Program #1, 2008
Summer Edition 2007-08 #3
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An extended visit of the exhibition 'Facing Percy Grainger' at the Ian Potter Museum of Art of the University of Melbourne, with Brian Allison, the Curator of Exhibitions and Public Programs, at the Grainger Museum.
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Listen to the story: part 2 (Windows Media, 6 minutes 6 seconds)
Listen to the story: part 3 (Windows Media, 6 minutes 12 seconds)
Listen to the story: part 4 (Windows Media, 3 minutes 28 seconds)
Listen to the story: part 5 (Windows Media, 4 minutes 9 seconds)
Listen to the story: part 6 (Windows Media, 5 minutes 31 seconds)
(The 'Facing Percy Grainger' exhibition is currently on at the Ian Potter Museum of Art of the University of Melbourne until 3 February 2008. More info: www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au, www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/grainger/.)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
Program #2, 2008
Episode #550 Summer Edition 2007-08 #4
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We visit the veteran sculptor, Tom Bass, at his inner-Sydney workshop in Erskineville. Approaching 92 years of age, Bass maintains an active creative life with several commissions in progress and a coterie of enthusiastic students in his workshop.
Listen to the interview: part 1 (Windows Media, 7 minutes 9 seconds)
Listen to the interview: part 2 (Windows Media, 7 minutes 16 seconds)
Listen to the interview: part 3 (Windows Media, 4 minutes 39 seconds)
Listen to the interview: part 4 (Windows Media, 7 minutes 49 seconds)
Listen to the interview: part 5 (Windows Media, 1 minutes 51 seconds)
Listen to the interview: part 6 (Windows Media, 5 minutes 14 seconds)
(The Bathurst Regional Art Gallery at 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSW is currently staging a Tom Bass Retrospective until 27 January. More info: www.bathurstregion.com.au.)
(Visit the Tom Bass - life and work website: www.tombass.org.au.)
(The official website of Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School: www.tombasssculptureschool.org.au. Alternatively contact Genevieve Carson on (02) 9565 4851 for details.)
(The work that Tom Bass regarded as his most personally satisfying, 'Ethos', stands in the Civic Square, in Canberra. More info: www.aussieheritage.com.au.)
(Tom Bass photographer: Brian McInerney 2006.)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
Program #3, 2008
Summer Edition 2007-08 #5
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Sue Butler, the publisher of the Macquarie Dictionary, tells what's on the go for the Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year 2007.
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(Voting for the Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year 2007, 5 words nominataed in 17 categories, closes at midnight on Thursday 31 January. Vote now @: www.macquariedictionary.com.au.)
 
Shane Maloney, author of the popular Murray Whelan series of political thrillers (well soft thrillers) set in the labyrinthine politics of the Victorian ALP in the exile years of the 1990s. 'Sucked In' was published in May last year, and there may only be one more Murray Whelan outing as he has been all but promoted out of harm's way.
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('Sucked In', the latest entry of Shane Maloney's Murray Whelan series, is now available on paperback from Text Publishing for rrp $A32.95. More info: www.textpublishing.com.au. Visit Shane Maloney's official website: www.shanemaloney.com.)
Katherine Howell, who set her first published novel in the high tension world of the emergency service workers, a world where she herself has spent 15 years. And like Shane Maloney, whose Murray Whelan breaths Melbourne, Katherine makes her city of choice, Sydney, a character in her book.
Listen to the interview (Windows Media, 8 minutes 59 seconds + 8 minutes 25 seconds)
(Katherine Howell's first book, 'Frantic', is now available in Australia on paperback from Pan Macmillan for rrp $A32.95. More info: www.panmacmillan.com.au. Her second book, 'Panic', is scheduled for release in Australia in 2008. Visit Katherine Howell's official website: www.katherinehowell.com.)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
Program #4, 2008
Summer Edition 2007-08 #6
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The citizens of Ballarat, a regional Victorian city once famed for the gold discovered there in 1851, headed to churches and public halls to attend the annual Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival, now in its 13th year.
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(The Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival 2008 was on 11-20 January. Next year's festival will be in mid-January 2009. More info about the Festival: www.ballarat.com/organs/.)
Two Indigenous female artists:
Sculptor and weaver Lorraine Connelly-Northey, a Waradgerie woman from Swan Hill in Victoria. Her work draws on traditional domestic designs and cultural aesthetics for inspiration but her materials are found on rubbish dumps and derelict buildings, the detritus of two centuries of European agricultural practice.
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(The exhibition 'Lorraine Connelly-Northey: O'Possum Skin Cloaks and Narbongs' was on at the Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Level 3, 75-77 Flinders Lane in May last year. You can view a profile of Lorraine Connelly-Northey and some of her works mentioned in the interview online at: www.gabriellepizzi.com.au.)
Western Australian artist, Julie Dowling, of the Badimaya/Yamatji language group and currently lives in Perth in WA. An exhibition surveying 15 years of her work titled 'Strange fruit: Testimony and memory in Julie Dowling's portraits' was at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne of Melbourne during last year.
Listen to the interview (Windows Media, 8 minutes 12 seconds + 9 minutes 11 seconds)
('Strange fruit: Testimony and memory in Julie Dowling's portraits' is now on until 14 Oct 2007 at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne on Swanston Street between Faraday and Elgin streets in Parkville. More info: www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au.)
(Image source: www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au.)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
Program #5, 2008
Summer Edition 2007-08 #7
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The Council of Australasian Museum Directors, a body that speaks for the 21 publicly funded museums in Australian and New Zealand, has just released the highlights of its annual survey of the activities of its constituent museums for 2006-2007. ART alive speaks to the Council's spokesperson, Margaret Anderson.
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(For more info, see 'Museums overlooked in election policies' press release @ Creative Economy Online: www.creative.org.au.)
(Margaret Anderson photo source: www.collectionscouncil.com.au.)
A report from the Arts Activated Conference held in Sydney in September last year. The conference was concerned with art and cultural expression, especially for those among us with physical or mental disabilities:
- Sansha Donald, the chief executive of Accessibility Arts about the issues of access to the arts, for both audiences and performers who suffer any form of disability, and
- Matthew Perry, who co-ordinates the 'Art in the Garage' project in the Bega valley on the far south coast of New South Wales, one of the many artists present at the Conference who are running programs for disabled practitioners.
Listen to the interview: Sansha Donald (Windows Media, 8 minutes 18 seconds + 5 minutes 51 seconds)
Listen to the interview: Matthew Perry (Windows Media, 9 minutes 3 seconds + 10 minutes 56 seconds)
(The Arts Activated: Accessible Arts Conference 2007 was held 26-27 September at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The Greenway Building, Corner of Bridge and Macquarie Streets, Sydney NSW. More info: www.aarts.net.au/artsactivated/.)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
Program #6, 2008
Summer Edition 2007-08 #8
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The Council of Australasian Museum Directors, The social and cultural animateur, the Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE), based in Granville in Sydney west has forged links with the UK-based Hi8us to launch the Australian DigiTales project.
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(If you are interested in the Australian DigiTales project, contact ICE by e-mail: info@ice.org.au, or telephone: (02) 9897 5744. More info: www.digi-tales.org, www.ice.org.au.)
(The Hi8us Projects Limited website: www.hi8us.co.uk.)
(Margaret Anderson photo source: www.collectionscouncil.com.au.)
Two New Zealand guests from last year:
Frank Habicht a German-born photographer who now lives in the small town of Paihia on the Bay of Islands, not far from the historic treaty grounds of Waitangi. Frank's photo-documentation of the swinging 1960s in London and Paris is one of the great historic collections in the annals of photography.
Listen to the interview (Windows Media, 9 minutes 6 seconds + 9 minutes 59 seconds)
(Examples of Frank Habicht's work can be found on the website of the Gow-Langsford Gallery in Auckland, which had a retrospective of his work last June - 'Frank Habicht - The Sixties: High Tide and Green Grass': www.gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz.)
(Random House New Zealand has just published Frank & Florian Habicht's photographic essay, 'I DO - Classic New Zealand Weddings' for rrp $NZ24.99.)
Shirley Horrocks, filmmaker from Auckland who specialises in films about the arts and artists. Her films are increasingly well known internationally, for their intimate and sensitive portraits of some of NZ's sung and unsung cultural heroes.
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('Marti: The Passionate Eye', a Point of View Productions documentary directed by Shirley Horrocks, is distributed by Smiley Film Distribution. More info: www.pointofview.co.nz/Marti.htm, www.smileyfilmdistribution.com.)
(Marti Friedlander's official website: www.martifriedlander.com.)
(The official website of DOKU.ARTS: International Festival for
Films on Art, which runs 19-23 September 2007 in Berlin, Germany: www.doku-arts.de/en/.)
('Questions for Mr Reynolds', another Point of View Productions documentary directed by Shirley Horrocks about the artist John Reynolds, is part of Television New Zealand's 'Artsville' series and was broascasted on Sunday 26 August. More info: www.pointofview.co.nz/john_reynolds.htm.)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
Program #7, 2008
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Guest: advertising man and professional photographer, Michel Lawrence, who has devoted much of the pas two years to photographing portraits of the people who make up contemporary Australia. His work has been published in one large volume titled 'All Of Us' in time for Australia Day, and an exhibition of the photographs has commenced.
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(Visit the 'All of Us: Multiculturalism - Australian style' website: www.allofus.com.au.)
(The 'All of Us' Photography Exhibition is on 18 Feb-23 Mar at the Facade of The Crossbar Building, Federation Square, Melbourne. More info: www.federationsquare.com.au.)
(Michel Lawrence's large-format coffee table book 'All of Us' is available in Australia from Scribe Publications for rrp $A59.95. More info: www.scribepublications.com.au/book/allofus/.)
(Michel Lawrence image source: www.scribepublications.com.au.)
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd commending the 'Apology to the Stolen Generation' to the parliament on Wednesday 13 February, so opening a new chapter in Australia's history.
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(More info on the Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples @ the Parliament of Australia: House of Representatives website: www.aph.gov.au.)
(Download the Speech by Hon Kevin Rudd MP in PDF format.)
(Download the Speech by Hon Dr Brendan Nelson MP in PDF format.)
The National Play Festival is in full swing in Brisbane.
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(The National Play Festival 2008 is on 10-23 February. There is still time for Brisbane listeners to attend. And the best surprise of all is the ticket prices, just $15 per show. More info: www.pwa.org.au/skills/Festival/.)
In Perth, the Premier of Western Australia, Alan Carpenter, announces a half-billion-dollar redevelopment of the Western Australian Museum.
Listen to the interview: Sheila McHale, Minister for Culture and the Arts (Windows Media, 3 minutes 51 seconds)
Listen to the interview: Dr Dawn Casey, CEO of the WA Museum (Windows Media, 3 minutes 50 seconds)
('Minister tours iconic site for new WA Museum' media release @ the Government of Western Australia webiste: www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au.)
(The Music NSW website: www.museum.wa.gov.au.)
In Melbourne, hairdresser-turned-lighting designer, Volker Haug, struts his stuff at the National Design Centre.
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(The 'Verbunden: Volker Haug Lighting' exhibition is on 4 - 24 February at the National Design Centre, corner Russell and Flinders Streets, Federation Square, Melbourne. Free admission. More info: www.nationaldesigncentre.com.)
(Visit Volker Haug's official website: www.volkerhaug.com.)
(Image source: www.nationaldesigncentre.com.)
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The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
Program #8, 2008
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Guest: author PD Martin, who is enjoying a growing reputation for her thrillers based around the adventure of her Australian-American hero Sophie Anderson, a crime profiler within the FBI. PD Martin's latest, 'Fan Mail' has just been released.
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(PD Martin's latest novel, 'Fan Mail', is now available in Australia on trade paperback from Pan Macmillan for rrp $A32.95. More info: www.panmacmillan.com.au. Also available from Pan Macmillan are 'Body Count' and 'The Murderers' Club'.)
(Visit PD Martin's official website: www.pdmartin.com.au.)
'Haneef: The Interrogation': a new play, based on the transcript of the interrogation of Mohamed Haneef by the Australian Federal Police, opens 'off Broadway' in Dandenong in Victoria.
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(The stage play 'Haneef: The Interrogation', written by Graham Pitts
and directed by Gorkem Acaroglu, opened on 22 February at the Drum Theatre at Dandenong Town Hall,
226 Lonsdale Street, Dandenong of outer suburban Melbourne. The play is already booked for a number of other venues in Melbourne, regional Victoria, later opening in Sydney. More info: www.greaterdandenong.com.)
New Views 2: An international conference on the graphic arts in London looks to Australian graphic artists and designers for inspiration.
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('New Views 2: Conversations and Dialogues in Graphic Design - an international symposium defining graphic design for the future' will be held at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, Elephant & Castle SE1 6SB, London, England on 9-11 July. Suggested themes and entry details for posters are on the website: www.newviews.co.uk. Deadline for poster submissions is 15 May 2008.)
The Innovation Agenda, recently announce by the Commonwealth government, opens up opportunities for visual artists and craft men and women.
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(The Council for the Humanities Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) is running a one-day workshop to discuss how the arts sector can respond to the new innovation agenda. It is planned for Monday 31 March, in Sydney. More info and expressions of interest on CHASS' 2008 The Arts, and the Innovation Agenda Workshop can be found at: www.chass.org.au.)
(Craft Australia's official website: www.craftaus.com.au.)
Frances Lindsay, Deputy Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, introducing the media to the work of the artist Sidney Nolan.
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(The 'Sidney Nolan' retrospective exhibition is on at the Ian Potter Centre of the National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Corner of Russell and Flinders Streets, Melbourne from 22 February to 18 May. More info: www.ngv.vic.gov.au/sidneynolan/.)
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The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
Program #9, 2008
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The Art Gallery of NSW's Sidney Nolan retrospective exhibition has opened in Melbourne after its Sydney season. We join Barry Pearce, the AGNSW's head curator of Australian art, at the exhibition.
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(The 'Sidney Nolan' retrospective exhibition, organised by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is on at the Ian Potter Centre of the National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Corner of Russell and Flinders Streets, Melbourne from 22 February to 18 May. More info: www.ngv.vic.gov.au/sidneynolan/.)
Di Stasio Competition: a Melbourne restaurateur and art patron surprises the arts community by announcing his competition to design a new Australian pavilion for Venice.
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(Entries for the Di Stasio Competition for the new Australian pavilion in Venice close on Tuesday 22 April 2008 by 5pm. Entry details are at the Café Di Stasio website: www.distasio.com.au, where you can also check out Ronnie di Stasio's St Kilda restaurant and his vineyard.)
Adelaide's SHORTS Film Festival is to run London show case screenings.
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(Entries for the 2008 SHORTS Film Festival close on 14 March. Details at: www.shortsfilmfestival.com.)
The Lattice: Sydney: a workshop on community development strategies and techniques in Sydney's west has international cultural links.
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(The 'Lattice::Sydney - Collaborative Anarchaeologies of the City website: http://sydney.latticeproject.net.)
(The Lattice: Sydney Forum will be held on March 7 from 9am-12:30pm at the Granville Youth, Community and Recreation Centre, 33a Memorial Drive Granville, on the south side of the railway line between Granville and Clyde stations. More info on the Forum: www.ice.org.au/newswire/2008/02/the-lattice-sydney-forum/.)
Sounds emanating from 'Susurrus 2008' by Duke Albada, one of the works in the Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award at Werribee Park, whose winners were announced last week.
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(The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award 2008 exhibition is now on display in the spectacular gardens of Werribee Park until 31 May 2008. More info: http://lempriereaward.com.au/.)
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The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
Program #10, 2008
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Bob Jenyns, winner of this year's Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, tells the story about a caravan and a narrow bridge over the River Seine in Paris near where it was parked.
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(The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award 2008 exhibition is now on display in the spectacular gardens of Werribee Park until 31 May 2008. More info: http://lempriereaward.com.au.)
Art_a_base: a directory of visual arts exhibitions available to tour Australia-wide.
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(The latest edition of Art_a_Base can be down loaded free of charge from the National Exhibitions Touring Support (NETS) Victoria website: www.netsvictoria.org.)
The program for next July's Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville is announced.
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(For more information on the 2008 Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville, 4-12 July, call 1800 449 977 for the price of a local call or go to: www.afcm.com.au.)
The fate of all those books in libraries that are rarely consulted and, indeed, the very death of the book itself were two of many issues at the recent VALA2008 library conference.
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(The VALA2008 14th Biennial Conference and Exhibition was held 5-7 February at the Melbourne Exhibition & Convention Centre. More info on the Conference: www.vala.org.au/conf2008.htm/.)
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The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
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