Some of the world’s leading artists explore life’s journey from the moment of lift-off to the final send-off and all the bits in-between in this new group exhibition, part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
Mid 19th century oil paintings by James Shaw, George Armfield, William Strut and Arthur Lindsay’s cemetery painting will hang alongside contemporary video, sculpture and installation works in an exhibition that spans history and captures artists’ long-time fascination with the passage of life and death.
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New Shows at BSG this Friday Aug 13 at 6pm.
All welcome
322 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Cnr Argyle St. Free event.
CALLING FOR ENTRIES
Calling for entries for the $10,000 BSG Art Prize Prize. Any theme, Any medium, Any size. Judges: Alex McCulloch, Director, Metro Gallery & Claire Harris, Director, Flinders Lane Gallery. Deadline for entries: 27 Aug 2010. Runs: 10-23 Sep 2010. To enter www.bsgart.com.au
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Monday 19th July
SCREEN SECT: FRAILTY (Bill Paxton, 2001)
Paxton’s directorial debut is an assured American Gothic psychological thriller, about a father who claims to have been instructed by God to destroy demons, who wander the earth disguised as ordinary people, and inducts his two young sons into a rampage of murder. A great cast includes Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe and Matthew McConaughey.
Doors 7.30pm
Tuesday 20th July
MAKE IT UP CLUB
The Make It Up Club is committed to nurturing, presenting and promoting avant-garde improvised music and sound performance of the highest conceptual and performative standards, regardless of idiom, genre, or instrumentation. Whilst traditional forms of avant-garde improvisation are welcomed, MIUC programming policy gives priority to projects which challenge the boundaries of current musical trends and which are predominantly, though not exclusively, improvisational in nature.
Doors 8.00pm
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New Shows at BSG this Friday July 2 at 6pm.
All welcome
Painting 10A: Cristina Popovici, Daniel Butterworth, Lee-Anne Raymond, Neil Wyatt, Nicholas Mellefont, Matthew Butterworth, Julianne O’hUiggin, Claire Steele, Annette Spinks
Photography 10B: Ashlee Dawson, Adriane Hayward, Alberto Sanchez, Ashlee Hope, Ben Kelly, Daniel Macdougall, Jaana Sahling, Michael Weinhardt, Magdalena Chahin, Matthew Williams, Nicole Roberts, Tanya Dyhin, David-Ashley Kerr, Cathy Marshall
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New Shows at BSG this Friday June 4 at 6pm.
All Welcome
CALLING FOR ENTRIES
$10,000 Picture This Open Photographic Prize. All entries accepted. All themes. Judge Karen Woodbury, Karen Woodbury Gallery. Enter up to 4 works. Show runs 17-29 July 2010. Opening & Prizes Fri 23 July at 6pm. Deadline for entries Sun 4 July 2010. To enter www.bsgart.com.au
HARD RUBBISH 2010
BSG presents The Hard Rubbish Show. The uncanny discovery of hard rubbish presented as romantic ruins. Found objects that transend the rubbish-heap & ruthlessness of time. Artists may enter any type of art that utilises some form of discarded object or hard rubbish. To enter send images of your work to tina@bsgart.com.au
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Cartoons about politics and society 1760 – 2010
Saturday 12 June through Sunday 8 August 2010
Show Features Luminaries of the Craft and Their Insightful Takes on Politics and Society
Celebrating the art of the cartoonist, In Your Face is a fresh take on how cartoonists have
over the past two centuries been able to tackle fundamental themes of politics, sex and
money with insight and rigour.
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Thursday 3 June 2010
Sculpture Today
Join Dr Alex Baker, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, NGV along with artists Emily Floyd, Julia de Ville, Kate Just and Lou Hubbard for an amazingly rare opportunity to listen to what is happening in contemporary sculpture.
Private collector Lisa Fehily, curator and Director of Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Alexie Glass-Kantor and gallery directors Sarah Scout, Kate Barber and Vicki McInnes will join the artists in this important discussion on contemporary art.
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