Past events
Transition: The Liminal Space
Project Space
The photographic exhibition is part of a PhD series by Keven Francis, engaging with reflection and transition, as a contemplative liminal space of cross cultural negotiation, where tangible and intangible heritage are symbiotic. Keven is an artist and manager who lives with his family in…
Art Forum: Helen Grace
Art forum
Scanning: Ubiquitous Media, Image Processing and Automatons This is the age of the unprecedented proliferation of expression through ubiquitous computing, life-logging and automatic imaging systems. Has human vision been machinized to such an extent that perception itself might be regarded as a…
Art Forum: Alice Kettle & Amanda Ravetz
Art forum
Alice Kettle and Amanda Ravetz are visiting artists in the Textiles Workshop. In this Forum they discuss their ongoing fascination with enchantment and reverie – how they became interested in these areas, how they have pursued their individual and collaborative research through stitch and film,…
Art Forum: Melinda Heal & Amy Kerr-Menz
Artist talk
resist & reveal showcases the artwork of ANU School of Art alumni Melinda Heal and Amy Kerr-Menz, who are both textile artists using traditional Japanese resist dyeing techniques in an Australian context. Melinda and Amy will discuss the use of traditional processes in contemporary art…
Designing Craft / Crafting Design: 40 Years of JamFactory
Gallery
Designing Craft/Crafting Design: 40 Years of JamFactory will illustrate the critical role that JamFactory has played in nurturing and promoting contemporary craft and design in Australia. Established by the South Australian Government under Premier Don Dunstan in 1973, JamFactory today…
Art Forum: Robert Baines
Artist talk
Art-jewellery cannot be completely free of context. Every material or process has an embedded material cultural history. The goldsmith has an inescapable history but this is not a burden, conundrum or impediment to make an original statement. New contexts can be invented and…
Art Forum: Anthea Callen
Art forum
The Work of Art: Plein Air Painting and Artistic Identity in 19th-century France Anthea Callen’s lecture considers some of the issues raised in her new book, The Work of Art: Plein air painting and artistic identity in nineteenth-century France. Outlining the reasons for the rise to prominence of…