Past events
Art and Other Realms
Art forum
Joan Ross Ross works across most mediums including sculpture, drawing, video and installation. Her recent video animations reconfigure early Australian colonial paintings as backdrops. Her works consider the connection to and disconnection with nature and ultimately the attempt to civilise nature,…
SONJA KALENJUK
Project Space
Based on Lewis Carol’s Alice in Wonderland, this exhibition is created from 99% recycled and re-used objects, questioning if their fate is decided by design or fate and if an objects preciousness is decided by its materiality or sentimentality. Collections of objects are juxtaposed…
ALICE KETTLE
Project Space
Alice Kettle is a contemporary textile/fibre artist based in the UK. She has established a unique area of practice by her use of a craft medium, consistently and on an unparalleled scale. Her work is machine stitch, the expressive journey of a line of thread, which is made up of individual tiny…
THE LITTLE MERMAID
Gallery
Peter Greenaway, Istvan Horkay & Irma de Vries Manning Clark House in association with the ANU School of Art presents The Little Mermaid. This video is part of a series of Seven Nursery Tales made for multi-screen environments by Peter Greenaway, Istvan Horkay and Irma de Vries. The ambition is…
The Venetian Wave symposium
Other
Different generations of makers will be presenting, so this will be a unique opportunity to explore the impact of Venetian glass on contemporary glass practice. The discussion will include the influences and ideas around the historical and aesthetic importance of glass-making in Venice. The…
HOW TO PAINT A LANDSCAPE?
Project Space
A selection of paintings by seventeen artists whose work responds to the natural environment and engages with the tradition of painting the landscape. The exhibition showcases a diversity of approaches to both the subject and the painted medium and aims to reinforce landscape …
AWKWARD BEAUTY
Gallery
Exhibition Reception 6pm Thursday 30 August To be opened by Anne Brennan, Head, Art Theory Workshop and Undergraduate Convenor, ANU School of Art Please join artists, Justine McKnight and Michelle Taylor for a floor talk in the exhibition on Thursday, 30 August at 1.00pm Awkward…