YOU hardly have time to blink and there’s a new exhibition up at the Belconnen Arts Centre.

An easy way to catch up with what’s happening this month is to turn up on Sunday at 1pm for three “ Meet the Artists” talks, where the artists, from the three exhibitions presently on show will discuss their works and the fascinating creative paths they have followed to produce their respective exhibitions.

At 1pm, in the Arts Lounge you can meet Louise Curham and Jo Law, whose media installation “Still Life/Moving Fragments” examines the overlooked of domestic interiors.

Two series of video works by moving image artists, Curham and Law, take the genre of still life painting into the realm of contemporary screen practice.

Exploring the tension between stillness and movement, the works make use of the quiet intensity of the still life painter’s gaze and the fleeting, unstable properties of the moving image.

At 2pm in the Foyer space you’ll meet Ying Zhang, whose exhibition “New era celebration” comments on the effect of consumerism on traditional Chinese culture.

A series of panels comment on the effect of consumerism on traditional Chinese culture, adapting the traditional format of the Chinese New Year celebration folk art, with the calendar form.

No longer does traditional culture serve people’s needs, the work suggest.

Finally at 3pm in the Main Gallery, artist and former educator at the National Gallery of Australia, Jenny Manning, will present an illustrated floor talk about “Mycologia: the secret life of fungi”.

Mycology is concerned with the study of fungi, from the familiar mushrooms and toadstools to the thousands of invisible organisms only perceived through electron microscopy.

Manning’s intricate black and white pen, and ink drawings are imaginative interpretations of magnified images of fungi and slime moulds, where the filaments, capillaries and spore heads are explored for their decorative beauty.

“Meet the Artists”  talks, from 1pm, Sunday, February 26, Belconnen Arts Centre 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen. Free.

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