Volume One - Pages 77 to 108 - Canberra 100

Canberra Contemporary Art Space (CCAS)
Centenary Program
For the centenary year, CCAS will change the structure of its artistic program to produce
seven group exhibitions loosely guided by the themes of the Centenary of Canberra.
Each exhibition will be based on a curatorial concept that represents the personal concerns
of the guest curator and the ways that artists have shaped understandings of the city and
region. The program includes in-depth analysis of past and present visual arts practices in
the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), focusing on the development of a dynamic cultural
environment and ultimately attempting to assess future possibilities.
The Centenary of Canberra program includes exhibitions by established and emerging
curators who are either based in the ACT or have close historical ties. The CCAS series of
exhibitions will be strongly ideas based, thoroughly researched and concentrate on artists
whose practices have been influenced by their time in the ACT. As a result, many artists will
return to Canberra.
Bad Girls, curated by Anni Doyle Wawrzynczak, 8 February - 16 March
Artists included in the exhibition are Mandy Martin, eX deMedici, Vivienne Binns, Jane
Barney and Jacqueline Bradley. See page 28.
A History of BMA magazine, 22 March - 6 April
BMA comes to CCAS to reflect on its 20 year history with posters, memorabilia and events.
Growing up Planned, 12 April - 18 May
An exhibition curated by Virginia Rigney that brings together a group of artists, architects,
designers and academics who have grown up in Canberra between 1954 and 1973, and
looks at the impact of a designed city on childhood experience. Virginia Rigney shares
this experience with artists who will centre their work on family life and the way intrinsic
elements of a planned environment affect their lives. Artists include David Brand, Daniel
Flood, Johnathan Nicols, Clare Freer, Bruce Reynolds, Anthony Moulis, Roger Benjamin,
Clint Hurrell and Tony Clark.
Triangle exhibition, curated by Alexander Boynes, 24 May - 29 June
Canberra exists where it is today because of Australia’s political agenda. Established in
1911-12, Walter Burley Griffin’s geometric approach to the planned city was based around
circles, hexagons and the famous political triangle aligning the region’s topographical
landmarks with our country’s political heart. Triangle looks at Australia’s political art scene
from a threeway view—the local, national, and international perspectives.
The triangle is seen by some as a self reinforcing power structure, the key element of
Griffin’s plan, with circles, roundabouts and avenues; its axes radiating out and connecting
Canberra with the other States, Territories, and the world. All artists included in the
exhibition are either local residents, have lived in, or are working collaboratively with artists
from our capital city. Artists included in the exhibition are Alison Alder, Azlan McLennan,
Raquel Ormella, Bernie Slater and Culture Kitchen, and covers early Canberra printmaking
and poster art from the Bitumen River gallery days (former home of Canberra Contemporary
Art Space) and the Vietnam War era, through to current issues on our political agenda.
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