Archive for March, 2012
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Award winning animation at Byron Bay Film Festival
A hero with a gramophone head, an oboe-playing cat, an unscrupulous telephone head villain and a triangle-playing elephant. These are just a few of the whimsical characters in the award winning animated film The Missing Key brought to us by Australian animator/composer/screenwriter/director Jonathon Nix. Enjoying its Byron Bay premiere as part of the 6th Annual Byron Bay Film Festival, The Missing Key is a thirty minute explosion of colour and visual illusion created from hand-drawn pencil on paper and watercolour filled backgrounds and textures. ‘It is about an artist seeking to create something of beauty […]
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Eco exhibition to raise erosion awareness at Kingscliff
Coastal erosion is not a geographically isolated event with many low-lying areas increasingly threatened by rising seas. The massive coastal erosion that has impacted upon the tourist town of Kingscliff on the far north coast of NSW has been chronicled into a body of work by photographers Michael Bryant and Tracy Jay. As a participating venue in the Queensland Festival of Photography 4, Curious Art Gallery at Chinderah will present an exhibition of Bryant and Jay’s photographs titled The Hungry Ocean. The exhibition aims to promote awareness of the local issue as a microcosm of […]
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Brian Setzer jump starts Byron Bluesfest
Brian Setzer has always been a rebel. When England was immersed in the punk rock sounds of the 80’s, Setzer and his American mates sold up their gear and bought a plane ticket. They howled onto the scene as the Stray Cats, bringing driving rockabilly licks, heart-thumping standup slap bass and a heavy snare drum back-beat. During the 90’s, Setzer rioted among the zoot suits, styling a 17-piece swing orchestra to back his blistering jump blues guitar. This assembly earned him his 8th Grammy nomination for best classical crossover album (Setzer has won three Grammy […]
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Norpa jumps aboard live theatre at Lismore train station
Railway stations are places of the heart, where life’s journeys begin and end, where hellos and goodbyes remain locked in time. When the Lismore station closed in 2003, more than 250 people turned up to protest the closing of the rail service. Now, Lismore Station is being brought back to life by Julian Louis and the team at Generator, NORPA’s Creative Development Program. Railway Wonderland will have its World Premiere March 27th-31st, 2012. Take your seat under the stars and immerse yourself in a dreamy wonderland of strange encounters, wild stories, half-truths and bare-faced lies. […]
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Tweed River Gallery celebrates the diversity of printmaking
To celebrate the 45th Anniversary of the Print Council of Australia, forty-five contemporary artists were invited to create a work using the printmaking technique of their choice. The results have been curated by established artist printmaker Rona Green into a touring exhibition; Familiar Unfamiliar. The exhibition will be on show at the Tweed River Art Gallery from Friday 11th May until Sunday 24th June, 2012. Showcasing the diversity of printmaking and giving the public an insight into the extraordinarily varied nature of print media, Familiar Unfamiliar will include works from artists Deborah Klein, Jazmina Cininas, […]