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Alumni in the ANU Art Collection: Alison Ford
Alumni students and staff from the ANU School of Art and Design are numerously represented in the collection through purchases, generous donations by artists and patrons and through the School of Art and Designâs Emerging Artists Support Scheme. In this series of posts we continue to introduce alumni artists and their works in the collection, […]
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Charlie Sheard catalogue review
CHARLIE SHEARD (2016) Paperback, 48 pages, 22 x 23 cm Published by DHG Publishing Charlie Sheard; Text by Terence Maloon, Director, Drill Hall Gallery $25Â (excl. postage) Charlie Sheard is a leading abstractionist in the field of contemporary Australian painting. His career, extending over 40 years, has seen him increasingly immersed in the rich history of […]
Birth of Cool, 2015 – catalogue essay
Presented here is the catalogue essay from the 2015 Drill Hall Gallery show Birth of the Cool. With a predominance of hard-edge, colour-field abstraction, the exhibition included a selection of major works by four painters: David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Michael Johnson and Dick Watkins. It surveyed the decade between 1963 and 1973. With the benefit of […]
Glass artist Hannah Gason takes viewers through her studio at The Glassworks, Canberra, as she prepares new work for the exhibition Interval, held at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery in Canberra, October 2 – November 29, 2020. Canberra-based glass artist, Hannah Gason makes works which capture, modulate and grade the available light. Her wall-mounted assemblages […]
August Friends Night with special guests Miroslav Bukovsky, John Mackey and James Luke
Miroslav is one of Australia’s leading jazz trumpeters and composers. He was one of founding teachers of the first Jazz course in Australia at the Sydney Conservatorium in 1975. John Mackey has been a member of Faculty at the ANU School of Music since 2000 and performed with many Jazz legends including BB King, Ray […]
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John McDonald review of James Rogers, Tunnelvision
Read John Mcdonald’s review of our James Rogers survey, in the Sydney Morning Herald: https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/a-revelation-the-standout-sculptor-creating-art-with-a-blowtorch-20200914-p55vdc.html
DHG Lecture, Paris: City of Spectacle
Paris: City of Spectacle A lecture in two parts by Terence Maloon, Director of the Drill Hall Gallery Touring through Paris of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the lecture opens on the development of the cityâs railway stations and the resulting inevitable flood of diverse people, with disposable income and a hankering for diversion […]
Drill Hall Playlist #14: James Rogers
“This selection is informed by the times when I was a member of the audience for live shows. It seems that twenty odd years is a lifetime ago. Done on a budget, but with repeat exposure, an intimacy of empathy grew with the characters who unlocked the magic in song time and again with a […]
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In 2016 Tony Oates curated Repurpose at the Drill Hall Gallery. The exhibition took its impetus from the revelation of Cubist collage and the re-positioning of the found object to act as a signifier, sparking a catalytic chain of events. Separated by several generations from the founders of Cubism, the artists in the exhibition â […]
Vale John Nixon Since the 1970s John Nixon explored the legacy of non-objective art and geometric abstraction. Inspired by the twentieth-century constructivists as well as minimal and conceptual art of the 1960s and â70s, those affiliations never hindered Nixonâs eclectic, speculative approach, nor his spirit of playfulness. In 2014 Johnâs EPW: Colour-music series of polychromes […]