Join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers this Arts Thursday to meet two special guests.

Gabrielle Mordy

Carriageworks has been presenting NO SHOW, featuring projects by 11 artist-led initiatives from across NSW.

Featuring the work of more than 50 mostly early-career Australian artists and writers, since February 12 until this Sunday March 7, the program has been showcasing an evolving display of art installations, screenings, performances and writer residencies, highlighting the activities of artist-run spaces, cooperatives, digital platforms, online publications and studios.

Invited organisations include Studio A, which supports artists living with intellectual disabilities.

At Carriageworks, visitors enter a self-styled fortress painted by Mathew Calandra, sit with performance artist Skye Saxon – as she reads her colourfully-designed tarot cards, and join artist Jaycee Kim in creating giant rainbow plaits.

Studio A CEO & Artistic Director Gabrielle Mordy is joining us to outline how and why Studio A came to be established and its important role in promoting as well as encouraging artists’ work whose creativity might not otherwise have been discovered.

Carol Ruff

Artist Carol Ruff grew up with her mother’s stories of life on a sugar plantation in Java – it seemed to her that her mother lived a charmed life in this exotic place, in the Dutch Colonial world before the second world war.

The exhibition Exotic to Me. Watercolour paintings by Carol Ruff, is dedicated to her mother and is open from 13 – 28 March at Gallery East in Clovelly and captures the fairy-tale quality of Carol’s early understanding of her mother’s life in Indonesia.

Her works have a delicate quality that brings together elements of traditional Javanese decoration and the lush fertile countryside and its produce, a tribute to an exotic, dream-like past.

Carol’s mother, Jan Ruff O’Herne, is her muse. However,  Jan was also a survivor of brutal treatment during World War 2 and 50 years later was instrumental in campaigning for the rights of women abused in war and having rape declared as a war crime by the Human Rights Commission.

Carol’s works tell a number of stories.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Exotic to me exhibition exhibition: https://www.carolruff.com/copy-of-habitat-1

Studio A: https://www.studioa.org.au/

DON’T WORRY IF YOU MISS THE PROGRAM!

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