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The intensely-lit nakedmodel standing near thewindow of a WaratahAvenue gallery drew someglances from passers-by onSaturday afternoon.

Realising the model wascovered in white paint anda trailing pattern of blackand white flowers, a fewventured inside to find outmore, an art happeningseeming so incongruous ona drizzly grey afternoon inthe sleepy-hollow ambienceof conservative Dalkeith.

The model, Bec, wasbeing painted – on – byAdelaide artist EmmaHack, a body-painter,installation artist andphotographer, to openSpirit of Place, anexhibition of her stunning,large-format photographsof other painted bodies.

To look at Emma’sphotographs, or just theimage on the galleryinvitation, you wouldimagine her works werecreated digitally, or atleast with some photomanipulation.

But this is far from the

case. Emma stands hermodel against a patternedbackdrop and then takesbrush to flesh to paint thebackground pattern rightacross the model’s body.

It’s a slow process inwhich Emma has to takeinto account not onlycolour and form, butmatters of complexperspective when workingwith a two-dimensionalpattern on the three-dimensional surface of thehuman body.

Once the painting isfinished, Emmaphotographs the work.

The result is sheerillusion: the model not onlybecomes part of the designbehind, but alsodisappears into it, perfectlycamouflaged.

This is Emma’s firstshow in WA, and itfeatures some of her earlywork using wallpapers, aswell as her most recentNative Mandala andExotic Mandala series.

Inspired by the big,bold, over-the-top coloursand patterns of wallpapersdesigned by the late

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! Spot the model … the intriguing paintings of Emma Hack camouflage her models against wallpaper (main picture,above) or painted backdrops featuring Australian flora. Emma is also seen at work in Elements Gallery, below right. ! Please turn to page 70

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My husbandand I have anine-month-old son. Wehave

successful careers, arefinancially independentand enjoy our new familylife together.

But my in-laws arehighly critical ofeverything we do.

When we visit them,they talk only aboutthemselves. When theysay something about us, itis usually negative. Theycomment on how much we

eat and if we drinkalcohol with dinner. Theystart disagreements justfor the sake ofdisagreeing.

We want our son tospend time with hisgrandparents, but theymake us nervous and thismakes our sonuncomfortable. He is

often irritable anddoesn’t like to be heldby his grandmother.

In this year’sChristmas letter, theywere really negativeabout the birth of their

grandson, saying his namedid not seem appropriate.

They didn’t mention myhusband at all, but put abig emphasis on mymother-in-law performing“baby duty” once a week,though she’d told me shewanted to care for himonce a week.

We were hurt, especiallymy husband, who feels hehas a life he is proud ofand wants his parents tobe proud of him for beingaccomplished and a father.

We told them that whatthey wrote had hurt ourfeelings, but they said wewere ridiculous and overlysensitive.

When I changed mywork schedule so mymother-in-law would nothave to take care of myson, they complained,saying our son wouldn’tremember them.

My husband had lunchwith his mother and shetold him she thought Iwas too stressed at work –I work part-time now –and that he shouldconvince me to let hercare for the baby.

My husband said,correctly, the moststressful thing in our liveswas our difficultrelationship with them.

Today, I found out they

sent my parents an emailsaying how concernedthey were about ourattitude, when all theywant is a normal familyrelationship.

So now my parentsthink we should apologiseand make amends.

We feel we can’t doanythingright.

Is there away tosalvage this

relationship and keep oursmall family safe from myin-laws’ attacks?

Drew

Drew, some people lackthe capacity for empathy.

Instead, they use guiltand demands to get whatthey want. They admit noflaws in themselves.

When those tactics don’twork, they amass an armyagainst the ones they wantto control.

You have physical proofin a letter and an emailwhat these two are up to.

Calling you overlysensitive is a non-responsive answer;contacting your parents ispure blackmail.

Even your baby has ahandle on the situation.

Most problems can besolved by applying thesound principles of dogtraining: good behaviourgets rewarded, badbehaviour does not.

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ACROSS1 Gay characters surround law-

breakers in Ireland (6) 4 Contemptible poet will

cover a sword (8)10 Trouble is I cannot bear

this conductor (9)11 Recesses often precede

these crannies (5)12 Lessen celebratory union

in pursuit of innate reality (7)13 Shrub gave both ducks

brain damage (7)14 Strength that’s left should

swing a vote (7,2,5)19 Curtain arrangement can be

panefully superficial? (6,8)21 Quaint salad with early

potatoes is flavoursome (7)24 Leading gem in

entire collection (7)26 Isn’t arab coming back

in pain a risk? (5)27 Loathing of French cricket,

say, in first group (9)28 They’re famously happy

with winners (8)29 Imagine I vanished oddly.

Now that’s a mystery (6)

DOWN1 Understand it’s the last

thing for a broken heart (6)2 Gets rid of grief, as a dis-

oriented cartographer may do? (5,4)

3 Does one profit once more?(5)

5 Scale sounds rife in region (5)6 Busts of interest to most

receivers (9)7 Fruit a corpulent oak

really needs originally (5)8 Gives up hope in the side’s

pairs final (8)9 Shut up unruly niece

with LSD (8)15 Fuss over proportion headed

north for worship (9)16 It’s no great drama! (8)17 WA town’s on the move? (9)18 Draining with wife inside,

being replaced (8)20 Taint caused dodgy magist-

rate to shed tear (6)22 Latin stand-in, it seems (5)23 Rotund Greek saw knight

leave for royal house (5)25 Dramatist told some fibs,

- enormous fibs! (5)

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“My job is to go out andinfect people with a goodvirus,” Helen Read says.

The good virus she refersto is understanding andrespect for the culture andways of Aboriginal peoplein some of Australia’s mostremote communities, andawareness of the appallinghardships and conditions inwhich they live.

She’s spreading the virusin two main ways: bybringing art from thecommunities to the citythrough Palya Art, and bytaking city people out onDidgeri Air Art Tours tomeet the people of thesecommunities in northernand central Australia.

“I’ve been talking forover 20 years,” she says.

“I want people tounderstand and become

aware of the conditions outin the communities.”

Disease, malnutritionand hardship, Helen says,are worse out here thanshe ever encountered as anurse in the harshest areasof Biafra and Nigeria,where she worked as anurse in the 1970s.

Helen is English bornand has a degree in art, apilot’s licence and nursingqualifications from herhome country as well asbeing a midwife.

Now based in Darwin,she started work as anursing-sister pilot for thePintupi Homelands HealthService, in the NorthernTerritory, in 1985.

Since then she has also

been “learned up” in thelanguages, ways, spiritualbeliefs and customs of themany people she visits andwho have come to knowand accept her as family.

Now she is counting onviewers, art lovers, buyersand collectors of thebeautiful, colourfulpaintings, basketry,sculpture and models shehas brought from thecommunities to help herpromote the knowledgeand stories that underpinthe works.

All the art in this show,which runs at GallowsGallery in Mosman Park,until June 20, is fromartist-owned centres.

Next Thursday, June 3,

Helen will launch acomprehensive website,www.palya.com.au, thatwill clearly indicate thelocations of all 23communities whose art sherepresents, withinformation about theregion, the artworks andthe artists.

Didgeri Air Art Tours(DAAT) introduces non-indigenous and indigenouspeople to each other undermutually respectfulcircumstances at artcentres.

Small groups fly out withHelen, visiting thecommunities and meetingartists and custodians inthe Kimberley, ArnhemLand and other parts ofcentral and northernAustralia.

For more informationabout DAAT, go towww.didgeri.com.au.

Bush colours spread message

! Helen Read with some of the Palya Art showing atGallows Gallery in Mosman Park. Eunice Napanangka’spainting, Mungata at Kuruuldu, is nearest Helen, while in theforeground is an untitled painting by Bombart Napangarti.Behind Helen are Hollow Logs, or Larrakitj, by DjirrirraWaunungmurra and her brother, Nawurapu Waunungmurrafrom Buku-Larrngay Mulka, in north-east Arnhem Land.

LESLEY ZAMPATTI I want people to understand andbecome aware of the conditionsout in the communities.‘ ’

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It’s not surprising thatanticipation for the Perthseason of the TheatreRoyal’s blockbusterAustralian tour is tingedwith a fair amount ofapprehension.

Everyone’s lookingforward to some wizardryfrom the great Ian McKellen(those films, and lots more)and Roger Rees (NicholasNickleby, The West Wing,Cheers), and we expectnothing but inventivenessand excellence from theTheatre Royal and itsartistic director, McKellen’slong-time friend andcollaborator Sean Mathais.

But it’s Waiting forGodot, that harbinger ofhigh school English Litmisery.

That dark, bleak,impenetrable edifice with itsbare stage (but for its single,barren tree), its raggedclothes, strange, staccatodialogue and savagehumour you were lecturedabout but never got.

And it was written by thatsullen Irishman in Pariswith the long face glaring atyou from the inside backcover of your not-well-thumbed scholar’s editionwith its incomprehensiblecommentary written bysome PhD from theUniversity of Leeds orsomewhere.

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! Anything Goes at WAAPA … from left, Sage Douglas, Stacy Nitschke, Erin Kennedy and Ashlee Noble. Picture: Jon Green

! Godot mighty … Two menin ragged clothes and that sin-gular tree. And is that an iPodcord dangling from the greatSir Ian McKellen’s pocket?

If you want to put on amusical, you may as wellgo for broke and chooseone with show-stoppingnumbers, pretty girls and afun story.

That certainly seems tobe what those talentedstudent troupers at the WAAcademy of PerformingArts had in mind whenthey decided to do Cole

Porter’s fabulous AnythingGoes for their mid-yearmusical.

Just a fleeting glance atthe songs – Anything Goes,I Get a Kick Out of You,You’re the Top, Blow,Gabriel, Blow – and you’llfind your toes tapping andyour lips whistling.

With its cast of 40,orchestra of 22, and army of

behind-the-scenes workers,this lavish, feel-goodproduction is the idealvehicle for WAAPA’sincredibly talented stars-in-the-making.

Hop on board the oceanliner SS America, followthe syncopated adventuresof young Billy Crocker ashe discovers true love andfalls for gorgeous heiress

Hope Harcourt, bethoroughly entertained,and support WA’sgroundbreaking, best-in-the-country (and probablythe world) arts traininginstitution.

Anything Goes is on atthe Regal Theatre,Subiaco, from Friday toSaturday, June 11 to 19.Book through Ticketek.

Getting a kick out of Anything Goes

A brand-new company isdedicated to performingopera in its oldest form.

Not for Opera Baroquethe histrionics ofmainstream opera, with itsflamboyant choruses,hysterical divas andbombastic directors.

This is a company whollydedicated to opera in itspurest, classical form.

Its members have spentan amazing two yearsworking to bring baroqueopera back to life, starting

with this first production,Handel’s handling of theGreek tragedy, Acis andGalatea.

Putting this productiontogether has been thefulfillment of a 20-yeardream for artistic directorHarriet Weare, a singingteacher who has performedin operas in London.

“Not enough people haveexperienced the beauty ofbaroque,” Harriet said.

“It is simple, elegant anduncomplicated.”

The company’s musical

director is Pettine-AnnCroul and KevinLangoulant is director.

Kevin said the companywould provide a valuabletraining ground foremerging Perth performers.

Harriet said: “One ofOpera Baroque’s aims is tobring opera to the peopleand make it moreaccessible.

“We intend to go intoschools and encourage ayounger interest.

“The music is easy on theear and there is more

emphasis on the musiciansand singers.”

The cast consists of 27performers with four-inlead roles – DavidWoodward as Acis,Siobhan Patrick asGalatea, David Dockery asPolyphemus and DanielMcMillan as Damon.

There are 12 chorusperformers, four dancersand a seven-piece liveorchestra.

Handel’s Acis and Galateais at the Subiaco ArtsCentre from June 23 to 26.

Opera the work of two years

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My mum was a greatlover of curries. Shecorresponded with Indianchefs, read Madhur Jaffreyand generally attacked theart of curry making withthe same creative zealothers gave to painting apicture or writing a poem.

Mum even made herown naan, slapping thedough on to the fiercelyhot walls of a makeshifttandoor oven dad hadrigged up in the garden.

After one of her curryparties, we’d dare to hopefor a few lonely galub jamunin the fridge, hunchedsoggily in their cardamom-infused poaching syrup.

Or cold biriani, a mostwondrous dish which, whenmade properly, is almostindescribably complicatedbut tastes like the best riceyou’ve ever eaten.

Lurking in Mum’s wereslivered almonds, wholearomatics and that lovelycrumbly, gooey thing that

happens to cooked yoghurt.The chicken biriani ($17)

at Desi Tandoor lacks thefinesse and complexity ofMum’s, but it’s palatableenough in a fried-rice-with-benefits kind of way.

Donna Kebab and theVirgoan Destroyer join mefor a Sunday evening nosh-up here and we enjoy it.

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Wholemeal paratha arecrisp and well made. Garlicnaan have possibly neverseen the inside of a tandooroven and lack that

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A serve of galub jamun iswell made and has therequisite doughiness andsweetness, but I’m missinga hint of cardamom in thesyrup.

Desi Tandoor is a perfectlyadequate suburban Indianrestaurant with a veryhandsome manager, servingcarefully-made Indianstandards that will please theless adventurous palate.

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Navigating seamlesslybetween the recent pastand flashbacks across 25years, writer-director JuanJose Campanella (workingfrom the novel by EduardoSacheri) puts to superb usehis considerable experience

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Much of the amusementcomes courtesy ofEsposito’s drunken butbrilliant colleague,Sandoval (Argentineancomedian GuillermoFrancella), whose bizarrelogic helps catch the killer,Gomez (Javier Godino), inone of the film’s moststriking chase scenesthrough a packed BuenosAires football stadium.

Campanella strikes a finebalance between the film’s

tense thrills and the broodingromance that resurrects itselfas the murder investigationunfolds.

Perhaps the film’sgreatest strength is how itmoves beyond a meretelevision-style, plot-drivenprocedural drama intosomething that scrapesbeneath the surface toexplore what drives itscharacters; love, obsession,corruption and justice, andthe role that memory playsin our lives andperceptions.

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Loot, Joe Orton’sincendiary parody ofdetective fiction, has been afavourite of theatrecompanies since its debutin 1965.

Its combination of wildfarce and biting socialcommentary, and thenotoriety of its creator,have bestowed on itenormous cred.

The tale of MrsMcLeavy’s funeral and theproceeds of the bankrobbery hidden away inher coffin has entertainedand often outragedaudiences around theworld.

The scandalous careerand violent death of itsauthor, a story now asfamous as his creations,give it the added allure of aplay by ChristopherMarlowe, or a Nirvanaalbum.

Like operas that causeriots in the stalls at their

debut but later attract theapplause of the dress circle,the outrageous andsubversive theatre of oneera ends up on the schoolsyllabus of another.

So, in the same weekthat Waiting for Godot,once the height of theavant garde, comes toPerth in a blockbuster, all-star production, thetheatre-in-educationcompany, Class Act –whose A Day in the Deathof Joe Egg was a criticalsuccess last year – is givingstudents of all ages aseason of Loot in the studiospace at the Subiaco ArtsCentre.

It comes with a warningthat it contains materialthat may be offensive,though in the age ofgraphic TV crime thrillerslike Silent Witness andobscene satires like TheThick of It, it’s unlikely toomany people will beflushed from the theatre.

This Class Act Theatreproduction of Joe Orton’sLoot, directed by StephenLee, is on in the SubiacoArts Centre studio spacefrom Friday, June 4, toSaturday, June 19. Bookthrough BOCS.

– Lesley Zampatti

! Left, Kym Bidstrup playsMcLeavy and Shirley VanSanden the cop, in Loot.

Loot should be a hoot

The Secret in TheirEyes (MA15+, 129 mins)

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REVIEW: PIER LEACH

! Gomez (with gun – played by Javier Godino), Irene (Soledad Villamil), and Esposito (Ricardo Darin) in The Secret inTheir Eyes.

Crime thriller with soul

beautifulBodyFlorence Broadhurst, anAustralian designer whose workhas become fashionably stylishover the past few years, Emmagot permission to use Broadhurstmotifs in her work.

These are among some of themost complex and visually

effective works, and in many ofthem it is quite difficult to locatethe human figure beneath thepattern.

Wallpaper features again in theMandala works.

In these striking circular formatworks, the model holds anAustralian bird or animal while

she stands against either awallpapered backdrop or a large-scale painting of native flora.

Emma makes from 10 to 20photographic prints of eachwork.

Spirit of Place is on atElements Gallery, 131A WaratahAvenue, Dalkeith, until June 6.

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