Here’s the latest Arts in City column from arts editor HELEN MUSA.

Reclusive Fyshwick screenprint artist, Zimon has returned to his practice with a huge mixed-media artwork now on show at Capital Bazaar. Elvis Rotting in Hell, he says, is a riff on mortality and its aesthetics. It came about when Zimon found his old Elvis poster languishing in the back shed being eaten by insects, though the inscription at the base, “cut me and I bleed” was still readable. Zimon set the picture against a print of Hieronymus Bosch’s sinners writhing in hell, got a local panel beater to spray paint the frame in gold, black and red – the colours of hell – and assembled it to show that while Elvis was one of the greats, he was also a flawed, mortal man. The work can be seen at 37 Townsville Street Fyshwick until further notice. 

Canberra experimental rock group Hands Like Houses will travel to Thailand to write, record and collaborate with southeast Asian artists, supported by Music Australia’s Export Development Fund. 

The Australian Ballet’s dancers bring classic stories to life for very small people in Storytime Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty. Canberra Theatre, January 16-19. 

Nearby, Patch Theatre is staging an interactive installation, Sea of Light, where with a UV torch as paintbrush, young audience members can paint and stencil their own voyage, while artworks by contemporary Aboriginal visual artist Elizabeth Close are painted in light across the sea floor. Courtyard Studio, January 18-25.

Melodies from the Bridgerton series will be performed by a string ensemble in Candlelight: Best of Bridgerton on Strings, James Fairfax Theatre, National Gallery, January 18, 31 and February 15.