Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Friday 02 December
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Acclaimed Australian photographic artist Bill Henson joins Fenella Kernebone to explore how music has impacted his life and influenced his art as part of the Encounters with Music series, presented by the ACO and the Wheeler Centre.
Bill Henson’s distinctive work has been exhibited around the world for over four decades and is held in every public collection in Australia. His intimate photographs often create a sense of ambiguity by reflecting a space between the mystical and the real. Enjoy a rare discussion with one of Australia’s most enduring artists as Henson unpicks his lifelong relationship with music for this instalment of Encounters with Music at ACO’s brand new venue Pier 2/3.
This event is presented in partnership with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Explore the other conversations in the Encounters with Music series featuring Larissa Behrendt, Helen Garner and Leigh Sales.
Featuring
Bill Henson
Bill Henson is one of Australia's most distinguished artists. His darkly enigmatic photographs have been exhibited extensively both in Australia and around the world over a period of more than four decades. An internationally acclaimed ...
Fenella Kernebone
Fenella Kernebone is the host of ABC TV’s new weekly half hour arts show, Art Nation.
In conjunction with the ABC’s new Arts Gateway, Art Nation follows on from the ABC’s previous arts show, Sunday Arts, which Fenella began working on as a presenter and producer in 2006.
Fenella continues to report on current significant art trends and interviews local and international filmmakers and artists. Feature interviews include; Geoffrey Rush, Phillip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Michael Nyman and Ang Lee amongst others.
Fenella’s passion for the arts started over a decade ago after she volunteered at the local community radio 2SER at the age of seventeen. At twenty-one Fenella won a competition to be a Triple J presenter as part of the youth arts festival Noise. Soon afterwards Fenella was selected to host the youth arts program, Artery (1999-2004) interviewing hundreds of performers, actors, artists, filmmakers and musicians. In 2003 Fenella launched a new show on Triple J called The Sound Lab, which she continues to host every Sunday night.
Fenella moved into television in 2004 as one of the hosts of The Movie Show on SBS TV. Reviewing hundreds of films each year, Fenella also reported from the Toronto and Berlin International Film Festivals and interviewed scores of filmmakers and actors such as Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Tilda Swinton and Keanu Reeves.
In addition to her television and radio commitments, Fenella has also presented awards at the Lexus IF Awards, MC’d the Melbourne Leg of Tropfest, hosted Q & A sessions at the Art Gallery of NSW as part of their Art After Hours series, hosted The APRA Classical Music Award as well as providing her services as a judge at film festivals and art competitions. She also has written for various magazines including film reviews for Limelight and has extensive voice over experience.