Category Archives: Writing
Drawing from the live model by Phil Page
Phil Page, Corri wearing a mask, 2021, charcoal on card, each 21 x 15 cm. These drawings are observational, recording shape and form. John Berger, in his examination of drawing, notes the importance of this kind of observational drawing for the artist. He describes them as something which “…forces the artist to look at the…
Joint exhibition – “Transmission”
“Transmission” will be an exhibition of combined works, made by three artists, using the postal and courier service. Currently, Susan Chancellor is making monoprints, watercolours and abstract pastel drawings, Phil Page is continuing his practice of large scale paintings of cognitive maps of cities and Susan Banks is making environmental weeds into dyes and weavings….
A Journal of the Plague Year (postponed due to the plague until May 2022)
This exhibition will present a series of works which respond to current environmental challenges. Phil Page’s work examines the historical shaping of a city by disaster, Susan Chancellor aims to give the viewer a sense of the new reality that we inhabit after the summer of bushfires and Susan Banks explores the botanical survivors of…
ON THE VERGE – “Talk by Elisa Crossing”
talk by Elisa Crossing I would like to acknowledge the Ngunnawal people who are the traditional custodians of this land on which we are meeting and pay respect to the Elders of the Ngunnawal Nation both past and present. I extend this respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in attendance today. Land…
On the Verge. Now you see me now you don’t. 2019
This body of work emerged from several preoccupations. Firstly I am increasingly aware of the services that come to my and all other Australian suburban houses – reticulated gas, water, telecommunications and of the services that remove unwanted garbage and sewage. We take it for granted, but it comes as a result of the work…
Exhibition ‘On the Verge’ — the nature strip observed
MEDIA RELEASE Opening 6pm Wednesday 1 May until 19 May 2019 April 16, 2019 | Canberra is a city in flux, changing fast in an era of light rail, urban renewal and evolving buildings being constructed all over town. Trees are coming down and being replanted, tradies, in their orange and yellow hi viz vests, …
QWERTY Does Women’s Work Exist?
Canberra’s political processes and secrets have up until recently all passed through the muscle memory and brains of the women who typed them. The technology changed but the structure remained the same. Material was transmitted from (largely male) protagonist to protagonist through the mediation of women using qwerty keyboards. Not much attention seems to have…