Melbourne exhibition: Kindness/Urdata: Australia-India Cultural Exchange

Those in Melbourne are invited to drop by the RMIT Gallery to see Kindness/Udarta: Australia-India Cultural Exchange.
 
117 artists and writers have contributed to this exhibition, which celebrates 20 years of Australia-India Council Cultural Projects. The exhibition is currently on display and closes on August 5.
 
An evening of literature, visual art, and music will be held on 2 August 6-8pm to celebrate 20 years of the Australia–India Council’s cultural program (details below). Please RSVP to (03) 9925 1717 or rmit.gallery@rmit.edu.au.

Artist Mandy Ridley says: "The invitation to contribute to Kindness / Udarta: Australia-India Cultural Exchange was the catalyst to making new work and became an opportunity to reflect upon the great kindness I have been gifted whilst in India." There is more information about Mandy's experiences in India in the attached link: http://www.melbournereview.com.au/read/515/.

Melbourne exhibition: 'Wearable Cities' by Blanche Tilden

Wearable cities is a solo exhibition by Blanche Tilden. The exhibition will be launched on July 31 at Gallery Funaki in Melbourne from 6-8pm.

Modernism’s dreams of the future may have become the stuff of our past, but through her jewellery, Blanche Tilden recognises in its most utopian moments an idea which still has the power to enchant us: that of a building made of glass. Her pieces are not emptily nostalgic objects, however. Rather, we might read in them a new idea about our relationship with built spaces: her structures reverse the traditional idea of a building as an envelope for bodies and instead, propose a relationship in which the body carries her structures with it, a sort of talisman for a contemporary nomadic life in which the webs of glass and silver create small prisms of light, not quite material, and resonant with our own dreams of other possible futures.
Anne Brennan
Artist, writer & Head of Art Theory Workshop, ANU School of Art.
2010

ANDREA HIGGINS 'MEMENTO MORI' EXHIBITION

Andrea Higgins, Untitled 1 from Wire Works Series, Photogram 2009

Artisan's Andrea Higgins is exhibiting a collection of her photograms in "Memento Mori" at Obscura Gallery in Melbourne. The exhibition opens on Friday the 1st April from 6:30 - 8:30pm and will be on display until the 25th April. Please do pop in if you are in Melbourne during those dates! 

Exhibiting alongside Andrea is Elizabeth Dobrilla's collage pieces in "Mizu-Nami-Rising". For more information about Obscura Gallery please click here.

Elizabeth Dobrilla, Mizu-Nami-Rising, Digital Collage, 2010