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Made you look! Paintings by Geoff Wallis
No full textFRI 1 DEC - FRI 9 FEB 2023 Ballarat artist Geoff Wallis presents his recent series of paintings in the exhibition, Made You Look! Informed by his extensive knowledge of art history and contemporary art issues and ideas, the subject of Wallis’ paintings is art itself. For Wallis, text is used as a kind of meta-commentary, to invite or provoke direct responses from his audience about interpretation and value judgement and broader issues surrounding authenticity, reality, and purity as they pertain to art. Beyond its semantic role, text also plays an important syntactical or formal part in the paintings’ aesthetic - one in which chance, process and facture all figure prominently. Geoff Wallis was formerly an academic, lecturing in Art History at Federation University, Ballarat, and has curated significant exhibitions and written extensively on art and artists. This exhibition was opened by Ola Wallis, the artist’s granddaughter, and the artist, on Fri 1 Dec @ 6.30pm. Image: Geoff Wallis Your Call, 2021 acrylic, oil and aerosol paint on canvas H1450 x W1380 mm Courtesy the artis
The Demidenko story so far [Monkeys discussing controversial author Helen Darville/Demidenko] [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 22 August 1995.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3512930. Helen Demidenko's controversial book 'The Hand that Signed the Paper' causes much comment from the 'chatterati' when it wins the 1995 Miles Franklin Award . When the author is later revealed to be Helen Darville and the book itself to be a total invention, the comment continues unabated.--Information supplied by Geoff Pryor
"Lies! - nothing but lies and misrepresentations - should sell a squillion!" [the Demidenko diary] [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 7 January 1996.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3524010. 'The Hand that Signed the Paper', by Helen Demidenko, a supposedly true account of a Ukranian family's involvement in the Holocaust and the winner of the 1996 Miles Franklin Award, is exposed as a hoax when the author, real name Helen Darville, is revealed as having made it all up. Darville, an odd person to say the least, would hardly be disappointed at the outcome, you might think.--Information provided by Geoff Pryor
Remember Simon - Whatever you do, don't hurt his feelings - Beazley talking to Crean about Abbott and Costello big deformation payout, 1999 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from information provided on image.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings.; Published in the Canberra Times on 7th March 1999.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4352326. In a joint action before the ACT Supreme Court, senior Liberal politicians Tony Abbott and Peter Costello win a big payout in a defamation action brought against author (and Labor ally) Bob Ellis and his publisher for comments made in his book 'Goodbye Jersalem'.--Information provided by Geoff Pryor
Lotto night - Abbott and Costello, 1999 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from information provided on image.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings.; Published in the Canberra Times on 14th March 1999.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4352342. Tony Abbott and Peter Costello win their defamation case in the ACT Supreme Court against writer Bob Ellis for a passing reference to the pair's sexual behaviour in their days as Young Liberals in his book of reminisences 'Goodbye Jerusalem: the Night Thoughts of a Labor Outsider'. Everyone acknowledges the law can be a lottery, but nevertheless you would imagine Ellis' publisher, Random House, would be less than happy with their wayward author.--Information provided by Geoff Pryor
Lost conversations: finding new ways for black and white Australians to lead together
No full textIt\u27s time for a game-changer in how black and white Australians relate.
The difficulties we have in coming together—to talk, to work, to lead change—are core to our challenge to reconcile, as a country. But if we want to shift the status quo, if we want to lead change on entrenched Indigenous disadvantage, we don\u27t need another program, initiative or money to try and \u27fix\u27 the problem. We need to start having a different conversation.
The result of two years experience working together as part of a Social Leadership Australia initiative, Lost Conversations brings together the diverse perspectives and personal stories of five Aboriginal and four non-Indigenous authors, all with first-hand knowledge of what happens when black and white Australians come together to try and work on change.
Lost Conversations asks the questions and starts the conversations that we daren\u27t have in Australia ... until now:
What is \u27black\u27 power?
What is \u27white\u27 power?
What qualifies someone to lead in this cross-cultural space?
Why is this so hard to talk about?
Can we start to name these things and try to shift the status quo?
Can we change?
Should we?
 
Peter Costello licking cream labelled Treasurer's veto with a bowl of cat food labelled Wallis report beside him, 1997 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 11 April 1997.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4706277
James Clavell - Author of King Rat - Taipan Shogun - Guest on Mike Walsh shop Sept 21 [picture] /
No full textPublished in the Canberra Times on 27 September 1981.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings
PAGE.PRINT.POST: 50 years of Artists Books
No full textPAGE.PRINT.POST: 50 years of Artists Books curated by Debbie Hill and Geoff Wallis, offers a rare insight and overview of the development, range and ambition of the Artists Book over half a century. Featuring books, postal art and other 'alternative spaces' from the 1960s to the 1980s, the exhibition presents a range of significant works from a host of private and public collections in Australia and the UK. The exhibition will include a large selection of books by Australian artists, together with remarkable and rare publications by pioneers Ed Ruscha and Dieter Rot, members of Fluxus and the Conceptual art movement, and feminists May Stevens, Nan Becker and Nancy Holt. A broad range of Artists Books and postal art by contemporary artists, including Nicholas Jones, Deanna Hitti, Angela Cavalieri, Gracia and Louise, Deborah Klein, David Dellafiora, Sarah Bodman and Guy Begbie, will also be presented
The People's Poet transformed: Geoff Goodfellow in conversation with Garry Costello
No full textAn Author event presented by The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library and held in the Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library, 16 May 2019Legendary performance poet and short prose writer Geoff Goodfellow has performed his poetry at schools, jails, colleges, universities, construction sites, factories, rock concerts and literary festivals, across Australia and in Canada, the United States, Cuba, China, Europe and the United Kingdom
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