Rodrigue Sleiman in Halal Love (2015)
EVER-relevant, the Arab Film Festival for this year kicks off on Friday August 5, with the Lebanese comedy “Halal Love”, (also titled “Halal Love (and Sex)”) where director Assad Fouladkar shows Beiruti Muslims try to manage their love lives and desires without breaking any of their religion’s rules. National Film and Sound Archive of Australia until August 7, bookings to trybooking.com
FILMINK presents and Canberra International Film Festival present “Down Under”, directed by Abe Forsythe, a black comedy set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots and an official selection in the Sydney Film Festival 2016. Canberra premiere at Dendy, with writer/director Abe Forsythe post-film Q&A 6.30pm, Thursday, July 28, tickets dendy.com.au
THE ANU Film Group, the largest film society in Australia, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. For all membership information visit anufg.org.au
THE National Film and Sound Archive has a month-long screening program on ‘race’ this August. Guardian journalist Paul Daley joins the archive for “Beyond Cronulla,” (August 4) – a discussion on the impact of the 2005 Cronulla riots and the role of the media in reporting and commenting on race issues. Then on Sunday, August 7 author and media commentator Peter FitzSimons will look back on race relations in Australia over the last century, using Phil K Walsh’s racist 1928 film “The Birth of White Australia” as a starting point. Booing sto nfsa.gov.au
NFSA’S VINYL Lounge, is on tomorrow, Friday August 5 from 5.30pm – 7pm in the NFSA Theatrette. Bring your own vinyl and play a track of your choice on their pure analogue sound system – you also get to share the story behind your song selection Free event.The Vinyl Lounge is on the first Friday of each month. The Bench Room cafe is open from 5for drinks and snacks.
Dance:
“FEEL THE MUSIC” is a year-long dance program specifically created for people with hearing impairment, happening at Belconnen Arts Centre on eight Fridays of each school term. It offers a wide range of dance styles, live music, social dance gigs, and some performance. Inquiries to philip.piggin@belconnenartscentre.com.au or SMS 0417 417 182.
IN “TANGO Fridays” you can practise and improve your Argentine Tango on Fridays 7-9 PM at “Nuestra Practica y mas”, Woden Seniors Club (Hall 2). Entry $5
Prizes and Awards:
THE National Portrait Gallery is calling for entries for the annual Digital Portraiture Award open until Friday, September 30. Now in its fifth year, the Award (which Opens on Dec 2) seeks to extend the traditional notion of portraiture to the digital realm and encourages creative thinking. Information on how to enter and examples of past finalists can be found here: dpa.portrait.gov.au
Chris Zuber as Macbeth, photo Helen Drum
AUSTRALIA’S biggest student film competition, “Screen It” is open to registrations from students and teachers. The 2016 theme has just been announced as ‘Mystery’, and the competition is free and now open to all Australian primary and secondary school students, all info at acmi.net.au Entries close: Monday, September 19 (5pm, Australian Eastern Standard Time)
Theatre:
JORDAN BEST’S provocative “Macbeth” for REP, starring Chris Zuber and Jenna Roberts as the murderous duo. As well, there’s original music by Tim Hansen. Theatre 3, Acton, August 4 – 20, bookings to canberrarep.org.au or 6257 1950.
AMBITIOUS students from ANU Interhall Productions and the ANU School of Music are staging Sondheim’s dark, meatpie-filled musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” in a production directed by Gowrie Varma, with musical direction by Katrina Tang. ANU Arts Centre, August 5 – 13, bookings to sweeneytodd.getqpay.com
CABARET PERFORMER Paul Capsis, looking and sounding exactly like the outrageous Quentin Crisp, appears in “Resident Alien” at The Street Theatre, until August 7, bookings to thestreet.org.au or 6247 1223
Trinity Choir
Concerts and gigs:
THE Choir of Trinity College Cambridge will be at Llewellyn Hall, 7pm, tonight August 4, bookings to musicaviva.com.au or tickets at the door.
THE FRIENDS of the ANU School of Music Historical Instruments Concert tomorrow Friday August 5, at 7:30pm on the Llewellyn Hall stage will be hosted by Edward and Stephanie Neeman. This is an opportunity to hear keyboards from the ANU historical collection, including the Stein and Graf pianos on which they will perform Mozart: Sonata in C major, K 279 Haydn: Variations in F minor, Hob. XVII:6, Schubert: Fantasie in F minor, D 940 Mendelssohn: Fantasie in F sharp minor, Op. 28 Tickets at the door.
PIANIST and Canberra medical specialist Robert Schmidli will perform a benefit concert of Beethoven, Bach and Chopin for L’Arche Genesaret, which provides community living for people with an intellectual disability in Canberra. At Wesley Music Centre, Forrest at 3pm on Sunday, August 7 Bookings to trybooking.com or tickets at the door.
Bondi Cigars
CHRIS Latham, just back from France, will lead a musical celebration of Australian war hero, Olympic gold medallist and musical genius, Frederick Septimus Kelly in which Carrillo Gantner will read excerpts from Kelly’s diaries relating to the Bermagui area. “Race against Time,” in the Windsong Pavilion, Four Winds, Bermagui, 2-5.30pm Sunday, August 7. 16 & under FREE. Bookings essential to fourwinds.iwannaticket.com.au
RARELY has an Australian band received as much consistent and widespread acclaim from critics and music fans alike as the Bondi Cigars. They’ll be at the Harmonie German Club tomorrow, Friday, August 5 at 8pm. Booking sot the Club at Club – 6295 9853 or Songland Records – 6293 4677.
TRANSIT BAR has it eighth annual “Splendour In The Bar” this Saturday, playing the best of the ‘splendour’ lineup from midnight, and covering the Transit Bar floor in fabulous (and splendid) fake grass. The event will feature a great lineup of Canberra and Ex-Canberra DJs. All info at facebook.com
Exhibitions:
QUEANBEYAN Art Society are inviting everyone to the official opening of the Queanbeyan Palerang Regional Council’s ‘100 Works show’. Presentations and screen viewing Awards * Presentations and screen viewing of awards, drinks and refreshments. At Queanbeyan Art Society Gallery, 6 Trinculo Place, under the under the bridge on the Queanbeyan Riverbank at 6 Trinculo Place, 2pm, this Sunday August 7.
Melissa Cameron brooch at Bilk
“INTERchange” is now back with Bilk Gallery after a successful exchange visit ATTA Gallery in Bangkok where it exhibited work by selected Australian jewellers. You can see “Interchange: Bilk in Bangkok” at the gallery in Palmerston Lane, Manuka. It includes an outstanding breadth of work from Marian Hosking, Carlier Makigawa, Helen Aitken-Kuhnen and Johannes Kuhnen, Kath Inglis, Mark Vaarwerk, Melissa Cameron, Sean O’Connell, Simon Cottrell, Mio Kuhnen and Larah Nott.
PARISA Applegarth is a photographer who focuses on cultures and tribes around the world. Her latest exhibition concerns the Sami reindeer-herders in the Arctic Circle of Scandinavia. At the at the National Arboretum this Saturday August 6, free Artist talk at 11 am in the Green Room at the Arboretum. Until Sept 4 in in the Village Centre. Details at nationalarboretum.act.gov.au
Julie Brooke, Labyrinth, detail
“TRIANGULATION” is a practice‐led research project in which Julie Brooke and Susan Buret reference and respond to each other’s practice. Both are painters who are fascinated by grids and patterning. At ANCA Gallery, 1 Rosevear Place, Dickson, 12pm-5pm, Wednesday-Sunday, to Sunday August 21.
IN HER upcoming exhibition, emerging artist Susie Dureau presents scenes that are more than literal depictions of the landscape. “Wild Histories” opens at Suki & Hugh Gallery, 38A Gibraltar Street on August 6 from 3pm – 5pm (all welcome) and runs to Sept 26.
THE National Gallery of Australia has “Mike Parr: Foreign looking,” from August 2 –November 6. It’s a retrospective exhibition ranging across Parr’s voraciously experimental practice from 1970 to the present. Spanning nine galleries, the installation comprises performance, film, sculpture and photography.
GAIL (daughter of Eddie) Mabo from Townsville will be exhibiting under the title “Zogo Zogo Teter Mek” (Sacred Footprints) at 8 Townshend St Phillip, to August 15.
Alicia Mozqueira – ‘Storm from Mount Ainslie’, oil on canvas
TWO NEW exhibitions are opening today, Thursday 4 August at 6pm at Beaver Galleries by Alicia Mozqueira , a local emerging painter whose works reflect her intense interest in romanticism and in our individual interaction with the natural world. She was a finalist in the Wynne Prize in 2012 and most recently a finalist in the Archibald Prize 2015. Also at Beaver, Lucienne Rickard is a talented young artist from Hobart whose pencil work is marked by a sharp eye for detail, zealous imagination and a fastidious, almost obsessive, mode of execution. In 2014, she was selected to participate in “Primavera”, the Museum of Contemporary Art’s annual showing of bold new work from young Australian artists. 81 Denison St, Deakin Tue to Fri 10am – 5pm & Sat and Sun 9am – 5pm until Aug 21.
“A CLASS Act” see work by 30 of Michael Winters’ students in the ANU Centre of Continuing Education’s visual arts access program classes conducted at the “off campus” venue , Strathnairn Arts Centre, Stockdill Drive Holt, where the show runs to August 14, Thursdays to Sundays 10am to 4pm.
THE PASTEL Explorers group is about to present its inaugural public exhibition of 50 works. The 11 artist are quick to note that among the many artists who used pastels were Leonardo and Degas. “Pastels: Passion for Colour”, Old School House Gallery, Sweet Copper Cafe, Ginninderra Village, August 4 to 28 Thursday to Sunday, 10am to 4pm Opening 2.30pm, Sunday, August 7, all welcome.
IN 2015 Doug Spowart and Victoria Cooper coordinated an exhibition at Maud Gallery in Brisbane that featured 67 Australian, New Zealand and international photographers’ self-portraits, made while reading their favourite photobooks. Extended and re-titled “On Reading: Photobooks”, part of the show will be exhibited at The Photography Room, Bus Depot Markets Kingston, to August 7.
Work by Alya Khan detail, detail
“EASS 2016” features the work of five emerging ceramic artists, all recent graduates of the ANU School of Art: Sue Hewat, Mahala Hill, Alya Khan, Anna-Maree O’Neill and Eden Reni. At Watson Arts Centre, Aspinall Street, Watson, 10am – 4pm Thursday to Sunday, until August 21.
“I WILL if you will” is a mixed media exhibition by Canberra artists, LeeAnne McEwan, Kaila Smith, Ele Saclier, and Mel Edwards, until August 5, at gallery@bcs, Belconnen Community Centre, Swanson Crt, Belconnen, 9am-5pm Mon-Fri.
“CROSS PHASE: An Exploration of Materiality”, an exhibition that explores materiality in its rawest form, opens Friday, July 29, 6pm To 8pm at the Nishi Gallery, 17 Kendall Lane Canberra, and runs to August 14.
TWO new group exhibitions have opened in the PhotoAccess Huw Davies Gallery. “BULB” showcases works by 30 PhotoAccess members, and “A Closer Look” features work by Fiona Bowring-Greer, Susan Clarke, Karen Coombes, Lyndal Curtis, Zelda Green, Rob Lee, Bronwyn McNally, Kleber Osorio, Ian Skinner, Gordon Taylor and Michael Ye, all participants in PhotoAccess’ Personal Photography Project, under the guidance of Sean Davey. The exhibitions run to August 7.
DANIEL Bonson, G.W. Bot, David Buckland, Soren Dahlgaard, Jacky Green, Annika Harding, Timothy James Johnson and Andrew Styan are featured artists in “2°”, curated by Alexander Boynes, an exhibition that investigates climate change, its effect on the present, and the struggle to avoid environmental disaster by limiting rising global temperature to two degrees. The exhibition continues until August 20 at Canberra Contemporary Art Space Gorman Arts Centre 55 Ainslie Avenue Braddon.
AARWUN Gallery Shop 11 Federation Square O Hanlon Place Nicholls, has many new works in the gallery, and they tell us, “More are arriving on a weekly basis…you will find the usual co-mingling of classical and contemporary works, and most things in between the two.”
In Ten Tables at Bungendore
“MÄRI Gutharra – Milingimbi Artists” features the work of four senior artists, as well as other artists, from Milingimbi, an island off the north coast of Arnhem Land some 400 kilometres to the east of Darwin. Using traditional ochres and white clay, its artists create paintings on bark and canvas, based on the body art applied during religious ceremonies that are still part of everyday life. Nancy Sever Gallery, 4/6 Kennedy St Kingston, Wed–Sun 11am-6pm until August 21.
BUNGENDORE Wood Works Gallery is showcasing the work of nine current and past artist/printmakers, Lyn Burns, George Gittoes, Pamela Griffith, Greg Hansell, Bettina McMahon, Gina Monaco, Trevor Riach, Wendy Sharpe and Glenn Smith in a series of limited edition prints produced in the physically small, yet massively influential and culturally dynamic Griffith Studio and Graphics Workshop between 1990 and 2016. Also they have “Ten Tables”, Woodwork by Ian Higgs, Design by Malcolm Stewart, Metalwork by Dean Bell Octagon ArtSpace. All on show until September 1.
“MICHAEL Taylor: A Survey 1963–2016” at Canberra Museum and Gallery, curated by Deborah Clark, runs until Oct 2 at the Canberra Museum and Gallery. Taylor is one of Australia’s best expressionist painters, who has been painting for six decades. Since 1971 Taylor has lived and worked in the Canberra region – in Bredbo, Michelago, and, since 1993, Cooma.
Jay Kochel, design for ‘reading air’
“AVARICE: auspice” is an amazing gold inflating/deflating installation by Jay Kochel, known for ‘reading air’, to be seen in Canberra Museum and Gallery’s outside Gallery 4 on Civic square, until Sept 18, viewable 24/7.
LORD Thomas Denman was Australia’s fifth Governor-General. He and his wife, the irrepressible Lady Gertrude Denman, resided in Australia from July 1911 to May 1914. A new exhibition examines the political, cultural and imperial interests of this power couple. “Peace, Love and War: the Denmans, Empire and Australia, 1910–1917”, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Civic Square, to Nov 13.
CANBERRA teacher and devout ‘Whovian’ Timothy Kirsopp is displaying his entire “Dr Who” collection—everything from Daleks and the Tardis to images the Doctors and their companions—an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest collection of “Dr Who”-related memorabilia. “Bigger on the inside: Collecting Dr Who” at CMAG, Civic Square, until Nov 20.
“THE HINDMARSH Prize”, in which 18 shortlisted works will be on display at Canberra Glassworks, Wentworth Ave Kingston, into September, along with the winning work Surge 19 by Masahiro Asaka. Gallery Floor Talk: 2pm on Saturday, July 30 by Jenni Martiniello, John White and Julie Ryder.
THE OAKS Brasserie and Gallery presents “Birds & Blooms” an exhibition by two local artists, Debbie Paton and Caren Wilford, at Cottage 1, Weston Park, Yarralumla (behind the nursery) until Aug 26.
“REPEAT ²” is an exhibition of hand screen printed textiles, bringing together established and emerging Canberra based artists working with print, pattern and design. At Megalo Print Studio + Gallery 21 Wentworth Avenue, Kingston, to August 20, Tuesday to Friday 9am – 5pm.
M16 Eadie Newman, Yield, 2015, watercolour on paper, 21 x 29cm
M16 Artspace’s community of studio artists come together in “Wall to Wall” in M16’s main gallery. Then in Gallery 2, is The Thursday Group’s show, “The Kitchen Garden”, curated by Jenny Manning, while in Gallery 3 is “Ecstatic Returns”, where Eadie Newman explores her drawing practice. All at M16 Artspace, Blaxland Cresc Griffith, to August 14.
LOCAL glass artist, Debra Jurss, will be showcasing her latest work in “Flow, Interrupted,” which reflects both the style of Debra’s work and her personal experiences in recent years. The exhibition has a strong feeling of movement and flow, frozen at a point in time; reflecting Debra’s experience with the diagnosis and death of her husband from motor neurone disease. At Form Studio and Gallery, 1/30 Aurora Ave Queanbeyan until Sunday, August 7, Mon-Fri, 9:30 am – 2:30 pm, weekends 10:00am – 4:00pm.
ALSO, Form Studio and Gallery director Claire Primrose and ceramicist Ros Auld are hosting an art sale-fundraiser of limited selected work with 40 per cent off prices, until August 7. Funds raised will help support their 2017 touring regional gallery exhibitions curated by Peter Haynes. Details at formstudioandgallery
“REFLECTIONS”, works from Canberra Glassworks and the Parliament House Art Collection, features nine internationally renowned glass artists who have created works that respond to the art, architecture and landscape of Parliament House. In the Presiding Officers’ Exhibition Area, Australian Parliament until September 11. Participating artists include Annette Blair, Lisa Cahill, Mel Douglas, Hannah Gason, Jeremy Lepisto, Ruth Oliphant, Emilie Patteson, Kirstie Rea and Harriet Schwarzrock. Free
“FAITH Fashion Fusion: Muslim Women’s Style in Australia”, a discovery of emerging modest fashion trends and the work of a new generation of Muslim fashionistas – designers and entrepreneurs – making a mark on the local fashion industry. It’s a travelling exhibition developed by the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney. At the National Archives of Australia, Queen Victoria Terrace, daily until September 4.
THE NGA has “Diane Arbus: American portraits” | Open now until October 30. 36 of Arbus’ most iconic photographs are exhibited alongside a selection of photographs from the NGA collection. “Design and Nature,” glass and ceramics by Art Nouveau masters Louis Comfort Tiffany and Clément Massier and 80 objects from the NGA’s collection, is open now until March 2. And in the Contemporary Asian galleries is a new display focused on contemporary Chinese art has opened featuring provocative works by internationally renowned artists such as Ai Weiwei, Xu Zhen and Zhang Huan, open until November.
Untitled (42nd Street Series), 1979 by Larry Clark
“TOUGH and Tender” presents raw and intimate photography from American and Australian artists from the 1960s to the present da. Photographs from internationally acclaimed artists Robert Mapplethorpe, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, and Collier Schorr, and video performance by Chris Burden will form part of the exhibition, alongside contemporary Australian artists Rozalind Drummond and Warwick Baker. National Portrait Gallery, until Sunday October 16.
BELCONNEN Arts Centre has “The Encyclopedia of Forgotten Things” from the University of Canberra Faculty of Arts and Design, exploring history, memory and the classification of things. Professor Angelina Russo will host three knit–ins associated with her installation, “In the Meantime,” and in “Encircle, using basketry and weaving, Ruby Berry creates sculptural works that use contrasting textures and organic forms to evoke feelings of comfort and protection. Out in the foyer, Sonja Karl’s “Rarities” focuses on the innate freedom of the birds while creating an awareness of rare birds within the ACT. All until August 14.
THE ANU Drill Hall Gallery has re-opened with “Streets of Papunya”, curated by Vivien Johnson. The show presents the new generation of painters from the legendary epicentre of Western Desert art and includes a wide selection of historical works drawn from the collections of ANU Anthropology and Archaeology and the College of Asia and the Pacific. Until August 14, Wednesday to Sunday 10–5pm.
THE National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature still has “Seeing Stories”, an exhibition of framed original artworks from the John Barrow collection. Forty works from the 135 in the collection cover the years from the 1980s through the early 2000s and provide a visual documentary of an important period in the history of Australian children’s literature. At University of Canberra Hub Exhibition Space (opposite Mizzuna Café) until August 26, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays 10.30am-2.30pm Sundays 1pm-4.pm.
THE National Portrait Gallery has a focus exhibition of portraits by Arthur Boyd, titled “Mysterious eyes: Arthur Boyd portraits from 1945.” Gallery One, National Portrait Gallery, until August 14. Open 10am–5pm daily.
CRAFTACT: Craft and Design Centre has “Embracing Innovation Volume 6: Technology”, and “Black Box: Life, walls and houses”, a solo exhibition by distinguished Canberra glass artist Judi Elliott both running until August 27. There is also a pop-up exhibition in the lightbox gallery of personal items on loan from the F!NK + Co extended family of the late Robert Foster. Visitors may leave a message in the condolence book.
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