Surfacing

28 August - 6 September

Mixed media works, curated by Belconnen Arts Centre showcasing the dimensions of the work of Belconnen artists, including: G.W. Bot, Robert Boynes, E.L.K , Lee Grant, Valda Johnson, Peter Latona, Anita McIntyre, Maryann Mussared, Susan Pieterse, Chun-chiang Shih, Duncan Smith, Renee Smith, and Michael Winters.

Anxiety Scrambled

28 August - 13 September

Dan Stewart-Moore and Joel Bliss.

An exhibition of sculptures that deal with the concerns of Generation X.

Cycles: the Revolution of the Chrysalis

11–27 September

Oscar del Pozo, Celia Gallardo, Ian Haynes, Chun-chiang Shih, Rosemary von Behrens

A mixed media exhibition featuring works from the culturally diverse Encuentro Artists’ Group.

READ

16 September - 6 October

Maryann Mussared

This installation explores the tangible qualities of books, now threatened by the inexorable march of technology. Free drop-in workshops and page folding demonstrations

Fibre, Naturally

2 - 18 October

Jane Goodes, Penelope Lee, Susan Pieterse, Helen Roberts Hill

Using natural fibres the artists express their perceptions of the world and their individual aesthetics.

Me Myself and Others: A journey in portraiture

23 October - 8 November

Val Johnson

Val Johnson shares her journey through drawn and painted portraits.

Meeting Van Gogh

23 October–8 November

Chad Swanson

Using Geometric Expression, Chad Swanson’s paintings explore the conflicted mind of Van Gogh.

Dancing in the Desert

13 - 29 November

Carmel McCrow

Paintings inspired by the desert areas of Central Australia.

artist/proof

3 - 20 December

Artists include: Cranleigh School, Black Mountain School, Paperworks, Dagmara Anders, Paul Bilton, Giselle Burningham, Keith Carfrae, Judith Ann Daniells, Diana Davidson, Dr Possum, Jenni Heckendorf, Rebecca Hill, Pauline Mager, Mitchearte, Ralph Nelson, Keith Reece, Vijaya Sen, Jenny Snell, plus touring artist Harrison Saragossi (QLD)

Mixed media exhibition celebrating International Day of People with Disability, valuing the unique experience of artists living with disability. Presented by the ACT Community Arts Office and supported by ACT Department of Disability, Housing and Community Services.

Backyard Project

13 January - 9 February

These year-long community art projects, which have run from the Downer Community Centre since 1989, have improved health and social outcomes for women with young children by involving them in art activities.

College Express

15 - 31 January

A curated exhibition of outstanding works by Year 11 and 12 students from Hawker, Radford and Lake Ginninderra Colleges.

Death of a Swearword - Martin Paull

14 February

In this series of paintings Martin has depicted the Stations of the Cross using bushfire imagery. Bushfires have been a key theme throughout his work, stemming from his experiences in the Adelaide Hills during the Ash Wednesday bushfires in 1983.

Honey and Pepper

5 - 21 February

Works by Maiju Altpere-Woodhead, Fatemeh Palangi, Fatima Killeen, Nasser Palangi, Silvia Velez, Farideh Zariv.
The ACT Multicultural Arts Officer and the ACT Community Arts Office present an exhibition of works by six artists from diverse backgrounds who now call Canberra home, exploring issues of identity, belonging and sense of place.

Belconnen Landscapes - Irma Trickett

26 February - 14 March

A panoramic selection of landscape work responding to outback Belconnen.

KP11: Producing Communities

19 March-11 April

Australia Council for the Arts touring presentation of work from 11 national Key Arts organisations.

Kickstart Photo Language Exhibition

15 April–2 May

14 Photo on Canvas pieces, taken and chosen by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Youth. Participants were asked to choose images, out of 200 photos, that captured the Youth Week Theme “Live It Now”.

Conflict in the Land of the Minotaur - Michael Winters

16 April–2 May

Works on paper by Michael Winters on the subject of the Battle of Crete in 1941.

Out of Strathnairn

7–23 May

A selection of artists from Strathnairn Arts Association, working in a range of media, including ceramics, cast bronze, paintings, textiles and sculpture. Curated by Peter Haynes, Director of ACT Museums and Galleries.

Earth Connections

28 May–20 June

Exploring human interconnectivity with environment present and future, and the complex and diverse networks which link us with our ecosystem. A superb array of photographs, painting, prints, sculpture, textile and neon art curated by Program Manager, Christine Watson, in celebration of World Environment Day.

Merger – Paperworks

24 June–11 July

Works by artists and participants of Paperworks in an expression of personal and collective discovery through papermaking & marbling.

Leading the Way – ACT Community Arts Office NAIDOC Exhibition

25 June–11 July

John Raymond Johnson, Jenni Kemarre Martiniello, Liz McNiven, Duncan Smith & Renee Smith
NAIDOC is an opportunity to recognise the contributions of Indigenous Australians. This exhibition features artworks in mediums including lithography, digital prints, photography, painting and glass from several leading local Indigenous artists.

Transitions – Katrina Barter & Alana Sivell

16 July–8 August

Barter & Sivell explore our experience of time. Barter brings past and present together, moments collide in paper and photographic constructions. For Sivell, systematic processes with thread and glass contain the fluidity of time and transform it into a static state.

New Works - China - Sarit Cohen

11–29 August

Following residency in China, Sarit explores the identity, role and relevance of Jewish culture and its relationship to other cultures. The sharing of food at a dinner table is a time for nourishment of body and mind – a time to review the minutiae of the day or larger social issues that engage and concern us all. This exhibition reflects the possibility of free flowing debate, story telling and cultural exchange.

Belco Bizarre

3-26 September

Celebrating Belconnen Arts Centre's first birthday, a huge exhibition featuring works from local artists reflecting on the weird and wonderful in Belconnen life.

colourfield - ACT Community Arts Office ArtsAbility

1-24 October

colourfield is an inclusive visual arts exhibition valuing the diverse expressions of ACT artists experiencing disability and disadvantage. Coordinated by ACT Community Arts Office ArtsAbility in partnership with Belconnen Arts Centre, colourfield follows the success of last year’s artist/proof.

A Calvary Experience - Katherine Harvey

28 October - 14 November

Katherine Harvey was Artist-in-Residence at Calvary Hospital from May through November 2010. The experience inevitably prompted questions of relevance and aptness of art in a hospital setting.

Floodgate - Maryann Mussared

29 October-14 November

Mixed media on canvas and Ceramic Objects. Every day we are faced with the relentless advance of new technology - we are flooded by too much information. 

Berlin - Lorna Crane

29 October-14 November

Mixed media and video installations. The iconic architecture of Berlin is captured through splicing fragments of past and present in a melting pot of imagery.

Liquid Light - Angharad Dean

19 November-5 December

Angharad Dean follows two parallel paths: the flickering light in constant flux and the smooth flow of light over water and in the air. Dean uses oils and pastels to capture in two dimension this four dimensional phenomenon, taking the viewer on a journey across water, as it constantly moves and catches and releases light. If one looks closely, this effect is found throughout nature.

just passing through... heike qualitz

3 November - 5 December

Sculptural works borne from a desire to engage with the landscape, both constructed and natural. They are observations of the space we travel through – its shape, history and subtle change.

College Express 2010

10-22 December

College Express returns with an exhibition of outstanding artworks created by Year 11 & 12 students from Hawker, Lake Ginninderra, Radford and St Francis Xavier Colleges and Melba Copland Secondary School.

Forces at Play
Eve Sawa and Marilyn Stretton

21 January–6 February

In Taoism there are two polar energies which, by their fluctuation and interaction, are the cause of the universe: Yin – the moon, night and flexibility, and Yang – light, the sun, day, strength.

Me, You, Her & She
Rosie Allen, Linzie Ellis, Faline and Shakira Longmore

21 January–6 February

An expression of friendship, teamwork and a sheer love of art-making.

FOCO

11–27 February

In celebration of people from diverse cultural backgrounds living in Canberra, this is an invitation to the community for a moment of reflection, understanding and harmony, through photographs by local Canberra residents.

Harvest
Maiju Altpere-Woodhead, Elena Bozhko and Fatima Killeen

4–20 March

Three Canberra artists from different backgrounds join to celebrate the harvest of their cultures.

A@A
An Pan and Yifeng Tan

25 March–10 April

Pan interprets the many faces of what are known in China as the ”beautiful ladies.“ Yifeng Tan uses ambiguity to assist in the articulation (though not always full articulation) of the individual’s place in a multicultural world.

Aspects of Tree
Marilyn Hutchinson

25 March–10 April

Trees are steadfast manifestations of nature’s power and beauty.

Serendipity
CIT Centre for Creative Industries

15 April–8 May

As teachers who are also artists and designers, CIT Creative Industries teaching staff explore dynamic experimental processes in the creation of works that challenge definitions of art and design.

An Artist's Journey
Jan Vincent

15 April–8 May

Local resident Jan Vincent’s career spans over 35 years of creating art. These works are a selection of her extensive output of landscapes, still lifes and nature studies and include some of the artist’s sketchbooks.

The Edge - an Exhibition of Sculptural Works

13–29 May

Sculptural works from 12 of the region’s top emerging and established sculptors investigate living on the edge.

Southern Deserts
Beverley Thomas, Calvary Hospital Artist-in-Residence

13–29 May

Thomas’ work is about portraying what she sees when she moves into another space, gaining inspiration from the surprisingly lush vegetation amid the hard, beautiful landscapes in Central Australia.

forget-me-not forget-me-not,
Nicole Porter (Paula Barker)

13–29 May

Paula Barker was born and given a name by her mother; six weeks later she was adopted to a new mother and given a new name and identity – Nicole Porter.

Footprints: Marks on the Environment

3–19 June

Footprints explores the impact of cultural, spiritual, environmental and economic footprints which we as a society and as individuals are leaving on our environment.

Change

24 June - 17 July

‘The 2011 National NAIDOC theme is about taking responsibility for our future. To control the change we need to plan and take action to make it happen. It’s our future. Change: the next step is ours.’

Equality

30 June - 17 July

Artwork created by artists aged 12–18 years, representing the many ways people from different cultures and backgrounds are included in our community

Suburban Spaces
Alan Harding

20 July–7 August

Harding explores styles of domestic houses and the spaces people inhabit in cities and towns, and the haphazard compositions of suburban dwellings with their vivid or stark accidental contrasts.

Creative Practice:
Artists and Design Staff — Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra

22 July–7 August

An exhibition showcasing the practice-led research of artists and design staff from the University of Canberra. These artists/academics explore the perception, experience and transformation of the world we create, particularly our national capital.

Alternate Landscape:
Elizabeth Ficken — ANU Emerging Artists Support Scheme

22 July–28 August

The landscape holds elements of shape and pattern. Ficken explores these patterns and reduces them down to their underlying geometric composition.

Transience
Paperworks, Inc

10–28 August

Transience explores the evanescent through the use of a variety of plant fibres which metaphorically express fragility. The plant fibre materials that Paperworks' artisans employ are delicate in appearance, a reflection of the inherent fragile essence of each human being.

Not to be Contained
Jane Crick and Jacqueline Lewis

12–28 August

Ceramicists Crick and Lewis explore our perception of the container, the vessel, the sculptured object, with Ikebana as their common source of inspiration.

Habitat
Jo Hollier

2–18 September » Gallery

Jo Hollier specialises in printmaking methods to produce unique prints and limited edition etchings; her joyful works reflect a deep respect for the natural world interpreted and influenced by a love of colour, texture and design.

The Divided Heart - Still Life and the Domestic:
Kristen Morris

31 August–
18 September » Foyer

Returning to painting during full time motherhood, Morris felt the struggle of the divided heart — the battle between mothering duties and the need to create art.

Face Facts
Cary James

2–18 September » Arts Lounge

Cary James came to printmaking late in life, in retirement.  Exploration of this discipline has become his “third life”, exploring methods and styles of printmaking and attempting to improve his art making.

Creative Alchemy

23 September–
23 October » Gallery

Creative Alchemy is an opportunity for artists to contribute works that visualise, interpret, spark debate and have fun with the creative forces that bubble up in us, our society and the physical world around us.

Creative Alchemy II

Julie Ryder

23 September–
23 October » Foyer

Julie Ryder combines the arts practice of printmaking with the impact of chemical reaction and transformation. Ryder’s early science training and study working in a veterinary research lab have translated into her science-based arts practice

The Lake

Valeska Tilly

23 September–
9 October »
Arts Lounge

Ginninderra is derived from an Aboriginal word meaning ‘throwing out little rays of light — sparkling’. The artist has found the Lake a source of not only inspiration but also of tools and equipment for making artworks.

Practice What You Teach

VANE

28 October–
13 November » Gallery

A wide ranging exhibition presented by the membership of VANE, comprised of visual art educators from all fields of education in the ACT.

SPECIAL PROJECT
Mapping the Northside

18 October–
17 November » Foyer

What’s your favourite place? Andrew Leigh MP and Belconnen Arts Centre join to create an interactive map of the Federal electorate of Fraser on the northside of Canberra.

Perception

ACT Community Arts Office ArtsAbility Officer

17 November–
4 December » Gallery

An inclusive visual arts exhibition valuing the diverse expressions of ACT artists experiencing disability and disadvantage. Coordinated by ACT Community Arts Office ArtsAbility Officer, in partnership with Belconnen Arts Centre.

College Express 2011

9 December 2011–
15 January 2012 » Gallery

This will be the third year for our College Express exhibition, with outstanding artworks created by year 11 & 12 students from the northern Canberra region.