Just when I think 2009 has drawn to an artistic close, Photoaccess makes a last minute dash with one of the best exhibitions I have seen all year. Semblance is a suite of new photographic works by recent ANU graduate TJ Phillipson, who forgoes technological bells and whistles for the simple assuredness of studio photography […]
Month: December 2009
The Way We Weren’t
Part two of Gavin Findlay’s article about the rise and demise of the performative arts in Canberra is out now in Real Time Issue 94. You can check it out online HERE. Findlay laments: I don’t hold out much hope of major change to the bureaucratic structure in a town dedicated to bureaucracy. There are […]
Good Help Is Hard To Find – The New Belconnen Arts Centre
Iconophilia’s musings on the dubious nature of advice given to the ACT Government has got me thinking about the most recent addition to the ACT arts family, the Belconnen Arts Centre. Whilst the facility has been open for some months now I only recently ventured over to ‘that’ side of town to see it for […]
Psychodrama – Nicholas Folland at CCAS
What do you get when you take a toilet, a shower, an bathtub and a sink and add two thousand litres of water? A cracking great art installation, that’s what. The indomitable Nicholas Folland has descended onto Canberra with his own brand of melodrama and tragic beauty. His new installation without reason opens at Canberra […]
Preview: ANU School of Art Graduates 2009
On Wednesday I scooted off to Patron’s Day at the ANU School of Art in honour of the 2009 Graduate Exhibition. I look forward to each year’s grad show in pretty much the same way as kids look forward to Christmas. The quality of artwork here is often the best you will find anywhere, made by […]
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