Awesome spiders really up close and personal
The male Maratus spider may well be the sexiest insect in the world, if viewed properly, far sexier than the peacock after whom the tiny arachnid has been nicknamed, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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Internationally respected artist, educator, researcher, graphic designer, and ecological and human rights warrior, John Reid, has died. He was 78.
BRIAN ROPE reviews the latest collection of artworks by the 2024 Canberra City News Artist of the Year, Hilary Wardhaugh, in a joint photography exhibition with David Manley in Belconnen.
CON BOEKEL reviews two portrait photography exhibitions Nanuma by Karlina Mitchell and Deadpan Artefacts by Melita Dahl.
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Art and science meet at the melting point
"The exhibitions share a concern with the intertwined themes of time, of physics, of nature, and of being human. Individually, the two are crackers. Combined, they gain synergistic meaning and powerful intensity," says reviewer CON BOEKEL.
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The man in black to share his photography secrets
Well-known specialist music photographer Peter Hislop, who gives his time to documenting the musical life of Canberra, will present what he calls an “illustrated lecture”
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Intimate exhibitions portray connection across generations
BRIAN ROPE reviews two complementary, but different photo exhibitions.
BRIAN ROPE reviews unBECOMING, a photographic exhibition by Fernanda Pedroso.
CON BOEKEL reviews Virtual Gaze, a photographic exhibition by Annabelle McEwen.
CON BOEKEL reviews the Essence of Canberra exhibition by members of the Canberra Photographic Society.
"This is a wonderful exhibition layered with paradox upon paradox. It is personal and political. It is about fragility and courage." CON BOEKEL reviews Maddie Hepner's exhibition Paradox of Control.
Canberra Photographic Society is celebrating 80 Years of artful snapping in the nation’s capital.
CON BOEKEL reviews an exhibition of forgotten images taken in Texas in 1972-73 by Judith Macdougall and curated by her husband David.
A portrait showing three vulnerable First Nations children is the winner of the $30,000 National Photographic Portrait Prize, reports HELEN MUSA.
BRIAN ROPE reviews photographer Hilary Wardhaugh's exhibition You Cannot Trust an Open Sky.
"There is an introduction label as you enter but again had very little information on the complexities of this great Australian poet and artist." BARRINA SOUTH reviews an exhibition of the work of Kevin Gilbert.
CON BOEKEL reviews an exhibition titled Opgelicht, by Canberra photographer Wouter Van der Voorde.
"How do you present a photographer’s career which began in 1959 and has continued ever since?" BRIAN ROPE fondly reviews a new book based on the images of remarkable photographer Heide Smith.
BRIAN ROPE reviews A South Coast Selection, a photographic exhibition by Heide Smith, on display in Moruya.
