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Issue 87 February 2012 trouble is an independent monthly mag for promotion of arts and culture Published by Newstead Press Pty Ltd, ISSN 1449-3926 STAFF: administration Vanessa Boyack - admin@ troublemag.com | editorial & advertising Steve Proposch - art@troublemag.com | listings - listings@ troublemag.com CONTRIBUTORS: Mandy Ord, Danilo Paglialonga, Courtney Symes, Jean-Franรงois Vernay, Karen Coombs, Ben Laycock, Matt Emery, Matt Bissett-Johnson, Darby Hudson, Ive Sorocuk. Subscribe to our website - troublemag.com DIS IS DE DISCLAIMER! The views and opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of the publisher. To the best of our knowledge all details in this magazine were correct at the time of publication. The publisher does not accept responsibility for errors or omissions. All content in this publication is copyright and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any form without prior permission of the publisher. Trouble is distributed online from the first of every month of publication but accepts no responsibility for any inconvenience or financial loss in the event of delays. Phew!
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trouble feb 2012
OCEANIA SCREEN IN TAHITI
Jenny Fraser
[20] GREENWISH #3
Danilo Paglialonga What Does a Child Know?
(22) MELBURNIN’
Courtney Symes
(26) STRALIAN BOOKS
Jean-François Vernay Erotic Fiction (Love is a 4-letter Word)
(28) WHAT WOMEN WANT Karen Coombs
(32) GREETINGS FROM CRADLE MOUNTAIN Ben Laycock eats the rich in Tasmania
(34) FEBRUARY SALON fabulous
(86) COMICS FACE Ive Sorocuk Holiday Mode
COVER: Penny BYRNE, Green Wash Warrior rides in to Save the Planet, 2010 Replica Tang horse, vintage Action Man, porcelain doll’s head, green mixed media found objects, epoxy putty, green paints, 65 x 56 x 25. Courtesy Holmesglen Collection of Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Hello Dollies, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, 86 River Road Emu Plains (NSW), 11 February – 22 April 2012. READER ADVICE: 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. Treat Trouble intelligently, as you expect to be treated by others. Collect or dispose of thoughtfully.
LAUNCH PARTY Saturday 18 February 2012 • Free arts activities, live music & tours of SAM: 10.00am to 5.00pm • Sir John Longstaff: Portrait of a Lady Exhibition • 2011 Indigenous Ceramic Art Award Exhibition • 6 New Permanent Collection Galleries For more information visit sheppartonartmuseum.com.au 70 Welsford St, Shepparton, 3630 VIC p 03 5832 9861 f 03 58318480 e art.museum@shepparton.vic.gov.au
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Love and Care: The Glory Box Tradition of Coptic Women in Australia Exhibition 10 February to 5 April 2012 Hunt Club Community Arts Centre 775 Ballarat Road, Deer Park VIC T: 03 9249 4600 E: HuntClubArts@brimbank.vic.gov.au www.brimbank.vic.gov.au/arts H: Monday – Thursday 9am – 7.30pm (5.30pm school hols), Friday 9am – 4.30pm, Saturday 9am – 12.30pm
A Diamond Jubilee Celebration 25 February - 15 April
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JOSEPHINE KUPERHOLZ, RUTH JOHNSTONE and HEATHER SHIMMEN. Curated by MARTINA COPLEY Self Species 15 February – 25 March
CATHERINE PILGRIM La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre Widow 121 View Street
1 February – 26 February Bendigo, VIC, 3550 +61 3 5441 8724
TERESA POLETTI GLOVER latrobe.edu.au/vacentre Distinction and Dissimilarity 29 February – 25 March La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre 121 View Street, Bendigo, VIC, 3550 T: 03 5441 8724 121 View Street E: vac@latrobe.edu.au Bendigo, VIC, 3550 W: latrobe.edu.au/vac +61 3 5441 8724 Gallery hours: Tue - Fri 10am-5pm, Sat - Sun 12pm-5pm latrobe.edu.au/vacentre La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre
Image: Heather Shimmen, Eye of Beholder, (detail), 2011, linocut and watercolour, edition of 10 with variation, 128 x 100cm. Represented by Australian Galleries, Melbourne.
Call For Submissions The La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre 2013 Exhibition Program Contemporary artists and curators are invited to submit proposals to exhibit in the VAC Gallery and Access Gallery in 2013. Visit the VAC website for application guidelines: www.latrobe.edu.au/vac Deadline for applications is Friday 30 March 2012
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The proppaNOW Collective A Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts & NETS Victoria touring exhibition Until 25 March Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale netsvictoria.org.au
Vernon AH KEE Unwritten (detail), 2010 charcoal on paper Courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane
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Screen Artist Jenny Fraser has been accepted into the Oceania Pitch Program at FIFO, (Festival International du Film Documentaire Oceanien) in Tahiti. The program includes a 3 day preparatory workshop with Pitch Coach Nicholas Zunino, a French Filmmaker who is currently working on a 90 minute 3D documentary about Alain Robert, the French Spiderman. >> continued next page
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> Oceania Pitch, co-organised by the AFIFO and the ATPA (Association Tahitienne des Professionels d’Audiovisuel) is opening it’s doors of opportunity for the 3rd time during FIFO 2012. It offers filmmakers and producers a platform to pitch their projects to television industry’s executives and commissioning editors who have a particular interest in Oceanian matters.The pitch provides international projects access to investors or co-producers. Among all the submitted projects, 10 are preselected for presentation. A coach as well as two international program commissioners are invited, in order to boost the pitchers performance to a maximum.Those will then have 5 minutes to convince the audience of their project and get it into an international production pipeline. After the presentations the financers will also have the opportunity to meet the Pitchers to express interest in potential collaborations. Industry professionals present during Oceania Pitch are from France, New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii,Tonga, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Cook Islands,Vanuatu,Tahiti and New Caledonia. In order to expand possibilities, FIFO Organizers have invited two European commissioning editors on top of the group of editors from Oceania which are there every year.They will be supervising the pitch presenters, helping them defend their project and possibly acquire some of the projects for their home channels in Europe. Furthermore we will be giving support in communication for all involved parties, hoping to create a pan-pacific network for the industry. Oceania Pitch is aiming to create a full scale audiovisual market in the Pacific region, to help illuminate this often underestimated part of the world. For 2012, Oceania Pitch has launched an award for the best pitch. This winning pitch is selected by the industry professionals present during the event. It is meant to support further campaigning of the project.The award has a value of 1000 Euros and will be accorded during the official prize giving ceremony of FIFO 2012. The Australian representation is strong for this 9th edition of FIFO, including Jandamarra’s War by Aboriginal Film Maker Michelle Torres who is based in Broome. Jandamarra’s War is the story of an Aboriginal man who should be as famous as Ned Kelly. In 1894, Jandamara led a rebellion against invading pastoralists in defence of his people’s ancient land and culture. Until his death in brutal retribution, this formidable Bunuba warrior waged a 3-year guerrilla war, earning him both the admiration of his people and international notoriety.
Oceania Screen in Tahiti / Jernny Fraser
Another event, FIFO’s 4th Digital Encounters chaired by Michel Paoletti hosts a melting-pot of thought, not only to address what 21st century Oceania will be, but also to draw up an intermediary assessment of the huge digital changes that Polynesia is going through. Distinguished national and local personalities will discuss and analyse these upheavals in the digital world and their repercussions on Polynesian society. Daily debates will take place, uniting professionals, specialists, decision-makers and users around essential themes like Polynesia’s place in the digital world.The public in Tahiti will have free access to a cyber area and free Wi-Fi throughout the whole of FIFO, and a LAN online game competition will be played for 24 hours on saturday 11 February. As well as being a link between Polynesian, Micronesian and Melanesian worlds, FIFO is also a special place for meetings and debates. Many directors will be present at FIFO to meet, discuss and debate with the public.The 6th Pacific Television Conference will also take place during FIFO in partnership with France Télévisions, allowing a promising audiovisual market to be generated. The doors will open for this new edition from Monday 6th to Sunday 12th February 2012 in the Maison de la Culture grounds at Papeete in Tahiti.This annual gathering, a true hub of Pacific images and expression which has become essential over the years for professionals and the public, places French Polynesia at the heart of Oceania for several days. FIFO also organises off-site screening events around the world which allows thousands of people to discover the concept of this unusual festival as well as its exciting content. One such event in Australia is Ten Days on the Island in April, presented by The Alliance Française in Tasmania where audiences can have access to selected documentaries from the previous FIFO. Web: FIFO: en.fifo-tahiti.com Oceania Pitch Program: http://oceaniapitch.org/index.php Jenny Fraser: cybertribe.culture2.org/jennyfraser
< Photography by Robyn Gibson, Stencil art, Buenos Aires, 2009
They gave her a sea shell: “So you’ll learn to love the water.” They opened a cage and let a bird go free: “So you’ll learn to love the air.” They gave her a geranium: “So you’ll learn to love the earth.” And they gave her a little bottle sealed up tight: “Don’t ever, ever open it. So you’ll learn to love mystery.” The Book of Embraces - Eduardo Galeano A picture has been taking form within me the past couple of weeks. I have been contemplating the Environment. The challenges we face now and as we move into the future, and how we can express to children the situations we face. And not just to children but also to adults, especially politicians, since politicians are the closest to children in their ability to throw tantrums and break things … and the furthest from children in their inability to feel wonder and imagine that the world and all in it are intrinsically good. Al Gore shook many to their core with his prognostic pictures of our world in the future. “If we don’t do something now … then ‘this’ will happen”. A worthy and timely reminder was brought into the consciousness of the general public. Suddenly many started to worry about what would happen to them, or what would happen to others and the world. Al Gore painted a picture of floods and heat waves, ice ages and population explosions that intrinsically carried a certain fear and negativity with them. Schools and the media have continued portraying the world as doomed if we don’t do something about it. I am not saying these images are not important, timely and possibly correct. I am sure they are brought to us with the best possible intentions. But how do children react to this? >>
What Does a Child Know?
DANILO PAGLIALONGA
greenwish #3
>> What if we reversed this picture of Environmental damage, or rather the timelines used? What would happen if instead of projecting forward, from NOW into the FUTURE, we projected backwards, from NOW into the PAST? What if we could provide a clearer picture of what the world was like, not in facts and figures but as images, and gradually unfolded a picture of where we are now? We are much more interested in learning what will happen from now onwards, that is true. Many of us are so immersed in our own existence and individuality that it is much more interesting to talk about what is to come. The picture of projecting forward, especially when related to the Environment, can’t help but be a bleak one. Unless we change our habits we are doomed to live with less animals, less plants, less food and even to potentially destroy our earth. Is this the picture we want to share with our children? That we are spiraling down into a world bereft of beauty and peace? A world with less animals, less plants, and more pollution? What would happen if we instead spoke to them of the vast forests, clear waters and air, of the wondrous animals that roamed the earth? Sure, we still have these but we have less of them. If we build up an image of the world before now as pristine and clean, before some human beings used up the earth’s resources – without bothering to replenish, used the natural world as we now use a take-away food container? My hope is that by giving children a living picture of what was until now, the child as they unfold into adulthood may be able to
imagine what could be. To imagine new forms of communication, science, medicine and arts that we adults brought up in a materialistic age may not have the capacity to imagine. It would be an ego-less picture that we share with the children, an image of what was before they came into existence. It would open very different faculties of understanding and creativity from an image that starts with the child now and describes what will or could happen to them, an image that can be closed and lacking much room for hope. It is very easy for an adult who has been brought up in our education system to share facts, symptoms, theories - and to project these linearly. But these are closed systems, bereft of room for the child to grow with it or establish feelings of wonder.To paraphrase Einstein, why would we want to explain concepts to children using the same mode of thinking that have created the situation in the first place? To educate them to do the same? To tell them that there is no beauty-filled future? Because by the time you are a grandparent the world will be stuffed anyway? What would children taught openly and positively, to see the wonders of the world as it was and as it is, rather than negatively seeing the world as it is and as it will be, bring with them? If they could develop lateral thinking and an open mind and heart to what the future holds? This requires us too, to re-vision and re-think how we share information with children in a more pictorial, open-ended way. But once we develop this ability we may just find that we too have changed a little bit.
Danilo Paglialonga is a Steiner teacher and architect. He is currently a partner in Lifehouse Design, award-winning sustainable building designers in Castlemaine, Central Victoria. Lifehouse Design is currently developing a unique flexible module-based house, called the LiFEHOUSE. See www.lifehousedesign.com.au and facebook. Patrick Jones is taking a break to complete his PHD. visit http://permapoesis.blogspot.com/
DATELINE: FEBRUARY 2012 by Courtney Symes
It’s the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese Zodiac. Generally speaking, Dragons are pretty cool characters. They are independent types who prefer their own company and thrive when left to their own devices. Driven, ambitious and successful, Dragons are also fearless risktakers. There’s no half-way point for a Dragon – it’s all or nothing (although ‘nothing’ generally isn’t an option – it’s usually all and all). Even if you’re not a Dragon, there’s a lot we can learn from these guys. This year, throw caution to the wind, face your fears and breathe fire in the face of your demons – release the Dragon within! If it’s been a while since you last paid a visit to NGV’s Ian Potter Centre, don’t miss the last weeks of Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art. The Papunya Tula movement is “now internationally recognised as one of the most important events in Australian art history”. This exhibition features 200 works by founding artists of the Western Desert art movement from Papunya, 1971-72. Work featured in the exhibition includes paintings, shields, body ornaments, spear throwers and stone knives, which mark the transition from symbolic pieces used for ceremony to a new art form. Runs until 12 Feb. - www.ngv.vic.gov.au Bundoora Homestead’s exciting program of summer exhibitions continues with About Time: Australian Studio Tapestry, 1975-2005. This is a touring exhibition from Ararat’s Regional Art Gallery, featuring works from the gallery’s permanent collection, as well as public and private collections. Works included in the exhibition are reflective of the development of studio tapestry throughout this period, >> IMAGE: Alber t Tucker, John Perceval and Mary Boyd (detail) c. 1944. Heide Museum of Modern Ar t, Melbourne © Barbara Tucker.
>> as well as the decades in which they were created e.g. there are bold, colourful works from the 1970s and fanciful, expressive works from the 1980s. Artists featured in the exhibition include Marie Cook, Kate Derum, Tim Gresham, Kay Lawrence, Sara Lindsay and Mardi Nowak. Runs from 10 Feb – 15 April. Also at Bundoora Homestead in the Access Gallery, Debt of Honour is a photographic exhibition that recounts the story of the ‘Sparrow Force’, a small group of soldiers who fought against the Japanese in Timor from 194243. Located in Portuguese Timor, the Timorese also assisted the Sparrow Force in their guerrilla war against thousands of Japanese, which resulted in strong comradeship between the Timorese and Australians. Runs until 19 Feb. - www.bundoorahomestead.com If the New Year has left you feeling frazzled and scattered, fear not, Jenny Watson’s latest exhibition, Jenny Watson: here, there and everywhere will make you feel better. Curated by Chris McAuliffe, the exhibition explores big themes such as “the impact of distance and isolation, the conflict between local and international identity, the positive and negative character of globalism, the potentially debilitating effects of expatriatism and cosmopolitanism”. Phew! This lively, colourful exhibition certainly packs a punch. Runs until 8 April. - www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au It’s an exciting year for Heide Museum of Modern Art as this iconic gallery celebrates its 30th anniversary. Forever Young: 30 Years of the Heide Collection is a commemorative exhibition that explores the collection’s history and features renowned pieces, as well as pieces that have rarely been displayed before. The 200 pieces included in the exhibition are in
chronological order, with each gallery space featuring a specific era over the best part of the last century. Works such as paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, collages and installations from over 80 artists make for a must-see event. The Heide Collection was founded by John and Sunday Reed, who were huge advocates and supporters of contemporary artists. Whilst many of the pieces that the Reeds originally added to their collection were from emerging artists, many of these artists have since become iconic figures in Australian modern art. Premier and Minister for the Arts, Ted Baillieu says, “... While the museum itself is 30 years old, the Heide legend goes back more than 50 years. This exhibition will celebrate Heide’s role as a catalyst for Australian art, which began with the Reeds and continues to this day.” Heide’s first ever collection handbook also accompanies the exhibition, which runs until 4 March. - www.heide.com.au For the very first time, three Northern Territory art studios have come together for a group exhibition, Good Strong Powerful at Arts Project Australia. The exhibition features 41 works from emerging and established artists including: Dion Beasley, Billy Benn Perrurle, Lance James, Peggy Jones Napangardi, Lorna Kantilla, Billy Kenda, Kukula McDonald, Estelle Munkanome, Alfonso Puantjimi and Adrian Robertson. “The exhibition offers a unique insight into the lives of these artists and the world in which they live.” After seeing a sample of the high quality work on offer, it’s astonishing to learn that many of these artists are not only self-taught, but that they also face the challenges of a physical or intellectual disability. The artists hale from three different art centres in the NT, including: Ngaruwanajirri >> continued next page
Melburnin’ / Courtney Symes
>> on Bathurst Island, Mwerre Anthurre at Bindi Inc. in Alice Springs and Julalikari Arts in Tennant Creek. The value that these art centres and studios add to these artist’s lives is immeasurable. The programs they offer assist in integrating people with a disability into the community by nurturing hidden artistic talents and enriching their lives. Runs until 9 March. - www.artsproject.org.au The Godden Gift is a special collection of 69 photographs, generously given to the Monash Gallery of Art by curator and photographer Christine Godden. These images are an exciting example of Australian photography and Godden’s close involvement with other photographers throughout this period. This exceptional collection will be on show at Monash Gallery of Art until 11 March. - www.mga.org.au The Rocky Horror Show, The Producers and Barnum are just some of the iconic shows that Reg Livermore has performed in throughout his fifty year career. This month the Arts Centre Melbourne celebrates Livermore’s enviable career with a free exhibition, Reg Livermore – Take a Bow. The exhibition features many of Livermore’s stage costumes, as well as items from his personal collection which provide an intimate snapshot of the life of this “Australian theatre legend”. Don’t miss the opportunity to meet Reg Livermore in person when he joins exhibition curator Margaret Marshall for a floor talk on Wednesday 22 Feb at 12.30pm. Exhibition runs until 26 Feb. For further details on the floor talk and exhibition visit - www.artscentremelbourne.com.au
image: Australian Commandos on Patrol in Portuguese Timor 1942. Photo: Damien Parer. Debt of Honour, Bundoora Homestead, until 19 February 2012 - www.bundoorahomestead.com
stralian books with Jean-François Vernay of “eat men”? Sex, ranging from the erotica to the exotica (deviations include but are not limited to stuffing, sadomasochism, fisting, group sex and felching), comes in With Valentine’s Day in the offing, all shapes and sizes in Eat Me, reminding couples will be reminded that love readers that our consumer society tends to is a flame that needs rekindling overemphasize sexual feats seen as trophies now and again whereas singletons will make sure to call on their well-equipped pharmacist meant to pump up our egos. Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award (pun intended) to stock up on contraceptive and written in a fluid and elegant style, devices or antidepressants. So here is my Rod Jones’s Nightpictures (1997) shares uncensored selection of AO novels (in TV some striking similarities with the author’s classificatory lingo) to cheer you up and put internationally successful debut novel Julia you in the mood for love. Paradise (1986): a mental patient involved The French have Le Marquis de Sade, with a professional of the mind, incestuous Georges Bataille and Guillaume Apollinaire desires, psychoanalytic culture, a clever twist to make them blush while Australian readers and deceitful appearances. Nightpictures tells just need to turn to erotic fiction by Linda the story of Dieppe, a dark female character, Jaivin, Peta Spear and Rod Jones to realize who is having a bizarre non-committal affair that love is a four-letter word. In the 1960s, with an Australian expat nicknamed Sailor, a wind of libertarian change swept over teaching at the Oxford School in Venice. Male Australian fiction to such an extent that not sexuality – largely depicted as imperious, only the politics of sex became the backbone animalistic and performance-driven (what of the oeuvre of a knot of writers like Frank else could you expect from a male novelist?) Moorhouse, Venero Armano and Christos – is meant to address Dieppe’s incestuous Tsiolkas (see Nov. 2011 issue), but it also fantasies until narrator-cum-protagonist
“... our consumer society tends to overemphasize sexual feats seen as trophies meant to pump up our egos.” became a key ingredient in some sub-genres (like grunge literature and erotic writing) traditionally debased for being perceived as a lowbrow form of formulaic writing – if not mere smut – using sex scenes to boost book sales. Linda Jaivin’s Eat Me (1995) – a quasi anagram of “tease me” – reads like a raunchy version of Sex in the City packed with the tantalizing fantasies of four man-eaters. Why not see the title as a letter-dropping version
Sailor makes a terrible mistake. He cements the division of love and sex with emotional attachment and falls head over heels in love with his enigmatic and arousing sex friend: “I had entered the secret world of lovers, the quiet people who walk around with another person inside them, their thoughts continually forming the image of the beloved, which gives lovers in solitude the expression that they’ve just forgotten something.” Does this feeling ring a bell? I bet it does. >>
Erotic Fiction:
(Love is a Four Letter Word) >> Dr. Peta Spear’s Libertine (1999) is certainly Exhibit A for how novels are nowadays the formatted product of PhD creative writing programmes: inspired content-wise, unoriginal style-wise (probably aimed at the mass market) and boringly realistic (i.e. highly descriptive). By mingling the erotic and the Gothic, Spear tells the wartime story of a manipulative prostitute who has a regular “fuck-buddy”, known as The General, and a lover named Sol. Sex does not purport to be an end in itself as in Eat Me and Nightpictures. In Libertine, sex – when not a commercial transaction – epitomizes the pap of life and becomes a means to indulge in an emotional embrace. Incidentally, if this article has made you squirm, you can pride yourself on fuelling the wowserism that has “characterized Australian culture for so many decades” (Xavier Pons, Messengers of Eros). Love/eros, like lust, is a four-letter word indeed. But so is life!
Further reading: The Great Australian Novel – A Panorama (Melbourne: Brolga, 2010).
What Women Want
by Karen Coombs
Painting with Words and Fire Written by Keith Gow Produced by The Wooden Leg Performed by Christine Husband, Renee Palmer and Adrienne Sloan Revolt Art Space, Kensington (VIC) 15 – 25 February 2012
Why would a man set fire to a brothel? A jealous rage, perhaps, or a violent turf war between rival operators are two reasons that instantly spring to mind. But what if the firebug was a woman? Would her motive be similar to a man’s, or something entirely different? Playwright Keith Gow was confronted with this thought when writing his latest play Painting with Words and Fire, a collection of monologues for three female characters, one of whom is a pyromaniac who burns down a bordello.
Writing for women is not new to Gow – in fact he says that in the past it has helped his work to stand out. This feminine influence began when he was a student undertaking a Diploma in Creative and Professional Writing, and a couple of female students challenged his thinking.
When originally sitting down at his keyboard to write the character, Gow firstly by default, “One was an actor and I suppose she was wrote the role for a man. a very strong feminist who challenged a lot “A monologue about a pyromaniac suggests of ideas I had or that you just get because a male character to me first and foremost, society makes you think that way. She and I began sketching this character as a man challenged – don’t accept things as they are. in my mind,” says Gow. “But then I thought, Think about what you are saying with that character … especially that female character. what if this character was a woman? What impression would that leave on an audience? Think about why we expect that woman to react in a different way to a man.” >> Would it be an entirely different one?” continued next page
Photo: Andre Stefan White
>> Such thoughts play a part in Gow’s writing process now. What if a character wasn’t a man but a woman and how would it play differently? Should it play differently? Or would it just be the reaction of the audience that’s different? These questions inevitably bring to light the real or perceived mysteries that involve gender differences, or, as Gow also believes, the possible similarities. “Changing gender doesn’t necessarily change how a character is or how a story is told,” says Gow. “I find it good that I can change the gender and not necessarily change how the character is, and still make it believable. It can mean either a profound change to the text or next-to-nothing at all.” Different or the same, those who are relishing the oppor tunity to perform Gow’s play are the actresses themselves, Christine Husband, Renee Palmer and Adrienne Sloan. When Like a House on Fire (one of the monologues), was first read ‘cold’ at Cold Readings, Gow, to his surprise, found himself enthusiastically approached by three actresses who were all keen to perform the piece. Their enthusiasm, and that of the audience, was a bit overwhelming for Gow at first, but the discussion quickly turned to the role of Penny, a strong role, “that por trayed a woman fully fleshed-out, complicated and memorable.”
The general consensus on that night seemed to be that female actors want more strong and interesting roles for women. Like Angelina Jolie, women don’t want to be the Bond girl – they want to play Bond! “In my experience of talking to female actors and knowing what classic plays are out there, and knowing that most plays are written by men and staged by men, yes, there’s not enough for women,” says Gow. Adrienne Sloan, who plays the character Lady M, agrees that there are a limited number of plays with a woman as the central character, and that the majority of roles for women require one to support the male or the plot in some way. “Obviously,” says Sloan, “women don’t want to just play the girlfriend, the sidekick or the victim – the good girl or even the bad girl necessarily. They want to play the most interesting character. A role that is strong or interesting is one that’s quite dynamic, where there’s a lot of aspects to the character … it’s not just a stereotype,” says Sloan. “You don’t want to play a type … you want to play a character that has a lot of different facets to their personality that you can experiment with. The best parts to play are always strong characters in the sense that you’re not just passive; you may be vulnerable or in pain but you’re not passive.” >>
What Women Want / Karen Coombs
>> It was this very depth of character that struck Sloan with Gow’s Lady M, a role that affords her the opportunity to change within the role. “It’s a character that goes somewhere,” she says. “I’m transforming in and out of certain aspects of what she’s going through, and that makes it interesting to play. “You don’t want to read something when you immediately know where this character is going and what’s going to happen to them. That’s the very definition of predictable. Painting with Words and Fire jumps around unexpectedly. I like that.” Gow’s play touches on what it is to be a woman – three very different characters, from very different places, experience in common some level of pain and difficulty or trauma, and, in that place, display behaviour considered unacceptable for a woman in today’s society. The question is, where exactly is that line between acceptability and unacceptability? How or who is to measure what is acceptable and what isn’t? Perhaps the audience will make their own judgement. Sloan says, “I love the project. I love the way it is written, the diversity of the characters, and the fact that Keith has managed to write interesting material that looks at what it is to be a woman ... what is acceptable and what isn’t.”
Karen Coombs is currently studying journalism and lives in Melbourne.
CRADLE MOUNTAIN
Mum and Dad are dead. The kids have flown the coup. Christmas just doesn’t seem to hold any meaning any more. So we decided to give it a miss and hike the Overland Track instead. The track traverses some of the wildest country in Tasmania, winding its way from Cradle Mountain to Lake St.Clair, an 8 day hike.
The overland track is listed amongst the ten greatest hikes in-the-world, and wouldn’t you know it; hiking aficionados from every corner of the globe staying up ‘til way after sundown to compare the very latest hiking gear. They are all at sea without their laptops, unable to buy anything at all for a whole week. Occasionally some dickhead would turn on their ipod so we would chuck it in the creek and say, “you’re next”.
travellers bemoaned their sodden boots and administered to their ever-growing blisters my heart filled with the sweetest Schadenfreude.
The trail is so designed to fill all but the most intrepid hiker with dread. On the very first day the bus drops us at the foot of a vertiginous incline, with our path making its way directly up the face and disappearing into the clouds above, past the bleached bones, glinting in the morning sun, of those Half our entourage were young and unfit and who lacked the fortitude to reach the top. But once you have ascended to the abode the other half old and arthritic, so we were perfectly matched, yet the young ‘uns had no of the gods, heaven awaits you. Meadows of soft green moss traversed by crystal trouble bounding up every mountain within clear mountain streams. Strange plants cooee despite their puppy fat. I don’t like to boast but I did do the entire hike in bare feet. from Gondwanaland eke out a precarious existence as they have done for millions I had boots in my pack in case it snowed. (my feet are very sensitive to the snow) but of years. Then suddenly we drop down into a shady glade; dark, dank, primordial, they weighed a bloody kilo. Approaching antediluvian ... spooky. It’s all moss, lichen, a particularly steep incline I looked up to the cloudless sky then chucked them in the slime and fungi, an enchanted forest bush and strode onward and upward with inhabited by ethereal wraiths like Golem added vigour. Each evening as the weary and Spegal. >>
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>> Christmas night we spent at Pelion hut, looking over a button grass plain to yet another craggy peak, silhouetted by the setting sun. As we choofed on a fat reefer and watched the darkness fall, wishing to be spared a white Christmas, unbeknownst to us the possums and the crows and the wombats, working in unison, had extracted and devoured our special Christmas treats, and left us bereft. Word had spread up and down the track of secret huts especially for the rich, where they quaffed fine wine flown in by chopper and scoffed squab carried in by nubile young women. As luck would have it, when the wind wafted our way we could just pick up the faintest sounds of distant merriment; the chortle of laughter, the tinkle of glasses.
Peeking through the windows our gobs were well and truly smacked by the decadent scene before our very eyes. A mahogany table set with silver – four pieces each, I kid you not. Afghani rugs, leather sofas with cushions and little pouffes, original oil paintings of babbling brooks and the like, but alas only crumbs and bones left on the plates. Just as we sat bemoaning our ill luck a particularly fat and juicy specimen emerged to take the night air and suck on his big fat Cuban cigar. One lunge in the darkness dispatched him without so much as a whimper. No one went hungry that Christmas night in Pelion hut. We drifted off to sleep licking our lips and picking our teeth, listening to the Devils gnawing on the bones. But I don’t suppose our neighbours slept so well.
A raiding par ty was quickly assembled. With blackened faces and sharpened www.benlaycock.com.au staves we set off in the moonlight, keeping Next month: we’re off to MONA! to the shadows.
FEBRUARY SALON
THIS SPREAD: 1. Billy KENDA, Untitled 2010, acrylic paint on linen, 41 x 39.6cm. Good Strong Powerful, Arts Project Australia, 24 High Street Northcote (VIC), until 9 March - www.artsproject.org.au NEXT SPREAD: 3. Workhorse Theatre, That Pretty Pretty; Or, the Rape Play, by Sheila CALLAGHAN. Directed by Netta Yashchin. With Zoe Trilsbach, Katherine Beck, Kellie Jones, Troy Harrison and Ben O’Donnell. Photo by Nick Bartlett. The TAP Gallery, 278 Palmer Street Darlinghurst (NSW), 8 – 18 February - www.workhorsetheatreco.com
FEBRUARY SALON 1. Anita PETTINATO, Rock ‘n’ Roll Girlfriend, acrylic on canvas, 2011, 140cm x 140cm. Rockalypse Art Exhibition - FT Live performance by Ghostboy With Golden Virtues. Opening Night 18 February, until 29 February. Ground Zero Gallery in the Old Ambulance Station Arts Centre, 80 Howard Street Nambour - www.insceneart.com.au. 2. Darren SIWES, Silver Boy 2008, edition of 10, photographic print on Kodak Endura Metallic paper, 90 x 120 cm. Courtesy the artist and Nellie Castan Gallery. The National Indigenous Photomedia Forum, Shadow Life: Moving Image and Remembered By, The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) Federation Square Melbourne (VIC), 8 –12 February, part of the Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival 2012 - www.acmi.net.au. 3. Janet FIELDHOUSE, Tattoo 2011, flexible porcelain with light box, 10 x 30 x 30 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne. Photograph: Matthew Stanton. 2011 Indigenous Ceramic Art Award, Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), 70 Welsford Street Shepparton (VIC), 18 February to 22 April 2012 - www.sheppar tonar tmuseum.com.au 1
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4. Rupert BETHERAS, Ilparpa Composition #11, 2011, synthetic polymer paint on linen, 180x200cm, Deakin University Art Collection. Courtesy the artist and Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne. Rupert Betheras Marking Tracks, Deakin University Art Gallery at Burwood, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood (VIC), 15 February to 31 March 2012 - www.deakin.edu.au/art-collection. 5. Francisco GOYA, El sueno de la razon produce monstrous (The sleep of reason produces Monsters) 1797-1798, 5th Edition, Published c1881. Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos, Grafton Regional Gallery, 158 Fitzroy Street Grafton (NSW), 8 February – 11 April 2012 - www.graftongallery.nsw.gov.au NEXT SPREAD: 6. Bahram Gur hunts in the company of Azada, from Firdausi, Shahnama, c. 1430. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS. Ouseley Add. 176, fol. 337v . & 7. Majnun among the animals, from Nizami, Layla u Majnun, Mughal, early 17th century. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS. Douce 348, fol. 42r. Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond, State Library of Victoria in partnership with the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, State Library of Victoria, Keith Murdoch Gallery, 328 Swanston Street Melbourne (VIC), 9 March – 1 July 2012. 4
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FEBRUARY SALON 8. Lachlan PLAIN, Lord Brassey 2011, digital image, 295x350mm. Sanctum Theatre’s Conservatory of Singular Specimens, Bulleen Art & Garden, 6 Manningham Road West, Bulleen (VIC), 16 February – 23 March - www. baag.com.au 9. Jenny WATSON, Alice in Tokyo 1984, oil, synthetic polymer paint, ink and horse hair on hessian, 224x174 cm, © Courtesy the artist and Galerie Transit, Mechelen, Belgium. Jenny Watson: here, there and everywhere, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Swanston Street (between Elgin and Faraday streets), Parkville (VIC), 18 January – 8 April 2012 - www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au NEXT SPREAD: Sidney NOLAN, Kelly at the Mine 1946-47, enamel on composition board, 90x121.3cm. Heide Museum of Modern Art Collection © Sidney Nolan Trust. Purchased from John and Sunday Reed 1980. Forever Young: 30 Years of the Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 7 Templestowe Road Bulleen (VIC), until 18 March 2012 - www.heide.com.au
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canberra • National Gallery of Australia Now showing: Renaissance – 15th & 16th Century paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo. This unique exhibition offers audiences an unparalleled chance to see Early and High Renaissance paintings by some of the greatest European artists. RAPHAEL, BOTTICELLI, BELLINI and TITIAN are represented among an amazing gamut of talent and creative splendour. More than 70 works on canvas and panel will be on display, made between 1400 and 1600 by painters in northern and central Italy. Now showing: Out of the West - art of Western Australia from the national collections. Out of the West is the first survey exhibition outside Western Australia to present a large sample of Western Australian art from pre-settlement until today. Works by established early artists, ROBERT DALE, THOMAS TURNER, and KATHLEEN O’CONNOR, as well as those by more recent artists such as HERBERT MCCLINTOCK, ELISE BLUMANN and RODNEY GLICK, will be shown, alongside significant works by many less familiar names. Open daily 10am - 5pm. Parkes Place, Parkes, Canberra 2600. T: (02) 6240 6411, www.nga.gov.au. • PhotoAccess Huw Davies Gallery 9 – 19 February, BELINDA PRATTEN and LUCAS YUWAGANIT LI, Memories from Fire. A National Multicultural Festival exhibition. 23 February – 11 March JOHN BOYD MACDONALD Sekala: Ritual and Ceremony in Bali. 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
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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
sydney • Art Gallery of New South Wales Until 25 March 2012 Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris. 2 December 2011 – 5 February 2012 Dobell Prize for Drawing 2011. Until 5 February 2012 What’s in a face? Aspects of portrait photography. Until 2 May New contemporary galleries. Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney NSW 2000. T: (02) 9225 1744, www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
windsor • Hawkesbury Regional Gallery 10 February – 18 March: JEFF MINCHAM (ceramics) and DARREN OATES (fine furniture). Deerubbin Centre, 1st Floor, 300 George Street Windsor 2756. T: (02) 4560 4441 F: (02) 4560 4442; Mon-Fri 10am-4pm Sat & Sun 10am-3pm, (Closed Tues and public holidays). Free admission. www.hawkesbury.nsw.gov.au
devonport • Devonport Regional Gallery 21 January – 4 March Main Gallery and The Little Gallery, OWEN LADE (1922-2007) Retrospective. Curator: Dr Jane Deeth. 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
hobart • Inflight ARI Please see website for February events. Gallery Hours: Wed-Sat 1-5pm. 100 Goulburn Street, Hobart. www.inflightart.com.au
• Inka Gallery Inc. Not-for-profit, artists’ run, original contemporary art. Exhibitions three-weekly. Salamanca Place, Hobart. Hours 10am-5pm,T: (03) 6223 3663 www.inkagallery.org.au; www.inkagalleryhobart. blogspot.com
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• MONA, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart Ancient, modern and contemporary art. Monanism becomes the permanent collection evolving over time. Some pieces are moving or going, others are staying. Forever. Like SIDNEY NOLAN’s Snake (1970 – 1972). WIM DELVOYE exhibition starts 10 December thru 2 April, 2012. Expect more cloacae, Tattoo Tim, carved tyres, Delft-blue shovels. Fees: $20 adult for non-residents of Tasmania. Open 10am to 6pm, closed Tuesdays. Food, bars, winery, microbrewery, accommodation, bookshop and library. 655 Main Road Berriedale, Tasmania, 7011. T: (03) 6277 9900, www.mona.net.au
• Salamanca Arts Centre 77 Salamanca Place, Hobart. T: (03) 6234 8414; E: info@salarts.org.au; www.salarts.org.au
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• Box Hill Community Arts Centre Now accepting applications for 2012 Artist in residence program. 470 Station Street, Box Hill. T: (03) 9895 8888 www.bhcac.com.au
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Greg Wood, Hartfield, 2009, oil on canvas, 96.5 x 112cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Australian Galleries, Melbourne. Photographer: Matthew Stanton.
• Whitehorse Art Space Re-opening 24 January – 29 February 2012 Summer Salon. 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
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Real Nowhere Land 8 February – 3 March Cresside Collette Marieke Dench Ann Ferguson Greg Wood Manningham Gallery 699 Doncaster Road Doncaster Victoria 3108 p 03 98409367 e gallery@manningham.vic.gov.au
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• Brunswick Arts Space Opening Fri 3 Feb, 6 to 9pm, Entry, the open entry prize. Until 12 Feb. Opening Fri 24 Feb, 6 to 9pm, Launch, a curated show of arts graduates from last year. Until 10 March. 2a Little Breese Street, Brunswick. Thu-Fri 2-6pm, Sat-Sun 12-5pm. Brunswickarts is accepting applications for 2012, check out www. brunswickarts.com.au
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• Counihan Gallery in Brunswick Until 19 February: Brunswick Revisited considers Brunswick’s early history through architecture, industry and infrastructure as pictured in the Council’s glass slide collection, 1839-1939. Curated by LUCY BRACEY and SARAH ROOD. 233 Sydney Road, Brunswick T: 03-9389 8622. Hrs: Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1pm-5pm. Closed public holidays.
brighton • Bayside Artist in Residence Program 2012-2013: Call for applications Visual artists, sculptors, writers, musicians, composers and multimedia artists are invited to apply for a 12 month residency (July to June) at the studios at Billilla Historic Mansion, Brighton, Victoria. Applications close 13 March 2012. For more information and to download an application form go to www.bayside.vic.gov.au/ billilla or email sraven@bayside.vic.gov.au
bulleen • Bulleen Art & Garden Thurs 23 Feb, GAIA Night. BAAG celebrates the Earth’s life support system, ‘Gaia’, in a night of discussion, performance, song and art. 5 6pm: Habitat Walk & Produce Walk. 6 - 8pm: The Final Journey of Pedro Piscator mural launch, Sanctum Theatre’s Conservatory of Singular Specimens exhibition opening (runs 16 Feb - 23 March), with guest speakers JASON SMITH (director Heide Museum of Modern Art) and JANE EDMANSON (television and radio personality) as well as live performances by SANCTUM THEATRE and music by ANDY JANS-BROWN. 6 Manningham Road West, Bulleen, Victoria. FREE. Bookings E: meredith@baag.com.au or T: (03) 8850 3030. www.baag.com.au
burwood • Deakin University Art Gallery at Burwood 15 February to 31 March 2012 RUPERT BETHERAS Marking Tracks A selection of paintings connected to Rupert Betheras’ work and travels in Alice Springs. This exhibition reveals the artist’s relationship to the Central Australian landscape and its people. (map ref 5-G) 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood 3125. T: (03) 9244 5344 F: (03) 9244 5254 E: artgallery@deakin.edu.au Hours: 10am - 4pm Tuesday to Friday, 1pm - 5pm Saturday. Closed Public Holidays. Free Entry. www.deakin.edu.au/art-collection
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deer park • Hunt Club Community Arts Centre 10 February to 5 April Love and Care: the glory box tradition of Coptic women in Australia. This exhibition is the culmination of a community arts residency held at the Hunt Club Community Arts Centre throughout 2011. Members of the Coptic Women’s Association community group worked with professional artists TAMARA MARWOOD and ANGIE RUSSI and researchers MARTY GRACE and ENZA GANDOLFO to explore and renew the traditional textile aesthetics connected with glory boxes in Coptic culture. Love and Care is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria and the Community Support Fund. For information on workshops accompanying this exhibition please visit our website www.brimbank.vic.gov. au/arts. Hunt Club Community Arts Centre is open Mon-Thurs 9am - 7.30pm (5pm school hols), Fri 9am - 5pm, 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
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• Manningham Gallery 8 February to 3 March: Real Nowhere Land featuring CRESSIDE COLLETTE, MARIEKE DENCH, ANN FERGUSON and GREG WOOD. Explores the theme of ‘land’, its representation in art and the boundaries that exist between man-made, natural and extraordinary worlds. 699 Doncaster Road, Doncaster 3108. Open Tuesday to Friday 11am to 5pm, Saturday 2 to 5pm. T: (03) 9840-9367. E: gallery@ manningham.vic.gov.au; www.manningham.vic. gov.au/gallery Free entry.
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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
frankston • Nocturnal Works by SIMON NUTTNEY. Opening Fri 10 Feb, 6-8pm. Runs 10 February – 9 March, at B’artiste Bar Lounge and Gallery, 12 Younge Street Frankston Victoria, enter via Ross Smith Lane. www.bartiste.com.au; http://simonnuttney.weebly.com
McClelland Gallery+Sculpture McClelland Gallery+Sculpture Park Park 390 McClelland Drive 390 McClelland Drive Langwarrin Victoria Langwarrin 3910 Victoria 3910
Open Tuesday – Sunday Open 10am Tuesday – 5pm – Sunday 10am – 5pm Tel: +61 3 9789 1671Tel: +61 3 9789 1671 www.mcclellandgallery.com www.mcclellandgallery.com
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• McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park Australia’s leading Sculpture Park and Gallery. 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
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melbourne • Blindside Artist Run Space 8 – 26 February Gallery 1 and 2: CATHERINE EVANS, SAM FAGAN, HAYLEY GALEA, EMMA HAMILTON, SKYE KELLY, KATE WOLFFHAGAN - Debut VIII. 29 February – 17 March Gallery 1: CHRIS BENNETT - The Space Between Us; Gallery 2: KUBOTA FUMIKAZU - (Un)Fortunately No Longer Human. Nicholas Building, 714/37 Swanston St (enter via Cathedral Arcade lifts, cnr Flinders Lane), Melbourne. Hours: Tue to Sat 12-6pm. T: (03) 9650 0093; www.blindside.org.au
• fortyfivedownstairs White Wash by PAMELA SEE, 17 January – 4 February, paper cutting and installation; Dingo Proof Fence by KRISTIN DIEMER, 17 January – 4 Feburary, photography; Leggings Are Not Pants, WOMEN’S CIRCUS, 31 January – 5 February, theatre and circus; Earth’s Shadow by JEAN LYONS, 7 – 18 February, painting; Motherhood by MORGANNA MCGEE, 7 – 18 February, photography; Two by Two, LITTLE ONES THEATRE, 9 – 19 February, theatre; Regarding the Face by ALEXANDRA SASSE, 21 February – 3 March, painting, etching & drawing; Voyeur by JANICE GOBEY, 21 February – 3 March, painting; Romeo & Juliet, THE ZOEY LOUISE MOONBEAM DAWSON SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, 28 February – 11 March, theatre; Henry IV, NOTHING BUT ROARING, 28 February – 11 March, theatre. 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, 3000. T: (03) 9662 9966, www.fortyfivedownstairs.com
• Matt Irwin Photographic Gallery Mongolia in the Footsteps of the Nomads, debut exhibition by CAM COPES, 23 February – 1 March. Official opening 3-4pm Saturday 25 February. Matt Irwin Gallery 239 Flinders Lane, Melbourne. www.mattirwin.com.au
• The Pure Genius Exhibition A photo and digital art competition designed to celebrate Australian talent. 50 winners will have their work displayed at a prestigious Melbourne gallery. Four judges in the photo and arts community will judge the competition, and there are $20.000 worth of prizes. The opening night will reveal three Pure Genius Favourite awards. Please visit www.geniusprinting.com. au/puregenius for more detailed information. This competition is your chance to have your work displayed along with all the costs that most independent photographers and artists cannot afford to organise on their own. Enter now! Entries close 17 February 2012.
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• RMIT Gallery Ist Tamworth Textile Triennial: Sensorial Loop Exhibition dates: 10 February – 24 March 2012 Demonstrating a legacy for sustaining a cultural heritage associated with textile practice for more than 30 years, the 1st Tamworth Textile Triennial features 22 creative textile artists represent a cross section of demographics from many states and one territory in Australia. Specific textile skills covered in this exhibition range from resist printed textiles to hand embroidered cross-stitch, from metal wire knitted on a machine to cloth woven on a jacquard loom. Curator: PATRICK SNELLING. Artists: ALANA CLIFTON-CUNNINGHAM, ANTON VEENSTRA, BELINDA VON MENGERSEN, BROOK MORGAN, CARLY SCOUFOS, CECILIA HEFFER, CRESSIDE COLLETTE, FRANCISCO CEPPI, ANALYA CESPEDES, GABRIELA HARSANYI, CAROLINA DEMELZA SHERWOOD, ELISA MARKESHORNAUER, MASSIEL MARIEL, ANGELA YOUNG, ESTHER PALEOLOGOS, JENNIFER CURA MENDES, VALENTINA ROSENTHAL, ROBERTSON, JULIE MONTGARRETT, LUCY WALKA STUDIO. Curator: KEVIN MURRAY IRVINE, MARTHA MCDONALD, MEREDITH Public Program Thursday 15 March 12-1pm: HUGHES, MICHELE ELLIOT, MICHELLE dates: 2 december 2011 – 28 January 2012 Artists’ talk: Adventures in Live Jewellery. HAMER, PAULA DO PRADO, RODNEY exhibition RMIT GALLERY 344 Swanston Street Melbourne 3000Bookings: 9925 1717. Location, RMIT Gallery. LOVE, SERA WATERS, TANIA SPENCER, Telephone 03 9925 1717 Email rmit.gallery@rmit.edu.au Web www.rmit.edu.au/rmitgallery – Friday 11 – 5Pang: Saturday 12 – 5Double Free admission Closed Sunday and Public Holidays Hannah Happiness, Portrait VERITY PRIDEAUX. Public programs: Friday Monday Become a fan of RMIT Gallery on Facebook Follow RMIT Gallery on Twitter of a Chinese Wedding. Exhibition dates: 10 February, 10.30am -12noon; The Sensorial 17 February – 24 March. Textile designer Loop: New directions in the field of textiles. HANNAH PANG made a name for herself as Morning tea and seminar with Patrick Snelling, a leather and suede designer in Hong Kong, Michele Elliot, Cecila Heffer Michelle Hamer RMIT.2112.Trouble.indd 1 and her dynamic reinterpretation of materials and Cresside Collette. Thursday 22 March attracted some of the world’s leading fashion 2-3.30pm; Floor talk and afternoon tea with designers including Gianni Versace and Issey contemporary artists working in textiles, with Miyake. Pang divides her time between Suzhou Martha McDonald, Lucy Irvine, Anton Veenstra China and Australia. Her latest collection is and Verity Prideaux. Location, RMIT Gallery. a contemporary interpretation of a traditional Free public program events. Location, Storey wedding around 1930/1940 in a city such as Hall Conference Rooms 1 & 2, Level 7, Building Shanghai and nearby villages. A little bit East 16, 342 Swanston Street. Bookings essential: meets the West. Most of the fabrics for the (03) 9925 1717. Joyaviva: Live Jewellery from garments have been specially crafted using across the Pacific. Exhibition dates: 10 February traditional Chinese handicrafts, and combine – 24 March 2012. Leading contemporary weaving and embroidery as well as detailed jewellers from Australia, New Zealand and Chile hand embroidery on the pieces. Public Program, have made beautiful objects that recover the Friday 17 February 12-1 pm: Artist talk. Hannah power of jewellery in our world. Using innovative Pang will explain how she designs and makes concepts, they have designed charms that fabrics using the traditional Chinese handicraft respond to our hopes and fears, ranging from process. Location, RMIT Gallery. Bookings: threat of earthquake to a child’s school exam. 9925 1717. RMIT Gallery: 344 Swanston This is a new frontier of contemporary jewellery, Street, Melbourne 3000. T: (03) 9925 1717 F: drawing on the rich mix of cultures and 2 (03) 9925 1738. E: rmit.gallery@rmit.edu.au W: skills across our wide Pacific Ocean. Artists: www.rmit.edu.au/rmitgallery Free admission. Australia: ROSEANNE BARTLEY, MELISSA Lift access. Mon-Fri 11am to 5pm, Thurs 11-7. CAMERON, JILL HERMAN, CAZ GUINEY, JIN Sat 12 to 5pm, closed Sun and public holidays. AH JO, BLANCHE TILDEN, ALICE WHISH; RMIT Gallery open on RMIT Open day Sunday New Zealand: JACQUI CHAN, ILSE-MARIE 14 August. Become a Fan of the Gallery on ERL, SARAH READ, GINA ROPIHA, ARETA Facebook. Follow us on Twitter@RMITGallery. WILKINSON, MATTHEW WILSON, KATHERYN Now open to 7 pm Thursday nights. YEATS CHILE: GUILLERMINA ATUNEZ,
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moonee ponds • Incinerator Gallery Picture This City: History and Photography in Moonee Valley by ELIZABETH GERTSAKIS. Ends 26 Feb. The Essential Fire by TONY CRAN, HANNAH RAISIN, KATOE ISHII, ANDREW LIEW and more. 2 – 25 March. Entries now open for ARTECYCLE. Total non-acquisitive prize pool $14,000. Entries close Fri 16 March. Expressions of interest sought for new exhibition space. More info online. Opening hours: Tues to Sun, 10am-4pm. Incinerator Gallery, 180 Holmes Road, Moonee Ponds VIC 3039 T: (03) 8325 1750, E: incinerator@mvcc.vic.gov.au, www.incineratorgallery.com.au
northcote • Arts Project Australia Gallery Hours: Mon to Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 10am-5pm. 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.
swan hill print & drawing acquisitive awards 2012 Entries close: Friday February 3 Exhibition dates: 13 May – 8 July 03 5036 2430 artgal@swanhill.vic.gov.au www.swanhill.vic.gov.au/gallery
prahran • one hundredth gallery For everyone new to art. Dedicated to aspiring and emerging artists. Now taking applications. www.100thgallery.com
southbank • ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Pipilotti Rist, I Packed the Postcard in my Suitcase, 21 December 21 2011 to 4 March 2012. Leading Swiss artist PIPILOTTI RIST floods ACCA’s walls and ceilings with her trippy, psychedelic video projections in the first major presentation of her work in Australia. Named a ‘guilty pleasure’ by British critic Adrian Searle, Pipilotti’s works are epic, lush and often deal with issues related to gender, sexuality and the human body in a way that evokes a sense of joy and innocence. Featured are several key works from Rist’s recent exhibiting history and two new commissions. Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 111 Sturt Street, Southbank. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 10am–5pm. Weekends 11am-6pm. Mondays by appointment. T: (03) 9697 9999. Admission: free. www.accaonline.org.au
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st andrews • The Baldessin Press and Studio Artists / writers retreats, workshops, studio access etc in tranquil bushland 50 kms from Melbourne. T (03) 97101350, www. baldessinpress.com
• 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
wheelers hill • Monash Gallery of Art (MGA) 860 Ferntree Gully Road, Wheelers Hill 3150. Tues - Fri 10am to 5pm, Sat - Sun 12 to 5pm, Closed Mon. T: (03) 8544 0500, E:mga@ monash.vic.gov.au, www.mga.org.au
geelong • Geelong Gallery NICHOLAS CHEVALIER - Australian odyssey until 12 February. The Colin and Elizabeth Laverty collection – a selection of Indigenous and non-Indigenous works of art, 18 February to 15 April. Freshwater saltwater – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prints, 18 February to 15 April. Geelong region artists program: A world observed – TERRY MATASSONI, 11 February to 25 March. Little Malop Street, Geelong. T: (03) 5229 3645; www.geelonggallery.org.au. Free entry. Open daily 10am to 5pm. Image: Rosalie Gascoigne, Legend (detail) 1988, sawn and painted hardboard. Laverty Collection, Sydney. © Rosalie Gascoigne. Licensed by Viscopy 2011-11-11.
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ballarat • Art Gallery of Ballarat Art Gallery of Ballarat, 40 Lydiard St Nth, Ballarat 3350. E: artgal@ballarat.vic.gov.au T: (03) 5320 5858. W: wwwartgalleryofballarat.com.au Free entry unless specified. Open daily.
• Her Majesty’s Friday 24 February 8pm, ROSS NOBLE’s Nonsensory Overload; Sunday 26 February 1pm NTLive Travelling Light; Saturday 3 March 8pm, Season Opening Charity Concert; Sunday 4 March, 1pm. METHD Gotterdammerung; Wednesday 7 March 2pm, The Merry… JUNE BRONHILL; Tuesday 13 March, 8pm MIRIAM MARGOLYES’ Dickens’ Women; Wednesday 14 March 8pm, DAVID WILLIAMSON’s Let the Sunshine; Sunday 18 March 1pm, METHD Ernani; Sunday 25 March, 1pm NTLive The Comedy of Errors starring LENNY HENRY; Monday 26 March 8pm, Busting Out; Wednesday 28 March 8pm, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Friday 30 March 8pm, JOHN WILLIAMSON; Saturday 31 March 8pm, Stephen Sondheim’s Company from Lincoln Center New York. Her Majesty’s Theatre, 17 Lydiard Street South, Ballarat. Box Office/Ticket Sales: MajesTix T: (03) 5333 5888 Box Office hours - Monday to Friday, 9.15am - 5pm and one hour prior to performance starting times.
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• Ballarat Arts Foundation Grants Rounds for emerging artists: 1 – 31 March and 1 – 30 September. Visit Downloads on www.ballaratartsfoundation.org.au or T: (03) 5332 4824 or M: 0409 352 268
• Post Office Gallery Wed 8 – Sat 18 February Gallery Closed; Wed 21 February – Sat 24 March 2012, UB staff and Postgrad. students’ SCOPE 012. Post Office Gallery, Arts Academy, University of Ballarat. Cnr Sturt and Lydiard St 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.
• Radmac Now Showing at the Radmac Gallery through February local artist JANINE COATSWORTH with an extensive range of mixed media, paintings and drawings. 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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bendigo • 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 The Lost Modernist: MICHAEL O’CONNELL, 26 November 2011 – 19 February 2012. A Bendigo Art Gallery exhibition. The Lost Modernist: Michael O’Connell floor talk – 11.30am Thursday 19 January and 9 February. Speaker is Tansy Curtin, Senior Curator Collections and Research. She will speak about the life and work of Michael O’Connell. Free event. Made in Hollywood: Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation. Organised by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California 3 December 2011 – 12 February 2012. 42 View Street, Bendigo. T: (03) 5434 6088. www.bendigoartgallery.com.au
• Bob Boutique Original artworks, amazing prints, blythe dolls and handmade bits and bobs. 17 Williamson street, Bendigo. Open Sat and Sun 11am-3pm, Mon and Tues 11am-3pm, Wed-Fri 11am-5pm. www.bob.net.au
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• The Capital Info and tickets online at www.thecapital.com.au. T: (03) 5441 6100 or visit 50 View Street, Bendigo. Full list of shows at website.
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• 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
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• Dudley House, View Street Environs: A group exhibition by 13 local artists examining aspects of Bendigo and surrounding areas. Featuring the work of HUGH WALLER, SUE LLEWELYN, SHELLEY DYETT, RAY PEARCE, CAROLYN DEW, GRAHAM MATTHEWS, DEIRDRE OUTHRED, RHYS JONES, REBEKAH HUGHES, BEN DYETT, GAVIN NORTH, NOEL HOURIGAN and DENIS CHAPMAN. Opening night: Friday 24 February, 6.30pm. Exhibition dates: 25 February to 5 March. Gallery hours: 10.30 to 5pm Thurs to Mon. Gallery closed: Tues and Wed.
• El Gordo Café & Art Space Looky, looky!: photos and paintings by KIM FUENTES; animation cells by VICTOR MAHNIC, 14 January – 10 February 2012. Pieced Off: paintings by DANIEL BUTTERWORTH, 11 February – 9 March 2012. Open: Mon-Fri, 8am-4.30pm. Chancery Lane, Bendigo. M: 0413 447 518. www.elgordo.net.au
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• La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre VAC Gallery: To 12 February SOOZIE COUMBE, JANE FARRAH, STEPHEN GARRETT, NIOMI SANDS and GILLEAN SHAW - Intersection. 15 February – 25 March JOSEPHINE KUPERHOLZ, RUTH JOHNSTONE and HEATHER SHIMMEN. Curated by MARTINA COPLEY - Self Species. Access Gallery: 1 February – 26 February CATHERINE PILGRIM - Widow. 29 February – 25 March TERESA POLETTI GLOVER – Distinction and Dissimilarity. Gallery hours: Tue - Fri 10am-5pm, Sat - Sun 12pm-5pm. 121 View Street, Bendigo. T: (03) 5441 8724 W: www.latrobe.edu.au/vac
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• Next on Now Art Blast Various locations. PUNCTUM INC presents Next on Now, a contemporary art project featuring 7 installations by local Central Victorian artists at various locations in Bendigo from Friday 24 – Sunday 26 February. $10 weekend pass includes performance, photography, sculpture and more. Passes, programs and maps available at Capital Theatre, View Street, Bendigo. T: (03) 5434 6100. Opening night Friday 24 February, 6pm-8pm at Viewpoint Gallery, 13 View Point, Bendigo. More information visit www. nextonnow.com Enquiries to Krista Horbatiuk, Associate Producer, Punctum Inc. M: 0401 167 756 E: Krista@punctum.com.au
castlemaine • 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
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• Buda Historic Home and Garden A property of national significance. Home of the creative Leviny family from 1863 to 1981, featuring authentic furnishings and arts and crafts collection. Wander around the heritage garden, enjoy the picture-perfect spring, and then buy your own Buda plants in the Nursery. 42 Hunter Street, Castlemaine 3450. T/F: (03) 5472 1032, E: admin@budacastlemaine.org. Open Wed - Sat 12 - 5, Sun 10 – 5. Groups by appointment.
• CASPA Vinyl Frontier – linocuts in colour and black and white by DREW TAYLOR. Opening Friday 3 Feb 6pm, until 24 Feb. 10am – 5pm daily. CASPATRONICA II – local electronic performers and DJs Sat 25 Feb 8pm – late. Above Stoneman’s Bookroom, Hargraves Street. www.castlemainefringe.org.au/caspa
• Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum 14 Lyttleton Street Castlemaine, Vic. For full list of events and exhibitions log onto: www. castlemainegallery.com
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• Cherry Tennant’s Studio Gallery At any time view Cherry’s paintings, drawings, photographs, greetings cards and poetry books. 160 Hargraves Street (cnr Hall St), Castlemaine. To ensure she’s there phone first. T: (03) 5470 6642. You may also contact her for tuition details.
There is Only this Moment V, 2010 • Falkner Gallery Until 19 February: IAN CLARK Paintings & Works on Paper; ANITA LAURENCE Paintings & Linocuts. 23 February – 15 April: DEBRA JOHNSTON Paintings; ROBYN RAYNER Etchings. 35 Templeton Street, Castlemaine Hours: 11am - 5pm Thurs - Sun T: (03) 5470 5858; E: falknergallery@tpg.com.au W: www. falknergallery.com.au
• greenGraphics: web and print Design, domain registration and web hosting. T: (03) 5472 5300, E: info@greengraphics.com.au www.greengraphics.com.au
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• Lot19 Studios and Artspace 11 – 26 February Big, Bold and Brazen, an exhibition of large-scale new work from local artists and beyond. The first Seasonal Salon for 2012 - contemporary photography, drawing, sculpture and painting, opening with an afternoon of enchanting music in the gallery, 11 Feb 12-5pm. Gallery Opening Hours: Thurs – Fri 10-4, Sat – Sun 12-5. Lot19, Langslow Street. 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
• Union Studio Framers & Gallery Conservation and Exhibition framing. We are skilled in the preservation and framing of 3d objects, textiles, photographs and artworks. 74 Mostyn Street (via Union St) Castlemaine. T: (03) 5470 6446; www.unionstudio.com.au
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kyneton • Gallery 40 New exhibition: The Indian Wedding, MARGARET CHANDRA’s photos of various weddings showing the range of ceremonies and the colour! Open 11am-4pm, Sat-Mon 28 Jan until Easter Monday. 40 Mollison Street,Kyneton. Contact Margaret Chandra M: 0438 356 025; E: mchandra@gallery40.com.au; www.gallery40.com.au
• Stockroom Makers, artists and project space. Feb 11 to March 4 (opening Sat Feb 11, 430pm) LUCY JAMES, and i shall be your canopy; ANTHONY SCIBELLI, Interchanges of Victoria and New York State: Shortcuts, violations and accidents; SUE ROGERS, Flow. Thurs-Mon 10.30am-5pm. 98 Piper Street, Kyneton 3444. T: (03) 5422 3215. www.stockroomkyneton.com
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lancefield • MAD Gallery and Café 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 and Gallery open daily 10am to 5pm.
malmsbury • Woodbine Art Hard Places recent paintings and prints by JEREMY BARRETT 19 February – 11 March 2012. Gall. Hours: 11am-5pm Friday-Monday, 2644 Daylesford Road, Malmsbury 3446 T: 03 54 232 065 M: 0412 121 022 E: woodbine. art@gmail.com
newstead • Dig Café Closed Monday and Tuesday. Open Wednesday and Thursday 9am-4pm, Friday and Saturday 9am - late, Sunday 9am-4pm. Cnr Lyons and Panmure Sts Newstead. T: (03) 5476 2744
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• Karen Pierce Painter, Illustrator, Art Teacher, Community Artist. Quality prints and cards. T: (03) 5476 2459, www.karenpierceart.com
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• Shelf Life Gallery at Taradale Wine and Produce Featuring: Recent works by PETER WATTS, 27 January – 16 February. Taradale Wine and Produce, 120 High Street, Taradale. Fri, Sat and Sun 11am - 6pm. T: (03) 5423 2828
• Taradale Mineral Springs Festival Sunday 11 March (Labour Day weekend) 10am - 4pm. Fresh produce, local wines, specialty foods, live music, two-day Art Show and free children’s activities. M: 0417 547 270 for more information. Live music after 4pm at Taradale Wine & Produce.
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gippsland • Kerrie Warren, Abstract Expressionist Artist Corporate and private collections. Studio Open by Appointment in Crossover, Victoria – M: 0411 480 384; www.kerriewarren.com.au
• Gecko Studio Gallery Open 10am-5pm, Thur to Mon. 15 Falls Road, Fish Creek, Vic 3959 T: (03) 5683 2481; E: framing@geckostudiogallery.com.au; www.geckostudiogallery.com.au
• Gippsland Art Gallery, Maffra 2 February to 17 March Raveling the World The Country Womens Association of Victoria (CWA Vic) and re-science have brought science and craft together in this exhibition to celebrate the International Year of Forests. 150 Johnson Street, Maffra Vic 3860 Open Mon & Wed-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-12pm Closed Tues & Sun. Enquiries to Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale T: 03 5142 3372.
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• Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale To 12 February Be Home Before Dark is a new photographic series by Gippsland artist JANINA GREEN that looks at the menace of the everyday world at night. To 25 March Jus’ Drawn comprising new drawing-based works from the Aboriginal artist collective ‘ProppaNOW’. A NETS Victoria touring exhibition developed by Linden Centre for contemporary Arts. 4 February to 25 March Reservoir – IZABELA PLUTA’S haunting photographs and artifacts whisper of nostalgia and longing. 18 February to 25 March BRIAGOLONG ARTISTS - Paintings, drawings, mixed media and printmaking by this diverse group of passionate Gippsland artists. 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
healesville • TarraWarra Museum of Art Until 12 February 2012 WILLIAM DELAFIELD COOK. A Survey. The first major survey exhibition by this significant Australian artist in over two decades, focusing on his landscape paintings from 1977-2011, with an emphasis on works epic in size, sensation and scope. A Gippsland Art Gallery travelling exhibition. JACQUELINE MITELMAN: Facetime. Intimate in detail and classical in composure, Mitelman’s portraits have both the stillness of icons and the intensity of the moment. This survey exhibition investigates the development of her portrait photography over three decades. From 19 November 2011 SAM LEACH: The Ecstasy of Infrastructure. Selected paintings of RALPH BALSON and EDWIN TANNER from the TWMA collection form the basis for Sam Leach’s fascinating new suite of works. Through the recontextualisation of elements of the works of Tanner and Balson within his own painting practice, Leach continues his ongoing exploration of the nexus between art, science and philosophy. For public programs and events at TWMA please visit website. TarraWarra Museum of Art, 311 HealesvilleYarra Glen Road, Healesville VIC, 3777 www.twma.com.au
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mildura • The Art Vault 8 – 27 February ANNA AUSTIN Second City small gallery; 29 February – 19 March ANITA LAURENCE Along the way - small gallery; STOCK SHOW main gallery; Artists in residence: ANNA AUSTIN, PETER LANCASTER, ANITA LAURENCE and BILL YOUNG. 43 Deakin Avenue ,Mildura 3500. T: (03) 5022 0013 E: juliechambers@theartvault.com.au www. theartvault.com.au Gallery Director: Julie Chambers. Wed - Sat 10am to 5pm and Sun Mon 10am to 2pm.
• Mildura Arts Centre 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. February: ROWENA KEENAN, RACHEL KENDRIGAN, and the MILDURA POTTERY GROUP. 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
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swan hill • Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards 2012, 13 May – 8 July. Horseshoe Bend, Swan Hill 3585. www.swanhill.vic.gov.au/gallery; T: (03) 5036 2430
Swan Hill Print & Drawing Acquisitive Award 2010 Winning Print: Deborah WIlliams, Pause 2009, engraving and roulette intaglio, 71 x 89 cm.
swan hill print & drawing acquisitive awards 2012 Entries close: Friday February 3 Exhibition dates: 13 May – 8 July 03 5036 2430 artgal@swanhill.vic.gov.au www.swanhill.vic.gov.au/gallery
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• Benalla Art Gallery Bridge Street, Benalla, Victoria, 3672. Opening hours 10am-5pm. T: (03) 5760 2619. E: gallery@benalla.vic.gov.au; Please check the website for details: www.benallaartgallery.com
shepparton • Glasson’s Art World, High St Shepparton Art supplies, graffiti art products, Artists Designer Gallery, Dookie Art Retreat, archival framing, painting trips. E: info@glassonsartworld.com.au, www.glassonsartworld.com.au
• Shepparton Art Museum Sir John Longstaff: Portrait of a Lady, 18 February to 22 April 2012. 2012 Indigenous Ceramic Art Award, 18 February to 22 April 2012. 2012 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award Applications Open online 1 Nov 2011. Shepparton Art Museum, 70 Welsford Street, Shepparton VIC 3630; T: (03) 5832 9861; E: art.museum@shepparton.vic. gov.au; www.sheppartonartmuseum.com.au Acting Director: Ryan Johnston. Free Entry. The Museum is closed for redevelopment until Saturday 18 February 2012, please visit the website for details on the SAM Launch Party and updates on the redevelopment.
LAUNCH PARTY Saturday 18 February 2012 • Free arts activities, live music & tours of SAM: 10.00am to 5.00pm • Sir John Longstaff: Portrait of a Lady Exhibition • 2011 Indigenous Ceramic Art Award Exhibition • 6 New Permanent Collection Galleries
wangaratta â&#x20AC;˘ Wangaratta Art Gallery Director: Dianne Mangan, T: (03) 5722 0865, F: (03) 5722 2969, E: d.mangan@wangaratta.vic.gov.au or gallery@wangaratta.vic.gov.au
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
hamilton • Hamilton Art Gallery FRESH: Contemporary Australian Art. Until 29 April. Contemporary paintings, prints and videos from the collection. 107 Brown Street, Mon - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 12pm and 2 - 5pm, Sun 2 - 5pm. T: (03) 5573 0460, E: info@ hamiltongallery.org, W: www.hamiltongallery.org
horsham • Horsham Regional Art Gallery 21 Roberts Ave, Horsham. Tues - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat - Sun 1 - 4.30pm. T: (03) 5362 2888; E: hrag@hrcc.vic.gov.au; www.horshamartgallery.com.au
WESTERN VIC
natimuk â&#x20AC;˘ 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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