Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery presents Sera Waters: Domestic Arts
In Domestic Arts, Waters delves into her own family history to unravel the complexities of settler colonial home-making and the contemporary significance of traditional home-crafts. Large-scale sculptures and intricate embroideries are used to re-imagine the familial home, celebrating the knowledge and creativity of ‘women’s work’, while interrogating its complicity in forms of colonisation and privilege.
‘Tree of Life’ takes root in people’s imaginations
Geoff Helisma. For Derry Moroney, photography started as “just a little hobby”, but now that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and other media outlets from around the world have contacted him, that ‘little hobby’ is growing into something much more. “My partner got me a camera a few weeks after we came here three years ago,” says Derry, “… it went from there. “I started going out every day; I went to every sunrise and every sunset and I’ve been doing it ever since.”
New timeframe for two of Ballarat’s most popular events
Ballarat’s signature festivals the Ballarat Begonia Festival and Ballarat Heritage Festival, formerly Ballarat Heritage Weekend, will be celebrated over an extended period this year.
Young Archie artists share spotlight
An incredible line-up of young artists will have their portrait skills on display at the Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre as winners and finalists of the Young Archie competition. The works will be displayed at the same time as the 2020 Archibald Prize Regional Tour which runs at the Gallery from Friday 22 January to Sunday 7 March 2021 ...
What is at the HEART of Margaret River?
To accommodate the increasing needs of residents and visitors within the region, the Shire of Augusta Margaret River has redeveloped the 35-year-old former cultural centre building into a new state of the art Hub of Entertainment, Arts and Regional Tourism – the Margaret River HEART.
McClymonts Golden Guitar streak continues
Emma Pritchard. Grafton’s country music sweethearts and fan favourites The McClymonts, added two more Golden Guitars to their growing collection at the 2021 Toyota Golden Guitar Awards in Tamworth on January 23, bringing their new total to 15. The beautiful sisters, Brooke, Samantha and Mollie, won Contemporary Country Album of the Year for their most recent production Mayhem to Madness which was released in June 2020, as well as Group or Duo of the Year.
Tjanpi Desert Weavers
Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Until 4th July 2021, Free Entry
This large-scale installation by the Tjanpi Desert Weavers tells the ancestral story of the...
Latest Arts and Culture Grants Program outcomes revealed
Outcomes of the October 2020 round of the Arts and Culture Grants Program have been announced. Arts South Australia’s Arts and Culture Grants Program invests in artists and organisations to support a vibrant arts ecology. Congratulations to fifty one successful applicants of the October 2020 round, with grants totalling over $1.4 million awarded. Grant opportunities on offer in the October 2020 round included Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Grants, Projects, Development and Major Projects categories.
OMG! Fringe fun comes to Kwinana
City of Kwinana, Media Release, 15 January 2021
Roll up, roll up! You’ve never experienced Kwinana quite like this before!
OMG! Fringe is a series of...
Much-loved Kangaroo Island Easter Art Exhibition returns in 2021
Celebrating local culture, new beginnings and resilience
Artists Collective, Kangaroo Island Inc, Media Release, 12 January 2021
More than a year after bushfires devastated parts of...
The Healing Art
by Geoff Helisma
Jim Hourigan loves to paint; however, he plays down whatever artistic ability he might possess, preferring to focus on what his works...
Rita is returning!
Lismore Theatre Company is proud to announce that Educating Rita is back in rehearsal ready to open its 2021 season. Associate director Kylie Fuad is collaborating with director David Addenbrooke to work with the two actors Elyse Dallinger (Rita) and Gray Wilson (Frank) to bring Educating Rita to the Rochdale Theatre in February 2021.
Yulgilbar floats gallery’s boat
Geoff Helisma. The Yulgilbar Foundation has awarded the Grafton Regional Gallery $300,000 to support the gallery’s programs. The gallery can spend $100,000 per year commencing in March 2021, as stipulated by Yulgilbar, on “exhibitions, activities, cultural programs and education outreach associated with exhibitions”.
I am farmer, hear me raw
“It takes guts to talk to someone about how you’re feeling ... just as it takes guts to get your clothes off in public.” This is the premise of The Naked Farmer social media movement where farmers – men and women – across the country take their gear off to support mental health.
Museum connects people with the past
History has a new home 40m from the Evans River. The Evans Head Living Museum has been chronicling the marine, military, fishing, agricultural, natural and social history for 18 years.
Lismore Theatre Company – Local collaboration keeping theatre alive
How do actors keep busy while stage lights are dimmed and curtains closed? Director of Educating Rita, David Addenbrooke and Lismore Theatre Company’s artistic director Kylie Fuad came up with the idea of engaging their actors in a filmed, rehearsed, abridged reading of Macbeth.
