The Picks | August 2024
Recalibrate and check the socials, run through the email lists, follow my instincts.
August is well under way, and it’s stuffed full of stuff.
THE SHOW(S) YOU NEED TO SEE
If you can make but one destination, get to the Rosny Farm; it’s the bang for your limited time to get the awesome. Edith Perrenot’s Wildlife Crossing is a wild hybrid of bright, exciting creations that incorporate folklore, a mild dash of domestic witchcraft, and a bit of creative pilfering; Alex White’s Huts is a well-picked foil – White’s stunning woodblock prints of Bushwalking huts are quite magical works that really need to be seen in situ. Performance worker and weather artist Hannah Foley will be running a public program that delves into what a river might mean and what it is to live near one, featuring the creation of an amazing installation work in the Barn.
HUTS and WILDLIFE CROSSING until 25th August
TO KNOW A RIVER until 1 September
MAC usually has amazing art of some variety; the hit pick here is Sleepwalkers, a huge group effort that wants to pique your thoughts with a show that’s reacting to our current situation – all of the questions about what looks like a complex and confronting world to come. There’s some totally stellar art in this one that make it essential, and if you aren’t prompted to discourse by the most excellent catalogue essay, you didn’t read it. It gave me lots to consider. Lots.
SLEEPWALKERS until 17th August
AS A ROCK is on at Social down Salamanca way, and is another fab looking group show that muses on rocks as objects, what they symbolise and anything else that artists can do with them. This is beautiful show that might get missed so I’d really urge you to make certain you get to it.
AS A ROCK until 16th August
AND!!
...at Good Grief, the always hilarious funkateer Georgia Lucy is hanging around with her sister Maile Kim and doing a residency that deals with a lot, but especially with the feelings they both have after their dad left this mortal coil. This looks to be super special, so check it right out and note there’s an event on Friday the 16th to get right in amongst. There’s other stuff until the end of the month so keep on eye on the Good Grief Instagram.
