India Zegan The tree would only be found at higher altittudes, 2015-2016, 150cm x 100cm, photograph by Felicity Jenkins; courtesy of the artist They say its better late than never – but that depends what you are talking about. Its taken a while to get India into the social pages but here a a couple of […]
June
02
ON THE STREETS WHERE YOU LIVE
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Stephanie Jones, On the streets where you live (detail), 2017, colour pencil on Stonehenge paper, 26 x 93cm Stephanie Jones is a local legend who has been involved with CCAS for many years. Traces of her stellar career are found throughout the CCAS archives. Its been a while between drinks for Steph although she was […]
May
12
THE BREAK COLLECTION:VOLUME ONE
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If smashing up crockery is your thing you are going to love The Beak Collection: Volume One. Be warned, however, when Luke Aleksandrow does it, its short on the violence and heavy on the poetry. Luke’s “pseudo ceremonial” breakages actually address the ‘materiality and sensuality’ of the object – which in artistic terms isn’t ultimately […]
May
03
THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY SIX
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Waratah Lahy can be relied upon to produce exhibitions that are not only gorgeous but also out of the ordinary. Basically she can turn anything, any object, into art and for Three Hundred and Sixty Six, its her life or what she noted everyday of 2016. This year long drawing project focuses on what Waratah calls the […]
May
02
ME TIME
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Me Time is the first of CCAS’s in house curatorial exercises for 2017 and its a knock out ! Perhaps not the most visual of exhibitions because its all about the internet or, to be more precise, social media. Tully Arnot, Grace K Blake, Benjamin Forster, Claudia Greathead, Anna May Kirk, Janis Lejins, Claudia Nicholson and Giselle Stanborough […]
April
21
CHARTJUNK
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Canberra legend Shagsy Shags has been at it again – photographing CCAS openings and of course we are SO glad she is ! There is simply nothing this woman can’t do brilliantly. Wendy Murray is down from Sydney and showing some work that has Canberra connections at CCAS City. Chartjunk represents a portion of a larger, collaborative work under […]
April
06
THE GARAGE (VIDEO)
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Sara and Sabrina introduce their video spectacle by announcing this might be the last Garage and “In a way, the garage has never existed”. The garage they say, ” … is more of an idea – or a sequence of ideas.” Whatever The Garage is, or isn’t”, it has been an important contribution to Canberra’s cultural […]
