Interwoven 2019

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INTERWOVEN
A cross-cultural + trans-generational weaving collaboration of La Trobe Art Institute + Multicultural Arts Victoria, Bendigo Emerge Cultural Hub

.INTERWOVEN will open at 12 noon next Monday September 9th with Aunty Marilyne Nicholls' Awakening of Bunya.
Bunya is the original Dja Dja Wurrung name for the ringtail possum.
You are invited to come and help weave Bunya's coat in the gallery over the course of the project. .
Venue: LaTrobe Art Institute - 121 View St, Bendigo .

INTERWOVEN@latrobe_ai

Source: https://www.latrobe.edu.au/events/all/inte...

Performing Drawing – National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2018

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Parkes Place, Parkes, ACT

Dates: 1 September 2018 – 20 January 2019

Drawings, photographs and audio visual works from the NGA’s collection.

Performing Drawing focuses on chance and change, exploring how actions can become art. This complex and considered exhibition highlights improvised gestures, hand-built machines and walking as methods of documenting direct experience, expanding the possibilities of what drawing can be in contemporary art practice.

Featuring Marco Fusinato, Nicci Haynes, Joyce Hinterding, Gabriella Mangano, Silvana Mangano, David Moore, Sarah Mosca, Cameron Robbins, David Rosetzky, Justine Varga, Ilka White, Gosia Wlodarczak, and John Wolseley.

nga.gov.au/performingdrawing
Project Gallery | Level 1
Free entry

Spring News 2018

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Hello everyone,

Yes, it’s been a while since I sent news!
I’ve been focussed on putting down roots in my new home this year, and some of them are literally bearing fruit now that Spring is really here. I’ve enjoyed making new connections, planting and watching my garden flower and set seed.

My work is still getting out and about though.
In exhibition news, my 2008-09 video work ‘Drawing Breath’ is currently showing at the National Gallery of Australia in the exhibition ‘Performing Drawing’ – curated by Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax.
A selection of ‘poetic diagrams, momentary maps and incidental portraits that reveal the expanding possibilities of what drawing can be’.
This piece was made after walking the beach on Bruny Island some years back and coming across an exquisite piece of seaweed whose spread form and movement on the water led me to reflect on inhalation, exhalation and cycles both temporal and visceral.

My newest work, ‘The leaf has a song in it’ is currently showing here in Castlemaine at the Lot19 Spring Sculpture show. This ritual/performative cloth of wool and silk was made for a recent eco-spirituality gathering and named from a line of Mary Oliver’s superb poem ‘What can I say’. It was coloured using 16 locally gathered natural dyes: Red Ironbark, Yellow Box, Cherry Ballart, Drooping Mistletoe, Treasure St Gum, Bullarto Gum, Prunus Plum Leaves, Pomegranate Skins, Red & Brown Onion Skins, Avocado Pips, Gorse Flowers, Periwinkle and Oxalis.

Details of both these exhibitions are listed below, along with the year’s remaining classes and events for your enjoyment – Feel free to pass around to others.

Next year my teaching offerings will include Introduction to Weaving Courses in Castlemaine, Fairfield and Warrandyte area. Let me know if you’d like to join in.
You can also click here for news whenever you’re curious.

Best Spring wishes,
Ilka