july 2013 - uwa cultural precinct · 2013. 5. 27. · trethowan. all were active members of perth...

July 2013

cultural precinct

WINTERarts showcases the contribution the arts make to the life of The University of Western Australia, which is this year celebrating its centenary. We welcome the community, prospective students and alumni onto the Crawley and Claremont campuses to share in a wide range of cultural activities, including exhibitions, workshops, talks, concerts and literary events – many of which are free.

Set over the month of July when students are on semester break and access to the beautiful campuses is easy, we invite you to come and soak up the activities on offer.

Ted SnellDirector, Cultural Precinct

ExhibitionsORIENTing: Ian Fairweather in Western Australian Collections & With or Without You ..................................... 03Towards Perth: Western Australian Women Artists Before 1950 ...................................................................... 05Little Paintings, Big Stories: Gossip Songs of Western Arnhem Land .................................................................... 08

Exhibition Public ProgramsChinese Calligraphy Workshop ......................................... 04Curator talk with Melissa Harpley ...................................... 06Storytelling Across Cultures .............................................. 09

PerformancesGuitar in the Gallery .......................................................... 10The Merry-Go-Round In The Sea ...................................... 14

Special EventGuild Centenary Gala .........................................................11

Author TalksAn Evening With Stephen Scourfield ................................. 12Hugh Mackay – The Good Life .......................................... 20

Workshops/SeminarsSymbioticA Friday Seminars ............................................. 15Writing Fiction – Getting Started: A workshop with Amanda Curtin ...................................... 16‘The Glint of Light on Broken Glass’: Short Story Writing with Susan Midalia ............................. 18Drawing for non-drawers .................................................. 22Successful landscape photography .................................. 23Portraits – Memories forever ............................................. 24Silver jewellery made simply .............................................. 25

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ORIENTingoRIEnTing is an exhibition in two parts, each exploring a different aspect of artistic engagement with Asia.

Ian Fairweather in Western Australian Collections This exhibition gathers together for the first time a series of significant early works by Ian Fairweather, focusing on the influence of Asian art and culture on the artist’s practice. A major artist of the twentieth century, Fairweather was Scottish born, though spent periods of his life in China, Bali, The Philippines, India and Australia. He was particularly fascinated by Chinese culture and this is reflected in the subject matter and style of his works, which indicate a strong fascination with calligraphy. The exhibition focuses on Fairweather’s early paintings from the 1930s and 1940s, which recall his experiences of travel.

With or Without You using Fairweather as a springboard, curator Aaron Seeto explores contemporary art by Australian artists which touches on similar themes, considering the significance of place, identity and landscape in a variety of art forms. Artists include newell Harry, Tom nicholson, Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Roy Wiggan, Tintin Wulia, and John Young. While some artists respond directly to Ian Fairweather’s paintings, others reflect on the broader themes of cross-cultural engagement and interaction.

Lawrence Wilson Art GalleryThe university of Western Australia35 Stirling Highway, Cnr Fairway, Crawley

4 May - 13 July Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm | Free

www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au Tel: 6488 3707 Email: [email protected]

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Chinese Calligraphy Workshop with the Confucius InstituteIn this workshop you will be guided in the ancient art of Chinese calligraphy, described as a perfect marriage of art and meditation. Learn basics such as posture, brush holding and layout, and explore different styles of calligraphy including the individual styles of several famous calligraphers. This event is presented by the Confucius Institute at uWA, as part of a campus partnership with the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery for the ORIENTing exhibition.


Friday 12 July, 1pm | Free

Places are limited. www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au Tel: 6488 3707 Email: [email protected]

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Towards Perth: Western Australian women artists before 1950Drawn from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art and the university of Western Australia Art Collection, Towards Perth includes works by Portia Bennett, Elise Blumann, Audrey Greenhalgh, Jean Appleton, Elizabeth Blair Barber and Edith Trethowan. All were active members of Perth artist societies and produced landscapes, seascapes and depictions of Perth that were informed by their exposure to modernist ideas.


4 May - 13 July Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm | Free


ExhibiTion

porTia BenneTT, Hotel adelpHi, perTh, 1948, WaTercolour and pencil on

paper, 54 x 52cm

GIFT oF THE VISuAL ARTS BoARD oF THE AuSTRALIA CounCIL, 1986. © CouRTESY oF THE ARTIST’S ESTATE


Curator talk with Melissa HarpleyJoin Melissa Harpley, Curator of Historical Painting, Sculpture & Design, Art Gallery of Western Australia, for an in-depth look at the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art exhibition Towards Perth: Western Australian women artists before 1950. Learn about the exceptional group of women artists working in Western Australia in the first half of the twentieth century, and view a selection of their remarkable and rarely seen works.

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Friday 5 July 1pm | Free


audrey greenhalgh, MorNiNg sHadows, 1947, oil on canvas, 31.3 x 40.5cm

© CouRTESY oF THE ARTIST’S ESTATE

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elise Blumann, suMMer Nude, 1939, oil on Board, 121.5 x 91.5cm

© CouRTESY oF THE ARTIST’S ESTATE


Little Paintings, Big Stories: Gossip Songs of Western Arnhem LandThe exhibition explores the interrelationship between people, country and stories of Goulburn Island, northern Territory, as they were in the past and as they are now, focusing on the Maung language and specifically the existing relationship between the Berndt Museum and the Lamilami family. Bark paintings, photographs, sound recordings both historical and contemporary convey the richness of djurrbilk or gossip songs.

The diverse subject matter of these songs is thoroughly intriguing and, as Ronald Lamilami explained, ‘the barks represent a kind of Punch and Judy-style of entertainment’. The barks may appear to some as naïve and perhaps simple in their appearance, but their significance is deceiving: their role was as props in telling djurrbilk. The djurrbilk stories use human characters in the guise of animals. The stories are sometimes based on actual events that have happened in the community, but the use of animals obscures the original characters and their actions, protecting identity and saving embarrassment. The djurrbilk stories are amusing, the songs through which these stories are told are amazing. Aboriginal music will never be quite the same!


29 June - 14 December Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm | Free


ExhibiTion


Storytelling Across CulturesStorytelling takes on many different forms and is a universal activity throughout different cultures. Come and explore various kinds of storytelling with an afternoon of talks, performances and activities hosted by the Berndt Museum in association with their current exhibition Little Paintings, Big Stories: Gossip Songs of Western Arnhem Land.

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Saturday 6 July, 1pm | Free


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BeloW: george WinnunuJ playing didgeridoo and John gWadBu singing

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Guitar in the GalleryThe Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery will open late for a special evening viewing of its current exhibitions, with drinks and an intimate live performance by Western Australian guitarist Christine Yeong. Yeong brings her passionate, energetic and unique style of classical guitar playing to the gallery with an exciting program featuring Spanish, Latin American, English and Australian compositions, as well as her own arrangements.

This event is co-presented by the uWA School of Music and the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.


Thursday 4 July, 6pm | Free

Tel: 6488 7836 Email: [email protected]

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chrisTine yeong


Guild Centenary GalaA night to reminisce, catch up with old friends, make new ones, and share stories from the last one hundred years of the uWA Student Guild. Hosted by the 100th Guild President, Cameron Barnes, the evening will feature special guest speakers, as the Guild unveils and launches its Guild’s Centenary Publication. It will be a night to remember.

Hackett HallThe university of Western Australia35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley

Friday 12 July, 7.30pm | $90 + booking fee Limited numbers, discount for group bookings, partners welcome

Bookings: www.trybooking.com/CKIM

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An Evening With Stephen ScourfieldLet author Stephen Scourfield lead you on a literary and culinary journey that interprets the very nature of travel. Taking cues from his 2010 collection of essays and short stories, Connected, Stephen will bring together stories from around the world and with each story will come a dish with cultural significance to the tale.

From the Kimberley to India, from an English country town to the southern African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, there are connections which run around the planet and through Stephen’s life. Some tales are quirky and humorous, some intensely personal, but all are tales not just of a traveller but follow the themes that form the basis of belief.

The university Club of Western Australia35 Stirling Highway, off Hackett Drive, Crawley

Wednesday 10 July 7pm – Late | $99. Price includes a drink on arrival and four-course dinner with selected wines.

www.universityclub.uwa.edu.au Tel: 6488 8770

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The Merry-Go-Round In The Sea GRADS (The Graduate Dramatic Society) celebrates the university of Western Australia’s centenary in 2013 with a season of works commemorating the achievements of prominent alumni. The season continues in July with the stage production of the classic Australian story The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea, by Randolph Stow.

Directed by Amanda Crewes and adapted by Dickon oxenburgh and Andrew Ross from Stow’s classic novel, The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea captures the restless spirit of post-war Australia.

Dolphin Theatre The university of Western Australia35 Stirling Highway, Crawley

19 July - 3 August | $35 full and $25 concession, $25 groups of 8 or more, $20 in school groups

www.ticketswa.comTel: 8488 7407 www.grads.org.au

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SEminARS

SymbioticA Friday SeminarsSymbioticA Friday Seminars are eclectic and open forums. In July they feature interstate guest speakers from the Australian Dance Theatre in Adelaide and four WA based artists who will discuss their new works in the semipermeable (+) exhibition at the PowerHouse Museum, Sydney, produced in conjunction with SymbioticA for the International Symposium on Electronic Art 2013.ÌÌ 5 July: Julianne Pearce and Garry StewartÌÌ 12 July: oron Catts and Ionat ZurrÌÌ 19 July: nigel Helyer and Cat HopeÌÌ 26 July: Sam Fox

SymbioticA Room 228 Anatomy Physiology and Human Biology The university of Western Australia35 Stirling Highway, Crawley

Friday 5, 12, 19 and 26 July 3pm - 4.30pm | Free

www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/seminars Email: [email protected]


Writing Fiction – Getting Started: A workshop with Amanda Curtin

This workshop will get you thinking like a writer, introduce the main elements of writing fiction, and start you off on some exercises designed to focus your attention on craft and inspire your imagination. Amanda Curtin, PhD, AE, author and editor, is the author of novels Elemental and The Sinkings and short story collection Inherited (uWA Publishing).

Dr Harold Schenberg Study Centre, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The university of Western Australia35 Stirling Highway, Cnr Fairway, Crawley

Tuesday 2 July 1pm - 4pm 3 hours, with interval | $30.00


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in conjunction with uwa publishing


amanda curTin


‘The Glint of Light on Broken Glass’: Short Story Writing with Susan MidaliaWriting short stories involves combining brevity and resonance, economy and suggestiveness. Author Susan Midalia’s workshop will teach you how to use language and the conventions of fiction – point of view, characterisation, setting and structure – to subtly express ideas and emotions. Just bring writing implements, enthusiasm and a love of words.

Susan Midalia is a former academic who now works full-time as a fiction writer. A History of the Beanbag was shortlisted for the Western Australian Premiers Literary Award in 2008, and An Unknown Sky was published recently to critical acclaim.

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Dr Harold Schenberg Study Centre, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The university of Western Australia35 Stirling Highway, Cnr Fairway, Crawley

Wednesday 10 July 2pm - 5pm3 hours, with interval | $30.


in conjunction with uwa publishing


Hugh Mackay – The Good LifeThe good life: what makes a life worth living?

You hear that insistent message, echoing through the philosophical traditions of East and West: treat other people the way you’d like to be treated. A good life is not measured by security, wealth, status, achievement or levels of happiness. A good life is determined by our capacity for selflessness and our willingness to connect with those around us in a meaningful and useful way.

Hugh looks at the numerous ways we get distracted from this central purpose. He examines the utopian complex, which describes our dangerous desire for perfection, and the false expectation that life will unfold according to our carefully laid plans.

As with Hugh’s previous works of non-fiction, The Good Life is a book that will start conversations, ignite arguments and possibly change the way we live our lives.

The university Club of Western Australia35 Stirling Highway, off Hackett Drive, Crawley

Wednesday July 10 7pm - 8.30pm | $25 (includes a glass of wine on arrival, 6pm - 6.45pm)

www.extension.uwa.edu.au/course/CEVC002 Tel: 6488 2433

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Drawing for non-drawersovercome the fear of putting your mark on paper by learning some basic drawing techniques in a fun and relaxed environment. This includes learning how to see through an artist’s eyes so that you can put these new skills into practice. Discover how to draw creatively even if you think you can’t.

This is a structured workshop that provides both information and exercises to get you working creatively even if you think you can’t. You will learn visual and practical skills that will help you to draw. Karen Frankel encourages and facilitates learning in a friendly, safe atmosphere with like-minded people. The emphasis is on enjoying the pleasure of the drawing process, which then results in a pleasing drawing.

uWA Claremont Cnr Princess Road and Goldsworthy Road, Claremont

Wednesday 3 July 10am – 4pm | $159, all materials included

www.extension.uwa.edu.au/course/CCnD003 Tel: 6488 2433

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Successful landscape photographyThis informative and inspirational course will cover tips for shooting the iconic landscape subjects; seeing and composing the landscape; equipment and field techniques and finishing of the images. nick Melidonis is a triple AIPP Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year.


Saturday 20 July 9.30am to 4pm, Sunday 21 July 12.30pm to 4.30pm and Tuesday 23 July 6.30pm to 9.30pm | $225

www.extension.uwa.edu.au/course/CCnP007 Tel: 6488 2433

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Commemorate the UWa Centenary

Lawrence wiLson art GaLLery has commissioned two stunningly unique products to coincide with 100 years of this University

Jan Zeck pewter brooch in a relief pattern. retail $35

Claire Townsend 3D brooch in sterling silver and titanium. retail $140

www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/shop

Commemorative brooches

commemorate the uwa centenary


Portraits – Memories foreverJoin Dale neill for a fun and practical course for digital photographers to enhance your portrait skills. Learn how to capture your family, children, pets and loved ones using available light and natural poses. Tips are provided for digital enhancement, plus how to best archive your digital images and preserve them for future generations.


Saturday 6 July 9.30am to 4.30pm, Sunday 7 July 1pm to 5pm and Thursday 11 July 6pm to 9pm | $225

www.extension.uwa.edu.au/course/CCnP014 Tel: 6488 2433

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Silver jewellery made simply A one-day workshop with Pamela Annesley to introduce the surprisingly easy steps to working with silver metal clay. Create two pairs of silver earrings and a pendant, and explore the infinite possibilities of this medium. Learn techniques including rolling, texturing, sanding and drilling, and how to set a gemstone. Then complete your creations with firing, finishing and polishing.

In this workshop you will learn to manipulate the clay into various shapes suitable for jewellery items. You can also texture the clay and add embellishments. Learn how to set a cubic zirconia gemstone, refine your work and then hand-fire your clay with a butane torch. With the confidence gained in this workshop you can easily continue working with this clay at home.

Taylors College, uWA Claremont Cnr Princess Road and Goldsworthy Road, Claremont

Saturday 6 July 10.30am to 4.30pm | $269

www.extension.uwa.edu.au/course/CCnJ001 Tel: 6488 2433

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cultural PrecinctThe university of Western Australia35 Stirling HighwayCrawley WA 6009Tel: +61 8 6488 3613Email: [email protected]

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The university of Western Australia’s Cultural Precinct is proud to be a partner of the City of Perth Winter Arts Season.

cover image: Brendan van hek, Colour CoMpositioN #3, 2013,

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