Why this picture makes people happy
“Every year, something goes crazy. Some animal has its moment. In 2005 it was a peak year for W cicadas.’ So Mike Gillam tells the story of his wonderful picture, Cicada Peak, Spencer Hill 2005, which has been on display among others and a fine selection of sculpture at 8Hele, recently opened in Alice Springs, at [...]
Desert Spring at Watarrka
The photographs of Mike Gillam have found a suitable home at 8Hele Gallery, a former plumbing supply shop in Alice’s industrial area, which Mike and others have transformed into one of the town’s most accommodating art spaces. 8Hele Gallery, in Hele Crescent, opened last month, with 24 of Gillam’s pieces given room to breathe among an [...]
Funeral at Santa Theresa
This is the second part of the film of Rod Moss’s talk at Araluen in the Alice Springs Cultural precinct last month. Rod talks about he painted Funeral at Santa Teresa ten years into his friendship and collaboration with a group of Eastern Arrenrte people Santa Theresa is a small village that was established as [...]
Peverill Creek
Alice Springs painter Rod Moss – author of the soon-to-be-launched Hard Light of Day – took gallery-goers for a walk around two of his biggest paintings on Sunday and described some of the processes behind their creation. The paintings were included in the Araluen Arts Centre’s Paper Cuts exhibition, which features some of the most [...]
Kleinboonschate
Robert Kleinboonschate got a lot out of Alice Springs in the ten years he lived here – and vice versa. While he and the legendary Zella were together creating the equally legendary cafe Bar Dopio, Robert was also making inspired drawings of the Central Australian landscape, including a wall-sized rendering of Larapinta Valley which won [...]
Scrounge Part One: Dan Murphy on the Moon
Photos Steven Pierce. Post by Dave Richards. A few years ago I was introduced to the wonderful concept of Scrounge by Alice Springs heritage architect Domenico Pecorari. Dom uses “scrounge” to describe the Central Australian tradition of using what materials happen to be at hand to create something new. This is of course the habit [...]
The language of photography
Photographer Ivan Kobiolke ‘s exhibition Perceptions opens at the Olive Pink Botanic Gardens this weekend and includes some powerful images. It’s a measure of his passionate and highly considered approach to his work that none were taken in Central Australia. “It takes a long time to develop a photographic relationship with a place,” says Ivan, [...]
Journey to the interior
Are you like me, careful not to mess up your beautiful nature photos by leaving your own shadow in the frame? I’ve encountered a few photographers who have done the opposite – made exhibitions that actually included their shadow-selves as a statement. Point being: why try to pass it off that your picture was taken [...]
The tree of knowledge
Artist and teacher Noel Ferry has spent part of the school holidays renewing his acquaintance with an old friend … a permanent resident of Emily Creek, just out of Alice Springs. Out of their meetings came a series of striking images which Noel has woven together with some of the insights this long-standing relationship has [...]
Cloud nine and others
A celebration of the clouds that visit our usually empty skies. Though they rarely bring as much rain as they have recently, they always put on a good show.
The power of art
The power of art to change perceptions radiates from a new exhibition which opened at the Olive Pink Pink Botanic Garden on Friday night. Fire Flies has opened many new doors for the eight or so artists from Central Australian Supported Accomodation who created it, under the direction of CASA’s Simone Guascoine . But for [...]
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