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Artist Talk | Standing Stone - Catherine Evans | BLINDSIDE Gallery

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Constellation II, Catherine Evans, ballpoint pen on paper, 21 x 30cm, 2014.

STANDING STONE: An exhibition of new artwork by Catherine Evans at BLINDSIDE Gallery Artist talk, Saturday 10th of May at 2.30pm. Venue: BLINDSIDE, Level 7, Room 14, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 Exhibition Dates: 30th  April – 17th May 2014 | Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 6pm Standing Stone is an exhibition of photographs and sculpture that transposes the marks on our own bodies into a large-scale map using basalt boulders, sticky tape and the raw materials of photography, such as unprocessed photographic paper exposed to ambient light. In this exhibition…

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Exhibition | Emily Floyd ‘Far Rainbow’ | Heide Museum of Modern Art

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Emily Floyd - Far Rainbow Heide Museum of Modern Art until 13 July 2020 Heide Museum of Modern Art is currently exhibiting a survey of works by Melbourne based, contemporary artist Emily Floyd. The exhibition brings together key works from the past ten years of Floyd’s practice with eleven new works created specifically for Heide galleries and grounds. The title Far Rainbow is taken from a 1963 Soviet science-fiction story set on the imaginary planet Rainbow, a utopian location inhabited by artists and scientists, which faces destruction when a science…

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ACCA Future Forum #2 | ‘Melbourne Tomorrow’

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  Future Forum #2: Melbourne Tomorrow   What will Melbourne’s contemporary art world look like in the future? What differentiates Melbourne’s contemporary art ecosystem from other states? How will it look in the next decade? Is there too much duplication or is abundance our strength? How do we keep it thriving? Speakers  Juliana Engberg, Artistic Director, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art  Max Delany, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria  Madé Spencer-Castle, Co-Director, DUDSPACE  Bernard Salt, Partner KPMG and social commentator Venue: ABC Centre, Southbank Date: 7pm, Wednesday 16th April…

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Book Launch | Thought into Form

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Monash Art and Design is launching a new book ‘Thought Into Form’. The book celebrates the rich diversity of practice in the MADA community. The launch at ACCA will include talks on the future of collaborative creative practice from: John Warwicker, Professor of Design at MADA, Editor and Designer of ‘Though into Form’ Juliana Engberg, Artistic Director at ACCA Roger Wood, Wood Marsh Architecture Tara McDowell, Director of Curatorial Practice at MADA Date: 6pm, Tuesday 24th September 2013 Venue: ACCA, 111 Sturt St, Southbank RSVP@harveypublicity.com.au  

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Art and Art History News | September 13th 2013

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Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890),Sunset at Montmajour, 1888. Private Collection. Image via the Van Gogh Museum

A round up of recent news from the world of art Katrina Grant A press release from the Australian Academy of the Humanities has cautioned that ‘the Coalition’s proposal to redirect Australian Research Council funds away from projects it deems to be “wasteful” compromises the fundamental principle of funding research based on the criteria of excellence.’ Made last week, pre-election, but, still relevant. A good post-election follow up in the Guardian Australia by Hila Shacher from UWA who writes that “Politicians shouldn’t be allowed to decide what is “relevant” in research any more than…

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