March 2020

Major Hashida’s Diary: a Japanese spy in wartime Australia, Part 3

Breaking Glass at Carriageworks, 28 March – 4 April

Breaking Glass marks a new wave for Australian opera, one that resists the classical notions of a male-centric perspective. Sydney Chamber Opera are working in partnership with the Sydney Conservatorium of Music’s ‘Composing Women Program’ to present new technologies and music by female composers.

Emma-Kate Wilson
Major Hashida’s Diary: a Japanese spy in wartime Australia, Part 3

The Mandalay Bus

When Stu Thaung reopened the Mandalay Bus in 2013 he says it got a lot of support from people who wanted to see Canberra recognised as “a cool place to call home”.

Jess Howard
Major Hashida’s Diary: a Japanese spy in wartime Australia, Part 3

Cascade by Catherine Woo & UAP in Perth

On the façade of the new Ritz-Carlton, Perth, Tasmanian-based artist Catherine Woo was invited to engage the grand proportions of Western Australia in a transformative art installation from the nearby Swan River to the falling water of the famous Kimberley Gorges.

Emma-Kate Wilson
Major Hashida’s Diary: a Japanese spy in wartime Australia, Part 3

NIRIN: the 22nd Biennale of Sydney – 14 March to 8 June

“The urgent states of our contemporary lives are laden with unresolved past anxieties and hidden layers of the supernatural. NIRIN is about to expose this, demonstrating that artists and creatives have the power to resolve, heal, dismember and imagine futures of transformation for re-setting the world.” – Brook Andrew

Vanessa Low
Major Hashida’s Diary: a Japanese spy in wartime Australia, Part 3

Portrait of Monash: the ties that bind, until 12 April 2020

For three decades the Monash Gallery of Art (MGA) has nurtured strong and meaningful relationships between artists and the local community while fostering support of artistic enquiry and contemporary art practice in the field of photography. To celebrate the institution’s 30-year anniversary the MGA invited Australian artists Peta Clancy, Lee Grant, Ponch Hawkes and David Rosetzky, to create a portrait of the City of Monash.

Kirsty Francis