A former NGA staffer, a distinguished installation artist who travels the world doing residencies and workshops, including the Australia Council’s studio residency in Paris,  Sequeira was also the brains behind the Hughes Music Festival, (the Canberra arts version of the slow food movement) which sees Canberrans crashing into the local post office and shops to hear top-class concerts.

Now this very distinctive Canberran has opened a tiny gallery called “Everything Nothing” in the old Center Cinema building on top of the Academy nightclub.

Original architect of the Center, Enrico Taglietti, was on hand last Tuesday, November 8, to open the new gallery with an exhibition of Op (optical) art  by the late John Vickery.

The artist, who died in 1983, is something of an inspiration to Sequeira. Born in Bunyip, near Melbourne in 1906, he later moved to New York, well ahead of other Australian artists, to rub shoulders in the late ’40s with Pollock, de Kooning, Kline and other members of the New York School.

Among the crowd of well-wishers from the arts community were the director of the Gallery of Australian Design Jas Hugonnet and the new cultural organiser for the Alliance Francaise, Jeanette Horne, whose husband was John Vickery’s nephew.

Sequeira hopes that Everything Nothing Projects may take the concept of the tiny gallery far afield – at the opening he told us that expressions of interested been heard from as far as Berlin.

Everything Nothing, top floor of the Center building in Bunda Street Civic, is open on weekends only.