Month: August 2016

Let’s Talk Contemporary Art Organisations | NAVA Event at The Gunnery

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Poster for lets talk contemporary art organisations event

This is your chance to join the Directors of Contemporary Art Organisations (CAO) from across Australia in a conversation that is focused on how we should value the small to medium sector. This sector makes a significant contribution to expanding artists careers, engaging audiences and developing new works. This is something that should not be overlooked. Let’s Talk will be facilitated by Blair French, Director, Curatorial & Digital, MCA Australia | Alexie Glass-Kantor, Executive Director, Artspace and Chair, CAO | Dr. Lizzie Muller, Director, UNSWAD Art & Design Master of Curating and Cultural Leadership Program | Brianna Munting, Deputy Director, NAVA Date: Monday, 8 August 2016 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (AEST) – Add to Calendar Venue: The Gunnery – Level 2, 43-51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo, NSW 2011 FREE – Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/lets-talk-contemporary-art-organisations-tickets-26769781136?aff=erelexpmlt

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Exhibition Review | The APW George Collie Memorial Award – Sheridan Palmer | Australian Print Workshop

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An exhibition of limited edition prints by two of Australia’s most prominent printmakers, Jennifer Marshall and the late Bea Maddock (1934-2016) is currently being shown at the Australian Print Workshop in Gertrude Street, Fitzroy (until 20th August). The APW presents the annual George Collie Memorial Award in recognition of artists who have made an outstanding contribution to contemporary Australian printmaking. It has previously been awarded to Noel Counihan and Rick Amor in 2014 and Grahame King and Jan Senbergs in 2015, and this year the prestigious honour is awarded to two women. Bea Maddock studied at the Hobart Technical College and completed post-graduate painting and printmaking at the Slade School of Art under William Coldstream, Ceri Richards and Anthony Cross. She was later appointed lecturer in printmaking at the National Gallery School and the Victorian College of the Arts from…

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Conference | The Forever Now – Collections in the 21st Century | Museum of Contemporary Art

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How has increased focus upon and work with collections led developments in contemporary curatorial methodology and practice? How are collections of contemporary art being developed in the present? How does the development of collections impact upon the work and careers of artists? Earlybird Registration includes 12 months MCA membership –  closes 7th August 2016. This conference is presented as part of the opening celebrations of the MCA’s newly transformed collection galleries, first launched in an expanded form in 2012. Bringing together artists, curators, academics and commentators from Australia and abroad, The Forever Now will examine how contemporary art collections shape our pasts and anticipate our futures. Collections traditionally constitute the basis of the museum. However, the period in which collections of contemporary art have been built is also when art museums have given increasing emphasis to constantly changing programs: to…

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Autotune Everything: Art and the Sonic – Cosmic – Politic | Melbourne Art Foundation, Liquid Architecture, Research Unit in Public Cultures

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Melbourne Art Foundation presents the 2016 Lectures and Forums Program in association with Liquid Architecture and the Research Unit in Public Cultures (RUPC) – University of Melbourne. Autotune Everything: Art and the Sonic – Cosmic – Politic This year’s program is an expanded symposium encompassing talks, music, performances and experiments. By necessity, we tune in to some signals, and filter others out. In determining what is signal and what is noise, listening is political – all listening, all the time. As is looking: when we focus, we sharpen the subject, and exclude the rest. Consigned to the back, signals nonetheless continue to vibrate, permeating through the social and the architectural, into the atmospheric. We want to stage a conversation about sound, art and public space. What if our own practices echo those of the larger forces that filter, groom and…

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