So Hot This Week: June 15
Saturday
Clipped presents a STACKED line-up of events from curated and interactive music video exhibitions, an awards night, live music and art, a trade show featuring the biggest brands, VR experiences and a seriously awesome talks series where industry heavyweights chew the fat on a range of topics.
Sunday
Portrait of a Lady on Fire – SFF
Winner of Best Screenplay at Cannes, Céline Sciamma’s (Water Lilies, Girlhood SFF 2014) beautifully shot period drama is about the romance between an artist and her reluctant subject.
Monday
Where The Wild Birds Are – By Sobrane
Where The Wild Birds Are, features a series of mixed media artworks on canvas as a response to her passion for wildlife in Australia and around the globe.
Tuesday
Coexistences – Portraits of Today’s Japan
Discover Japan’s lesser-known communities through a photography exhibition by Laura Liverani. This six part photo series portray the stories of elderly cheerleaders, a school for senior models, women sumo wrestlers, full-body spandex suit enthusiasts and Hokkaido’s indigenous Ainu population.
Wednesday
The Ghost of Exquisite Materials
The Ghosts of Exquisite Materials is a melodrama about an imagined afterlife. This installation delves into new sculptural disciplines and retains familiar themes embedded in each artist’s respective practices; the ephemeral, the mystical, the absurd and the mythological. These artist’s have now come together to reawaken their ghosts.
Thursday
Read To Me is a live visual storytelling event that provides a platform for cartoonists and other kinds of graphic storytellers to share their work and investigate performative aspects of their work. Read To Me showcases the work of emerging artists, as well as established artists whose work has been internationally published and recognised.
Friday
Do you remember the Spice Girls? We remember the Spice Girls and their greatest gift to the world – the cheer “Girl Power!”. Let’s yell it out loud again! This exhibition gathers together 7 powerful female artists to give their unique perspective on what it means to be a woman in 2019. Female expression, identity, sexuality, it’s all on the table to be explored and discussed through their art, whether that be drawing, painting, poetry or sculpture.
