The arse-end of public art

Poet, writer and lecturer in the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Melbourne Tony Birch lives near the grand enigmatic Melbourne Gateway usually seen form the airport road. He writes about its underbelly where odour and mess show it to be both fucked and beautiful.

Published June 2010

Stop the press: the allure of ink

Caren Florance is Ampersand Duck, a blog and nom de press for activities including letterpress printing. Florance has breathed the ink and describes the history of moveable type focusing on the recent past and the present and how something magical happens to text when it is printed.

Published June 2010

Sculpture By the Sea: Cottesloe

Perth
4 - 23 March 2010

Published June 2010

Artrave

Published June 2010

Everything's Alright: Hossein Ghaemi, Andrew Liversidge, Yasmin Smith

Curator: Amanda Rowell
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
March 4 - 27 2010

Published June 2010

Ruth Waller: A 30 Year Survey

Curator: Deborah Clark
Canberra Museum and Gallery
6 February - 6 June 2010

Published June 2010

Hall of Mirrors: Anne Zahalka Portraits 1987-2007; Aehee Park: Caring for Aehee

Hall of Mirrors: Anne Zahalka Portraits 1987 – 2007
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
Curator: Karra Rees
30 January - 28 February 2010

Aehee Park: Caring for Aehee
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
6 February - 14 March 2010

Published June 2010

Feminism Never Happened

Del Kathryn Barton, Pat Brassington, Kirsty Bruce, Jacqueline Fraser, Anastasia Klose, Fiona Lowry, Fiona Pardington, Yvonne Todd, Jemima Wyman
Curator: Robert Leonard
IMA (Institute of Modern Art), Brisbane
30 January - 20 March 2010

Published June 2010

Adelaide International 2010: Apart, We are Together

Raeda Saadeh, Praneet Soi
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia

Rosella Biscotti
Australian Experimental Art Foundation

Nina Fisher & Maroan el Sani, Donghee Koo, Li Mu, Tara Donovan, Imma Issa, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Anne & Gordon Samstag Art Museum

Lucy and Jorge Orta
JamFactory Gallery

Julian Hooper
Flinders University Art Museum

Curator: Victoria Lynn
26 February – 14 March 2010

Published June 2010

Renew Adelaide pilot: 2 wheels good

Zine publisher and educator Dr Ianto Ware is the Project Manager of Renew Adelaide, an urban renewal clone of Marcus Westbury's Renew Newcastle, in which the 'definition of creativity has to be broad enough to encompass the wide fields of socially innovative activity that simply doesn't fit elsewhere.'

Published June 2010

Exhibitions to watch

Published June 2010

Tim Burton, Filmmaker and artist

'Tim Burton: The Exhibition' is showing at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image from 24 June to 10 October, 2010. The accompanying free Polaroid exhibit runs until 26 September. The program also includes live events featuring talks, gallery tours, film screenings and kids’ workshops.

Special guest Glenn D Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art, will give a Keynote Address for the first time in Australia on the future of museums followed by a panel discussion on 24 June from 2pm. The Keynote Address is free but bookings are essential. See: www.acmi.net.au

Published June 2010