NANA and This Is Not Art 2015 present:

THE GEORGE BRANDIS LIVE ART EXPERIENCE 

A real-time, community-based satirical art protest movement!

in May 2015, the government announced in the Federal Budget that $105 million reduction in funding from the Australia Arts Council. In response to this, hundreds of Australian artists have created works that subject and subvert the image of Arts Minister George Brandis within the visual timeline art history.

The George Brandis Live Art Experience consists of over 1700 pieces of work and within its totality represents a unique single collaborative artwork.

A selection of works will be proudly presented in the NANA contemporary art space windows during this years TINA festival. Oct 1 - 5 2015.

Check out the Facebook /Twitter page (where The Experience unfolds in real time): https://www.facebook.com/TheGeorgeBrandisLiveArtExperience

Twitter feed: @ArtOfBrandis

Spring Exhibition

This October NANA and The Workroom gallery have teamed up to curate a group exhibition inspired by Spring. Taking place in the new and improved gallery space of The Emporium in Newcastle, the exhibition promises to be big, bright and textural. A special addition to the show is Miss Adam's Florist, who will be designing some custom fresh blooms for the exhibition which will bring fragrance as well as colour into the space.

Join us for the opening event:

The Emporium - 185 Hunter St Mall Newcastle

October 30th 4 - 5.30pm

Feral by Night

NANA'S current exhibition: Feral State Of Mind by Parris Dewhurst looks best by nightfall when the reflections of the sun cease and the interior gallery lights cast shadows over her skeletons and sculptures. Radiating with mystery, Dewhurst's works pull the gaze of the passer by into the den of the gallery space. Throughout three windows Feral State Of Mind depicts soft sculpture amidst an installation of nature: Trees, branches, skeletons and more. The carefully articulated sculptures maintain a reverence for the passing of life in the rawness of natural materials and relics of skeletons, paired with minimal stitching, cushions of fabric and props of wood. We witness an interference between man and nature that is charming, alluring, pretty even, but with a sinter undertone. The signs and symbols in this installation unite as a system of warning, there is a suggestion to prepare and take care for the future. It serves as a reminder that not all appearances run deep and that in nature actions create consequences.
- Madeleine Cruise

Feral State Of Mind closes on the 26th of September 2015

Perkins St -  Newcastle