The Silent Era

Australia's Silent Film Festival are heading to Newcastle for their second lot of silent film sessions called: Laughter is the Best Medicine - taken silently on June 30th at Greater Union Cinema Newcastle. To celebrate this ARThive are holding their first ever silent film themed group exhibition.

There will be a wide variety of fantastic artists which are: Antonia Gore, Emily Sinclair, Grant Hunter, Adam Clough, Angus Arley, Shana Dennis, Alisha Hinds, Lu Quade, Crooked Crow Couture, Mike Foxall, Kate Burton, Martin Webster, Jessica Louttit, David Hampton, Amanda Reeves, Smella and Thomas Wickert  who are all exhibiting new works! These include: sculpture, illustration and photography.

Clip and little Chaplin made by ARThives Jessica Louttit at ARThive!

ARThive are also excited to announce there will be a two bike pedal powered cinema installed installed by The Magnificent Revolution for the duration of the show showing silent films from a variety of artists such as:

• Come to the Art Show! by Jessica Louttit
• Resonance by Bella Ann Townes
• At First Sight by James Deveney
• A Dream Within A Dream by Shana Dennis

Official opening will be on Sunday June 3rd at 2pm, there will be refreshments, entertainment and amazing art.
Also on the opening day a raffle will be held where you could be in the running to win 2 different prize packs!

Major prizes donated by:

• Blackbird Corner: A Chrome Actionsampler + a three pack of film.
• Linda Wada The Author of the book (and the prize you could win) The Sea Gull "A Woman Of  The Sea + 2 x 8x10 quality signed photographs of Edna Purviance.
• Alisha Hinds Art: "The Big Haired Lady" 40 x 40 cm Illustration on canvas

So make sure you come along and check out this fantastic show!