8 JUNE – 21 JULY 2013
THE COURAGE CHRONICLES: HEIDI LEFEBVRE

The Courage Chronicles is an installation of drawings, paintings and costumes representing a freestyle interpretation of fairytale mythology, folklore and heroism. Heidi Lefebvre works a strange stew of the real and imagined, mimicking childhood experiences. The childs world, real or imagined, is reinvented and informs their reality.

The Courage Chronicles aims to highlight the way stories heard in childhood influence our adult interpretation of more complex experiences.

Heidi Lefebvre
Bogeyman Whiskers, 2013
Mixed Media
Image courtesy the artist © Heidi Lefebvre.

27 APRIL – 30 JUNE 2013
BEAUTY FROM NATURE: ART OF THE SCOTT SISTERS

Beautiful and intricate, this stunning exhibition features delicate watercolours, notebooks, handwritten manuscripts, sketches and letters, which together form a fascinating record of the lives of Harriet (Hattie) and Helena (Nellie) Scott. The Scott sisters were among the first to illustrate the life histories and immature stages of Australian moths and butterflies. The highlights of the exhibition are watercoloured paintings created between 1846 and 1851 for their father A.W Scott’s landmark publication Australian Lepidoptera and their Transformations.

Exhibition Developed & Toured by the Australian Museum.

Helena Scott Xylopsyche stacyi (Scott). Current name: Zelotypia stacyi Scott
Hepialidae
Watercolour and ink
Image © Australian Museum Archives.

4 MAY – 30 JUNE 2013
RANAMOK GLASS PRIZE

The Ranamok Glass Prize is an annual acquisitive award for glass artists who are resident in Australia and New Zealand. The Prize was founded in 1994 by Andy Plummer and Maureen Cahill as a way to promote glass as an art form to the public.

Featuring almost 30 artists, the 2012 Ranamok Glass Prize showcases the surprising and challenging, world of modern glass makers, who use glass in ways that often defy the imagination.

Estelle Dean
Banquet, 2012
Free formed pate de verre with Nori sheets
Image courtesy the artist and Ranamok Glass Prize.

4 MAY – 14 JULY 2013
NO WORRIES: MARTIN PARR

In 2011 famed British photographer Martin Parr, as a special project for the FotoFreo: The City of Fremantle Photography Festival, set out to photograph three Western Australian port cities, Fremantle, Port Hedland and Broome. Using his unmistakably intimate and satirical style, Parr went about photographing Australian clichés, full of saturated colours and flash photography. The resulting photographs are an invaluable collection of portraits of Australians and Australian identity through the eyes of an outsider.

Martin Parr is a member of the Magnum Photos cooperative agency and his work has been featured in two retrospectives – the Barbican’s 2002 retrospective which toured Europe until 2007 and in 2008 Parrworld was launched in Munich and toured Europe until 2010. Martin Parr is the author of 66 books and 125 exhibition. He is a notable curator, publisher and collector.

Martin Parr
Cable Beach. Broome. Australia, 2011
Image © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos.

18 MAY – 21 JULY 2013
GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS

The Garden of Forking Paths exhibition draws together notable historic and contemporary computer games created by artists that push the bounds of the genre and break the orthodox set of rules. The presented pieces span the last three decades, a period which has seen incredible advances in technology and the birth of the information age. All of the pieces in the show can be played by visitors, some on ‘antique’ computers that have been sourced so the older pieces can be experienced with authenticity.

The Garden of Forking Paths is a dLux MediaArts touring exhibition.

Anita Fontaine and Mike Pelletier
CuteXDoom II (screenshot), 2008
Computer game/video projection and customized ‘wallpaper’ interior
Image © Anita Fontaine and Mike Pelletier.

PERMANENT EXHIBITION
PEOPLE PLACES POSSESSIONS: DUBBO STORIES

Dubbo means red ochre. The city dwells in red soil western plains, infused with pastoral light and productivity. This place breathes the energy and passion of its people, past and present. We all experience place by moving through it, all our senses alive to its shifting shapes and moods. This sense of place is created through the entanglements of nature and culture, past and future dreams, shared stories and collective memory.

In this exhibition we explore pastoral landscapes with symbols of agriculture and family ambition. Dubbo streetscapes reveal the changing facades of shops and the hidden stories within. Storytellers spin yarns about Dubbo events and identities. There are many objects from the old Dubbo Museum, material traces of past lives and aspirations. They speak in eloquent silence about people, place and possessions.

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Installation view:
People Places Possessions: Dubbo Stories