Linda Jackson Bush Couture
26 January – 9 September 2012
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia | Free entry
“My love of couture, together with the inspiration and beauty of the Australian bush, brought about the idea of translating all this into a style of art and fashion that I call…Bush Couture”
Linda Jackson, 1987
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Last season Melbourne artist Stuart Ringholt invited visitors to take their clothes off for a series of nude tours of the exhibition Power to the People.
But for ACCA’s next exhibition, I Packed the Postcard in my Suitcase, leading Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist asks just that they remove their shoes.
Fresh from knockout exhibitions at London’s Hayward gallery and Milan’s Trussardi Foundation, Pipilotti Rist will flood ACCA’s walls and ceilings with her trippy, psychedelic video projections.
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NEW SHOWS AT BSG
Please come and join us for drinks with the artists at BSG this Friday 4 November at 6pm. All welcome
322 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Cnr Argyle St. Free event.
CALLING FOR ENTRIES
$10,000 BSg 40×40 Prize & Exhibition. Be part of our last and biggest show for the year running from 21 Dec 2011 through to 16 Jan 2012. All entries exhibited in our 40×40x40cm show. Sculpture, Painting, Photography, Mixed Media, Printmaking, Drawing, Video - any medium welcome as long as it is no larger than 40×40x40cm. You can find more details and enter online at www.bsgart.com.au
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4 November 2011 – 26 February 2012
“There is an element of chance in how you see the sculpture, in terms of how it positions itself in space according to movement of air in the space.” Ranjani Shettar
On 4 November, the National Gallery of Victoria will launch its newest contemporary art space with a spectacular exhibition of work by internationally renowned contemporary artist, Ranjani Shettar (1977 - ).
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NEW SHOWS AT BSG
Please come and join us for drinks with the artists at BSG this Friday 9 September at 6pm. All welcome
322 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Cnr Argyle St. Free event.
DIGITAL CAMERA WAREHOUSE CLICK 11 PRIZE
Entries are now open Digital Camera Warehouse CLICK 11 Prize. Open Photographic Compeition - all entries are exhibited. This is a non-aquisitive prize with prizes donated by the Digital Camera Warehouse, Adobe and Sashin Photos. Deadline for entries Sun 25 September. Show runs 7-20 October 2011. Details and enter online at www.bsgart.com.au
STUDIO FOR RENT
We have one studio available to rent on the corner of Brunswick and Johnston Sts, Fitzroy. Light, and private/lockable - $90 per week, approx 10sqm. Phone Tessa on 0419 390 478 to view or email tessa@bsgart.com.au
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On 23 July the National Gallery of Victoria will open 10 ways to look at the past, a contemporary exhibition exploring artists’ fascination with the passing of time.
This exhibition will feature works by 10 Australian artists, including new acquisitions by David Noonan, Tom Nicholson and Richard Lewer, which will be on display at the NGV for the first time.
Drawn entirely from the NGV Collection, 10 ways to look at the past will explore how the concepts of history and memory have been observed, challenged and reinvented through a diverse range of works.
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NEW11 PRESENTED BY THE BALNAVES FOUNDATION
Melbourne artist Dan Moynihan is creating a secret room at ACCA. Discover the door that leads you there, and you’ll find Dan’s idea of paradise.
Moynihan is one of ten artists selected by ACCA curator Hannah Mathews to create his dream-work for NEW11, an annual commissions exhibition aimed at offering Australian artists the opportunity to make a significant new work and have it exhibited in ACCA’s exhibition hall. He’ll create his own version of paradise, complete with a palm tree, somewhere within ACCA’s vast exhibition hall.
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