The view from there

WAYNE MULLEN

The View From King Street is a blog celebrating Newcastle's quirky nature and all the intriguing things that happen here. Produced by Wayne Mullen, King Street is eclectic and offbeat while being informative and interesting. We were very pleased to see that Clickculture made the grade and that one of our students, Matthew Malia, had an image posted a few weeks back. Photo courtesy of Wayne Mullen.

Short list: In the running

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DEAN BELETICH

Finalists for the Olive Cotton Award have just been announced. We'd like to extend our congratulations to all finalists and wish them the very best of luck, in particular our very own Dean Beletich (pictured). Other finalists include Izabela Pluta, Samantha Everton (recently noted on this blog), Rebecca Shanahan, Lee Grant and Ella Dreyfus. We're waiting with bated breath to hear who will take home the award this year.

Artspeak: Robert McFarlane at MRAG

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ROBERT MCFARLANE

Maitland Regional Art Gallery is currently exhibiting Received Moments: Photography 1961-2009 by one of Australia's most well-known photo journalists, Robert McFarlane. Rather than capture images, McFarlane 'receives' his images. They span public events and private moments, celebrities and civilians and everything in between.

To coincide with the exhibition, MRAG is host a panel discussion titled Receive/Capture/Take on Saturday April 30 at 2pm with guest speakers Robert McFarlane, Kevin Hull and Sean Roche. On Sunday focus shifts to McFaralna who will speak about stories behind photographs.

Crewdson lecture at UTS

© GREGORY CREWDSON

We're excited that Gregory Crewdson will be giving a public lecture at the University of Technology,  Sydney. Full details can be found here.