THE  Grevillea Quartet will be joined by harpist Rowan Phemister to present an all-French program as part of the “4+1” series in the  Larry Sitsky Recital Room, ANU School of Music, 2pm, this Sunday, September 11.

AND author and historian Grace Cochrane will talk about Australian decorative arts and design for Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society at the National Library at 6pm on Monday, September 12.

Exhibitions around the galleries this weekend:

• MEGALO Print, at Kingston, has “Patterning: surface design projects,” an exhibition by Annie Trevillian, who draws inspiration from the landscape, motifs and patterns of the natural world until October 8.
• “FEEL” by Marilyn Hutchinson is based on present-moment drawings on paper creating layered, abstract artworks. Rusten House Art Centre, Queanbeyan, until September 24.
• “FIRED Earth” is the work of six Canberra ceramic artists— plates woven from leaves, delicate porcelain bowls with relief images, dark vessels threaded with kangaroo paw, decorated stoneware vessels and sculptures. Australian National Botanic Garden until October 3. Floor talk, at 11am, on Sunday, September 11.

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• SUKI & Hugh Gallery, Bungendore, will open “Repose”, an exhibition of new botanically-inspired paper sculpture by artist Colleen Southwell, September 10-October 16. Informal drinks with the artist 3pm-5pm on Saturday, September 10.
• M16 Artspace, Griffith, has as follows: Open to the public from noon Friday, September 9 and run to September 25. “Florilegia” by Kerry Shepherdson; “ A Feminine Perspective” by Hedda Photography Group; “Dressed for Desir: by Lauren McCartney; “Still Life” by Studio MAP (Junior Students); and in Chutespace: “A Moment of Contemplation 沉思片刻” by Meelan Oh. Until September 25 .
• JULIAN Laffan’s exhibition “The Familiar Road,” which captures moments in time on road journeys between Canberra, Braidwood and Narooma and Agneta Ekholm’s abstract paintings, “Continuum,” are at Beaver Galleries, Deakin until September 1.

• CANBERRA artist Michele England, local artist, is holding two-hour “Threatened Species” collage workshops on September 10, 17 and 24, locations across Belconnen, Gungahlin and Tuggeranong, where participants can have fun and learn about threatened species, entry by donation. 

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