What's On At GoMA 'Threads'

Threads: Contemporary Textiles and the Social Fabric

WHEN: Until 5 February 2012
WHERE: GoMA

Bringing together a diverse range of contemporary textiles from the Gallery's Australian, Asian and Pacific collections, 'Threads: Contemporary Textiles and the Social Fabric' celebrates the ways in which contemporary artists explore the textile medium.

Illustrated Talk: Unravelling ‘Threads’

TIME: 2.30pm
WHEN: Thursday 13 October 2011
WHERE: Cinema B, GoMA

Material culture and museum studies specialist Dr Graeme Were (Lecturer in Museum Studies, University of Queensland) discusses the ‘Threads’ exhibition by exploring the materials, designs and communities represented in the Gallery's holdings of Pacific textiles.

As published in Artmail E-news. 

Art & Australia Launch at the IMA

Launch night at the Institute of Modern Art - Brisbane.

Barry Schwabsky on aestheticism
Michael Zavros
Zanobi Machiavelli
AES + F
Peter Stichbury
Richard Orjis
Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont

 

Hazel Dooney At TEDx Brisbane: Taking The Art Business To Task

Exerpt from Hazel Dooney Studio Notes...

Hazel Dooney is to join the prominent speakers appearing at TEDx Brisbane this Saturday, 15th October, at the State Library of Queensland.

TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a nonprofit organisation devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Founded as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. Past TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Created in the spirit of the original TED Conference’s mission, the TEDx program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at a local level. TEDx events such as Brisbane's are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis but in affiliation with TED.

Tickets to TEDx Brisbane are no longer available. However it will be 'livecast' at http://edgeqld.org.au/webcast – the start time of Hazel's speech has not yet been confirmed but it will be posted on her home page on Friday, 14th October.

Hazel will be telling her own story of creating an independent career, in the hope of inspiring students and artists to exert stronger control over their art and careers. She will also explore the new paradigm within which young artists, musicians and writers are eschewing traditional intermediaries (commercial galleries, record companies and publishers) to create a direct connection with their audience. However it will be – as one might expect of one of Australia's controversial female artists – a frank, intensely personal and, at times, confronting account.

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Great opening night for 'Mamas in the Hood'

If you did not get a chance to attend the opening night for 'Mamas in the Hood' then you missed titillation of all the senses. It had a wonderfully welcoming atmosphere and was engaging the audience on varied levels. Anita West gave an insightful presentation about her personal experience of combining motherhood and a successful arts career.

All the works, whilst visually unique seemed to be connected through an underlying sense of movement.

Sandra Landolt's work is playful and her kinetic and video works allowed the audience to connect with the busy-ness and overwhelm that motherhood can encompass.

Candice Herne's collaborative work involved here local artistic community of Montville/Maleny in creating a joyous mobile like installation that invites audience participation and personal reflections on motherhood.

Katrina Stirling's work reflects a personal journey and her connection to nature and family. Using bed sheets and linen that is rusted and stained she imbues her personal thoughts and experiences using images and text.

Chrys Zantis' work is intriguing and sophisticated in its conceptual messages and quite mesmerizing with spinning disco ball bouncing patterns off walls not to mentioned the saucy burlesque performance that had every ones attention as the evening came to an end.

So, if you did not get a chance to attend, there is still time. The exhibition is on until the 5th of November and offer presentations and activities to visitors.
(See previous post for details.)