Craft ACT turns 50
Craft ACT is launching its 50th anniversary artistic program with two exhibitions celebrating transformation. Ceramacist Janet DeBoos has collaborated with contemporary visual artist Wendy Teakel to create Intersections: Two artists' approach to landscape through dialogue, making and getting lost. This exhibition of ceramics, drawings, paintings and sculptures explores "getting lost" as an approach to creative practice, inspired by Rebecca Solnit's book A Field Guide to Getting Lost. The Emerging Contemporaries exhibition is Craft ACT's annual showcase of outstanding graduates and emerging craft practitioners from the ACT and surrounding region to kick-start their creative trajectory. The exhibitions are on at Craft ACT until March 20, 2021. There is a floor talk by DeBoos and Teakel on Saturday, February 6 at 1pm and one on March 13 at 1pm with contemporary artists. Bookings essential for both. craftact.org.au.
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Unsolicited Proposals
Eleanor Scicchitano has curated the exhibition The Unsolicited Proposals Unit at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Parkes, ACT. Artists create unsolicited proposals throughout their practice; unbidden, they explore and present new ways of looking, and speculate about our past, present and future. These explorations revitalise mediums and materials, draw our attention to histories that have been overlooked and speak to a new future in the grips of climate change. The exhibition brings together works by seven artists from South Australia and the ACT: Roy Ananda, Jacqueline Brady, Saskia Haalebos, Bernadette Klavins, Raquel Ormella, Margaret Richards and James Tylor. It's on until February 28, 2021. ccas.com.au.
Unequal Hours
In this installation from Anna Madeleine Raupach, 25 clocks tick at programmed speeds based on natural, technological, and local cycles of time. Some clocks move to natural occurrences, such as the bogong moth's migration and hibernation, and the average woman's menstrual cycle. Countering these natural cycles are clocks accelerated to the rates of digital technology. Unequal Hours becomes a public clock that challenges the concept of singular time. Coloured ribbons connecting the clock hands continually circulate and tangle, creating a vivid representation of how alternate cycles of time are constantly intersecting. The exhibition is on display in the outside Gallery 4 at Canberra Museum and Gallery in London Circuit, Canberra City. For more information and to view a live stream of the installation visit unequalhours.com.
Songs of Earth
Stefan Heyler's solo exhibition opens on Thursday, February 11 at Grainger Gallery. Building 3,1 Dairy Road, Fyshwick. Open Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 5pm, or by appointment: phone 0404 769 843.
Cat Stevens
Darren Coggan returns with his show Remember the Days of Cat Stevens, performing songs such as Moonshadow and Wild World. He'll be at the Queanbeyan Bicentennial Hall (next to the Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre) on Friday, February 12 at 8pm. theq.net.au.
Star Wars
The original Star Wars trilogy is screening at the National Film and Sound Archive. Star Wars: A New Hope screens on Thursday, February 11 at 6pm, The Empire Strikes Back is on Friday, February 12 at 6pm, followed by Return of the Jedi at 8.30pm. nfsa.gov.au.
Marta Nowicka
Soprano Marta Nowicka will perform on Friday, February 12 at 6.30 for 7pm and Saturday, February 13 at 5.30 for 6pm. More information and bookings: phone Carl Rafferty on 0417 429 899.
Afternoon Tea at Six
At the Street Theatre on Saturday, February 13 at 7.30pm, the Eishan Ensemble combines regional Iranian folkloric elements with jazz harmonic concepts. thestreet.org.au.