Moonah Art Centre Jan - Feb 2022 Program

JANUARY FEBRUARY 2022 PROGRAM EXHIBIT | PERFORM | MAKE MOONAHARTSCENTRE.ORG.AU FREE ENTRY | ALL WELCOME Image: Christie Torrington, homeland / wasteland (detail), 2018, hand cut collage on watercolour paper.

WELCOME TO MAC! Moonah Arts Centre (MAC) acknowledges that we are on Muwinina country.

We recognise the value of continuing Aboriginal knowledge and cultural practice and acknowledge the contemporary Tasmanian Aboriginal community who continue to maintain their Indigenous rights, identity, and their ancient and irreplaceable culture.

MAC is the perfect place to meet, connect and engage with your community. It’s a warm, welcoming space for artists, audiences and visitors.

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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS...

Friday 14 January — Saturday 5 February

CONNECTIONS Who: Jasmine Mansell (Sunset Sisters) | Where: Project Space Launch: 6pm, Thursday 13 January Showcasing Jasmine Mansell (Sunset Sisters) a proud Tasmanian Aboriginal digital artist, in collaboration with palawa artist Bianca Templar (Sunset Sisters) and Takira Simon-Brown founder of Palawa Artz. Jasmine expresses her unique connection to her culture and community through her art and her love of working with other artists. Connections includes collaborative digital art, paintings and prints.

This exhibition is proudly supported by Cary Littleford via digital projection. Jasmine acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of this land, past, present and emerging.

This project was assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts.

Image: Courtesy of the Artist.

Friday 14 January — Saturday 5 February

GALAXY BRAIN Who: Isabella Foster | Where: Exhibit Space | Launch: 6pm, Thursday 13 January Galaxy Brain comments on the way late capitalist value systems echo historic power structures. By associating space travel, auctions, nostalgia, mythology, sexual assault and memes, this work enmeshes the garish new icons of influence.

Image: Courtesy of the artist.

Friday 14 January — Saturday 5 February

KETHI’S HANDMADE Who: Kethuledsumy Kandiah | Where: Foyer and Albert Hallway Launch: 6pm, Thursday 13 January I like to make handmade things and I try different things every time I make. I will create a large quilt with a landscape design, which is a new design for me. I am drawn to nature scenes and the design that I want to make reminds me of home.

Image: Courtesy of the Artist.

Friday 14 January — Saturday 5 February

LOO SOLO Who: Melanie Errey | Where: The Chamber (MAC toilets) | Launch: 6pm, Thursday 13 January An exploration of ways to decorate the bathroom with art that is both contemplative and waterproof.

Image: Courtesy of the Artist.

Friday 11 February — Sat 26 February

THE CHURCH OF HARRIDANS WITNESSERS Who: The Soup Collective | Where: Project Space Launch: 6pm, Thursday 10 February The Soup Collective is a group of older lesbians who have created an alternative sacred space where diverse conversations and critiques about the proposed Religious Discrimination Bill are enabled and encouraged.

Image: Soup Collective and The Church of Harridans Witnessers.

Friday 11 February — Sat 26 February

PRECIOUS EXCESS: COMPULSIVE ACQUISITION Who: D. Stewart-Lookkin (NY, USA), Eleanor Murrell (Suffolk, UK), Christie Torrington (NSW, AUS), Tammy Law (QLD, AUS), Siobhan Marriott (TAS, AUS) | Where: Exhibit Space This group show brings together five artists responding to themes of acquiring and discarding, as witnessed through the caring of family members with hoarding behaviours. While building on compassionate mental health and peer support connections, these works explore the consumerist influences of capitalism and trauma behind amassing material belongings.

Image: Tammy Law, Last Hook on the Wall, 2016.

PRESENT YOUR PROJECT AT MAC. MAC has a range of purpose-built creative spaces, designed for arts and cultural activity. View all our available spaces and send us an expression of interest at www.moonahartscentre.org.au/about/our-spaces.

PRESENTED IN MAC SPACES THIS JAN AND FEB:

Miz Ima Starr’s Monday Soiree — From 4.30pm, Mon 14 Feb. Bookings: events.humanitix.com/monday-soiree.

Lock in a post-TasPride Picnic / pre-dinner session of cabaret hi-jinks with Tassie’s Drag-tastic Chanteuse Miz Ima Starr – and a sprinkling of special guests assembled especially for the TasPride Festival.

Albi & The Wolves and Looking For Alaska — 7:30pm, Sat 22 Jan. Bookings: www.albiandthewolves.com.

Albi & The Wolves and Looking For Alaska are two kiwi folk bands joining forces to bring their summer tour, ‘A Little More Space’ to Moonah Arts Centre this January.

Mandala Mosaic Workshop — 2pm - 5pm, Sat 26 Feb. Bookings: Please contact Donna directly via email at donnatasmania@gmail.com.

Join mosaic artist Donna Ritchie in this three-hour Mandala Mosaic making workshop. Learn about design and materials – which boards, glues and grouts to use and how to cut tiles.