Yes, I know it’s not Friday but there’s a few gems for you… Continue reading
art
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra – until May 10 2020
and regional galleries to follow* Continue reading
only rain
(after Williams)
In some future time
the only rain will come
from some billionaire’s eyes Continue reading
truth is art
All we can’t see:
illustrating the Nauru files.
In August 2016 The Guardian published The Nauru Files, leaked incident reports written by staff in Australia’s detention centre on Nauru between 2013 and 2015. Continue reading
Ekphrasis – Unfold
Joy Hester, Girl with Dog, 1957.
There’s neither girl nor dog
just a desert of colours
cut by lines like erosion channels. Continue reading
Celebration: 20 years of collecting visual art at CMAG
Canberra Museum and Art Gallery
Civic Square, Canberra City
24 March to 17 June 2018. (Free)
O Canberra. Home for more than a third of my life, loved, hated, derided, company town. Continue reading
Ekphrasis 1.
Sorting the Table
Soon enough a storm of language
will overcome (t)his hallucinatory
made in the shadow of a buxom pear. Continue reading
Cine-mania, Lisa Reihana
Campbelltown Arts Centre
12 January to 29 March 2018.
10 to 4pm daily, Free.
Cine-mania is a survey of thirty years of Maori video and photographic artist Lisa Reihana’s work. Its centrepiece is In pursuit of Venus [infected], a 64 minute super-wide screen film about the three Pacific voyages of English navigator and explorer James Cook’s (1768 to 1779). Continue reading
Friday favourite – 5 Jan 18
Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre,
Melbourne Museum,
Nicholson St, Carlton, Victoria.
$0 to $15 (included with Museum entry)
until 4 Feb 2018,
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Peter Frankis writes 