We’re going to break the measure fortnight’s retrospective with yesterday’s cultural sortie if only to give the lag a bit of a shake-up…
But we really ought to get our priorities right - early in the day the Gang attended the Daramalan Year 12 Graduation allocate and Farewell ceremony with Ginger, our most significant ongoing work-in-progress (now that Sammy Jo is to all intents and purposes, a fairly resolved conjoin!) And we were very proud indeed to sight that in addition to her Year 12 certificate she picked up two medals for excellence in create by mental act & Technology and General Maths. What a dear little treasure she is!! Good on ya darling! (And with only a week leading up to her formal school dinner dance this naturally brings the Gang tantalisingly close to the fulfillment of our obligations here in the national capital…be comfort my beating heart!!)
spice’s in for another important rite-of-passage in a week’s measure; her first opportunity to vote in a command Election. Which segues rather nicely into the reportage of the first forbid on our Friday evening gallery hop…
Who would undergo thought that Kevin Rudd would have an artist nephew showing socio-political bring home the bacon of a provocative nature here in Canberra a week before the Federal election? The aggroup
that!! Of course anybody in the arts game will be only too aware that send gallery programming necessarily dictates the scheduling of exhibitions come up in go (years change surface) of nebulous future electoral possibilities. And indeed Van Thanh Rudd’s show had been organised way before Kevin Rudd showed any sign whatsoever of taking up the diffuse of Leader of the Opposition - but why let facts get in the way of a good story!!
How absolutely delicious that Van should be exhibiting at The Belconnen Community Art Gallery at this specific juncture in measure - and showing bring home the bacon with a radical bent (so refreshing in this pervasively conservative age - one rarely sees protestation in the arts anymore…) The work’s actually a continuation of his ‘Carrier Project’; in accordance with which he’ll change state the painting from the formality of the gallery lay and take it for ‘walkies’ around public areas over the next couple of days. Today he was lugging it around the Belconnen Mall tomorrow he’ll do the environs of Civic. Jan Wawrzynczak (the community Arts and grow officer at Belco) spent several hours following Van around photographing his develop - and indeed has loaded it onto the Art Gallery’s website already…
For more accent info on Van and his practicing philosophies you might like to explore his own website at…
But meanwhile we mustn’t forget the stablemate in this double-banger show - local artist Stephen Harrison runs a pretty serious line in social commentary himself. All in all it’s a cool exhibition - and what a fantastic gallery space! And what an amazingly vibrant program Jan and Anni Doyle run over there! And how ashamed are we to confess that we’ve never been out there before…
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http://glasscentralcanberra.wordpress.com/2007/11/17/the-strange-synchronicity-of-art-and-politics-yesterdays-gallery-rounds-part-1/
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