Jason Sweeney’s show ‘Please be Quiet’ creates an incredible ‘quiet’ space in which one slows down and becomes aware of the sounds that drift into the room from the traffic and noise outside. Jason has created a haven, or a place, best used alone, to experience sound in a new way. I urge you to visit this show.
Ima Brisbane has just turned 40, in celebration of this wonderful achievement they have created an archive of their last four decades. It includes an image log and interviews with past directors, one of my favourite were with directors Michael Snelling and Robert Leonard.
Leonard said that ‘The IMA is never going to have museum style mass visitation, it’s not set up to get it and it shouldn’t try to. It primarily speaks to insiders: to practitioners, to the industry, to art students. But, in doing this, it has a disproportionately large impact on the wider art discussion. It’ business is influence. It’s about shaping the discussion at the sharp end… check out the archive, it’s great.
Wilosophy by Wil Anderson is a great podcast . Wil interviews a range of people about their lives and discusses their ‘philosophies’ on, well, everything. It came highly recommended to me, and I love it, check out the Pinky Beecroft conversation.
Billy and Sarah, (some of our July artists at RAYGUN) have an interesting side project. They have a knack for finding beautiful old run down Modernist houses and faithfully restoring them. Here is an article in the latest Australian Country Historic Houses magazine. When they visited us in Toowoomba for their opening group show they mentioned they won a very prestigious National Trust Building award for their spectacular 7 year restoration of their home that they saved from demolition.
We love sharing so have a read and welcome to the beautiful NSW Blue Mountains area which is a part of the same mountain range known as the Great Dividing Range, that Toowoomba sits on top of, but just a 1000 kilometres further south.
Click to access Australian-Country-Jan-2013.pdf
Look what can happen over a weekend in Toowoomba. Changing the town!
On Friday night we were lucky enough to have curators and visiting artists Billy Gruner and Sarah Keighery visit Toowoomba from the Blue Mountains for the WEST/RAYGUN Exchange. Billy spoke about the evolving project and the collaborative style of extended dialogue surrounding post formalist, contemporary painting. We look forward to watching the projects development as it continues to travel nationally and internationally over the coming years.
Something to think about as we go on making
If you have 5 minutes. Stunning.
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