CIVIC ART BUREAU

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Exhibitions

Jonas Balsaitis: #LIVEWIRE

26.03.25 – 30.03.25 Jonas Balsaitis, #LIVEWIRE, 1999synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 143 x 173 cm OPENING Friday 28 March, 6pm  #LIVEWIRE is a satellite exhibition of paintings by Jonas Balsaitis from the 1990s, including his series of Palette Paintings (1994), some electrifying-outtakes from the Drill Hall Gallery Analogue exhibition, and the screening of Balsaitis’s film Erratica (1982, M15+) on the TV. This Jonas Balsaitis: #LIVEWIRE

Lucie Thorne: LAND AND LANGUAGE

4.4.25 – 20.4.25 Exhibition opens 6pm Friday 4 April 2025 Lucie Thorne & Hamish Stuart – Live in ConcertSat 5 April 2025, MacGregor Hall (upstairs from Smiths)Tickets at Smiths Alternative Hamish Stuart and Lucie Thorne in concert Over the past 25 years, Tasmanian born, Melbourne-based artist and producer Lucie Thorne has made a lot of Lucie Thorne: LAND AND LANGUAGE

ELEGY: Lizzie Hall and Kate Stevens

22.2.25 – 22.3.25 Elegy is a response to personal and collective grief made by two artists whose works are in conversation with each other in a way that reflects their daily conversations on paint and life. Lizzie Hall’s paintings are of the Aral Sea, now a desert because of Soviet mismanagement. Her late father worked ELEGY: Lizzie Hall and Kate Stevens

MATT GREEN: Flip Out

Civic Art Bureau is thrilled to present Flip Out an Exhibition of Skateboard Art by Matt Green in the Art Bureau Window, co-inciding with Belco Bowl Jam, Feb 14-16 2025. Matt Green is a Geelong born Melbourne based artist, painter, skateboarder and musician. Matt has been commissioned to do many album covers and band posters MATT GREEN: Flip Out

UNHNGED: Richard Larter & Peter Maloney

UNTIL 14.12.24 Curated By Mark Bayly The UNHINGED project opens a conversation dealing with aspects of the close personal and working relationship between two of the Canberra region’s most senior artists, Richard Larter and Peter Maloney. In doing so, the exhibition examines each artist’s relationship with individual models in serial fashion. Larter became a close UNHNGED: Richard Larter & Peter Maloney

Exhibition no.1

5.10.24 – 26.10.24 Eleven distinguished artists working in and around Canberra: Download catalogue [PDF] Selected by Adam Bell and Dionisia Salas.Installed by Drew Halyday and Benny Chop.Wine by MADA.Installation photos by David Hempenstall. Installation: Dionisia Salas, Lucy Chetcuit, Vivienne Binns. Installation: Vivienne Binns, Emma Beer, Liz Coats, Merryn Lloyd. Installation: Dionisia Salas, Lucy Chetcuti, Vivienne Exhibition no.1