Join us for a night of illustration and drawing to celebrate A Line A Web A World. The exhibition comprises more than 230 drawings from the Powerhouse Collection and traverses thousands of years of documented drawing practices.
The night will feature a magic lantern performance, the launch of Drawing Club, curator-led tours of the exhibition and visuals accompanied by a DJ.
Drawing Club offers free drop-in sessions for anyone who loves to draw and is keen to learn different drawing techniques. Sessions inspired by the exhibition will be led by Studio A on the night.
Magic lantern performances featuring Martyn Jolly, Charles Martin and Anna Madeleine Raupach will take you on a phantasmagoric journey as they recreate a 19th century magic lantern. Inspired by the Powerhouse Collection and Sydney Observatory, these unique performances give movement to original hand-painted magic slides projected through a 130-year-old brass and mahogany magic lantern.
Program
DRAWING CLUB
5–9pm Facilitated by Studio A, a locally supported studio that tackles the barriers artists with intellectual disability face in accessing conventional education, professional development pathways and opportunities
LIVE PERFORMANCE
6pm, 7.15pm Magic lantern performance with Martyn Jolly, Charles Martin and Anna Madeleine Raupach
TOUR
6pm and 7pm Curator-led tour of A Line A Web A World with senior curator Katie Dyer and assistant curator Nina Earl
VISUALS
5–9pm Unique illustrations and imagery curated by senior curator Katie Dyer
DJ
5–9pm DJ Kana Frazer
BAR
5–9pm Bar by Grifter
Details
Entry
Free entry, registrations recommended
Suitable for all ages; recommended 8+
Thursday
3 August 2023
5–9pm
Accessibility
We encourage visitors with accessibility requirements to contact us via book@powerhouse.com.au or (02) 9217 0222 for help in planning your visit. We accept Companion Cards.
Object No. 85/452
Terracotta tablet incised with Sumerian cuneiform, receipt for livestock to be used in royal offering, Drehem, Sumeria, 2041 BCE
Object No. 85/846
Balenciaga suit drawn by E Stemp, Paris, France, 1959. Purchased 1985
Object No. 2022/63/2
‘Untitled (black dog)’ by Dion Beasley, Tennant Creek, NT, 2019
Object No. 2021/93/1
‘I believe her’ March 4 Justice protest sign by Pip Cummings, Sydney, NSW, 2021. Gift of Pip Cummings, 2021
Object No. P1497
Moses-in-the-Cradle (Tradescanita discolor) botanical drawing by Filumena Mary Anne Lisle Phillipps, Singapore, about 1880–1887
