Below you'll find a list of all posts from October, 2014
Places to go… Here are some ideas if you’re hankering for a great art adventure or a more localised city bound experience. Tickets are on sale now for the Sugar mountain festival in January of next year. The Victorian College of the Arts is to become the festival’s new home with a juicy offering of music and a feast of …
It is widely known, even to the layperson recalling just a little from a school art history lesson that artists from all over the world have frequented the Louvre in Paris to copy the works of Great Master Paintings. By this process, a diligent self-motivated student could and does experience an immediate lesson from the ghosts of artist past. Montparnasse, …
By Celeste Hawkins Jill Rivers, the Creative Producer of the Daylesford Macedon Ranges Open Studios is determined to demystify the Arts and make it more accessible to all. A former Media Director for the Australian Ballet and chair of Ausdance Victoria, Jill has vast experience and has built up a network of associates that feel just as strongly. Jill has …
Trying Not To Worry Essay by Phe Luxford, 2014. Examining Marise Maas’ paintings is like peering into a series of little precarious worlds – each bearing the trace of some implicit, destabilising truth. Here, roof tiles are formed from haphazard lines; windows float up and away from their foundational structures; houses teeter on disjointed stilts; electricity pylons and cranes tilt …
STARDUST IN OUR VEINS KATE SHAW Catalogue essay by Celeste Hawkins Artists are active explorers of their own realities- teasing out visions from their own subconscious, predicting the future or commenting on the past. They are also interpreters and documenters, presenting their thoughts in a medium best suited to deliver the message. Science Fiction has long been an …