CAHAT - Past events
Grant Featherston - Australia's most successful mid-century designer.
Art forum
A talk by the author, Geoff Isaac, followed by a book signing. Grant Featherston is best known for his plywood Contour chairs developed in the early 1950s. However the Contour series just marked the start of a thirty year career in chair design. Working with Melbourne -based manufacturer Aristoc…
Papiers Flottants (Floating papers)
Project Space
Papiers Flottants (Floating papers) presents the recent works of the artist and designer Marilou Chagnaud. Approaching paper and printmaking with an eye to its sculptural possibilities, this exhibition explores the deployment of printed patterns into a spatial installation, questioning the path…
Public Lecture: Roger Benjamin
Art forum
East of Colour: Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia East of Colour: Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia While Paul Klee’s revelatory voyage to Tunisia on the eve of WWI is paradigmatic of modernist Orientalism, the 1905 travels there of Wassily Kandinsky and his partner…
The Rubies
Gallery
The Rubies is a celebration of the ANU SoA&D’s extraordinary EASS program and an acknowledgement of the generosity of the patrons who share a belief in the value of investing in Australia’s next wave of contemporary artists. The artists selected for the scheme over the years echo the diversity…
Drawn Thread
Project Space
Opening 6pm Wednesday 26 July Exhibition continues until Saturday 5 August. An exhibition which considers the connections between textile materials and techniques and ideas about drawing. Featuring Alice Kettle (UK), Kay Lawrence (Australia), Emma Robertson (Australia), Rosie James (UK), Jess…
Step into the Limelight
Gallery
The Step into the Limelight visual art exhibition is an initiative of the ACT Education Directorate in collaboration with the ANU School Of Art & Design. This year’s exhibition will display the work of more than 300 students from 30 different public school settings. It includes work from the…
Naturally Yours
Gallery
An exhibition of work addressing environmental issues by early career researchers at the Australian National University School of Art & Design Changes to the natural environment and speculation on its possible demise are conspicuous in investigations by contemporary artists. The exhibition is…