Localjinni’s FAQ’s What has Localjinni been doing over lockdown? Lockdown has given us time to distil our ideas, build new partnerships and coalesce content. What’s next for Localjinni? In 2022, Localjinni will ‘mobilise’ cinema and audiences in a new, after dark, city experience. Keep a look…

Localjinni is thrilled to be part of a night of surreal vision and songs, led by local and visiting sirens. Held in association with the Canberra International Music Festival 2021 (CIMF) and Verity Lane Markets. 6.30-7.30 AlleyHART walk, Wednesday 28 April 2021 Join us on…

We have had a lot of fun but now we are taking a break. We will be back in 2021 to take on the town with more art/ventures. Keep an eye out on our Facebook page for updates. Thanks to the 48 contributing artists /historians,…

It was a great joy for Localjinni to show ANU School of Art and Design students their works this week, projected in Civic’s alleyways.  Localjinni’s new AlleyHART walk explores the city’s rich history and art. The student’s print and animation works responded to a brief,…

We kicked off, Part One of a pilot project; Lakeside Stories on Thursday 15 March at the Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG). The event brought a diverse range of speakers together for a night of ‘social yarning’ (3-5mins each). To see if sharing stories might influence…

Can you identify where in Ashfield this photo was taken? Come along to the Ashfield Lightning Talks at 7:15pm on Wednesday 15 June at Thirning Villa (40 Arthur Street, Ashfield) to find out the full story! Listen to speakers channel stories (5 mins each) about…

Here are some of the works in progress from the Ashfield Sculpture workshop, I held on Sunday. The workshop explored the visual language of maps as a source for making inspiration as part of the my artist in residency program at Thirning Villa, in Sydney’s inner west. Formalist Sculpture unfolded…

A good crowd turned up to hear the lightning talks (15 June) on spirited Ashfield people, places and events. Talks included a personal reflection on a first job in Ashfield in 1966 as well as local identities such as P.L Travers [writer of Mary Poppins], Mei…

Site Seeing, my exhibition at AirSpace Projects last month turned out to be highly topical, focussing on cities – the good, the bad and the ugly. The works were constructed from found, toy-building blocks and sampled fragments of film. They are impressions of cities, their romantic, nightly,…

Once upon a time…. there was a charming garden beside a castle. Every day clouds of fog magically appeared in the garden. The fog made some things visible and other things invisible. It curled around trees and wafted through leaves. Many wizards had tried to…