Ceramicit Hiroe Swen – at The Q
THE BIGGER-THAN-BEN HUR Australian Ceramics Triennial finishes this weekend with the Ceramics Triennial Market Place, at the Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia, 11am to 4pm, this Sunday, July 12, all welcome. Free guided tours of the Australian Decorative Arts at noon and 2pm.
Victorian ceramic artists at Belconnen
OTHER Triennial-related shows are: “Yangupala Tjuta Waakarinyi: Ceramics from Ernabella”, at the Visitor Centre Gallery in the Australian National Botanic Gardens until July 12; Mawson Gallery’s Capital Teapot Show at 63 Wilkins St, Mawson until July 19, daily 10.30 am – 5.30pm; “Clay 2620” at The Q Exhibition Space in Queanbeyan, to July 22, weekdays 10am – 4pm, Saturdays 10am – 2pm, closed Sundays; “Luminous landscapes, new ceramics by Greg Daley,” at Nancy Sever Gallery, 4/6 Kennedy Street, Kingston, Wednesday to Sunday 11am to 5pm until July 26; South Australian ceramic artists at M16 Artspace in Griffith in a show curated by curator Rayleen Forster, who will speak on Sunday July 12 at 2pm in M16, 21 Blaxland Crescent, Griffith; Claybodies, a Canberra ceramics collective at the Front Gallery & Cafe until July 12; At, is “Cross-Casting”, an exhibition by innovative artists Verney Burness and Charles Walker that runs at ANCA Gallery, 1 Rosevear Place, Dickson until July 26, artists talk from 12:30pm-1pm on July 12; Craft ACT: Craft and Design’s show “Stomping Ground,” in the ACT Legislative Assembly Gallery, Civic Square, until July 16. Monday – Friday 9am – 4.30pm; “Victorians Stepping Up,” by members of Ceramics Victoria, at Belconnen Arts Centre until August 2; Strathnairn Arts is presenting “Fred Olsen: A Profile” from today to August 2, The exhibition will be officially opened at 4pm Saturday 11 July 2015 at Strathnairn Homestead Gallery.
Control Rooms by Chris Bennie
INDIGENOUS artist James Tylor has been visiting PhotoAccess in the Manuka Arts Centre from Adelaide to present his exhibition “Un-resettling”, and Chris Bennie has been here from the Gold Coast to present his unusual work “The Waves + Control Rooms”, made during an Asialink residency to Japan last year. Both explore confrontations between humans and the natural world and the show is recommended. Runs until July 26.
SHORTIS & Simpson’s “A Strong Constitution” explores the language, the stories, the cases, the implications of the work of our founding fathers. Sections of the constitution are sung in all sorts of styles- reggae, rock ‘n’ roll, torch song, samba, and more. At the National Archives of Australia, Fri July 10 at 6.30 & 8.30pm, Sat 11 July 2.30 & 4.30pm. $15/$12. Bookings essential to eventbrite.com.au or ring 6212 3600 – 9am-5pm, 7 days a week.
Between the lines – Living in and living outside – Marion Dingo
THE Australian Department of Industry and Science is presenting a NAIDOC Week exhibition of indigenous art, in the Mosaic Room, HotelHotel, NewActon, but alas, it only runs until today, July 9. Balagardi Barnagardi (Across to the other land) is a collection of artworks from the Wajarri People of Mid West WA.
MIKE Dooley and Rachel Thorne and their five-piece invite everyone to jump in – all the way in – when their band In 2 Deep play at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre tomorrow Friday July 10 as part of the ‘Lakeside at 5’ Jazz evenings. 5 pm at the Galley, Tuggeranong Arts Centre.
“AUSTRALIAN animation” is on at Arc Cinema, NFSA (Acton) until July 17, tickets $5 bookings to http://www.trybooking.com/HLGX Thursday 9 July – The Magic Riddle (1991, G, 93mins) Friday 10 July – Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest (1992, G, 76mins) Tuesday 14 July – Happy Feet (2006, G, 108mins) Wednesday 15 July – Happy Feet Two (2011, PG, 100mins) Thursday 16 July – Legend of the Guardian: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (2010, G, 97mins) Friday 17 July – The Lego Movie (2014, PG, 100mins)
PIED PIPER’S musical “The Magical Land of Oz” sees Dorothy, Toto and their friends Lion, Scarecrow and Tin Man on the Yellow Brick Road to Oz in a production full of toe-tapping music and great costumes. At St Paul’s Anglican Church Hall Manuka, July 10 at 6pm. Bookings essential for groups to bookings@pied-piper.com.au or 0402 409 435.
ERRY Lewis has an art exhibition and sale at Queanbeyan Art Society Trinculo Place Under the bridge by the Riverbank Café open daily 10.30-1pm, inquiries 0411 231 080.
TERENCE Maloon is curator, art historian and director of the ANU Drill Hall Gallery. He’s giving a series of six lectures, “The Fabulous Adventure of Cubism”, on Sunday afternoons at 3pm Manning Clark Centre, ANU, to help raise funds for the refurbishing of the Drill Hall. Maloon begins on July 5 with Picasso and Braque. Bookings to onestop.anu.edu.au
Lyn Talbot artwork
GALLERY@BCS’S ‘RESPECT’ series presents: “Empowering Sacred Knowledge,” a mixed media exhibition by Lyn Talbot, Minyaada Swan, and Noelene Morrison of the CIT Yurauna Centre in celebration of NAIDOC Week, until July 24 at the gallery, Swanson Ct, Belconnen.
‘CHOIR’ is a new singing crew in Canberra that’s fun, young, and dabs in all kinds of contemporary music. Started in 2014 the group, led by Olivia Swift, sings a repertoire spanning folk, rock, and jazz tunes. At the Front, Wattle St Lyneham, 8pm today, July 9, $5 at the door.
ALSO at the Front, tomorrow July 10, is Lachlan Morris, song-writing force in several Newcastle bands and gigging tirelessly since the age of 16. Morris has released ‘Resurrector’, his first creation under his own name.
CHILD Players ACT is staging Roald Dahl’s “The BFG” (Big Friendly Giant) the company’s tenth July production directed by BJ Anyos. 40 children aged between 10-16 perform at theatre@bcs, Belconnen Community Centre, Swanson Court, Belconnen, until July 18. Bookings to canberrarep.org.au or 6257 1950, or at the door.
Ham Darroch’s “Suntrap.”
DAVID Broker’s new show “Innerspace” opens at 6 pm, tomorrow Friday July 10 at Canberra Contemporary Art Space in Ainslie + Gorman Art Centre, 55 Ainslie Avenue, Braddon. For hundreds (if not thousands) of years artists have looked to the heavens with a sense of awe and wonder but for Christopher Bennie, Jacqueline Bradley, Ham Darroch, Shellaine Godbold, Ellis Hutch, Claire Pendrigh-Elliott, Rusty Peters and Jed Wolki the cosmos is simply at home. Tuesday to Friday 11am to 5pm Saturday 10am to 4pm until August 15.
FORMER ASOC president Tim Hardy’s first solo exhibition, “Encounters,” opens on Sunday July 12 at 3pm in the Old School House Gallery, Sweet Copper Cafe in Gold Creek and runs to August 23, Thurs-Fri 10-4 and Sat, Sun 8.30-4.30pm.
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