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Creative Open Call Out
Applications closing: Fri 21 Apr
We are seeking creative venues, practitioners, and businesses to deliver unique and exciting programming as part of Creative Open 2023.
Environmental Art and Design Prize
Entries closing: Sun 14 May
This unique prize awards $42,000 across nine categories and highlights creative responses to our climate crisis by diverse artists and designers.
What's on
Inverted Commoners - Gayamay / Manly Cove
Fri 21 Apr - Sun 30 Jul, 10am - 5pm
Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Dhungatti artist, Blak Douglas returns to MAG&M to present his first solo exhibition since winning the 2022 Archibald Prize.
JamFactory ICON Kunmanara Carroll exhibition
Fri 21 Apr - Sun 4 Jun, 10am - 5pm
Manly Art Gallery & Museum
This major touring exhibition showcases Kunmanara Carroll’s final ceramic works, paintings, and a tapestry produced by the Australian Tapestry Workshop.
Connectivity - Country/Landscape
Fri 21 Apr - Sun 4 Jun, 10am - 5pm
Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Cathe Stack presents her PhD body of work, using the landscape of Sydney’s Middle Harbour as the focal point for this exhibition.
Exhibition Openings
Fri 21 Apr, 6 - 8pm
Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Be one of the first to see MAG&M’s three autumn exhibitions. Wine sponsor: Little Ripples - a wine that saves lives.
Middle Harbour Walk
Sat 22 Apr, 9am-12pm, $16.20 general, $14.60 Friends of MAG&M
Join Cathe Stack and landscape architect and academic Joshua Zeunert on a guided bush walk to learn more about the unique ecosystem of Middle Harbour.
Landscape and artefact discussion
Wed 3 May, 6 - 7.30pm
Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Artist Cathe Stack and spatial artist and academic, Dr Ainslie Murray, unpack the ways connectivity to landscape is shaped.
Life Drawing: Beginners Classes
Fortnightly, 7 - 9pm
Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Acclaimed portraitist, Evert Ploeg, guides participants through fundamentals including proportion, tone and form of the figure.
Kids and families
Anatomy of the Cloud: Workshop with Blak Douglas
Sun 30 Apr, 10.30am - 12pm
Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Budding artists of all ages are invited to explore the exhibition, Inverted Commoners: Gayamay (Manly Cove) with the 2022 Archibald Prize winner Blak Douglas, then create a unique cloud artwork to take home.
Creative community
A Festival of Green Fingers
Wed 3 - Sun 14 May, 10.30am - 4.30pm
Curl Curl Creative Space
Volunteers who care for the garden at Curl Curl Creative Space have combined their artistic skills to create an unmissable Festival of Green Fingers.
Expressive Drawing Class
Tue 2 May - Tue 20 Jun, 9.30am - 12.30pm
Avalon Creative Space, $380.00 for 8 classes
A relaxed weekly drawing class with artist Tannya Harricks will challenge the way you see and draw. Explore a range of techniques, media as well as traditional and unconventional approaches to mark-making. All levels welcome.
Fluid
Wed 19 - Sun 30 Apr, 10am - 4pm
Curl Curl Creative Space
An exhibition of works exploring abstracts above and beauty below the water's surface by underwater photographer Liesel Edis, and painter, printmaker, and multimedia artist Melinda May Jordi.
"Bipolar"
Mon 15 - Fri 26 May, 9am - 5pm
Mona Vale Creative Space
A new body of work by Chilean artist Maria del Carmen focusing on how our mind navigates between good and bad feelings, coexisting in conflict, and aspires to turn towards the brighter side of the spectrum.
Storytelling Training Workshop
Sat 13 May & Sat 20 May, 9am - 3pm
Manly Library, Shelly Room
Looking to take your craft to the next level or simply interested in the art of storytelling? Join this free 6-hour workshop on storytelling for artists and creative people.
Atlantis Returns: The Lost Abstractions of an Ancient City
Mon 1 May - Fri 12 May, 11am - 5pm
Mona Vale Creative Space
A homage to the forefathers of artist Nectarios Livisianos, heritage and inheritance. Meet the artist and drinks: Fri 5 May 3 - 5pm.
Opportunities
Hire Avalon Creative Space
EOI closes Fri 1 Dec
A versitile space is perfect for creative workshops.
Volunteer at MAG&M
Interested in developing new skills in the arts and meeting like-minded people? We are looking for more front of house volunteers.
Call out for Artists: National Palliative Care Week
The Adolescent & Young Adult Hospice, 150 Darley Road Manly
Entries close 21 Apr, artworks to be delivered 22 & 23 May
To raise awareness for National Palliative Care Week, the Adolescent & Young Adult Hospice (AYAH) is inviting individuals or groups aged 16-24 to submit artworks in line with the theme of "Comfort and Loss".
Image credits:
- Peta Morris at Creative Open. Photo: Kayapa Creative Studio
- Alia Parker, winner 2022 EADP, Wearable Art Design Category. Photo: Karen Watson
- Blak Douglas in his studio, 2023
- Kunmanara Carroll, L-R: Walungurru (2 pieces) & Kiwirrkur, 2020, stoneware, dimensions variable. Photo: Grant Hancock
- Cathe Stack, Blue Jellies Rising, 2023
- Cathe Stack, Middle Harbour, video still, 2022
- Cathe Stack. Photo: Karen Watson
- Life drawing image. Courtesy MAG&M
- Blak Douglas, Anatomy of the cloud, 2022. Courtesy the artist
- Tanya Harricks, expressive drawing, 2023
- Jessie Nord, Untitled, 2023
- Liesel Edis, Ghost net, undated. Courtesy the artist
- Maria del Carmen. Photo: Kayapa Creative Studio
AI image. Courtesy Ibrahim El Badawi
- Nectarios Livisianos, Elysian Fields (segment), 2022. Coutesy the artist
- Avalon Creative Space exterior. Photo: Kayapa Creative Studio
- MAG&M Volunteer tour. Courtesy MAG&M
- Adolescent & Young Adult Hospice
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