2024
24 May
NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM of AUSTRALIA
Ocean Photographer of the Year and facebook post
18 May
THE LARK ASCENDING Australian Chamber Orchestra
The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre Sutherland
- HUGO WOLF (arr. strings) Italian Serenade
- MAX RICHTER On the Nature of Daylight
- HENRY PURCELL Fantazia upon One Note, Z.745
- ANNE CAWRSE Falling Upward (world premiere)
- RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (arr. Adam Johnson)
- JOSEF SUK Serenade for Strings in E- at major, Op.6 29
- I. Andante con moto
II. Allegro ma non troppo e grazioso
III. Adagio
IV. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo presto
- I. Andante con moto
- WOJCIECH KILAR Orawa
27 April
FAIRFIELD CITY MUSEUM & GALLERY
Semantics: an evening of language and art + Villawood Launch – Photography by Jimmy Ky
Vintage Village featured in short film ‘Echoes’
18 April
Discovering The Goods Line which is an abandoned freight railway line that has been created into 0.5 km or 0.3 miles of pedestrian walkway between Central Station and Darling Harbour.
” In Between Two Worlds” by artist Jason Wing, Kimber Lane artwork. The Lane dates back to the 1880s and named after the oyster merchant, Pritchard Kimber.
17 April
The latest Korean Cultural Centre exhibition ‘Ottchil: Light from Nature’ includes red lacquer and mother-of-pear artifacts with master artisans preserving traditional techniques as well as contemporary artists reinterpreting these methods on glassware and metal craft and as paintings.
The exhibition features Ottchil which involves forming a lacquer from the sap or ott of rhus trees. Once it is refined to become translucent it is able to be used to create a natural gloss finish on objects.
17 April
Exploring and enjoying the Chau Chak Wing Museum for the first time last month to discover a very interesting variety of displays. The Museum is a free public museum located on Gadigal land sharing the University of Sydney’s extensive collections including art, science and ancient cultures. Located at the main entrance to the University’s Camperdown campus, on University Avenue, opposite the Quadrangle.
The museum includes several Ten Thousand Suns exhibitions as part of the 24th Biennale of Sydney From 9 March – 10 June 2024
14 April
STRATHFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA – Enigmas
8 April
16 March
Discovering Flinders Street Station, the river, trams, art and cakes on my recent short visit to Melbourne and it was so easy getting around Melbourne’s Central Business District and Docklands with the city’s Free Tram Zone, such a great idea.
National Gallery of Victoria Triennial Exhibition.
ACMI or Australian Centre for the Moving Image is a museum of screen culture and the permanent, free exhibition ’The Story of the Moving Image’ explores the past, present and future of images. Included are toys that were invented to view a series of drawings in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion, some of the first projections capturing movement from many still images, shadow puppets, TVs, video games and smartphones.
When Were Movies Invented? A Brief History of Motion Pictures
‘Marshmallow Laser Feast: Works of Nature’ features large-scale digital works and interactive experiences. We are one species in a shared ecosystem.
7 February
THE ART OF BANKSY “WITHOUT LIMITS”
5 January
STRATHFIELD LIBRARY Ironbark Gallery Exhibition – Cooks River: Yesterday, Today
From its source at Yagoona to its mouth at Botany Bay the Cooks River passes through Wangal, Gadigal and Gameygal lands. It provides an important biodiversity corridor of vegetated habitat in parks, reserves and gardens adjacent to the river. Over the years Cooks River has been fished, dammed, concreted, diverted and polluted – and rehabilitated.
Strathfield Council is custodian of the Cooks River as it meanders through its LGA and partners with other organisations to improve both the health of the river and the liveability of the communities within its catchment.
This exhibition will take you on a journey through the river’s rich history culminating in recent projects and initiatives that protect and conserve the river and its biodiversity.
In Rivers: The Lifeblood of Australia by Ian Hoskins, which I borrowed during the week from the library he mentions the Cooks River as his nearest waterway and the river’s most recent Ecological Health Report Card confirms the Cooks River has no score above D+, the river is sick. Published 2020.
3d art and animation 