CBD Gallery: Selected, curated by Andrew Totman

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Anne Starling, Shangri La, Linocut, 2018

Selected-a curated Photography & Printmaking exhibition

CBD Gallery
72 Erskine Street Sydney

1st Feb -3rd March 2024

Selected is an opportunity to see into the practice of 22 contemporary artist exploring and thriving in using the medias of Printmaking and Photography across 52 images on display.

Curated by Andy Totman, the show features Sydney Printmakers members Anthea Boesenberg, Rafael Butron, Ben Rak, Jenny Robinson, Mark Rowden, Gary Shinfield, and Anne Starling.

Photography and printmaking are similar in that they both have the capability to reproduce an image multiple times with very little variation in the resulting print. However, photography came about through the desire to create exact visual replicas of forms and scenes without manual intervention, while printmaking originally aided the production of photographic illustrations in books by providing a stronger, non-light sensitive ink. Despite this, the two can exist harmoniously together, and photography provides a whole spectrum of new techniques for the printmaker to use in their artworks.

Protests and Pranks: Student Activism and Pranks from UNSW Archives

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Photograph by Neilton Clarke of UNSW (AMCAE / City Art Institute / COFA) art students protest march through Hyde Park to CBD against earmarked introduction of student fees, c.1980-81.

Drawing on material from UNSW Records & Archives, Protests & Pranks traces a history of student-led protests and Foundation Day pranks at UNSW. The exhibition features posters, photos, videos, oral histories, and protest ephemera, including badges, t-shirts, and pamphlets.

Some of us might recognise ourselves in these photographs!

When:

26 February – 14 June 2024
 

Where:

Level 5 Main Library
Law Library
Paddington Library

Partner:

UNSW Records & Archives
 

Protests & Pranks, for the first time, will span all three UNSW Libraries. At UNSW Main Library, the exhibition shifts between global and hyperlocal protest movements. Protests & Pranks reveals how students mobilise to effect change, from the worldwide campaigns against the Vietnam War to student demonstrations in response to university policies. UNSW Law Library features tactical frivolity, the playful, non-compliant side of student resistance that manifested in pranks and stunts designed to provoke and challenge authority. The display at UNSW Paddington Library contains materials from recent climate rallies and political demonstrations to show how students utilise protests as a form of activism to bring about reform. 

The exhibition features photos, videos, oral histories, newspaper clippings, and protest ephemera, including posters, badges, and pamphlets. These materials help to piece together the shared concerns, movements, and cultural identity of UNSW.

Accessibility: UNSW Main Library, UNSW Law Library, and UNSW Paddington Library are wheelchair accessible. The exhibition will include large-text artwork labels and booklets, audio-described guides, and braille exhibition guides.

Thea Weiss’ Award Winning Film at Randwick Ritz

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Lotte, 100 years – Remembering and Celebrating

Price$18 AUD + BF Get tickets

Thu 14th Dec 2023, 6:45 pm – 8:00 pm 

Randwick Ritz

45 St Pauls St, Randwick NSW 2031

Join us and share a glass of wine as we celebrate what would have been Lotte’s 100th birthday. To honour her memory, the Weiss family is hosting a screening of the film My Two Lives, which explores the remarkable story of Lotte, her survival, tenacity, and resilience, despite undergoing incredible trauma. We will also hear of the progress on the legacy projects that the family has dedicated in her honour.

Lotte Weiss was a Holocaust survivor. She never forgot the horrors of her three years of internment at Auschwitz and Birkenau. Yet it is her immense life force that propelled her through the torture and devastation that enveloped her. Her inherent integrity and morality remained steadfast. It was her capacity for goodness, kindness, forgiveness, and love which never faltered throughout the misery and beatings she endured, to give her the strength and the will to survive. This is her story interpreted by artist Thea Weiss

Janet Parker Smith @ Ridge Street Window Gallery

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Janet Parker-Smith Wicked Garden  |  24 November 2023 – 8 January 2024

The work in this installation reconfigures found materials from our urban landscape and repurposes prints from the artists collection from over the past 30 years. Look and you might see recognisable materials from everyday life that have been transformed into new creatures, objects and forms.

Using different art forms including collage, printmaking, digital print, ceramics, knitting and textiles combined with chattels from the everyday, these materials come together to create an artwork known as the ‘Wicked Garden’. Showing a flight of imagination it looks at ideas around our changing environment, friendships and adapting to new surroundings.

About Janet Parker-Smith

Janet Parker-Smith has a cross disciplinary process using Printmedia, sculpture and collage to create her work. She has been exhibiting nationally and internationally for over 30 years. Janet is well known as a local arts worker and also is a sessional teacher at the National Art School and Sydney Collage of the Arts.

Artist talks

Janet Parker-Smith In Conversation Saturday 9 December 11am

Book your spot

Visit the Ridge Street Window Gallery, 43 Ridge Street, North Sydney 7 days per week until 10pm.

Sydney Printmakers 2023 at Gallery Lane Cove

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Jacqui Driver, ‘Caught in the Story II’, Lithography. Image courtesy of the artist.

SYDNEY PRINT MAKERS 2023
8 November – 2 December
Opening event: Wednesday 15 November 6pm – 8pm.
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Group exhibition by nationally and internationally acclaimed members of the Sydney Printmakers’ collective.


Sydney Printmakers explore all traditional and contemporary forms of printmaking and have built up a reputation for excellence in the field. The collective aims to develop a dialogue between their practices and the wider audience by promoting the diversity of printmaking as a versatile, adaptive and engaging medium.
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Public Program
Artist’s Talk: 11am-12pm Saturday 2nd December 2023.
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Join the Sydney Printmakers as they talk about their practice, techniques and themes explored in their exhibition.


Upper level, 164 Longueville Road, Lane Cove NSW 2066 phone: 02 9428 4898
email: info@gallerylanecove.com.au

www.gallerylanecove.com.au
Open Tue – Fri 10:00am – 4:30pm & Sat 10:00am – 2:30pm

Anna Russell and others at The Shop Gallery, Glebe: Another Language

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Another Language is an exhibition by former TAFE teachers working in language and literacy, which opens on Thursday 28th September 2023 at The Shop Gallery, Glebe.
Seven colleagues have moved from the classroom to the studio and produced a stunning range of works in ceramics, collage, paint, resin, mixed media and prints.
Colour, line, shape and texture feature in their beautiful works ranging from the realistic to the abstract by Anna Russell, Genevieve Bessell-Browne, Jackie Cipollone, Jan Spencer, Janene Porter, Pam Smith and Ursula Burgoyne.
Open Thursday 28th September to Wednesday 4th October 11 am to 6pm daily, with drinks Saturday 30th September 2pm, The Shop Gallery, 112 Glebe Point Road Glebe

Call for Entries: Darebin Art Prize

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Applications closing Friday 15 September 2023, 1pm
Calling visual artists across Australia! The Dare-bin Art Prize is back in 2024 celebrating the outstanding work of contemporary Australian artists. The Darebin Art Prize is a national multi-medium acquisitive art prize awarding excellence in contemporary visual art.This leading exhibition brings contemporary artwork together across all media, from painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and craft, through to video art and more. 

The Darebin Art Prize will be exhibited at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre 10 January to 23 March 2024. 

PRIZES
Participating artists are eligible to win the following prizes:
First Prize (Acquisitive) $10,000
People’s Choice Award (Non-acquisitive) $1000
JUDGES:
Dr Shelley McSpedden | Senior Curator at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
Moorina Bonini | Artist, PhD candidate with Wominjeka Djeembana Research Lab at Monash University.
Sarah Werkmeister | Curator at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre. 

 For more details and to apply, visit our website HERE

Vibrations in Australian Drawing Exhibition

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Ken Unsworth, Untitled, 1978
Charcoal on paper
Collection Paul McGillick
Photograph by Effy Alexakis, Photowrite
Vibrations in Australian Drawing is an exhibition demonstrating the essence of the practice and the importance of drawing underlying a range of disciplines, and will exhibit at the Macquarie University Art Gallery until 13 September 2023.

Gary Shinfield and Nathalie Hartog Gautier are in this exhibition.

This exhibition is presented in collaboration with theCreative Documentary Research Centre at Macquarie University and the Cowra Regional Art Gallery.
We are honoured to have Professor Tom Murray, Director of the Creative Documentary Research Centre at Macquarie University, officially open the exhibition. 

Curators: Rhonda Davis, Kon Gouriotis, Leonard Janiszewksi, Tom Murray

Where
Macquarie University Art Gallery, The Chancellery, 19 Eastern Road, Macquarie University
Download the campus map (reference: H20) 

Any questions about the event, please email us at events@mq.edu.au.

Sydney Printmakers at Sydney Contemporary – please visit us

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Sydney Printmakers members representing us at the Art Fair this time are Anthea Boesenberg, Angela Hayson, Anna Russell, Andrew Totman and Thea Weiss. Visit us at Bo4, Paper.

Other members represented at the Fair are Roslyn Kean and Seraphina Martin, who have a table, Michael Kempson (as Cicada Press) and Wendy Stokes (with Michelle Perry Fine Arts in the main section rather than Paper.)