Elegant, earthy and functional are three words that come to mind when looking at the work of Ulrica Trulsson. Her ceramic creations have minimal design and decoration elements but have simple functional features and attractive earth toned glazes. Looking around the room each of the objects have a sense of tasteful understated beauty. The exhibition goes till Sunday 21 August 2021
The website is at https://www.beavergalleries.com.au/
Graham Fransella has an exhuberant sense of fun in his art. This exhibition has two strands – one is a set of vibrant abstract celebrations of colour and form, another is a set of hard metal sculptures that portray humans and animals in various forms of fun and joy. The exhibition continues to Sunday 22 August 2021
The website is https://www.beavergalleries.com.au/
The National Library does a great job of targetted historical exhibitions. This small show in the Treasures Gallery bring together rich maps, books and photographs to portray a historical insight to the place of Rivers in Australia. A land of vast dry areas also features great flooding rivers. There are some maps of early Canberra and a great photograph of the flooded city before the finishing of Lake Burley Griffin. For the history geography buff it is a great half an hour visit.The National Library is still about the only institurion to ban photographs. These artifacts are all in th epublic collection and lots of them are very old. Still puzzles me.
Exhibition is on till September 12 and the website is: https://www.nla.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/rivers-lifeblood-australia
An exhibition I love in Canberra each year is the one that features curated art from Government primary and secondary school students in Canberra. The exhibition this year is a great display of work in a large range of media and styles. There is pottery and photography, there is collage and painting, There are more than three hundred works displayed in all three of the M16 exhibition spaces
This is the last weekend for this exhibition. The website is at https://www.m16artspace.com.au/
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