JULY 2018 ARTeFACT Magazine
The Arts and Culture Unit of the City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia's monthly newsletter. What happened in June and what's happening in July around town. The Arts and Culture Unit of the City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia's monthly newsletter. What happened in June and what's happening in July around town.
Alexandra Bell “Lines” exhibition opening Unicorn Lane Gallery - 9 June, 2018 Linocuts and Photographic images. Good friends make good company, and Alexandra Bell enjoyed both at the opening of her exhibition Lines at the Unicorn Lane Gallery. 12 July 2018 ARTeFACT Newsletter
Huyghue House 15 Camp Street Alfred Deakin Place Cats In Art GROUP EXHIBITION “Time spent with a cat is never wasted.” Collette “That is the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: You make them follow you.” Robert Heinlein “You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.” Jane Pauley Cats were the first domesticated animal to be deified and thus worshipped by people as the earthly representative of a higher consciousness. Cats in all their physical grace and mysterious ways have been the centrepiece of artworks for millennia. Cats are the one domesticated creature that retains its essentially wild nature. As a companion piece to 2017’s wildly popular Dogs In Art, Backspace Gallery opens its winter season with Cats In Art - an exhibition that invites local and regional artists to move beyond the ‘cute kitten video’ and to delve into our relationship with the companion that chooses us, rather than the other way around. 49 artists heeded that call, resulting in a body of work in all media that celebrates the many ways that cats are depicted in contemporary art – realistic, abstracted, serious and playful. As an open-entry show, Cats In Art features emerging artists alongside mid-career and established practitioners, providing a unique opportunity for visitors to experience a range of artistic visions, approaches and styles. Complementing Cats In Art, the Exquisite Project Space (in the Backspace Gallery foyer) has issued its own invitation to the general community to contribute more dubious manifestations of feline-aphilia to the display Kitty Kitty Kitsch. From Little Cat’s Feet Bedroom Slippers to Hello Kitty! Coin Purses to Little Kitty Onesies, this adjunct to Cats In Art is a humorous signal that cats will always be with us. Backspace Gallery is an initiative of the City of Ballarat Arts and Culture Unit, dedicated to supporting local and regional artists by exhibiting quality contemporary visual art, design and craft. Located in historic Huyghue House: Alfred Deakin Place, 15 Camp Street in the CBD Exhibition is open to the public Thursday - Sunday 12 – 4pm further information contact Deborah Klein: deborahklein@ ballarat.vic.gov.au July 2018 ARTeFACT Newsletter 13
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Huyghue House 15 Camp Street<br />
Alfred Deakin Place<br />
Cats In Art<br />
GROUP EXHIBITION<br />
“Time spent with a cat is never wasted.”<br />
Collette<br />
“That is the great secret of creativity. You treat<br />
ideas like cats: You make them follow you.”<br />
Robert Heinlein<br />
“You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.”<br />
Jane Pauley<br />
Cats were the first domesticated animal to be deified<br />
and thus worshipped by people as the earthly<br />
representative of a higher consciousness.<br />
Cats in all their physical grace and mysterious ways<br />
have been the centrepiece of artworks for millennia.<br />
Cats are the one domesticated creature that retains its<br />
essentially wild nature.<br />
As a companion piece to 2017’s wildly popular Dogs<br />
In Art, Backspace Gallery opens its winter season<br />
with Cats In Art - an exhibition that invites local and<br />
regional artists to move beyond the ‘cute kitten video’<br />
and to delve into our relationship with the companion<br />
that chooses us, rather than the other way around.<br />
49 artists heeded that call, resulting in a body of<br />
work in all media that celebrates the many ways that<br />
cats are depicted in contemporary art – realistic,<br />
abstracted, serious and playful.<br />
As an open-entry show, Cats In Art features<br />
emerging artists alongside mid-career and established<br />
practitioners, providing a unique opportunity for visitors<br />
to experience a range of artistic visions, approaches<br />
and styles.<br />
Complementing Cats In Art, the Exquisite Project<br />
Space (in the Backspace Gallery foyer) has issued its<br />
own invitation to the general community to contribute<br />
more dubious manifestations of feline-aphilia to the<br />
display Kitty Kitty Kitsch. From Little Cat’s Feet<br />
Bedroom Slippers to Hello Kitty! Coin Purses to<br />
Little Kitty Onesies, this adjunct to Cats In Art is a<br />
humorous signal that cats will always be with us.<br />
Backspace Gallery is an initiative of the City of Ballarat Arts<br />
and Culture Unit,<br />
dedicated to supporting local and regional artists by<br />
exhibiting quality contemporary visual art, design and craft.<br />
Located in historic Huyghue House:<br />
Alfred Deakin Place, 15 Camp Street in the CBD<br />
Exhibition is open to the public<br />
Thursday - Sunday 12 – 4pm<br />
further information contact Deborah Klein:<br />
deborahklein@ ballarat.vic.gov.au<br />
July <strong>2018</strong> <strong>ARTeFACT</strong> Newsletter<br />
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