…they fell in love. They sleep together every night.” Chris Carmody – on show as part of Double Hitch, along with Tim Dwyer, Luke Penders, Bettina Hill, Fiona Veikkanen, Poppy Malik, Adam Veikkanen and Hannah Bath at the O’Connor Scout Hall until 5pm today.
Category: Arts writing
The Ballets Russes, or, Why You Should Give A Crap About A Box Of Old Clothes
Go and see the Ballets Russes exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia this weekend. I say this now as it is probably as far as my lazier readers will make it. (I’m not judging, mind, being guilty of the very same elsewhere on the internet.) You’re probably thinking: “yeah but it’s like $20 to […]
Money For Nothing
Free money! Get your free money! ‘What’s that?’ you say. Why, the ArtsACT 2012 arts fund is now open silly. Official announcement from the ArtsACT website: The ACT Arts Fund is one of the main ways the ACT Government provides direct support to the arts. Each year, applications are invited from all artists, groups and […]
Yield – Cinnamon Lee & Christine Cholewa
Covert Jewels by Sydney’s Cinnamon Lee and Machine In the Garden by South Australian artist Christine Cholewa are two exhibitions currently showing at CraftACT Craft and Design Centre. I was commissioned to write the catalogue essay for the shows, and CraftACT are always a pleasure to work with! Check out the shows before they finish […]
The Awful Truth About Freelancing
Recently I bought groceries on credit. It was a pivotal moment, and as I swiped that plastic I experience a flash forward montage detailing the beginning of the end. I’d always scoffed about people shopping on credit, never thinking for a second that I’d be doing the very same. But only recently I’d taken a […]
Home Fires – Blaze 5
Just as the ANU School of Art Grad Show symbolically closes the end of the art year in Canberra, Blaze, the Canberra Contemporary Art Space’s emerging artist showcase, begins a new one. Pretty well all of Canberra’s best art exports have exhibited in one of these over the last five years, so it’s the way […]
Digital Ether – Dan Lorrimer
Sculptor Dan Lorrimer recently held his debut solo show at CCAS Manuka, curated by Vanessa Wright. I wrote the following review for the latest issue of BMA, but the exhibition has closed now. I’m terribly sorry to rub salt in your wounds. The tumultuous twelve months that follow graduation from art school are a time […]
Art Madness
Goddam what has gotten into this city?! Proactive, productive…it’s sickening (don’t change). The latest art madness off the ranks is this sprawling two-day affair, based out of the Phoenix – artsy haunt since year dot. Said affair is as much hyped for its name as its lineup, titled as it is ‘Hey dad can you […]
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Wish I’d found this Bernie Slater classic in time for Jan 26th…
Horse. Herring.
The Red Herring Cafe is a new venue, exhibition space, lounge and, well, cafe nestled in the city centre. It’s pretty darn comfy and cute and if you haven’t yet checked it out I recommend you head there right away. But if you’re one of those folk who need an excuse then this Saturday night (Feb […]
Yolande Norris 