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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. $25Â (excl. postage) â IN STOCK âIt 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 âintriguing performanceâ ON October 17 and as part of the Contour 556 festival, a live happening, âPanopticonâ, 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. âColourâŚis 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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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 […]
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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