Program

Friday 13 July

Special event,

SIAA Annual Distinguished Lecture: Australia’s strategic priorities in space

5pm | Friday 13 July

Following the very recent establishment of the Australian Space Agency on 1 July 2018, Dr Clark will outline the purpose of the agency and its key international and national responsibilities, as well as the strategic priorities in space, for Australia.

Art = Ideas,

Aldo Iacobelli: A Conversation with Jheronimus

Thursday 12 July, Friday 13 July, Saturday 14 July, Sunday 15 July

Explore humanity’s ongoing struggle for moral safe ground in this ambitious exhibition. Having long been under the spell of Hieronymus Bosch’s 1516 The Haywain Triptych, Iacobelli brings Bosch’s eternal allegory of religion, politics and sin into a contemporary context.

Art = Ideas,

Tracey Moffatt & Gary Hillberg – Montages : The Full Cut 1999-2015

Thursday 12 July, Friday 13 July, Saturday 14 July, Sunday 15 July

Experience the full suite of eight montage films by Tracey Moffatt and her collaborator Gary Hillberg, tapping into the humour and pathos of universally shared subjects such as art, revolution, love and destruction.

Art = Ideas,

Standing up standing out

Thursday 12 July, Friday 13 July

Tutti Arts visual artists engage in cultural discourse with the Sikh community. Artists will embellish turban cloth, exchanging sacred objects to create new, shared objects that bypass cultural differences and unite rather than define.

Art = Ideas,

Throw the dice

Friday 13 July, Saturday 14 July, Sunday 15 July

This exhibition features artworks by eight artists who attend workshops run by Neami National, an organisation supporting people living with mental health issues to live independently. Curator Elyas Alavi recognises how art develops self-awareness and self-esteem and gives a voice to feelings not always easily expressed in words.