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BENEATH THE SURFACE, BEHIND THE SCENES
Jacinta steps away
■ ABC Radio Melbourne’s Afternoons presenter, Jacinta Parsons, has announced that she will be stepping back from the show from tomorrow (Thurs.).
Jacinta told her audience that she had decided to step away so she could focus on other responsibilities outside the ABC She will, however, continue to co-host The Friday Revue with Brian Nankervis, each Friday from 12.30pm to 3.30pm. Her last Afternoons will be next Thursday, July 27.
“Like so many, my life has gone through some changes over the past couple of months, which has meant I’ve had to make some changes to the way I can work,” Jacinta said in a media statement.
“I’m desperately sad to say I’m needing to scale back from the Afternoons show so I can keep up with my other responsibilities.
“I’m grateful to the ABC for their support and very excited to say that I’m not leaving entirely –and will continue to join Brian Nankervis every single Friday for the Friday Revue.”
ABC Radio Melbourne Content Director Shelley Hadfield said Jacinta would continue to be a much-loved member of the radio team.
Jacinta will pursue some parttime professional opportunities outside the ABC.
■ The Heide Museum of Modern Art will bring into dialogue a delection of significent worlks by contemporary Latin American and Australian artists.
The exhibition Beneath the Surface, Behind the Scenes explores the ways that art can take our imaginations beyond the limitatiuoins of the known world and the veil of visual appearnces.
Beneath the Surface, Behind the Scenes considers art as a generative force and complex form of language, investigation, and theatre.
Artists in the exhibition embrace instability, and recognise forms of erasure and new realms of oossibility, critically engaging with unacknowledged or difficult historiesm as well as impacts on our changing society and natural environments.
Exhibion opens July 29 and closes October 22.
Heide Museum of Modern Art 7 Templestowe Rd, Bulleen.
- Peter Kemp
Tissu Tissue
Tissu tissue – Lara Merrett
A manifstation of the wyay she observes the world around her, Melbourne-born Merret’s stuning works on canvas are a visual language through which she expresses a world view, charged with a conceptual exploration of materiality and mystical thinking.
One of Australia’s most highly regareded abstract colourists, Lara Merrett has for some time been of the forefront of painters evolving and posing important challenges to the tradition of abstraction, creeating gallery installations un whuch her brightly painted surfaces are intended to be tangibly experienced – touched, walked among, intersecteed, and even at times, cut thrpugh and removed.
Exhibition closes August 12, Sullivan + Strumpf 197/108 Rupert St, Collingwood.
- Peter Kemp
Gertrude St
The Arts
Ronnie Chang’s live performance
stallations for everyone to enjoy free.
For 10 nights from July 27 – August 6, audiences will be invited to experience a confluence of projections by 11 of the Festival’s artists-inresidence, alongside community and collabporative projects, events, parties, talks and screenings.
Presented by The Centre fo Projection Art Festival will again illuminate street facing windows of public and private spaces in Melbourne’s inner-north.
- Peter Kemp
Inner Essence
■ As part of the Inner Essence series artist Brett Ashby has painted paint the portrait of John Foreman.
Since moving to Docklands as part pf the Review Shopfront Activation Program Ashby has held regular performance art exhibitions where he has painted subject portraits whilst riding his skateboard supported by a live musician.
An artist with a difference, this painting of John Foreman was done by the artist while riding a skateboard and completed in a few minutes.
To visit his gallery go to www.brettashby.com
Brett Ashby Institute of Fine Art. 381 Docklands Drive, Docklands.
- Peter Kemp
■ Multi-talented comedian Ronnie Chang is returning to Australia for a short national tour pre-Christmas, including a pit-stop in Melbourne, September 16.
Ronnie is just as popular in Hollywood as Oz, where he made his name a few years ago in the ABC series 'International Student'. A graduate of Melbourne Uni, his comedic patter relates to time spent at the 'shop'. Highly recommended.
Beach Boys Book
■ The Beach Boys juggernaut continues to roll on with the release of a limited-edition biography 'The Beach Boys by the Beach Boys' on December 23. It is an elaborate production, the cost is A$2000. Only 415 books available, all personally signed by four of the Beach Boys including Brian Wilson.
Honour for Aussie actress
■ The much loved and highly talented actress Sigrid Thornton has been awarded a Australian Film Walk of Honour Award. The prestigious award was awarded in a ceremony prior to screening of 'Slant ', a dark, comic thriller starring Sigrid.
Costumes on display
■ At the Melbourne Arts Gallery you will find many costumes all belonging to Barry Humphries and his alter egos in Sandy Stone, Sir Les Patterson and Dame Edna. The exhibition is free and runs through until end August.
New Blues Train Station Master
■ For 29 years the popular Blues Train has travelled between Queenscliff to Geelong, carrying top blues bands. Founder Hugo Armstrong is putting the train on the market. The train operates eight months of the year serving dinner and drinks for 7000 guests a year.
