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EntriEs closE 17 JunE Chief Judge: Kirsty Grant For enquiries contact John Ancher P (03) 6221 4215 E artprize@hutchins.tas.edu.au www.hutchins.tas.edu.au An initiative of the Hutchins Foundation Ltd.

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Until 15 May 2011

McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park 390 McClelland Drive Langwarrin Victoria 3910 T: +61 3 9789 1671

www.netsvictoria.org.au

The tour of this exhibition is support by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria and the Community Support Fund. Simryn Gill: Inland has been achieved through the financial assistance of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and with financial and promotional support of Melbourne International Arts Festival.

Simryn GILL from Power station 2004 (detail) 13 type C photographs and 13 silver gelatine photographs Courtesy the artist & Breenspace, Syndey

Noela Stratford Territory

selected works 2000 - 2010 Sat 19 Mar - Tue 26 Apr

Turning point (detail) 2010, charcoal on paper

Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard Street North Ballarat Victoria 3350 Telephone: 03 5320 5858 artgalleryofballarat.com.au

www.vintagecollection.com.au

33 High St. Kyneton 3444 +613 5422 1083 12 Templeton St. Castlemaine 3450 +613 5470 5913

Resonance: Paintings by CRAIG GOUGH To 1 May

BENDIGO QUEER FILM FESTIVAL EXHIBITION La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre Queer Country 121 View Street To 17 April

Bendigo, VIC, 3550 +61 3 5441 8724 latrobe.edu.au/vacentre

MARK SALVATUS 20 April – 15 May

La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre 121 View Street, Bendigo, VIC, 3550 T: 03 5441 8724

La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre 121 View Street E: vac@latrobe.edu.au Bendigo, VIC, 3550 W: latrobe.edu.au/vac +61 3 5441 8724 Gallery hours: Tue - Sun 10am - 5pm latrobe.edu.au/vacentre Image: Craig Gough, Blue Space 3, (detail), 2009, acrylic on canvas, 183 x 274 cm

National competition for a major public artwork The Facade Project is presented by La Trobe University and City of Greater Bendigo. Submissions are invited from contemporary artists for a major public artwork to be installed on the facade of La Trobe University’s Visual Arts Centre in Bendigo For further information visit latrobe.edu.au/vac or contact the Visual Arts Centre on 03 5441 8724 La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre 121 View Street Bendigo, VIC, 3550 +61 3 5441 8724 latrobe.edu.au/vacentre

La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre 121 View Street Bendigo, VIC, 3550 +61 3 5441 8724 latrobe.edu.au/vacentre

APRIL 2011

FEATURES (14)

TOM HOLLOWAY Emilie Collyer

[16] SYDNEON Bambam

[20]

ZARA SWINDELLS-GROSE Social Work

(24) MELBURNIN’

Courtney Symes

Special Feature

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CASTLEMAINE STATE FESTIVAL APRIL SALON

Brief

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GREENWASH #21

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THE JENNIFER PRINCIPLES

Patrick Jones Portable 2

LISTINGS (18) NSW / SYDNEY (20) ACT [21] TASMANIA (26) MELBOURNE (54) CENTRAL VICTORIA (60) EASTERN VICTORIA (61] BAY & PENINSULA (62) MURRAY RIVER (63) NORTHERN VICTORIA (63) WESTERN VICTORIA (69)

ARTS INDEX

WARNING: Trouble magazine contains artistic content that may include nudity, adult concepts, coarse language, and the names, images or artworks of deceased Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people.

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A Winter Journey with

Tom Holloway Tom Holloway’s enthusiasm for theatre is palpable. Even via a crackly mobile phone connection, with him at the tail end of a flu, I can hear that he is a playwright who relishes what he does.

He is also a playwright much in demand. Tom’s play Fatherland has just opened at London’s Gate Theatre. He returns to Australia to start work in collaboration with director Matt Lutton on an interpretation of Schubert’s song cycle Winterreisse. Holloway was recently awarded the prestigious Max Afford Playwrights’ Award for his script Faces Look Ugly. The award comes with a cash prize and the chance to take the script to Playwriting Australia’s National Script Workshop in May. “The acknowledgement of the award is wonderful,” Tom observes, “but what the award gives in the development of the script is the real benefit of it. The play will be tested, to see if it can stand up and I always find that really important, and really exciting.”

He speaks of the enormous value that a workshop process brings, especially in the context of the National Script Workshop, where some of Australia’s best actors, directors and dramaturges come together, in a ‘robust interrogation’ of new scripts. It would seem like the perfect environment for a playwright of Holloway’s disposition. “I find during the development of a play it’s important to get opinions from others. You can sit so close to your work that you can’t see the wood for the trees. You can think it’s totally fantastic and really it’s quite mediocre, and vice-versa. You can really be down on a work that’s in much better shape than you think it is, just because you’re way too close to it.”

A notion that Tom returns to many times through our conversation is that of the spoken nature of theatre: “I haven’t written these words to be read, I’ve written them to be spoken.” He values the talents and input of actors throughout a development process, as they help him test the voice and voracity of characters. Similarly, he embraces the collaborative nature of theatre. The fact that it takes a ‘community of people’ for work to be created and to survive is one of the aspects of the form he loves the most. He speaks of his delight at how a director will find vision in his words he didn’t know was there, or of the pleasure at seeing a designer present concepts that add a whole new element to a play.

Emilie Collyer

It is refreshing to hear the passion Holloway has for the possibilities and power of theatre. “Theatre can deal with issues that otherwise might seem too difficult to deal with,” he says. At its best, the art form serves not only a communal, but a cathartic function. The act of literally sitting with our neighbours and witnessing a piece of theatre, sharing the stories, can provide a unique experience different from any other media.

Many of Holloway’s plays deal with the darker side of human nature.

His first full length play Beyond The Neck was inspired by interviews with survivors of the Port Arthur Massacre. Fatherland is about an intense and at times dangerous relationship between a father and daughter. While Faces Look Ugly is still evolving, its themes include fear and how we can let that take over in terms of how we deal with society and community.

He cites as an example people’s initial reaction to the subject matter of Beyond The Neck, it being such a sensitive subject, querying why he would want to delve into and expose it. However, the public reaction to the play in Tasmania was very positive. Audiences embraced the opportunity to share stories that had not previously been heard, in a more ‘human’ way than print and electronic media generally allow.

Tom’s influences come from a variety of sources and seem to be grounded both in passion and a strong intellectual interest in playwriting, theatre and history. Two of his earlier plays, Love Me Tender and Don’t Say The Words were inspired by classics. They are not adaptations of plays so much as responses to them, questioning how the raw power of these historical works can speak to contemporary audiences.

I get the sense from Tom that he feels very much part of a community.

During our conversation he lists a number of Australian playwrights whose work is being regularly produced both here and overseas. Playwrights such as Lally Katz, Tommy Murphy, Ben Ellis and Van Badham. As Tom notes, there can be a tendency to ‘bemoan’ the state of theatre in Australia where, in reality, it would seem that there is something of a renaissance occurring. Rather than getting caught up in debates about theatre, its relevance, the gate keepers and limited opportunities, a number of writers are getting out there and making a significant mark on the world stage.

He feels lucky to be writing at this time, part of what may almost be described as a ‘new wave’ in Australian playwriting. Steeped in the world of theatre, feet firmly on the ground and a work ethic that sounds almost Trojan, it seems as though this playwright is in just the right place for a flourishing career.

Winterreiss premieres 19 April at the State Theatre Centre of WA - www.statetheatrecentrewa.com.au. Faces Look Ugly will premiere in 2011 at Denmark’s Aarhus Theatre.

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background image: Wall by DOES, I love letters 2011, spray paint on concrete and canvas. LOFI Collective, 383 Bourke Street Darlinghurst. Photo by Jared Van Earle

DATELINE: APRIL 2011

by Bambam

There’s more to see in Sydney after dark. Forget the paper chase and kick the night off with a cold Asahi and vodka chaser instead, at LO-FI Collective in Darlinghurst.

LO-FI Collective is a unique weekly showcase of “low brow” artists, designers and photographers. More like a well attended party than a properly licensed venue, this uber cool 3rd floor warehouse is part gallery part studio. It gets some really nice work on its walls from resident artists including GO FONT UR SELF, MEGGS, EARS, MAX BERRY, NUMSKULL, BEN FROST, JOSH ROELINK,YIMMY YAYO, FAFI, JEREMYVILLE, SOFLES, JUMBO, ZAP, BEASTMAN, PHIBS, CREEPY, EASLINN, BONES, BRENT SMITH, KARENA ZEREFOS, MIA TANINAKA, TWO ONE, SAYNT, WELL DRESSED VANDALS, HELEN MYCROFT, JOEL BIRCH, BLENDS and TRENT WHITEHEAD, and is provided at no cost or commission to the artists. Get into this place while the getting is good. April exhibitions include Luke Williams - The Streets of Sydney (Thurs April 14th), and Back Burners - Graffiti & Denim Jackets (Thurs April 21st).

• LO-FI Collective, Floor 3, 383 Bourke Street, Darlinghurst - www.wearelofi.com.au Just up the road from LO-Fi, Object Gallery and Collect will open a new permutation of the popular Design Now! series known as Australian Design Now, on 9 April. This first rebirth, curated by the Office for Good Design will be dubbed Annual Manual: A Guide to Australian Design Now and will see eight emerging designers chosen from expanded eligibility criteria that now includes TAFE graduates and other creators from outside the formal education system. Spanning a range of media and disciplines, the exhibition looks at broad areas of design, and one outstanding designer will receive the opportunity to produce a solo show at Object’s Project Space. Object is also throwing in some cash toward production costs to kick start some new work. Chosen from over one hundred and twenty nominees, congratulations are in order for the top eight.: Aly De Groot (NT), Kristel Britcher (SA), Daniel To and Emma Aiston (aka Daniel Emma) (SA), Emily Nam (VIC), In-ah Shin (NSW), Esther Stewart (VIC), Meredith Turnbull (VIC) and Thomas Llewellyn (VIC).

• Object Gallery & Collect, St Margarets, 417 Bourke Street, Surry Hills - www.object.com.au

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The Australian Museum’s Jurassic Lounge program is a series of talks held after-hours every Tuesday evening.You can wander the Museum collections, be entertained by performances and DJs, or entranced by talks, all whilst enjoying a little after work tipple.

In April artist Silke Raetze will give a floor talk about her involvement in the Museum’s Rituals and Seduction: Birds of Paradise exhibition. Opening from 9 April, these drawings, paper sculptures and printed silks were created during Silke’s three-month artist-inresidency program at the Museum. The residency happened quite by chance, after Silke’s interest in wings led her to visit the Australian Museum’s collection of bird specimens. “I’ve been fascinated with wings for a long time and have often featured them in my work,” explains Silke. “To me they symbolize a freedom in the ability to rise above, to transcend.”

The visit inspired her proposal to access the collection archives, which in turn resulted in an official artist-in-residency offer. Beginning in September 2010, Raetze was granted behind-the-scenes access to the ornithology department’s collection of Bird of Paradise specimens, where, during regular visits over the next three-month period, the artist found the study of these birds to be a humbling experience.

“Anything I create will always pale in comparison to nature itself,” she says. “Birds of Paradise have evolved uniquely in their isolated rainforest habitats, and that in itself is a thought-provoking concept that appeals to me – the idea of individualism through isolation.”

• Rituals and Seduction: Birds of Paradise runs from 9 April until 7 August at the Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney. Silke Raetze is talking at Jurassic Lounge on Tuesday 12 April from 6pm.

Tickets are $15 and can be booked through www. jurassiclounge.com. Silke Raetze is represented by Michael Reid at Elizabeth Bay - www.silkeraetze.com If you didn’t already know it, Sydney Fringe submissions opened on 21 March and plan to remain that way until 30 April. It is only the second year for this little baby, so it’s a great time to be involved.

The festival’s new Director, Richard Hull, boasts a fourteen-year association with the Edinburgh Fringe as a Producer with Assembly Theatre as well as his own independent company. Richard has also ‘done’ the West End, managing theatres in London including the Donmar Warehouse with Artistic Director Sam Mendes, and the Prince Edward Theatre for Cameron Mackintosh. He has been working as Head of Customer Service at the Sydney Opera House for the last three years, but much of the West End’s

influence obviously remains: “Existing shows or brand new works,” he says. “Whatever they are and however they are, off the wall, off the kerb, off kilter, underground, overground, alternative, contemporary, mainstream, slipstream, risky or frisky. Anything that entertains and will make Sydney sit up and pay attention. Now is the time to make your pitch.” Check out the razzle-dazzle in that! “If you have an idea,” says Richard, “the Fringe wants to hear about it. This event is unique on the Sydney cultural calendar and provides a rare platform for established and emerging artists to unleash their talent and imagination on the world.

We want to induce a maelstrom of creativity.” Greg Khoury, Chair of the Newtown Entertainment Precinct Association (the Fringe’s governing body) said: “We are very lucky to have been able to add Richard to the Fringe’s small team. He has the skills, experience and enthusiasm that the Fringe needs to build on the achievements of its inaugural Director.

Hull replaces inaugural Fringe Director, Kris Stewart, who is leaving to take up the position of Director of the Festival of Voices in Tasmania. In 2010 Kris oversaw in excess of three hundred and fifty submissions across a range of performing, digital and visual arts practice.

More than three thousand artists featured in Sydney Fringe over a three-week period, and audiences topped one hundred thousand. With food and drink purchases, the Festival is estimated to have contributed a ten million dollar economic boost to the Inner West, which is, by the way, being hailed as “the most concentrated entertainment precinct in Australia” by some sources.

“Kris has established a strong platform and support for the Fringe with great gusto and goodwill,” says Greg Khoury. “He will maintain close links with NEPA and The Sydney Fringe project, providing continuity and a growing base of expertise and support. We believe Richard Hull will make a valuable contribution to the progress of the Fringe into a festival that will shine on the world stage.”

• Sydney Fringe – Submission fee is $25. Submissions close on 30 April. Office Hours between 9.30am and 5pm. Email: info@thesydneyfringe.com.au Phone: 61 2 9560 9167 Visit www.thesydneyfringe.com.au SYDNEON continues in next month’s issue of Trouble and welcomes your comments, party pics, performance and exhibition news, and invitations.

Send to: sydneon@introuble.com.au

SYDNEY / NSW

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blacktown

• Blacktown Arts Centre Open Tues - Sat 10am - 5pm (closed public holidays). 78 Flushcombe Road Blacktown. T: (02) 9839 6558 E: artscentre@blacktown.nsw.gov.au www.artscentre.blacktown.nsw.gov.au

cowra

• Cowra Regional Art Gallery 77 Darling Street Cowra NSW 2794. Tues to Sat 10am - 4pm, Sun 2 - 4pm. Free Admission. www.cowraartgallery.com.au

newtown

• At The Vanishing Point Inc. 7 – 24 April, Sign of the Times, a group exhibition. 565 King Street Newtown NSW 2042, Thur - Sun, 10am - 6pm. T: (02) 9519 2340, www.atthevanishingpoint.com.au

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• Sydney College of the Arts Callan Park Gallery: Studio ARTISTS Untitled, curated by Emma Johnston and Gabrielle Mordy, Thursday 10 March to Friday 8 April 2011. Studio ARTISTS Untitled features work from the stars of Studio ARTES, stepping out for the first time under their new guise, Studio ARTISTS. Nestled in the northern Sydney suburb of Hornsby, Studio ARTES Northside Inc. is an independent, not for profit organisation which offers a full time art program for adults with disabilities.

Gallery Hours: by appointment. T: (02) 9351 1008, E: callanpark.gallery@sydney.edu.au, http://sydney.edu.au/sca

sydney

• Art Gallery of New South Wales 16 Apr – 26 Jun, Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2011; Until 26 Apr, Homage to the ancestors: ritual art from the Chu kingdom; Until 10 Apr, ARTEXPRESS 2011; Until 29 May, Photography and Place: Australian landscape photography 1970s until now. Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney NSW 2000. T: (02) 9225 1744, www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au • Carved Trees - Aboriginal Cultures of Western NSW 18 April – 26 June 2011. A free exhibition at the State Library of NSW.The Clifton Cappie Towle collection at the State Library of NSW includes

hundreds of photographs including carved trees from central and north-western NSW photographed between about 1920 and 1940.

The photos of Aboriginal carved trees in this collection are especially striking and have been meticulously documented. Tree carvings can be found dotted throughout Australia, but they are quintessentially of NSW origin - specifically the work of Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi artists. Carved Trees - Aboriginal Cultures of Western NSW, Macquarie Street State Library of NSW, Sydney, NSW 2000.

• Moran Prizes Exhibition 2011 An exhibition of the 118 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize finalists and 30 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize finalists. 21 April – 26 June 2011. Mitchell Galleries, State Library of New South Wales. Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000.

• Sydney Comedy Festival 11 April – 8 May 2011. Launched in 2005 as Cracker Sydney Comedy Festival, the Sydney Comedy Festival has quickly developed into a significant if not rather frenetic comedic disturbance in Sydney’s cultural calendar.

Bookings can be made on (02) 9020 6966 or www.sydneycomedyfest.com.au • The Sydney Fringe The Sydney Fringe is now open for 2011 submissions! It’s time to get your pitch to us. If you have a show you think has legs - existing or new; or an interesting or quirky idea; or a just plain crazy idea, across the range of the performing, digital and visual arts we want to hear about it.

So come on, lead the charge! Closing date for submissions is 30 April 2011. Submission fee $25 for every show / event / band. To submit your show go to: thesydneyfringe.com.au

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• Hawkesbury Regional Gallery 1 April – 15 May, GW BOT the long paddock: A 30 Year Survey. Mon - Fri 10am - 4pm, Sat and Sun 10am - 3pm. (Closed Tues and public holidays) Free admission. Deerubbin Centre - 1st Floor. 300 George Street Windsor 2756, T: (02) 4560 4441, F: (02) 4560 4442 www.hawkesbury.nsw.gov.au

Heath FRANKLIN, Chopper – The 2nd Annual Chopper Bonza You Bewdy G’day Big F**ken Anzac Day Show, The Virgin Mobile Metro Theatre, 624 George Street, Sydney (NSW), 25 April, 7pm. Tix $35 / $30. Bookings (02) 9020 6966 or www.sydneycomedyfest.com.au

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• ANU Drill Hall Gallery To 3 April: Almanac: the gift of Ann Lewis; 7 April – 22 May: PAUL SELWOOD: perspective cutouts. Kingsley Street, Acton ACT. T: (02) 6125 5832, www.anu.edu.au/mac/content/dhg

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• QL2 Centre for Youth Dance Inc Home of Quantum Leap youth dance ensemble.

QL2 has a 12 year track record of excellence in youth dance. It is home of Quantum Leap: an auditioned youth dance ensemble; and to the Soft Landing program: assisting the best dance graduates to find their creative pathway. Gorman House Arts Centre, Ainslie Avenue, Braddon ACT 2612. T: (02) 6247 3103 www.QL2.org.au

canberra

• National Gallery of Australia SEASON EXTENDED: 10 December – 1 May 2011: Ballets Russes - The art of costume, A major exhibition of the Gallery’s renowned collection of SERGE DIAGHILEV’s Ballets Russes including costumes by artists NATALIA GONCHAROVA, MICHEL LARIONOV, PABLO PICASSO, HENRI MATISSE, ANDRÉ DERAIN, ROBERT and SONIA DELAUNAY, GEORGES BRAQUE, ANDRÉ MASSON and GIORGIO DE CHIRICO; 24 February – 29 May 2011: Varilaku - Pacific arts from the Solomon Islands, Varilaku is the first major exhibition in Australia bringing together the finest traditional arts from the Solomons. The exhibition will showcase the

incredible scope and volume of art regarding the human form and its adornment from the later 19th century to the mid 20th century. Daily 10am - 5pm. Parkes Place, Parkes, Canberra 2600. T: (02) 6240 6411, www.nga.gov.au

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• PhotoAccess Huw Davies Gallery Until 3 April, NATHALIE HARTOG-GAUTIER: Scanning Memories. MARIE and TREVOR LUND: SOUTH (Multimedia Room); 7 April to 8 May, WENDY CURRIE, SILVI GLATTAUER, KARA RASMANIS and KARENA GOLDFINCH: Re-imaging the Classic Print. TIM BROOK and PAUL KIRWAN: Noise (Multimedia Room).

PhotoAccess Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre, Manuka Circle Griffith ACT. Tuesday to Friday 10am to 4pm, weekends 12 noon to 4pm.

T: (03) 6295 7810, www.photoaccess.org.au

Andree LAWREY, Kewpie (detail). Canberra in a Matchbox - a members’ miniature exhibition, PhotoAccess Huw Davies Gallery.

TASMANIA

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• Devonport Regional Gallery 19 March – 17 April, 2011. Opening Friday 18 March, 2pm: Main Gallery, Tales from Suburbia, Curator: ALISON SAVAGE. In Conversation with Alison Savage: Saturday 19 March, 11am.

The Little Gallery, Emerging Artist Program, BRETT MARTIN - Irretrievable Light; 23 April – 15 May, 2011. Opening Friday 6 May, 6pm. Open to public from Saturday 23 April: Main Gallery, North West Art Circle Annual Exhibition and Awards, Artists in Action program runs throughout exhibition.

The Little Gallery, Emerging Artist Program, BILL FLOWERS - Celtic Serpent. Open Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun and pub hols 12 5pm. 45 Stewart Street, Devonport, Tasmania 7310. E: artgallery@devonport.tas.gov.au T: (03) 6424 8296, www.devonportgallery.com

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• MONA, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart Opening exhibition, Monanism containing DAVID WALSH’s favourite works. 22 January – 19 July 2011. Including: Egyptian antiquities, numismatics, Snake by SIDNEY NOLAN, ARTHUR BOYD, ALBERT TUCKER, BRETT WHITELEY, along with some of the more infamous Young British Artists (YBAs) JAKE and DINOS CHAPMAN, MAT COLLISHAW, MARC QUINN, and DAMIEN HIRST. Along with WIM DELVOYE’s Cloaca Professional, JANNIS KOUNELLIS, ANSELM KIEFER, JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, JENNY HOLZER. Hours: 10am to 6pm daily.

Coming up: August: Experimenta Utopia Now. Also: The Source Restaurant, Mona Pavilion accommodation, Moorilla winery, Moo Brew micro-brewery, and a wine bar and cellar door. T: (03) 6277 9999, www.mona.net.au, Entry FREE. 655 Main Road, Berriedale, Tasmania 7011 • Inflight ARI Support Arts Aprieciation Society (SAAS) presents, group show. Opens Fri 8 April – 30 April. Gallery hours: Wed - Sat 1 - 5pm. 100 Goulburn Street, Hobart. www.inflightart.com.au

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• Salamanca Arts Centre Long Gallery and Sidespace Gallery: Dis-covery, Ten Days on the Island event, 25 March – 1 May; Kelly’s Garden: The Crossing, JULIE GOUGH, Ten Days on the Island event, 25 March - 1 May. 77 Salamanca Place, Hobart. T: (03) 6234 8414, E:info@salarts.org.au, www.salarts.org.au • Print Council of Australia Inc. Printmakers and print collectors stay in touch with print exhibitions, events and technical issues through IMPRINT magazine. Members receive frequent email updates and information about opportunities (courses, forums, group exhibitions and competitions). Subscriptions $65/year or $45 concessions see website: www.printcouncil.org.au or phone T: (03) 9328 8991 for membership details.

Neil Boyack’s - Social Work

Interview with Zara Swindells-Grose - Comedian

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Which member of your family influenced you the most?

My Nan passed away a few years back at 95 - tough as nails! Even had a kidney removed (nothin’ wrong with it - she just didn’t like it’s attitude!) In her last days in hospital, I asked her; “Are you scared of dying Nan?” and she said; “No ... look how many people have done it - how hard can it be!”

Do you have a favourite family story?

We had Dad cremated (after he’d passed, of course) and they handed us back a four kilo bag! A “Bago’Dad!” (Sounds like the Irish Iraq!) In the movies there’s just the little handful of ash when you say goodbye but we were on a boat and all struggling with this huge bag of ash. The wind kept sending him back over us and all over the deck. Of course we How similar are your political beliefs to those of your family? washed him down with beer - because that’s what Dad Not at all - we’re all Lefty-Righty Conservative Fascists would’ve wanted! A hilarious day and a great send off. with a heart of green!

What do you like the best about your body?

What do you hope for?

Let’s just say my ample bosom? People think big I hope that the advertising industry stops lying to us... boobs are best - but they’re a drag (like, literally - I’ve that ad for “Happyderm” moisturiser says; “Now with taken skin off!) But at least you can do a lot with big 80% more happy?!” (Great! I’m happy - but just from boobs, wear ‘em up, wear ‘em down, pop ‘em over your skin up!?) Screw that... at 80 bucks a pop - I’m not shoulders as a halter neck. wasting it on my face - I’m drinking it!!

What do you think would be the best thing about being the What do you think is your main purpose in life? opposite gender?

To help people become happier. I’m always looking for Their simplicity. opportunities to help.Yesterday I helped a little old lady across the road. (She didn’t want to go... but I got her How do you control your anger? in a headlock!)

HOW DARE YOU ASK THAT!! I’LL KILL YOU!!!

Do you think its OK to lie?

Yes. No.Yes. Sure. (Being a comedian, I never let the “truth” get in the way of a good story).

Is there anything you find irresistible?

Love a good dessert! To me a “good” dessert is one that gives chest pains.

What does freedom mean to you?

Being able to quieten the little voices in my head - we’ve all got them. (Some people have several!) Is it bad that mine sounds like Golem from Lord of the Rings? “Yesss my precious!”

What is stopping you?

Most humans have two fears; not having enough and not being enough. I have a third fear... that I’m just a Nuff Nuff!

What do you think are the most important social issues today?

They say that by 2020 depression will be our biggest health problem... (that’s depressing!) I like to meditate - I have my own style. I do it with a bottle of red and a block of Cadbury!

What beliefs do you have that you think will never change?

People are intrinsically good... and pussies are nice!

Why do you think there is suffering in the world?

Our reptilian brains are still in survival mode. (See meditation formula above - I highly recommend it!)

Do you believe in the supernatural?

Yes. I was once visited by three of my dead relatives.

They showed up in my room with beers(!) How Aussie is that? And now I’m less scared of dying because clearly, there’s an open bar up there!

Is any religious text important to you?

Yes. I’m a firm believer in the sacred texts of “Oh the Places You’ll Go” and the philosophy inherent in “The Sneetches” by the great spiritual leader, Dr Seuss.

Have you ever come close to dying?

At 16 I had a cardiac arrest and died for a minute! And not just on-stage for once... (it’s alright... “I got better”!)

What was your favourite book as a child?

(See religious text!)

What do you like most about where you live?

You’ve gotta love Melbourne - it’s the only city in Australia where you can grab a coffee... on the way to getting a coffee!

If I asked a good friend of yours what you were good at, what would they say?

They’d say “everything” - but then, my friends are complete liars. They do however, love me unconditionally (bless them - poor deluded fools!)

What stays the same in your life, no matter how much other things change?

The love of my life, my husband TroyBoy. Twenty years we’ve been together, he’s my rock and my soulmate.

We moved in together the first night we met! (Some girls play hard to get - I play hard to get rid of!) **Come see our show at Melbourne International Comedy Festival** “Zara as Zara in ‘Zara’ (with Troy!) a One-Woman Show” 30 Mar – 21 Apr 2011 6.30pm Tues-Sat http://www.3dcomedy.com.au/zara Bookings ph 0417 65 15 38

DATELINE: APRIL 2011

by Courtney Symes

Amanda MARBURG, Sanctuary, 2005, oil on canvas, Private collection, Sydney , © Courtesy the artist

Last month many people (including myself) seemed to be dropping like flies from a miserable summer flu and an assortment of other ailments. Those I knew who weren’t sneezing and wheezing their way through the month seemed to be suffering with relationship breakdowns, family issues and other mystery illnesses – all quite depressing really.

The solution? Taking more time for ourselves. I have a wise friend who habitually books a monthly facial and another who invests in a weekly massage. Although this may sound indulgent, our problem might actually stem from our aversion to self-care. By pausing to take a few moments for ourselves we become better equipped to deal with the challenges life presents us. Taking time out could be as simple as visiting a gallery or two to draw inspiration from others and the way they view the world. Here are a couple of ideas to get you started this month...

From Public Figures to Public Sculpture is for anyone who has ever wondered what the large yellow object outside ACCA is, or what the large purse in Bourke St Mall symbolises. This intriguing exhibition focuses on Melbourne memorials, monuments and sculptures from the 19-20th centuries and includes a comprehensive collection of small-scale models, photographs, artist’s original sketches as well as books and clippings.

The warmth of the red granite used for Simon Perry’s Public Purse 1994 is a beautiful contrast against Bourke Street’s concrete pavement, and an appropriate motif for this popular shopping destination. Perry believes that “The purse signifies an interaction between the city and the citizen, the public and the private...I was interested in creating an object which would operate on a number of different levels, both poetic and conceptual whilst addressing the context of the site.”

Originally designed for Melbourne’s City Square, Ron Robertson-Swann’s bright yellow Vault, 1978-80 was moved to its current location outside ACCA in 2002.

Whilst the original brief specified that the sculpture “should contrast with and offset the formal character of the square,” it was deemed that “the result was a little too contemporary for public taste.” (Source: Melbourne’s Park and Garden History, Features and Statistics, Melbourne City Council 1984).

Runs until 16 April at City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/citygallery

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Model Pictures at the Ian Potter Museum of Art focuses on the work of four younger artists: Moya McKenna, James Lynch, Amanda Marburg and Rob McHaffie.

These Melbourne based artists are blazing the trail for contemporary painting, utilising different techniques such as tabletop tableaux, plasticine models, as well as studio still-lifes and mannequins. James Lynch utilises oil on canvas to create pieces that resemble a collage of magazine clippings that address contemporary themes and memories. Rob McHaffie deliberately uses extensive white or light backgrounds in his works to ensure that the other colours stand out, adding emphasis to his pieces. Amanda Marburg manipulates her neutral colour palette of oils into soft, curved lines that form her gently moulded characters, painted from plasticine figures and photographs. Moya McKenna’s abstract pieces feature bold brush strokes and deliberate blending of colours (particularly khaki, yellow and brown) to create texture and movement throughout her work. Runs until 15 May. www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au ACCA’s annual commissions exhibition is back, bigger and better than ever. This year, NEW11 showcases new works from ten artists including Fiona Abicare, Rebecca Baumann, Tim Coster, Greatest Hits, Shane Haseman, Mark Hilton, Dan Moynihan, Brendan Van Hek, Justene Williams and Annie Wu. Artists were “commissioned to create a work that reflects their individual concerns and practices, all are linked by a common interest in materiality.” Subsequent works have been selected by curator Hannah Mathews for the 2011 show, which promises to be “an exhibition where the uncanny, symbolic, political, historical and comedic can all be found.” Runs until 15 May. www.accaonline.org.au Named after renowned artist and poet, William Blake, The Blake Society is the non-profit organisation behind the annual Blake Religious Prize. The 59th annual Blake Religious Prize for 2010 was awarded to Leonard Brown for his work, If you put your ear close, you’ll hear it breathing. The contemporary art and poetry works selected for the exhibition are diverse and explore ideas of religion, spirituality and human justice.

Chair of the Blake Society, Rod Pattenden says that some artists “take us to a place of contemplation, a deepening sense of spirituality, a place of meditation and quietness. Other artists take us right out to the edge to the political issues which confront our culture...I think that’s part of the genius of the Blake and that there is this kind of diverse response to this question of what is spirit, what is belief, and what lies most passionately at the base of our culture?”. Next stop for the Blake Prize exhibition tour is Melbourne’s Kinross House, Toorak until 27 April. www.blakeprize.com.au

A fascination with found objects coupled with a love for New York was the main source of inspiration behind Marco Luccio’s latest exhibition, New York Found at Steps Gallery this month. Works featured in the exhibition are “a culmination of objects, remnants and artefacts that I discovered, found or rediscovered from my several trips to New York over the past four years,” says Luccio. A collector of found objects since he was a child, Luccio says “I see them as representing the bigger picture. A broken toy soldier, a fragment of a note or an old photo discarded and found at a flea market are things loaded with intense associations with our humanity and are a record of our existence.” Look out for Luccio’s ‘Postcards No.5’ (an exhibition highlight) which was short-listed for the Dobell Prize for Drawing in 2010 and don’t miss the free Artist’s Floor Talk on Sunday 17 April 3-4pm (bookings essential).

Runs until 1 May. www.marcoluccio.com New Romantics is the exploration of the “return to truth and beauty in Australian art”. Featuring the work of twelve Australian artists, the exhibition examines the passion, wonder and meaning of Romantic art for a new generation of artists. Curated by Simon Gregg and hosted by MARS (Melbourne Art Rooms), featured artists include Jason Cordero, Saffron Newey, Stephen Wickham, Richard Lipp, Tony Lloyd, Robbie Rowlands, Juha Tolonen, Sarah Nguyen, Camilla Tadich, Joel Zika, Hannah Bertram and Iris Fischer.

Also at MARS this month is Sue Pedley’s exhibition, Sounding. Pedley utilises collage, interweaving paper and textiles to create her abstract patterns. The exhibition name derives from the traditional technique of measuring the depth of water by lowering a weight attached to a line into the water (also known as Sounding). The exhibition title also relates to the way people communicate with each other and their surrounding environment. Both shows run from 6 April until 1 May. Also check out MARS Gallery Director Andy Dinan’s new TV program, Gallery Girl on Channel 31 every Sunday. Gallery Girl is an upbeat, candid look at Melbourne’s galleries, artists, curators and art fanatics.

Visit www.c31.org.au and www.marsgallery.com.au for more info.

Drift is a unique exhibition featuring a vast selection of basketry - from traditional to contemporary works

by Basketmakers of Victoria as part of the Herring Island Summer Arts Festival. Activities such as live basket-making, as well as string and knot making will be available to visitors and many of the works included in the exhibition are for sale. Runs from 9-26 April. www. basketmakersofvictoria.com.au melburnin’ logo by Ryan Ford

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box hill

• Alcove Art Shop Handcrafted gifts by Australian artisans. 470 Station Street, Box Hill. T: (03) 9897 4400 www.alcoveartshop.org.au • Box Hill Community Arts Centre National Youth Week - Idea to Exhibition, 5 – 10 April; AFALYCA Arte Moris, Baucau - East Timor, 12 – 24 April; JOHN MCCALLUM, 27 April – 1 May. 470 Station Street Box Hill, T: (03) 9895 8888, bhcac.com.au • Whitehorse Art Space Until 9 April, Masters of the Wheel masterly wheel-thrown works collected during the last 40 years by Ceramics Victoria and the Whitehorse Art Collection. New inspiring work will be shown alongside works by celebrated Australian ceramicists such as JANET MANSFIELD, JEFF MINCHAM and HAROLD HUGHAN. Guest curated by ceramicist and educator, Sue McFarland; 14 April – 25 May, Mementos from Matsudo Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the City of Whitehorse’s sister city relationship with Matsudo in Japan. This exhibition highlights the important ongoing relationship with a selection of photographs, handmade dolls, textiles and objects gifted to Whitehorse by Matsudo during this time. A special traditional Japanese tea ceremony will be held on Saturday 7 May at 2pm as part of the Art Space’s series of public programs. Bookings for this free event are essential phone T: (03) 9262 6250.

Tues and Fri 10am - 3pm, Wed and Thurs 9am - 5pm, Saturday noon - 4pm. T: (03) 9262 6250, 1022 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill VIC 3128, www.boxhilltownhall.com.au

brunswick

• Brunswick Arts Space Launch 2011, A selection of last years graduates, Opening Friday 1 April, 6 - 9pm, 2 – 17 April.

JAMES HALLIBURTON, IRENE FINKELDE, FIONA WATERS, GRACE HERBERT, BECC ORZAG, MAX PIANTONI, CASPAR ZIKA. 2a Little Breese street, Brunswick. Thu - Fri 2 - 6pm, Sat - Sun 12 - 5pm. www.brunswickarts.com.au • Counihan Gallery in Brunswick Until 1 May: Gallery One - Movements we make all the time, drawings and site-specific video and installations by ISADORA VAUGHAN and JAHNNE PASCO-WHITE. Gallery Two -

Valency, drawings and watercolours by AMANDA ROBINS. 233 Sydney Road, Brunswick T: (03) 9389 8622. Hrs: Wed - Sat 11am - 5pm, Sun 1pm - 5pm. Closed public holidays. The Counihan Gallery will be closed over the Easter period: 22 – 26 April (inclusive).

• Pan Gallery 19 – 29 April, Crosshatched: a cross-cultural creative collaboration, including an installation of traditional Indian water pots (mudka) and a charity auction, on Fri 29 April 6 - 8pm, of mudka decorated by Melbourne artists. 142 - 144 Weston Street Brunswick East. Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm, Sat 9am - 4pm. T: (03) 9387 3911, www.northcotepottery.com.au

burwood

• Deakin University Art Gallery 13 April to 21 May. In Solitude: TODD FULLER and DAVID-ASHLEY KERR: A joint exhibition by winners of the 2010 City of Dandenong Walker Street Gallery ‘Emerging Artist Award’.

TODD FULLER will show a range of sculpture, works on paper and animation. DAVID-ASHLEY KERR’s large-format photographic works explore the visual relationship between culture and the environment. Gallery hours 10am - 4pm Tuesday to Friday, 1 - 5pm Saturday. Closed Public Holidays, Free Entry. 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood 3125. T: (03) 9244 5344, F: (03) 9244 5254, E: artgallery@deakin.edu.au www.deakin.edu.au/art-collection

carlton

• La Mama La Mama, 205 Faraday Street: 6 – 17 Apr, The Damsel In Shining Armour, cabaret by SOPHIE WALSHE-HARRINGTON; 7 – 17 Apr, Everything Must Go by RACHEL LEARY; 20 – 24 Apr, The Grand Inquisitor, adapted from Dostoyevsky

by SUBRA VELAYUTHAM; from 27 Apr, The Ed Stevenson Show by ED STEVENSON and JUDITH LUCY; At La Mama Courthouse, 349 Drummond Street: 13 – 24 Apr, Til Divorce by TAHNEE JONES; 14 – 24 Apr, Australia Dot Com by MICHAEL GRIFFITH; from 28 Apr, Lloyd Beckmann, Beekeeper by TIM STITZ and KELLY SOMES. Bookings T: (03) 9347 6142 or www.lamama.com.au

MELBOURNE

collingwood

• James Makin Gallery Exhibiting: RICHARD DUNLOP - Still Life, Still Death: ANZAC Memorials and Other New Paintings: 31 March – 30 April. Hours: Tues - Fri 10am - 5.30pm, Sat 11am - 5pm. 67 Cambridge Street, Collingwood, 3066. T: (03) 9416 3966, F: (03) 9416 4066, E: info@jamesmakingallery.com www.jamesmakingallery.com • Off the Kerb 1 – 22 April, Pirate Existence, (Off the Kerb’s 4th Birthday Group Show). Opening Friday 1 April 6pm - 9pm. 66B Johnston Street Collingwood 3066. www.offthekerb.com.au

dandenong

• Walker Street Gallery WENDY YASSARAH, Beautiful linocut printmaking that conjurs memories and metaphors of suburban life. Reception 6.30pm Thursday 7 April, exhibition 1 – 27 April 2011. Cnr Walker and Robinsons streets Dandenong 3175. Mon - Fri 11am to 5pm, Sat 11am to 3pm. Closed Sunday and public holidays. T: (03) 9706 8441, F: (03) 9706 7651, E: walkerstreetgallery@cgd.vic.gov.au www.greaterdandenong.com

deer park

• Hunt Club Community Arts Centre Galleries 17 March – 16 April, Ring a Ring the Ozie by JOEL MAGPAYO. Centre open Mon - Thurs 9am - 7.30pm, Fri 9am - 4.30pm, Sat 9am 12.30pm. Closed Public Holidays. 775 Ballarat Road, Deer Park (Melway 25, F8). T: (03) 9249 4600, E: huntclub@brimbank.vic.gov.au, www.brimbank.vic.gov.au/arts

doncaster

• Manningham Gallery Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award: SUE ACHESON, JILL ANDERSON, JANE ANNOIS, ROBERT BARRON, KRIS COAD, AMY COHEN, SHARYN DINGELDEI, INGRID DUSSELBERG, NEVILLE FRENCH, AVIS GARDNER, CHRISTOPHER HEADLEY, TITANIA HENDERSON, TERUNOBU HIRATA, ROBYN HOSKING, WENDY JAGGER, KATE JONES, IRIANNA KANELLOPOULOU, JANETTA KERR-GRANT, BRIAN KEYTE, LENE KUHL JAKOBSEN, ROBYNE LATHAM, TINA LEE, DARREN MCGINN, LILACH MILEIKOWSKI, TRACY MUIRHEAD, FIONA MURPHY, NANDITA NADKARNI, ANGELA NAGEL, JOHN O`LOUGHLIN, MIRTA OURO, CHANDRA PAUL, SARAH SCHEMBRI, TARA SHACKELL, PETRUS SPRONK, VIPOO SRIVILASA, KIM TARPEY, JANE WALTON, KIRK WINTER, PAUL WOOD, 30 March – 16 April; Memoirs in a Box, 27 April – 14 May. Manningham Gallery, 699 Doncaster Road, Doncaster 3108. Open Tuesday to Friday 11am to 5pm, Saturday 2 to 5pm. E: gallery@manningham.vic.gov.au, www.manningham.vic.gov.au/gallery • What are you waiting for Doncaster?

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east melbourne

• The Johnston Collection House Museum and Gallery Fairhall: Francis W Dunn Rearranges Mr Johnston’s Collection, 7 March – 24 June.

Antique dealer and collector, FRANCIS DUNN reinterprets Fairhall, the residence and collection of the late WILLIAM JOHNSTON; Gallery: Oh, Do Grow Up... Childhood in England 17501850, 7 March – 24 June. Explores images, accounts and artifacts of childhood from 1750 - 1850. Bookings essential: T (03) 9416 2515, www.johnstoncollection.org

eltham

• Eltham Library Community Gallery 24 Mar – 11 April: Cycles of Life, Linocuts

by LIBBY SCHREIBER and wood sculptures

by ANDREW POTOCNIK; 14 Apr – 4 May: Artists Open Studios, showcasing artwork by artists of the Nillumbik Open Studios program. www.artistsopenstudios.com.au, Hours: Mon Thurs 10am - 8.30pm, Fri - Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 1 - 5pm. Panther Place, Eltham, Melway 25 J5

fairfield

• NMIT – Bachelor of Illustration A degree for those wishing to be a specialist in the creative industries. For information visit www.nmit.edu.au/illustration or call T: (03) 9269 8888

fitzroy

• Brooklyn Arts Hotel Brooklyn is beautiful, friendly, quiet, interesting, quirky and personal, within walking distance of central Melbourne. 48-50 George Street Fitzroy.

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• Colour Factory Gallery Immersion by KANE ALEXANDER, opening night Thursday 7 April, 6 - 8pm. Exhibition dates: 8 – 30 Apr 2011. Colour Factory Gallery, 409 – 429 Gore Street, Fitzroy 3065. Gallery hours: 10am - 6pm Mon - Fri, Sat 1 - 4pm. T: (03) 9419 8756, E: Gallery@colourfactory.com.au, http://www.colourfactory.com.au/gallery/ • Port Jackson Press Print Room Publishers and dealers in limited edition fine art prints. Established 1975; Flock of Birds - a group exhibition by artists using the theme of the bird: 7 April – 4 June; The Little Window of Opportunity: Mirabilia: 9 April – 7 May 2011. Hours: Tues - Fri 10am - 5.30pm, Sat 11am - 5pm. 61 Smith Street, Fitzroy, 3065. T: (03) 9419 8988, F: (03) 9419 0017, E: info@portjacksonpress.com.au www.portjacksonpress.com.au

footscray

• Magnani Papers Australia Beautiful fine art papers for printmaking, painting and drawing. Mention this Trouble ad and get 10% off! 40 Buckley Street Footscray 3011. T: (03) 9689 5660, www.magnani.com.au E: james@magnani.com.au • The Dog Theatre The Dog Theatre and Footscray Community Arts Centre present: The Footscray 4 for Melbourne International Comedy Festival. All shows opening 1 – 23 April, Wed - Sat. The Etiquette Hour with Lady Cordelia by ISABEL HERTAEG, 8pm (6 – 9 Apr), 9.15pm (13 – 16 Apr), 6.45pm (20 – 23 Apr); This Way Up by GLYNN NICHOLAS, 9.15pm (6 – 9 Apr), 6.45pm (13 – 16 Apr), 8pm (20 – 23 Apr). Punked by ROSS DANIELS, 6.45pm (6 – 9 Apr), 8pm (13 – 16 Apr), 9.15pm (20 – 23 Apr); MIA STANFORD: Unclassifiable, 3 shows only, 5 – 16 Apr, 8pm Tue, Fri and Sat. All shows at FCAC Basement Theatre, 45 Moreland St Footscray. $25 full/$20 conc/$17 previews.

Bookings: www.thedogtheatre.com

frankston

• B’artiste Cafe and Lounge Bar Watching, New Paintings and Prints by KAREN LEWIS http://www.karenlewisart.com and SHARRON OKINES http://www.sharronokines. weebly.com, Opening 6pm Fri 1 April – 29 Apr. Rear of 2/12 Young Street, Frankston.

T: (03) 9783 8883, E: bartiste@y7.com.au, www.bartiste.com.au, 2 - 11pm Tue - Sun.

MELBOURNE

highett

• Silk Cut Print Workshop Facility The Silk Cut Foundation has opened a new Print Workshop Facility in Highett. The facility is a dedicated linocut printmaking workspace.

It is available for rental by artists, teachers and community groups. For more information please contact: T: (03) 9555 8299, E: info@silkcutlino.com

langwarrin

• McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park Australia’s leading Sculpture Park and Gallery.

Two exhibitions opening 6 March – 15 May 2011. DAVID WADELTON: icons of suburbia and SIMRYN GILL: Inland. A NETS Victoria touring exhibition developed by the Centre for Contemporary Photography. Presented in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival; McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award 2010, 21 November to 17 July 2011.

390 McClelland Drive, Langwarrin (Mel. Ref. 103 E3 only 45 min from St Kilda!) T: (03) 9789 1671. Gallery Hours: Tues - Sun 10am - 5pm (Entry by donation). McClelland Gallery Café, Tues - Sun 10am - 4.30pm. Guided Tours: Wed and Thurs 11am and 2pm, and Sat and Sun Sculpture Park at 2pm. Prior bookings highly recommended. E: info@mcclellandgallery.com, www.mcclellandgallery.com

melbourne

• Blindside Artist Run Space to 9 April: How to Draw Charts and Diagrams - MITCHEL BRANNAN. Restoration Spaces ELIZABETH MCINNES and MATTHEW BERKA; 13 April – 7 May (Opening Thursday 14 April, 6 - 8pm): Precipice - JONATHAN MCBURNIE. How To Make Your Home Truly Your Own - JULIE MONRO-ALLISON. Nicholas Building,

714/37 Swanston Street (enter via Cathedral Arcade lifts, cnr Flinders Ln), Melbourne.

Hours: Tue to Sat 12 - 6pm. T: (03) 9650 0093, www.blindside.org.au • fortyfivedownstairs 4 April, Bugger the Polar Bears, This is Serious, starring ROD QUANTOCK, Theatre; 5 – 16 April, Fluid, MICHAEL PEARCE, drawings; 5 – 16 April, Consequence, TONY G PENTLAND, drawings; 19 – 30 April, To bee, MEGAN EVANS, photography, video and installation; 19 – 30 April, Overkill, SAM SONGAILO, paintings, video and installation. fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, 3000. T: (03) 9662 9966, www.fortyfivedownstairs.com • Level 17 Artspace Until 8 April: AURA: the Haunted Image, CATH BARCAN, MARSHA BERRY, PETER BURKE, GREG GIANNIS, GINA KALABISHIS, DEEN KEEP, MARK HOLSWORTH, SUE KNEEBONE, MARK LEAMAN, STEFAN SCHUTT, MATTHEW STANTON, IRENE WELLM; 19 April – 13 May: Five Miles from the Sea, Curator: Geoff Tolchard, Artists: GEORGE ALAMIDIS, TERRI BROOKES, CAZ GUINEY, JODI HEFFERNAN, KARI HENRIKSE, GREG NEVILLE, KIRSTEN PERRY, KARENNE REES, ADRIANE STRAMPP, MARIA THOMPSON, GEOFF TOLCHARD, PETER WEGNER. Level 17 Artspace, Victoria University City Campus, (map ref 14-D), 17/300 Flinders Street Melbourne Vic 3000.

Gallery Director/Curator: Kirsten Rann. T: (03) 9919 1931, Gallery hours: Mon - Fri 10am 5pm, Free Entry. E: kirsten.rann@vu.edu.au http://creativeindustries.vu.edu.au/level17.html

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• RMIT Gallery Friday 15 April – Saturday 28 May, Three exhibitions: AINSLIE MURRAY: Intangible Architecture; CHELLE MACNAUGHTAN: Spatial Listening; MALTE WAGENFELD: Aesthetics of Air. Exploring the role of air, light and sound in contemporary architectural space. Public program: 15 April 12 - 1pm - Artists in Conversation: Ainslie Murray, Chelle Macnaughtan and Malte Wagenfeld. RMIT Gallery: 344 Swanston Street, Melbourne 3000. T: (03) 9925 1717, F: (03) 9925 1738. E: rmit.gallery@rmit.edu.au, www.rmit.edu.au/rmitgallery. Free admission.

Lift access. Mon - Fri 11am to 5pm, Sat 12 to 5pm, closed Sun and public holidays. Closed 22 April - 26 April. Reopens 27 April. Become a Fan of the Gallery on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter@RMITGallery.

• Strip Billboard Inc Presents The Long and the Short of it, on the Big Screen at Federation Square from 1 – 21 May. A collection of photo essays submitted by the public, photographers and photojournalists from around the world. For more information go to www.stripbillboard.com • The Workshop Love Letter, Prints and Paintings by SHARRON OKINES, www.sharronokines.weebly.com, Opening 6pm Tue 12 Apr – 08 May. Level 1, 413-417 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne.

T: (03) 9326 4365 www.theworkshop.com.au

narre warren north

• Artgallop Gallery Shop March – April: Body Beautiful, $5 Entries invited;

May – June: Vicarchies Portrait Competition. Any style or medium $20. Entries close 4 May 2011.

Quaker Barn 3a Reservoir Rd T: (03) 8790 4756 E: rosmead@gmail.com, www.artgallop.net

northcote

• Arts Project Australia Subterranean, Exhib dates: 19 Mar – 27 Apr 2011.

Subterranean showcases bold new possibilities for ceramics. Artists include: VALERIO CICCONE, ALAN CONSTABLE, PAUL HODGES, RUTH HOWARD, KATE KNIGHT, FIONA LONGHURST, CHRIS MASON and JODIE NOBLE amongst others; ALAN CONSTABLE - Viewfinder, Exhib dates: 30 Apr – 1 Jun 2011. Opening Sat 30 Apr from 3 - 5pm. Showcasing more than 60 works selected from a body spanning more than 20 years, Viewfinder offers new and rich insights into the unique art of ALAN CONSTABLE. Gallery Hours: Mon to Fri 9am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 1pm. Location and contact details: Arts Project Australia, 24 High Street Northcote Victoria 3070. T: (03) 9482 4484, F: (03) 9482 1852, E: info@artsproject.org.au, www.artsproject.org.au For artwork enquiries and appointments please contact Arts Project Australia gallery.

newport

• The Substation 3 March – 17 April 2011, The Babel Project by GEORGIA METAXIS. 1 Market Street, Newport. www.thesubstation.org.au • The Substation 24 April – 1 May 2011, Uniformed Women: Lipstick and War by KARENNE REES. 1 Market Street, Newport. www.thesubstation.org.au

MELBOURNE

preston

upway

southbank

wheelers hill

• NMIT Visual Arts Courses Design, Graphic Design, Photoimaging, Painting, Printmaking, Photography, Illustration.

Full and Part time options plus short courses. See our website for all information www.nmit.edu.au/visualarts. T: (03) 9269 1431 • ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art NEW11, Presented by the Balnaves Foundation.

NEW11, ACCA’s annual commissions exhibition, offers more artists from more places around Australia the opportunity to make something new and have it shown in 2011. Curated

by Hannah Mathews, the artists hail from Melbourne, Sydney and Perth and are linked by a common interest in materiality. NEW11 artists are: FIONA ABICARE, REBECCA BAUMANN, TIM COSTER, GREATEST HITS, SHANE HASEMAN, MARK HILTON, DAN MOYNIHAN, BRENDAN VAN HEK, JUSTENE WILLIAMS and ANNIE WU. NEW11: 12 March – 15 May 2011, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 111 Sturt Street, Southbank.

Gallery hours: Tuesday - Friday 10am - 5pm, Weekends and Public Holidays 11am - 6pm.

Mondays by appointment. T: (03) 9697 9999.

Admission: Free. www.accaonline.org.au

st andrews

• The Baldessin Press and Studio Workshops, art retreats, studio access in the bush. See www.baldessinpress.com or T: (03) 9710 1350

• Burrinja Gallery Colours of the Country II - Celebrating 10 years of Alice Springs Beanie Festival, Sat 2 April – Sun 15 May. Works from the Burrinja Collection. 351 Glenfell Rd. Daily 10.30am - 4pm. www.burrinja.org.au.

• Monash Gallery of Art (MGA) Special Exhibition Gallery, Time Machine: SUE FORD, 7 April to 19 June 2011; Wilbow Gallery, Age of Aquarius: the photography of PAUL COX, 7 April to 19 June 2011; Focus Gallery, Topshots: photomedia work by VCE Art, Media and Studio Arts students of 2010, 5 April to 15 May 2011.

Monash Gallery of Art, 860 Ferntree Gully Road (cnr Jells and Ferntree Gully Roads), Wheelers Hill 3150. Director: Shaune Lakin. Tues - Fri 10am to 5pm, Sat - Sun 12 to 5pm, Closed Mon. Gallery gift shop, LAMP café and sculpture park.

T: (03) 8544 0500, E: mga@monash.vic.gov.au, www.mga.org.au

Orchard in Spring (Launceston) c. 1942, Oil on cardboard, 38.0 x 45.0 Coll: Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Purchased 1943

Scottish Painters in Australia Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum 2 April – 8 May

Over 100 beautiful artworks by ten of the finest Scottish artists in Australia. Items have been borrowed from public and private collections all over Australia.

14 Lyttleton Street, Castlemaine, VIC 3450 Telephone 03 5472 2292 www.castlemainegallery.com

2011 Castlemaine state Festival 1–10 April BOOKiNGS (03) 5434 6100

CASTLEMAINE STATE FESTIVAL GUIDE Sing Your Own Opera And now for something completely different, especially for all those who sing the shower. Here’s your chance to be discovered as the newest opera star ... come along for a day with the professionals from the Victorian Opera – the conductor, the soloists, and an accompanist will coach the audience, so that it becomes the chorus. Rehearse in the afternoon (with a chance of winning prizes) and then in the evening show feel the power of singing with many others in a large space. The aim? Lift the roof off the Town Hall! The rehearsal is not compulsory, so you could just come along for the evening performance, but then you’d miss half the fun.

One performance only: Town Hall, Saturday 9 April. Rehearsal starts 3:30. Performance 8pm. Tix are $30 / $25 (includes rehearsal).

Nick Tsiavos Ensemble – Liminal Nick Tsiavos Ensemble consists of saxophones, percussion, voice and the contrabass of Nick Tsiavos himself.

The group are interested in blending the beauty of ancient sacred chant with modern sounds from jazz to minimalism. Join them in St Mary’s Catholic Church where the acoustic is perfect for this sort of musical exploration. One performance only: St Mary’s Catholic Church, Tuesday 5 April, 6pm. Tix are $22 / $20.

Speak Percussion Ensemble Speak Percussion Ensemble will make the Presbyterian Church feel like a living, breathing creature, where the audience is hyper-conscious of sound, from the slightest note to the most complex of arrangements.

A truly all-over tingling experience.

One performance only: Presbyterian Church, Monday 4 April, 6pm.

Tix are $22 / $20.

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Michelle Heaven – Disagreeable Object Disagreeable Object is being presented at the Castlemaine Goods Shed, next to the railway station. See this old building transformed into a theatre set for a very beautiful contemporary dance-theatre work devised by one of Australia’s most intriguing dancers and independent choreographers, Michelle Heaven.

familiar at the same time. Beyond the Pale - dance show at the Theatre Royal, Sunday 3 April, 8pm. Tix are $35 / $30. Beyond Mozart - Town Hall, Saturday 4 April, 8pm.

Tix are $40 / $35.

Disagreeable Object is an anti-romantic, comic tale of obsession, which allows you to immerse yourself in a strange, dark, funny little world. It recalls the beauty and heightened emotions of silent films - a place where the blink of an eye, the squeak of a floorboard, the tiniest of details, can lead to a torrent of jealousy and oneupmanship. It features an original sound score by renowned composer/musician Bill McDonald, and stunning design and lighting by Ben Cobham. There are 8 performances: Wednesday 6 April, Thursday 7, Friday 8 and Saturday 9 April; all days at 7pm and 8:30pm (Thurs 7 at 7pm SOLD OUT). Tix are $20 / $15. Please note- not suitable for children under 8 y-o.

Beyond the Pale Canadian band Beyond the Pale are famous for their boundary-busting Eurofolk fusion. They are an innovative world roots ensemble, mixing Klezmer, Balkan and Romanian styles with influences such as blues, reggae, jazz and funk. They will deliver 2 performances, the first in their normal style – a fantastic dance show at the Theatre Royal – and the second a completely different show in the Town Hall. For this show they present Beyond Mozart, an incredible concert of Mozart pieces, rearranged by the band for their mix of instruments – strings, clarinet and piano accordion. It’s the first time this show has been seen in Australia. Commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Commission to reinterpret Mozart’s work in honour of his 250th birthday, the band have reinvigorated his melodies with fresh musical inflections that make the work radical and warmly

Matthew Timmis – Carcophony Carcophony – the show where the cars are the stars. Castlemaine’s two dominant cultures – cars and arts – come together to make a truly unique show. Imagine sitting out in the gorge at Vaughan Springs on your picnic rug or folding chair, with the Loddon flowing past. Ahead of you are 12 cars fanned out across the grassy area, from vintage to modern, and all worth a look at. The sun is setting and at 7pm the sound starts up. The car speakers are combining to form one big sound, in a range of musical styles that swell up and fade out, echoing up and down the walls of the gorge. As the concert goes on, the amassed car doors, horns and lights pinpoint certain musical moments.

This is amazing, an event you won’t forget.

There are two performances: Sunday 3 April and Friday 8 April, both at 7pm. Tix are $20 / $15.

main photo courtesy Victorian Opera inset: Berek Segan AM OBE, pictured with Hotrod.

Berek’s vision inspired the very first Castlemaine State Festival in 1976.

PREVIOUS SPREAD: Castlemaine Secondary College students are busy printing fabric in readiness for the opening weekend of the Castlemaine State Festival. Students have printed over 200 metres of fabric using screenprinting and block printing methods with Artist-in-School and local printmaker, Rhyll PLANT. The fabric will be presented to the public as a backdrop to the Pandemonium Pavilions which will flank the outside of the Castlemaine Market Building during the opening weekend of the state festival on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 April.

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THIS SPREAD: 1. Clayton TREMLETT, Two Australian Queens Commemorative Wallpaper 2010, linocut, 15 x 15cm.

Pressing Issues – The Exhibition, Castlemaine Post Office Building, Lyttleton Street Castlemaine (VIC), 1 – 10 April.

2. Franz KEMPF, Reflections on Bashevis Singer, 1978, lithograph, 76.0 x 57.0 cm, edition: 300. & 3. Les KOSSATZ, Bound Trophy and After Image 1978, lithograph, 76.0 x 57.0 cm, edition: 300. The Bodfford Terrace Folio, The Union Studio, 74 Mostyn Street (enter via Union Street) Castlemaine (VIC), 1 – 10 April. Exhibition launch by Judith Pugh Sunday 3 April, 2pm.

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4. Jeff MAKIN, Great Western Tiers II 2007, etching. Pressing Issues – The Exhibition, Castlemaine Post Office Building, Lyttleton Street Castlemaine (VIC), 1 – 10 April.

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PREVIOUS SPREAD: 5. Julie MILLOWICK, Shrek Christmas 2010, photograph. Castlemaine: Of Cars and Christmas Lights, Faulder Watson Hall, Barker Street Castlemaine (VIC), 1 – 10 April. 6. John WOLSELEY, New growth beyond Sunset Track 2006-07, watercolour, carbonised wood and graphite on paper. Courtesy of the Artist and Australian Galleries. Figuring the Earth, Judy HOLDING, John WOLSELEY and Mimih figures from The Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Castlemaine Market Building, 44 Mostyn Street Castlemaine (VIC), 1 – 10 April. Admission FREE. THIS SPREAD: 7.

Michelle HEAVEN, Disagreeable Object, dance theatre. Castlemaine Goods Shed, Kennedy Street Castlemaine (VIC), Wednesday 6, Thursday 7, Friday 8, and Saturday 9 April, 7pm and 8.30pm. Admission $20 / $15. Please notenot suitable for children under 8 y-o. 8. COUCH RECOVERED, randomly scattered around Castlemaine (VIC), 2 – 9 April.

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Ashley MACISAAC (fiddle) with QUINN BACHAND (guitar), Theatre Royal, 30 Hargraves Street Castlemaine (VIC), Thursday 7 April, 8pm. Admission $35 / $30.

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• The Artists Rooms A series of site-response works by ALEKS DANKO, EMILY FLOYD, JILL ORR and MELISSA and STEVE PROPOSCH. A parallel performance will accompany the installation

by Aleks Danko, Saturday 2 April 11.30am12.30pm. Castlemaine Continuing Education, 30 Templeton Street. Friday 1 and Saturday 2 April 10am - 6pm, 3 – 10 April 10am - 5pm. Admission free. Wheelchair access limited.

• Be Unafraid - do It...

Visit The Gallery Of Brian Nunan! Retrospective and New Controversial Art Works during the Castlemaine State Festival, 1 – 10 April.

Open Daily 10am to 5 pm. 40 Campbell Street Castlemaine. T: (03) 5460 6724, E: nunan@castlemaine.net.au, briannunan.com.au • Born for This Exhibition by JINARI MOUNTAIN; large acrylics and small drawings exploring our realtionships to nature and spirit in an increasingly global culture. Open 1 – 9 April, daily 10 - 4pm. Free Performance night of music, poetry and theatre, Thurs 7 6 - 7.30pm. 14 Vanstan Rd Castlemaine. M: 04 3444 1421, www.zhibit.org/jinarimountainart

• Cascade Print Workshop Biting Issues, 1 – 10 April, 10am - 6pm.

Exhibition continues until 30 June. Fri/Sat 10 - 6pm and by appointment. KAREEN ANCHEN, NICKY CAREY, PHILIP DAVEY, PETER DIAMOND, DAVID FRAZER, JEFF GARDNER, CRAIG GOUGH, JACKIE HOCKING, JUDY HOLDING, MARTIN KING, ANITA LAURENCE, ROBERT MACLAURIN, RHYLL PLANT, LYDIA POLJAK, WENDY STAVRIANOS, DEBORAH WILLIAMS. Cascade Print Workshop, 482 Bendigo Rd Maldon. T: (03) 5475 1085 www.cascadeprintworkshop.com • Cherry Tennant’s Studio Gallery Cherry Tennant’s Studio Gallery There is only this Moment Exhibition open from 1pm - 5pm on Saturday 2, Sunday 3, Wednesday through Sunday 6 – 10 April. At other times by appointment. 160 Hargraves Street (cnr Hall St.) Castlemaine. For more information do call Cherry on T: (03) 5470 6642, www.cherrytennant.com.au • Hey you – do something Can you perform or play an instrument? Let this be your listing. Someone may, or may not, be playing at 2pm, 9 April at Victory Park in Castlemaine. Turn up and watch someone do something, or, if no one does anything, be the person that does something. Do it!

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• Precipice Castlemaine State Festival is proud to present this world premiere, created by a cast and crew of central Victorian artists, and delivered in the tough and edgy landscape of the Wattle Gully Mine. 2 – 4 April, 7.30pm, $35 / $28.

• Circles of Women, by Lyndel Thomas You are invited to an Exhibition of Portraits of Women at Dudley House, View Street, Bendigo; 2 – 10 April 2011. (Dudley House is close to the Capitol Theatre and Art Gallery), It is to be opened at 2pm on Saturday 2 April

by Noel Waite AO FVAS. Visiting hours after opening day: 10am - 4pm. T: (03) 5475 1064, E: forrer396@gmail.com. A project funded in part by the Maldon and District Community Bank Branch.

• Falkner Gallery 31 Mar – 29 May: LIZ CAFFIN, La giterella: Aquatints; MARGARET CROMB: Castlemaine Botanical Gardens, 150 years Celebration: Woodcuts, Monoprints, Watercolours; Australian And International Prints: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s: ANTES, BLACKMAN, CLEAVIN, DUNLOP, FRANSELLA, GRIEVE, HEGARTY, LANCELEY, LEACH JONES, PIKE, PUGH, ROSE, SENBERGS, STEINBERG, TAPIES, VOIGT. 35 Templeton Street, Castlemaine. Hours: 11am 5pm Daily 1 - 10 April, then Thurs - Sun to 29 May T: (03) 5470 5858, E: falknergallery@tpg.com.au

• Pressing Issues Pressing Issues – The Exhibition is the Visual Arts Biennial flagship exhibition representing artists who have an association with central Victoria. Exhibiting artists KIM BARTER, KEVIN FOLEY, DAVID FRAZER, ROBERT JACKS, TIM JONES, NICOLA LODER, JEFF MAKIN, JAN PALETHORPE, CATHERINE PILGRIM, RHYLL PLANT, KATE STONES, CLAYTON TREMLETT and WAYNE VINEY have expanded, stretched and developed the idea of printing to incorporate pasting, stamping and stencilling, alongside traditional printmaking techniques of etching, lithography, wood engraving, digital printing and site response works. Castlemaine Post Office Building, Lyttleton Street Castlemaine. Friday 1 and Saturday 2 April 10am-6pm, 3 – 10 April 10am-5pm. Admission free.

• Spiral Domes Artful living with beautiful bent timber and canvas dome tents. Hand made in Castlemaine.

Large, small, painted and screen printed domes on display durnig Festival, daily 10 - 4pm at 14 Vanstan rd Castlemamine. Last day of festival see us in the Botanical gardens. www.spiraldomes.com.au, M: 04 3444 1421

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APRIL SALON

1. Lucky Diamond RICH, photo by Max KORDY. Lucky Diamon Rich will be appearing at the Fremantle Street Arts Festival – Australia’s largest street performance festival, in and around Fremantle (WA), 23-26 of April - www.fremantle.wa.gov.au/Festivals_and_events 2. Shigeyuki KIHARA, Fa’a Fafine: In a Manner of a Woman (Triptych 1), from the Fa’a Fafine: In a Manner of a Woman series (2004-2005), Chromogenic print on Fujicolor Professional Paper, 60 x 80 cm, photograph courtesy of Sean Coyle and Shigeyuki Kihara. Dis-covery, Long Gallery & Sidespace Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, 77 Salamanca Place, Hobart (TAS), 25 March - 1 May.

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• Art Gallery of Ballarat To 25 April, Territory - Selected works 2000 - 2010

by NOELA STRATFORD and Lake Surfaces by STEPHAN PLEBAN; 16 April to 12 June, Australian Landscapes by EUGENE VON GUERARD and Local Treasures and Modulations: Re Calling the Blood Tears by LYN PLUMMER. Open daily 9am to 5pm. Free admission. T: (03) 5320 5858. www.artgalleryofballarat.com.au • Arts and Cultural Development City of Ballarat For arts and cultural initiatives, events, art register, support or advice please call T: (03) 5320 5643 or go to our website www.ballarat.vic.gov.au and follow the links from community and culture, arts to art connections.

• Ballarat Arts Foundation Grants Rounds for emerging artists close on 31 March and 30 September each year. Visit Downloads on www.ballaratartsfoundation.org.au or T: (03) 5332 4824 or M: 0409 352 268 • Buninyong Film Festival Fri 6 – Sat 7 May 2011, A great festival with fabulous films, food and atmosphere. Buninyong Town Hall, 10km south of Ballarat. Fri 6 May, from 7.30pm: South Solitary (Aus), Louise-Michel (France); Sat 7 May, from 9am: FOOD INC. (USA), Mother (S.Korea), Sarah’s Key (France), Me and Orson Welles (USA). T: (03) 5341 2266 www.buninyong.vic.au/filmfestival

RADMAC

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• Kirrit Barreet - Aboriginal Art and Cultural Centre Now exhibiting community works. 403-407 Main Road. www.aboriginalballarat.com.au • The Known World Bookshop & Apartment Great s/h books, coffee bar and a boutique city apartment. 14 Sturt Street, Ballarat.

T: (03) 5332 8114 • Her Majesty’s Theatre The MSO in Concert, Tuesday 5 April, 8pm; MSO Schools Concerts, Wednesday 6 April, 10am and 11.30am; Breast Wishes, Tuesday 12 April 8pm; Bubblewrap and Boxes ,Thursday 14 April, 11am and 1pm in the Ballarat Mining Exchange. Tix @ MajesTix: T (03) 5333 5888 or hermaj.com • Post Office Gallery Wed 23 Mar – Sat 16 Apr, JOHN FERGUSON: Surface; Wed 20 Apr – Sun 8 May, MICHAEL SHIELL: Trace. NB: Open 7/8 May Heritage Weekend. Post Office Gallery, Arts Academy, University of Ballarat. Cnr Sturt and Lydiard Street Ballarat. VIC. 3350. Mon/ Tue by appt. Wed - Sat 1 - 4pm. T: (03) 5327 8615, E: s.hinton@ballarat.edu.au www.ballarat.edu.au/artsacademy.

• Radmac Radmac Gallery 104 Armstrong St (Nth) Ballarat 3350, T: (03) 5333 4617, Gallery Hours: 8.30am to 5.30pm Mon - Fri, 9am to 12pm Sat. Entry Free. Enrol now for art classes. Gallery and studio space available.

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• Artsonview Framing and Gallery Expert custom framing by GEOFF SAYER. Conservation and exhibition framing also available. Plus a small but interesting range of original artwork and photography. New ceramics

by RAY PEARCE now in stock. 75 View Street.

T: (03) 5443 0624, E: sayer@iinet.net.au • Bendigo Art Gallery Exhibitions: Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2011, to 3 April; American Dreams: 20th century photography from George Eastman House, 16 April to 10 July. Curator’s Choice 11.30am Thursday 14 April, join a Gallery curator to learn about their favourite work in the collection, this is a free event, all welcome. 42 View Street, T: (03) 5434 6088. www.bendigoartgallery.com.au • Bob Boutique Easter Bunny Exhibition. 17 Williamson Street, Bendigo. Sat, Sun, Mon and Tues 11am 3pm, Wed, Thurs and Fri 11am - 5pm. Please see website for Easter hours: www.bob.net.au • Book Now Secondhand bookseller. Proprietor Garry Murry. 1 Farmers Lane Bendigo. Open 7 days 10am - 5pm. T: (03) 5443 8587 • The Capital Info and tickets online at www.thecapital.com.au.

T: (03) 5441 6100 or visit 50 View Street, Bendigo. Breast Wishes, April 14 – 16. For further details and a full calendar of shows visit The Capital website.

• Community & Cultural Development (CCD) www.bendigo.vic.gov.au - for arts, festivals and events info at your fingertips. Select Council Services, then Arts Festivals and Events for Events Calendar and Arts Register. The CCD Unit is an initiative of the City of Greater Bendigo. E: eventscalendar@bendigo.vic.gov.au T: (03) 5434 6464 • La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre VAC Gallery: To 1 May, Resonance: Paintings

by CRAIG GOUGH; Access Gallery: To 17 April, Bendigo Queer Film Festival Exhibition, Queer Country; 20 April – 15 May, MARK SALVATUS. Gallery hours: Tue - Sun 10am - 5pm. 121 View Street, Bendigo. T: (03) 5441 8724, www.latrobe.edu.au/vac

• Phyllis Palmer Gallery La Trobe University, Bendigo Campus.

7 April – 5 May. Future Directions. Combined student and staff ceramics exhibition.

Gallery Hours: Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm. Gate 8 Sharon Street, Bendigo. T: (03) 5444 7917. www.latrobe.edu.au/visualarts/ppg/index.htm • Queer Country The Queer Country Art Exhibition is shown as part of the Bendigo Queer Film Festival. Various artists with a queer sensibility. 22 March to 17 April, opening Friday 8 April 6pm. La Trobe Visual Art Centre, 121 View Street Bendigo. www.bendigoqueerfilmfestival.com

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• Music Recording by Mark Woods Bald Hill Music Studio - Professional recording and mastering. T: (03) 5464 1346 www.myspace.com/markwoodsaudio

castlemaine

• Arts Indulgence Tours Take a behind the scenes look at the Castlemaine area’s remarkable art community with an escorted tour. www.artsindulgencetours.com.au, M: 04 0956 7072 • Arts Pathway Course 2010 at Continuing Education. T: (03) 5464 3299 E: info@con-ed.com.au • Art Supplies Castlemaine Extensive range, art gift ideas, kids art materials, 10% art student discount, special orders welcome.

Tues - Thur 9am-5pm, Fri 9am - 5.30pm, Sat 9am-1pm. 25 Hargraves Street. T: (03) 5470 5291, E: artsuppliescastlemaine@gmail.com • Arts Officer - Jon Harris Community Activity and Culture Unit Mount Alexander Shire Council Jon Harris (Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri) PO Box 185 Castlemaine 3450. T: (03) 5471 1793, M: 0428 394 577, E: arts@mountalexander.vic.gov.au • Bent Ironwork Artist’s sculptural work, architectural and wrought iron work by STEVE ROWE. 54 Bagshaw Street Harcourt. M: 0400 538 344 • Bush Dance Against Want Sat 4 June 4, Campbells Creek Community Centre 6 - 10pm. Bushband JANE THOMPSON, JAMES RIGBY and friends. For Oxfam, T: (03) 5470 5747

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• Buda Historic Home and Garden A property of national significance. Home of the noted Gold and Silversmith ERNEST LEVINY and his family from 1863 to 1981, featuring authentic furnishings, arts and crafts collection, significant heritage garden and grounds. Nursery selling drought-hardy plants, many propagated from the garden. 42 Hunter Street, Castlemaine 3450. T/F: (03) 5472 1032, E: admin@budacastlemaine.org. Open Wed - Sat 12noon to 5pm, Sunday 10am to 5pm.

Groups by appointment.

• Burke’s Music Specialising in independent music. 66 Mostyn Street.

E: music@burkesmusic.com.au T: (03) 5470 6003 • CASPA Otherness - The other begins at the skin.

Artists of the Castlemaine region investigate the assumption of likeness and perception of difference at the core of relations with other humans, species and the environment, curated

by ROBYN WALTON; Belonging – Does the land belong to us or do we belong to the land?, Prints, paintings and sculpture by BEN LAYCOCK; Open Studio - Paintings and drawings by CANDY STEVENS. Opening 31 March 8pm until 1 May, 10am - 5pm daily. PLUS Casbar late-night lounge bar open 10:30 - late during the festivals!

Above Stoneman’s Bookroom, Hargraves Street. www.castlemainefringe.org.au/caspa • Castlemaine Continuing Education Arts Pathways Course, expressions of interest for 2011 Arts Pathways Course now being taken. T: (03) 5472 3299 • greenGraphics: web and print design Domain (www) registration and web hosting. T: (03) 5472 5300, E: info@greengraphics.com.au www.greengraphics.com.au • Instramental We stock all your instrument needs, have a full digital recording studio, and tuition spaces. 12 Templeton Street, Castlemaine 3450. T: (03) 5470 5913, www.instramental.com.au • John Gleeson Down to earth pottery with soul. Selling at Wesley Hill Market every Saturday. M: 0419 879 923

• Louise Smith Fine Art Art Consultant and Valuer, Australian and Indigenous Art. Houghton Park. 43 Odgers Road, Castlemaine Vic 3450.

M: 0418 519 747 E: louiseart@bigpond.com www.louisesmithfineart.com • Lot 19 Festival Salon cause & effect group exhibition in the main gallery and evolving interactive installation in the annexe, 1 – 10 April 11am 5pm. Opening Sunday 3 April 2pm. Castlemaine Music Festival featuring JEFF LANG, The Wilson Pickers, JO JO SMITH and more! Saturday 9 April 3pm, Tickets $40 at gate. www.lot19art.com • Phil Elson Pottery Fine hand thrown porcelain tableware and large porcelain bowls. 89 Templeton Street. T: (03) 5472 2814 www.philelsonpottery.com • The Union Studio Contemporary Australian art and design gallery, custom, exhibition and conservation framing, hand finished Australian hardwood frames, canvas stretching and stretchers. The Union Studio, 74 Mostyn Street (enter via Union St) Castlemaine. T: (03) 5470 6446 Open 7 days.

daylesford

• Glenlyon Art Show and Exhibition 2-dimensional works on display from Sat 23 April – Sun 1 May, 10am - 4pm. Glenlyon Hall, Barkly Street. Opening Night, Fri 22 April from 6.30pm. $1200 First Prize and all works for sale. Contact: Trish Henderson, T: (03) 5348 7955.

• Lee Pizarro - (Pre Berlin Show) Installation Wall Works, a ‘Happening’. Beginning 11 April to 26 April, preview night 18 April 6pm, opening closing night 26 April 6pm. Door 3 Gallery - studios and media room, Shed 3 - Old Saw Mill 37 East Street Daylesford. www.door3.net.

Gallery hours during show: Mon - Fri 12 4pm, Sat - Sun 12 - 4pm. Group / School tour artist talks available special rates, all inquires M: 04 1264 6593

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• The Heathcote Artists Inc. Has the pleasure to invite you to their own gallery, opening Saturday 12 June. Open all weekends and public holidays from 10am ‘til 4pm. Heathcote Art Gallery, High street, Heathcote VIC 3523.

kyneton

• Gallery 40 April exhibition: Australia - Far and Near, Varied photos of Lake Eyre, Uluru and local photos by HOWARD MAYLOR and MARNIE TOLE. Open Sat - Mon and Easter, 2 - 26 April. 11am - 4pm. Gallery 40, 40 Mollison Street, Kyneton. Contact Margaret Chandra: E: chandramarg@yahoo.com.au, M: 04 3835 6025. http://galleryinkyneton.blogspot.com/ • Stockroom Makers, artists and project space. 16 April – 15 May: Curious Duality, MICHAEL NEEDHAM; Taste it, DANIEL and MATTHEW BUTTERWORTH in collaboration with STEVEN TURNER. Opening Saturday 16 April. 98 Piper Street, Kyneton 3444. T: (03) 5422 3215. Wed - Sun 10.30am to 5.00pm. www.stockroomkyneton.com

lancefield

• MAD Gallery and Café 1 – 28 April 2011: Creative Energy, horses, birds, land and sea-scape paintings by MARGARET MORGAN-WATKINS and New Works, abstract oil paintings by DAWN LIM. Opening 2 - 5pm, Sunday 3 April; 24 April 2011 2 - 5pm: Sunday Sounds OPEN MIC. Music afternoon, free to all; 29 April – 26 May 2011: Paintings by CLAIRE MORRIS, Mandalas by PETA VERROCHI and Allegorical works by JOYCE O’BRIEN-GREEN. Opening 2 - 5pm, Sunday 1 May. Contemporary 2D and 3D fine art, new exhibition every 4 weeks. 19 High Street, Lancefield.

T: (03) 5429 1432, E: art@madgallery.com.au, www.madgallery.com.au, Café & Gallery open daily 10am to 5pm.

maldon

• Penny School Gallery and Café ROBERT MACLAURIN, The Path to Now: 10 years of a Scottish Artist in Australia - Landscape paintings of Australia and distant countries. 26 March – 1 May 2011. Opening hours Wed - Sun,

11am - 5pm. Dinner from 6pm Fri and Sat Penny School Gallery/Café, 11 Church Street Maldon.

T: (03) 5475 1911, E: psgallery@netcon.net.au

malmsbury

• Elsie Gallery Monoprints by RACHEL ILLINGWORTH. Rachel is a graduate of the university of Tasmania and is a printmaker currently living and working in Seattle. Exhibition opening 2 - 4pm Sunday 3 April 2011. Elsie Gallery, 30 Orr Street Malmsbury. Gallery Hours: 11am - 4pm, Sunday 10 April and Sunday 17 April, all other times by apointment. Contact Janice T: (03) 5423 221.

maryborough

• Station Antique Emporium - Lic. Café Regional Wine Centre and Gallery Built in 1890 over 372 sq. metres of antiques and art. Delicious menu, exquisite coffee and teas.

10am - 5pm, closed Tues. Café by Night Thurs (carvery night), Fri and Sat. Live entertainment every Fri from 7.30pm. Café open Saturday nights. T: (03) 5461 4683

marong

• Gallery without walls Peculiar, Works of Undiscovered Genius at ‘Reveries’ 40 Indigofera Rd Marong 3515.

Opens Sat 23 April, goes to 14 May. 11am - 4pm Thurs - Sun. Intreractive Raku Firing at opening.

Registration essential. T: (03) 5435 2596, gallerywithoutwalls3515@gmail.com

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• Dig Café 13 March – 26 April, Photographic Exhibition with the theme ‘friends’ by the Society of Newstead Amateur Photographers (SNAP); Maldon ceramic artist TRACEY KODEN work on display and sale. Closed Mondays, open public holidays, open Tues - Thurs 9am - 5pm, Fri - Sat 9am ‘til late, Sun 9am - 9pm.

• Karen Pierce Painter, Illustrator, Art Teacher, community artist, quality prints and cards. T: (03) 5476 2744, www.karenpierceart.com • Newstead Press Home of Trouble since 2004.

• Vocal Nosh at Community Centre Join in singing at 6pm: 3 April and 1 May with

FAY WHITE, $15/$12 conc. includes delicious meal. Bookings T: (03) 5470 5645.

talbot

• The Corridor Art Gallery Upstairs at London House, Talbot. Open weekends. M: 0408 596 524.

taradale

• Shelf Life Gallery at Taradale Wine & Produce Featuring: Of Flooding Rains: An exhibition of Photographic Works by KATHERINE SEPPINGS, 18 March – 29 April. Exhibition opening Friday 18 March, 7 - 9pm. Taradale Wine and Produce, 120 High Street, Taradale. Fri, Sat and Sun 11am - 6pm. T: (03) 5423 2828 EASTERN VIC

gippsland

• Cowwarr Art Space 1 Apr to 30 May, Gallery 1: MARY MACQUEEN (1912-1994) Works on Paper, Courtesy of Charles Nodrum Gallery. Mac Queen’s medium was predominantly pencil and paper and was recognised for its spontaneous and expressive mark making; Gallery 2, CLIVE MURRAYWHITE, Sculpture. 2730 Traralgon/Maffra Rd Cowwarr. Hrs: Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon, 11am - 5pm.

E: artspace@cowwarr.com, www.cowwarr.com • Gecko Studio Gallery Lost and Found - DAVID FRAZER. Works on paper: wood engraving, etching and lithography.

2011. 17 April to 21 May. Opening Sunday 17 April from 2 - 5pm; Reflectionism’ - Eighty Ways to Adore Life - BARRY DICKINS. Dreams fulfilled by white chalk as well as imitation Buddhism, India inks and a myriad of coloured pencils. Until 16 April, 2011. Gecko Studio Gallery. 15 Falls Rd, Fish Creek, Vic 3959.

E: framing@geckostudiogallery.com.au, T: (03) 5683 2481, www.geckostudiogallery.com.au Open 10 - 5pm, Thur to Mon. • Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale 5 March to 8 May, Mary and Max: The Exhibition - explores the plasticine world of the animated feature film Mary and Max (2009), by Oscar ® winning director and writer ADAM ELLIOT. An Australian Centre for the Moving Image touring

exhibition managed by NETS Victoria; 26 March to 24 April, Flourish assembles a selection of VCE works from our membership secondary schools in Gippsland; 2 April to 15 May, Reverie is the latest exhibition by CLAIRE ANNA WATSON featuring recent videos and documentation of public art projects. Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, 68 Foster Street SALE VIC 3850. T: (03) 5142 3372, F: (03) 5142 3373. Open Mon - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat - Sun 12 - 4pm. For public holidays hours visit our website. Director, Anton Vardy.

E: gallery_enquiries@wellington.vic.gov.au www.wellington.vic.gov.au/gallery • Go Gippsland For $4.40 a line you could advertise your show, performance or exhibition in 20,000 copies of Trouble Australia wide. Hit your target head on in the arts magazine, made by artists, for artists, read by and advertised in by artists.

• Maffra Exhibition Space 18 March to 30 April, Annual Exhibition by members of the SALE ART GROUP. Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale. Maffra Exhibition Space. 150 Johnson Street, Maffra Open Mon and Wed - Fri 10am - 6pm, Sat 10am - 12pm Closed Tues and Sun. Enquiries to Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale T: (03) 5142 3372.

• Kerrie Warren Designs Now available On-Line! Abstract Designs on 100% Silk, www.kerriewarrendesigns.com.au

BAY & PENINSULA

geelong

• Geelong Gallery SIDNEY NOLAN - The Gallipoli series until 1 May; Pioneers of studio pottery in Victoria until 17 April; Geelong artists until 17 April; CHRISTOPHER HEATHCOTE - When lights are low 23 April – 5 June; PENNY BYRNE - Commentariat 23 April – 26 June. Little Malop Street, Geelong. T: (03) 5229 3645, www.geelonggallery.org.au, Free entry. Open daily 10am to 5pm.

• Geelong Performing Arts Centre Breast Wishes - GPAC’s Alcoa Theatre Season, 6 – 9 April, Playhouse; GPAC’s 30th Birthday Bash, 19 April, Drama Theatre; JULIE ANTHONY in Concert with KEVIN HOCKING - Musical Mornings, 20 – 21 April, Playhouse; A Commercial Farce - GPAC’s Alcoa Theatre Season, 28 – 30 April, Playhouse. 50 Lt Malop Street Geelong. Info and tickets online at www.gpac.org.au or phone T: (03) 5225 1200. Find us on Facebook - www. facebook.com/geelongperformingartscentre • Metropolis Gallery 9 – 23 April, Papunya Tula Artists Paintings from the Western Desert. 64 Ryrie Street Geelong 3220. T: (03) 5221 6505. Director: Robert Avitabile. www.metropolisgallery.com.au • National Wool Museum The Shrine of Remembrance... a building with a soul, presenting the history of the Shrine from concept to construction to its role today.

11 February to 20 March, 2011; Femme Fatale, Australia’s infamous female criminals uncovered!

4 April to 14 June, 2011. Mon - Fri 9.30am - 5pm, Sat and Sun 1 - 5pm. Admission: Adult $7.30, Concession $5.90, Child $3.65, Family (2 adults and up to 4 children) $20.00. T: (03) 5272 4701, E: nwminfo@geelongcity.vic.gov.au, www.nwm.vic.gov.au

mornington

• Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Until 26 April: Desire and identity: The architecture of CHANCELLOR and PATRICK, an MPRG exhibition; IVAN DURRANT: Landscapes and horses, an MPRG exhibition.

Civic Reserve, Dunns Road, Mornington.

Tue - Sun and most public holidays 10am - 5pm. Closed Good Friday, 22 April. Open 12 - 5pm Anzac Day, Monday 25 April.

T: (03) 5975 4395, E: mprg@mornpen.vic.gov.au http://mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au/ • Old Trouble New Tricks Hello Other Arts Mags. Look at your mag, now back at me, now back at your mag. Sadly, your mag isn’t me, but with a little Trouble ... well, it still couldn’t be me, but it could smell like me. Look down, back up, what’s this? An affordable listing read by thousands. What’s in your mag again? Back at me. I have it, it’s an interesting editorial about that thing you love.

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E: listings@introuble.com.au

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mildura

• The Art Vault To 4 April, Mildura Images, main gallery; To 4 April, KATE DORROUGH - Landscape paintings, near and far, small gallery; 6 – 25 April, Easter Stock show; NIKITA BURT - Within the spell, 27 April to 16 May, small gallery, opening 27 April, Wednesday at 6pm; From 27 April – 16 May, TONY AMENEIRO - Night skulls and Lily Heads, main gallery, opening 27 April, Wednesday 6pm. Artists in Residence - TONY AMENEIRO, SOPHIE GRALTON, KATE DORROUGH. 43 Deakin Ave, Mildura, Vic. Wed - Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun - Mon 10am - 2pm.

T: (03) 5022 0013. Director: Julie Chambers. www.theartvault.com.au • Look at me Mildura Now look away again, now at me. ... You didn’t look away at all did you? No, you just kept right on reading. That is the nature of Trouble ... irresistable.

Just one bite and before you know if the whole box has gone! E: listings@introuble.com.au • Mildura Arts Centre HERstories: celebrating the centenary of International Women’s Day, 8 March – 15 May 2011, Venue: The LEAP Project Space, 39 Langtree Avenue, Mildura. Mildura Arts Centre Regional Gallery is closed while the Centre undertakes an exciting redevelopment of Mildura’s arts and cultural precinct. For details on Mildura Arts Centre Outreach projects, see our website for more information. 199 Cureton Avenue, Mildura VIC 3500. T: (03) 5018 8330, F: (03) 5021 1462, www.milduraartscentre.com.au • White Cube Mildura Three micro galleries in three locations in Mildura. April: KAREN WILGAR, KATE COTCHING and WIN MOSER. Stefano’s Café Bakery, 27 Deakin Ave. Klemm’s Newsagency, 53 Langtree Mall. Shugg Group, 126 Lime Ave. E: whitecubemildura@gmail.com, www.whitecubemildura.blogspot.com

swan hill

• Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery 25 Mar to 8 May: Centre For Contemporary Photgraphy Documentary Photography Award.

12 Apr to 8 May: Shared Experience: ALISON GIBSON and PAULINE BENNETTO. Horseshoe Bend, Swan Hill 3585. T: (03) 5036 2430, www.swanhill.vic.gov.au/gallery

NORTHERN VIC

benalla

• Benalla Art Gallery Ledger’s Leading Ladies, until 1 May; Optical Collusion - DONNA KENDRIGAN and CHRIS HENSCHKE, until 25 April; Ellipsis... JO GOFF, 2 April – 15 May; 2010 RAD VCE - Regional Art and Design, 30 April – 29 May. Bridge Street, Benalla, Victoria, 3672. Opening hours 10am - 5pm, T: (03) 5760 2619, E: gallery@benalla.vic.gov.au, www.benallaartgallery.com

milawa

• LiTTLE ArtSpace Exhibitions changing monthly. 1 – 30 April, Textile works by JUNE BROWN, SUSAN MATHEWS and YVONNE VOSS; 1 – 31 May, IAN McKINNON, Cross warp, 2D and 3D woven artworks. LiTTLE ArtSpace (adjacent to The Olive Shop) 1605 Snow Road, Milawa. Mon Wed 10am to 4pm, Thur - Sun 10am to 5pm. E: littleartspace@gmail.com

shepparton

• Glassons Art World Art supplies including graffiti art products, private gallery, workshops and custom framing. 151 High Street Shepparton. T: (03) 5822 0077 www.glassonsartworld.com.au • Shepparton Art Gallery 7 March – 1 May, RICHARD LEWER and MATTHEW GRIFFIN; 4 April to 1 May, Indian Chamber by ANNA KRISTENSEN; from 8 April, The Drawing Wall #4: RICHARD LEWER. Gallery closed for redevelopments from 2 May. Eastbank Centre, 70 Welsford Street, Shepparton VIC 3630. T: (03) 5832 9861. E: art.gallery@shepparton.vic.gov.au, www.sheppartonartgallery.com.au, Director: Kirsten Paisley. Free entry. Open daily 10am to 4pm, public hols 1 to 4pm. Café.

wangaratta

• Across the Arts Forum Presented by Ganeaa. 6 – 8 May at GOTAFE Wangaratta. Stimulating Workshops in Visual and Performing Arts; PETER BAKOWSKI poetry, LEONIE BRIEN - community singing, PETE DENAHY - songwriting and fiddle, JAN DONALDSON - bone and wood carving, FREDDIE DOWLING - Pangerang culture, HEATHER ELLYARD - from idea to process, TONY FLINT - painting, TREAHNA HAMM printing/basketmaking, PETER LANCASTER lithography, VICKI MASON - jewellery, HEATHER MATTHEW - altered books/creative darkroom, MICHELLE MEEHAN - ultimate jamming,

ROB MCHUGH - comedy, BENITA MURRAY - tin and wire sculpture, MEREDITH O’SHEA - photography, SEBASTIAN PASCHE - drama improv, SARAH TRETHOWAN - collage, ADRIAN VAUGHAN - film making. DEBORAH CONWAY, MICHELLE MEEHAN and PETER DENAHY in Concert - May 7. www.acrossthearts.com.au • Wangaratta Art Gallery 26 March – 25 April 2011, open ANZAC Day 11am – 3pm. A Camera on the Somme, A Bendigo Art Gallery Touring Exhibition. Dianne Mangan - Director, Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery. F: (03) 5722 2969, T: (03) 5722 0865, E: d.mangan@wangaratta.vic.gov.au WESTERN VIC

ararat

• Ararat Regional Art Gallery Town Hall, Vincent Street. Mon, Wed to Fri 10am – 4.30pm, w/ends 12 - 4pm. T: (03) 5352 2836 araratregionalartgallery.blogspot.com • Mountain Grand Boutique Hotel Enchanting getaway in Halls Gap. Delightful dining in The Balconies restaurant with fine local wines and live jazz on weekends. Conferences and functions are our specialty. If you have a longing for the way things used to be. Your hosts Don and Kay Calvert. T: (03) 5356 4232 E: don@hallsgap.net www.mountaingrand.com

hamilton

• Hamilton Art Gallery Friends of the Gallery Art Deco Loan Exhibition, 8 March – 15 May; Imagining the Orient,17 March – 1 May. A National Gallery of Victoria travelling exhibition focusing on the exoticism and romanticism of the old Orient. 107 Brown Street, Mon - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 12pm and 2 - 5pm, Sun 2 - 5pm. T: (03) 5573 0460, www.hamiltongallery.org

horsham

• Horsham Regional Art Gallery 12 Mar – 1 May. HARRY NANKIN: SYZYGY, Lake Tyrell in the Victoria Mallee. As part of Art is... under our sky 2011. 21 Roberts Avenue.

Tues - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat - Sun 1 - 4.30pm. T: (03) 5362 2888. www.horshamartgallery.com.au

natimuk

• Goat Gallery A new show every month featuring the widely ranging skills of local artists. 87a Main Street.

Weekends 1 - 4pm and by appointment.

M: 0418 997 785 www.goatgallery.com.au

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PATRICK JONES

greenwash Michael Reynolds’ Biotecture Future

Extreme weather events are nothing new, but the frequency of them is. This is a new world, or Eaarth as Bill McKibben calls it. We’ve had 10,000 years of stable climate, more or less, and in that time seed selection and enhancement has probably been our greatest technological achievement, certainly our most meritorious. But now more frequent cyclones, bush fires, tsunamis, volcanoes, earthquakes and floods are affecting this stability, battering the planet at rates not experienced since the last great extinctions. As I write, Japan is showing us more of the future we face. An earthquake becomes a tsunami, which in turn becomes a nuclear disaster.

Thousands die, local economies are crippled, toxic waste is radically and broadly distributed.

Despite all the science, analysis and critique of the way we live, the way we construct our economies and the way in which we degrade the ecosphere, governments act surprised when a global financial crisis happens or another extreme weather event occurs. They say, ‘We didn’t see it coming.’ This is a great lie. Governments have been aware of anthropogenic climate chaos theories and peak oil analysis for over thirty years, they’ve known the direct relationship between the two – between altering climates and global financial crises – and done nothing, allowing instead for business to hijack the debate; investing more and more deeply in unsustainable growth economies. Now we’ve missed the opportunity to save digi-industrial society, which isn’t a bad thing in itself, it’s just the consequences for such intransigence will be felt for a very long time, and the suffering immense.

disaster. With the frequency of tsunamis, Reynolds’ experimental buildings have begun to ensure that people can rebuild with freely available waste products and find themselves better off than they were before, no longer requiring expensive-polluting energies to power them. The tightly earth-packed tyres create an immense thermal mass, making homes with stable climates, as though living underground. Solar access is key to this architecture – a word Reynolds has dumped for the more appropriate term ‘biotecture’.

Utilising the energy from the sun, directing it in and through the house and enabling its escape when necessary, Reynolds has created homes that need no heating or cooling energy. With solar passivity and internal clean, grey and black water plumbing systems, he has designed and built buildings that are totally selfsufficient. By growing food under glass as entrance-way As John Michael Greer states in his book The Long atriums, recycling water, utilising plant life to filter and Descent, we’ve lost the opportunity to find a solution process harmful pathogens, and creating an ambient because the problem has transitioned to a predicament, internal temperature with walls that can withstand and now only responses are relevant. Responses are all earthquake, Reynolds is now travelling the world we have to go on, and for these past thirty years while speaking to local communities and their governments most others carried on with head-in-the-sand business- about how to build dwellings and settlements better as-usual, a handful of pioneers in various fields have suited to this new Eaarth. worked tirelessly to prepare for the worst. Last month one such pioneer came to our hometown, a man who While in Daylesford, Reynolds conducted a three-hour makes buildings out of industrialised waste; buildings workshop that was set up at the local tip, demonstrating that can withstand extreme weather events; buildings his methods to over thirty peeps, including David that can be made from the detritus left scattered after Holmgren and Su Dennet, fellow peers and pioneers. At a tsunami; buildings that anyone, including children, the town hall that same night, 300 additional folk came can help make. These are buildings that rely on one to hear him speak, and for two generous hours Reynolds major ingredient, “indigenous to everywhere,” says the unpacked his biotecture theory, which included why we architect of waste. Michael Reynolds has been ramming should no longer work for the industrial military complex, car tyres with clay as the building blocks for houses but instead use its ills – tyres and plastic bottles – to since free-market fundamentalists, Thatcher, Reagan and transition back to systems that will more permanently co, sealed the course of history for worldwide climate support us in the challenging decades ahead.

Image: Patrick Jones, Biotecture Workshop, Daylesford Transfer Station, February 2011.

A film of Reynolds’ biotecture story, Garbage Warrior, was made a few years ago by Oliver Hodge and can be sourced from www.garbagewarrior.com. A friend informs me that the Ford Foundation funded it in-part. Ironic and coincidental, or co-opting and sinister? You be the judge (after reading Naomi Klein). At the Reynolds’ workshop I made a short video, revealing some of the practical aspects to his construction methods. Completely unfunded and all rights relinquished, you can watch it here: vimeo.com/20367284, and freely distribute.

Patrick Jones is an artist and writer of poetry and essays. He is currently a doctoral student at the Writing and Society Research Group, UWS, and is part of the Artist as Family collective. Jones co-coordinated Reynolds’ recent visit to Daylesford. He blogs at: www.permapoesis.blogspot.com

Portable 2

Here’s a doozy for you. Audrey, my bestie, came home from work last week to be assailed by a vision of her partner of three years, Malcolm, draped over the front porch railing, fully decked out in a frock (taffeta no less), replete with lippy, heels and a pink tinsel wig. Malcolm, with raspy voice and newly puckering lips, was the first to break the quite prolonged silence. “Hi,” he said softly and saucily. “I’m Jennifer.”

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Needless to say Auds was a little taken aback, but not as much as when she opened the beautifully wrapped gift box ‘Jennifer’ then handed her, inside which, delicately laid out on violet tissue paper, was a very large strap-on dildo. “Goodness,” Audrey said. “What a ... a ... sweet gift. It’s um rather big, isn’t it?”

hysteria’, where women displayed symptoms such as faintness, nervousness, and a tendency to cause trouble.

The suggested remedy, called a ‘hysterical paroxysm’, was to receive a pelvic massage by your local GP until you had an orgasm. With that form of therapy I’d be causing trouble too!

“I don’t know, Audrey. I haven’t yet had the ... pleasure.”

But sex toys are only half of it. Some people’s fetishes are completely devoid of them. I won’t even begin to conjecture. I’ll leave the canvas blank and all you sick little people can fill it in yourselves. The point is, it takes a good deal of courage to bring up your darkest desires. It’s such an unholy risk. No wonder people the world over default to brothels, where exotica is on the menu and it is not eyebrows that are raised, only revenue. Think of the money families could save if men and women could be, when the fancy took them, the mistress, the bitch, or Jennifer. I feel it is my duty to save couples, and their incomes, and provide some handy hints on how to introduce your favorite fetish into the fold. In honor of Audrey and Malcolm, I have named them ‘The Jennifer’ Principles’, and here they are:

Thus confronted, Audrey was very much beginning to doubt that Malcolm had not had the pleasure as he, or she, now claimed. In fact, her mind was reeling with images of her boyfriend being a willing participant in a gang-bang with lisping men all in leather taking him (or her) one at a time. Then she had the opposite thought.

Maybe this is new to Malcolm and he is just being incredibly brave. After all, it was only ten hours ago that he had left for work in his Hugo Boss suit, and she’d found herself wondering if it really was a good idea to marry a partner from KPMG. Audrey then thought about repression, and wondered if accountants all over the globe, after being locked up all year with their spreadsheets, suddenly needed to wildly unleash their fermenting depravities upon all and sundry. Like the navy sailor, who recently left ship after feeling very pent-up, and roamed the streets of Sydney dressed as Snow White. The whole thing got me thinking. How do you break it to your beloved that you’ve been aching to be jammed up the clacker with a strap-on for the last two years? Or perhaps that you’re desperate to be tied to a bed and whipped senseless with Bok Choy? Do you just inexplicably mumble ‘Bok Choy’ at regular intervals and see if they get the drift, or just dine at a lot of Chinese restaurants? Sex toys can likewise be the cause of considerable consternation.

Many women agonise over what it means when their beau divulges a desire like Jennifer’s. Does it follow that a predilection for a prod in the prostate mean he’s really gay? Not necessarily. On the other hand it may well be a sign. Your hulking bloke may crave it up the clacker forever and ever amen. Or should I say, Ahh ... men! The point is, don’t assume. Keep an open mind.

You would think any taboo surrounding the use of sex toys should really be out-dated, considering their recorded usage dates back to 500 BC. Illustrations of women using an ‘olisbos’ (aka dildo) have been found adorning Greek vases; the perfect compliment to a pretty petunia. The said implements were used when a lady’s husband was off at war and clambering en masse into the arsehole of a giant fake horse. (I wonder why Freud didn’t have a field day with that?) Boys and girls, you heard it from me: sex toys are OK. The first vibrator was developed in 1869 and was steamedpowered. Very environmentally progressive, its use was recommended to treat the illness known as ‘female

1. Start modestly. Do not disclose your weirdest darkest depravities straight up; ease into it. This was useful information for a good male friend of mine who wanted to tell his beloved of his penchant for covering himself from head to toe in cow manure, get on all fours and moo in the moonlight. Instead he let his g/f open the bidding and tell of her shameful desire to dress up as a French maid and clean up. Hmmm – close shave.

2. Have a safe word that stops things instantly. These have to be considered carefully. ‘Ouch’ is not a great word to use when enacting a whipping fantasy.

Sometimes a physical action is better, like sticking your finger down your throat and puking. Unless of course that turns them on as well. I suggest if things are getting too far beyond your comfort zone just say ‘Jennifer’ in honor of this article.

3. Have a dress-up box. So you can both add to it in increments. This works a treat. A lady might at least expect to see her bloke’s heels before she sees him in the heels. Large accessories such as Jennifer’s gift are better buried, so they are a lovely surprise when discovered after much curious ferreting.

Finally I would like to say, don’t judge, don’t judge, and don’t judge. Celebrate your inner weirdness and everybody else’s. Let’s face it. Let’s accept it. Human beings are STRANGE. Of course, I advocate zero tolerance on criminal acts, and think there is plenty that is legal and still wonderfully questionable.

As for Audrey, her tale ends rather happily. After initially feeling quite ill at the prospect of honoring Malcolm’s initiative, once endowed she found herself able to use Jennifer’s gift; she even has quite a gift for it.

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Emilie’s Voltaire

a play by Arthur Giron directed and performed by Kenneth MacLeod and Kate Stones

continued from p.50

“What was to be done with this gifted child?

Monsieur Arouet tried to make a lawyer of him, but the son had other ambitions.

He knew some great lords. He wished to become an ambassador’s page, and he left for Holland. There he committed a thousand follies, tried to carry off a girl with whom he was in love, and was sent back to France.”

“This was under the Regency, a weak and discredited government. It rained pamphlets and songs. Voltaire wrote some; it was known.

In those days a lettre de cachet was enough to put a man in prison; suddenly Voltaire found himself condemned to the Bastille for a year. It was a severe lesson, and one which made him ponder the dangers of despotism. As a matter of fact, the regime at the Bastille was very mild.

The prisoners were allowed freedom to work.

While he was there Voltaire composed poems and tradgedies; when he came out he had his Œdipe performed, and became famous.”

“Fame at thirty is a delightful thing. He enjoyed it, lived among the great, made love to actresses, and became a man of the world; then a rude incident awoke him from his dream, and flung him on thornier paths. In revenge for a bold riposte a certain Chevalier

de Rohan-Chabot had Voltaire thrashed by his lackeys. Voltaire tried to get justice, and attempted to fight the offender; but he was a mere commoner, and the Rohans had him thrown into the Bastille. When he came out he had declared war on a society which tolerated such injustice.”

Emilie’s Voltaire explores the dynamic, sometimes explosive, fiercely creative love affair between Voltaire and Emilie du Chatelet. It is the first production undertaken by The Red Room Theatre, and features as part of the Castlemaine Fringe Festival’s Theatre in the House program.

Emilie’s Voltaire is presented at Red Room Theatre, 101 Main Road Campbells Creek, as part of the Castlemaine Fringe Festival. Performances: Weds 6 April, 6pm / Thurs 7 Apri, l, 6pm / Fri 8 April, 8.30pm / Sat 9 April, 8.30pm. All tickets $15, includes free interval refreshment. Tickets available at the door, reservations phone 03 5472 3153. Emilie’s Voltaire was winner of the 2009 Galileo Prize.

Text quoted on this page and text and background image on page 50 excerpted from: The Living Thoughts of Voltaire, presented by André Maurois, The Living Thoughts Library, edited by Alfred O. Mendel, Cassell and Company Ltd, Third Edition 1946. Translation of the introductory essay by Barrows Mussey. Text by André Maurois.

ARTS INDEX ABICARE, FIONA p.31 ACCA p.31 ACHESON, SUE p.27 ACHREIBER, LIBBY p.28 ACROSS THE ARTS FORUM p.62 ALAMDIS, GEORGE p.29 ALCOVE ART SHOP p.26 ALEXANDER, CANE p.28 AMENEIRO, TONY p.62 ANCHEN, KAREEN p.47 ANDERSON, JILL p.27 ANNA WATSON, CLAIRE p.60 ANNOIS, JANE p.27 ANTHONY, JULIE p.61 ANU DRILL HALL GALL p.20 ARARAT RAG p.62 ART GALL OF BALLARAT p.54 ART GALL OF NSW p.18 ART PATHWAY COURSE p.56 ART SUPPLIES CASTLEMAIME p.56 ARTGALLOP GALL SHOP p.30 ARTS & CULTURAL DEVEL BALLARAT p.54 ARTS INDULGENCE TOURS p.56 ARTS PROJECT AUS p.30 ARTSONVIEW GALL p.56 AT THE VANISHING POINT p.18 B’ARTISTE CAFÉ p.28 BAKOWSKI, PETER p.62 BALDESSIN PRESS & STUDIO p.31 BALLARAT ARTS FOUNDATION p.54 BARCAN, CATH p.29 BARRON, ROBERT p.27 BARTER, KIM p.49 BAUMANN, REBECCA p.31 BE UNAFRAID, DO IT p.47 BENALLA ART GALLERY p.62 BENDIGO ART GALLERY p.56 BENNETTO, PAULINE p.62 BENT IRONWORK p.56 BERKA, MATHEW p.29 BERRY, MARSHA p.29 BLACKTOWN ARTS CENTRE p.18 BLINDSIDE ARTIST RUN SPACE p.29 BOB BOUTIQUE p.56 BORN FOR THIS p.47 BOX HILL ARTS CENTRE p.26 BRANNAN, MITCHEL p.29 BRAQUE, GEORGES p.20 BRIEN, LEONIE p.62 BROOK,TIM p.20 BROOKES, TERRI p.29 BROOKLYN ARTS HOTEL p.28 BROWN, JUNE p.62 BRUNSWICK ART SPACE p.26 BUDA HISTORIC HOME & GARDEN p.58 BUNNINYONG FILM FESTIVAL p.54 BURKE, PETER p.29 BURKES MUSIC p.58 BURRINJA GALLERY p.31 BURT, NIKITA p.62 BUSH DANCE AGAINST WANT p.56 BUTTERWORTH, DANIEL p.59 BUTTERWORTH, MATTHEW p.59 BYRNE, PENNY p.61 CAFFIN, LIZ p.49 CAPITAL, THE p.56 CAREY, NICKY p.47 CASCADE PRINT WORKSHOP p.47 CASPA p.58 CASTLEMAINE CONTINUING EDUCATION p.58 CCD p.56 CICCONE, VALERIO p.30 CIRCLES OF WOMEN p.49 COAD, KRIS p.27 COHEN, AMY p.27 COLOUR FACTORY GALL p.28 CONSTABLE, ALAN p.30 CONWAY, DEBORAH p.62 CORRIDOR ART GALL p.60 COSTER, TIM p.31 COTCHING, KATE p.62 COUNIHAN GALL IN BRUNSWICK p.26 COWRA REG ART GALL p.18 COWWARR ART SPACE p.60 COX, PAUL p.31 CROMB, MARGARET p.49 CURRIE, WENDY p.20 DANIELS, ROSS p.28 DANKO, ALEKS p.47 DAVEY, PHILIP p.47 DE CHRICO, GIORGIO p.20 DEAKIN UNI ART GALL p.26 DELAUNAY, ROBERT p.20 DELAUNAY, SONIA p.20 DENAHY, PETE p.62 DENAHY, PETER p.62 DERAIN, ANDRE p.20

DEVENPORT REG GALL p.21 DIAGHILEV, SERGE p.20 DIAMOND, PETER p.47 DICKENS, BARRY p.60 DIG CAFÉ p.60 DINGELDEI, SHARYN p.27 DOG THEATRE p.28 DONALDSON, JAN p.62 DORROUGH, KATE p.62 DOWLING, FREDDIE p.62 DUNLOP, RICHARD p.27 DUNN, FRANCIS p.28 DURRANT, IVAN p.61 DUSSELBERG, INGRID p.27 ELLIOT, ADAM p.60 ELLYHARD, HEATHER p.62 ELSIE GALLERY p.59 ELSON, PHIL p.58 ELTHAM LIBRARY COMM GALL p.28 EVANS, MEGAN p.29 FALKNER GALLERY p.49 FERGUSON, JOHN p.54 FINKELDE, IRENE p.26 FLINT, TONY p.62 FLOWERS, BILL p.21 FLOYD, EMILY p.47 FOLEY, KEVIN p.49 FORTYFIVEDOWNSTAIRS p.29 FRAZER, DAVID p.47, 49, 60 FRENCH, NEVILLE p.27 FULLER, TODD p.26 GALLERY 40 p.59 GALLERY WITHOUT WALLS p.59 GARDENER, JEFF p.47 GARDNER, AVIS p.27 GECKO STUDIO GALLERY p.60 GEELONG GALLERY p.61 GEELONG PERFORMING ARTS p.61 GIANNIS, GREG p.29 GIBSON, ALISON p.62 GILL, SYMRYN p.29 GIPPSLAND ART GALL, SALE p.60 GLASSONS ART WORLD p.62 GLATTAUR, SILVI p.20 GLEESON, JOHN p.58 GLENLYON ART SHOW p.58 GOAT GALLERY p.62 GOFF, JO p.62 GOLDFINCH, KARENA p.20 GONCHAROVA, NATALIA p.20 GOUGH, CRAIG p.47 GOUGH, JULIE p.21 GRALTON, SOPHIE p.62 GREENGRAPHICS p.58 GRIFFEN, MATTHEW p.62 GRIFFITH, MICHAEL p.26 GUINEY, CAZ p.29 HALLIBURTON, JAMES p.26 HAMILTON ART GALL p.62 HAMM, TREAHNA p.62 HARRIS, JON p.56 HARTOG-GAUTER, NATHALIE p.20 HASEMAN, SHANE p.31 HAWKESBURY REG GALL p.18 HEADLEY, CHRISTOPHER p.27 HEATHCOTE ARTIST INC p.59 HEATHCOTE, CHRISTOPHER p.61 HEFFERNAN, JODI p.29 HENDERSON, TITANIA p.27 HENRIKSE, KARI p.29 HENSCHKE, CHRIS p.62 HER MAJESTYS THEATRE p.54 HERBEERT, GRACE p.26 HERTAEG, ISABEL p.28 HILTON, MARK p.31 HIRATA, TERUNOBU p.27 HITS, GREATEST p.31 HOCKING, JACKIE p.47 HOCKING, KEVIN p.61 HODGES, PAUL p.30 HOLDING, JUDY p.47 HOLSWORTH, MARK p.29 HORSHAM RAG p.62 HOSKING, ROBYN p.27 HOWARD, RUTH p.30 HUGHAN, HAROLD p.26 HUNT CLUB COMM ARTS GALL p.27 IAN MCKINNON, SUSAN p.62 ILLINGWORTH, RACHEL p.59 INFLIGHT ARI p.21 INSTRUMENTAL p.58 JACKS, ROBERT p.49 JAGGER, WENDY p.27 JAKOBSEN, LENE KUHL p.27 JAMES MAKIN GALLERY p.27 JOHNSTON COLLECTION p.28 JOHNSTON, WILLIAM p.28 JONES, KATE p.27 JONES, TAHNEE p.26 JONES, TIM p.49 KALABISHIS, GINA p.29 KANELLOPOULOU, IRIANNA p.27 KEEP, DEAN p.29 KENDRIGAN, DONNA p.62 KERR-GRANT, JANETTA p.27

KERR, DAVID-ASHLEY p.26 KEYTE, BRIAN p.27 KING, MARTIN p.47 KIRRI BARREET p.54 KIRWAN, PAUL p.20 KNEEBONE, SUE p.29 KNIGHT, KATE p.30 KNOWN WORLD BOOKSHOP p.54 KODEN, TRACEY p.60 KRISTENSEN, ANNA p.62 LA MAMA p.26 LA TROBE UNI p.56 LA TROBE UNI VAC p.56 LANCASTER, PETER p.62 LARIONOV, MICHEL p.20 LATHAM, ROBYNE p.27 LAURENCE, ANITA p.47 LAYCOCK, BEN p.58 LEAMAN, MARK p.29 LEE PIZARRO p.58 LEE, TINA p.27 LEVEL 17 ARTSPACE p.29 LEVINY, ERNEST p.58 LEWER, RICHARD p.62 LEWIS, KAREN p.28 LIM, DAWN p.59 LITTLE ARTSPACE p.62 LODER, NICOLA p.49 LONGHURST, FIONA p.30 LOT 19 p.58 LOUISE SMITH FINE ART p.58 LUCY, JUDITH p.26 MACLAUREN, ROBERT p.47, 59 MACNAUGHTAN, CHELLE p.30 MACQUEEN, MARY p.60 MAD GALL & CAFÉ p.57 MAFFRA EXHIBITION SPACE p.60 MAGNANI PAPERS AUS p.28 MAGPAYO, JOEL p.27 MAKIN, JEFF p.49 MANSFIELD, JANET p.26 MARTIN, BRETT p.21 MASON, CHRIS p.30 MASON, VICKI p.62 MASSON, ANDRE p.20 MATISSE, HENRI p.20 MATTHEW, HEATHER p.62 MAYLOR, HOWARD p.59 MCBURNIE, JONATHAN p.29 MCCALLUM, JOHN p.26 MCCLELLAND GALL p.29 MCGINN, DARREN p.27 MCHUGH, ROB p.62 MEEHAN, MICHELLE p.62 METROPOLIS GALLERY p.61 MICINNES, ELIZABETH p.29 MILDURA ARTS CENTRE p.62 MILEIKOWSKI, LILACH p.27 MINCHAM, JEFF p.26 MONA p.21 MONASH GALL OF ART p.31 MONRO-ALLISON, JULIE p.29 MORAN PRIZES EXHIBIGTION p.18 MORGAN-WATKINS, MARGARET p.59 MORNINGTONPENINSULAREGGALLp.61 MORRIS, CLAIRE p.59 MOSER, WIN p.62 MOUNTAIN GRAND BOUTIQUE HOTEL p.62 MOUNTAIN, JINARI p.47 MOYNIHAN, DAN p.31 MUIRHEAD, TRACY p.27 MURPHY FIONA p.27 MURRAY, AINSLIE p.30 MURRAY, BENITA p.62 MURRY WHITE, CLIVE p.60 NADKARNI, NANDITA p.27 NAGEL, ANGELA p.27 NATIONAL GALL OF AUST p.20 NATIONAL WOOL MUSEUM p.61 NEEDHAM, MICHAEL p.59 NEVILLE, GREG p.29 NEWSTEAD PRESS p.60 NICHOLAS, GLYNN p.28 NMIT BACHELOR OF ILLUS p.28 NMIT VISUAL ARTS COURSE p.31 NOLAN, SIDNEY p.61 O’BRIEN-GREEN, JOYCE p.59 O’LOUGHLIN, JOHN p.27 O’SHEA, MEREDITH p.62 OFF THE KERB p.27 OKINES, SHARRON p.28 OKINES, SHARRON p.30 ORZAC, BECC p.26 OURO, MIRTA p.27 PACHE, SEBASTIAN p.62 PALETHORPE, JAN p.49 PAN GALLERY p.26 PASCO-WHITE, JAHNNE p.26 PAUL, CHANDRA p.27 PEARCE, MICHAEL p.29 PEARCE, RAY p.56 PENNY SCHOOL GALLERY p.59 PENTLAND TONY p.29 PERRY, KIRSTEN p.29

PHOTOACCESS GALL p.20 PHYLLIS PALMER GALL p.56 PIANTONI, MAX p.26 PICASSO, PABLO p.20 PIERCE, KAREN p.60 PILGRIM, CATHERINE p.49 PLANT, RHYLL p.47, 49 PLEBAN, STEPHAN p.54 PLUMMER, LYN p.54 POLJAK, LYDIA p.47 PORT JACKSON PRESS PRINT p.28 POST OFFICE GALLERY p.54 POTOCNIK, ANDREW p.28 PRESSING ISSUES p.49 PRINT COUNCIL OF AUST p.20 PROPOSCH, STEVE p.47 PROPOSCHE, MELISSA p.47 QL2 CENTRE FOR YOUTH DANCE p.20 QUANTOCK, ROD p.29 QUEER COUNTRY p.56 RADMAC p.54 RASMANIS, KARA p.20 REES, KARENNE p.29 RMIT GALL p.30 ROBINS, AMANDA p.26 SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE p.21 SALE ART GROUP p.60 SALVATUS, MARK p.56 SAVAGE. ALISON p.21 SAYER, GEOFF p.56 SCHEMBRI, SARAH p.27 SCHUTT, STEFAN p.29 SELWOOD, PAUL p.20 SEPPINGS, KATHERINE p.60 SHACKELL, TARA p.27 SHELF LIFE GALL AT TARADALE WINE & PRODUCE p.60 SHEPPARTON ART GALL p.62 SHIELL, MICHAEL p.54 SILK CUT PRINT WORKSHOP p.28 SOMES, KELLY p.26 SONGAILO, SAM p.29 SPRONK, PETRUS p.27 SRIVILISA, VIPOO p.27 STANFORD, MIA p.28 STANTON, MATHEW p.29 STATION ANTIQUE EMPORIUM p.59 STAVRIANOS, WENDY p.47 STEVENS, CANDY p.58 STEVENSON. ED p.26 STITZ, TIM p.26 STOCKROOM p.59 STONES, KATE p.49 STRAMPP, ADRIANE p.29 STRATFORD, NOELA p.54 STRIP BILLBOARD INC p.30 SWAN HILL REG ART GALL p.62 SYD COLLEGE OF ARTS p.18 TARPEY, KIM p.27 THE ART VAULT p.62 THE ARTIST ROOMS p.47 THE SUBSTATION p.29 THE UNION STUDIO p.58 THE WORKSHOP p.30 THOMAS, LYNDEL p.49 THOMPSON, MARIA p.29 TOLCHARD, GEOFF p.29 TOLE, MARNIE p.59 TREMLETT, CLAYTON p.49 TRETHOWAN, SARAH p.62 TURNER, STEVEN p.59 VAN HEK, BRENDAN p.31 VAUGHAN, ADRIAN p.62 VAUGHAN, ISADORA p.26 VELAYUTHAM, SUBRA p.26 VERROCHI, PETA p.59 VINEY, WAYNE p.49 VOCAL NOSH p.60 VON GUERARD, EUGENE p.54 WADELTON, DAVID p.29 WAGENFELD, MALTE p.30 WALKER STREET GALL p.27 WALSHE-HARRINGTON, SOPHIE p.26 WALTON, JANE p.27 WALTON, ROBYN p.58 WANGARATTA EXHIB GALL p.62 WARREN, KERRIE p.60 WATERS. FIOANA p.26 WEGNER, PETER p.29 WELLM, IRENE p.29 WHITE CUBE MILDURA p.62 WHITE, FAY p.60 WHITEHORSE ART SPACE p.26 WILGAR, KAREN p.62 WILLIAMS, DEBORAH p.47 WILLIAMS, JUSTENE p.31 WINTER, KIRK p.27 WOOD, PAUL p.27 WU, ANNIE p.31 YASSARAH, WENDY p.27 ZIKA, CASPAR p.26

COVER: Melissa and Steve PROPOSCH, Amygdala 2011, digital print on Phototex. The Artists Rooms, with Aleks DANKO, Emily FLOYD and Jill ORR, Castlemaine Continuing Education, 30 Templeton Street Castlemaine (VIC), 1 – 10Ë? April. Admission free.

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