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SUMMARY:Super Nature
DESCRIPTION:Artists’ rich creative responses to the natural world and our place within it. \nHumans are indivisible from nature – we are dependent on its systems and rhythms\, and subject to its whims. Artists have long engaged with nature as a place where we seek solace and meaning. \nThis exhibition from the Art Gallery’s collection charts the adventure of human immersion in nature. Across four spaces\, it explores places where humans and nature interact and intertwine\, the role of gardens as memorials\, the wild nature that lives alongside (and sometimes within) us\, and the cultivation of nature for survival and sustenance. \nSuper Nature includes collection favourites\, such as teamLab’s computer-generated interactive animation Flowers and people – gold 2015\, where flowers gradually bud\, blossom\, grow and decay on digital screens; Grayson Perry’s monumental woodcut Animal spirit 2016\, which skewers the pretentions of modern commerce; and Kathy Temin’s My monument: black garden 2010–11\, a towering installation of organic forms in synthetic fur. \nSeveral new acquisitions will also be shown for the first time\, including Wendy Stavrianos’s Celebration of the palms\, Darwin 1976–78\, a major drawing made in response to the intense natural forces unleashed by Cyclone Tracy\, and four brilliantly coloured paintings by Butcher Cherel Janangoo that tell of the medicinal properties of bush foods\, their significance as markers of seasonal change\, and their cultural significance to Gooniyandi people.
URL:https://schoolties.com.au/whats-on/super-nature/
LOCATION:Art Gallery of NSW
CATEGORIES:Design,Textiles,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Proximate Cosmologies
DESCRIPTION:Artists consider the mythical and controlling forces that organise time\, space and galaxies. \nProximate Cosmologies draws from the Art Gallery’s rich collection to consider the universe as undefinable\, where different ways of thinking reveal porous boundaries between the spiritual and material worlds. \nArtists have long imagined the universe as dynamic\, indeterminate\, and continually unfolding through the interplay of human and non-human forces. In Daniel Boyd’s A Darker Shade of Dark #1–4\, a flicker of light in darkness is not simply light – it is dark matter or an overlapping universe pressing against ours. Or take Shan Turner-Carroll’s Edge of the garden series\, where otherworldly travellers journey through perceived nothingness\, promoting magic and change. \nIndigenous understandings are at the centre of Proximate Cosmologies\, highlighting the interconnection between mysticism and origin stories. The exhibition includes collection favourites – such as Michael Riley’s seminal 2000 photographic series cloud and Adrián Villar Rojas’ The End of Imagination IV\, a complex layered composite form of salvaged and organic materials – and new acquisitions\, such as Susan Te Kahurangi King’s drawings that consider imaginary forces\, the unseen\, and the spaces between worlds.
URL:https://schoolties.com.au/whats-on/proximate-cosmologies/
CATEGORIES:Design,Textiles,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Brett Whiteley Chapters: 1970–79
DESCRIPTION:The newly renovated Brett Whiteley Studio opens in mid 2026 with Brett Whiteley: Chapters 1970–79\, an exhibition showcasing ambitious works produced by Whiteley during the 1970s\, including his 16-metre-wide autobiographical epic Alchemy 1972–73. \nOffering a rich array of 80 paintings\, drawings\, sculptures\, ceramics\, prints\, photographs and sketchbooks from the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Brett Whiteley Studio\, Chapters 1970–79 reveals the energy\, variety and daring of Whiteley’s practice following his return to Australia after a decade of living and working abroad\, from 1960 to 1969. \nSublime landscapes\, sumptuous nudes\, reflective portraits and revealing interiors are shown alongside Alchemy\, an allegorical self-portrait that chronicles figures and events that shaped Whiteley’s life.
URL:https://schoolties.com.au/whats-on/brett-whiteley-chapters-1970-79/
LOCATION:Brett Whiteley Studio
CATEGORIES:Design,Textiles,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2026
DESCRIPTION:Explore the immediacy and intimate power of drawing. \nDrawing is an intimate art form. Nimble\, economical\, universal and immediate\, drawing can lay bare the bones of how we look\, think and feel. The Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2026 brings together 11 artists from across Australia who use a range of materials – pastel\, pencil\, watercolour\, ceramic\, light and thread – to channel drawing’s intimate potential. \nFor some artists\, drawing encourages attention to the minutiae of the everyday\, or close observation of the people and places that make up their worlds. Others draw to give shape to the elusive forms of their imaginations. For several artists in this exhibition\, drawing is about the elaboration of a personal visual language – the putting down of lines and marks that are all their own. Looking beyond the medium’s physical attributes\, this edition of the Biennial proposes that the closest thing to a definition of drawing is its capacity for intimate expression. \nThe exhibiting artists are Stephen Benwell (Vic)\, Tom Blake (WA)\, Andrew Browne (Vic)\, Emily Ferretti (Vic)\, Rosemary Lee (NSW)\, Mary MacDougall (Vic)\, Julian Martin (Vic)\, Jennifer Mills with Darcy Luker (Vic)\, Ryan Nazzari (WA)\, Louise Weaver (Vic)\, and Gutiŋarra Yunupiŋu (NT). \nSupported by the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation\, this is the sixth Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
URL:https://schoolties.com.au/whats-on/dobell-australian-drawing-biennial-2026/
LOCATION:Art Gallery of NSW
CATEGORIES:Design,Textiles,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:The Nutcracker
DESCRIPTION:The Australian Ballet return with the beloved festive ballet The Nutcracker. Sir Peter Wright’s magical production remains faithful to the 19th-century original and will fill audiences with the Christmas spirit. \nTchaikovsky’s last ballet score\, with its famous motifs and melodies\, draws viewers into the story of Clara\, a young ballet student celebrating with her family on Christmas Eve. World-renowned designer John F. Macfarlane exquisitely evokes the world of this picture-perfect ballet: whirling snowflakes\, crackling fires\, bandbox soldiers\, a Christmas tree that grows until it brushes the ceiling\, and a Sugar Plum Fairy in luscious candy-floss pink.
URL:https://schoolties.com.au/whats-on/the-nutcracker/
LOCATION:Joan Sutherland Theatre
CATEGORIES:Dance,Drama,Performing Arts,Textiles
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