Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug

Prickly Woman emerges as a creature not quite of this time and place. They are caught between the stereotypes of the mundanely domestic and the decadent. They are a societal construct built in the rift between historical expectations of femininity and the local, modern-day woman.

This work is an exploration into the larger narrative of the realities of women’s health in all its layers – physical, spiritual, financial, isolation, community connection, ageing, caring, responsibility.

Purcell’s lived experiences and research gathered during her Rosamond McCulloch Paris Studio Residency 2018 (UTAS) are woven into Prickly Woman. Laura Purcell interweaves sculpture, puppetry and performance to share stories of entrapment, transformation and release, on women and the non-human, in digital and environmental spaces. Sculpture comes from her desire to build architecture for the body which becomes an extension of the body. The sculpture; puppet, object or costume, can provide multiple narrative structures within her performance and exhibition work.

The sculpture is conceptually and aesthetically influenced by its surrounding environment. It is always intended to live in a performance and site of significance.

Prickly Woman is exhibited in MAC’s Avago window gallery, visible from Albert Road.

Image: Laura Purcell, Prickly Woman study – Map, 2019, digital illustration

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project is a collection of embroidered panels designed to tell the story of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia, through stitch.

The project was inspired by the 77 elaborate and intricately designed British Quaker Tapestries (the Kendal Tapestries), the designs of which were in turn based on the famous Bayeux Tapestry.

Ideas for the Australian panels come from all over Australia, and depict local Quaker history beginning with the arrival in 1770 of the first Quaker, Sydney Parkinson, a botanical artist and a member of Captain Cook’s expedition. Currently there are 20 completed panels, with plans for a total of 70 to be created.

The Project began in 2007 and until recently, the panels have had limited public exposure, exhibited only in Quaker settings (at local meetinghouses around the country or Quaker gatherings) and in selected public libraries. However, the “Friends in Stitches”, the group that meets to create the panels and carry on the work supporting other stitching groups around the country, would like to take the Project to the wider world, and begin offering the panels for exhibition to Australian galleries and cultural institutions.

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project will be on display in the Albert Hallway gallery space.

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

Facilitating a quick build often overrides any consideration to aesthetics. Uninspiring commercial and residential projects are proliferating the constructed landscape.

Do those who inhabit these buildings and spaces long for a sense of comfort, warmth and character? Or does a sense of heavy, impenetrable walls and high-level security offer them greater comfort?

Christine Scott Vincent’s Bunkerville is a construction of printed paper shapes, derived from the precast construction industry and sourced from local building projects.

Bunkerville will be opened by Jennifer Marshall.

Image: Christine Scott Vincent, Bunkerville (detail), 2019, linocut. Photo: Christine Scott Vincent

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

In the exhibition “matter”, Sean O’Connell explores the various materials we use to create the worlds we live in.

Using high voltage spark discharges, Sean’s images reveal the individual qualities and internal structures of matter.

Rather than the usual light reflected off the surface of things we see with our eyes, spark discharges allow a glimpse within, to the internal nature of everyday materials.

Brick, carbon composite, celery top pine, silk, lead, meteoric ore. They all share a history and relationship with humans – through our use and manipulation of them, in craft and industry, forming the objects and buildings of our daily lives.

These images ask us to stop and take another look at the mundane matter that surrounds us – to see it, to feel it under our fingers – and to imagine and appreciate the unique and beautiful character of the materials we have bound into our daily lives.

CONVERSATIONS
Sat 17 Aug, 1pm

Join Sean O’Connell for Conversations. This is a free, casual event where you can meet artists currently exhibiting at MAC and hear more about the stories behind their work. This Conversation will also include a small demonstration of the sparking process where several people can bring small objects to be imaged!

Image: Sean O’Connell, Silk, Lead and Celery top pine, samples and spark discharges, 2019

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug

Prickly Woman emerges as a creature not quite of this time and place. They are caught between the stereotypes of the mundanely domestic and the decadent. They are a societal construct built in the rift between historical expectations of femininity and the local, modern-day woman.

This work is an exploration into the larger narrative of the realities of women’s health in all its layers – physical, spiritual, financial, isolation, community connection, ageing, caring, responsibility.

Purcell’s lived experiences and research gathered during her Rosamond McCulloch Paris Studio Residency 2018 (UTAS) are woven into Prickly Woman. Laura Purcell interweaves sculpture, puppetry and performance to share stories of entrapment, transformation and release, on women and the non-human, in digital and environmental spaces. Sculpture comes from her desire to build architecture for the body which becomes an extension of the body. The sculpture; puppet, object or costume, can provide multiple narrative structures within her performance and exhibition work.

The sculpture is conceptually and aesthetically influenced by its surrounding environment. It is always intended to live in a performance and site of significance.

Prickly Woman is exhibited in MAC’s Avago window gallery, visible from Albert Road.

Image: Laura Purcell, Prickly Woman study – Map, 2019, digital illustration

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project is a collection of embroidered panels designed to tell the story of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia, through stitch.

The project was inspired by the 77 elaborate and intricately designed British Quaker Tapestries (the Kendal Tapestries), the designs of which were in turn based on the famous Bayeux Tapestry.

Ideas for the Australian panels come from all over Australia, and depict local Quaker history beginning with the arrival in 1770 of the first Quaker, Sydney Parkinson, a botanical artist and a member of Captain Cook’s expedition. Currently there are 20 completed panels, with plans for a total of 70 to be created.

The Project began in 2007 and until recently, the panels have had limited public exposure, exhibited only in Quaker settings (at local meetinghouses around the country or Quaker gatherings) and in selected public libraries. However, the “Friends in Stitches”, the group that meets to create the panels and carry on the work supporting other stitching groups around the country, would like to take the Project to the wider world, and begin offering the panels for exhibition to Australian galleries and cultural institutions.

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project will be on display in the Albert Hallway gallery space.

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

Facilitating a quick build often overrides any consideration to aesthetics. Uninspiring commercial and residential projects are proliferating the constructed landscape.

Do those who inhabit these buildings and spaces long for a sense of comfort, warmth and character? Or does a sense of heavy, impenetrable walls and high-level security offer them greater comfort?

Christine Scott Vincent’s Bunkerville is a construction of printed paper shapes, derived from the precast construction industry and sourced from local building projects.

Bunkerville will be opened by Jennifer Marshall.

Image: Christine Scott Vincent, Bunkerville (detail), 2019, linocut. Photo: Christine Scott Vincent

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

In the exhibition “matter”, Sean O’Connell explores the various materials we use to create the worlds we live in.

Using high voltage spark discharges, Sean’s images reveal the individual qualities and internal structures of matter.

Rather than the usual light reflected off the surface of things we see with our eyes, spark discharges allow a glimpse within, to the internal nature of everyday materials.

Brick, carbon composite, celery top pine, silk, lead, meteoric ore. They all share a history and relationship with humans – through our use and manipulation of them, in craft and industry, forming the objects and buildings of our daily lives.

These images ask us to stop and take another look at the mundane matter that surrounds us – to see it, to feel it under our fingers – and to imagine and appreciate the unique and beautiful character of the materials we have bound into our daily lives.

CONVERSATIONS
Sat 17 Aug, 1pm

Join Sean O’Connell for Conversations. This is a free, casual event where you can meet artists currently exhibiting at MAC and hear more about the stories behind their work. This Conversation will also include a small demonstration of the sparking process where several people can bring small objects to be imaged!

Image: Sean O’Connell, Silk, Lead and Celery top pine, samples and spark discharges, 2019

FRI 2 AUG, 6PM

ORIGAMI ISLAND
Origami Island fold out into a 4-piece folk/funk band with a uniquely chill and groovy vibe. They have a seriously skilled guitarist and a vocalist who’s sound is in-between Vera Blue and Ariana Grande.

ADRIAN HAYES
Adrian Hayes is a seriously talented multi-instrumentalist with a Funky Rocking vibe.

Show start at 6pm, doors and bar open from 5:30pm
$10 on the door / kids under 12 free

Visit the full Friday Nights Live program>>

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

In the exhibition “matter”, Sean O’Connell explores the various materials we use to create the worlds we live in.

Using high voltage spark discharges, Sean’s images reveal the individual qualities and internal structures of matter.

Rather than the usual light reflected off the surface of things we see with our eyes, spark discharges allow a glimpse within, to the internal nature of everyday materials.

Brick, carbon composite, celery top pine, silk, lead, meteoric ore. They all share a history and relationship with humans – through our use and manipulation of them, in craft and industry, forming the objects and buildings of our daily lives.

These images ask us to stop and take another look at the mundane matter that surrounds us – to see it, to feel it under our fingers – and to imagine and appreciate the unique and beautiful character of the materials we have bound into our daily lives.

CONVERSATIONS
Sat 17 Aug, 1pm

Join Sean O’Connell for Conversations. This is a free, casual event where you can meet artists currently exhibiting at MAC and hear more about the stories behind their work. This Conversation will also include a small demonstration of the sparking process where several people can bring small objects to be imaged!

Image: Sean O’Connell, Silk, Lead and Celery top pine, samples and spark discharges, 2019

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project is a collection of embroidered panels designed to tell the story of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia, through stitch.

The project was inspired by the 77 elaborate and intricately designed British Quaker Tapestries (the Kendal Tapestries), the designs of which were in turn based on the famous Bayeux Tapestry.

Ideas for the Australian panels come from all over Australia, and depict local Quaker history beginning with the arrival in 1770 of the first Quaker, Sydney Parkinson, a botanical artist and a member of Captain Cook’s expedition. Currently there are 20 completed panels, with plans for a total of 70 to be created.

The Project began in 2007 and until recently, the panels have had limited public exposure, exhibited only in Quaker settings (at local meetinghouses around the country or Quaker gatherings) and in selected public libraries. However, the “Friends in Stitches”, the group that meets to create the panels and carry on the work supporting other stitching groups around the country, would like to take the Project to the wider world, and begin offering the panels for exhibition to Australian galleries and cultural institutions.

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project will be on display in the Albert Hallway gallery space.

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug

Prickly Woman emerges as a creature not quite of this time and place. They are caught between the stereotypes of the mundanely domestic and the decadent. They are a societal construct built in the rift between historical expectations of femininity and the local, modern-day woman.

This work is an exploration into the larger narrative of the realities of women’s health in all its layers – physical, spiritual, financial, isolation, community connection, ageing, caring, responsibility.

Purcell’s lived experiences and research gathered during her Rosamond McCulloch Paris Studio Residency 2018 (UTAS) are woven into Prickly Woman. Laura Purcell interweaves sculpture, puppetry and performance to share stories of entrapment, transformation and release, on women and the non-human, in digital and environmental spaces. Sculpture comes from her desire to build architecture for the body which becomes an extension of the body. The sculpture; puppet, object or costume, can provide multiple narrative structures within her performance and exhibition work.

The sculpture is conceptually and aesthetically influenced by its surrounding environment. It is always intended to live in a performance and site of significance.

Prickly Woman is exhibited in MAC’s Avago window gallery, visible from Albert Road.

Image: Laura Purcell, Prickly Woman study – Map, 2019, digital illustration

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

Facilitating a quick build often overrides any consideration to aesthetics. Uninspiring commercial and residential projects are proliferating the constructed landscape.

Do those who inhabit these buildings and spaces long for a sense of comfort, warmth and character? Or does a sense of heavy, impenetrable walls and high-level security offer them greater comfort?

Christine Scott Vincent’s Bunkerville is a construction of printed paper shapes, derived from the precast construction industry and sourced from local building projects.

Bunkerville will be opened by Jennifer Marshall.

Image: Christine Scott Vincent, Bunkerville (detail), 2019, linocut. Photo: Christine Scott Vincent

A fabulous free monthly social event for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Gender Diverse, and Intersex elders and allies!

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Gender Diverse and Intersex elders and their allies are invited to attend this free, monthly social event, learn new dances, enjoy food and drinks and interact with other LGBTI+ elders and allies. LGBTI+ Elders Dance Club champions the recreational and social rights of LGBTI+ elders, creating a regular, safe and inclusive space for the community.

Sun 4 Aug, free

Contact Kelly for more information on 6216 6312 or KDrummondCawthon@gcc.tas.gov.au

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug

Prickly Woman emerges as a creature not quite of this time and place. They are caught between the stereotypes of the mundanely domestic and the decadent. They are a societal construct built in the rift between historical expectations of femininity and the local, modern-day woman.

This work is an exploration into the larger narrative of the realities of women’s health in all its layers – physical, spiritual, financial, isolation, community connection, ageing, caring, responsibility.

Purcell’s lived experiences and research gathered during her Rosamond McCulloch Paris Studio Residency 2018 (UTAS) are woven into Prickly Woman. Laura Purcell interweaves sculpture, puppetry and performance to share stories of entrapment, transformation and release, on women and the non-human, in digital and environmental spaces. Sculpture comes from her desire to build architecture for the body which becomes an extension of the body. The sculpture; puppet, object or costume, can provide multiple narrative structures within her performance and exhibition work.

The sculpture is conceptually and aesthetically influenced by its surrounding environment. It is always intended to live in a performance and site of significance.

Prickly Woman is exhibited in MAC’s Avago window gallery, visible from Albert Road.

Image: Laura Purcell, Prickly Woman study – Map, 2019, digital illustration

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

In the exhibition “matter”, Sean O’Connell explores the various materials we use to create the worlds we live in.

Using high voltage spark discharges, Sean’s images reveal the individual qualities and internal structures of matter.

Rather than the usual light reflected off the surface of things we see with our eyes, spark discharges allow a glimpse within, to the internal nature of everyday materials.

Brick, carbon composite, celery top pine, silk, lead, meteoric ore. They all share a history and relationship with humans – through our use and manipulation of them, in craft and industry, forming the objects and buildings of our daily lives.

These images ask us to stop and take another look at the mundane matter that surrounds us – to see it, to feel it under our fingers – and to imagine and appreciate the unique and beautiful character of the materials we have bound into our daily lives.

CONVERSATIONS
Sat 17 Aug, 1pm

Join Sean O’Connell for Conversations. This is a free, casual event where you can meet artists currently exhibiting at MAC and hear more about the stories behind their work. This Conversation will also include a small demonstration of the sparking process where several people can bring small objects to be imaged!

Image: Sean O’Connell, Silk, Lead and Celery top pine, samples and spark discharges, 2019

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project is a collection of embroidered panels designed to tell the story of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia, through stitch.

The project was inspired by the 77 elaborate and intricately designed British Quaker Tapestries (the Kendal Tapestries), the designs of which were in turn based on the famous Bayeux Tapestry.

Ideas for the Australian panels come from all over Australia, and depict local Quaker history beginning with the arrival in 1770 of the first Quaker, Sydney Parkinson, a botanical artist and a member of Captain Cook’s expedition. Currently there are 20 completed panels, with plans for a total of 70 to be created.

The Project began in 2007 and until recently, the panels have had limited public exposure, exhibited only in Quaker settings (at local meetinghouses around the country or Quaker gatherings) and in selected public libraries. However, the “Friends in Stitches”, the group that meets to create the panels and carry on the work supporting other stitching groups around the country, would like to take the Project to the wider world, and begin offering the panels for exhibition to Australian galleries and cultural institutions.

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project will be on display in the Albert Hallway gallery space.

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

Facilitating a quick build often overrides any consideration to aesthetics. Uninspiring commercial and residential projects are proliferating the constructed landscape.

Do those who inhabit these buildings and spaces long for a sense of comfort, warmth and character? Or does a sense of heavy, impenetrable walls and high-level security offer them greater comfort?

Christine Scott Vincent’s Bunkerville is a construction of printed paper shapes, derived from the precast construction industry and sourced from local building projects.

Bunkerville will be opened by Jennifer Marshall.

Image: Christine Scott Vincent, Bunkerville (detail), 2019, linocut. Photo: Christine Scott Vincent

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project is a collection of embroidered panels designed to tell the story of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia, through stitch.

The project was inspired by the 77 elaborate and intricately designed British Quaker Tapestries (the Kendal Tapestries), the designs of which were in turn based on the famous Bayeux Tapestry.

Ideas for the Australian panels come from all over Australia, and depict local Quaker history beginning with the arrival in 1770 of the first Quaker, Sydney Parkinson, a botanical artist and a member of Captain Cook’s expedition. Currently there are 20 completed panels, with plans for a total of 70 to be created.

The Project began in 2007 and until recently, the panels have had limited public exposure, exhibited only in Quaker settings (at local meetinghouses around the country or Quaker gatherings) and in selected public libraries. However, the “Friends in Stitches”, the group that meets to create the panels and carry on the work supporting other stitching groups around the country, would like to take the Project to the wider world, and begin offering the panels for exhibition to Australian galleries and cultural institutions.

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project will be on display in the Albert Hallway gallery space.

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug

Prickly Woman emerges as a creature not quite of this time and place. They are caught between the stereotypes of the mundanely domestic and the decadent. They are a societal construct built in the rift between historical expectations of femininity and the local, modern-day woman.

This work is an exploration into the larger narrative of the realities of women’s health in all its layers – physical, spiritual, financial, isolation, community connection, ageing, caring, responsibility.

Purcell’s lived experiences and research gathered during her Rosamond McCulloch Paris Studio Residency 2018 (UTAS) are woven into Prickly Woman. Laura Purcell interweaves sculpture, puppetry and performance to share stories of entrapment, transformation and release, on women and the non-human, in digital and environmental spaces. Sculpture comes from her desire to build architecture for the body which becomes an extension of the body. The sculpture; puppet, object or costume, can provide multiple narrative structures within her performance and exhibition work.

The sculpture is conceptually and aesthetically influenced by its surrounding environment. It is always intended to live in a performance and site of significance.

Prickly Woman is exhibited in MAC’s Avago window gallery, visible from Albert Road.

Image: Laura Purcell, Prickly Woman study – Map, 2019, digital illustration

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

In the exhibition “matter”, Sean O’Connell explores the various materials we use to create the worlds we live in.

Using high voltage spark discharges, Sean’s images reveal the individual qualities and internal structures of matter.

Rather than the usual light reflected off the surface of things we see with our eyes, spark discharges allow a glimpse within, to the internal nature of everyday materials.

Brick, carbon composite, celery top pine, silk, lead, meteoric ore. They all share a history and relationship with humans – through our use and manipulation of them, in craft and industry, forming the objects and buildings of our daily lives.

These images ask us to stop and take another look at the mundane matter that surrounds us – to see it, to feel it under our fingers – and to imagine and appreciate the unique and beautiful character of the materials we have bound into our daily lives.

CONVERSATIONS
Sat 17 Aug, 1pm

Join Sean O’Connell for Conversations. This is a free, casual event where you can meet artists currently exhibiting at MAC and hear more about the stories behind their work. This Conversation will also include a small demonstration of the sparking process where several people can bring small objects to be imaged!

Image: Sean O’Connell, Silk, Lead and Celery top pine, samples and spark discharges, 2019

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

Facilitating a quick build often overrides any consideration to aesthetics. Uninspiring commercial and residential projects are proliferating the constructed landscape.

Do those who inhabit these buildings and spaces long for a sense of comfort, warmth and character? Or does a sense of heavy, impenetrable walls and high-level security offer them greater comfort?

Christine Scott Vincent’s Bunkerville is a construction of printed paper shapes, derived from the precast construction industry and sourced from local building projects.

Bunkerville will be opened by Jennifer Marshall.

Image: Christine Scott Vincent, Bunkerville (detail), 2019, linocut. Photo: Christine Scott Vincent

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

Facilitating a quick build often overrides any consideration to aesthetics. Uninspiring commercial and residential projects are proliferating the constructed landscape.

Do those who inhabit these buildings and spaces long for a sense of comfort, warmth and character? Or does a sense of heavy, impenetrable walls and high-level security offer them greater comfort?

Christine Scott Vincent’s Bunkerville is a construction of printed paper shapes, derived from the precast construction industry and sourced from local building projects.

Bunkerville will be opened by Jennifer Marshall.

Image: Christine Scott Vincent, Bunkerville (detail), 2019, linocut. Photo: Christine Scott Vincent

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

In the exhibition “matter”, Sean O’Connell explores the various materials we use to create the worlds we live in.

Using high voltage spark discharges, Sean’s images reveal the individual qualities and internal structures of matter.

Rather than the usual light reflected off the surface of things we see with our eyes, spark discharges allow a glimpse within, to the internal nature of everyday materials.

Brick, carbon composite, celery top pine, silk, lead, meteoric ore. They all share a history and relationship with humans – through our use and manipulation of them, in craft and industry, forming the objects and buildings of our daily lives.

These images ask us to stop and take another look at the mundane matter that surrounds us – to see it, to feel it under our fingers – and to imagine and appreciate the unique and beautiful character of the materials we have bound into our daily lives.

CONVERSATIONS
Sat 17 Aug, 1pm

Join Sean O’Connell for Conversations. This is a free, casual event where you can meet artists currently exhibiting at MAC and hear more about the stories behind their work. This Conversation will also include a small demonstration of the sparking process where several people can bring small objects to be imaged!

Image: Sean O’Connell, Silk, Lead and Celery top pine, samples and spark discharges, 2019

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project is a collection of embroidered panels designed to tell the story of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia, through stitch.

The project was inspired by the 77 elaborate and intricately designed British Quaker Tapestries (the Kendal Tapestries), the designs of which were in turn based on the famous Bayeux Tapestry.

Ideas for the Australian panels come from all over Australia, and depict local Quaker history beginning with the arrival in 1770 of the first Quaker, Sydney Parkinson, a botanical artist and a member of Captain Cook’s expedition. Currently there are 20 completed panels, with plans for a total of 70 to be created.

The Project began in 2007 and until recently, the panels have had limited public exposure, exhibited only in Quaker settings (at local meetinghouses around the country or Quaker gatherings) and in selected public libraries. However, the “Friends in Stitches”, the group that meets to create the panels and carry on the work supporting other stitching groups around the country, would like to take the Project to the wider world, and begin offering the panels for exhibition to Australian galleries and cultural institutions.

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project will be on display in the Albert Hallway gallery space.

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug

Prickly Woman emerges as a creature not quite of this time and place. They are caught between the stereotypes of the mundanely domestic and the decadent. They are a societal construct built in the rift between historical expectations of femininity and the local, modern-day woman.

This work is an exploration into the larger narrative of the realities of women’s health in all its layers – physical, spiritual, financial, isolation, community connection, ageing, caring, responsibility.

Purcell’s lived experiences and research gathered during her Rosamond McCulloch Paris Studio Residency 2018 (UTAS) are woven into Prickly Woman. Laura Purcell interweaves sculpture, puppetry and performance to share stories of entrapment, transformation and release, on women and the non-human, in digital and environmental spaces. Sculpture comes from her desire to build architecture for the body which becomes an extension of the body. The sculpture; puppet, object or costume, can provide multiple narrative structures within her performance and exhibition work.

The sculpture is conceptually and aesthetically influenced by its surrounding environment. It is always intended to live in a performance and site of significance.

Prickly Woman is exhibited in MAC’s Avago window gallery, visible from Albert Road.

Image: Laura Purcell, Prickly Woman study – Map, 2019, digital illustration

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project is a collection of embroidered panels designed to tell the story of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia, through stitch.

The project was inspired by the 77 elaborate and intricately designed British Quaker Tapestries (the Kendal Tapestries), the designs of which were in turn based on the famous Bayeux Tapestry.

Ideas for the Australian panels come from all over Australia, and depict local Quaker history beginning with the arrival in 1770 of the first Quaker, Sydney Parkinson, a botanical artist and a member of Captain Cook’s expedition. Currently there are 20 completed panels, with plans for a total of 70 to be created.

The Project began in 2007 and until recently, the panels have had limited public exposure, exhibited only in Quaker settings (at local meetinghouses around the country or Quaker gatherings) and in selected public libraries. However, the “Friends in Stitches”, the group that meets to create the panels and carry on the work supporting other stitching groups around the country, would like to take the Project to the wider world, and begin offering the panels for exhibition to Australian galleries and cultural institutions.

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project will be on display in the Albert Hallway gallery space.

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

Facilitating a quick build often overrides any consideration to aesthetics. Uninspiring commercial and residential projects are proliferating the constructed landscape.

Do those who inhabit these buildings and spaces long for a sense of comfort, warmth and character? Or does a sense of heavy, impenetrable walls and high-level security offer them greater comfort?

Christine Scott Vincent’s Bunkerville is a construction of printed paper shapes, derived from the precast construction industry and sourced from local building projects.

Bunkerville will be opened by Jennifer Marshall.

Image: Christine Scott Vincent, Bunkerville (detail), 2019, linocut. Photo: Christine Scott Vincent

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug

Prickly Woman emerges as a creature not quite of this time and place. They are caught between the stereotypes of the mundanely domestic and the decadent. They are a societal construct built in the rift between historical expectations of femininity and the local, modern-day woman.

This work is an exploration into the larger narrative of the realities of women’s health in all its layers – physical, spiritual, financial, isolation, community connection, ageing, caring, responsibility.

Purcell’s lived experiences and research gathered during her Rosamond McCulloch Paris Studio Residency 2018 (UTAS) are woven into Prickly Woman. Laura Purcell interweaves sculpture, puppetry and performance to share stories of entrapment, transformation and release, on women and the non-human, in digital and environmental spaces. Sculpture comes from her desire to build architecture for the body which becomes an extension of the body. The sculpture; puppet, object or costume, can provide multiple narrative structures within her performance and exhibition work.

The sculpture is conceptually and aesthetically influenced by its surrounding environment. It is always intended to live in a performance and site of significance.

Prickly Woman is exhibited in MAC’s Avago window gallery, visible from Albert Road.

Image: Laura Purcell, Prickly Woman study – Map, 2019, digital illustration

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

In the exhibition “matter”, Sean O’Connell explores the various materials we use to create the worlds we live in.

Using high voltage spark discharges, Sean’s images reveal the individual qualities and internal structures of matter.

Rather than the usual light reflected off the surface of things we see with our eyes, spark discharges allow a glimpse within, to the internal nature of everyday materials.

Brick, carbon composite, celery top pine, silk, lead, meteoric ore. They all share a history and relationship with humans – through our use and manipulation of them, in craft and industry, forming the objects and buildings of our daily lives.

These images ask us to stop and take another look at the mundane matter that surrounds us – to see it, to feel it under our fingers – and to imagine and appreciate the unique and beautiful character of the materials we have bound into our daily lives.

CONVERSATIONS
Sat 17 Aug, 1pm

Join Sean O’Connell for Conversations. This is a free, casual event where you can meet artists currently exhibiting at MAC and hear more about the stories behind their work. This Conversation will also include a small demonstration of the sparking process where several people can bring small objects to be imaged!

Image: Sean O’Connell, Silk, Lead and Celery top pine, samples and spark discharges, 2019

FRI 9 AUG, 6PM

Chill out with emerging Tasmanian singer/songwriter Tuli Morris, followed by Blue Chilli, bringing you soulful and spicy gypsy, swing and Paris jazz.

BLUE CHILLI
Blue Chilli’s music spins a beguiling web around its audiences. Move to a mix of gypsy bossas, Paris jazz, blues and some quirky originals. Marcia Flude’s soulful voice is spiced with jazzy guitars, bouzouki, clarinet, keys and tasty percussion. A feast for the senses!

TULI MORRIS
Emerging singer/songwriter Tuli Morris may still be at school, but she packs a mean voice into a mature song.

Show start at 6pm, doors and bar open from 5:30pm
$10 on the door / kids under 12 free

Visit the full Friday Nights Live program>>

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

Facilitating a quick build often overrides any consideration to aesthetics. Uninspiring commercial and residential projects are proliferating the constructed landscape.

Do those who inhabit these buildings and spaces long for a sense of comfort, warmth and character? Or does a sense of heavy, impenetrable walls and high-level security offer them greater comfort?

Christine Scott Vincent’s Bunkerville is a construction of printed paper shapes, derived from the precast construction industry and sourced from local building projects.

Bunkerville will be opened by Jennifer Marshall.

Image: Christine Scott Vincent, Bunkerville (detail), 2019, linocut. Photo: Christine Scott Vincent

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project is a collection of embroidered panels designed to tell the story of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia, through stitch.

The project was inspired by the 77 elaborate and intricately designed British Quaker Tapestries (the Kendal Tapestries), the designs of which were in turn based on the famous Bayeux Tapestry.

Ideas for the Australian panels come from all over Australia, and depict local Quaker history beginning with the arrival in 1770 of the first Quaker, Sydney Parkinson, a botanical artist and a member of Captain Cook’s expedition. Currently there are 20 completed panels, with plans for a total of 70 to be created.

The Project began in 2007 and until recently, the panels have had limited public exposure, exhibited only in Quaker settings (at local meetinghouses around the country or Quaker gatherings) and in selected public libraries. However, the “Friends in Stitches”, the group that meets to create the panels and carry on the work supporting other stitching groups around the country, would like to take the Project to the wider world, and begin offering the panels for exhibition to Australian galleries and cultural institutions.

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project will be on display in the Albert Hallway gallery space.

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug

Prickly Woman emerges as a creature not quite of this time and place. They are caught between the stereotypes of the mundanely domestic and the decadent. They are a societal construct built in the rift between historical expectations of femininity and the local, modern-day woman.

This work is an exploration into the larger narrative of the realities of women’s health in all its layers – physical, spiritual, financial, isolation, community connection, ageing, caring, responsibility.

Purcell’s lived experiences and research gathered during her Rosamond McCulloch Paris Studio Residency 2018 (UTAS) are woven into Prickly Woman. Laura Purcell interweaves sculpture, puppetry and performance to share stories of entrapment, transformation and release, on women and the non-human, in digital and environmental spaces. Sculpture comes from her desire to build architecture for the body which becomes an extension of the body. The sculpture; puppet, object or costume, can provide multiple narrative structures within her performance and exhibition work.

The sculpture is conceptually and aesthetically influenced by its surrounding environment. It is always intended to live in a performance and site of significance.

Prickly Woman is exhibited in MAC’s Avago window gallery, visible from Albert Road.

Image: Laura Purcell, Prickly Woman study – Map, 2019, digital illustration

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

In the exhibition “matter”, Sean O’Connell explores the various materials we use to create the worlds we live in.

Using high voltage spark discharges, Sean’s images reveal the individual qualities and internal structures of matter.

Rather than the usual light reflected off the surface of things we see with our eyes, spark discharges allow a glimpse within, to the internal nature of everyday materials.

Brick, carbon composite, celery top pine, silk, lead, meteoric ore. They all share a history and relationship with humans – through our use and manipulation of them, in craft and industry, forming the objects and buildings of our daily lives.

These images ask us to stop and take another look at the mundane matter that surrounds us – to see it, to feel it under our fingers – and to imagine and appreciate the unique and beautiful character of the materials we have bound into our daily lives.

CONVERSATIONS
Sat 17 Aug, 1pm

Join Sean O’Connell for Conversations. This is a free, casual event where you can meet artists currently exhibiting at MAC and hear more about the stories behind their work. This Conversation will also include a small demonstration of the sparking process where several people can bring small objects to be imaged!

Image: Sean O’Connell, Silk, Lead and Celery top pine, samples and spark discharges, 2019

Do you have an interest in learning the basics of drawing, painting and design or would you like to refresh or improve your understanding on the 7 ELEMENTS of ART?

Join Claire Sheppard for a series of 7 workshops covering the 7 elements of Art, specifically designed for those who want to learn the basics of drawing, painting and design, even if they believe they can’t.

Irrelevant of talent, technical skill, or ability, these workshops will give you the confidence and practical knowledge to confidently apply the 7 elements of Art to all your creative pursuits in a none judgemental and fun environment.

You will develop your very own unique individual mark making signature, gaining confidence and appreciation in visually expressing it whilst reaching your own creative goals.

Each workshop begins with a slide show of relevant artworks/artists that resonates strongly with the element being explored. This will give you a broader understanding of how each element CAN be translated into a visual expression of your own imagination and choosing. It will also give you endless inspiration and ideas.

Each 4hr workshop will be held on Saturday mornings (11am – 2:30pm) at a cost of $30 per workshop, or a one-off payment at a 10% discounted rate for $189 for all seven workshops.

(Enter the discount code ETGOE at the checkout if paying online) click on link below.

Book online>>

Or you can contact Claire directly to make a booking: ttowelgallery@bigpond.com or 0434998119

There are two series coming up: 23 Mar – 13 Jul and 27 Jul – 26 Oct

Workshop 1: LINE

Sat 23 Mar 2019 or Sat 27 Jul 2019

11am – 2:30pm

$30 (or $189 for 7 workshops)

In this first workshop folk will learn the most fundamental mark making element – LINE an element used in every other element of the art making process. These Workshops explore “line” and discover how it can be used in its most simple form and expanded upon to create complex drawings, compositions and sculpture

Workshop 2: SHAPE

4 May 2019 or 10 Aug 2019

11am – 2:30pm

$30 (or $189 for 7 workshops)

These workshops teach participants to distinguish & recognise shape in everything from the most basic to most complex objects or life forms. Learning this basic skill gives a foundation to build upon in transforming basic sketches into realistic art works. You will be surprised at how this skill inspires & gives confidence to tackle many varied projects and/or art mediums.

Workshop 3: SPACE

18 May 2019 or 24 Aug 2019

11am – 2:30pm

$30 (or $189 for 7 workshops)

In this workshop participants learn about understanding SPACE and the relationships things have with each other in order to create impressive compositions. It also delivers a great tool to express their ‘intention, to create ‘atmosphere’ and/or ‘impact’ in image making. Understanding Negative SPACE, positive SPACE, Distance, Perspective, and learning the many tips and tricks and techniques to give the ‘illusion of space’ or ‘statement’ adds boldness, confidence and strength in artworks.

Workshop 4: VALUE

1 Jun 2019 or 7 Sep 2019

11am – 2:30pm

$30 (or $189 for 7 workshops)

This workshop teaches how “VALUE” dramatically enhances or detracts in image making. It helps define form, create spatial and atmospheric illusions, textures, contrasts & many other effects in confident artwork. This workshop gives participants a clear understanding of this fundamental concept, and how to apply it. It gives a guaranteed sense of achievement in reaching any artistic goal whilst adding a real sense of confidence and value to any artwork.

Workshop 5: FORM

15 Jun 2019 or 28 Sep 2019

11am – 2:30pm

$30 (or $189 for 7 workshops)

Everything has FORM. In this workshop we explore a dynamic world of art making experiences, discovering a plethora of recyclable materials in order to understand the concept of FORM through sculpture. In addition, we learn the skill of creating 3 dimensional forms on 2 dimensional planes. We touch on analytical FORM, a skill describing the elements and principles of art working together, all giving us a greater understanding to both making art and art appreciation.

Workshop 6: TEXTURE

29 Jun 2019 or 12 Oct 2019

11am – 2:30pm

$30 (or $189 for 7 workshops)

This workshop discovers the joy of visually translating the ‘fascinating world of tactile textures’ and/or, adding an actual tangible quality into, or onto our art. Using mediums and clever techniques learnt in the elements of art thus far covered, we create an assortment of textured aesthetics from which we can draw upon to add to the mood, feel or look of our artistic objectives, resulting in a real ‘wow’ factor. Achieving a visual of a fragile transparent water droplet sitting on an opaque velvety succulent, is an incredibly satisfying skill to have.

Workshop 7: COLOUR

13 Jul 2019 or 26 Oct 2019

11am – 2:30pm

$30 (or $189 for 7 workshops)

COLOUR – Looking at the colour wheel we learn basic colour theory. We look at how light, shadow, reflections and other factors affect colour and why these factors need consideration when colour mixing. We delve a little into the meanings and perceptions of colour, and how colour can communicate various messages and moods in our work. Understanding this element will hone our observational skills and give greater confidence in realizing artistic ideas.

WHAT TO BRING:

Bring yourself, and whatever mark making materials you have. If you do not have any you can buy a starter pack from me for $25.

Starter Pack:

• Journal Studymate Premium Clear PP A4 Sketch Book
• 5 x Pencils = HB, 2B, 4B, 6B and 8B
• Staedtler Charcoal Sticks – 2 x Willow sticks, 2B hard, 4B medium and 6B soft.
• Faber-Castell PVC-free Eraser
• Faber-Castell Kneadable Eraser Grey
• Mont Marte Pastel & Charcoal Blenders x 1 large, 1 x small
• Fine liner 0.8mm x 1 and 1 x 1.5mm Artliner

Image: Collaborative student artwork

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

In the exhibition “matter”, Sean O’Connell explores the various materials we use to create the worlds we live in.

Using high voltage spark discharges, Sean’s images reveal the individual qualities and internal structures of matter.

Rather than the usual light reflected off the surface of things we see with our eyes, spark discharges allow a glimpse within, to the internal nature of everyday materials.

Brick, carbon composite, celery top pine, silk, lead, meteoric ore. They all share a history and relationship with humans – through our use and manipulation of them, in craft and industry, forming the objects and buildings of our daily lives.

These images ask us to stop and take another look at the mundane matter that surrounds us – to see it, to feel it under our fingers – and to imagine and appreciate the unique and beautiful character of the materials we have bound into our daily lives.

CONVERSATIONS
Sat 17 Aug, 1pm

Join Sean O’Connell for Conversations. This is a free, casual event where you can meet artists currently exhibiting at MAC and hear more about the stories behind their work. This Conversation will also include a small demonstration of the sparking process where several people can bring small objects to be imaged!

Image: Sean O’Connell, Silk, Lead and Celery top pine, samples and spark discharges, 2019

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project is a collection of embroidered panels designed to tell the story of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia, through stitch.

The project was inspired by the 77 elaborate and intricately designed British Quaker Tapestries (the Kendal Tapestries), the designs of which were in turn based on the famous Bayeux Tapestry.

Ideas for the Australian panels come from all over Australia, and depict local Quaker history beginning with the arrival in 1770 of the first Quaker, Sydney Parkinson, a botanical artist and a member of Captain Cook’s expedition. Currently there are 20 completed panels, with plans for a total of 70 to be created.

The Project began in 2007 and until recently, the panels have had limited public exposure, exhibited only in Quaker settings (at local meetinghouses around the country or Quaker gatherings) and in selected public libraries. However, the “Friends in Stitches”, the group that meets to create the panels and carry on the work supporting other stitching groups around the country, would like to take the Project to the wider world, and begin offering the panels for exhibition to Australian galleries and cultural institutions.

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project will be on display in the Albert Hallway gallery space.

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

Facilitating a quick build often overrides any consideration to aesthetics. Uninspiring commercial and residential projects are proliferating the constructed landscape.

Do those who inhabit these buildings and spaces long for a sense of comfort, warmth and character? Or does a sense of heavy, impenetrable walls and high-level security offer them greater comfort?

Christine Scott Vincent’s Bunkerville is a construction of printed paper shapes, derived from the precast construction industry and sourced from local building projects.

Bunkerville will be opened by Jennifer Marshall.

Image: Christine Scott Vincent, Bunkerville (detail), 2019, linocut. Photo: Christine Scott Vincent

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug

Prickly Woman emerges as a creature not quite of this time and place. They are caught between the stereotypes of the mundanely domestic and the decadent. They are a societal construct built in the rift between historical expectations of femininity and the local, modern-day woman.

This work is an exploration into the larger narrative of the realities of women’s health in all its layers – physical, spiritual, financial, isolation, community connection, ageing, caring, responsibility.

Purcell’s lived experiences and research gathered during her Rosamond McCulloch Paris Studio Residency 2018 (UTAS) are woven into Prickly Woman. Laura Purcell interweaves sculpture, puppetry and performance to share stories of entrapment, transformation and release, on women and the non-human, in digital and environmental spaces. Sculpture comes from her desire to build architecture for the body which becomes an extension of the body. The sculpture; puppet, object or costume, can provide multiple narrative structures within her performance and exhibition work.

The sculpture is conceptually and aesthetically influenced by its surrounding environment. It is always intended to live in a performance and site of significance.

Prickly Woman is exhibited in MAC’s Avago window gallery, visible from Albert Road.

Image: Laura Purcell, Prickly Woman study – Map, 2019, digital illustration

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project is a collection of embroidered panels designed to tell the story of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia, through stitch.

The project was inspired by the 77 elaborate and intricately designed British Quaker Tapestries (the Kendal Tapestries), the designs of which were in turn based on the famous Bayeux Tapestry.

Ideas for the Australian panels come from all over Australia, and depict local Quaker history beginning with the arrival in 1770 of the first Quaker, Sydney Parkinson, a botanical artist and a member of Captain Cook’s expedition. Currently there are 20 completed panels, with plans for a total of 70 to be created.

The Project began in 2007 and until recently, the panels have had limited public exposure, exhibited only in Quaker settings (at local meetinghouses around the country or Quaker gatherings) and in selected public libraries. However, the “Friends in Stitches”, the group that meets to create the panels and carry on the work supporting other stitching groups around the country, would like to take the Project to the wider world, and begin offering the panels for exhibition to Australian galleries and cultural institutions.

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project will be on display in the Albert Hallway gallery space.

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug

Prickly Woman emerges as a creature not quite of this time and place. They are caught between the stereotypes of the mundanely domestic and the decadent. They are a societal construct built in the rift between historical expectations of femininity and the local, modern-day woman.

This work is an exploration into the larger narrative of the realities of women’s health in all its layers – physical, spiritual, financial, isolation, community connection, ageing, caring, responsibility.

Purcell’s lived experiences and research gathered during her Rosamond McCulloch Paris Studio Residency 2018 (UTAS) are woven into Prickly Woman. Laura Purcell interweaves sculpture, puppetry and performance to share stories of entrapment, transformation and release, on women and the non-human, in digital and environmental spaces. Sculpture comes from her desire to build architecture for the body which becomes an extension of the body. The sculpture; puppet, object or costume, can provide multiple narrative structures within her performance and exhibition work.

The sculpture is conceptually and aesthetically influenced by its surrounding environment. It is always intended to live in a performance and site of significance.

Prickly Woman is exhibited in MAC’s Avago window gallery, visible from Albert Road.

Image: Laura Purcell, Prickly Woman study – Map, 2019, digital illustration

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

In the exhibition “matter”, Sean O’Connell explores the various materials we use to create the worlds we live in.

Using high voltage spark discharges, Sean’s images reveal the individual qualities and internal structures of matter.

Rather than the usual light reflected off the surface of things we see with our eyes, spark discharges allow a glimpse within, to the internal nature of everyday materials.

Brick, carbon composite, celery top pine, silk, lead, meteoric ore. They all share a history and relationship with humans – through our use and manipulation of them, in craft and industry, forming the objects and buildings of our daily lives.

These images ask us to stop and take another look at the mundane matter that surrounds us – to see it, to feel it under our fingers – and to imagine and appreciate the unique and beautiful character of the materials we have bound into our daily lives.

CONVERSATIONS
Sat 17 Aug, 1pm

Join Sean O’Connell for Conversations. This is a free, casual event where you can meet artists currently exhibiting at MAC and hear more about the stories behind their work. This Conversation will also include a small demonstration of the sparking process where several people can bring small objects to be imaged!

Image: Sean O’Connell, Silk, Lead and Celery top pine, samples and spark discharges, 2019

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

Facilitating a quick build often overrides any consideration to aesthetics. Uninspiring commercial and residential projects are proliferating the constructed landscape.

Do those who inhabit these buildings and spaces long for a sense of comfort, warmth and character? Or does a sense of heavy, impenetrable walls and high-level security offer them greater comfort?

Christine Scott Vincent’s Bunkerville is a construction of printed paper shapes, derived from the precast construction industry and sourced from local building projects.

Bunkerville will be opened by Jennifer Marshall.

Image: Christine Scott Vincent, Bunkerville (detail), 2019, linocut. Photo: Christine Scott Vincent

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

In the exhibition “matter”, Sean O’Connell explores the various materials we use to create the worlds we live in.

Using high voltage spark discharges, Sean’s images reveal the individual qualities and internal structures of matter.

Rather than the usual light reflected off the surface of things we see with our eyes, spark discharges allow a glimpse within, to the internal nature of everyday materials.

Brick, carbon composite, celery top pine, silk, lead, meteoric ore. They all share a history and relationship with humans – through our use and manipulation of them, in craft and industry, forming the objects and buildings of our daily lives.

These images ask us to stop and take another look at the mundane matter that surrounds us – to see it, to feel it under our fingers – and to imagine and appreciate the unique and beautiful character of the materials we have bound into our daily lives.

CONVERSATIONS
Sat 17 Aug, 1pm

Join Sean O’Connell for Conversations. This is a free, casual event where you can meet artists currently exhibiting at MAC and hear more about the stories behind their work. This Conversation will also include a small demonstration of the sparking process where several people can bring small objects to be imaged!

Image: Sean O’Connell, Silk, Lead and Celery top pine, samples and spark discharges, 2019

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project is a collection of embroidered panels designed to tell the story of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia, through stitch.

The project was inspired by the 77 elaborate and intricately designed British Quaker Tapestries (the Kendal Tapestries), the designs of which were in turn based on the famous Bayeux Tapestry.

Ideas for the Australian panels come from all over Australia, and depict local Quaker history beginning with the arrival in 1770 of the first Quaker, Sydney Parkinson, a botanical artist and a member of Captain Cook’s expedition. Currently there are 20 completed panels, with plans for a total of 70 to be created.

The Project began in 2007 and until recently, the panels have had limited public exposure, exhibited only in Quaker settings (at local meetinghouses around the country or Quaker gatherings) and in selected public libraries. However, the “Friends in Stitches”, the group that meets to create the panels and carry on the work supporting other stitching groups around the country, would like to take the Project to the wider world, and begin offering the panels for exhibition to Australian galleries and cultural institutions.

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project will be on display in the Albert Hallway gallery space.

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

Facilitating a quick build often overrides any consideration to aesthetics. Uninspiring commercial and residential projects are proliferating the constructed landscape.

Do those who inhabit these buildings and spaces long for a sense of comfort, warmth and character? Or does a sense of heavy, impenetrable walls and high-level security offer them greater comfort?

Christine Scott Vincent’s Bunkerville is a construction of printed paper shapes, derived from the precast construction industry and sourced from local building projects.

Bunkerville will be opened by Jennifer Marshall.

Image: Christine Scott Vincent, Bunkerville (detail), 2019, linocut. Photo: Christine Scott Vincent

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug

Prickly Woman emerges as a creature not quite of this time and place. They are caught between the stereotypes of the mundanely domestic and the decadent. They are a societal construct built in the rift between historical expectations of femininity and the local, modern-day woman.

This work is an exploration into the larger narrative of the realities of women’s health in all its layers – physical, spiritual, financial, isolation, community connection, ageing, caring, responsibility.

Purcell’s lived experiences and research gathered during her Rosamond McCulloch Paris Studio Residency 2018 (UTAS) are woven into Prickly Woman. Laura Purcell interweaves sculpture, puppetry and performance to share stories of entrapment, transformation and release, on women and the non-human, in digital and environmental spaces. Sculpture comes from her desire to build architecture for the body which becomes an extension of the body. The sculpture; puppet, object or costume, can provide multiple narrative structures within her performance and exhibition work.

The sculpture is conceptually and aesthetically influenced by its surrounding environment. It is always intended to live in a performance and site of significance.

Prickly Woman is exhibited in MAC’s Avago window gallery, visible from Albert Road.

Image: Laura Purcell, Prickly Woman study – Map, 2019, digital illustration

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

Facilitating a quick build often overrides any consideration to aesthetics. Uninspiring commercial and residential projects are proliferating the constructed landscape.

Do those who inhabit these buildings and spaces long for a sense of comfort, warmth and character? Or does a sense of heavy, impenetrable walls and high-level security offer them greater comfort?

Christine Scott Vincent’s Bunkerville is a construction of printed paper shapes, derived from the precast construction industry and sourced from local building projects.

Bunkerville will be opened by Jennifer Marshall.

Image: Christine Scott Vincent, Bunkerville (detail), 2019, linocut. Photo: Christine Scott Vincent

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project is a collection of embroidered panels designed to tell the story of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia, through stitch.

The project was inspired by the 77 elaborate and intricately designed British Quaker Tapestries (the Kendal Tapestries), the designs of which were in turn based on the famous Bayeux Tapestry.

Ideas for the Australian panels come from all over Australia, and depict local Quaker history beginning with the arrival in 1770 of the first Quaker, Sydney Parkinson, a botanical artist and a member of Captain Cook’s expedition. Currently there are 20 completed panels, with plans for a total of 70 to be created.

The Project began in 2007 and until recently, the panels have had limited public exposure, exhibited only in Quaker settings (at local meetinghouses around the country or Quaker gatherings) and in selected public libraries. However, the “Friends in Stitches”, the group that meets to create the panels and carry on the work supporting other stitching groups around the country, would like to take the Project to the wider world, and begin offering the panels for exhibition to Australian galleries and cultural institutions.

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project will be on display in the Albert Hallway gallery space.

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

In the exhibition “matter”, Sean O’Connell explores the various materials we use to create the worlds we live in.

Using high voltage spark discharges, Sean’s images reveal the individual qualities and internal structures of matter.

Rather than the usual light reflected off the surface of things we see with our eyes, spark discharges allow a glimpse within, to the internal nature of everyday materials.

Brick, carbon composite, celery top pine, silk, lead, meteoric ore. They all share a history and relationship with humans – through our use and manipulation of them, in craft and industry, forming the objects and buildings of our daily lives.

These images ask us to stop and take another look at the mundane matter that surrounds us – to see it, to feel it under our fingers – and to imagine and appreciate the unique and beautiful character of the materials we have bound into our daily lives.

CONVERSATIONS
Sat 17 Aug, 1pm

Join Sean O’Connell for Conversations. This is a free, casual event where you can meet artists currently exhibiting at MAC and hear more about the stories behind their work. This Conversation will also include a small demonstration of the sparking process where several people can bring small objects to be imaged!

Image: Sean O’Connell, Silk, Lead and Celery top pine, samples and spark discharges, 2019

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug

Prickly Woman emerges as a creature not quite of this time and place. They are caught between the stereotypes of the mundanely domestic and the decadent. They are a societal construct built in the rift between historical expectations of femininity and the local, modern-day woman.

This work is an exploration into the larger narrative of the realities of women’s health in all its layers – physical, spiritual, financial, isolation, community connection, ageing, caring, responsibility.

Purcell’s lived experiences and research gathered during her Rosamond McCulloch Paris Studio Residency 2018 (UTAS) are woven into Prickly Woman. Laura Purcell interweaves sculpture, puppetry and performance to share stories of entrapment, transformation and release, on women and the non-human, in digital and environmental spaces. Sculpture comes from her desire to build architecture for the body which becomes an extension of the body. The sculpture; puppet, object or costume, can provide multiple narrative structures within her performance and exhibition work.

The sculpture is conceptually and aesthetically influenced by its surrounding environment. It is always intended to live in a performance and site of significance.

Prickly Woman is exhibited in MAC’s Avago window gallery, visible from Albert Road.

Image: Laura Purcell, Prickly Woman study – Map, 2019, digital illustration

FRI 16 AUG, 6PM

Beautiful and unpredictable – an evening of improvisation.

PHILOMATH
The surging vocals and tribal rhythms of Philomath in a uniquely dark and playful set of improvised and experimental music. They feed off the crowd and their environment to reach a climactic musical harmony.

DANI KIRBY AND MAT WARD
Dani Kirby and Mat Ward bring you an improvised post-classical duet featuring piano, bass guitar and extraordinary vocals from Dani.

Show start at 6pm, doors and bar open from 5:30pm
$10 on the door / kids under 12 free

Visit the full Friday Nights Live program>>

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project is a collection of embroidered panels designed to tell the story of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia, through stitch.

The project was inspired by the 77 elaborate and intricately designed British Quaker Tapestries (the Kendal Tapestries), the designs of which were in turn based on the famous Bayeux Tapestry.

Ideas for the Australian panels come from all over Australia, and depict local Quaker history beginning with the arrival in 1770 of the first Quaker, Sydney Parkinson, a botanical artist and a member of Captain Cook’s expedition. Currently there are 20 completed panels, with plans for a total of 70 to be created.

The Project began in 2007 and until recently, the panels have had limited public exposure, exhibited only in Quaker settings (at local meetinghouses around the country or Quaker gatherings) and in selected public libraries. However, the “Friends in Stitches”, the group that meets to create the panels and carry on the work supporting other stitching groups around the country, would like to take the Project to the wider world, and begin offering the panels for exhibition to Australian galleries and cultural institutions.

The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project will be on display in the Albert Hallway gallery space.

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

In the exhibition “matter”, Sean O’Connell explores the various materials we use to create the worlds we live in.

Using high voltage spark discharges, Sean’s images reveal the individual qualities and internal structures of matter.

Rather than the usual light reflected off the surface of things we see with our eyes, spark discharges allow a glimpse within, to the internal nature of everyday materials.

Brick, carbon composite, celery top pine, silk, lead, meteoric ore. They all share a history and relationship with humans – through our use and manipulation of them, in craft and industry, forming the objects and buildings of our daily lives.

These images ask us to stop and take another look at the mundane matter that surrounds us – to see it, to feel it under our fingers – and to imagine and appreciate the unique and beautiful character of the materials we have bound into our daily lives.

CONVERSATIONS
Sat 17 Aug, 1pm

Join Sean O’Connell for Conversations. This is a free, casual event where you can meet artists currently exhibiting at MAC and hear more about the stories behind their work. This Conversation will also include a small demonstration of the sparking process where several people can bring small objects to be imaged!

Image: Sean O’Connell, Silk, Lead and Celery top pine, samples and spark discharges, 2019

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug

Prickly Woman emerges as a creature not quite of this time and place. They are caught between the stereotypes of the mundanely domestic and the decadent. They are a societal construct built in the rift between historical expectations of femininity and the local, modern-day woman.

This work is an exploration into the larger narrative of the realities of women’s health in all its layers – physical, spiritual, financial, isolation, community connection, ageing, caring, responsibility.

Purcell’s lived experiences and research gathered during her Rosamond McCulloch Paris Studio Residency 2018 (UTAS) are woven into Prickly Woman. Laura Purcell interweaves sculpture, puppetry and performance to share stories of entrapment, transformation and release, on women and the non-human, in digital and environmental spaces. Sculpture comes from her desire to build architecture for the body which becomes an extension of the body. The sculpture; puppet, object or costume, can provide multiple narrative structures within her performance and exhibition work.

The sculpture is conceptually and aesthetically influenced by its surrounding environment. It is always intended to live in a performance and site of significance.

Prickly Woman is exhibited in MAC’s Avago window gallery, visible from Albert Road.

Image: Laura Purcell, Prickly Woman study – Map, 2019, digital illustration

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

Facilitating a quick build often overrides any consideration to aesthetics. Uninspiring commercial and residential projects are proliferating the constructed landscape.

Do those who inhabit these buildings and spaces long for a sense of comfort, warmth and character? Or does a sense of heavy, impenetrable walls and high-level security offer them greater comfort?

Christine Scott Vincent’s Bunkerville is a construction of printed paper shapes, derived from the precast construction industry and sourced from local building projects.

Bunkerville will be opened by Jennifer Marshall.

Image: Christine Scott Vincent, Bunkerville (detail), 2019, linocut. Photo: Christine Scott Vincent

Opening Thurs 1 Aug, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 2 Aug – Sat 24 Aug

Prickly Woman emerges as a creature not quite of this time and place. They are caught between the stereotypes of the mundanely domestic and the decadent. They are a societal construct built in the rift between historical expectations of femininity and the local, modern-day woman.

This work is an exploration into the larger narrative of the realities of women’s health in all its layers – physical, spiritual, financial, isolation, community connection, ageing, caring, responsibility.

Purcell’s lived experiences and research gathered during her Rosamond McCulloch Paris Studio Residency 2018 (UTAS) are woven into Prickly Woman. Laura Purcell interweaves sculpture, puppetry and performance to share stories of entrapment, transformation and release, on women and the non-human, in digital and environmental spaces. Sculpture comes from her desire to build architecture for the body which becomes an extension of the body. The sculpture; puppet, object or costume, can provide multiple narrative structures within her performance and exhibition work.

The sculpture is conceptually and aesthetically influenced by its surrounding environment. It is always intended to live in a performance and site of significance.

Prickly Woman is exhibited in MAC’s Avago window gallery, visible from Albert Road.

Image: Laura Purcell, Prickly Woman study – Map, 2019, digital illustration