Floored in Manuka
Artist Susan Buret has an installation work showing at CCAS Manuka this month, investigating the painted pattern in an extended space. In Floored, she "takes the picture plane from wall to floor, and uses painted tessellated triangular ply working with colour, form and fragmentation to explore some of the characteristics of both the materials and the patterns themselves". Floored, by Susan Buret, is showing at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 19 Furneaux Street, Manuka, until September 14.
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Art competition
It's that time of year again. If you're 25 or over, you can enter the Capital Chemist Art Award, now in its 11th year. The Tuggeranong Arts Centre, which shows the award, invites works in any medium reflecting the theme "Memorable Faces and Places". The award carries a $2000 cash prize and the opportunity to exhibit in the Tuggeranong Arts Centre. Completed works are due on Monday, September 15, and the award will be announced on September 20 at 2pm. See tuggeranongarts.com to download an entry form.
Ruth Waller at Nancy Sever
Head of painting at the ANU School of Art Ruth Waller has been showing her work in Australia for more than 30 years. Her latest show at Nancy Sever Gallery is a return to her long-time practice of exploring the natural world through painting, specifically the botany and geology of her own garden. "These paintings are in a sense abstracted from nature but they have something from the physicality and complexity of incident you find in historical narrative or landscape painting, where there is a lot going on," she says. All That Is Solid, by Ruth Waller, is showing at Nancy Sever Gallery, 4/6 Kennedy Street, Kingston, until October 5.
A job in the arts
PhotoAccess is looking for a part-time program manager to join the team, and be responsible for managing the delivery of its programs, including courses, exhibitions, artist-in-residence, and community projects. The program manager will work closely with the director, administrator, darkroom supervisor, gallery committee and courses committee. Note: "The program manager will be proactive and self-driven with a strong work ethic and time management skills, and work co-operatively and efficiently within a small team. A passion for photography and an understanding of the role and operation of not-for-profit arts organisations is also required." Applications close Monday September 15. See photoaccess.org.au for more information.
Fragmented sculptures
I love the sound of this new show of sculptures by Canberra-based emerging artist and designer Dan Lorrimer opening this week at ANCA. "Steel and paper are pretty different materials, but with hydraulic pressure, Lorrimer repeatedly folds, cuts and works sheet metal until it looks like a piece of paper that has been through the same treatment (minus the hydraulic pressure, obviously). Put through Lorrimer's processes, the sheet metal begins to stress, crumple, tear and finally fragment," the gallery says. Fragment, by Dan Lorrimer, opens Wednesday September 10 at 6pm, and runs until September 28, at ANCA Gallery, 1 Rosevear Place, Dickson.
Plant and weaving workshop
The Australian National Botanic Gardens is hosting a workshop on extracting plant dyes and weaving. Join artists Annee Miron and Sally Blake and learn the art of weaving, plaiting and dyeing fabrics with natural plant dyes, on Thursday September 25, 10am-4pm. Cost is $50 a person, and bookings are essential. The workshop is being held in the Crosbie Morrison Room, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Clunies Ross St, Acton. Visit anbg.gov.au for more details.
Wonderfully eccentric
The new exhibition at The Left Hand, called Eccentrics, shows five artists (three from Canberra, one from Braidwood and one from Melbourne) - Colin Edgell, Clinton De Vere, Eadie Newman, Sam Kidd and Phil Day - all with images that are mercifully free of the art-fashion world. "This might seem a negative recommendation, but is in fact wonderfully indicative of how they have developed their own visual imagination and pursued it with natural verve," the gallery says. Eccentrics is showing at The Left Hand for the next three weekends, 10am-5pm or by appointment, at The Left Hand Gallery, 81 Lascelles Street, Braidwood. Call 0422 530 846 for more information.
Pictures I took on my holidays
Head over to the National Portrait Gallery on Sunday for a discussion based around the beautiful exhibition Arcadia: Sound of the Sea, with featured photographer John Witzig, and the gallery's Mark Mohell from imaging and digitisation and curator Sarah Engledow, who will be talking about the elements, inspirations and techniques that contributed towards the show. Sunday September 7, 2pm-3pm at the National Portrait Gallery. See portrait.gov.au for more information.
Elemental at Megalo
Megalo is showing new work by printmaker Deborah Metz, working with stone lithography, mokuhanga and frottage. "In addition to working with these various mediums is my desire to develop images of environmental vignettes on both a micro and macro scale," Metz says. "Some of the work springs from inspiration last year when, as an artist in residence at Lake Kawaguchiko which is at the foot of Mount Fuji, Japan I was submerged in a totally different place compared to Australia. This environment deepened my ongoing fascination with the endless novel and dramatic permutations of sky, mist and clouds." Elemental: new work by Deborah Metz is showing at Megalo Print Studio and Gallery, 21 Wentworth Avenue, Kingston, until September 20.
A thousand words
The M16 Artists' Exhibition finishes this weekend, and the gallery is holding a special literary event showcasing the work of writers in the context of art. Several writers, including M16's inaugural resident aspiring arts writer, Claire Capel-Stanley, will speak about arts writing and responding to visual art, along with afternoon tea and live music by local musicians Matt Nightingale and Kevin Bradley. A Thousand Words is on Sunday, September 7, 2pm-4pm at M16 Artspace, 21 Blaxland Crescent, Griffith.
