Art News

there’s an excellent program of events accompanying the new exhibition just opened at the Post Office Gallery, Mapping Great Change: the landscape of central Victoria. You might need to book, however, as some of those events, such as the visit to artist John Wolseley’s studio in the Wh..

A WORN teacup and a shiny silver cruet set are part of a small exhibition commemorating the life of Henry Backhaus. These items, and various written documents, are on show in the entry foyer of the Bendigo Visitor Information Centre foyer, along with a timeline of the first Catholic priest o..

FASHIONISTAS, farmers and fans of all things woolly will make fashion history at the 2012 Australian Sheep and Wool Show in Bendigo on July 20 to 22. A record number of visitors are expected to join the seven Women of Wool, selected to share their love of the fibre, at the Sheep Show’s..

When he pitched the idea for a projection artwork to celebrate 150 years of Bendigo Rail, Paul Fletcher didn’t factor in how hard it would be to whitewash huge arched windows. The Lockwood artist last night launched The Railways Time Machine. It is a continuous-loop video projecte..

Lights, camera, action – the call is out for young up and coming animation and film makers to enter the 2012 City of Greater Bendigo Mic Up Productions Clips and Flicks Short Film Festival. City of Greater Bendigo Youth Participation Officer Rory White said all young film makers and an..

If cute n’ kooky is your thing, you’ll love Forest Flaw, an art exhibition with a difference, from a truly unique mind. Bendigo artist Robyn Helbard’s hand-stitched creatures from the “other forest’, a place which until now has lurked..

Designer, academic and publisher Geoff Hocking is a most enterprising man, but even he was a little surprised to land the commission for The Australian Children’s Mass Book. “I haven’t got the emotional baggage some might have in relation to the church,” the non-Catholic de..

Karen Ward's show at the La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre includes a painting with a title that quotes Charles Baudelaire: "the city changes faster than the human heart". This beautiful but disturbing idea tells us something about the power of art, and its goal, to hold a moment, to ca..

Bendigo film buffs can get a taste of the cream of the celluloid crop when the 2011 St Kilda Film Festival Tour rolls into town next week. The festival, which annually showcases the best of Australia’s short films, will bring a selection of prize winning films and crowd pleasers from t..

If you're a young creative, Flare Magazine wants you on board. The mag’s brand spanking new website (www.flareflareflare.com) is up and running, and the eagerly awaited third edition is set for release in October. All that’s needed now is your involvement. To coincide wit..

The Bendigo Art Gallery's spectacular blockbuster, due to open on August 1, will reveal that commerce as much as culture is behind the white wedding dress. The White Wedding Dress will premiere a showing of gowns and wedding paraphernalia dating back 200 years, which are from the collection..

Sometimes it’s fun to stumble upon art unexpectedly, with no expectations. Actually, it’s the best way. I was at Latrobe VAC attending a talk about something else when a screen caught my eye, en route to the buffet. Instead of yacking to others who were also there to listen to a..

He wants you to think about your aesthetic. Why do you like that colour rather than this one? That painting, more than this? Is it because of what you learned as a child, or have you developed predilections of your own? Wearing a jaunty bowler hat over a frizz of long grey hair, the Castlemaine ar..

A talented pre-teen has taken out Bendigo’s most prestigious prizes for young artists. 12-year-old James Earl won an award in the performing arts section of the Bendigo Raw Arts Awards, for his recording of one of his piano compositions, Five on a Treasure Island. And the youngster was st..

Judging from the packed house and level of energy at Dudley House last Friday night, this year’s Raw Arts Awards were a hit. As I walked in little men were running around in suits all dressed up for the occasion; photographers snapped away furiously, posing young artists in front of their wo..

Scholarships to encourage young people in the arts have been announced by the City of Greater Bendigo. The Raw Arts Awards, which began in 1997, provide scholarships for under-25s to help them continue their education and training in the arts. Cash awards of $1000 and $250 in four categories we..

By Rosemary Sorensen When a potter’s work becomes almost instantly recognisable, you know there is something out of the ordinary. Phil Elson’s glazed bowls are just so: you see one and you know it is the work of this Castlemaine artist. His shapes are delicate yet functional,..

Beginning in Bendigo - at the Post Office Gallery, a satellite space of the Bendigo Art Gallery, in the Information Centre, Pall Mall, Until August 14 As a small and stylish foray into Bendigo’s commercial history, Beginning in Bendigo is provocatively more-ish. We are enticed in..

An opportunity to visit a huge archive of American photography led to the landmark exhibition about to open in Bendigo Two weeks spent in one of the most important photography archives in the world was a dream come true for Bendigo Art Gallery curator Tansy Curtin. “To be given the chan..

Rosemary Sorensen There is a fair amount of apocalyptic envisioning represented in the 36 works hung for this year's Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize. But not as much as you might expect, even if this work was painted in the year preceding major and unprecedented floods and earthquakes. There..