Brown’s Mart Theatre are pleased to introduce Matthew Gingold, a Melbourne-based artist whose work spans installation, exhibition, performance, public and community outcomes. In March, Matt will travel to Darwin for The Perfect Artist, a mass video portrait project that documents the breadth of Australian creative culture.

So far, over 60 portraits have been made in Melbourne, Perth and soon Sydney. Darwin is next.

The Perfect Artist explores creativity: the people who create and what it means to be creative. The project is intended to be a national document of Australian artists, arts workers and administrators. It is also an open question to audiences and participants alike: What does it mean to make art, and what does art mean to us?

The final installation will be presented at the National Portrait Gallery (ACT) in May 2010. Consisting of over 100 individual portraits of creative people ‘performing themselves’, the installation will present audiences with an ever-changing ‘group’ portrait of the creative arts.

WE WANT YOU TO BE PART OF THE PROJECT

If you would like to participate in the Darwin Edition of The Perfect Artist, we are shooting portraits at Brown’s Mart Theatre between Tuesday 9 March – – Sunday 14 March 2010.

We’re looking for artists, arts administrators and workers from all creative fields.

The portrait process is fun, largely pain free and takes about 60 minutes.

And we guarantee to make you look fabulous.

If you’d like to take part please email artist@perfectartist.net and one of the team will get in contact with you to make a time during the shooting dates.

If you’re unsure, or would like more info about the project email Producer, Eugenia Lim: e@perfectartist.net or visit http://www.perfectartist.net.

The Perfect Artist has been made possible with support from the following perfect organisations: Arts Victoria, Aphids, PVI, Performance Space, PACT, Head Quarters, Browns Mart and National Portrait Gallery

Who: for people over 15 years old.
When:Tuesdays in February and March
Duration: 6 weeks
Cost: $110/80
Venue: Browns Mart

Course begins: 2nd FEBRUARY

Download forms and more here.

Bi-Monthly Meetings are Back

Top End Arts and Brown’s Mart invite you to take part in this year’s series of arts sector networking meetings – The Bi-Monthlies.

Bi-Monthly ONE will be held at Browns Mart from 4pm on Thursday 4th March. It will be an opportunity to meet all the new people now working in the sector, and to exchange information about our plans for the year.

This will be an informal meeting and you are encouraged to attend and to bring as many of your colleagues as you can. If you would like to add a topic to the agenda please call or email Janice on 8941 7413 or director@topendarts.com.au

The Brown’s Mart Bar will open at 5pm for socialising and some relaxed networking.

Come down and rock out or bang your head along to a stack of bands covering a wide range of heavy sounds.

Featuring hard rock from Crassic Park and Zed Major, and a range of death, thrash, black and doom from Abysm, Cain’s Plague, Hate for Fate and F.E.M.A, Chimitry, Slaughtertorall and Aborted Jesus Milkshake.

Nik Coppin [UK], Marcel Lucont [France], Cath Styles [Melbourne], Craig Zee [Darwin] and John Burgos [Melbourne] bring you Shaggers. A comedy show about…. well… Shagging!

The Age described the show like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get! Reviewers have claimed this show is impossible to review because the line up is always changing. Nik Coppin the brain child behind Shaggers designed it as a late night show for comedians to get on stage after their shows at festivals and just let loose with whatever they wanted.

“Unbridled Comedy!”

Shaggers is in Darwin for one night only with 5 great comics on stage.

Don’t miss this show. Book early. This show WILL sell out.

For bookings go to.

www.darwinentertainment.com.au

There are a range of grant categories available for artists, groups, and arts and community organisations.

This year’s round includes an additional category, Community Grants, which aims to support community based arts activities with a strong focus on community involvement in all stages of the project.