Exhibitions
Upcoming exhibitions in 2007
Maryann Mussared: Black White Re(a)d all Over (Gallery 2)
Mixed media works
Sat & Sun August 11 - 12
Sat & Sun August 25 - 26
One artist's exploration of the obsessive nature of art.
The 'black and white' part of the title refers to work produced as part of the Mussared's 2004 'Plimsoll Line' series. The black and white works are an obsessive exploration of the drawn and painted line and explore the balance provided by art in the sometimes chaotic and fast-pace life of Mussared. The red with applied gold leaf was the pathway into her predominantly red 'Storylines' series completed upon returning from living and surviving a bitterly cold northern Europe in 2005. Combined with selected pieces from these two bodies of work, Mussared has created a new series 'Red All Over', a relentless investigation and obsession with the colour red.
"I started producing mono-tonal and bi-tonal mixed media work about ten years ago as a reaction to the previous years producing decorative and highly coloured textiles in multiple colourways. So it has been a bit of a 'love/hate' relationship with colour as I have tried to avoid letting colour get in the way of what I was trying to express. I havw embraced the concepts of spiritual minimalism, and the limited use of colour and repetitive mark-making has become an important focus for recent work" says Mussared.
Gillian Hill and Carole Osmotherly: Bags and Banners
Art to Wear and Display
Sat & Sun August 11 - 12
Sat & Sun August 25 - 26
Gillian is a Canberra based textile artist who has been designing and creating a series of unique fabric handbags of high artistic quality for over 5 years. Using superior quality fabrics she often embellishes them with a wide variety of techniques including overlays feathers coins beads charms, free machine work and embroidery , plastics and paints. Featured in this exhibition are many attractive and innovative techniques.
Carole Osmotherly is also based in Canberra and enjoys the challenge
of painting on silk to create scarves ,wraps, wall hangings screens and
paintings. Carole's last major exhibition was for Legacy in 2005. She
has been commissioned to create and design a number of silk screens
both in Australia and overseas. This exhibition features wall hangings,
screens and paintings.
Photographic Society
September 11 - 23
Pastel Artists Group
Co-ordinated by Jenny Robbins
Sat & Sun October 20 - 21
Sat & Sun October 27 - 28
Members show: Points of view
November 3 - 18
BeAN (Belconnen Artists Network) Annual Exhibition
(and workshops)
November 24 - December 9
Selected artists: Objects of desire
Boxes, books and vessels
Until December 23