Art / Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters. National Museum of Australia, to February 25, 2018. Reviewed by ROB KENNEDY
THE success of the 2017 “Sculpture in the Paddock” prize and exhibition cements this event as one of the leading sculpture events in New South Wales, Yass and the surrounding region. The launch on Friday […]
YASSARTS’ “Sculpture in the Paddock” turns five today with its opening and prize announcement to be held this evening (September 15) at the National Trust’s Cooma Cottage, once home to the famous Australian explorer and […]
AS part of a renewed emphasis on the moving image, the National Gallery of Australia is launching its collection of five major works by Australian moving image artist, Angelica Mesiti. A highlight will be the […]
ONE of the great advantages of living in Canberra is the proximity it offers to a cosmopolitan world of art, and a new exhibition opening at the Brazilian Embassy this week is a perfect example. […]
TWO Canberra photographers have won top national titles at the Australian Professional Photography Awards held recently in Melbourne. Katie Kolenberg was named the 2017 AIPP Australian Family Photographer of the Year and Alec Morris the […]
Craft / “Poetry and Place, by Dianne Firth” Belconnen Arts Centre, until September 17, 2017. Reviewed by MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE. To coincide with the 2017 Poetry on the Move Festival, there will be a poetry reading […]
“THIS show is going to cause quite a sensation”, the director of the National Gallery of Australia, Gerard Vaughan, predicted as he unveiled the coming summer blockbuster at the gallery, “Hyper Real”. Overshadowed by sculptor […]
THE annual “Poetry on the Move” summit is one of the jewels in the crown of the University of Canberra, but last year’s event has led to a unique exhibition celebrating the beauty of our […]
THE Rotary Youth Art Collection was yesterday (August 28) formally gifted back to the Tuggeranong community by the Minister for Education, Yvette Berry. The collection was acquired through a popular annual competition held at and […]
FRESH from Las Vegas, Alyssa Kitt is coming to Canberra to dance at a burlesque show. Joining Kitt on the stage are local performers including Mandy Bandersnatch, Artemis Seven, Jazida, and Tammy McNair as MC. […]
A SIGNIFICANT painting co-created by two of Australia’s most senior artists was today unveiled at Parliament House by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tony Smith. The large work, titled “The Messenger”, is the […]
KALEEN artist Euan Graham is the winner of the $4000, 2017 Global Empire Art Award for his work The Cat Bell (spray enamel on paper). This is the second time the award has been offered […]
JEWELLERY maker Xanthe Gay has owned and managed “X Gallery” in Bungendore for 13 years and although she has represented many artists there, now she is exhibiting her own work for the first time. The […]
KAMILAROI artist Reko Rennie is one of the in-demand artists to be presented in a private collection sale being staged by Yarralumla collector, Bernie Ayers, this weekend. Ayers owns a body of works focussed on […]
THE Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House has reminded “CityNews” that the very last of its Sunday “Crafternoons” is coming up this Sunday (July 30). MoAD, with the help of the Canberra community, […]
Events: AINSLIE and Gorman Arts Centres says its arty winter party, “Canberra Obscura: Metropolis”, will be “a night of enthralling performance and emphatic beats, experimentation and the unexpected”.“Canberra Obscura: Metropolis”, Main Hall, Ainslie Arts […]
A striking sculpture called “Forgotten,” made from car parts, was unveiled today (Thursday) by Yass Valley deputy mayor Kim Turner on the Barton Highway as a permanent roadside memorial to the many people killed on the region’s […]
ONE of the most significant figures in Canberra’s meteoric rise to pre-eminence in the world of glass art is leaving the ACT – for Japan. News is to hand that American-born Brian Corr will soon […]
THE inaugural fellow in the newly-announced Art Group Creative Fellowship, is Queanbeyan artist Harriet Schwarzrock. The fellowship, a partnership between the Canberra Glassworks and local developer Art Group, was launched today (July 18) at the […]
POLICE have slapped five infringement notices on a man caught on Hindmarsh Drive, Phillip, driving with four children not wearing seat belts. The fines totalled $2056 and 12 demerit points. About 4.45pm yesterday (February 26), police stopped a […]
AS a teenager, Menslink helped Josh Turk through, what he calls, “your not-so-typical teenage issues”, so later on in life it was fitting he took on a role as mentor to give someone the help […]
THE ACT government says its providing Canberra children, aged between six months and five years, a free influenza vaccination this winter. Minister for Health and Wellbeing Meegan Fitzharris says they’ll be available from any of […]
ALL Libraries ACT branches and the ACT Heritage Library will be closed Wednesday, February 28, for the annual Libraries ACT Planning and Development Day. Director of Libraries ACT Vanessa Little says the Annual Planning and […]
ONE man’s disaster is another man’s serendipity. If Barnaby Joyce hadn’t fallen spectacularly, Michael McCormack, 53, the new deputy prime minister, would likely never have become the Nationals’ leader. In the normal course of events, […]
