Paint on Paper in Braidwood
Nothing like a no-nonsense show title! Paint on Paper, opening this weekend at The Left Hand gallery in Braidwood, brings together nine artists from Canberra, Braidwood and Melbourne - Alycia Moffit, Kate Stevens, Mimi Fairall, Robin Wallace-Crabbe, Lizzie Hall, Linda Dening, John Pratt, Pauline Webber and Phil Day - all of whom have approached the "invitation to make paintings on paper" in different ways, from birds to abstracts. The show, which runs for three next three weekends, from 10am-5pm or by appointment until November 13, is part of the Queanbeyan Palerang Arts Trail, happening on Sunday October 30. The Left Hand is a non-profit gallery dedicated to encouraging imaginative visual art. For more information, visit thelefthand.website.
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CAPO Winner
Big felicitations to multimedia artist Erica Seccombe, who has won the Capital Arts Patrons' Organisation fellowship, announced on Saturday October 22 at CAPO's Auction and Masked Soiree. Seccombe plans to use the award to develop new work inspired by her recent residency at the Natural History Museum in London for a solo exhibition at Megalo Print Studio + Gallery next April. And congrats also to the dozen or more other Canberra artists who won a bevy of other CAPO awards on the night, including Lisa Cahill, who received the Robert Foster Memorial Prize (in memory of the late artist and designer Robert Foster and funded through public donations), Jess Green, who received funding to produce an EP for her band Pheno, and Ham Darroch, who received the Rosalie Gascoigne Memorial Award, and will take up a residency in Fremantle. For a full list of winners, visit capo.org.au.
Nature and stones at Form
Also on the Arts Trail is Form Studio and Gallery in Queanbeyan, which this week opens two new still-life exhibitions. The first, in Gallery 1, is The Nature of Things, a series of still-life paintings by Alison Mackay, Kim Shannon and Maryanne Wick. The three bring "strongly individual perspectives to their portrayals of intriguing objects…From fish to flowers, archangels to ceramics and from gum nuts to the family silver – these are some of the still life subjects which amalgamate well-honed painting skills with creative thinking." And in Gallery 2, Touchstones by Julie Bradley, is inspired by the forms and textures of stones: "These images of stones represent and contrast the ephemeral with the seemingly permanent. The overlapping forms in these compositions imply the passing of time and forms come forward and recede in the shallow space where they appear suspended." The Nature of Things and Touchstones open November 1 at Form Studio and Gallery, 1/30 Aurora Avenue, Queanbeyan, and runs until November 21.
Examining the refugee condition
Writer Zsuzsi Soboslay has a new theatre event taking place at Gorman Arts Centre, as part of its inaugural Ralph Indie season of independent performance works. Anthems and Angels: The Compassion Plays explores the theme of "thresholds and transitions", particularly in the context of refugees. "There are 50 million displaced persons in the world today," Soboslay says. "Their situation requires our deepest understanding. Through participation and reciprocation, this work encourages a shared empathetic experience of what it means to be forced out of one place, and into another." Anthems and Angels: The Compassion Plays is on November 2-3, 7.30pm at Ralph Wilson Theatre, Gorman Arts Centre. Tickets $20. Visit agac.com.au for more information.
Horse. Just, horse.
It's the name of a new exhibition at Nishi Gallery by Grace Costa, celebrating her lifelong love of horses, one she inherited from her father: "Costa explores her innate captivation with horses through her lens, photographing unbridled horses in one of Canberra's most treasured sites bringing them out of their natural surroundings." Horse, by Grace Costa, opens November 2 at Nishi Gallery, 17 Kendall Lane, New Acton, and closes November 20.
Performing the past
Ever wondered what it would have been like to sit in a 19th century drawing room and listen to someone play the piano? Wonder no more! If you happen to be out at the historic home of Lanyon on Saturday morning, Conductor Erin Helyard – formerly of the ANU School of Music, now at Melbourne University – will be playing the 1840s Broadwood Piano, performing music from the era. It's part of Canberra Times music critic Jennifer Gall's Listening to the past – performing the past project through ACT Historic Places. Erin Helyard will be playing at Lanyon, Tharwa Drive, Tharwa, on Saturday October 29 at 10am and 11am. For more information, visit historicplaces.com.au.
Films on Borders
Continuing with its particular brand of fascinating and off-beat public programs, the Australia Centre on China in the World is featuring a series of films entitled Borderlands, dealing with "borders and their various manifestations. A border can be a space of welcome, abandon, interrogation, neighbourliness, exile, sanity, transcendence, and death. In this series, we will witness the ways in which people cope with the borders that enclose and traverse their lives." Next up in the series is Chinese film Kaili Blues, screening on November 3 at 6pm as part of the Canberra International Film Festival. The series has nine more films to go and runs until May 17, in the China in the World auditorium. For more information, visit ciw.anu.edu.au.
