First Fridays: Everything is Form

Take a deeper look into the world of artist Brent Harris this First Fridays.
Hear from Laurence Simmons as he gives insight into the psychological aspects of Harris' work, or focus in on the idea of automatism on a sketch tour with artist Zoe Butters.

From 5pm
AGSA_eat

Enjoy a range of delicious food and beverages from AGSA_eat.
Final drinks and orders at 8.30pm.
Courtyard & Atrum

5pm
Winter & Miller

Tune into Winter & Miller, a vocal and guitar duo based here on Kaurna Country. Bringing a jazz flare to familiar sounds, Winter & Miller create a soothing atmosphere to be enjoyed by all.
Courtyard

5pm & 7pm
Guided Tours

Join a Gallery Guide for a tour of Brent Harris: Surrender & Catch or go back in time and take a tour of Reimagining the Renaissance.
Meet at the Atrium Information Desk

5.30pm & 7.30pm

Join artist Zoe Butters on a sketch tour inspired by the surrealist method of automatism and the work of Brent Harris.
Limited spaces, no booking required.
Meet at the studio

6pm
Monsters of Brent Harris - Laurence Simmons Lecture

Monsters will be the central characters of this talk. Simmons will argue that they are the central characters of Brent Harris’s life’s work too. We will be concerned with the monstrous not out of sensationalism but in the sense of both the assimilable and the uncanny. Monsters ghost the margins of what can legitimately be thought and painted. Harris’s monsters are unnatural, transgressive, obscene, contradictory, heterogeneous, wacky even. To face the monster and acknowledge that it is an integral part of us — which Simmons will attempt to show that Brent Harris has and does — is to accept that we need not fear its otherness, nor ‘act it out’ by projecting our fear onto others.

Laurence Simmons is Professor of Film Studies in the School of Humanities at The University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau. Among his publications are Freud’s Italian Journey (2006), Tuhituhi, William Hodges, Cook’s Painter in the Pacific (2011), Victory over Death: The Art of Colin McCahon (with Rex Butler, 2021), Žižek through Hitchcock (2021). He also co-curated the travelling exhibition Gordon Walters: New Vision (2017).
Radford Auditorium

6.30pm
Guildhouse Fellowship In-Conversation with Fellows

Come and hear insights from past, presenting and current Guildhouse Fellows – Troy-Anthony Baylis (2019), Tom Phillips (2022), Kyoko Hashimoto (2023) – for an in-person panel discussion, exploring their experiences and the impact of the Fellowship on their practices. The conversation will be supported by Sarah Feijen – CEO, Guildhouse – this will be a unique opportunity to learn more about what the Guildhouse Fellowship can do for your practice and how to shape your application for the best chance at success.
Gallery 6

7.30pm
Schwendy Bend

Schwendy Bend are an eclectic local band comprising of 10 members who package sets filled with smooth grooves, tight pockets and soulful melodies.
Courtyard