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Tuesday, 10 June 2025 to Tuesday, 08 July 2025
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Tracing the Grain: Locating the life of the tree in the woodblock | Julian Laffan
Tuesday, 13 May 2025 to Friday, 06 June 2025
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The grain of trees evident in both woodblocks and prints are an under-acknowledged record of aesthetic co-production between human artists and more-than-human beings. Whilst there is literature centred on the relief woodcut print and the resulting visual communication, there is a significant gap in the consideration of the woodblock. Usually seen as a matrix for the dissemination of written language and imagery as prints, there has been little exploration of the woodblock as a vehicle to...
Soil Breathes | Sophia Dacy-Cole
Tuesday, 08 April 2025 to Friday, 02 May 2025
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You are invited to commune with the local soils. These artworks were all made in collaboration with the soils I steward at Wamboin, a short drive from here. Myself and my workshop participants have used scientific tools as tools of soil communion and intimacy. We have used microscopes and microphones to connect with these soils on their own levels: seeing and hearing the world at soil's scale. We have used the simple tools of walking Country, and of handling soil, to gain a better embodied...
Gurindji Freedom Banners & Wave Hill / Jinparrak / Canberra Exchange
Tuesday, 11 February 2025 to Friday, 28 March 2025
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Gurindji Freedom Banners
Mumkurla-nginyi-ma parrngalinyparla - From the darkness into the light
The banners retell the story of the historic Wave Hill Walk-off in 1966. The 10 iconic banners on display tell the Gurindji account of the ‘walk-off’, which was led by Vincent Jurlama Lingiari AM with Gurindji, Ngarinyman, Mudburra, Bilinara and Walpiri workers from Wave Hill Station, located in the Victoria River District on the northern edge of the Tanami Desert. This strike was a response...
The Sharing Stories Arts Exchange Exhibition
Tuesday, 15 October 2024 to Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Project Space
The exhibition features work by Canberra based artists working across a variety of mediums as they respond to their learnings and experiences of the 2024 Sharing Stories Arts Exchange.
Sharing Stories is a creative participatory project focused on building positive reciprocal relationships between the Canberra community and local and regional Indigenous and non-indigenous communities. The program features culturally rich learning opportunities in the ACT and a structured creative field...
Sharing Stories is a creative participatory project focused on building positive reciprocal relationships between the Canberra community and local and regional Indigenous and non-indigenous communities. The program features culturally rich learning opportunities in the ACT and a structured creative field...
GHOSTLAND, exhibition with Julie Gough
Thursday, 26 September 2024 to Friday, 25 October 2024
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Dr Julie Gough is the recipient of the 2022 H.C Coombs Creative Arts Indigenous Fellowship.
Shining a spotlight on the representation of Aboriginal histories, Tasmanian artist, writer and curator Dr Julie Gough, a Trawlwoolway woman, draws on her Aboriginal ancestry and her family's experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people to highlight untold and often conflicting histories of Australia's colonial past.
Utilising the creative mediums of sound, film and sculpture, Gough's work is grounded...
Shining a spotlight on the representation of Aboriginal histories, Tasmanian artist, writer and curator Dr Julie Gough, a Trawlwoolway woman, draws on her Aboriginal ancestry and her family's experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people to highlight untold and often conflicting histories of Australia's colonial past.
Utilising the creative mediums of sound, film and sculpture, Gough's work is grounded...
FUSE Glass Prize
Thursday, 08 August 2024 to Friday, 06 September 2024
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This biennial non-acquisitive prize for Australian and New Zealand glass artists is Australasia’s richest prize for glass.
It provides a platform for artists to push themselves and their work to new limits and focuses public attention on the importance of glass as a medium for contemporary artistic expression.
Presented by JamFactory, the FUSE Glass Prize is a non-acquisitive biennial prize for Australian and New Zealand glass artists. It provides a platform for artists to push themselves and...
It provides a platform for artists to push themselves and their work to new limits and focuses public attention on the importance of glass as a medium for contemporary artistic expression.
Presented by JamFactory, the FUSE Glass Prize is a non-acquisitive biennial prize for Australian and New Zealand glass artists. It provides a platform for artists to push themselves and...
