PhotoAccess’ open annual Hang It Yourself exhibition opens at 12 noon, Sunday September 5th at the Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre and runs to 19th September.

Artists represented with prints by Macquarie Editions include: Jillian Batri, Kerry Baylor, Stephen Best, David Chalker, Alan Charlton, Lyndy Delian, Kathleen Fisher, Jane Greagg, Deb Hamilton, Marilyn Hutchinson, Chris Jones, Kate Luke, Bhavana Moylan, Nick Radoll, Barbie Robinson, Christine Rufflet, Sophie Shepherd Best, Lorna Sim, Kim Sinclair, Tony Stewart, Holly Treadaway, Sonia Turner and Ed Whalan. (more…)

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is a mixed media exhibition of Andrew’s Monoprints, Digital Pinhole Photography and Sculpture. (more…)

David Pope, cartoonist for The Canberra Times, is showing a selection of his political work. presented in exquisite detail, as The House of Kevin. The exhibition opens at the new M16 Artspace in Griffith at 6pm on Friday 13th August and runs to 29th August. (more…)

Coastal Comfort is a set of images taken from Suzie’s small cabin atop a cliff in Merimbula on the South Coast. The Holga used itself embodies for Suzie an accepting and uncomplicated approach to such familiar and regenerative surroundings, contrasting with the ordered everydayness of Canberran life.

The show opens at the Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre at 6pm on Thursday 12th August and runs to 29th August. An artists talk will be held at 3pm on Sunday 15th August. (more…)

Holly’s sticks and stones recreates her experiences as an adolescent growing up on a farm near Burra.

“To catch a Deane’s bus, branded you as coming from struggle town. Imagine catching the rattling bomb bus that traveled beyond struggle town. As a child, growing up on the land made you a target for name-calling and the butt of jokes regarding outdoor dunnies and having no power. Labeled the freckle farmer, I grew up with a slight complex about freckles and farm life. By the age of sixteen I was ungrateful about my surroundings, my view was that it was my parent’s choice to live out of town, not mine. What I saw back then as limitations to my freedom are now the exact things I embrace as my freedom. They say that with age comes wisdom.” (more…)

In my nightmares continues Jamila’s striking, dark and staged image making, with the current show “representing anxiety, distressing events, childhood fears and, particularly, nightmares. With surreal faces and colours, the work is intended to disturb the viewer’s state of mind”. The exhibition opens at 6pm, Thursday 22nd July at the Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre and continues until 8th August. (more…)

As part of NAIDOC Week 2010 celebrations, Billabong Aboriginal Corporation and PhotoAccess present the works of 4 Emerging Indigenous Photographers: Lyndy Delian, Jo Kamira, Nick Radoll and Tyrell Kamira Sams. The exhibition opens at 6pm, Thursday 1st July at the Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre and continues to 18th July. (more…)