Exhibitions Opening

Opening on October 18, three new shows promise to surprise and amaze! This year’s Fuse Glass prize winner Tom Moore teams up with Canberra based sculptor Tom Buckland and multi award winning stop motion animators Eleanor Evans and Giovanni (Gio) Aguilar in Objects in Motion. Also on show are the annual Messengers program youth art exhibition and a survey of wearable textiles by local fibre artists in It’s a Wrap.

It’s a Wrap in Tuggeranong Arts Centre (TAC)’s Foyer Gallery, includes weaving, felt making, embroidery, print making, shibori, ecco dying, hand painting and more. Audiences are invited to enjoy the colour and movement of this exciting collection of wearable pieces from locally based artists in the lead up to Christmas.

Objects in Motion brings together work by Tom Moore, Tom Buckland and Eleanor Evans and Giovanni Aguilar. This group of amazing artists not only create wonderful sculptures, objects and models, they all use them in the making of fabulous videos and animations.

Curated to follow up Tom’s Moore’s wonderful Jam Factory touring show Abundant Wonders, shown at CMaG in 2022, this exhibition explores Moore’s early animations and a new perspective on Moore’s surreal glass creations – made using highly sophisticated Venetian glass-techniques and exhibited with a disarming and refreshing sense of humor and play.

Tom Buckland’s work is similarly fresh and always surprising. Known for using cardboard to create alternative realities, Buckland continues his project to recreate Stanly Kubrick’s iconic 2001 A Space Odyssey, in Space Oddity starring himself in homemade costumes and sets using green screen video techniques.

Best known in film circles, Canberra based stop-motion animators Eleanor Evans and Giovanni Aguilar are accomplished artists and musicians and have a string of awards to their credit. Their sculptural puppet, miniature prop and set making skills are showcased in Objects in Motion, which also includes their animation Aint Many Like Lenny, a music video featuring the ballad of the same name by much loved musician CJ Shaw.

A curated screening of works by the Objects in Motion artists will be held at Tuggeranong Arts Centre at 4pm on Saturday 30 November.

Featured in the screening is Eleanor and Gio’s award winning: Imaginé (remastered) and Tuning, A Chorus of Wonders featuring glass characters by Tom Moore, photography by Grant Hancock and animation by Johnathan Nix, and Space Oddity by Tom Buckland. There will also be a live musical performance by Harrison Le Lievre.

Additionally, the artists will share their secrets in a series of public programs:

Gallery Floor Talk with Tom Moore, 5pm Friday 18 October, immediately prior to the opening
Green Screen Workshop with Tom Buckland at 10am on Saturday 2 November
Stop Motion, Animating Objects Workshop with Eleanor and Giovanni at 10am on Saturday 9 November.