Penrith Regional Gallery - Kare Sansui - Japanese raked garden
Kare sansui - Japanese raked garden
On exhibition
Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest
26 January - 24 March 2013
Kare sansui is Japanese for 'dry landscape'. A traditional garden often created in the absence of water, Kare sansui comprises pebbles which have been raked to imitate the flow of water and land formations of mountain and plain.
With project partner Cowra Japanese Gardens the Main Gallery is transformed into a Zen garden installation.
Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest
86 River Road
Emu Plains NSW 2750 Australia
p 02 4735 1100 f 02 4735 8334
e gallery@penrithcity.nsw.gov.au
Open daily, 9am - 5pm
penrithregionalgallery.org
TOP 10 PENRITH (SYDNEY) Attractions (Things to Do & See)
Best places to visit in Penrith (Sydney) - New South Wales, located 50 km west of Sydney CBD and on the banks of Nepean River. Penrith is one of the cities within the Sydney Metropolitan area.
Things to do in Penrith is to visit tourist attractions such as Museum of Fire, Sydney International Regatta Centre (SIRC), Westfield Penrith, The Rock Lookout (Mulgoa), Muru Mittigar Aboriginal Cultural & Education Centre, Nepean River, Shepherds Hill Recreation Park (St Marys), Go-Shu Australian Sake Brewery, Penrith Museum of Printing, Thornton Artisan and Farmert Markets, Penrith Regional Gallery (Emu Plains), Penrith Whitewater Stadium (Cranebrook), Penrith City Archers (Werrington), Nepean Naval & Maritime Museum, Emu Market (Emu Plains), Inflatable World (St Marys), Rusty Penny Brewing Co, Mt Schoenstatt Shrine (Mulgoa), etc.
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Contemporary Australia: Women / GOMA Talks Art and design / Can women rewrite history?
GOMA Talks, presented in partnership with ABC Radio National, explores contemporary ideas and issues from a range of perspectives with special guest panellists. During 'Contemporary Australia: Women', GOMA Talks tackles some of the most topical questions about contemporary Australia, from national identity and business to sexuality and science. ABC Radio National hosts Sarah Kanowski (Weekend Arts), Natasha Mitchell (Life Matters), Geraldine Doogue, AO (Saturday Extra) and Fenella Kernebone (By Design) lead all-female guest panels during these entertaining evening discussions.
Reviewing the world of contemporary art and design through the contributions of contemporary women artists, curators, architects and designers.
Host, Fenella Kernebone
Fenella Kernebone is the presenter of ABC Radio National's By Design program, and a television presenter and producer, MC, interviewer and writer. From 2010 -11, Kernebone hosted Art Nation on ABC TV and presented and produced Sunday Arts. Prior to this, Kernebone was one of the hosts and film reviewers of The Movie Show on SBS TV. In addition to her new role on By Design, Kernebone is also the host of her long running, cult electronic music show, The Sound Lab, on Triple J radio.
Julie Ewington
Julie Ewington is a writer, curator and broadcaster. She is currently Curatorial Manager, Australian Art at Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, and curator of the 'Contemporary Australia: Women' exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art. Ewington's vast experience as a contemporary art curator and writer covers the work of a range of women artists, from Margaret Cilento and Yvonne Audette to Kathy Temin and Louise Bourgeois. She is the author of the major monograph and retrospective of artist Fiona Hall (2005) and was a lead curator for the exhibition 'Contemporary Australia: Optimism' at the Gallery of Modern Art in 2008-09.
Niki Kalms
Niki Kalms is an academic and writer and has published widely on contemporary architecture and urbanism. She writes regularly for local and international design media and has extensive experience in architectural research and publications. In 2012 Niki was appointed a Member of the Interior Design Educators Association (IDEA) editorial advisory board (2012-2015). Niki is currently undertaking a PhD in Architecture at Monash University where her research interests include feminism, contemporary urbanism and design. Niki is a full time member of Monash University's Faculty of Art Design + Architecture and has helped to establish the Interior Architecture Program's design-based initiatives with a focus on cross-disciplinary studios and architectural theory.
Justene Williams
Justene Williams is a Sydney-based contemporary artist whose practice over the last decade has encompassed video, photography, performance and installation. Williams was a founding board member of CBD Gallery, Sydney (1993-1998) and a member of the Artist Advisory Group, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2004-2006). Her work has been exhibited at the Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney (2011), Penrith Regional Gallery and The Lewers Bequest, Emu Plains (2010). Williams currently presents two video installations in the 'Contemporary Australia: Women' at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Jenny Kee
Jenny Kee is an internationally acclaimed artist and designer, whose work has pioneered Australian fashion design by drawing inspiration from the vibrant colours and designs of the Australian bush landscape. In the 1970s, Kee worked with writer and antique clothes-dealer Vern Lambert at London's Chelsea Antique Market. She returned to Australia in 1973 to open the fashion boutique Flamingo Park in Sydney's Strand Arcade. Kee's designs are celebrated worldwide and have been exhibited in major galleries including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and Marimura Museum, Tokyo. In 2012, Kee held her first solo presentation since 1981 at the Australian Fashion Week, with her designs styled by Styled by duo Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales from Sydney label Romance Was Born.
Contemporary Australia: Women / Gallery of Modern Art / 21 April -- 22 July 2012
NOISE - an exhibition of new music
NOISE is a combined discipline exhibition which pushes the definition of 'soundscape as art' to include new musical compositions of any variety.
NOISE will showcase ten new recordings by Australian and international musicians from a wide range of genres -- from opera to IDM, folk to neo-classical and industrial.
Featuring new work by...
Jim White (Dirty Three) & George Xylouris
Tom Ellard (Severed Heads)
Io Echo
Eddie Muliaumaseali'I
Jack Ladder
Kirin J Callinan & Daniel Stricker (Midnight Juggernauts)
Castratii
Tim McPhee (Firekites)
Barton Staggs
and
Matthew Doyle
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A select group of internationally renowned musicians have been invited into the Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest Collection to create an original composition or improvisation inspired by their chosen artwork.
The prestigious PRG&TLB Collection consists of contemporary and Indigenous artworks as well as examples of Modernism, Abstract Expressionism, Hard Edge Abstraction and Minimalism from the 1930s to 1970s, including work by Ralph Balson, Henry Salkauskas, Yvonne Audette and Peter Upward.
NOISE invites audiences to experience music in an intense and uncommon way, shifting the act of listening from its realm of concert halls, pubs, clubs, radio and digital devices, and into a space normally associated with focused 'viewing'.
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Exhibition Launch: Sunday 7 April 2013, 4pm - 6pm
Exhibition dates: 6 April -- 23 June 2013
Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest
86 River Road Emu Plains NSW 2750
(02) 4735 1100 gallery@penrithcity.nsw.gov.au
Open Daily, 9am -- 5pm
FREE ENTRY
penrithregionalgallery.org
Shannon Noll & John Williamson, Galleries of pink Galahs 29/10/10
Location : Sydney Opera House.
Sydney Trains A-Set (Waratah) - Seven Hills to Blacktown (Express, T1 Western Line)
The latest generation of electric multiple units to be introduced on the Sydney Trains (formerly Cityrail) network and can be found throughout the urban railway lines.
The trains were delivered under a joint partnership between Downer Rail and Hitachi, the latter supplying the propulsion system. The A-Sets were partly built in China, and then shipped to Cardiff in Australia.
SGBuses.com Photo Gallery:
#cityrail #sydneytrains #waratah
Witness the Reckoning at Riverstone 10-13-06 number 2
Another vid I shot at Riverstone in October '06. Again, sorry for the shakiness...impossible to stay still in a pit. lol!