Events

Looking at Painting – Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre – Hopper Gallery

Nell, Carmen Glynn- Braun, Hayley Megan French, Jody Graham, Rochelle Haley, Kirtika Kain, Claudia Nicholson, Judy Watson and Nypanyapa Yunupingu.

LOOKING AT PAINTING features artists that push the boundaries of the painting medium. It showcases a mix of emerging, mid-career and established artists who experiment with paint through approaches to collaboration, material, process and installation.

The artists explore very different themes and ideas through their artworks, each has a unique story that starts with innovative mark-making with painterly materials.

Through this exhibition, audiences will see the diversity of the form of expanded painting today, and many of its exciting possibilities.

LAUNCH: Sat 3 July – 2pm – 4pm.

Exhibition dates 3 July – 5 September 2021

RSVP : reception@casulapowerhouse.com

1 Powerhouse Rd Casula NSW 2170 (Enter via Shepherd St)

Tel (02) 8711 7123 www.casulapowerhouse.com Free entry

Open daily – next to Casula train station – free parking available

Looking at Painting e-invite

The second annual exhibition of works depicting the beauty & diversity of Australian birdlife.

Open Sunday 27th June to Friday 10th September 2021

Open 7 days a week 9am – 4.30pm

NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service

Blue Mountains Heritage Centre

270 Govetts Leap Road, Blackheath NSW

Inquiries: (02) 4787 8877

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Image: Jody Graham ‘Suspended’ charcoal from 2019/20nBlack Summer bushfires on paper, 106cm x 78cm 2021

Nanda/Hobbs gallery will be presenting a small collection of new works by Jody Graham in the Project Space from 27 May – 5 June 2021.

12 – 14 Meagher Street
Chippendale, NSW 200

Opening Hours
Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm Saturday, 11am – 4pm

For more information click here

Birds

The birds flight has been a symbol of freedom to man since the dawn of time. During this recent period, when our movement has been restricted and our freedoms curtailed, it seems appropriate to return to this motif. This theme has been chosen as a gathering point for this group show, to allow us to transcend the physical restrictions on our freedom through community and artistic collaboration

Exhibition 12 – 26th March 2021

Open Wednesday to Sunday, 3pm til 5pm
or by appointment on 0423 061 467

The Kollective – 3/1 Kendall Street, Byron Bay.

Blue Mountains Portraits 2021
23 Jan – 7 Mar

Blue Mountains Portraits is the Cultural Centre’s annual celebration of the local community and its diverse members. The exhibiting artists portray the unique people that make up the cultural fabric of the Blue Mountains and tell the stories behind the person.
A Blue Mountains City Art Gallery exhibition.

Buried in the Garden 1 – Clare Delaney

I entered a portrait of Clare Delaney into Portraits 2021 at The Blue Mountains Cultural Centre.

I met Clare during the installation of the Occupied exhibition at the BMCC in June 2020.

I was instantly attracted to Clare’s earthy personality and artwork. The more we talked the more I saw how her life and artwork linked. Clare loves her garden and art, connecting both by burying her artwork in the garden and letting nature do its part.

Clare generously agreed to participating in an intimate project which involves me drawing her portrait and entering it in Portraits 2021. After the exhibition ends the artwork will be buried in Clare’s garden, left for nature to do its thing, then exhibited again in Portraits 2022.

Buried in the Garden 1 has been made using naturally found charcoal, ochres and sap so it is tastier for the creatures that live in Clare’s garden.

Sound Drawings

An innovative dialogue between the creative disciplines of sound and drawing.

Jody Graham & Mark Cauvin Sound Drawing Instruments.

 Jody Graham and Mark Cauvin perform a duet responding to each other’s creative practice. Mark is an improvisor and composer who will be playing the double bass and Jody is a multidisciplinary artist who will be drawing. Sound Drawing is an inspired performance that generates a unique evocative language of its own. This manifests in a rhetoric of sound and marks that explores the possibilities of performance practice between a musician and a visual artist.

Venue – BigCi – Bilpin 

Dates/times/duration

Saturday 30^th January 2021 – 7.30pm – 45minutes

Sunday 31^ST January 2021 – 2pm – 45minutes

I am very pleased to be a finalist in the 66th Blake Prize with my artwork – Trashed

Since 1951, The Blake Prize has engaged artists, nationally and internationally, with ideas of spirituality and religion. The prize takes its name from William Blake, the world-famous 18th Century artist, and poet who threaded the religious and artistic throughout his practice. Building on this history, The 66th Blake Prize continues to encourage contemporary artists of varied styles and religious and spiritual allegiances to create significant works of art, which engage in conversations and negotiations concerning spirituality, religion and/or belief.

Exhibition at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre – 13 February – 11th April 2021.

For more information click here.

To view entry and artist statement click here for the 66th Blake Prize catalogue