Shane K; The Kurilpa Poets enigmatic Minister of Decadent Art
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“Unsuspected Artist” of the Month; SHANE K
ARTIST OF THE MONTH
SHANE K
The enigmatic Director of Visual Arts steps forward this month to show us his etchings!
And his doodlings & scratchings & scribblings & inkings and daubings!
Yes he’s a versatile chap is our Shane, forever experimenting & exploring in an effort to expand the parameters of his Visual Lexicon. Further to that, his knowledge of Art appears to be encyclopedic. As the Kurilpa Poets’ highly esteemed Director of all things artistic & visual, Shane has been the person responsible for filling the Big Screen of our Virtual Art Gallery with a staggering array of artistic talents, from struggling, local newcomers, and obscure, old genius’s long-ago rotted in their garrets, to the Big Names of Art History as well, often shining a light on the more shadowy parts of their careers.
His penchant for playing early, black & white, surrealist experimental films has also provided an interesting counterpoint to the Poetry erupting on stage,
many’s the time a pleasant congruency of Word and Image has occured unlooked for as a result.
We thought it only fitting therefore, that Shane himself take the spotlight as the Unsuspected Artist of the Month, for this our final, monthly Kurilpa Poets gig at the olde Croquet Club.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to witness a choice selection of the work of one of Brisbanes’ greatest “Unsuspected Artists”!
So see you 2pm this Sunday, 30th June
at the Kurilpa Poetry Cup
91 Cordelia Street, West End
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WARM WINTER WORDS featuring David Hallett, Sunday 25th June
The Kurilpa Poets proudly present
“Warm Winter Words”
2pm, Sunday 25th June, 2017
featuring;
Byron Bay Beatnik Bard
DAVID HALLETT;
is Brisbane Bound!
Spangly Songstress
JEM SPARKLE:
to Sing Sweetly
Realtime Raconteur
Special Guest MC; CAM LOGAN
Rocks in as Ringmaster
And as Always
Open Mic Sessions*Free Food & Refreshments* Free Onsite Parking* Prizes* Artists Virtual Gallery*
Available to All
Friendly Folk
91 Cordelia Street, Sth Brisbane
in the shade of sacred Musgrave Park
Warming up for his Kurilpa Poets gig, David Hallett
The Winter Solstice loometh once again
and the Water Rats will be huddled in their lair,
sharing words of wit, warmth and wisdom
to keep the wicked winds of winter at bay.
Speaking of “bay”, that’s exactly where this month’s
fabulous Feature poet, the right esteemed
DAVID HALLETT,
will be coming from. Byron Bay that is.
This respected Elder from amongst our Poetic Cousins across the border, is a man with Poetry at the core of his being. A Poetic Fixture of the NSW North Coast scene, where he hosts, amongst other ventures, the long running “Writers at the Rails”, he has been writing, teaching and promoting poetry there for over twenty years.
His poems, it has been said, “are polished perfection like the smooth black pebbles washed up on the shores of Seven Mile Beach. His words a breath of fresh sea air with the tang of woodsmoke”.
He has performed his work worldwide.
A sampling of his poetry, and further information on his various activities, can be viewed at:
Yes, it’s always a memorable occasion
when David comes to town, and it’s been far too long since he last appeared, in your humble narrators opinion. So be sure not to miss the opportunity of eye-witnessing this polished poetic performer in person.
The Sparkly geetars of Ms Jem
MID-WINTER MYSTERY MUSICIAN
for this Solstice gathering will be Kurilpa’s favourite
femme fatale
JEM SPARKLES
who will be sure to keep the midwinter Blues away with her vivacious vibes, infectious smile, and her toe-tapping, heart-warming mix of rockin’ originals and Juke Box classics. Come watch this crazy diamond shine on!
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Meanwhile, providing the requisite Eye-Candy up on the Virtual Gallery’s Big Screen this month,
our Visual Arts Director, the ever encyclopedic Shane K, will be bringing us the Art
of 20th Century American Modernist
Stuart Davis.
His work, described as “brash, bold and colourful”, was also deeply political in inspiration. Elements of his Art was also seen as influential in the development of the later Pop Art movement.
See More! Hear More! Sunday 25th!
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The Virtual Gallery presents; JOAN MIRO
This Sunday 26th Feb, 2017
as the Kurilpa Poetry Cup rolls on
The
VIRTUAL GALLERY
will be presenting this months feature artist,
the firebrand Catalan Surrealist,
JOAN MIRO.
An artist who never stopped experimenting, Miro’s hauntingly ambiguous work has been described as entering,” a sandbox for the subconscious”.
Kurilpa’s Visual Arts Director, the enigmatically encyclopaedic Shane K
has boldly entered that arena with bucket and spade in hand, this Sunday he will share the results of his excavations.
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Unsuspected Artist Lloyd Rees, Sun Nov 27th
November’s Unsuspected Artist
Lloyd Rees
This months Virtual Gallery feature at the Kurilpa Poets end of year gig
is local landscape artist, Lloyd Rees.
Yeronga born Rees’s long life (1895 to 1988) was filled with his uniquely meticulous paintings and sketchings.
Receiving both acclaim and harsh criticism for his style, he was twice winner of the prestigious Wynne Prize.
Despite losing his sight in later years, Rees continued painting, claiming that one of the benefits of going blind was that he was now able to look directly into the sun.
Come along this Sunday November 27th, 2pm, to the Old Croquet Club
and check out this virtual exhibition as Visual Arts Director Shane K
tells us more about this influential Australian artist.
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MYSTERY MUSO QPapaYandi
KURILPA POETS 30th OCTOBER GIG UPDATE;
Presenting this months Mystery Musician,
Q-PapaYandi
Is QPapaYandi really the son of a preacher man?
The lab reports were inconclusive, but nonetheless, this months Mystery Musician proudly claims the Reverend Hellfire as his Spiritual Father and fondly recalls their musical collaboration together on his first recording project, over 16 years ago.
After a long creative hiatus QPY has again picked up his sword and shield (and of course, his guitar) to fight the good fight for Love and Music!
Accordingly, this Musical Vagabond of the Heart can be found performing with the fabulous Whoopee-Do Crew, who appear regularly at West Ends’ Peoples Park and at West End and Gailes Community House events.
Q-Papa-Yandi has also been a regular reader this year at the Kurilpa Poets’ Open Mic sessions, where he has often impressed the crowd with his free flowing improvisational rap/poems. Now he makes his first solo musical appearance for the Water Rats. So come listen to his licks, tap your toes to his tunes and celebrate the musical return of this prodigal son to the fold.
In the meantime, here’s a sample of his stuff. Check it out.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcNs5kold-ce4zjZHmVLBLA
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FEELTHY PICTURES??
In breaking news Kurilpa’s Visual Arts Director, Shane K, has announced that the theme of this months VIRTUAL GALLERY will be the gorgeous world of traditional
JAPANESE PRINTS
“Erotic Japanese prints?” we asked hopefully.
Our enigmatic and erudite Arts Director merely sniffed.
“It will all be very tasteful,” he assured us.
We look forward eagerly to this aesthetic experience.
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SUBVERSIFY UPDATE, Jem Sparkles and Beatrix Potter to appear!
SUBVERSIFY UPDATE
The tension builds with less than 24 hours until the Kurilpa Poets SUBVERSIFY event takes place on Sunday 25th September at 2 pm, with Feature Poet Jonothan Sri
leading the vanguard of our highly trained cadre of subversive Poets.
Government forces are already erecting barricades around the compound as supporters gather in the nearby safety of Musgrave Park. Several on the spot fines have already been slapped on poet protesters for attempting to declaim Haiku in a public space and one man was led away on suspicion of speaking in Blank Verse. Meanwhile, a break-away faction of bush-poets have set up camp by the Billabong..sorry, I meant the Rotunda, from which they are flying the Eureka Flag.
JEM SPARKLE Steps Up
Jem Sparkles in action!
Meanwhile in news just to hand, we learn that there are dramatic events occuring on the Musical Front. After the chaos following the mysterious dissappearance of Mystery Musician, Dawn Daylight, several days ago, Kurilpa apparatchiks were relieved to be able to announce that Kurilpa Poet favourite, Jem Sparkle, would be stepping up to provide the days soundtrack.
Jem always lifts the mood with her charming presence and charged performances, so we look forward to seeing her return on this occasion.
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Meanwhile, marching as always to the beat of his very own samba band, Visual Arts Director and known refusnik,
Shane K will be showing the Works of the Greats!
Great Early Illustrators of Childrens Books, that is.
Judicious selections from the illustrations of John Tenniel, Beatrix Potter and Sheppard, amongst others, will be presented for your delectation, and as always, expect our erudite Arts Director to deliver an informal but illuminating dissertation on the subject.
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Virtual Gallery Artist for June- RB KITAJ
VIRTUAL GALLERY ARTIST ANNOUNCED
FOR KURILPA POETS SUNDAY, JUNE 26th Event
This month our eclectic and encyclopedic Visual Arts Director,
Shane K ,
will be showing the Artistic Visions of
Mr J B Kitaj
on the Virtual Gallery’s big-screen
and, we hope, at some stage in the afternoon learnedly lecturing on said Artists’ career and accomplishments.
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MARTIN SHARP, Virtual Gallery feature, Sun 27 March
Virtual Gallery features
MARTIN SHARP
Kurilpa Poets, Sun 27th March
Kurilpa Poets Visual Arts Director, the reclusive Shane K,
has announced that The Virtual Gallery‘s Feature Artist for the Kurilpa Poets 27th March Event,
will be none other than Tiny-Tim-obsessed, Luna-Park-loving, iconoclastic, 60’s Flower Child,
MARTIN SHARP.
Get ready for some old-school visual fireworks!
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Virtual Gallery feature Artist FERDINAND LEGER
Presenting the VIRTUAL GALLERY’s first Feature artist for 2016 at the Kurilpa Poetry Cup
Ferdinand Leger
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Ferdinand Leger (1881-1955) was a French painter sculptor and film-maker whose personal take on Cubism was strongly infused with a sense of Classical monumentality and balance.
Leger came from a farming family in Normandy and originally trained as an architectural drafstman. He subsequently studied fine art and on moving to Montmartre in 1909 was soon heavily influenced by the work of leading Cubist artists that he saw there.
Drafted into the army in 1914 Leger spent two years at the front before becoming the victim of a German mustard gas attack at Verdun.
.During a period of convalescence in Villepinte he painted The Card Players (1917), a canvas whose robot-like, monstrous figures reflect the ambivalence of his experience of war. As he explained:
...I was stunned by the sight of the breech of a 75 millimeter
in the sunlight.
It was the magic of light on the white metal. That’s all it took for me to forget the abstract art of 1912–1913. The crudeness, variety, humor, and down-right perfection of certain men around me, their precise sense of utilitarian reality and its application in the midst of the life-and-death drama we were in …made me want to paint in slang with all its color and mobility.
This work marked the beginning of his “mechanical period”, during which the figures and objects he painted were characterized by sleekly rendered tubular and machine-like forms.
Starting in 1918, he also produced the first paintings in the Disk series, in which disks suggestive of traffic lights figure prominently. In December 1919 he married Jeanne-Augustine Lohy, and in 1920 he met Le Corbusier, who would remain a lifelong friend.
Like many modernists of the era Leger was a strong believer in the positive aspects of mechanisation and his works reflects this. His war-time experiences in the trenches also madehim a fervent believer in the concept of working class solidarity which culminated in his joining the French Communist Party in 1945.
During this period his work became less abstract, and he produced many monumental figure compositions depicting scenes of popular life featuring acrobats, builders, divers, and countryoutings. Art historian Charlotta Kotik has written that Léger’s
“determination to depict the common man, as well as to create for him, was a result of socialist theories widespread among the avant-garde both before and after World War II. However, Léger’s social conscience was not that of a fierce Marxist, but of a passionate humanist”
His varied projects included book illustrations, murals, stained-glass windows, mosaics, polychrome ceramic sculptures, and set and costume designs.
-Shane Kneipp
See more of Ferdinand Leger’s work at
the Kurilpa Poetry Cup,
Sunday 28th February, 2pm
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