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DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD ANDREA MAY CHURCHER
IMAGE COVER Daniel Boyd Untitled 2013 oil and archival glue on linen 183 x 137.5 cm Collection of Karel and Ivan Wheen © Daniel Boyd 1
IMAGE ABOVE Theresa Clermont, Shirley Ewadie Daniel, Dadib Ema Ingui, Bonita Kaida Ngalpan Buway lei (Our family lei) (detail) 2017 aluminium cans, cassowary feathers, seeds, steel cable, adhesive 93 x 100 x 1 cm (variable) Courtesy of the National Gallery of Victoria photo: Michael Marzik
Consistent with the national profile that the Gallery increasingly enjoys, it has recently been decided to change the name of the Gallery from Cairns Regional Gallery to Cairns Art Gallery. The Gallery’s name change supports its ambitions to nationally and internationally promote its unique cultural heritage and place within the world’s tropic zone, and to become a key cultural organisation in northern Australia. The new name also affirms the relevance of our programs, research and collections within the broader context of Australian art. The Gallery continues to establish strong partnerships with other major public galleries to facilitate the loan of significant works from their permanent collections, and to jointly curate exhibitions of national importance that have the potential to tour. For the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF), the Gallery has partnered with the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) to present an outstanding exhibition of contemporary Torres Strait Island lei during the Fair and at a later date, at the NGV.
During CIAF the Gallery will also present exhibitions by two internationally acclaimed artists, Daniel Boyd and Greg Semu, that offer alternate historical narratives regarding First Nations peoples and the colonisation of, and migration to, northern Australia. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Gallery Foundation on a wonderful start to the Annual Giving Campaign and encourage you to consider making a donation to support the commissioning of an important Danie Mellor work for the Gallery’s Permanent Collection. I do hope you enjoy the program of exhibitions that we have curated for CIAF this year and that you will take this opportunity to introduce family, friends and visitors to the Gallery. Andrea May Churcher Director
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UNTIL 2 JUL ‘17
BRETT WHITELEY
OTHER PLACES (SOMEWHERE ELSE) A highlight of the Cairns Art Gallery’s 2017 program is the Brett Whiteley exhibition Other Places (Somewhere Else) that has been developed by the Gallery in partnership with the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Brett Whiteley (1939-1992) is regarded as one of Australia’s most acclaimed artists, and by the 1970s he was at the forefront of Australia’s avant-garde movement. Brett Whiteley travelled extensively over three decades, absorbing inspiration and culture from every place he discovered. His travels began in 1960 after he was awarded the Italian Government Travelling Art Scholarship, and he continued across the globe, recording his experiences in drawings, paintings and photographs. After his initial time in Rome and Paris in 1960, Whiteley spent a decade living and working in London and then moved to New York after receiving the Harkness Fellowship award. Whiteley was an outsider attempting to grasp and record his impressions of America. Works created during this time were a strong response to New York’s dynamic environment and the broader social, artistic and political issues that America was facing. From the 1970s onwards, Whiteley continued to travel both domestically and internationally, documenting his unique vision and experiences of Australia’s east coast, Fiji and Bali. His keen interest in Asian aesthetics took him to Japan in 1989. There he saw first-hand how traditional methods of Japanese painting and drawing can capture a subject in a beautifully brief manner. Whiteley’s experiences are distilled in his art, capturing places in time for the viewer to experience in a fresh and way. 3
» THE GALLERY SHOP The Gallery Shop has a range of Brett Whiteley postcards and posters, as well as books about the artist, the Whiteley Studio and Wendy Whiteley’s Secret Garden in Lavender Bay, Sydney.
AN ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES AND BRETT WHITELEY STUDIO TOURING EXHIBITION DEVELOPED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CAIRNS ART GALLERY Principal sponsor of the Brett Whiteley Studio
Principal sponsor of the Brett Whiteley Studio
BRETT WHITELEY The pink heron 1969 synthetic polymer paint on hardboard 137.4 x 122 cm Art Gallery of New South Wales Gift of Patrick White 1979 © Wendy Whiteley Photo: AGNSW
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UNTIL 18 JUN ‘17
FRANCESCA ROSA MEMORIA
Francesca Rosa is a photo-media artist based in Etty Bay, south of Cairns. Her solo exhibition Memoria investigates the history of Italian migration with a particular focus on the first postWorld War II Italians who arrived in Cairns to work in the Far North Queensland sugarcane industry under the Italian-Australian Migration Agreement of 1951.
Memoria presents a series of vintage snapshots of iconic Italian landmarks, prints of images of derelict sugarcane barracks, handprints of cane cutters, a two-channel digital slideshow of archival portraits of Italians migrants to Far North Queensland alongside comparable representations of Italian Renaissance portraits, and an installation of postcards depicting passenger vessels used to transport Italian migrants to Australia. Through historical artefacts and archival records, the artist offers a forensic quality to her work and a complex narrative about journeys and the passing of time. Memoria is a deeply personal exploration of the life of the artist’s father, Mario Rosa (19312000), an Italian immigrant. It incudes important identification documents, powerful photographs and a collection of the artist’s father’s gathered and precious objects, tools and possessions that will resonate with many who have shared experiences of relocating to another country and creating a new life and home for their families.
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For Private Collection, Rosa was inspired by memories of her father’s handmade shed and vegetable garden. Sixteen years after his passing, the installation draws upon the vernacular of his everyday tools, personal artefacts and odds and ends. The artist recalls: “Accumulated over five decades, he collected what he believed to be purposeful items, although many of them were rusted and broken. Growing up in a family of nine during the war influenced his frugality, and the process of holding onto and reusing was a way of saving for the future. However, the objects now function as time capsules, filled with the emotional weight of the past and serve as physical traces for his identity. Exploring notions of impermanence in personal, local and global spheres, Private Collection conceptualises the existence of a loved one. It acknowledges the work of my father, enabling me to reconnect to him through the installation of materials that embodied his way of life.” Francesca Rosa, April 2017
IMAGE Francesca Rosa Private Collection (detail) 2017 various objects, installation courtesy of the artist photo: Michael Marzik
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UNTIL 18 JUN ‘17
MOVING HISTORIES // FUTURE PROJECTIONS “Two women inexplicably hammer at scaffolding inside a disused warehouse space; the golden years of Hollywood’s glamorous history are evoked by Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, but with a distinctly noir twist; an Indigenous woman repeats the phrase “I am Wiradjuri”; Bollywood dancers shimmy and shake; art history’s reclining nudes playfully dance across the screen; a fluorescent yellow couple move through a colonial painting by John Glover; boys play indoor soccer; a woman paints herself into a corner before painting herself white. Welcome to the exhibition Moving Histories // Future Projections.
With no finite beginning or endpoint, I entered the gallery space halfway through Mikala Dwyer and Justene Williams’ collaboration Captain Thunderbolt’s Sisters (2010). The experience was akin to the vertiginous feeling of falling down Alice’s rabbit hole and being transported to a barely recognisable space and time. Two women climb a scaffolding structure in what could be a disused warehouse. Dressed in prison smocks and high heels, they beat the scaffolding repeatedly with hammers. With no context to draw from, the spectator is immediately plunged into a surreal interior with no easy explanations or conclusions.”
The brief to the curators Kelly Doley and Diana Smith by dLux MediaArts was quite straightforward: curate an exhibition examining the current state of screen-based practice by women artists from New South Wales. The result - a diverse selection of leading female contemporary artists working across screen-based media including video and stop motion animation. The subjects range in tenor and tone, from joyful art-historical interventions to serious mediations on cultural identity and retrievals of marginalised histories.
Chari Lasson, Artlink, 21 March 2017 (extract)
A dLux MediaArts exhibition toured by Museums & Galleries of NSW
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Full review: https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4584/moving-historiesfuture-projections/
IMAGE Mikala Dwyer and Justene Williams Captain Thunderbolt’s Sisters (video still detail) 2010 standard definition video Courtesy the artists, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
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MICHELLE NIKOU
AEIOU
This exhibition brings together a selection of new and recent work by Michelle Nikou. It explores the Adelaide-based artist’s idiosyncratic crossdisciplinary practice, while stimulating critical thought around the legacies of modern art movements and the nature of contemporary practice. Nikou is an innovative artist who draws on surrealism in a reflective and productive way to transform domestic and mundane items and materials into objects of humour and marvel. She uses surrealist strategies and techniques as well as chance, automatism, detritus, collage, psychological or sexual metaphor, deadpan wit, surprise and juxtaposition, and mingles high and low art sources and cultural references. By blurring and extending the boundaries between fine art and craft, Nikou often invests unremarkable or overlooked facets of daily existence with new and unexpected significance.
sometimes absurd effects, for example fried eggs made in bronze that are displayed flat on the wall, their forms suggesting the vowels of the alphabet. In addition to the cast sculptural objects for which she is perhaps best known, Nikou makes experimental textile pieces and jewellery that similarly explore related domestic and emotional themes.
Michelle Nikou: a e i o u is an innovative, playful and poetic exhibition that will challenge, entertain and stimulate conversations between viewers of all ages. For more information https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4460/ michelle-nikou-a-e-i-o-u/
Nikou’s practice is characterised by a deep engagement with language. She creates installations based around a single word or phrase in a manner reminiscent of concrete poetry. She makes connections between art and literature that invoke suburban life, family interactions, relationships, and food. Seemingly disparate concepts and materials are regularly combined to produce unsettling and
A NETS Victoria national touring exhibition developed in partnership with Heidi Museum of Modern Art.
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IMAGE Michelle Nikou aeiou installation view, Cairns Art Gallery 2017 photo: Michael Marzik
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24 JUNE - 10 SEPTEMBER ‘17
DANIEL BOYD BITTER SWEET
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CAIRNS INDIGENOUS ART FAIR 14 - 16 JULY 2017
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IMAGE ABOVE LEFT DANIEL BOYD Untitled (P13) 2013 oil and archival glue on linen 214 x 300cm Private collection © Daniel Boyd
IMAGE ABOVE RIGHT DANIEL BOYD Untitled (BNH) 2013 oil and archival glue on canvas 122 x 168cm National Gallery of Australia Collection 2013.3985 Photo courtesy of Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney © Daniel Boyd
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DANIEL BOYD BITTER SWEET
Daniel Boyd was born in Cairns in 1982 and is one of Australia’s most innovative and exciting young contemporary artists. His work questions the romantic notions that surround the birth of Australia and the ways in which our history continues to be dominated by Eurocentric views. For Boyd it is very important that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people “continue to create dialogues from their own perspective to challenge the subjective history that has been created”.1
Bitter Sweet brings together major works by Daniel Boyd from Australian public and private collections. Selected works refer to the hidden history of slavery in Far North Queensland that resulted in 60,000 South Sea Islander people being taken to work in sugarcane plantations from the mid-1800s and early 1900s. The artworks selected for the exhibition examine the collective memory and journeys of the artist’s family of Pentecost Island (Vanuatu), and other South Sea Islander people to Far North Queensland.
Bitter Sweet examines narratives of the Pacific Islands as a ‘paradise’, and the life of Pacific Islanders in relation to slavery and the sugarcane industry, and their effect on descendants’ lives in Far North Queensland, including on Boyd’s own ancestors. Boyd’s ancestry can be traced throughout Queensland and northern New South Wales to the peoples of Kudjla, Eastern Kuku Yalanji, Kangulu, Jagara, Bandjalung, Kuku Djungan and to North Pentecost Island (Vanuatu). His great-greatgrandfather, Samuel Pentecost, was taken from Vanuatu (formerly known as the New Hebrides) to work as a slave on the sugarcane plantations in north Queensland. He and Topsy Madarka from 13
Cooktown had a child, Harry Mossman who, at the age of five, was charged in Mossman as ‘neglected’ and sentenced to seven years at Yarrabah, a closed Anglican mission 35 kilometers south of Cairns. Included in the exhibition is a Boyd painting Yarrabah Church (2013), that was gifted to the Gallery by the artist. Speaking about the work, Boyd recalls: “Both sides of my family were taken and placed under state control… Because of the intervention from the state and church, any kind of connection to a traditional cultural understanding of a people was stopped. No one was allowed to practise any form of culture. So I looked at inheritance of culture and images in the paintings of the Yarrabah church. By looking back at that time, it’s kind of me acknowledging and coming to terms with this way of understanding”.2 Boyd’s search for his own identity has led him to study arts, sciences, history and geography in order to explore and piece together lost histories, including those of his own family. In 2011 he undertook a three-month residency at the Natural History Museum, London, researching the First Fleet Collection and other archaeological and natural history collections. These works held invaluable information for him, as he was able to research images and objects from Captain Cook’s time in Cooktown, where his great-great-grandmother had cultural connection. Boyd explains that many of his works are about interpreting the space where historical or iconic figures such as Cook become lost or mythologised over time, rendering them susceptible to manipulation and reinterpretation. He readily admits to a fascination with portraiture as a vehicle for connecting science, art, history,
people, perceptions and realities. He explains that the portrait of his great-grandfather, Harry Mossman, allowed him to connect science with an understanding of people and race at a particular moment in history. While the portrait of his great-grandfather is specific to the person and the time he spent at the Yarrabah Mission, it is also informed by complex social, cultural and racial issues prevalent in Far North Queensland. In this work, Boyd’s use of his characteristic pointillist style encourages us to read the image on many levels. The dots serve to both reveal and obscure the man who was his greatgrandfather, yet the painting can also be read as an anonymous portrait of a man. With either reading, it is the compelling space between the dots that serves to engage us with complex social and cultural narratives particular to a place and time in history.
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Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, 2007 (artist’s statement)
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Daniel Boyd: The Law of Closure, Published by Perimeter Editions, Melbourne, Australia 2015 (artist interview with Djon Mundine)
» EXHIBITION OPENING EVENT with Tony Ellwood Director, National Gallery of Victoria Wednesday 12 July, 6.00pm
» ARTIST TALK with Daniel Boyd Thursday 13 July, 11.30am
Bitter Sweet is supported by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and Station Gallery, Melbourne
This project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland’s Backing Indigenous Arts initiative, which aims to build a stronger, more sustainable and ethical Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts industry in the State.
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12 JULY - 17 SEPTEMBER ‘17
GREG SEMU BLOOD RED
IMAGE LEFT Greg Semu DETAIL Native Police Tracker Hut #01 COEN - Cape York 2017 310 x 597 cm self adhesive digital wall paper print © Greg Semu Courtesy the artist + Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
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IMAGE RIGHT Greg Semu Native Police Tracker Hut #02 COEN Cape York 2017 310 x 459 cm self adhesive digital wall paper print © Greg Semu Courtesy the artist + Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
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GREG SEMU BLOOD RED
Greg Semu is an interdisciplinary artist of Samoan heritage who was born and raised in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Semu’s first-hand experience of displacement has imbued him with empathy for other First Nations peoples. Semu’s practice is informed by universal themes of cultural displacement, diaspora and hegemony. Moreover, the impact of colonial occupation and the importunity of Christianity on indigenous cultures across the Pacific arbitrate the terms of his artistic discourse. By referencing, subverting and reimagining European photographs and history paintings, Semu unsettles their accepted hierarchical norms and replaces their chronicles and presumptions with the narratives that survive in First Nations oral histories. In BLOOD RED, Semu shifts his focus from repositioning old master paintings, to exposing the ‘Australian owned and operated humanitarian crisis’1 suffered by Aboriginal people since 1788. In tackling the past and present ‘systemic abuse and institutionalised neglect of the obligatory duty of care’2 perpetrated by Australian officialdom against the traditional owners, Semu takes as his raw material a site specific case study. He examines the conflicted contact history of Coen, a small township located in Country of the Kaanju people, in Far North Queensland, as a means of stimulating a dialogue on the disturbing frequency of black deaths in custody that continues to trouble the heart and conscience of Australians. In BLOOD RED, Semu worked like a filmmaker, zeroing in on, re-enacting and upscaling as gigantic photographs the brutal evidence of Coen’s frontier wars for the purpose of remembering the past and acknowledging present injustice and discrimination. Working in consultation 17
with artist Naomi Hobson and Kaanju traditional owners and in close collaboration with a host of community elders, teachers, police, stockmen and actors, Semu negotiated a dialogue with displaced peoples of Coen and beyond. His project renders tangible archival and remembered testimony of their experience as a chorus of silent injustice that challenges colonisers’ accounts of Australian history. Working on location, Semu employed a cast of Aboriginal actors to re-enact and interrogate Coen’s colonial frontier history. He looked particularly at archival photographs which disclose enslaved Aboriginal prisoners shackled in neck chains as well as their adversaries: the white enslaver police officers and the conflicted black enforcers − native police and black trackers. As the fourth character in the re-enactment of an ugly history, Semu reconstructed images of the trackers’ huts depicted in the archival images and from the architectural remnants that survive. In a telling twist of the narrative, Semu dramatically inverts the past, unchains the enslaved Aboriginal prisoners and imagines the roles of the black and white protagonists being reversed. In this provocative exhibition, modelled on the cinematic techniques, visual language and genre for driving narratives of contemporary film makers such as Quentin Tarantino, Semu is a silent, omnipresent witness, attesting to the hidden injustice, systemic abuse and illegal displacement of traditional owners from their lands and the dire repercussions of colonialism and ethnocide. Despite the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1987−1991), the images of Aboriginal incarceration in BLOOD RED serve as a frightening metaphor of its alarming prevalence in Australia
today, exemplified by the heinous death of Cameron Doomadgee (Mulrunji) in a prison cell on Palm Island on 19 November 2004.
» EXHIBITION OPENING EVENT
BLOOD RED is an empowering work that embodies complex narratives that survive in Aboriginal oral history, historical documents and the photographic record in opposition to ‘authorised’ accounts of how Australia was ‘settled’. By re-enacting calamitous historical events as larger than life photographs, a medium so synonymous with presenting truth, Semu brings these atrocities and their untold legacy into the present. His photographic discourse of cinematic proportions aims to stimulate awareness and reaction in the viewer as a mechanism for attitudinal change.
with Tony Ellwood Director, National Gallery of Victoria Wednesday 12 July, 6.00pm
Judith Ryan Senior Curator Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Victoria May 2017
» ARTIST TALK with Greg Semu and Naomi Hobson Thursday 13 July, 11.30am
BLOOD RED is supported by Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne.
1 Artist’s statement, 10 May 2017 2 Artist’s statement, 12 April 2017
Cairns Art Gallery has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through the Arts Queensland’s Backing Indigenous Arts program. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
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24 JUNE - 27 AUGUST ‘17
LEI IT ON LEI IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL PRACTICE FROM THE TORRES STRAIT ISLANDS The result of a curatorial collaboration between the Cairns Art Gallery (CAG) and National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Lei it on presents a captivating collection of contemporary lei and body adornment from the Torres Strait Islands.
curators Simone LeAmon, Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture, and Myles Russell-Cooke, Curator of Indigenous Art, and I were joined by Hans Ahwang, who performed the role of our cultural guide.
Torres Strait Islanders have a practice of making lei and neck wear, particularly using woven natural fibres and stringing materials such as shells and seeds. This body adornment is often created for customary dance and cultural celebrations. However, the practice of making lei is less prolific in the Torres Strait than in Pacific island nations where the Tongan salusalu, the Hawaiian nā lei or the Samoan ‘ulafala are gifted as a sign of respect and affection as part of everyday life and also produced for tourist markets.
Working with and supporting the artists on the ground in the different communities to develop new work embraced an entirely new curatorial approach to collection development and exhibition production.
In April this year, the Gallery partnered with the NGV and Gab Titui Cultural Centre to deliver a series of workshops on islands across the Torres Strait to develop a collection of contemporary lei for exhibition and for the permanent collections of both galleries. The workshops provided artists with the opportunity to make work, share stories and learn new skills with access to an array of art materials and tools otherwise not available. Travelling to six islands in the Torres Strait with the approval and support of the Torres Strait Regional Authority and Gab Titui Cultural Centre, NGV
Presented by Cairns Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Victoria, supported by Gab Titui Cultural Centre.
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During each workshop, artists worked independently and collaboratively and were able to discuss their designs and incorporate newly acquired jewellery making techniques. The lively conversations about memories, family-life and place that ensued were inevitably woven into their wonderful lei and neckpieces. Over forty exceptional lei were produced by artists on Thursday Island, Saibai Island, Mer (Murray Island), Erub (Darnley Island), Mua (Moa Island), and Badu. Overwhelmingly, participants commented on how excited they were to have access to new materials to experiment with and explore, often combining them with found and recycled objects, and natural resources collected on the islands. There were often tears of joy as the works were assembled and their meanings recorded.
Lei it on reveals and celebrates the unique customary and contemporary practices of lei and
IMAGE Segar Passi, Helen Dick, Garee Kaigey, Mary Kaigey, Rita Lui, Beverley Mabo, Helen Mabo, Delina Noah Messiah Luzab Lera Kaubo Arsir (The whole island of Mer, making things, making lei) 2017 mixed media 170 x 107 x 12 cm (variable) Courtesy of the National Gallery of Victoria photo: Michael Marzik
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body adornment in the Torres Strait Islands. I am indebted to the wonderful artists and arts workers that I met over the three weeks on the Islands and I congratulate everyone on the production of the outstanding works that feature in the exhibition that is timed to coincide with the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair. Ashleigh Campbell Curator, Cairns Art Gallery May 2017
» EXHIBITION OPENING EVENT with Tony Ellwood Director, National Gallery of Victoria Wednesday 12 July, 6.00pm
» EXHIBITION CURATOR TALK with Simone LeAmon, Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture, National Gallery of Victoria and Ashleigh Campbell, Curator, Cairns Art Gallery Thursday 13 July, 11.30am IMAGE ABOVE LEFT Mrs Beverley Mabo, Mrs Helen Dick, Mrs Delina Noah, Mr Segar Passi, Ms Rita Lui, Mrs Garee Kaigey, Ms Mary Kaigey, Mrs Helen Mabo photo: Simone LeAmon
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IMAGE ABOVE Rosie Ware Copper Crepe Lei 2017 copper, enamel paint, sealant, shells, timber beads, nylon and steel Courtesy of the National Gallery of Victoria photo: Simone LeAmon
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FROM 1 SEPTEMBER 2017
GOING OUT
NATIVE FOOD, PLANTS AND FLOWERS Food gathering continues to be an important part of intergenerational passing on of traditional knowledge for Indigenous people.
Going out brings together works on paper by a number of artists that explore and interpret how native plants continue to be used for their medicinal properties, as a food source, and in traditional ceremonies. Native food, plants and flowers traditionally gathered by women include nuts, wild banana vine, wild cucumber, various types of wild yam, berries, seed lilies, and native fruits including quandong, jam jam, maratah, wild apricot, and assorted leaves used for cooking and medicinal purposes.
Going out also includes a selection of intricately woven baskets and bags used by women in the gathering and preparation of native food and plants for cooking and storing. Artists represented in the exhibition include Delissa Walker (a finalist in the 2017 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards), Cathy Snow, Edna Ambrym, Heather Koowootha, Delvine Richards, Dorothy Edwards, Michelle Yeatman, Rhonda Brim and Sandra Jerry.
Going out is one in a series of exhibitions developed by the Gallery to promote and support the production of exemplary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander craft and design in Far North Queensland.
Âť EXHIBITION OPENING EVENT Saturday 2 September, 2.00pm
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IMAGE Delissa Walker Kakan (detail) 2017 lomandra grass dimensions variable collection of the artist photo: Michael Marzik
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» VISITING ARTIST & CURATOR PROGRAM
» ARTNOW FNQ 2017
THURSDAY 13 JULY 11.30AM - 12.30PM
Congratulations to all the artists selected for ARTNOW FNQ, the Gallery’s biennial exhibition that showcases the best art, design and craft from Far North Queensland.
GREG SEMU / NAOMI HOBSON artists
will discuss the BLOOD RED exhibition for more information see page 18
DANIEL BOYD artist
will discuss the Bitter Sweet exhibition for more information see page 14
SIMONE LEAMON / ASHLEIGH CAMPBELL curators
will discuss the Lei it on exhibition for more information see page 21
IMAGE Francesca Rosa Private Collection (detail) 2017 various objects, installation courtesy of the artist photo: Michael Marzik
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Alexie Glass-Kantor, Executive Director of Artspace, Sydney and Curator of Encounters for Art Basel | Hong Kong 2015-2018, worked with the Gallery to select twenty-nine artists to produce new work for the exhibition which will open on 1 December 2017.
SELECTED ARTISTS Margery Accoom Vernon Ah Kee Michael Anning Vincent Babia Paul Bong Andrew Bonneau Shannon Brett Gertrude Davis Jeanie Holroyd Andrea Huelin Elizabeth Hunter Heather Koowootha Serena Kuring Grace Lillian Lee Glen Mackie
Michael Marzik Arone Meeks Danie Mellor Mark Misic Rosella Namok Daniel O’Shane Julie Poulsen Rose Rigley Francesca Rosa Yixuan Ruan Bernard Singleton Jnr Kristin Tennyson Ian Waldron Delissa Walker
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GALLERY FOUNDATION On Friday 28 April, the Gallery Foundation held its annual gala dinner that has become a muchawaited event in the Cairns social calendar. We were thrilled to have Wendy Whiteley and Wayne Tunnicliffe, Head Curator of Contemporary Australian Art at the Art Gallery of NSW, as our guest speakers on the night. Together they spoke about the life, art and travels of Brett Whiteley, one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists. Their visit to Cairns coincided with the opening of the Brett Whietely Other Places (Somewhere Else) exhibition at the Gallery during the week. More than one hundred and thirty guests enjoyed the Foundation dinner – it was an evening filled with excitement, fun and wonderful food provided by Hilton Cairns. Foundation Board Director Lizanne Smith organised an extraordinarily beautiful arrangement of tropical flowers that stole the stage, while hand woven table centrepieces,
donated by the Saltwater Basketry Group, were a constant source of conversation during the night. It was a great pleasure to present Wendy Whiteley with a thankyou gift of a Maine scarf, donated by Maine Cairns and designed by Yarrabah artist, Elverina Johnson. As Foundation Chair, I was filled with pride that so many members and guests clearly share my love for art and our fabulous Gallery. I would like to thank everyone for making this a very special event. I would particularly like to thank fellow Foundation Board Director Lizanne Smith and Gallery staff, especially Director Andrea May Churcher and Development Manager Janet Parfenovics, for all their help in organising such a successful event. Lea Ovaska Chair Cairns Art Gallery Foundation
GALLERY MEMBERSHIP A new membership initiative this year is the Gallery Kids Art Club with Hayley Gillespie. Designed for children aged 8 to 12 years, the Club meets once a month to look at, talk about, explore and think about art, craft and design, theatre, fashion and architecture. The first 3-month block of Club events has been extraordinarily popular. Events have been held at different places, including Hayley Gillespie’s ‘magical’ studio, the Cairns Botanic Gardens, and the Gallery’s Shaun Tan The Lost Thing exhibition. Almost thirty children have joined the Club, which meets from 10am to 12 noon on the first Saturday of the month.
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IMAGE Wendy Whiteley at the Cairns Art Gallery Foundation Dinner photo: Pine Creek Images
Bookings for the second 3-month block, which commences Saturday 3 June, are now open and can be made on line. The cost is $30 ($24 with member’s discount). Being a member of the Gallery is not only an important way of supporting your Gallery, it also gives you free entry to all exhibitions for a year. Members also receive a 10% discount on purchases from the Gallery Shop and a 10% discount on meals and refreshments at Perrotta’s restaurant at the Gallery. Membership gift vouchers are available from the Gallery Shop and make wonderful gifts at any time of the year.
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GALLERY FOUNDATION GIVING CAMPAIGN We are very excited to have launched a new fundraising campaign to commission a major work by one of Australia’s most accomplished contemporary artists, Danie Mellor, for the Collection of the Cairns Art Gallery. To achieve this we need to raise $40,000. Danie Mellor is currently represented in the Collection by only one work produced when he was an emerging artist. Since then he has gone on to become one of Australia’s most important and internationally recognised contemporary artists. We are thrilled that Mellor has agreed to complete a new work that specifically references his cultural connections, on his mother’s side, to the Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland.
We are sincerely grateful to the following donors who have contributed to this year’s annual giving campaign, and we encourage everyone to make a donation, no matter how small, to help us reach our target. Lea Ovaska Chair Cairns Art Gallery Foundation
FOUNDATION MEMBER DONORS
OTHER DONORS
Russell Beer** Chris Boland Robina Cosser Caroline de Costa Elmarie Gebler** Janelle Gerhardt Jon Goodsall Rosemary Goodsall Roger and Sarah Mainwood Doug McKinstry Margaret Maunsell and Mark Stallman Chris and Marilla Morrey** Ports North Rob Pozzi and Mary Ellen O’Hare** Lea Ovaska Fintan Rafferty** Bob and Ros Simkin Lizanne Smith David and Jo Quigley
Rod and Louanne Ashton David Barnard Anthony Bryceson William Bryceson Mark and Sharon Dodge Phil and Mandy Druery Warren and Yolande Entsch Andrew Field Lui and Pam Garozzo Wendy Grace Ian Griffiths John Griffiths Michael Healy Michael and Andrea Huelin Leah and Gavin King Paul Matthews Fiona McGilvray James Mort Jenny Olholm Janet Parfenovics
** New Foundation Members
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Over the past twenty years it has been the passion and vision of our donors that has made it possible for the Gallery to grow its Permanent Collection for the enjoyment and benefit of future generations.
Rachael Philp Lynne Reid Michael Reid Trish Rimmer Charmaine Saunders Trent Twomey Sean Walsh Susan Walsh
Danie Mellor Et in Arcadia Ego (of landscape and memory) 2011 (detail, full image page 46) mixed media of paper 152 x 226 cm image courtesy of the artist and Jan Murphy Gallery Private collection, Brisbane © Danie Mellor
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DIARY DATES JUN AUG ‘17
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
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Free Entry Saturday 10.00am - 5.00pm
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Adult Supported Art Workshop with Meiyin Ahnsuz Tactile Textile and Macrame 9.30am - 12.00pm
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Kids Art Club with Hayley Gillespie 10.00am - 12.00pm
Weekend Adult Art Workshop with Kate Hunter Sculptural Compositions 10.00am - 2.00pm Final Day Francesca Rosa Memoria
Final Day Moving Histories// Future Projections Final Day Michelle Nikou aeiou
26-30 School Holiday Program Art Program for ages 4-15
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Free Entry Saturday 10.00am - 5.00pm
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School Holiday Program Art Program for ages 4-15
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Final Day Brett Whiteley Other Places (Somewhere Else)
12 Exhibition Opening Event 6.00pm Daniel Boyd Bitter Sweet Exhibition Opening Event 6.00pm Greg Semu BLOOD RED 13 Artist Talk 11.30am Daniel Boyd Bitter Sweet
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Free Entry Saturday 10.00am - 5.00pm
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Adult Drawing & Painting Class with Adrienne Shaw 10.30am - 12.30pm 10-week program starts
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Kids Art Club with Hayley Gillespie 10.00am - 12.00pm
Adult Drawing & Painting Class with Craig Hoy 5.15 - 7.15pm 5-week program starts
Final Day Lei it on
Artist Talk 11.30am Greg Semu & Naomi Hobson BLOOD RED Curator Talk 11.30am Ashleigh Campbell & Simone LeAmon Lei it on 14-16 Free Gallery Entry 10.00am - 5.00pm
CIAF Cairns Indigenous Art Fair 20
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Tiny Tackers Art Class 10.30 - 11.15am 8-week program starts
Weekend Adult Art Workshop with Melissa Smith Leather Craft Workshop 10.00am - 4.00pm
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» BRETT WHITELEY EXHIBITION OPENING EVENT IMAGE ABOVE Guests enjoying the opening of Brett Whiteley exhibition
IMAGE ABOVE Wendy Whiteley and Wayne Tunnicliffe
» CAIRNS ART GALLERY FOUNDATION GALA DINNER 2017 IMAGE ABOVE (L-R) Janet Hawley, Senator the Hon Mitch Fifield, Minister for the Arts and Wendy Whiteley
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IMAGE BELOW Tania Major, family and friends
IMAGE ABOVE (L-R) Jon Goodsall, Rosemary Goodsall and Kevin Byrne
IMAGE BELOW Trent Twomey, Leah King, Gavin King, Georgina Twomey, the Hon Warren Entsch MP and Yolande Entsch
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» SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAM BOOKINGS + PRE-PAYMENT ESSENTIAL
WWW.CAIRNSARTGALLERY.COM.AU * CHILDREN UNDER 6 YEARS OF AGE MUST BE WITH AN ADULT GUARDIAN
MONDAY 26 JUNE
SCULPTURE WONDER WITH HEDY VERHULST, ARTIST Ages 4 - 7 years* | 10.00 – 11.30am Cost $14 ($17 non-members) OR Ages 7 - 10 years | 1.00 – 3.00pm Cost $17 ($19 non-members) In this workshop children will create a sculpture with wire as the base material, embellished and extended with a variety in choices of paper, cardboard, and other interesting materials such as sticks, feathers, straws and beads. The result will be an innovative, quirky sculpture inspired by the children’s own imagination and wonder.
TUESDAY 27 JUNE
MAKING ART TO WEAR – JEWELLERY FROM JUNK WITH RUBY BOUSSARD, ARTIST Ages 4 - 7 years* | 10.00 – 11.30am Cost $14 ($17 non-members) Kids will be working with recycled materials such as pieces of plastic and electrical cables using threading, weaving and knotting techniques to fashion a wearable piece of jewellery. OR Ages 8 - 13 years | 1.00 – 3.00pm Cost $17 ($19 non-members) Make PVC beads by cutting up soft drink bottles and manipulate the pieces by immersing in hot water to make them curl. Beads can then be threaded, woven or knotted into a unique piece of wearable art. 35
WEDNESDAY 28 JUNE
MOSAIC WITH STEPHANIE TODD, ARTS EDUCATOR Ages 4 - 7 years* | 10.00 – 11.30am Cost $14 ($17 non-members) In this workshop children will be allowed to play with food as they will be using items like lentils, beans, corn and spaghetti mixed with paint and other fun bits and pieces from our art store to create an image of their favourite animal. iPAD COVER OR LIBRARY BAG WITH MELISSA SMITH, DESIGNER Ages 9 - 14 years | 1.00 – 4.00pm Cost $20 ($25 non-members) Choose to make either a library bag OR iPad cover using a combination of leather and canvas. This is a threehour workshop for nimble fingers to create a unique fashionable accessory.
THURSDAY 29 JUNE
FACE-TO-FACE LIFE DRAWING WITH YIXUAN RUAN, ARTIST Ages 6 - 9 years | 10.30 – 11.30am Cost $13 ($16 non-members) Yixuan will show children what to look for and how to create a likeness of the model in this life drawing class. With her son as the model, budding artists will focus on head and shoulders, using pencil on paper. OR Ages 10 - 15 years | 1.00 – 3.00pm Cost $16 ($19 non-members) Working at an easel students will develop drawing techniques to make an image of the model’s face and shoulders. Yixuan will share some tips with the young artists about how to broaden their observational skills and how to translate what they see onto the paper.
FRIDAY 30 JUNE
SCENE IN A TIN WITH KATE HUNTER, ARTIST Ages 4 - 7 years* | 10.30am – 12.00pm Cost $14 ($17 non-members) OR Ages 8 - 13 years | 1.00 – 3.00pm Cost $17 ($20 non-members) Inspired by artists such as Fiona Hall and Michelle Nikou, kids will use an everyday item to create a little scene. Using various materials and techniques, including embossing, kids will make a little world of their own in a tin.
MONDAY 3 JULY
CREATING PUPPETS WITH MEIYIN AHNSUZ, ARTIST & DISABILITY ARTS’ FACILITATOR Ages 6 - 9 years (with an adult if applicable) 10.00 – 11.30am Cost $15 ($18 non-members) Kids will make a stick or string puppet as the main character in their own invented story and to play with at home. OR Ages 10-15 years (with a support worker if applicable) 1.00 – 3.00pm Cost $17 ($20 non-members) Older kids will make a stick or string puppet from natural materials and will have time to also create a painted theatrical background using cardboard.
TUESDAY 4 JULY
MAKE A MAGNIFICENT MUG WITH MARIKA MAGO, CERAMICIST Ages 5 - 8 years | 10.00 – 11.30am Cost $17 ($20 non-members) Using prepared and bisque-fired ceramic, kids will have a choice of using existing decals to decorate their own magnificent drinking mug. Materials used are food safe. OR Ages 9 - 15 years | 1.00 – 3.00pm Cost $18 ($21 non-members) Marika will share techniques on how decals can be used to create a design on pottery. Working on bisque-ware, budding designers will create patterns and imagery to decorate a ceramic mug. Materials used are food safe. Please note that all mugs will need to be fired and collected from the Gallery at a later date.
WEDNESDAY 5 JULY
MIXED MEDIA WITH ADRIENNE SHAW, ARTIST AND TEACHER Ages 5 - 7 years* | 10.00 – 11.30am Cost $13 ($16 non-members) Young kids will create a whimsical and colourful Alex Calder inspired sculpture using mixed media.
WEDNESDAY 5 & FRIDAY 7 JULY
2-DAY MOULD MAKING AND CASTING WORKSHOP WITH ADRIENNE SHAW, ARTIST AND TEACHER Ages 8 - 13 years | 1.00 – 3.00pm Cost $26 ($29 non-members) Learn how to make a plaster mould and cast on the first afternoon of this two-day workshop. The plaster products need to be dry before you return on Friday to finish and paint your creation.
THURSDAY 6 JULY
PLEIN AIR DRAWING WITH YIXUAN RUAN, ARTIST Ages 6 - 9 years | 10.00 – 11.30am Cost $13 ($16 non-members) Kids will go to the Esplanade armed with a board, pencil and paper to draw on location, perhaps inspired by the beautiful trees along the waterfront or the scenic lagoon. OR Ages 10 - 15 years | 1.00 – 3.00pm Cost $16 ($19 non-members) Students will be challenged to develop their observational skills and draw outdoors. Yixuan will take students to a well-shaded inner city location close to the Gallery where they will be drawing a beautiful old building or streetscape. Yixuan will give guidance on how to draw, structure, perspective and details. Note: The workshops are subject to weather, with an alternative plan in place.
FRIDAY 7 JULY
MAKING LEI WITH STEPHANIE TODD, ARTS EDUCATOR Ages 4 - 7 years* | 10.00 – 11.30am Cost $13 ($16 non-members) Inspired by the Lei it on exhibition from the Torres Strait Islands, children will create their own colourful lei using a variety of materials, including textile, straws, beads, buttons and crepe paper.
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» GALLERY ART SCHOOL TINY TACKERS | AGES 2 - 5 YEARS
WITH KATE HARD, ARTIST/EDUCATOR 2 - 5 years with parent or carer Thursdays 10.30 – 11.15am 20, 27 July, 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 August, 7 September Cost per term: $85 ($75 members) Cost individual class: $15 ($12 members) This program provides an early introduction to the Gallery for the very young. Kate will focus on a different part of the Gallery exhibit each week, followed by a related art activity, to help young ones discover art and create their own. The program runs for eight weeks during each term. Classes can also be booked individually at any time.
GALLERY ART SCHOOL | AGES 5 - 16 YEARS The Gallery Art School offers students visual arts enrichment programs which are designed for school aged children from early primary school right through to college.
LEVEL 1 | AGES 5 - 7 YEARS
5 - 7 years with parent/carer optional Tuesdays 3.45 - 4.45pm 25 July, 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 August Cost $70 ($60 members) This six-week program is designed for early primary school-aged children. Adrienne Shaw will teach the children a range of introductory art skills based on the exhibitions on display and complementing what they learn at school.
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LEVEL 2 | AGES 8 - 11 YEARS
Wednesdays 3.30 - 5.00pm Term 3: 26 July, 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 August Term 4: 11, 18, 25 October, 1, 8, 15 November or Fridays 3.30 - 5.00pm Term 3: 28 July, 4, 11, 18, 25 August, 1 September Term 4: 13, 20, 27 October, 3, 10, 17 November or Saturdays 10.00 - 11.30am Term 3: 29 July, 5, 12, 19, 26 August, 2 September Term 4: 14, 21, 28 October, 4, 11, 18 November Cost $220 ($200 members) Students in Level 2 will enroll in a twelve-week program including six classes during Term 3 and six classes during Term 4. Level 2 Class is a program for children aged 8-11 years and is designed to challenge children with a special interest in visual arts. Different artists sharing their area of expertise will deliver the program in blocks. Students will learn fundamental art skills such as composition, line, tone, colour, shape and form, through structured projects and activities. The focus is on enhancing their abilities through broadening their visual vocabulary while also retaining their ability for free-flowing creative expression. Level 2 classes will form a sound foundation for Level 3.
LEVEL 3 | AGES 11 -1 6 YEARS
Mondays 3.30 - 5.00pm Term 3: 24, 31 July, 7, 14, 21, 28 August Term 4: 9, 16, 23, 30 October, 6, 13 November or Thursdays 3.30 - 5.00pm Term 3: 27 July, 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 August Term 4: 12, 19, 26 October, 2, 9, 16 November Level 3 Class is a twelve-week program for students 11-16 years who like to create art and take art classes seriously. The program may assist students who require a folio of work for application to a high school art excellence program. Participants will further their skills in drawing and painting as well as working in other media. Students will also learn about historical and contemporary artists and artworks. The program will be structured and students will work towards a mini group exhibition of their work at the end of 2017.
KEWARRA BEACH CLASS | AGES 6 - 12 YEARS KIDS FINE ART CLASSES @ KEWARRA BEACH HALL WITH ADRIENNE SHAW, ARTIST/TEACHER Thursdays 3.30 - 5.00pm Term 3: 27 July, 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 August Term 4: 12, 19, 26 October, 2, 9, 16 November Cost $220 ($200 members) This outreach program runs over twelve weeks with six classes in Term 3 and six classes in Term 4. The full semester program is specifically designed for primary school children aged 6 – 12 years. Adrienne will guide the participants through a range of formal art techniques including drawing, painting and sculpture. Each child will be encouraged to work at their own level of ability.
GALLERY KIDS ART CLUB WITH HAYLEY GILLESPIE | AGES 6 - 12 YEARS SATURDAYS 10.00am – 12.00pm Block 3: 3 June, 1 july, 5 August Block 4: 2 September, 7 October, 4 November Cost per 3-month block: $30 ($24 members) Our special club for children aged 8 - 12 is all about creative experiences and activities with ART as the focus. Kids will enjoy a program designed by artist Hayley Gillespie that will be full of fun and a way for kids to make new creative friends.
The two-hour Gallery Kids Art Club sessions are held at the Gallery or other inner city locations. Kids will be introduced to new ways of looking at, talking and thinking about art, craft and design, including fashion, architecture and theatre. In some instances sessions may involve individual or collective art making, in which case materials will be provided. Parents are asked to take kids to and from prearranged locations if and as required. Bookings can be made for both Block 3 and Block 4.
Please note: Artists and techniques are correct at time of printing. Cairns Art Gallery reserves the right to vary program content and delivery where necessary.
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» ADULT ART CLASSES
» SUPPORTED ART WORKSHOP
» WEEKEND ART WORKSHOPS
DRAWING & PAINTING | SUNDAYS
ADULT SUPPORTED ART WORKSHOP
SCULPTURAL COMPOSITIONS
WITH ADRIENNE SHAW, ARTIST & TEACHER SUNDAYS 10.30am - 12.30pm (10 WEEK ART COURSE) Term 3: 13, 20, 27 August, 3, 10 September Term 4: 8, 15, 22, 29 October, 5 November Cost $230 ($220 members) This ten-week program follows on from the classes in the first semester. Teacher Adrienne Shaw encourages students to further practise their skills in drawing and painting, and become more confident extending themselves by exploring different techniques. Together with her students Adrienne will revisit and enhance their knowledge of the fundamental principles of drawing, painting and colour theory. These classes are suited to those who have some experience and wish to improve their skills. Students new to drawing and painting are also encouraged to join this class in which they will learn basic drawing skills such as observing, drawing shapes and perspectives. Participants will learn about and use a range of different materials and techniques.
PUSHING PORTRAITURE | MONDAYS
ADULT DRAWING & PAINTING CLASS WITH CRAIG HOY, ARTIST & TEACHER MONDAYS 5.15 - 7.15pm (5 WEEK ART COURSE) Term 3: 7, 14, 21, 28 August, 4 September Cost $130 ($120 members) The focus of our third five-week art course by Craig Hoy will be on different ways to approach portraiture. In a supportive atmosphere and small group. Participants will learn the basics of facial structure and be encouraged to develop their own style.
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TACTILE TEXTILE AND MACRAME WITH MEIYIN AHNSUZ, ARTIST AND DISABILITY ARTS FACILITATOR FRIDAY 16 JUNE 9.30am - 12.00pm Cost $25 In this workshop textile related materials will be used as the medium. Techniques explored can include traditional macramé, stitching, collage, appliqué, and contemporary knotting and weaving. This workshop is designed for adults with specific needs to explore their creativity through the making of art. Our aim is to offer encouragement and support to enable each participant to work towards their creative goal. Meiyin, who is an experienced arts facilitator in the disability sector, will conduct the workshop. Morning tea and all materials are provided.
WITH KATE HUNTER, ARTIST Sunday 18 June | 10.00am - 2.00pm Term 3: 13, 20, 27 August, 3, 10 September Cost $80 ($90 non-members) Kate Hunter, well known for her ethereal sculpture and jewellery, will be conducting this workshop. In an atmosphere of fun and spontaneity, participants will create a free standing or hanging sculptural composition that evokes a metaphor. By combining textures, colour and natural objects or “raw” materials, surprising compositions can emerge. All materials are provided but participants are welcome to bring small personal objects to incorporate in their composition.
LEATHER CRAFT WORKSHOP
WITH MELISSA SMITH, DESIGNER Saturday 22 July | 10.00am - 4.00pm (with a 30 minute lunch break) Cost $100 ($110 members) Participants will work with leather to make either a cover for their Laptop, iPhone or iPad. After designing their chosen item, a variety of techniques will be used including stitching, embossing, and possibly staining or colouring the leather. Designer Melissa Smith is an experienced tutor in leather craft.
» CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS The Gallery greatly values the support of its many volunteers who assist in all areas of operation, including support with exhibition preparation, events management, learning programs, administration, retail and front-of-house. We are seeking volunteers for front-of-house support, which involves meeting and greeting visitors, assisting with general enquiries, providing information about the current exhibitions and the Gallery’s extensive learning programs and workshops. Front-of-house operations may also include supporting the retail operations of the Gallery Shop. The Shop offers an exciting and extensive range of products by Far North Queensland, state and national artists, jewellers, designers and ceramicists. It also has a comprehensive range of children’s products, specialty art books, postcards and posters. Most volunteer shifts run for two hours, however any time you can offer would be appreciated. Signing up as a volunteers is easy and can be done on line www.carinsartgallery.com.au or call the Gallery on 4046 4800 or email us info@cairnsregionalgallery.com.au
All materials will be provided.
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MOLLIE BOSWORTH MAKER IN PROFILE
Mollie Bosworth (right) is an innovative ceramicist who lives and works in Kuranda, a small township north of Cairns, in the lush rainforest of the Atherton Tablelands.
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Since the 1990s, Bosworth’s ceramics have captivated audiences and fellow practitioners, by her skilful use of colour, light and surface design. Over the decades she has developed techniques that allow the clay body to absorb and reflect light while also appearing translucent. Perhaps best known for her pioneering work with water-soluble metallic salts, Bosworth creates fine ceramic pieces that are instantly recognisable. Bosworth constantly explores new materials or processes. A chance happening in a work can suggest the next new direction for her. Given her fascination with light, it is natural that she has been drawn to experiment with photographic processes and printing. Recent works show Bosworth transforming imagery from her garden into delicate botanical decals made on a laser printer and then layered on the surface of the clay. She has also been refining the cyanotype print, made by developing photosensitive chemicals on paper or clay and exposing leaves, fungi and forms in the sunlight. Last year, Bosworth travelled to Japan and undertook an artist residency at the Kouraku Kiln, a working factory in Arita, a town famed for its porcelain quarries and production. While there, she worked with master Japanese ceramicists who shared ancient techniques, including ways of layering and applying the famed blue Gosu pigment on porcelain.
Bosworth’s works have been included in significant exhibitions such as Objects of Desire: Contemporary Clay, toured nationally by Artisan Queensland, and the Siliceous Award for Ceramic Excellence. Bosworth’s latest range of ceramics (pictured left) are available in the Gallery Shop and she is working toward an upcoming exhibition at the Gallery
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» VISIT US Cnr Abbott & Shields St, Cairns M to F: 9am – 5pm Sat: 10am – 5pm Sun: 10am – 2pm Closed on Public Holidays 07 4046 4800 shop@cairnsregionalgallery.com.au www.cairnsartgallery.com.au Cairns.Art.Gallery @cairnsartgallery @cairnsgallery CairnsArtGallery FUNDING PARTNER
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IMAGE LEFT Lara Fujii Lei Necklaces available in the Gallery Shop during CIAF 2017
IMAGE PAGE 30 Danie Mellor Et in Arcadia Ego (of landscape and memory) 2011 mixed media of paper 152 x 226 cm image courtesy of the artist and Jan Murphy Gallery Private collection, Brisbane © Danie Mellor