Based at Canberra Glassworks and her own studio in Burra, NSW, Annette Blair - one of Australia's leading glass artists - has won the 2026 FUSE Glass Prize, Australasia's richest award for contemporary glass, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Arts editor HELEN MUSA is back with her latest Artsweek column of everything arts, music, theatre, and creative happening around Canberra.
The National Museum's winter blockbuster, simply titled Antarctica, promises to take visitors on a journey into a stage set for adventure, reports HELEN MUSA.
"The National Gallery is offering a rare opportunity to see the complete cycle of 20 monumental tapestries about St Francis by Arthur Boyd. But aficionados may be shocked at Boyd's take on the gentle saint," says HELEN MUSA.
Middle Raged – A Musical Meltdown, about to premiere at The Playhouse, is the brainchild of two former Canberrans, performer Queenie van de Zandt and writer-producer Tiffany Noack, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reviews Judith Clingan's song cycle, The Prophet - as part of the second half of Wayfarers Australia's concert Musica Vitae - which, based on Kahlil Gibran's famous 1923 work, is "not one of Clingan’s finer works".
Here's the latest Arts in the City column from CityNews arts editor HELEN MUSA.
HELEN MUSA reviews Eternal Light, a performance of sacred music by The Resonants vocal ensemble.
Blues troubadour and folk musician Archer Shepherd, simply known as Archer, is due to descend on Belconnen Arts Centre in early July with a 28-strong brass band, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA writes about the inaugural Winter in the Woods festival that will run at the National Arboretum from June to August, complete with ”firelight, food and forest adventure”.
Directed by Lee Lewis and being performed at Canberra Theatre, Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias has a "zippy script, full of scintillating one-liners", guaranteeing "a ripping night", writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The National Gallery of Australia has on Thursday unveiled the full suite of 20 huge Saint Francis tapestries by Arthur Boyd to the assembled press before the exhibition Arthur Boyd: Tapestries goes on show to the public from Saturday.
