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UNMASKED: SIDNEY NOLAN
AND NED KELLY 1950-1990
11th November – 4th March 2007
While Sidney Nolan’s original, landmark Ned Kelly
series, painted at Heide during 1946–47, has
been widely acclaimed, much less attention has
been given to the artist’s later representations of
the legendary Australian bushranger. Unmasked:
Nolan and Kelly explores, for the first time,
Nolan’s ongoing artistic engagement with the
Kelly myth after he left Australia in 1953. Over
the next three decades he revisited the narrative
producing a fascinating body of work through
which it is possible to trace his stylistic and
conceptual development as he responded to the
changing international art context, to
contemporary world events and to the different
geographical locations in which he was working.
Unmasked: Nolan and Kelly will present a
selection of Nolan’s Kelly works from the 1950s
to the early 1980s, in a variety of media, and will
include several works seldom seen previously in
a public context.
Heide III, Heide Museum of Modern Art
7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen
(03) 9850 1500
www.heide.com.au
Hours: Tue-Fri 10.00am – 5.00pm;
Sat/Sun/Public Holidays 12.00noon – 5.00pm
HORSE BAZAAR
Horse Bazaar is a cutting edge bar and art space
in inner city Melbourne tailored to people involved
and interested in innovative digital media.
Developed by individuals committed to the
support of Melbourne’s emerging digital culture,
Horse Bazaar blends lounge and exhibition space
to produce a unique environment for the display
and enjoyment of digital arts. The bar includes a
270 degree immersive projection environment
with over 25 square metre’s of seamless display,
as well as the worlds first Rear Projection Urinal
(RPU). They also run a generous annual digital
arts prize, the Horse Bazaar Prize, which is fast
becoming a coveted trophy and welcome addition
on the international circuit of the digital art world.
The 2006 Horse Bazaar Prize will be announced
in late November. Above and beyond being a
digital artspace, Horse Bazaar is a comfortable
space within which to socialise, work (they offer
free wireless) or party on and indulge yourself
with a fine cocktail and a late night boogie. The
12
cultural programming, visual arts, live music, and
ecclectic range of DJing is guaranteed to serve
up taste-expanding treats for any cultural
aficionado.
Horse Bazaar
397 Lt Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
(03) 9670 2329
www.horsebazaar.com.au
POLLOCK GALLERY
Home to many of Australia’s most established
and best known commercial galleries, the inner
suburb of Richmond naturally attracts an
enormous number of art lovers and collectors.
Six years down the track, Pollock gallery has
gradually become known for the consistently high
standard of exciting artists exhibited each month.
Featured artists can be prominent, mid career,
rising or newly emerging. Expressionist, abstract,
realist or surrealist, the Pollock formula is
choosing to exhibit art that conveys the ‘how and
what’, not the ’who or why’.
Artists represented by Pollock Gallery include
Andrew Sibley, Timothy Ralph, Les Peach, Steve
Lopes, Julie Niekamp, Stephen Armstrong, Neville
Pilven, Jean Baggaley, John Waterhouse, and
Trevor Weekes. Featured here is Timothy Ralph’s
“From Anima to Animus and Back”, acrylic on
canvas 165 x 136 cm.
Pollock Gallery
270 Church Street, Richmond
(03) 9427 0003
www.pollockgallery.com.au
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MAKE POVERTY HISTORY
Saturday 18th November 2006
The Make Poverty History Festival Melbourne
2006 will be a daytime festival organised to
coincide with the G20 meetings being held in the
city on November 18 & 19 2006.
Make Poverty History came about in 2005 as
numerous NGOs and activist groups came
together to form a coalition with the objective of
doing exactly what their moniker suggests.
Last year saw Nelson Mandela address over
20,000 people in Trafalgar Square, 25,000
people take part in
a trade justice vigil
and a phenomenal
250,000 people
take to the streets
of Edinburgh and
demand that world
leaders made
poverty history.
Their symbol of
unity is the white
band, which can
be anything from a
ribbon to a mass-
produced rubber bracelet. According to their
website, 8 million people wore the white band in
the UK in 2005. On the three White Band Days in
2005, people wore white and formed massive
human bands, wrapped trees and lamp posts in
white bands, and even wrapped whole buildings,
from St Paul’s Cathedral (pictured) to the
European Parliament. Melbourne’s festival will
feature well known independent Australian
musicians, stalls representing a range of
MPH agencies, speakers, workshops, as well as
an ethical consumers market and food.
Saturday 18th November 2006, Alexandra
Gardens Melbourne, 10am – 8pm, Free Entry
www.makepovertyhistory.org
AUSTRALIAN OPEN
15th -28th January 2007
Your hors d’oeuvre to the tennis majors is
generally served steaming hot. The 95th staging
of this exalted event is the most blistering
competition on the calendar. Even ice princesses
like Venus Williams can come undone in the
Australian sun as she did in a 2004 upset when
beat by doubles Diva Lisa Raymond. The first
Grand Slam episode in the annual tennis Soap
Opera, the Open is guaranteed to deliver turmoil,
talent and value for your sporting dollar. Half a
million perfectly behaved punters will be content
to queue in the epicentre of the city’s sporting
and entertainment precinct in 2007.
Australian Open 2007
Melbourne Park
Batman Avenue, Melbourne
(03) 9286 1600
www.australianopen.com
For more information on places + events see
www.visitvictoria.com
BRUNSWICK STREET
One of Melbourne’s most eclectic and
fashionable shopping strips, Brunswick Street,
Fitzroy, is where the city’s starving artists rub
shoulders with their well-to-do nemeses over a
café latte and a veggie burger. It’s THE place to
have a beer, do brunch, or catch the latest indie
band. It’s also great for shopping, with everything
from vintage clothes, new and used books,
designer homewares, and eco-friendly fragrances
to found amongst the dozens of cafes and shops.
No trip to the strip would be complete without a
visit to Heading Out for a new hairdo, The Shoe
Fitz for your fashion weary feet, or Studio Ingot,
which shows collections from over 60 Australian
jewellery artisans. The annual Brunswick Street
Music Festival is also one of Melbourne’s most
vibrant street parties.
Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
http://www.brunswickmusicfestival.com.au/
B.C. GALLERIES
Sarcophagae, scarabs, totem poles, shamanic
masks, fetish statues and primitive body
ornaments: BC Galleries is a paradise for
collectors of authentic ancient and tribal
artefacts, situated in Melbourne, Australia.
Located in the city’s premier antiques district of
High Street, Armadale, the downstairs gallery
showcases a dazzling array of ancient Egyptian,
Greek, Roman, Buddhist and Precolumbian art,
ranging from exquisite miniature amulets, mosaic
A PAINTED
SANDSTONE
FIGURE OF
QUANYIN,
GODDESS OF
MERCY
SUI DYNASTY,
C. 581-618 AD,
CHINA
glass beads and precious coins to painted vases
and marble busts. The upstairs section of the
gallery is a veritable forest of spectacular tribal
sculpture from New Guinea, Africa and Asia, and
the walls are adorned with Aboriginal bark
paintings, New Guinea shields, masks and
antique carvings and textiles from every region
imaginable. The proprietor and founder, Frank
Bottaro, has devoted a lifetime to his great
passion for studying, collecting and restoring
antiquities and artefacts. The gallery’s clients
include serious and beginner collectors as well
as museums and art galleries worldwide. Visit the
gallery in person or browse through the
thousands of items on their impressive website.
B.C. Galleries
1069 High Street, Armadale
(03) 9804 3353
www.bcgalleries.com.au