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Gordon Hookey: Untitled, 1994, from the ANU Art Collection
Gordon HOOKEY Waanyi/Waanjiminjin peoples | Cloncurry, Queensland born 1961. āUntitledā, 1994, oil on canvas. Acquired 1995. Ā On show in the Riverbend Room at the Drill Hall Gallery for Reconciliation week 2021. Ā In his art Gordon Hookey mixes politics, double entendre and irony to make light of very serious situations facing contemporary Indigenous Australia. […]
Nicole Ellis: Fabrications exhibition review
Canberra Times, Sasha Grishin, March 8, 2021 Ā image: Nicole Ellis, Erasure 3 Although born in Adelaide in 1951, Nicole Ellis since the mid-1980s has been based in Sydney. She is identified with the art scene in that city, particularly with the College of Fine Arts where she taught for many years. For Ellis’s art practice, […]
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Installation Images from Highlights from the ANU Collection 2020
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During The University shut down period. We had the opportunity to chat with Dionisia Salas in her ANCA studio about her practice, and navigating COVID-19 through making. Born in Darwin, Dionisia has lived in diverse places including Alice Springs, Botswana, Dubbo, Paris, Berlin and now Canberra. Dionisia exhibits locally, nationally and internationally. She is a […]
Catalogue review, Arborescent: Drawings by Elizabeth Cross
ARBORESCENT: DRAWINGS BY ELIZABETH CROSS 2019 Paperback, 60 pages, 22 x 21 cm Published by DHG Publishing Elizabeth Cross. $25Ā (excl. postage) ā IN STOCK āIt is this sense of wonder and pleasure that infuses all of the trees depicted by Elisabeth Cross. We understand the challenge of arranging their images on the blank field of […]
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Installation Images: Hannah Gason, Interval, 2020
Explore Hannah Gason’s exhibition Interval through this album of installation images. Photographed by Rob Little. Canberra-based glass artist, Hannah Gason makes works which capture, modulate and grade the available light. Her wall-mounted assemblages layer translucent colour and abstract markings, reorganising the light they absorb, with results that are paradoxically a structuring and a de-structuring of […]
Installation Images: Lightworks, 2020
Explore our exhibition Lightworks through this album of installation images, photographed by Rob Little. When two colours or two tones are juxtaposed, they evoke a quality of light common to them both. This realisation is fundamental to all paintings which aim to produce illusions of light, space and atmosphere, including those which have been conceived […]
Katy Mutton’s Panopticon for Contour 556 – CityNews review
Revisit Katy Mutton’s Panopticon, presented at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery on October 17, through Meredith Hinchliffe’s review. This article was originally published by City News on October 30, 2020. Review / Experimental venture leads to āintriguing performanceā ON October 17 and as part of the Contour 556 festival, a live happening, āPanopticonā, devised by […]
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Colour, Composition and Non-composition: New work by Virginia Coventry (2010)
Thank you to Dr. Susan Best, who has given us permission to reproduce her essay ‘Colour, Composition and Non-composition: New work by Virginia Coventry,’ published in conjuction with Virginia Coventry’s 2010 exhibition at Liverpool Street Gallery. Explore Virginia Coventry’s work as part of the Drill Hall Gallery’s exhibition Lightworks, showing until November 29. āColourā¦is a […]
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Vaidehi Subramanyan performing a Natarajanjali in James Rogers: Tunnelvision ANU Drill Hall Gallery
Vaidehi Subramanyan is a Canberra-based bharatanatyam dancer. After learning bharatanatyam and carnatic vocal from a young age, she has recently spent an extended period of time focussing on bharatanatyam in Chennai, and has performed in Chennai, Sydney and Canberra. She is currently learning under guru K.P. Yesodha of Chennai. Here, she performs a Natarajanjali, an […]
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