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Returning Officer: At a time when art is often shunned and scorned, Del Kathryn Barton That passion obviously led to you studying at COFA. Art students tend Ema Esteves has risen against the odds to become one of Australia’s most recognised to cop a lot of flack. Did you ever have people discouraging you from m: 0432 218 026 painters. Her signature style – rich, graphic, almost fairy-tale imagery pursuing a painting career? e: [email protected] – has seen her win Australia’s most prestigious portrait prize, the Very much so. As a parent now myself, I think I have a lot more Archibald, twice. There will be no working in coffee shops for Barton compassion for that. My mum, bless her, always said to me, ‘Look Del, NOMINATIONS OPEN anytime soon: her pieces frequently sell for hundreds of thousands of if you’re lucky enough to feel passionate about anything, then your only CLOSE FRI WK7 6/9/13 dollars. Blitz chatted to the softly spoken artist about studying at COFA, obligation is to be true to that.’ So that was a wonderful imprint that I got Hugo Weaving, and the difficulties of pursuing art as a career. from her. My dear father, of course, had grave concerns for my capacity to be in the world and support myself… but I left home at 17 to study at POSITIONS TO BE ELECTED First of all, a massive congratulations for winning the Archibald Prize for COFA anyway. Even now, when I meet people, and they ask me what I a second time this year. Did taking out the top spot come as surprise? do… Saying ‘I’m an artist’? I hate that moment! OFFICERS COUNCILLORS I was so, so shocked. I was really relieved and excited to be selected as a finalist, and I had such a wonderful experience working with Hugo What kind of student were you? • President of the SRC • Environment Officer • 6 Postgraduate students from Electorate A Weaving. When I got the call from the Art Gallery of NSW, I thought I was I was the most diligent, nerdy student. I was on a mission. Hard work at least 2 of whom must be a female • General Secretary • Students with Disabilities Officer in a parallel universe. has always come very easily to me. I wanted to do well. That was all that only students with a disability students may • 6 Postgraduate students from Electorate B mattered to me. And to learn as much as I could. • Education Officer What initially made you approach Hugo for the portrait? stand for this position – relevant documents at least 2 of whom must be a female I watch up to five films a week. I think because I’m very interested in So what’s an average day like for you now? • Women’s Officer must be provided film and very passionate about it, I’m also passionate about actors. I’ve It depends on my deadlines. At the moment I have a number of very big only women/female identifying students may always really responded to and respected Hugo Weaving’s work on • Welfare Officer OTHER POSITIONS and pending deadlines. I’m working seven-day weeks and 10-12 hour stand and vote for this position screen and stage. days. That’s not sustainable for the long term. • Ethnic Affairs Officer • International Student’s Officer • 3 Tharunka Editors only students from a culturally and Were you a little bit star struck the first time you met him? What advice would you give to aspiring artists hoping to make a career only international students may stand linguistically diverse background may • 7 NUS Delegates You sort of try not to be. I met him, I invited him to the studio. We sat out of their art? and vote for this position stand for this position down and had a cup of tea and a chat. He’s a very easy going, relaxed I think the most important thing is that if you can live without your work, person. So no, I definitely felt that we were meeting as artists. then live without it. It’s just such a hard road, on every level and at every Nominations must be addressed to Ema Esteves, the Returning Officer, and lodged at Arc reception at Kensington Nomination forms are available from: the internet www.arc.unsw.edu.au/about-us /elections--rules/src-elections before the deadline to be valid. or Arc reception, Blockhouse, Kensington. stage. But if you can’t live life without making art, that’s all you need to Did you always want to be an artist? be true to. Find a way to make it work. Being an artist is all that I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, since my earliest memories. I drew really obsessively as a child. It was a dream arc.unsw.edu.au/src that always made sense to me. But I went to galleries, amazingly enough, for the first time when I was in my late teens. So I embarked Krystal Sutherland on this life from a very naïve and innocent place, which I think helped sustain me. It’s a tough industry and it’s a very hard road. @KM_Sutherland
(7) THE DA VINCI CREATIVE CODE ART VS SCIENCE Everybody knows the name Leonardo Da Vinci, if not Albert Einstein famously believed that artists and for his impressive Mona Lisa, then at the very least for scientists were one and the same, with the latter being that horribly overrated Dan Brown novel. But did you very much influenced by their artistic sensibilities. A know that Da Vinci had a fetish for drawing dead body keen pianist and violinist himself, Einstein once stated parts which he picked up whilst studying in hospitals in that ‘Imagination is more important than knowledge’ Florence, Milan and Rome? I bet you didn’t. In any case, (a concept that is perhaps more commonly in tune with Da Vinci’s illustrations of the human anatomy helped to painting a picture then inventing the quantum theory give doctors at the time a greater understanding of the of physics). So basically, if we didn’t have all those body, allowing for great advances in medical science. deep-thinking arty peeps running amok, there would be no such thing as science. ASTRONOMY AND ART Albert Durer was Germany’s best known artist during MODELLING MOLECULES the Northern Renaissance, famous across Europe for Richard Buckminster Fuller, or ‘Bucky’ to his mates down his dope woodcuts and engravings. In 1515, he famously at the local pub, is a former Mensa president known for created the first printed star charts of both the northern his love of architectural designs. While working in this field and southern skies. These works were off the chart (ha) himself, Bucky famously came up with a design referred in terms of their detailed portrayal of the stars, and to as ‘the geodesic dome’, which was later discovered by were quick to become a pretty big deal within the world scientists to coincidentally have a strong resemblance to of astronomy. Durer’s descendants must be pretty carbon molecules. Deciding to reward Bucky for his efforts, stoked then that their great, great granddaddy spent and finding that they were fresh out of ‘well done’ stickers, more time painting the sky and less time trying to those same science dudes affectionately dubbed the carbon get a girlfriend. molecules as ‘Fullerenes’. PAINTING FOR PEACE CARBON CREATIVITY Every man and his dog have heard about the Berlin Joseph Beuys was a real rad dude, pioneering the Wall, a misguided attempt at border protection which ecological art movement in the 20th century. His most quickly became recognised as a symbol of the Cold War famous work is 7000 Oaks, which he undertook in the and conflict. In an effort to help them forget about the town of Kassel, Germany. Feeling seriously pissed off dudes armed to the teeth and ready to shoot them at a with the concrete jungle that Kassel was becoming, moment’s notice if they attempted to cross to the other Beuys took it upon himself to plant a shitload of oak side, West Berliners decided to get their creative juices trees across the town over a seven year period. Although flowing. Covering the massive wall with some seriously controversial at the time, the project has truly changed sweet paintings, it was transformed into a canvas of the Kassel cityscape, and most local residents are now citizens’ peaceful political protest, years later resulting proud tree huggers. Perhaps the rest of the planet in the end of the wall. Right on! should take a leaf out of their book?
“Don’t Think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things” -George Bernard Shaw Artsweek has arrived; a time to celebrate the quirky, creative and downright ART FOR DUMMIES talented students of UNSW. With stand-up comedy, music FUTURISM CUBISM To state the obvious, this movement was a clear No, this doesn’t refer to a bunch of nerdy dudes (or to shake your tail feather, rejection of the past, instead being all about cool new ‘squares’) hanging out. It’s the most influential artistic How Art shit like planes, trains and automobiles, and a serious movement of the 20th century! Perhaps made most and the launch of everybody’s need for speed. Futurist painters didn’t really have famous by wacky Spaniard Pablo Picasso, Cubism is all favourite literary journal their own developed style, instead borrowing elements about the abstracted form. This means that although UNSWeetened, there is from other movements to paint their modern, urban it may appear you are staring at a bunch of random plenty on offer to whet your landscapes. So really, Futurism is, if nothing else, the squares and triangles, it is actually a very unfortunate excitement and aid you in strongest example of plagiarism in the art world. looking man’s face. Saved The unleashing your inner art SURREALISM POP ART geek. To get you in the mood, Governed by their fearless leader Andre Breton, the Popping up (no apologies for the pun) in both Britain and Blitz has studied through the surrealists were known for their love of the weird and the US during the 1950s, this movement was a direct downright twisted. Many surrealist works were inspired by response to popular culture of the day, heavily inspired history books to find out more the stuff nightmares are made of, for example, Salvador by the worlds of advertising, comic books, and even a about the world of art, and Dali’s film Un Chien Andalou, which features extended soup company named Campbell’s. why we human beings would close-ups of an eye being slit by a razor blade.Ew. be seriously stuffed without it. Simon Anicich World! @Simonanicich (8) (9) BETTER THAN STUDYING: WHAT’S ON UNSW
WHAT’S ON UNSW ARTSWEEK
26TH AUG - 30TH AUG Artsweek is finally here! A whole week dedicated to UP TO THE WHEN: Mon 26 Aug- the wonderful world of the creative arts, and there is something for everybody. Here are just a few events to MINUTE INFO Fri 31 Aug (check page 12 whet your creative appetite! ON EVERYTHING UNIBAR SPECIAL for exact event details) WEEK 5 WHERE: All over campus LAUNCH PARTY Head to the official launch to kick off Artsweek in style. ROUNDHOUSE. VERDICT: Artyness of epic There will be free fancy food and drinks, musicians, and proportions the announcement of LensLife and Seagate SEE PHOTOS FROM competition winners. SLATE & EVENTS AND SUBMIT UNSWEETENED LITERARY JOURNAL LAUNCH COLA CANS If mingling with the next Hemmingways and Plaths sounds like your idea of a wicked Thursday YOUR OWN. EARN EA night, have we got something for you. Help UNSW’s premiere writers celebrate the launch of this year’s prestigious UNSWeetened Literary Journal with food, drinks, public readings and REWARD POINTS entertainment. Slide up close to this year’s winner (they’ll be announced on the night – the YOU CAN USE AT THE $5 suspense!) and grab yourself a sneaky autograph. UNIBAR AND BISTRO. OUTDOOR SCULPTURE AND INSTALLATION EXHIBITION TELL US WHEN YOUR The Roundhouse encourages the Responsible Service of Alcohol Running for the first time at this year’s Artsweek, the Outdoor Sculpture and Installation Not available during major events * Exhibition aims to visually transform UNSW into an outdoor exhibition space showcasing the BIRTHDAY IS AND sculptural and installation works of students from COFA, UNSW and Arc volunteer programs. WE WILL SEND YOU BISTRO SPECIAL POST SECRET EXHIBITION WEEK 5 Post Secret encourages students to anonymously write and submit their deepest, darkest secrets. A DRINK ON US. Sharing secrets anonymously can be both fun and cathartic- you might even get a little enjoyment out of having your secret in such plain sight. BEEF AND VEGETABLE SOUP WITH GARLIC BREAD LENSLIFE The annual Artsweek photography competition invites student photographers to submit works under the categories ‘People, Places and Nature’. The works exhibited at the launch party will remain in the Roundhouse throughout the week, with the winning photograph exhibited in all it’s DOWNLOAD $5 fame and glory at the White House. ART PROJECT THE ROUNDHOUSE The Art Project gives UNSW students the chance to exhibit their works to the Artsweek audience BRAZILIAN HOT DOG and greater UNSW community. There’ll be paintings, paper works, print making, textiles, APP NOW IT’S FREE WITH CHIPS AND DRINK ceramics and jewellery (to name a few!). BAND COMP FINAL After weeks of blood, sweat and tears, the final musical version of The Hunger Games is here to $9 sate your bloodlust for awesome new tunes. Watch as the best of best bands battle it out in melodic gladiatorial combat for fame, glory and some pretty badass prizes. Hell, whoever wins might just shout you a drink with their $500 Roundhouse bar tab if you cheer them on loud enough. UNIBAR & BISTRO LOWER CAMPUS (E6) UNSWROUNDHOUSE.COM SAVE THE DATE WEEK 6 Queer Week Art Project Artsweek Lens Life Exhibition Post Secret Exhibition NUTS Major Show: The Producers FREE Roundhouse Weekly Activities Mon 2 Sep - Fri 6 Sep Mon 26 Aug – Fri 30 Aug Mon 26 Aug - Fri 30 Aug 9am-5pm Mon 26 Aug – Fri 30 Aug Mon- Sat, 7.30pm @ Roundhouse @ UNSW @ Ground Floor, Red Centre @ Red Centre Artsweek- it’s finally here! A whole @ The White House @ Figtree Theatre MON Bingo 1pm, Poker 5pm A week to embrace the spirit week dedicated to the wonderful world UNSW students exhibit their artworks Artsweek’s annual photography Head to the White House to discover NUTS Proudly Presents their major show for 2013, The Producers. This of diversity and break down to the university community. of the arts. Check the below listings competition. Students have submitted hit Broadway show, written by the incomparable Mel Brooks, tells the TUES Pool 12-2pm, Ping Pong 2-8pm, Trivia 5pm negative stereotypes. for the entirety of the events. There’s works under the categories ‘People, Places the deepest and darkest secrets of your story of the sleazy, scheming producer Max Bialystock and his hapless WED Theatresports 1pm something for everyone, so there’s no and Nature’. The winning photograph will peers. accountant Leo Bloom who scheme to make millions on a musical. Runs excuse to miss out. be exhibited at the White House. until Saturday. Tickets $18/$20/$25 (Arc/Student/General Admission). WED-FRI Live Music and DJs 5-7pm WEEK 7 ALL WEEK UNSW - THERE’S ALWAYS SOMETHING GOOD GOING DOWN Film: Fantastic World Ping Pong Tuesdays VeggieSoc Lunch LensLife Exhibition Squires Sesh: Live Music Glam Rock Roller Disco 2-8pm 5-7pm Happy Hour Sat 14 Sep 6-7.30pm 12-2pm 9am-5pm 5-6pm MON @ Roundhouse @ Beer Garden, Roundhouse @ ROUNDHOUSE AUG 26 @ COFA Courtyard @ Arc Precinct @ Red Centre @ UniBar Free film and soup! Tunes from Jones Junior. The first ever Glam Rock Roller Manifesto Zine Meeting All You Can Eat Curry Day Debate Death Match Disco party will return you to LensLife Exhibition 3.30-4.30pm 12-3pm Pint Night Live Music: DJ Shantan Ichiban 9am-5pm Artsweek Launch Party 12 -1pm 5-7pm the era of high-haired superstar 6-8pm @ L1, E Block, COFA Learning @ Cornerhouse 5-10pm @ Red Centre @ COFA Courtyard @ Beer Garden, Roundhouse outlaws such as Poison, Motley @ Red Centre Commons @ The White House Artsweek’s annual photography Watch students face off on current Crue and Twisted Sister. Free food, drinks and entertainment, Daily Mass topics relevant to emerging artists $5 pints. Cheers! competition. 12.10pm Live Music: DJ Anujual Includes air guitar competition all in celebration of the wonderful Trivia 6-9pm 5pm @ Quad, G041 and designers. Gallery Crawl and prizes for the best dressed! world of art. @ The White House Smoothie Social @ Roundhouse 6-8pm 10-11am Welfare and Disability Daily Mass @ COFA Courtyard Get yo dance on @ COFA Courtyard steps Movie Night: Star Trek Into Darkness 12.10pm 7pm Happy Hour Collective Meeting UNSW Orchestra Mid-Semester Concert Come get a free liquid breakfast and 5-6pm @ Quad, G026 Squires Sesh @ The White House 12.30-1.30pm 7pm meet some new peeps! Provided by @ UniBar 7-8pm WEEK 8 Beam me up, Scotty. @ Welfare and Disability Room, SRC Pottery Studio Induction @ Sir John Clancy Auditorium R.O.C.K.E.T Club and COFA SRC. Wing, L1, Blockhouse @ UniBar Leftalks: Disability Awareness 12.30pm $4 James Squires beers COST: $10 Arc, $15 concession, $20 Flea Markets Squires Sesh 5-6pm @ L2 Blockhouse adults Wed 18 Sep Believe/Achieve: Initiative Workshop 7-8pm Crafternoon Tea 12-1pm @ ASB220 1pm COST: Free for Arc members Annual Comedy Gala @ Arc PRECINCT @ UniBar Squires Sesh @ Training Room 1, SRC Wing, L1, What barriers need to be removed @ Level 1 E Block, COFA Learning 7-8.30pm Didn’t get enough gozleme this $4 James Squires beers Pottery Studio Wheel Intro Lesson @ Roundhouse 7-8pm Blockhouse to create an inclusive and accessible Commons 1pm @ UniBar Wednesday? Never fear! The society for all?’ COST: Gold coin donation Nine real & personal stories from Mexican Standoff @ L2 Blockhouse $4 James Squires beers Flea Markets will be back with the lives of people with cerebral COST: $15 bric-à-brac in week 8. palsy. The aim is to prove that the Exhibition Opening: Place of Milk 4pm ‘til close ABILITY to TRY to ACHIEVE & to TUE AUG 27 and Honey @ The White House Meditation SUCCEED is universal! 5-7pm Cheap sangria, nachos, burritos and 1-2pm FRI AUG 30 Travel Expo LensLife Exhibition @ Kudos Gallery tequila. @ CB09, C Block Wed 18 Sep 9am-5pm Daily Mass De-stress with some quiet time. Coffee Happy Hour @ ROUNDHOUSE 12.10pm @ Red Centre COFA Talks Happy Hour 6pm 8-10am Head to the Roundhouse for an @ Quad, G055 5-7pm @ EG02, COFA COFA Soccer @ The White House expo on all things travel.If you COFA Coffee Happy hour @ UniBar 2-3pm 8-10am $2.50 coffee to kick start your didn’t have the travel bug before Bingo @ Moore Park Courtyard weekend. 1pm @ Cornerhouse Film Fest Roundhouse Degrees: Caricature this expo, you will after! 6-8pm 5-7pm @ Roundhouse All Regular coffees $2.50 @ The White House @ Marsh Room, Roundhouse Queer Collective Meeting LensLife Exhibition 2-4pm A showcase of videos and short films 9am-5pm Half-Assed Olympics Deaf Awareness Training @ Queer Space, L9, Chemical @ Red Centre International Night Markets 12-1pm by UNSW students. Band Comp Heat #2 1pm 5-8pm Sciences Building Thurs 19 Sep @ COFA Courtyard @ Quad 1001 Squires Sesh @ Roundhouse Free Toast Fridays @ ROUNDHOUSE Experience what it’s like to be deaf 7-8pm Happy Hour 10am Queer Collective Meeting and learn some basic sign language. Squires Sesh 5-6pm @ COFA Courtyard 4-6pm @ UniBar $4 James Squires beers 7-8pm @ UniBar @ Queer Space, L9, Chemical Free Pool @ UniBar Yoga Sciences Building 12-2pm $4 James Squires beers. UNSWeetened Literary Journal Launch 12-1pm @ Roundhouse 5-7pm @ CB09, C Block WEEK 9 Poker @ UNSW Bookshop 5pm Daily Mass WED AUG 28 Daily Mass Mid-Session Party: Free wine, canapés and awesome 12.10pm @ Roundhouse 12.10pm student creativity. 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Fancy yourself as a bit of an art HAIR CUTS COOKING connoisseur? Do you take great Perhaps you’ve decided you want to get on Experimenting in the kitchen is fine, but only pride in getting your art snob on board with the whole hipster trend, or maybe if you’re a professional. For everyone else, at your local gallery, going up to What you’ve just gone through the worst breakup creative cooking can only lead to food that strangers and informing them of your life. Whatever the reason, you want tastes like shit (not that we know what shit that all the paintings in the room a new look and decide to give your locks a tastes like…) and a burnt down kitchen. So if are ‘shallow and pedantic’? Make chop. DON’T DO IT! Getting creative with your you don’t want the fire brigade hacking down sure you check out our picks of own ‘do is only going to lead to bald patches, your front door with an axe, stock up on your the best exhibitions currently not singed roots and irreparable dye jobs. So if Jamie Oliver and Donna Hay books and just showing in Sydney. Follow our you don’t want to end up with having to shave follow the recipe. Seriously, the instructions guide and you’ll be snooting your head of the monstrosity à la 2007 Britney are there for a reason. around town like a pro in no time! Spears, put the scissors down and book yourself an appointment at the salon pronto. WHITE LIES It starts off perfectly tame; some kid you went to get TATTOO DESIGNS to school with years ago keeps hounding you If there is one way to truly f**k up in life, it is to catch up, but you always thought they were SYDNEY MODERNS to have your skin permanently etched with a bit of a weirdo. So you tell them the small the most horrible tattoo known to mankind. little mistruth that you ‘have to wash your Sydney Moderns charts the drastic growth and structural changes Seriously, if you’re gonna get inked, it’s hair that night’. The lie starts snowballing of Sydney throughout the twenties and thirties, as depicted by WHERE: Art Gallery of NSW, creative probably a good idea to take a few trips to the pretty quickly, and before you know it, you’re artists living during this exciting period. As stated by the Art parlour and let the professionals get to work. a professional astronaut heading off on a Gallery of NSW, the talented men and women whose works make Art Gallery Road, Sydney Unless of course you are a fan of misspelled, mission to Mars. A week later, you run into up this exhibition famously “represent one of the most distinctive WHEN: 6 July-7 October CHEAP A$$ SYDNEY crudely drawn, pieces of shit. A massive tat them on the street and they realise you’re not and creative periods in the history of Australian art, between the on your arm may sound like a good idea, but off exploring the galaxy, and that you just don’t first and second world wars”. COST: $12 Concession when you can barely draw a stick figure let want to see them. And that’s when shit gets LOOK with! alone a fire-breathing dragon, its probs best awkward. Lying; avoid it. not to design it yourself. Public Sydney: Stop, Look, Live Simon Anicich WHEN: 30 March-8 September @Simonanicich WHERE: Museum of Sydney COST: $5 concession When you take a stroll around ye olde Sydney town, it is pretty obvious that there are some pretty wacky public spaces lurking around the city. For instance, did you realise that the city’s beloved Town Hall is actually facing the wrong direction than was originally planned? Cray cray. Public Sydney is a seriously awesome exhibition which celebrates the unique cityscapes of Sydney, showcasing the rich architectural and social history of its public spaces. Highlights include an uber cool photo essay of skateboarders hanging out at Hyde Park, as well as Vox Pops taken around the Opera Creative Works that Went Wrong! STRING THEORY: FOCUS ON House (although they aren’t as good as ours!) AUSTRALIAN CONTEMPORARY ART VISIT Fugitive Structures String Theory features works by an array of Aboriginal artists, WHERE: Museum of WHEN: 22 March-15 September with the exhibition centred on an expansion of traditional WHERE: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Contemporary Art (MCA), indigenous textiles and crafts. Highlights in the collection Paddington include a piece by artists from Yirrkala, who have crafted a 140 George St, The Rocks whopping 100 metres of hand-made string! Best of all, String COST: Free Theory has its own pop-up store, so you can purchase works by If you have a fetish for all things architecture, check WHEN: 15 August- many of the featured artists. out Fugitive Structures, an exhibition featuring works by emerging architects which were all entries 27 October in the competition of the same name. The comp COST: Free itself is run by SCAF and architectural firm BVN Donovan Hill, with the winner being awarded the chance to create a temporary structure within an urban setting. This year’s winner Andrew Burns is a Sydney local, so get yourself along and show your support for this talented home-grownWAS architect. HERE WAS HERE WAS HERE WATCH Korean Film Festival in Australia: Stoker WHEN: 8.45pm, Wednesday 28 August PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE ETSY PAINTINGS FIFTY SHADES OF GREY [email protected] WHERE: Event Cinemas, George St While there are many contenders for the title of The quality and value of paintings fluctuate Unlike Plan 9, E. L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey PAT BRASSINGTON: QUILL COST:[email protected] $12.50 Concession BITE US! Worst Film of All time, Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From dramatically depending on time and place. For has no charming redeeming qualities. While [email protected] The Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA) is now Outer Space is so bad it eclipses all the others. example, in his lifetime, Van Gogh’s work was Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight tops Goodreads’ in itsBITE 4th year, US! an awesome festival which celebrates With actors reading directly from scripts, regularly regarded to be about as precious as list of the Worst Books of All Time and The photo media works of Pat Brassington are totally baller, and the offbeat and highly diverse world of Korean cinema. boom mics visible in shots, outdoor footage used toilet paper. Therefore, deciding what James’ BDSM Twilight fanfic only comes in at WHERE: Stills Gallery, 36 this exhibition of some of her latest work is easilyBITE your US!best chance Organised by the Korean Cultural Office, this year’s interspersed with studio scenes, and a voiceover makes for good art is almost always difficult, number seven, we here at Blitz respectfully to check out the Godmother of Surrealism’s photography in the that states ‘future events such as these will except under one condition: when that artwork disagree. Here’s why: Twilight is kind of funny Gosbell St, Paddington flesh. Quill revolves around the idea of flights of the imagination, festival theme is ‘The Many Faces of Korean Cinema’, highlighting the highly talented directors, actors and affect you in the future’, it’s no wonder Plan 9 is being sold on Etsy. Everything – everything, in bits. Twilight has a semi-comprehensi- WHEN: with the ethereal subjects of her photos seemingly jumping 31 July-31 August straight out of Brassington’s mind as a “mercurial bunch of shape- actresses working within this particular film industry. is regularly referred to as the worst movie ever every piece of artwork sold on Etsy, no exception ble, semi-reasonable, sort of sometimes The Blitz pick of the festival is Stoker, which is the made. In true ‘so bad it’s good’ fashion, many – is the worst painting ever. From portraits that threatening plot. Basically Twilight and Fifty COST: Free shifters with lives and minds of their own”. English-language debut of controversialWIN and critically critics say the film’s serious ineptitudes are so were clearly sketched by Napoleon Dynamite to are at opposite ends of the spectrum quality acclaimed Korean director Park Chan-wook. Starring blatant they simply add to its charm. If only I horrific finger paintings unmistakably done by wise, and that’s freakin’ saying something. some of Australia’sWIN greatest acting exports, like Nicole could get my lecturers to think the same thing possessed chimpanzees, Etsy has something for For your chance to win one of three double passes to Sydney Moderns at the Art Krystal Sutherland Gallery of NSW, send an email to [email protected] with ‘MODERN’ in the subject Kidman, Jacki Weaver and Mia Wasikowska, this is one about my essays. every art enthusiast to cringe at. line and tell us your all-time favourite painting movie you don’t want to miss. @KM_Sutherland
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•GAME HIGH DISTINCTION •WEB SERIES DISTINCTION •TV SERIES DISTINCTION •BOOK DISTINCTION Amanda Rowell, The Commercial Gallery owner How did you get started in the art world? When I was doing my undergraduate degree as a mature age student at the University of Sydney (Honours in Art History and Theory, thesis in 18th century French painting), I got a job two days a week at the commercial gallery Eva Breuer Art Dealer in Woollahra. I also had a lot of friends who were artists older than me at the outset of very exciting careers. What is an average day like for you? THE LAST OF US MARBLE HORNETS SPARTACUS THE BONE SEASON Hectic. For PlayStation 3 Samantha Shannon Do people have common misconceptions about The Internet is a weird place. One Spartacus: War of the Damned is the final what you do? What do you get when you cross Cormac moment it’s making you laugh at instalment of the Spartacus TV series. As far as book hype is concerned, a debut author couldn’t really I don’t think people quite realise how hard running a McCarthy’s The Road with Telltale’s The Russian men with brilliantine hair and Although filled with graphic violence, ask for more than the insane buzz currently swarming around gallery is. They come in and it’s a quiet space with some Walking Dead and the developers of amazing eyebrows singing lyricless strong sexual content and coarse Samantha Shannon’s The Bone Season. On Goodreads, the book pictures on the wall. They don’t seem to have a sense of the artillery of emails and other correspondence that Uncharted? You don’t just get an awesome songs from the 1970s, and the next language, this series is epic and is has been dubbed ‘Bloomsbury’s biggest global debut of the need to be responded to and initiated for the smooth and game. You get an incredible one. it’s making you scream at a tall albino definitely worth a watch. Epic. year.’ In other words, it’s kind of a big deal. in a nice suit who resides in a forest. successful running of things. Every step of this blood-soaked and The latter is of course the infamous With Glaber dead, Spartacus and his The story centres on 19-year-old Paige Mahoney, a clairvoyant army of rebels, now amounting to What part of the job do you love the most? robust journey is drenched in tension Slenderman; a tall, vaguely Lovecraftian working in the criminal underworld of Scion London in the year Working with artists towards exhibitions, and the thousands, have become a force to be and emotion as you journey across a creature that feasts on your fears and is 2059. In a city terrified by anything unnatural, she commits production of new major works. How to go about making post-apocalyptic United States with a always, always watching you (despite not reckoned with. Determined to bring treason simply by breathing. When her powers are uncovered, an artwork is like a puzzle to be solved or something to foul-mouthed fourteen year-old girl. having a face). down the Roman Republic, Spartacus Paige is attacked, kidnapped and drugged, and transported to be interrogated. I like kicking around the conceptual, There are times when this feels like more leads his mass of freed slaves into the forgotten city of Oxford, now under the control of a powerful, aesthetic and logistical decision-making. than just a survival game, like in the game Though Slenderman originated on the a full out war. Rome’s only hope is otherworldly race. If she wants to regain her freedom she must How about the downsides? when you’re watching the sunset from forums of Something Awful, it was the Marcus Crassus who, aided by young learn how to survive in the prison where she is meant to die. ARG web series Marble Hornets that Julius Caesar, will do his might to crush The endless physical labour required in order to keep the the top of an apartment building with soft gallery in good order. The appearance of an art gallery is truly put the character on the map. Spartacus and his rebellion. music in the background. The thrill of I decided I liked The Bone Season on page 6, where there’s a critical to how the art therein is read. I am hyper-sensitive terror when you reload your rusty revolver The premise of the series is relatively funny mention of the ghost of Anne Naylor. After that, it just got So how does one eulogise a series to all the blemishes that need to be fixed in order for to find yourself with two shots and three simple; a guy named Jay stumbles upon better. From oxygen bars to nixie tubes, to the Night Vigilance the art to be seen in the best possible context. It’s a bit like Spartacus? 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