Today’s post features selected highlights from the past several days, beginning with the opening night last Thursday of A SEAT AT THE TABLE: A Celebration of Women Artists at Artists & Collectors in Melbourne, followed by the Saturday afternoon launch of the seventh and final ONE HUNDRED FACES at Playing in the Attic in Talbot in regional Victoria. Our weekend was capped off with the Twelve Minute Play Festival at Creswick.
In the top image, I’m pictured at Art & Collectors with my three paintings (L-R): Rose Arbour, Birds of a feather and Lady Justice ll, all 2024, acrylic on canvas panels. Directly below my works is Three Heated Figures, 1991, oil on board, by Dorothy Braund. (Photo credit: Shane Jones).
Thank you to Angela Tandori and the crew from Art and Collectors for inviting me to be part of the exhibition and for making us feel so welcome.
The exhibition continues to 16 May.
Every year Shane Jones and I declare ONE HUNDRED FACES at Playing in the Attic, which opened on Saturday afternoon, is the best one ever, and it really does seem to get better with every passing year. Apologies for the seemingly unavoidable reflections in the above installation view.
The work looked great, there was a fantastic turnout, a truckload of sales and the weather couldn’t have been more perfect.
That’s Playing in the Attic’s Trudy McLauchlan directly above. Below, exhibiting artists Shane Jones and Loris Button take in the exhibition after the crowd has thinned out.
ONE HUNDRED FACES can be viewed around the clock in the main window of Playing in the Attic until 25 May.
Sunday afternoon found us at Creswick, a short drive from Ballarat, for Creswick Theatre Company’s second Twelve Minute Play Festival. Over the course of an afternoon, 12 new Australian plays were presented, each of them twelve minutes in length.
Gaye is pictured above, centre, shortly before the house lights dimmed.
Outside Creswick Courthouse Theatre, the venue for the Twelve Minute Play Festival (shown above), I was delighted to discover The Magic Pudding Playground, which is centred on one of my favourite books, The Magic Pudding, by Norman Lindsay.
Creswick was the original home of the entire Lindsay family, several of whom became celebrated artists and writers, including Lionel, Norman, Percy, Daryl and Ruby.
My late father, Ron Klein, was also born there. I sometimes wonder whether he, his siblings and parents ever crossed paths with the Lindsays. I guess I’ll never know.
