Arts Friday 24th April: Iran at ACP, School for Scandal, Thom and Angelmouse

On today’s show, 10:30am – 12pm, we’ll hear from Claire Monneraye curator of the Australian Centre for Photography’s current showing of including an Australian first exhibition of selected works by acclaimed Iranian photographer Gohar Dashti’s series ‘Todays life and war’ and ‘Untitled (Iran)’, Philip George’s ‘Writing the Landscape’ and a cross cultural photographic dialogue started over instagram between Sydney based Markus Andersen and Istanbul based Elif Suyabatmatz.

My second guest today is emerging director David Burrowes whose version of Richard Brinsley’s comedy of manners School for Scandal is opening at New Theatre in Newtown next week. He’s ducking out of rehearsals to chat to us about what Kanye West has to do with 18th century aristocrats.

Finally we’ll be hearing from Harriet Body, one half of collaborative art duo “Thom and Angelmouse” (the other half being Robert “Thom” Smith) who met through STUDIO ARTISTS, a collective of professional artists with disabilities in Hornsby. Thom & Angelmouse are developing an immersive installation featuring abstracted found images as moving trains for UnderBelly Arts Festival later in the year, and they’ve just reached their crowdfunding target to develop the work.