COIL and ROAR final days / NEXT: ICONOLOGY and A sight that remains
COIL and ROAR has been extended until this Saturday 29 November. For a final chance to see this stunning exhibition by painter Clare Thackway and sculptor Emily O’Brien, the Bureau is open 12-5pm Thurs 27, Fri 28, Sat 29 Nov.
A fantastic review of the exhibition by Sophia Halloway is online: Forbidden fruits — Art Guide Australia
OPENING 3pm SAT DEC 6
ICONOLOGY: new faces
Curated by Mark Bayly. Various artists including Richard Larter, Lindy Lee, Bea Maddock, Kathe Burkhart, Ruth Waller, Lewis Morley, Tim Price, Peter Maloney. The works in this exhibition resonate with aspects of popular culture in a similar manner, from transgressive drag artists, to actors, models, and those who perform and celebrate their identities through gender or sexuality.
ALSO OPENING SAT DEC 6
Agus Wijaya A sight that remains
in the window gallery
#2 (Edition of 3)
Curated by Joyce Fan. A sight that remains features works by Sydney-based artist Agus Wijaya. Combining digital media, experimental sculpture and installation, Wijaya’s practice interrogates how identity is constructed and deconstructed through the cultural, historical and personal.
Agus Wijaya is represented by Stanley Street Gallery.
Chris Carmody included in Conjunction: ANU Art Collection at Drill Hall
BLAST/BLESS by Chris Carmody is the featured work for this year’s ANU Art Collection exhibition Conjunction curated by Oscar Capezio and Tony Oates at the Drill Hall Gallery.
Carmody is an ANU School of Art alumni, now based in Brisbane. His exhibition Fluorescent Array at Civic Art Bureau sold out earlier this year. His second solo presentation at the Bureau will be mid-2026.
BLAST/BLESS is derived from the cover of the inaugural issue of Blast, the literary journal of the British Vorticist art movement, published July 1914.
Another work by Carmody showing in Conjunction is 249.GYS (let the possums in), 2014, gifted to the ANU Art Collection by Peter Maloney and Mark Bayly in 2022. These works are examples of Carmody’s longstanding preoccupation with book covers affected by wear and tear and fading in sunlight.
Thanks for reading, hope to see you at the Bureau before we take a break for Christmas and cricket!
Cheers from Adam