24 AUGUST – 2 SEPTEMBER - Arts Tasmania

Art Forums and
Workshops
This great selection of
informative forums and
workshops will be presented
around the State during
Tasmanian Living Artists’
Week. Turn to page 5 for a
further series of workshops
based around the botanic arts.
Chris O’Doherty
a.k.a. Reg Mombassa
– Mambo Designer
–Tasmanian School Of Art Forum
Legendary Sydney based, New Zealand
artist/musician Chris O’Doherty, a.k.a.
Reg Mombassa has been celebrated for over
two decades and is one of our best-known
cultural celebrities. His design and graphic
work with the Mambo Company and his
cult status as guitarist with the bands
Mental As Anything and Dog Trumpet are
well known. However his recent survey
show at the SH Ervin Gallery has focused
attention on his painting and drawing and
mark him as one of our most insightful and
acute observers of the antipodean character.
This forum is a rare opportunity to see and
hear him talk about his art and life.
When: Thursday 23 August, 2pm
Where: Dechaineux Lecture Theatre,
Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS,
Hunter St, Hobart
registrations: No registration required
Euan MacLeod – Winner
of The 1999 Archibald Prize
For Portraiture
–Tasmanian School Of Art Forum
Sydney based, New Zealand painter Euan
MacLeod is one of Australia’s foremost
contemporary painters. Winner of the
prestigious Archibald Prize for portraiture,
MacLeod is best known for his powerful,
expressive renderings of the Australian and
New Zealand landscape. This forum will
focus on his work over the last twenty years
and give an insight into his practise.
When: Friday 24 Aug, 12:30pm
Where: Dechaineux Lecture Theatre,
Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS,
Hunter St, Hobart
registrations: No registration required
Image credit/
Blueberry Plant Coil, by Muriel Maynard.
Photo: Lucia Rossi
AbaF Presents
– Artist Business
This free Artist Business workshop provides
an overview of taxation, insurance,
copyright and intellectual property. It
covers the basics of marketing for artists,
including relationship-building with
clients, curators and dealers and how to
work with the media. The workshop will
feature presentations from leading visual
artists and arts managers and will provide
opportunities for questions and discussion.
The Artist Business workshops are funded
by the Commonwealth Government
through the Department of
Communications, IT and the Arts.
hobart
When: Tuesday 28 August, 9am - 4.30pm
Where: 2nd Floor, Henry Jones Art Hotel,
25 Hunter Street
Burnie
When: Thursday 30 August, 9am - 4.30pm
Where: Burnie Regional Art Gallery,
Civic Centre Precinct, Wilmot Street
Launceston
When: Friday 31 August, 9am - 4.30pm
Where: The Meeting Room, Queen Victoria
Museum & Art Gallery, Invermay Road,
Inveresk
registrations: Phone Jackie De Silva at
AbaF: 9616 0300 or email: desilvaj@abaf.org.
au. Registrations close Friday 17 August.
For further information: www.abaf.org.au
Come Weave with Me:
Fibre Weavers’ Forum
A two day forum and workshop program
focusing on contemporary fibre weaving
with renowned weavers and curators from
Tasmania, New Zealand and Australia.
When: 28 – 29 August, 9am – 5pm.
Where: Queen Victoria Museum and Art
Gallery, Invermay Rd, Inveresk
Artists: Glenda King, Lindy Allen, Virginia
Kaiser, Keren Ruki and Amanda Reynolds.
Fee: $100 full registration. Part registration
and concession available.
registrations: Phone Lola Greeno on 6336
2349 or email lola.greeno@arts.tas.gov.au.
Registrations close Friday 17 August.
Being There: Speaking On
Creative Engagements
with Place
An Arts Forum event for Tasmanian Living
Artists’ Week 2007
Four invited speakers have been asked to
respond to the idea of “being there” and
of how they might speak of their own – or
others – creative engagements with place.
The speakers are:
Dr Catherine De Lorenzo is an art
historian who researches both photographic
history and contemporary public art. She is
a senior lecturer in the Faculty of the
Built Environment, University of New
South Wales.
Bec Tudor, Hobart-based writer and artist,
whose research examines the intersection
of art practice with environmental ethics,
community and education.
iris Zogel, German artist who has worked
in Bilbao, Mexico, through Central America
and most recently at Bundanon (NSW)
using installation and graphic forms, now
undertaking the Arts Tasmania Cradle
Mountain International Residency in 2007.
raymond Arnold, Tasmanian printmaker
and recipient of the 2007 John Glover Prize
for landscape, now dividing his time and
his work between Queenstown and France.
When: Friday 31 August, 9am –1pm
Where: Lecture Room IA 181, School of
Visual & Performing Arts, Academy of the
Arts, Inveresk, Launceston
registrations: Send your details to
Dr Deb Malor, email:Deborah.Malor@utas.
edu.au. Registrations close on Thursday 16
August. Program updates will be available
on the SVPA website:
www.acadarts.utas.edu.au
TMAGgots –
Open and Shut: the Sequel
Featuring curator and artists talks,
live performances and heaps more...
Only at the TMAG during Tasmanian Living
Artists’ Week - check out the website for
more information: /www.tmag.tas.gov.au
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