Soft soil between our toes and jagged rocks underfoot. Are they fossil fuel deposits ripe for exploitation or sacred Dreaming sites?
The work of Debra Porch (1954–2017) explores the potency of memory and its ability to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Using textiles, thread, hair and electroplated objects, Porch created visual mechanisms that reorientate our sense of the familiar and forge connections between the present and past.
Rachel O’Reilly is an artist-poet, critic, independent curator and researcher whose work explores relationships between art and situated cultural practice, media philosophy and feminist political economy.
Considering the ways in which we are enmeshed in flows between beings, place, memory, and time. The exhibition offers reflections on interdependence and our entangled relations to the spaces around us, asking– how and where are we orientated? What particular shape or form do the worlds we inhabit acquire?
Soft Monument is an exhibition by Cambodian-Australian artist Linda Sok which looks to subvert the ways historically felt traumas have been addressed throughout history. The work speaks to the Khmer Rouge Regime without depictions of violence and promotes a softer way of communicating the occurrence of the violent acts perpetrated during this time and its ongoing effects.
Join the Sydney Knitting Nannas for a discussion on the use of knitting as a tool for non-violent political activism and take part in a banner making workshop.
Substrate is a cross-institutional exhibition exchange between UNSW Art & Design and the University of Newcastle that brings together a selection of works by students who work with photography in the undergraduate degree program. The works in the exhibition present a diversity of compelling ideas in photography and photo-based art in the form of still and moving images, objects and installations.
Join 2019 John Fries Award finalists Dean Cross, David Greenhalgh, Nadia Hernández, Elena Papanikolakis and Justine Youssef on the closing weekend of the exhibition for a series of talks on their work in ‘There is Fiction in the Spaces Between’, moderated by John Fries Award Curator Miriam Kelly.
WHERE: UNSW GALLERIES
Modern Baseball is a series of paintings that references Ellsworth Kelly's 'Red, Yellow, Blue III' (1966) and the artist's father Raymond Pauszek II's commercial sign paintings for the Dunkirk, New York, Little League Baseball Field. The new work by Tim Pauszek zooms in to his father's since destroyed signs to become closer to Kelly's colour field work (or do they zoom out of Kelly's work to become closer to Ray II's signs? I can never remember).
UNSW Wind Symphony
Paul Vickers, conductor
A REED - El Camino Real
GERSHWIN arr BARKER - The Symphonic Gershwin
GOLDMAN arr CUSTER The Chimes of Liberty
JOIO Scenes from The Louvre
SHOSTAKOVICH - Festive Overture
TYZIK - Riffs
WHITACRE- October
Tickets: $20/$15/$10
Daniel Mudie Cunningham and José Da Silva, UNSW Galleries Director, discuss the complex and intimate process of working with an artist’s estate. The discussion takes its title from Cunningham’s essay on the process of curating the posthumous survey Katthy Cavaliere: Loved (Museum of Old and New Art and Carriageworks, 2015-16). Cunningham is an artist, writer and curator based in Sydney and currently Director Programs at Carriageworks.
This event is at capacity and now taking waitlist.
The Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW presents the 2019 Mason Conversation
The Honourable Michael McHugh AC QC in conversation with Professor George Williams AO, Dean UNSW Law.
About the speaker:
The Honourable Michael McHugh AC QC is a former justice of the High Court of Australia.
