Cocktails & Contemporary
Grab a glass
And Dive into
contemporary art
Cocktails and Contemporary brings the world of contemporary art into your living room (or courtyard, patio, backyard , balcony - where ever you choose to relax!). Each one hour Zoom session with Dr Nick Gordon takes a closer look at a contemporary artist or collective, helping you appreciate their extraordinary work.
Upcoming Evenings
Tracey MoffatT
Tracey Moffatt is one of a handful of Australian artists to have forged a brilliant career on the international stage. He work in photography and film is beautifully composed, bringing together uniquely Australian experiences with a theatricality shaped by the history of visual art and film. Yet there is often something elusive in her work, which draws the viewer in to the story and infusing it with a sense of threat or foreboding
Sunday 14 March 2021, 5:30-6:30pm
El Anatsui
El Anatsui’s monumental sculptures fuse traditional African arts with abstraction. His most famous works appear from a distance to be richly textured fabrics draped on a wall, but on closer inspection reveal themselves to be made of thousands of aluminium bottle caps knitted together with copper wire. But his work is more diverse than these magnificent pieces. Get to know more about the artist and his team of collaborators, his work and how he has risen to become one of Africa’s most successful contemporary artists.
Sunday 14 February 2021, 5:30-6:30pm
Georg Baselitz
Baselitz (b. 1938) grew up surrounded by the horror and destruction of WWII and has had no desire to re-establish order: “I had seen enough of so-called order.” He escaped East Germany for West Berlin in the 60s, where he rejected abstraction and became one of Germany’s most pioneering post-war artists. Upside down portraits, monumental nudes, “A good night down the drain” and bizarre sculptures await you as we follow the 82-year-old artist’s spectacular career.
Sunday 21 February 2021, 5:30-6:30pm
