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NAVA launches New Code of Practice for Visual Arts, Craft and Design
NAVA launches New Code of Practice for Visual Arts, Craft and Design
visualarts.net.au
NAVA leads advocacy, policy and action for an Australian contemporary arts sector that's ambitious and fair.🙌🏻
The Heartbreak High reboot is a global hit. It also sends Australia a message
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Heartbreak High was the most watched television show on Netflix in Australia by Thursday, and made the top ten list for the streaming giant’s service in 45 other count...This is a terrible article!
Knitting is far more exciting than you could realise!Mind blown! 😮 Faith Humphrey Hill, US artist and knitter who creates knitted paintings. You can get more detail from her explainer video loom.ly/V8xz2Kw ❤️
Amazing. Xox X TC
Zakiah Khairani 😲
Samuel Leishman
So true
But, the one I admire, most of all, is the determined battler, still at the bottom, with the whole task still ahead.
Fury over Opera Australia’s new season as Melbourne gets the ‘dregs’
Fury over Opera Australia’s new season as Melbourne gets the ‘dregs’
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With no staged operas set for 2023, Melbourne audiences can’t help feeling that the government-funded national opera company is playing favourites.What? That’s horrifying! I had no idea. I bet they still charge a bomb for tickets.
Holy shit, I would never have guessed.
It’s a very high standard pro-am company. As far as I know the chorus is not paid either and probably others but it’s no different from any unfunded amateur company which is still what this is though their standards are high and repertoire increasingly brave. What amazes me is that people still don’t realise that most performing arts groups are not fully paid because it takes a while to get established. Arguably the transition to full pay for everyone in the 90s is what sank the VSO in 1996 but until funding matches a company’s needs that won’t change. Imagine if 10% of the funds poured into sport went to the arts. Imagine too that tomorrow governments at all levels stopped subsidising sport? How long would they continue with high profits?
musicians & singers have to put up with this rubbish all the time the only professionals who do
“Cross-Pollination and 'Making Now': What You Can Expect at These Four Stand-Out Sydney Design Week Events
Sydney's annual week-long design festival is back this September with a bumper lineup”:
“MAKING THEATRE with Dr Susanne Thurow
UNSW is taking the idea of interactive design to the next level with its 360° three-dimensional cinema AVIE in Kensington. The main draw card? It allows users (like Sydney Theatre Company) to visualise sets at a completely immersive, cinematic scale. And Making Theatre is the Sydney Design Week session that gives you a look inside.”
“MAKING PAPER PLANES CHAIRS with Sarah Langley
Calling all design enthusiasts (though, that's probably why you're here)! Making Paper Planes Chairs is the hands-on workshop giving you the opportunity to put your skills to the test. Presented by Mobilia, in collaboration with famed furniture company Moroso and textile design studio Kvadrat Maharam, the 90-minute experience will have attendees creating their own mini iteration of Moroso's gravity-defying 'Paper Planes' armchair maquette.”
“MADE IN WESTERN SYDNEY with Dr Katrina Sandbach
Inspired by designer and academic Dr Katrina Sandbach's project Creative West — an initiative that maps creative practice and cultural production in Western Sydney — Made in Western Sydney presents a conversation with ground-breaking designers from a span of fields. With perspectives offered from photography, video, new media, urban art and fashion design, and a considered focus on different backgrounds and cultures, this event has made a mission of celebrating collaboration and the varied influences that go into artistic works.”
“DESIGNER MAKERS with Elliat Rich
Designer Makers, the session hosted by interiors, architecture and design journalist Karen McCartney, invites a panel of creative experts to touch upon the evolution of design (which has been incredible). Alice Springs-based product, furniture and exhibition designer Elliat Rich is one such expert. "It's an interesting time to be a designer", she comments. "The increased interest in process and some dissolving of the modernist aesthetic means that experimentation — and risk — has an accepted value."”
Sydney Design Week Is on Now (and Here's the Intel on Four Events You Should Get to, Stat)
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Sydney's annual week-long design festival is back this September with a bumper lineup — and we've found out more about four stand-out sessions.🎹This is your Brain on Piano.
1. This is why learning music helps every child by helping their brain develop. 2. Every school child in Australia should have trained and experienced musicians teaching them. This should be available at every school in the nation, one of the world’s richest nations.
Wonderful talent
Oh arnt we wonderful..? One to four hours a day practise and oh so middle class…. Lessons at $50 half an hour …, A piano is a big investment …. And one needs the support to do it, home, food, family…. Some have to stick to cheap guitars or 2B and drawing paper
Nicola Haselgrove
Zoe Boe
Steve Sedergreen
John Buikhuisen
John Maginnis
The self-taught artist who took out a major portrait prize. Again.
The self-taught artist who took out a major portrait prize. Again.
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Lynn Savery has won Australia’s premier prize for female portraitists, four years after winning the $150,000 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize.
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Art fair sales point to young artists on the rise
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Sydney Contemporary saw sales aplenty, from six-figure sums for rising contemporary stars to sellouts for art school students making waves.Creative potential in future inventions can be exciting!
Chinese Scientists Show Off Laser That Can Write Words in Mid-Air
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Scientists at Hongtuo Joint Laboratory in Wuhan, China, have invented a somewhat mysterious laser pen that lets users write in mid-air.