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The ACP Autumn Season is nearly upon us and we have a superb line-up of photography exhibitions and workshop courses in the pipeline! Join us on Thursday 17 March for our Russian-inspired opening introducing contemporary Russian photography and striking imagery by talented artists Ray Cook and Sean O'Carroll.
If you hurry, Workshop Term 1 second intake courses are still available. Browse through our highlights below or head over to the ACP website to see the full selection. Term 2 courses will be launched on 1 March so keep an eye out.
Don your feather boas, shake your art cocktails and prepare yourselves for a number of fabulous special events presented by ACP in the coming weeks to celebrate Sydney's Mardi Gras Festival and Art Month Sydney. You won’t want to miss the Art Month Art Bar featuring FBi DJs at ACP on Thursday 24 March.
ACP TERM 1 WORKSHOP COURSES - SECOND INTAKE MON 7 MARCH 2011
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Product Photography
Specialist Course
Learn how to make attractive commercial images for magazines, catalogues and the web. Discover how to photograph reflective surfaces, build a product portfolio, how to work to a brief and with art directors.
Image © ACP
EXHIBITIONS
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Camera RAW
Intermediate Course
Unlock the full potential of your digital SLR by learning the non-destructive image editing techniques possible in Adobe's Camera Raw. The course will cover under and over exposure correction, recovering "lost" data and more.
Image © ACP
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Lightroom
Intermediate Course
Understand how to use Lightroom efficiently, enabling you to spend more time behind the camera. Topics will include downloading, managing, editing, correcting and presenting your photos, from a few shots to an entire photo shoot.
Image © ACP
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Crossroads: Contemporary Russian Photography
Sergey Bratkov, Aleksandr Gronsky, Gregory Maiofis, Andrey Polushkin, Oleg Videnin
18 March - 30 April
Gallery 1 + 2
Incisive, elegant and complex, Crossroads offers a rare insight into the rich and varied Russian artistic tradition as it stands at the threshold between a deeply rooted cultural history and an unfolding future.
IMAGE © Gregory Maiofis Adversity Makes Strange Bedfellows 2006
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Interspection
Sean O'Carroll
18 March - 17 April
Gallery 4
Sean O'Carroll presents an intriguing series of elegantly constructed images that question the nature of subjectivity and self-understanding.
IMAGE © Sean O'Carroll, Adam #1, 2010
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Place and Imagination Artist Talk
19 March 1-2pm
Free admission
Join curator Irina Tchmyreva and photographers from Crossroads: Contemporary Russian Photography along with Victorian artist Sean O'Carroll to explore the relationship between shared culture and individual imagination in our understanding of the world and of ourselves.
IMAGE © Andre Polushkin, Territory of Memory
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Mardi Gras Special Event
The Male Nude in Photography
Thursday 3 March
The eminent photographer William Yang, the team behind Dirty Queer magazine and special guests discuss the shifting styles and taboos around the male body in photography.
IMAGE © William Yang - Patrick #1
DISCOUNTS AND COMPETITIONS
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Some Film Museums I Have Known
The Old Fitzroy Theatre
A darkly comic journey into the heart of cinematic obsession, Rhubarb Rhubarb and Tamarama Rock Surfers are offering ACP members the chance to snag some free tix to this wildly ambitious new show.
To win, simply email communications@acp.org.au with 'Panda' .
IMAGE © Rhubarb Rhubarb
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24 HR Art International Residency Program
Beijing
In parternship with Asialink, 24HR Art has established a new residency facility in Beijing offering studio space and accommodation for up to two months. The program is open to all Australian visual artists, with a focus on those from regional and remote areas.
IMAGE © 24HR Art |
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Money Up Front and No Kissing
Ray Cook
18 March – 17 April
Gallery 3
This beautiful and enigmatic exhibition is an elegy for what is lost when the outcast becomes assimilated and identity becomes just another commodity in the Neo-Liberal economy. Celebrating the sexual potency of ambiguity and the freedom that lies beyond the pale, the images wrap a tough politics of resistance within a sensuous visual poetry.
IMAGE © Ray Cook, Ben 2009
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Workshop Student Exhibition
21 April - 30 April
Gallery 3 + 4
The Workshop Student Exhibition is a great opportunity for students and the public to enjoy the works produced in the stimulating and vibrant photographic community of the ACP.
IMAGE © Celine Guiout, Lighting
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What Price Equality? Artist Talk
26 March 1-2pm
Free admission
Queensland artist Ray Cook discusses the challenging ideas that lie behind his evocative imagery. Growing up in a turbulent period when public hostility to homosexuality and the counterculture of individual freedom spawned a radical Queer politics, Cook did not seek assimilation into the mainstream, but the right to be different.
IMAGE © Ray Cook, Right Hand
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Magic Spaces
Today Art Museum, Beijing
25 February - 20 March 2011
ACP in partnership with the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics at the University of NSW and Today Art Museum Beijing is proud to present Magic Spaces, a multimedia exhibition in which Australian and Chinese artists reflect upon the theme of cultural re-imagination.
IMAGE © Owen Leong Budi 2010
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Funk it up About Nothin'
CarriageWorks
Chicago Shakespeare Theatre's cast of international hip hop stars hit the stage in an audacious, hilarious outrageous hip-hoptation of the Bard's classic comedy Much Ado About Nothing.
For your chance to win a double pass to this rom-com street party, email communications@acp.org.au with 'Rap-tastic' .
IMAGE © CarriageWorks
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EXPOSURE TIME !
This month's selected artist for Exposure Time is Amanda Ortland, with a beautiful image taken at sunrise in Shanghai. This photo was taken as part of Amanda's 2010 series The Upper Reaches of the Sea.
Enter Exposure Time on our Facebook, Twitter or Flickr pages.
IMAGE © Amanda Ortland
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