CAHAT - Past events
Charlie Sofo
Art forum
Charlie Sofo is a young Melbourne artist who works across a range of mediums – sculpture, video, drawing, actions and text. He makes artworks out of the incidental details of life, finding meaning in simple processes, materials and actions. Sofo’s whimsical sculptures are often made from ordinary…
Kim Mahood
Art forum
Kim Mahood is an artist and the author of the award-winning nonfiction book Craft for a Dry Lake. For the past nine years Kim has worked with the Walmajarri people of Paruku (Lake Gregory) on cultural and environmental mapping projects, and has facilitated and participated in art, science, writing…
Fringe Forum: Professor Paul Hills
Art forum
Glass and Painting in Renaissance Venice In Renaissance Venice the glass-blowers of Murano were technically the most advanced in Europe. Their innovations in table-glass were as keenly sought after by the cultural elite as the paintings of Titian and Tintoretto. This lecture explores the relation…
Patricia Piccinini
Art forum
Patricia Piccinini is one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists whose startling sculptures examine the connections between science and nature, art and the environment. Piccinini works with a wide range of media, including sculpture, video, drawing, installation and digital prints. Her…
Fringe Forum: Melinda Young
Art forum
Contemporary jeweller Melinda Young will present a talk focussing on her exhibition, Life in Your Hands – art from solastalgia, currently on show at CraftACT: Craft and Design Centre. She will discuss the relationship of this work to her broader practice, which is concerned with how craft and…
Rachel Bowak / Louis Pratt
Art forum
Rachel Bowak is a Canberra-based sculptor who works predominantly with steel using construction, forging and forming processes. She is interested in human relationships with the natural world, specifically how we shape landscape and landscape shapes us. Rachel is a graduate of the School of Art.…
Chris Drury
Art forum
Chris Drury is a distinguished British environmental artist. His work makes connections between Nature and Culture, Inner and Outer and Microcosm and Macrocosm. To this end he collaborates with scientists and technicians from a broad spectrum of disciplines and uses whatever visual means,…