Keyword results: Exhibition
What:
Into The Closet
Where:
The Carlton Hotel Gallery, Lvl 2, 193 Bourke St, Melbourne
When:
Opening Thurs Aug 21, 6.30pm
Exhibition runs until Sept 6
How much:
Free!
Description:
We won't do this justice in an OUT listing, but we can assure you the launch will be full of well-dressed men. It's an exhibition and temporary shop/studio space for designers and artists who care about prodding males to dress better. Curator Geoff Nees has assembled a butt kicking list of participants including Julia De Ville, Sruli Recht, James Cameron, Material By Product, Kano, Leith McGregor, Richard Nylon and Howard Arkley.
Event: Launch
Stimulus: Free booze & Food
Well are you?
If you stand still too long in the Carlton Hotel you may well run the risk. But this exhibition is happening upstairs in the gallery, so remain stationary all you like and gaze at work by a group of artists who famously exhibited at Prahran's Store 5 during the ‘80s.
Curated by stencil forefather and pal of Perks, Constanze Zikos, this is a varied reunion show including work by Stephen Bram, Toony Clark, Marco Fusinato, Melinda Harper, Fiona McDonald, Anne Marie May, Callum Moorton, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Kerrie Poliness and Kathy Temin.
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Well, now you can glam up your rituals and add a little sparkle to your shrine.
Many people have said it: "Why is there no tram from Brunswick to Fitzroy, maybe with a super stop at Carlton?" (Mental note: whoever setup that shuttle bus service would be sitting on a fortune, especially if they had a mini-bar and Gold 104.)
Meanwhile, reasons to stay in Brunswick multiply by the day.
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One of the most prolific fashion and textile courses in the country, RMIT’s Fashion Design – which has given birth to designers like TV’s Ingrid Verner, Body’s Dainy Sawatzky and Kylie Zerbst of Obus - is giving us the chance to nosey in on fashion’s 2006 up-and-coming.
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