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Performance Arts Culture Cessnock | PACC

Lovely Thunder

Lovely Thunder suggests the beauty of sound, yet this exhibition is all about colour – how it enters the eye and resonates in the mind. Like an album shifting with each track, it invites imagination to roam. George Adams has selected a group of fifteen contemporary artists whose use of colour often sets up an almost synaesthetic response for the viewer.

All the artists use colour as a lever, by which they open up their works. Ranging through different palettes, subject matter and genre, the common thread here is the power of art to affect our view of the world.

12 April—25 May

Performance Arts Culture Cessnock | PACC

198-202 Vincent Street, Cessnock NSW, Australia

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Time scales

The theme for the 10th iteration of Parrtjima, the Aboriginal festival of light that takes place annually in the Northern Territory, is ‘timelessness’. The festival aims to reflect Indigenous culture and beliefs: both ancient knowledge and contemporary concerns.

Barnaby Smith

In Pictures

Inside the heart of African-Australian communities

In a new photography exhibition at the Immigration Museum, Nigerian-Australian photographer Dr Ayooluwatomiwa ‘Ibukun’ Oloruntoba is exploring what it means to be African-Australian, while highlighting the importance of culturally safe spaces for diasporic communities in Australia.

Art Guide Australia

Opinion

Of art and appetites

Artists have long been consumed with what we eat, seen appetites as a metaphor for nourishment and vulnerability. But as Lee Tran Lam finds out, the new wave of collaborations between the worlds of art and food signals a growing cultural desire to break down barriers—and forge new connections in unexpected ways.

Lee Tran Lam

Interview

Pat Brassington is mining the unconscious

Since the 1980s Pat Brassington’s images have entranced the psyche of contemporary Australian art. With a new solo exhibition at Bett Gallery, Brassington gives a rare interview talking about studying art in her thirties, psychoanalysis, and discovering feminism through a wives’ book club.

Tiarney Miekus

Feature

Yona Lee’s object lessons

For the Auckland-based artist Yona Lee, who has a new commission at the Melbourne Art Fair, function is a source of formal possibility and ordinary material moulds space in extraordinary ways.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Preview

Wanda Gillespie’s divine interventions

Wanda Gillespie’s handcrafted sculptures embody ideas of the sacred.

Her latest exhibition, Of Counting and Devotion, is now showing at Craft Victoria’s Vitrine Gallery.

Performance Arts Culture Cessnock | PACC

Lovely Thunder

12 April—25 May

Performance Arts Culture Cessnock | PACC

Suggested Reading

Time scales

Barnaby Smith

Inside the heart of African-Australian communities

Art Guide Australia

Of art and appetites

Lee Tran Lam

Pat Brassington is mining the unconscious

Tiarney Miekus

Yona Lee’s object lessons

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Wanda Gillespie’s divine interventions

Briony Downes

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Performance Arts Culture Cessnock | PACC

Lovely Thunder

12 April—25 May

Performance Arts Culture Cessnock | PACC

Suggested Reading

Time scales

Barnaby Smith

Inside the heart of African-Australian communities

Art Guide Australia

Of art and appetites

Lee Tran Lam

Pat Brassington is mining the unconscious

Tiarney Miekus

Yona Lee’s object lessons

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Wanda Gillespie’s divine interventions

Briony Downes

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