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Running TAP Book Project 1990-2020

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24.01.2022 Congratulations to Romily Malacari, the winner of the PORTRAIT RAFFLE!

23.01.2022 CANCELLED | Sydney poetry festival: P - - TCODE:2010 [10-12 April 2020] The complexity of this developing outbreak, in which all non-essential gatherings are ad...vised to cease, and Governmental planning has a combative timeline extending for a minimum of six months the weighting decision to take the responsibility to ensure every precaution is enabled to protect all from this novel coronavirus COVID-19, that we have arrived at the decision to cancel the inaugural Sydney poetry festival 2020. This is not a difficult decision to make, but a challenging reminder for the need to show more support for each other and our arts and cultural communities. Poetry Sydney is committed to advocating poets and poetry and we will be active in coming days in exploring ways to utilise digital platforms to positive effect through virtual and live experiences of the program during the time of the festival, 10-12 April 2020. It is our intention to continue with the public release of the festival program through the Poetry Sydney website, and will create a festival Facebook page, in which we encourage you all to support while we navigate online attendances to festival events through the digital arena. These connections will be implemented this week and you will be invited to assist in building on these relations. In coming months of self isolation and social distancing Poetry Sydney will be seeking ways to maximise the Poetry Sydney website by providing a notice board a regular newsletter. To keep informed please subscribe through the website. Http://www.poetrysydney.org It is our intention to continue with the public release of the festival program through the Poetry Sydney website, and will create a festival Facebook page, in which we encourage you all to support while we navigate online attendances to festival events through the digital arena. These connections will be implemented this week and you will be invited to assist in building on these relations. We thank all involved and engaged in the poetry festival program for their rigour and commitment to poetry and arts and culture. We extend the gratitude to poets who have contributed a wealth of insights to the festival, the respective partners and venues of whom we worked collectively to platform many poetry histories. The spirit of collaboration has been embraced from your contribution. This is no small measure, and we whole-heartedly thank you. Together we have brought about an interconnected expressive Sydney poetry festival program. Bearing out the insight and energies derived from our shared conversations we lead-on towards P TCODE:2010 [2-4 April 2021]. ps Take all forms of care.

20.01.2022 A lens through glass of you being mirrored by your mirror work in your first solo exhibition, Hang ups, and the final exhibition at #tapgallery before it closed... its Palmer and Burton Street premises in Darlinghurst, 2015. May all the betweens of the coming year reflect well and highlight you in all the right places dear #reginabotros. L'ange #runningtap photograph: Regina Botros, Tap Gallery 2015 by astretch

20.01.2022 2pm Sunday 3 November 2019 | Take a Look: Peter Boyle with music by Christine Christensen Peter Boyle was invited to write a poem in response to an art wor...k within the collections of the Australian Galleries, by Look Magazine, the Art Gallery of New South Wales bi-monthly art publication for members. The project has resulted in Peter frequenting the Galleries at AGNSW and The Brett Whiteley, among many other exhibitions for more than ten-months. A collection of twenty-three ekphrastic poems have been written and the commissioned poem selected, Stopping by piles of waste on sunny evenings: after Robert Rauschenberg ‘Dylaby’ (1962), was published in the September issue. Peter Boyle is the second poet commissioned to select an art work in the Australian Galleries of AGNSW, the first was Judith Beveridge with her poem By the shore, in response to the painting, Blue, yellow and white by Jack Carrington Smith (1945). Judith Beveridge selected Sydney-based poet Todd Turner to read with her as part of the Poetry Sydney Program at the Brett Whiteley Studio in May 2017. BIOS: Peter Boyle is a Sydney-based poet and translator of poetry. He is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness. His book Ghostspeaking won the 2017 Kenneth Slessor Prize and was shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Award for Poetry. Other poetry collections include Apocrypha (2009) which won the Queensland Premier’s Prize and the Judith Wright (ACT) Award, Museum of Space (2004) and What the painter saw in our faces (2001). As a translator of poetry from Spanish and French he has had seven books published. Among the poets he has translated are José Kozer from Cuba, Eugenio Montejo from Venezuela and Marosa di Giorgio and Jorge Palma from Uruguay. In 2019 Peter was commissioned to write a poem in response to a selected art work in the Australian Galleries, AGNSW collections for Look Magazine, AGNSW membership magazine. Christina Christensen has traveled the world with her cello playing professionally in ensembles, orchestras and performing collaborative works. After completing her Bachelor Honours degree in music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music she moved to Copenhagen, Denmark to pursue further studies and performed in public masterclasses for notable cellists Steven Isserlis, David Geringas and Peter Wispelwey to name a few. She enjoys composing music for cello often inspired by nature, moments in time and other artists. Christina also currently works as an Accessible Format Producer transcribing print to Braille Music code for people with vision impairments. For an electronic reading catalogue please email: [email protected] Take a Look: Peter Boyle and Christine Christensen Poetry Sydney Program 2pm, Sunday 3 November 2019 Brett Whiteley Studio, 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills For more on what's on in poetry in Sydney and NSW, visit: poetrysydney.org

16.01.2022 Photograph of our Lesley and article written by Yves Hernot for Le Courrier Australien. Link: https://www.lecourrieraustralien.com/147331/ Please note that copy has been written in French, perhaps the challenge here is to read Hernot's article aloud preferably while at the exhibition, which is on until the 18 October.... There is an Artist Talk: 3pm Saturday 17 October 2020 Tap Gallery The 24th Real Refuse - Sunday 18 October 2020 Tap Gallery 259 Riley Street, Surry Hills NSW2010 Exhibition page: http://www.tapgallery.org.au/the-real-refuses-works-not.../

10.01.2022 We are pleased to announce the winner of the Portrait Raffle by Sydney based artist and Manager of TAP Gallery, Lesley Dimmick OAM. Congratulations to Romily Malacari. Lesley Dimmick will paint a portrait of Romily's nominated subject and it will be included in Running TAP, a book on TAP Gallery. We are all in anticipation ~ Thank you to everyone who purchased tickets to support the Running TAP Book, we raised $525. Thank you also to Mr John Knott, TAP Art Gallery’s resident ...Art Auctioneer, artist and artisan. For more information on Running TAP please visit: http://www.runningtap.com.au/ TAP Gallery is open. TAP Gallery adheres Government Health directives and is open to the public with a maximum of 17 people. Registrations are encouraged for opening, or artist talks events. The Portrait Raffle is an initiative created following the cancelled fundraising evening, the Enchanted Garden. We encourage you to adhere to Government sanctions and take all recommended precautions by Health professionals to combat COVID-19. Please direct any queries that you may have to us. We welcome your thoughts and your support. Thank you from the Running TAP Book Project team. Official Running Tap Book Project website: http://www.runningtap.com.au/ TAP Gallery official website: http://www.tapgallery.org.au/ https://vimeo.com/474922758

10.01.2022 Immediate family are to stay in touch with, as are all forms of family and friends. We have much to reach-out to you about this summer on reflecting 30 years of TAP Gallery as we reach a new decade. Have fun, keep safe and stay-in-touch! Yours from the Running TAP team. Dimmick family: Aimy, Lesley & Ben

09.01.2022 The salon style of Tap Gallery's Real Refuses has received the attention of the online French news website Le Courrier Australien. Contributing writer Yves Hernot attended the exhibition and wrote of his experience, took photographs, one of which was a portrait of our Lesley. Lesley has been hosting the exhibition for 24 years to support those artists rejected in the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman exhibitions at AGNSW. "Every year I go in the Archibald., knowing I probably will... not be selected, however I can at least show the work to my peers & the public at TAP Gallery." #LesleyDimmick Please note that copy has been written in French, perhaps the challenge here is to read Hernot's article aloud preferably while at the exhibition, which is on until the 18 October. There is an Artist Talk: 3pm Saturday 17 October 2020 Tap Gallery The 24th Real Refuse - Sunday 18 October 2020 Tap Gallery 259 Riley Street, Surry Hills NSW2010 Exhibition page: http://www.tapgallery.org.au/the-real-refuses-works-not-se/ Article Link: https://www.lecourrieraustralien.com/147331/

06.01.2022 Another Celebration: Happy Birthday Lesley Dimmick! I first met Lesley at TAP Gallery on Palmer & Burton for a university assignment for Masters of Journalism UTS, in 2006. On this afternoon she was in the present company of jazz sensation 78 year-old Edwin Duff, who I was later to attend his wake event with her at the Paddington RSL in 2012. ... I wrote in my article, 'Like many of Dimmick's friends Duff holds an irresistible inimitability that would be hard to capture in the covers of a book or held dimensionally within a frame and he was quick to share his respect for Dimmick, "I love this woman and what she stands for." In 2021 the book is being realised and I have the challenging position of writing in the many influential engagements Lesley Dimmick has had on many people over many years. You are much loved Lesley Dimmick, Happy Birthday! L'ange * The article will be made available online on the Running TAP Book Project website: http://www.runningtap.com.au/ Photographs: Lesley Dimmick and Edwin Duff, TAP Gallery at Palmer and Burton Streets, Darlinghurst. astretch c 2006

06.01.2022 On the program > We take a Gallery walk with artist activist @JimAnderson, for his exhibition, Landscapes of Survival and Reconciliation on at 107 as part of He...adOn Moved To Headonphotofest. New Zealand born, Sydney based photographer, curator and artist, Sandy Edwards has a solo exhibition at Tap Gallery Sydney. Showing My Age, 15 years of portrait photography from her time working for Fairfax Media’s Melbourne newspaper, The Age in the 80s and 90s. How does an artist commissioned by a local Council for a community public art installation project to combat Domestic Violence approach this challenging subject? Sydney based artist Kassandra Bossell, has accepted the challenge and tells us more. The City of Sydney is seeking creative thinkers and artists with an interest in sustainability, communities and urbanism to light up underused city spaces in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Arts Reporter Chris Virtue speaks to Deputy Lord Mayor Councillor Jess Scully said the project would reawaken the city by encouraging artists to creatively transform public spaces with grants of up to $50,000 on offer. Image: Showing My Age, photography by Sandy Edwards For more information visit: http://www.tapgallery.org.au/sandy-edwards-10-15-nov-2020/ Streaming 6pm >https://eastsidefm.org/ Podcast > https://eastsidefm.org/talkingthroughyourarts/

05.01.2022 Dear listeners, current programming at Eastside Radio has been reduced to combat COVID-19, and Arts Friday has been placed on hold. In the interim we are pleas...ed to announce that we will be bridging this period with a weekly half-hour program. Talking Through Your Arts is a 30-minute magazine program broadcasting Wednesdays, 5.30-6.00pm, on Eastside Radio, Sydney, starting next week on 22 April 2020. We look forward to your company. https://www.facebook.com/pg/Talking-Through-Your-Arts 89.7FM https://eastsidefm.org/

03.01.2022 A birthday wish to Jacqui on your special day. We offer you a chrysanthemum, your birth flower. This Japanese blossom is a symbol of royalty, longevity and rejuvenation. May you have an exquisite day and a perennial year. Every well wish,... Ange #jacquimccarthy

02.01.2022 How wonderful are the talented people that support Tap Gallery Sydney! Thank you to The Enchanted Garden performances that included Mia Mortal & Paul Vassallo, Gilda Rizzo and Kris Hades. Your talent enables us to build foundational financial support for the Running TAP Book Project. We are simply enchanted by those of you who attended the evening fundraiser and contributed to the Running TAP Book. All of you bring sparkles to our eyes and glasses. Cheers and thank you! W...e were mesmerised by the homemade catering treats by recipe maker Lesley Dimmick, and the cocktail pineapple highlights by Anna Wheeler. Thanks also to TAP's technical troll Michael for gearing-up the Gallery as an ambient Garden. If you were unable to attend there are a number of ways to show your support. Why not contact us direct. Contact our Project Manager, Researcher and Archivist, Jacqui McCarthy. Email: [email protected] The Enchanted Garden is an exhibition on now at TAP Gallery until the end-of-week. To find out what's upcoming at TAP Gallery visit: https://www.tapgallery.org.au/

01.01.2022 Dear friends, it's with you in mind that we have agreed to reschedule the Enchanted Garden fundraiser evening to a future date due to the impact of the coronarvirus on communities, audiences and performers. It is with our respect for public health and social responsibility and the well being of artists, friends and supporters that we have arrived at this difficult decision. We are happy to refund all tickets sold, and hope that you will be able to support us when we have b...een able safely establish a rescheduled date. For more information please visit our official website: http://www.runningtap.com.au/news/ We look forward to notifying you on how you can show your support in a variation of ways as we bring about this expansive book project. Every well wish to you all, and take all forms of care. Angela Stretch, on behalf of the Running TAP team.