Happening in Sydney!

I went to National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) yesterday to see an exhibition calls “Look!” suggested by Kevin Murray. There are a few ceramic works in the show but i was most impressed by Prue Venables and Gwyn Hanssen Pigott works which are not in the show but were on display in the gallery. The display of their works is very dramatic, in a dark room, dark cabinets but beautifully lit up in side the cabinets. The works grow!

Seeing these very beautiful pots in NGV remind me of other beautiful pots made by a very good friend of mind, Kristen Coelho, who is having a show in Sydney at Helen Stephen Gallery at the moment. I heard a big rumour that two of her pieces from the show have been acquired by the national Art Gallery of Australia (personally hand picked by Robert Bell, Decorative Arts and Design Senior Curator who also came to the show opening..... among other well-known guests like Khai Liew and Gwyn Hanssen Pigott ). Congratulation Kristen! If you are in town please visit her show.

Also happening in Sydney at 4A Gallery is a Symposium


“Asian-Australian Art Now: Positioning the Field[s]” 



A Gathering of key artists, arts administrators, writers, theorists and curators from around the country in an open workshop discussing what constitutes Asian-Australian art now.


SATURDAY 27 - SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2008
9.30AM ON BOTH DAYS

Good list of gusts speakers including Prapon Kumjim, a Thai artist and curator, who is doing his Phd at RMIT in Melbourne at the moment.