Last Friday night and the opening of Tainted Love was just a bit special, turning as you might expect, into a veritable love fest. Before, there had been a lot of enquiries about how the legendary song might be woven into the celebration. Tainted Love has been an iconic anthem for three generations of youth culture […]
July
31
SCIENCY PICTURES
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The master of titles, painter James Rowell has turned his attentions to science in an exhibition that reveals his colourful impressions in comprehensive detail. “In 1987 James Rowell graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the VCA, but got sick of being told that the piece of paper represented only a bachelor of apathy. He […]
July
12
GEOMANCY
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Geomancy is an exhibition of “landscapes” but it’s not what you might expect. While it can be said that landscape is one of Becky Gibson’s interests her focus is on change, invisible made visible, and what happens within the scape itself. Becky’s Geomancy brings together seemingly disparate phenomena that together generate a sense of drama […]
June
19
UP ISLAND
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Its not easy to capture the sprit of a place, to convey a sense of how you felt being there and then communicate it with a “foreign” audience – who probably have no knowledge of this place whatsoever. Nick Stranks and Isobel Rayson have done a bloody good job of sharing their experience as residents […]
June
05
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
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The business is that of three artists who play an important role in the Canberra scene as practicing artists and educators. All three have or had significant roles in the ANU School of Art and Design (ANU SOA&D) and their influence goes way beyond what’s on the walls at CCAS, brilliant though it may be. […]
June
04
PARADISE ALMOST KILLED ME
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paradise almost killed me, Millan Pintos-Lopez’s new exhibition of black and white paintings on ply opened last Thursday night to an enthusiastic throng at CCAS Manuka. A master of titles and aficionado of Bauhaus he brings poetry, abstraction, design together in works of art that either defy definition or encompass all definitions. The ubiquitous hard […]
May
23
REFLECTIONS
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Aeode served G&T’s at the opening of here exhibition Reflections at CCAS Manuka last Thursday and that is very impressive. BUT more importantly, so is her work which animates the gallery with a vibrant and soulful focus. Aeode demonstrates some pretty amazing skills and a vivid imagination with a series of works that are essentially […]
