Image:
Paul MCCANN
Bush Amethyst, ball gown, 2021
Courtesy of Paul McCann
Image courtesy of JamFactory
Image:
Hannah GARTSIDE
Illusion Quilt (video still) 2020
HD video, duration 3:18 mins
Commissioned by McCarthy-Swann Projects
Courtesy of the artist and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne.
Frock up for a free concert at the Benalla Art Gallery!
Friday 10 November, 6—8PM
Drinks and cocktails will be available from our onsite cafe Munro & Sargeant at bar prices.
Numbers are limited. Bookings essential.
To secure your place, BOOK ONLINE, visit the Gallery, call on 5760 2619, or email gallery@benalla.vic.gov.au
About Benalla Classical Guitar Ensemble
Founded in 2010, the Benalla Classical Guitar Ensemble is a social group who share a love of the classical guitar. Within a friendly atmosphere, the group meets once a week to play a selection of classical, folk, and popular pieces from around the world. The Ensemble has performed concerts at multicultural festivals, art exhibitions and community events since its foundation. Currently made up of the five members, the ensemble invites you to come and enjoy an evening of delightful guitar music.
About Hannah Gartside
Hannah Gartside works across sculpture, installation and video. Characteristically sensual and poetic, her works transform found fabrics and clothing to articulate experiences and sensations of longing, tenderness, care and desire.
Recent exhibitions include Making Art Work, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD (2020); Fun Room, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta, VIC (2020); Fantasies, Ararat Gallery TAMA, Ararat, VIC (2019);Performing Textiles, Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne, VIC (2019); Four Letter Word, Artbank, Sydney, NSW (2019) and Beyond Reason, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD (2018). Gartside has undertaken residencies at Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne (2020) and in California at the Varda Artist Residency (2017). Gartside received a Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture) from University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts, in 2016, and a BFA (Fashion Design) from Queensland University of Technology in 2007. Prior to her visual art training, Gartside worked as costume-maker for five years, mainly on productions for Queensland Ballet.
Hannah Gartside will explore her practice with a focus on the use of worn textiles and craft processes.
Program
6pm Performance by Benalla Classical Guitar Ensemble in the Ledger Gallery
7pm Intermission
7.30pm New Exuberance: contemporary Australian textile design Talk artist talk by Hannah Gartside in the Bennett Gallery
This event is presented as part of the 2023 Benalla Festival—Celebrating our Past, Present, Future
