Margaretta Pos
GO TO Handmark Gallery in Salamanca Place to see Lorraine Biggs’ exhibition “Regeneration”, which ends on Tuesday.
Biggs lives in a coastal hamlet in north east Tasmania, which was surrounded by the devastating fires of December 2006. She watched as the fire swept through, ready to run into the sea for safety. For this exhibition, she focused on bush recovery as a metaphor for resilience, in drawings in pastel and charcoal, and oil and acrylic paintings. Read her statement, then look at her work.
GO TO the Theatre Royal to see Bell Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.”
There are performances on Friday and Saturday nights at 7.30pm, and a Saturday matinee at 2pm. It is an enchanting production for everyone, the highlight of which is the performance by Ed Wightman as Touchstone.
Buy “Below Tree Level” , written by Benny Walter and illustrated by Leigh Rigozzi, two young Tasmanians to watch. It is a beguiling little book which, they cheerfully say, is a murky contribution to Tasmanian nature writing in the form of a melancholy journey through illustrated fiction around Mt Wellington. Published by Inscrutable Press, I bought my copy at Fullers Bookshop for $16.95, but I expect it is stocked elsewhere.
