Tag Archives: Ian Potter Centre

Community Hall | 350+ performances, films, talks, events, workshops . . .

22 March 2023 | Art Almanac

Presented as part of NGV's large-scale, gallery-wide exhibition, Melbourne Now, Community Hall is inspired by the rich history of Australian community halls and the important role they play in Victoria’s metropolitan and regional communities....

Ken Unsworth: Truly Madly

28 August 2018 | Julian Day

Ken Unsworth practice includes levitating rocks, automated pianos and cycling skeletons. It echoes minimalism, body art, arte povera and vaudeville in equal measure, yet remains deeply idiosyncratic....

Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway is a Disco

30 January 2018 | Chloe Mandryk

Del Kathryn Barton's 'The Highway is a Disco' reveals the artist’s imaginative and deeply sensuous world, where ornately decorated species – both human and animal – are rendered in seductive line and colour....

Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s

29 August 2017 | Liv Spiers

You have to admire an artist who volunteers ‘dick-and-balls’ doodles as art. Indeed, the pink and plump phalluses of Jeff Gibson’s Screwballs (1992) engage in an irreverent critique typical of Australian art in the 1990s. Laughing at the highbrow definitions of ego that accompany the images,...

Jon Campbell: just sing what you feel

29 January 2013 | Art Almanac

An exciting new installation by Melbourne-based artist, Jon Campbell, encourages people of all ages to contribute to, and play with, contemporary art and music....