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Opening and artist’s talk
Suddenly free at 6pm tonight? Opening in a few hours is IOTA21: Curiosity and Rituals of the Everyday at the John Curtin Gallery. Register here and I’ll see you there! Alternatively (or indeed while you’re at that link), RSVP to join us for the artist talk on Sunday. Full details below: Below are a couple…
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Juukan Tears Offcuts
Juukan Tears – Offcuts After using a jewellers saw that is 0.25mm wide to hand saw around 200m of steel, I linked the cut pieces back together again to form a portrait of the headquarters of the biggest iron ore producer in Australia. To make the portrait, and the 4,600 tears that emanated from it,…
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IOTA21 artist/curator talks
Once again from the JCG invitation email; Saturday 12 September 2:00pm – 3:30pm Artists’ Talk Join IOTA21 co-curators Carola Akindele-Obe, Maggie Baxter and Jude van der Merwe in conversation with Melissa Cameron (WA), Garry Sibosado (WA) and Desmond Lazaro (India/VIC) as they discuss their arts practice and the challenges and rewards of creating contemporary craft…
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IOTA21 at John Curtin Gallery
From the JCG invitation email: Mr Chris Malcolm, Director JCG, invites you to the opening of: The Indian Ocean Craft Triennial Curiosity and Rituals of the Everyday 6.00pm – 8.00pm Thursday 9 September 2021 To be opened by Dr Casta TungarazaTanzania’s Tourism Goodwill Ambassador in Australia Welcome to Country by Ms Glenda Kickett, Whadjuk Nyungar…
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Talkfest 2021
Here we go… The Value Chains JMGA online conference begins tomorrow evening (AEST) with Simon Cottrell, the co-chair of the original and postponed conference, and includes Roseanne Bartley, Claire McArdle, Julia Wild, Jonathan Zalakos and Joanna Zellmer. This is followed by matt lambert with “Other People’s Business: What makes a material new and what does…
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Juukan Caves Anniversary / Virtual Indigenous Film Fest 2021
Yesterday marks 1 year since the destruction of the Juukan Shelters, a traditional site of the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinnikura (PKKP) peoples located in the Pilbara area in the northwest of Western Australia. If you’ve been following this blog for the last few months you’ll know that I have made the facts of that…
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Makers’ Film Festival
I have two short films about recent work in this festival. I know, what am I like?!? Lets hope they get played back-to-back so we can really compare how I aged over the 20 months between their filming… And yes, my tickets are booked! Come along! (Teaser and text below courtesy the amazing Maker&Smith website)…
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Today’s Q + A
For your delectation and delight, I present the live stream feed from today, conveniently queued up to the start of our q + a chat! We chatted, we answered questions, we got off topic (prompted by a comment, though) and I ranted, just a little. As you would guess there’s 1 hr 24 mins of…
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Live stream q + a soon!
Today! 3 May 10:30 am Perth time or in your zone at:Auckland – 2:30 pmNew York – 10:30 pm*Sydney -12:30 pmCalgary – 8:30 pm*Los Angeles – 7:30 pm*/ / /I’ll be chatting about my work in a live q+a on my YouTube channel – *at this live link*It will remain available to re-stream indefinitely.Email your…
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getting close…
Have you been checking in to the livestream? I know I have a dedicated fan or two (thank you for watching, sorry about all the noise..!) who look in, so I wanted to let y’all know that we’re getting close to the end. There’s about a week left of regular manufacturing before we switch to…
