that’s ENTERTAINMENT John Langley
When did your artistic passion begin? During my childhood, creating cartoon characters was my fi rst passion, born from a love of Tintin and Asterix comics. My artistic inclinations then lay dormant for many years until six years ago when I started life drawing classes with local artist Peter Lankas. Initially, it was a way of getting out again at night after a few years of the socialising-free zone that can come with raising young children. However, it didn’t take long before I was devouring art books and realising that painting and drawing would provide some of the great sparks of life. Describe your work. The majority of my current work is human life studies in gouache, with the colour of the preprepared acrylic backgrounds often providing inspiration for the overall colouring of the piece. The main thrust of these works is to complement the development of my oil painting skills. What inspires you? I’m driven by the human form and human relationships in conjunction with the rhythm that dance and music play upon the human spirit. What has been your greatest achievement? Developing my painting from life to the extent that I’m currently hanging some of these works in my fi rst group exhibition. What would be your advice for budding artists? Since I’m only exhibiting for the fi rst time, it would be presumptive of me to off er much advice to the budding artist, except to say that no matter what style your art entails, regularly drawing or painting the human body from life can only improve and add zest to your work. John Langley’s work will be featured as part of the Drawn Upstairs exhibition at Newcastle Art Space until Sunday, August 28.
ARTIST: John Langley
Charting a musical map of the world
AKERS READY to short ‘n’SWEET
raise some eyebrows SINGER and songwriter Kirsty Akers is set to return to the airwaves with her new single In Spite of Ourselves, the fi rst track to be released from her upcoming album Naked. The song has the diminutive rootsy
performer with the distinctive vocal style join forces with ARIA award-winner Kevin Mitchell, otherwise known as Bob Evans, (Jebediah, Basement Birds), on a risque John Prine-penned classic that is sure to raise a few eyebrows. Although now only 23, Akers has been
making an impact for the past seven years. Hailed as a remarkable talent by fellow
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artists, musicians, media and stalwarts of the music industry, she is fearless and brutally honest with a penchant for taking her songs to places others fear to tread.
She will be playing
at Lizotte’s Newcastle on Wednesday, August 24.
FROM Sicilian folk tunes to Columbian street songs and a new Australian work from renowned composer Peter Sculthorpe, the Song Company’s imaginative new concert will take audiences on a musical journey around the globe and across the ages. Audiences are invited to pack their bags
and head to the departure lounge to join Australia’s leading vocal ensemble as they create a musical map of the world with Time Traveller in Newcastle at the Newcastle Conservatorium on Thursday, August 18. Mapping the planet in musical
measurements, Time Traveller will bring together songs and stories about place, location and travel from the centre of the world to the periphery and back. The Song Company’s six singers will
perform a song about each of the cities they are visiting on the Time Traveller tour, from the little-known Brisbane Ladies to the timeless Botany Bay. The program includs a
Sicilian folksong, traditional Chinese songs, tunes from the Torres Strait Islands arranged by artistic director Roland Peelman, two Peter Sculthorpe songs and a selection of numbers from the Americas and Australia.
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