What's On: Enjoy your week with art exhibitions, book exchange

Barbra Cleveland's "Thinking Business" - 'Thinking Business' is a new exhibition by Barbara Cleveland that explores forms of female friendship, collaboration and artistic labour. The project takes its title from Hannah Arendt's description of her friendship with Mary McCarthy.

Barbara Cleveland is an Australian artist collective directed by Diana Baker Smith, Frances Barrett, Kate Blackmore, and Kelly Doley, working on Gadigal land (Sydney). The collective take their name from the mythic feminist performance artist who they recovered from the margins of Australian art history and who has been a key feature in their work since 2010. Barbara Cleveland's projects are informed by queer and feminist methodologies that draw on the historical lineages of both the visual and performing arts.

'Thinking Business' is Barbara Cleveland's inaugural solo exhibition at a public Gallery in Australia.

Based in Wollongong, Alana Cappetta's artistic practice is primarily concerned with evoking elements of Surrealism and the Uncanny through a dedication to painting. Over the past ten years, Cappetta has experimented with a vast array of figurative characters, inspired from Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, graphic motifs and figures across popular culture. With an intricate attention to design and colour, her contorted figurative studies and landscapes - both real and imagined - take on a vibrant flavour that is both ominous and innocent. Informed by her skill in creating a world of depth on a small scale, Cappetta's most recent multi-facetted four-panelled works on paper are an adventure of youthful creative possibility. With portraits of herself and friends reimagined as animals, staircases and windows leading to nowhere, never-ending corridors, these worlds are constrained to a slowly dissolving geometric logic. Like dreams, they come in vignettes that are at once visceral yet mysterious Alana Cappetta holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong, and a Master of Curatorial Studies from Sydney College of the Arts (COFA). Exhibiting alongside Barbara Cleveland, this is Cappetta's inaugural solo exhibition at the Gallery.

This Edition of The Window has been curated by Megan Monte, Director at Ngunungulla, Southern Highlands Regional Gallery. Megan Monte has completed a Master of Art Administration (UNSW Art & Design), Bachelor of Visual Arts (Sydney College of the Arts) and Diploma of Secondary Education (New England University). Monte's previous roles include Director Cement Fondu and Curator Comptemprary Art at Campbelltown Arts Centre. Monte has been the recipient of several grants including The Australia Council for the Arts Venice Biennale Emerging Curators Program 2015 and Basel Hong Kong Curator's program 2017.

Are you a superhero in disguise? Participate in a superhero training workshop where you will learn cool new tricks essential for every superhero, then watch the professional superheroes in a 20 minute superhero show full of flips and tricks. Workshops include superhero training and a stunt show. Two workshop sessions are available at 10am and 11am. For Ages 4-12 years. Parents are required to stay.

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