POST, May 29, 2010 – Page 65 May 29, 2010 I TIMEPOST OUT Body beautifulcase. Emma stands her LESLEY ZAMPATTI model against a patterned The intensely-lit naked backdrop and then takes model standing near the brush to flesh to paint the window of a Waratah background pattern right Avenue gallery drew some across the model’s body. glances from passers-by on It’s a slow process in Saturday afternoon. which Emma has to take Realising the model was into account not only covered in white paint and colour and form, but a trailing pattern of black matters of complex and white flowers, a few perspective when working ventured inside to find out with a two-dimensional more, an art happening pattern on the three- seeming so incongruous on dimensional surface of the a drizzly grey afternoon in human body. the sleepy-hollow ambience Once the painting is of conservative Dalkeith. finished, Emma The model, Bec, was photographs the work. being painted – on – by The result is sheer Adelaide artist Emma illusion: the model not only Hack, a body-painter, becomes part of the design installation artist and behind, but also photographer, to open disappears into it, perfectly Spirit of Place, an camouflaged. exhibition of her stunning, This is Emma’s first large-format photographs show in WA, and it of other painted bodies. features some of her early To look at Emma’s work using wallpapers, as photographs, or just the well as her most recent image on the gallery Native Mandala and invitation, you would Exotic Mandala series. imagine her works were Inspired by the big, created digitally, or at bold, over-the-top colours least with some photo and patterns of wallpapers I Spot the model … the intriguing paintings of Emma Hack camouflage her models against wallpaper (main picture, manipulation. designed by the late above) or painted backdrops featuring Australian flora. Emma is also seen at work in Elements Gallery, below right. But this is far from the I Please turn to page 70 Page 66 – POST, May 29, 2010

POST TIMEOUT Bush colours spread message Helen will launch a LESLEY ZAMPATTI I want people to understand and comprehensive website, “My job is to go out and become aware of the conditions www.palya.com.au, that infect people with a good out in the communities. will clearly indicate the virus,” Helen Read says. ‘ locations of all 23 The good virus she refers aware of the conditions out been “learned up” in the communities whose art she to is understanding and in the communities.” languages, ways, spiritual represents, with respect for the culture and Disease, malnutrition beliefs and’ customs of the information about the ways of Aboriginal people and hardship, Helen says, many people she visits and region, the artworks and in some of Australia’s most are worse out here than who have come to know the artists. remote communities, and she ever encountered as a and accept her as family. Didgeri Air Art Tours awareness of the appalling nurse in the harshest areas Now she is counting on (DAAT) introduces non- hardships and conditions in of Biafra and Nigeria, viewers, art lovers, buyers indigenous and indigenous which they live. where she worked as a and collectors of the people to each other under She’s spreading the virus nurse in the 1970s. beautiful, colourful mutually respectful in two main ways: by Helen is English born paintings, basketry, circumstances at art bringing art from the and has a degree in art, a sculpture and models she centres. communities to the city pilot’s licence and nursing has brought from the Small groups fly out with through Palya Art, and by qualifications from her communities to help her Helen, visiting the taking city people out on home country as well as promote the knowledge communities and meeting Didgeri Air Art Tours to being a midwife. and stories that underpin artists and custodians in meet the people of these the works. Now based in Darwin, the Kimberley, Arnhem I Helen Read with some of the Palya Art showing at communities in northern she started work as a All the art in this show, Land and other parts of which runs at Gallows Gallows Gallery in Mosman Park. Eunice Napanangka’s and central Australia. nursing-sister pilot for the central and northern painting, Mungata at Kuruuldu, is nearest Helen, while in the Gallery in Mosman Park, “I’ve been talking for Pintupi Homelands Health Australia. foreground is an untitled painting by Bombart Napangarti. until June 20, is from over 20 years,” she says. Service, in the Northern For more information Behind Helen are Hollow Logs, or Larrakitj, by Djirrirra artist-owned centres. “I want people to Territory, in 1985. about DAAT, go to Waunungmurra and her brother, Nawurapu Waunungmurra Next Thursday, June 3, understand and become Since then she has also www.didgeri.com.au. from Buku-Larrngay Mulka, in north-east Arnhem Land.

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It’s not surprising that Godot has the thoroughly contemporary appeal of a anticipation for the Perth play about nothing; a recipe season of the Theatre that, as Jerry Seinfeld has Royal’s blockbuster famously proved, makes for Australian tour is tinged great comedy. with a fair amount of And this stellar apprehension. production goes for the Everyone’s looking play’s humour with a style forward to some wizardry that has brought rave from the great Ian McKellen reviews around the world (those films, and lots more) (except for some who and Roger Rees (Nicholas thought it was a little too Nickleby, The West Wing, funny). Cheers), and we expect So let’s season that nothing but inventiveness apprehension with and excellence from the anticipation for a major Theatre Royal and its crack at a great work played artistic director, McKellen’s by a mighty company with long-time friend and our pleasure their purpose. collaborator Sean Mathais. Can’t wait! But it’s Waiting for The Theatre Royal Godot, that harbinger of Haymarket Company’s I Anything Goes at WAAPA … from left, Sage Douglas, Stacy Nitschke, Erin Kennedy and Ashlee Noble. Picture: Jon Green high school English Lit production of Waiting for misery. Godot, by Samuel Beckett, is That dark, bleak, on at His Majesty’s Theatre impenetrable edifice with its Getting a kick out of Anything Goes from May 28 to June 6. bare stage (but for its single, If you want to put on a Porter’s fabulous Anything behind-the-scenes workers, Hope Harcourt, be Book through BOCS. Goes for their mid-year this lavish, feel-good thoroughly entertained, barren tree), its ragged musical, you may as well musical. production is the ideal and support WA’s clothes, strange, staccato go for broke and choose Just a fleeting glance at vehicle for WAAPA’s groundbreaking, best-in- dialogue and savage one with show-stopping the songs – Anything Goes, incredibly talented stars-in- the-country (and probably humour you were lectured numbers, pretty girls and a I Get a Kick Out of You, the-making. the world) arts training about but never got. fun story. You’re the Top, Blow, Hop on board the ocean institution. And it was written by that That certainly seems to Gabriel, Blow – and you’ll liner SS America, follow Anything Goes is on at sullen Irishman in Paris be what those talented find your toes tapping and the syncopated adventures the Regal Theatre, with the long face glaring at student troupers at the WA your lips whistling. of young Billy Crocker as Subiaco, from Friday to you from the inside back Academy of Performing With its cast of 40, he discovers true love and Saturday, June 11 to 19. cover of your not-well- Arts had in mind when orchestra of 22, and army of falls for gorgeous heiress Book through Ticketek. thumbed scholar’s edition they decided to do Cole with its incomprehensible commentary written by some PhD from the Opera the work of two years University of Leeds or I Godot mighty … Two men somewhere. A brand-new company is with this first production, director is Pettine-Ann emphasis on the musicians in ragged clothes and that sin- Handel’s handling of the Croul and Kevin and singers.” But, now that we’re gular tree. And is that an iPod dedicated to performing Greek tragedy, Acis and Langoulant is director. The cast consists of 27 spared having the life taught cord dangling from the great opera in its oldest form. Galatea. Kevin said the company performers with four-in out of it and get the chance Sir Ian McKellen’s pocket? Not for Opera Baroque Putting this production would provide a valuable lead roles – David the histrionics of together has been the training ground for Woodward as Acis, mainstream opera, with its fulfillment of a 20-year emerging Perth performers. Siobhan Patrick as flamboyant choruses, dream for artistic director Harriet said: “One of Galatea, David Dockery as hysterical divas and Harriet Weare, a singing Opera Baroque’s aims is to Polyphemus and Daniel bombastic directors. teacher who has performed bring opera to the people McMillan as Damon. This is a company wholly in operas in London. and make it more There are 12 chorus dedicated to opera in its “Not enough people have accessible. performers, four dancers purest, classical form. experienced the beauty of “We intend to go into and a seven-piece live Its members have spent baroque,” Harriet said. schools and encourage a orchestra. an amazing two years “It is simple, elegant and younger interest. Handel’s Acis and Galatea working to bring baroque A HUGE NIGHT OF uncomplicated.” “The music is easy on the is at the Subiaco Arts opera back to life, starting The company’s musical ear and there is more Centre from June 23 to 26. 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So, in the same week Its combination of wild that Waiting for Godot, farce and biting social once the height of the commentary, and the avant garde, comes to notoriety of its creator, Perth in a blockbuster, all- have bestowed on it star production, the enormous cred. theatre-in-education The tale of Mrs company, Class Act – McLeavy’s funeral and the whose A Day in the Death proceeds of the bank of Joe Egg was a critical robbery hidden away in success last year – is giving her coffin has entertained I Gomez (with gun – played by Javier Godino), Irene (Soledad Villamil), and Esposito (Ricardo Darin) in The Secret in students of all ages a and often outraged Their Eyes. season of Loot in the studio audiences around the space at the Subiaco Arts world. Centre. The scandalous career It comes with a warning Crime thriller with soul and violent death of its that it contains material The Secret in Their (Pablo Rago), for whose at the helm of TV’s Law tense thrills and the brooding author, a story now as that may be offensive, enormous loss he still feels and Order, House and 30 romance that resurrects itself famous as his creations, Eyes (MA15+, 129 mins) though in the age of deeply. Rock to piece together an as the murder investigation give it the added allure of a graphic TV crime thrillers % % % % When Esposito visits his epic jigsaw puzzle unfolds. play by Christopher like Silent Witness and former boss Irene (Soledad procedural drama – which Perhaps the film’s Marlowe, or a Nirvana REVIEW: PIER LEACH obscene satires like The Villamil), who is now a he does with both humour greatest strength is how it album. Thick of It, it’s unlikely too high-powered judge, it’s and insight. moves beyond a mere Like operas that cause satisfying emotional many people will be A not just details of the Much of the amusement television-style, plot-driven riots in the stalls at their flushed from the theatre. complexity builds complicated and cruelly comes courtesy of procedural drama into This Class Act Theatre throughout The Secret in unsettled case they dredge Esposito’s drunken but something that scrapes production of Joe Orton’s Their Eyes, the absorbing, up but long-buried brilliant colleague, beneath the surface to Loot, directed by Stephen slow-burn Argentinean emotions about their own Sandoval (Argentinean explore what drives its Lee, is on in the Subiaco crime thriller that won this unspoken feelings for one comedian Guillermo characters; love, obsession, Arts Centre studio space year’s Oscar for best another. Francella), whose bizarre corruption and justice, and from Friday, June 4, to foreign language film. Navigating seamlessly logic helps catch the killer, the role that memory plays Saturday, June 19. Book The decades-spanning between the recent past Gomez (Javier Godino), in in our lives and through BOCS. story, set in major part and flashbacks across 25 one of the film’s most perceptions. against the dark political years, writer-director Juan striking chase scenes Its ending slices close to – Lesley Zampatti landscape of Argentina in Jose Campanella (working through a packed Buenos the bone; the moral and the mid-to-late 1970s, from the novel by Eduardo Aires football stadium. emotional grey areas are I Left, Kym Bidstrup plays centres on an unresolved Sacheri) puts to superb use Campanella strikes a fine likely to have audiences McLeavy and Shirley Van crime and the unfulfilled his considerable experience balance between the film’s debating well after the Sanden the cop, in Loot. love between two of the key players in the case. It is told through the observant eyes of Benjamin cinema Esposito (Ricardo Darin), Body beautiful REWIND a recently retired court I From page 65 What the critics are saying… investigator. effective works, and in many of she stands against either a I % % % He wants to write a Florence Broadhurst, an them it is quite difficult to locate wallpapered backdrop or a large- Harry Brown (MA15+) novel about a cold case he Australian designer whose work the human figure beneath the scale painting of native flora. “Michael Caine delivers a stunning per- has never been able to put has become fashionably stylish pattern. Emma makes from 10 to 20 formance in Harry Brown, a rancid little revenge fantasy that probably doesn’t behind him involving a over the past few years, Emma Wallpaper features again in the photographic prints of each deserve him,” says the Washington Post. young woman who was got permission to use Broadhurst Mandala works. work. Rolling Stone agrees: “Caine is a marvel brutally raped and motifs in her work. In these striking circular format Spirit of Place is on at of an actor, a master of artful nuance. murdered, and her These are among some of the works, the model holds an Elements Gallery, 131A Waratah But in this movie he is at war with a husband, Ricardo Morales most complex and visually Australian bird or animal while Avenue, Dalkeith, until June 6. script that reduces everything to its crud- est elements.” I The Nightmare on Elm Street (MA15+) % % “Though no worse than the raft of terri- ble Elm Street sequels, this remake Marketforce COP1551D Marketforce misses some of the surreal and anar- chic low-budget energy Wes Craven brought to his (original) film,” says The Scotsman. Toronto’s Globe and Mail NOWSHOWING feels similarly: “The result of the new THE SECRET Nightmare is, at best, a kind of stand- IN THEIR off between predictability and compe- EYES tent execution.” Check The West or online (www.lunapalace.com.au) for sessions I The Back-up Plan (M) % % ½ and other films screening at CINEMA PARADISO Taipei + Perth Artist Exchange Program “Like those world-famous artists who Also screening NOWSHOWING Reach sense that their most distinctive work is at CINEMA The City of Perth is inviting Western PARADISO Australian practising professional behind them, but strive to equal the artists to apply for the Taipei + Perth your magnificent achievements of their youth, ##### Artist Exchange Program 2011. Jennifer Lopez is still working, still bat- “ EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT THRILLS” DAILY MIRROR Applications close 2pm, target tling to create something as abysmal as Monday 5 July 2010. 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