November Pop-Up Arts News...
October whipped by so fast I thought I would just take us through until the end of spring for now. I love November in Sydney - I think it is the prettiest month. It seems nature, landscape, culture and identity have found a little thread through this posting so I hope you find something here to see, do or click on. Until next time... Cassie
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BOOK LAUNCH & PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION...
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WATERLOO, SYDNEY...
Kati Thanda - Lake Eyre. Interpretations from the Air
Adam Williams, Luke Austin, Ignacio Palacios, Paul Hoelen
03 - 12 November 2016 l OPENING Thursday 03 November 6-9pm.
SPECIAL GUEST to Open the Exhibition: Acclaimed landscape photographer, Ken Duncan.
BOOK DETAILS l EXHIBITION PRINTS
WATCH their Behind-the-Scenes Video l And browse their website for a little daydreaming.
Four incredible and dedicated photographers, an adventurous off-road 4WD trip and three charter plane rides above Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre delivers a collection of stunning, abstract, painterly, mystical, patterned and beautiful images. This is a superb collection of photographs of a landscape few will ever see and even fewer will see from above.
The group go under the name The Light Collective, and between them all the list of awards for their landscape and nature photography is more than impressive.
Depot Gallery ll, 2 Danks Street, Waterloo
www.thelightcollective.com.au l Adam Williams l Luke Austin l Ignacio Palacios l Paul Hoelen
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Genevieve Loy Kemarre, painting one of her Bush Turkey Dreaming stories.
BONDI, SYDNEY...
A Utopian Vision. Genevieve Loy Kemarre.
Until 18 November 2016
The dates changed on this beauty of a show. Genevieve Loy Kemarre is a young artist from the Utopia region. She is the granddaughter of painter Nancy Petyarre and the daughter of Cowboy Louie Pwerl and Carol Kunoth Kngwarreye - learning painting from all of them. Like Cowboy, she paints the Bush Turkey Dreaming, on one level showing the tracks the bush turkey makes as it searches for seeds and other “tucker” and makes its way to the waterhole. On a more complex cultural level, her paintings are about women’s ceremonies. Genevieve’s paintings are characterised by a beautiful and careful handling of paint; a harmonious sense of colour; and great control of the delicate spidery marks that make their way across her canvas.
Coo-ee Art Gallery, 31 Lamrock Avenue (cnr Chambers Street), Bondi
www.cooeeart.com.au l LINK Brag Magazine
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Robyn Stacey. Wendy Whiteley's Library, Lavender Bay
PADDINGTON, SYDNEY...
Dark Wonder. Robyn Stacey
Until 05 November 2016
Since 2013 Robyn Stacey has been transforming entire rooms into walk-in camera obscuras.
Masking windows to leave just a ray of light, the view outside is projected back inside, as if by magic, over the room's interiors, but upside down and in reverse. This dream-like scene does the opposite of a shadow. It casts trees, drifting clouds, even towering buildings, over the internal architecture and its inhabitant's belongings.
Notable artist studios, residences and creative spaces provide some of the sites for this new series. Be sure to head upstairs in the gallery and experience stepping into a room-size camera. Who got to the hotel room camera obscura Robyn set up Court House Hotel at Taylor Square? That was fantastic and magical.
MEDIA Australian Financial Review l Sydney Morning Herald l Concrete Playground l
ABC RN Books & Arts l 2SER Interview
Stills Gallery, Gosbell Street, Paddington
www.stillsgallery.com.au
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Jack Green, Fracking Whitefellas, 2016. Acrylic on linen, 44 x 72 cm
KINGS CROSS, SYDNEY...
Flow of Voices 3: Social License . Miriam Charlie, Jack Green, Stuart Hoosan, Nancy McDinny.
Until 26 November 2016
SPECIAL GALLERY GUESTS Saturday 19 Nov @ 3pm - Artists Nancy McDinny & Stewart Hoosan
This exhibition brings the realism of dispossession to life: the power imbalance between mining companies and Aboriginal peoples on whose country the minerals and natural gas are extracted while they remain in poverty.
Jack Green (2016): First time outsiders tried to push us off our country they did it with guns and poison. This time they doing it again, and they still using poison. Our fish, creeks and waters are slowly being poisoned by mining companies. Some creeks in the Gulf country, mile after mile, got water like battery acid. There’s no life, nothing but poison. In other places fish and livestock been testing positive with lead. We losing our food, our way of life. Our river been diverted when the mining company dug a huge open-cut pit on our sacred site. They made huge waste rock pile too. And that’s full of toxic waste that’s gonna slowly leak acid into our waterways.
On top of this we got the fracking mob turn up and start drilling to suck all the gas out of our country...
LINKS
Miriam Charlie,‘My Country No Home’: https://vimeo.com/158590440
Nancy McDinny, We Paint We Belong https://vimeo.com/103477439
ABC News Report 14 Sep 2016: ABC News Radio, 'Fracking moratorium takes effect in NT
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross
www.crossart.com.au l www.dontfracktheterritory.org
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Secret Sydney Cultural Food Events...
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CULTURAL BANQUET... EVENTBRITE
Arabian Nights Meets Prince of Persia Banquet
Thursday 03 November 6.30-9pm.
Part of Flavours of Auburn & Beyond Food Month
The month long food festival was a way of connecting communities and people through food and culture - a celebration of the multicultural riches of Western Sydney. This Banquet is the last and also one of the biggest fundraising events, hosted by HOW (House of Welcome) - a not for profit organisation working as a support network for refugees and asylum seekers in Sydney. For the full menu, more info and bookings, click on the Eventbrite link above. For more info on upcoming Cultural Walking Tours and Cooking Classes, go to the Flavours of Auburn website link.
Flavours of Auburn. www.flavoursofauburn.com.au
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COOKING CLASS... EVENTBRITE
Fridalicious. Art & Food Class
Saturday 19 November 10.30am-2pm
A day of cooking and art - and no experience required. Explore artist Frida Kahlo's life through the colours, flavours and lifestyle of Mexico in this unique 3.5hour class.
All ingredients and art materials are supplied. Dress up if you like. A fun day presented by Soulicious author, food writer and cook, Awia Markey
$89. Bookings via Eventbrite.
Artshine Gallery, 3 Blackfriars Street, Chippendale
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Two movies I loved recently...
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Frida. The story of Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera
It seems like I am having a big 'ol Frida crush going on and I guess I am. I enjoyed the recent exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, but wanted it to be bigger. So then I rewatched the movie and was reminded how good it is. And now a cooking class has come along I just must have to book into also. If you haven't seen this artist film then I recommend and if you haven't watched for a while, then I recommend again. Some years ago I loved visiting her home and museum, the Blue House in Mexico City and now I live opposite a Frida Kahlo blue building in Darlinghurst.
REVIEW & TRAILERS
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One More Time With Feeling.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Documentary & New Album Release
This was moving and extraordinary. You don't have to be a Nick Cave fan to see the gift filmmaker Andrew Dominik gave to his friend with this beautiful piece of filmmaking. Warren Ellis' hand as he grabs out into the air and pulls back the music chords, Cave's son Earl as he reaches out tenderly and touches his mother's hair, the wounded heart and grief at it's centre is always present. No one has reviewed this Album release and documentary better than Mark Mordue for The Guardian
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