Red Hot retro Cabaret November 2023
Thrilled to have star panellist Prue MacSween from fab TV show Beauty and the Beast compere our next RED HOT RETRO Cabaret Show on Sat Nov 11. Bookings 0400 610 440. Woof! 
TAP Gallery
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Email: info@tapgallery.org.au * Telephone: 0400610440 .
Level 1, 259 Riley St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
Red Hot retro Cabaret November 2023
Frontline Photojournalism Projections – Glen Lockitch
A whirlwind thirty-year audio-visual photojournalism journey, traversing the socio-political-environmental cultural landscape, from film to digital, starting at riots at the Berlin Wall in 1989, and travelling through Sydney Peace Squadron anti-war demonstrations on Sydney Harbour, South East NSW Forest Blockades, anti French nuclear testing riots in Tahiti, the impact of mining on indigenous communities and the environment in the Philippines, anti-corporate globalisation protests in Australia, ‘TAXI!’ Sydney taxi night-passengers and their stories, eviction of the Kalahari Bushmen from their ancestral lands, three Sea Shepherd Antarctic anti-whaling campaigns, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, and more. Plus newly edited work including ‘Antarctic Icebergs’ and ‘Sydney in Colour’. All are welcome to attend on 25 November at TAP Gallery 8pm. Entry by donation. Limited seats please book on
Fall of the Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, Germany, 7th October 1989.
© Glenn Lockitch 2015
Anti-nuclear testing protesters confront the French military on the Papeete Airport runway burning down the airport and sparking off days of rioting, Tahiti, 1995.
© Glenn Lockitch 2012
© Glenn Lockitch 2016
Moment of impact. The Japanese harpoon ship, the Yushin Maru 3 (right), tries to shake off the anti-whaling Sea Shepherd ship, the Bob Barker (left), from the Japanese factory ship the Nisshin Maru’s tail (background), ramming the Bob Barker and tearing a one-metre gash in its hull, and damaging itself in the process. Southern Ocean, Antarctica 2010.
In the name of ‘research’, using a loophole in the International Whaling Convention, Japanese whalers set a yearly quota of 1,035 whales to kill in the Antarctic waters, many in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary. No academically respected, internationally peer reviewed scientific research papers have been published by the whalers. The multinational, anti-whaling, direct-action, marine conservation organisation Sea Shepherd sailed yearly to Antarctica until 2017 (the last of three Antarctic campaigns I photographed), to physically obstruct and stop the Japanese whaling slaughter. Japan ceased its whaling operations in the Antarctic, repeatedly blaming Sea Shepherd for its whale quota loss. Sea Shepherd, since 2002 when the organisation started obstructing the Japanese Antarctic whaling operations, directly helped save the lives of over 6,000 whales.
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Level 1, 259 Riley St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
Frontline Photojournalism Projections – Glen Lockitch
Paintings from my Studio – Georgina-Kay Trout
Georgina commenced her formal art education with a Bachelor of Arts degree at Sydney’s City Art Institute in the 70’s. She then won a number of art prizes, including the Macquarie University Chancellor’s Award, the Peter Stuyvesant Cultural Foundation Award, the AGNSW Dyason Bequest and Permanent Trustees’ Martin Bequest, before being awarded a Fulbright Travel Grant in 1984 to study in New York. There she attended the New York Studio School for the summer where she was offered a scholarship, which she was unable to accept because she was starting a Master of Arts degree at New York University. She completed her formal education with the award of a Doctorate in Creative Arts at Wollongong University in 1994.
At NYU she was placed as an intern with the pop artist Tom Wesselman, who was famous for his Great American Nudes series in the 60’s and 70’s. In his studio in the Bowery, she joined his two other assistants to produce work that was derived from sessions with his model.
Following her return to Sydney, Georgina attended the Julian Ashton Art School, won the Camden Art Prize, was hung in the Salon des Refuses for the Wynne and won First and Second Prizes for entries in the Royal Easter Show.
She bought her own picture framing shop – Ace Frames in Rose Bay – and owned it for 10 years. Upon retiring in 2002, Georgina found more time to paint and decided to take up painting from the life model. In her studio she paints from the model once a week and painted portraits. She has had many exhibitions, usually every 2-3 years based on figuration.
In this exhibition “Paintings from My Studio” Georgina continues her exploration of abstraction through figuration. She explains her process this way. I have a model come to my studio. I set up coloured drapes of different patterns and position the model in a pose that is comfortable to her. Georgina then starts with small canvases and canvas boards and looks at the coloured masses from a composition viewpoint, often putting on a timer to limit overworking an image or going from the abstract to the literal. After a number of different poses have been completed, the small works are viewed and a composition is picked out for a larger painting that might become a story. With the larger painting on the easel she revisits the smaller paintings with a frame that is overly grand or quirky to create an interesting contrast that reminds her of early modernist artworks in elaborate traditional frames…after all she was a framer.
Georgina Trout on Instagram: @georginatrout
Exhibition runs from 30th October until 5th November daily 12-6pm.
All welcome to the official function Tuesday 31st October at 5-9pm.
This is Halloween Night – Costumes Welcome! RSVP to Georgina Trout by text on 0409 048 428
There will also be an artists talk & demonstration with a model – Thursday 2nd November 1-4pm.
TAP Gallery: tapgallery.org.au
Youtube: @TapGallerySydney (Tap TV)
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Email: info@tapgallery.org.au * Telephone: 0400610440 .
Level 1, 259 Riley St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
Paintings from my Studio – Georgina-Kay Trout
Larrikin – Photos by Jennifer Forward-Hayter
In association with HeadOn Festival.
!4th-18th November 12-6pm
Sun 19th November 12-4pm.
Opens Tue 14th November 6-9 pm.
Drinks by Young Henrrys.
Jennifer will be interviewed during
The Chaser Report Live and Arty
on 17th November at Tap.
TAP Gallery: tapgallery.org.au
Youtube: @TapGallerySydney
Instagram: @tapgallery and #tapgallery
Email: info@tapgallery.org.au * Telephone: 0400610440 .
Level 1, 259 Riley St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
Larrikin – Photos by Jennifer Forward-Hayter
The Chaser Report – Live and Arty
The Chaser Report podcast is recording an episode live in the middle of TAP gallery on Friday 17th November, 2023 at 7pm.
This very arty and exclusive event is to celebrate a photo art exhibition of the work of British photographer Jennifer Forward-Hayter, which included capturing the behind-the-scenes magic and mystery of The Chaser’s creative process during a two-month period last year.
The podcast will be recorded live, and will feature Charles Firth, Craig Reucassel, Gabbi Bolt and Mark Humphries as well as appearances from the Chaser Interns, who actually do all the work.
Together, they will talk about their own interactions with art, and more importantly, discuss how to scam yourself an arts grant through low-level fraud.
Tickets are $30.
Get them here (ticketek).
The recording will last roughly one hour, followed by drinks. Drinks courtesy of Young Henry’s.
TAP Gallery: tapgallery.org.au
Youtube: @TapGallerySydney
Instagram: @tapgallery and #tapgallery
Email: info@tapgallery.org.au * Telephone: 0400610440 .
Level 1, 259 Riley St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
The Chaser Report – Live and Arty
Fabulous Figures – Veronika Kristensen
* Born in Denmark to a Lithuanian mother and Danish father, migrated to
Australia in early childhood, settling in Newcastle.
* Gained a Diploma in Fine Arts at The National Art School, Newcastle in
1974. Was awarded the A. Dottilo Rubbo prize for best overall
performance.
* Lectured in life drawing at Newcastle College of Advanced Education in
1977-1979.
* Moved to Sydney in 1979 and and took up a position as Art Director at
View Productions, where she designed and illustrated books, magazines
and posters.
* Began further studies at the City Art Institute and gained a Graduate
Diploma in Professional Art Studies in 1984.
* In 1985, was appointed to a teaching position in art and graphic design at
Liverpool TAFE, where she taught life drawing, perspective drawing, and
Art History until 1989
* In 1990, began employment at Sydney Opera House as a Visitor Services
Officer after funding to the TAFE system was axed.
* Taught life drawing at the Waverley Woollahra WEA Centre adult evening
classes in early 1990’s.
* Currently still working at Sydney Opera House in Ticketing services.
* Participated in group shows in Newcastle in 1970’s at the Von Bertouch
Gallery “Collector’s Choice, “Warehouse Gallery Cooks Hill.
* Awarded the Warringah Art Prize in 1978.
* Solo exhibition at The Sydney Gallery, Paddington in 1983.
* Participated in group shows of “Lithuanian Days” Festivals in Newcastle
and Adelaide, during 1980’s and early 1990’s.
* Group show at Sydney Opera House called “Beyond the Fourth Wall” in
1990s..
* Ex-Libris exhibition in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1991.
“” Heavenly Bodies” – solo exhibition of drawings and paintings at The Art
Centre of Sydney, Darlinghurst in July 2023.
* Always worked with the figure, mostly in acrylics on board or canvas, or
pastel, pencil and pen and ink on paper.
* Early influence of Surrealists, Impressionist has recently evolved to more
figurative, decorative approach, with some fantasy elements.
* Considers herself as a ‘re-emerging” artist after a protracted period away
from the exhibiting scene.
TAP Gallery
Web: tapgallery.org.au
Youtube: @TapGallerySydney
Instagram: @tapgallery and #tapgallery
Email: info@tapgallery.org.au * Telephone: 0400610440 .
Level 1, 259 Riley St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
Fabulous Figures – Veronika Kristensen