All The Time artist talk: Chris Carmody in conversation with Quentin Sprague

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Join artist Chris Carmody in conversation with author Quentin Sprague to discuss Carmody's exhibition All the Time, now showing at Civic Art Bureau, Canberra. All welcome, bar open, at Civic Art Bureau.

Quentin Sprague is an arts writer and critic, author of What Artists See (Monash), Ken Whisson: Painting and Drawing (MUP), The Stranger Artist: Life at the Edge of Kimberley Painting (Hardie Grant, winner 2021 Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction) and The Lake (Stolon Press).

Chris Carmody graduated from Canberra School of Art in 2009 with work represented in private and public collections, including the ANU Art Collection and the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre. All the Time expands on the distillation of Fluorescent Array, his successful exhibition with Civic Art Bureau in 2025.

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  • Sat 11 Jul 3pm–4:30pm
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When

11 Jul

3pm–4:30pm

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Civic Art Bureau

76 Alinga Street,
Canberra ACT 2601

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