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DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD
IMAGE COVER MICHAEL PAREKOWHAI Ngati Whakarongo New Zealand b. 1968 Kapa Haka (Whero) 2003 automotive paint on fibreglass Purchased 2009 with funds from Tim Fairfax, AM, through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Collection: Queensland Art Gallery 1
IMAGE ABOVE ROBIN RHODE South Africa b.1976 Promenade 2008 Digital Betacam transferred to DVD: 5 minutes, HD animation, black and white, stereo, ed. 4/6 Purchased 2009 with funds from Tim Fairfax, AM, through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
For the 2018 Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, the Gallery launched a new international program that examines historical and contemporary issues relating to black race and representation. This program supports our strategic focus of promoting our contemporary art, culture and history of Far North Queensland within a global context. We are thrilled that our first major exhibition in this program (Continental Drift Black/Blak Art from South Africa and North Australia) has been described in the media as ground breaking, innovative and exceptional. In August, we are excited to welcome Patricia Piccinini, one of Australia’s most important contemporary artists, who will be undertaking a research residency as part of our Art + Science initiative that enables artists to collaborate with scientists working at the frontiers of tropical research. Patricia’s research into the hybridity and symbiotic relationships between animals and
plants will inform the creation of a new body of work for an exhibition at the Gallery in late 2019. In November this year, the Gallery will present a major survey exhibition of Goobalathaldin Dick Roughsey in partnership with the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). Dick Roughsey (1920 – 1985) was from the Lardil language group on Mornington Island and is recognised for developing a new style of Indigenous contemporary painting during the twentieth century. The exhibition will premier at the Cairns Art Gallery and then tour to QAGOMA in March 2019. We look forward to you, your family and friends visiting the Gallery over the coming months to experience and be inspired by the diverse range of programs that we have on offer. Andrea May Churcher Director
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CONTINENTAL DRIFT
BLACK / BLAK ART FROM SOUTH AFRICA AND NORTH AUSTRALIA
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The Cairns Art Gallery’s exhibition Continental Drift: Black/Blak Art from South Africa and North Australia is attracting national and international attention and has drawn huge audiences during the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair. For the first time ever, Indigenous artists from north Queensland are exhibiting alongside contemporary South African artists. Together, their works explore issues of gender, politics, history, race and representation through a range of media including photography, sculpture, paintings, film, video and installation. Continental Drift is the first major exhibition in a Gallery program that examines Australian Indigenous race and representation in the context of black global art and culture.
Presented in partnership with the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, the exhibition aims to challenge the uncomfortable truths that surround the colonisation of Australia and South Africa and examine how these truths have impacted on and shaped the construction of contemporary black/ blak personhood. Australia and South Africa have similar but different experiences of British colonisation, and in this exhibition it is the way that the artists from both countries have chosen to interrogate and interpret these experiences that is most revealing and challenging. To support the exhibition, the Gallery has produced a fully illustrated publication with essays by Neelika Jayawardane and Carly Lane, which is available from the Gallery Shop.
A Cairns Art Gallery exhibition presented in partnership with Cairns Indigenous Art Fair 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
IMAGE PAGE 3/4 Mary SIBANDE I Decline. I refuse to recline 2010 mixed media 180 x 193 x 250 cm Courtesy of the artist and Gallery MOMO, Cape Town/ Johannesburg, South Africa photograph: the artist 5
IMAGE RIGHT Fiona FOLEY Badtjala warrior 2017 from the Horror has a face series digital print 60 x 45 cm Private collection, Brisbane, Queensland photograph: the artist
IMAGE PAGE 7 Tony ALBERT Moving targets 2015 video, sound, 6:35 mins Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney, New South Wales photograph: Alex Wisser
IMAGE PAGE 8 Zanele MUHOLI Thulile I, Delaware 2016 60 x 40 cm silver gelatin print Courtesy of the artist and STEVENSON, Cape Town/ Johannesburg, South Africa photograph: the artist
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MARA
INDIGENOUS DESIGN, POLITICS AND FOOD CULTURE
IMAGE ABOVE Installation MARA: Indigenous design, politics and food culture 9
MARA: Indigenous design, politics and food culture celebrates the cultural heritage and living culture of Aboriginal people in north Queensland. Mara means hand, and in this context it refers to the hand that makes, gathers, prepares and hunts. The exhibition, co-curated by Gallery curator Teho Ropeyarn and guest curator Bernard Singleton, is presented as a dynamic large-scale installation that includes designed objects used in food gathering, hunting and preparation. Also represented are objects used as adornments in ceremonial and cultural practices that utilise the bones, teeth and shells of the hunted animals.
MARA highlights the continuing importance of Country to Aboriginal people and the legal battles that were, and continue to be, fought to maintain traditional hunting rights and practices on the land and in the waterways to sustain these practices.
The exhibition brings together almost three hundred traditional and contemporary artefacts. Many of the works are on loan from the Kowanyama Culture and Research Centre (a community keeping place) that has an extensive and nationally significant collection of rare objects and artefacts dating back to pre-contact years. These works, which have been assembled over many years by former ranger Vivian Sinnamon, are now in the community’s care, and a large number of them have never been exhibited outside the Kowanyama community. Also on display are contemporary objects that have been inspired by traditional artefacts and made by local contemporary artists for inclusion in the exhibition.
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OLAF & KERSTENS In late August the Gallery is presenting a new exhibition by two internationally renowned contemporary Dutch photographers, Erwin Olaf and Hendrik Kerstens, whose portraits are inspired by the old masters. The exhibition is presented at the Cairns Art Gallery with the support of the Dutch diplomatic missions in Australia. Erwin Olaf is an interdisciplinary artist who works across photography, video and installation. His work has been described as provocative and unsettling. Through his portraits Olaf draws the viewer into his surreal filmic narrative, while maintaining the distance of the critical observer.
Hendrik Kerstens took up photography at the age of forty when he stayed at home to care for his first child, Paula. His early portraits captured the everyday life of the young child, but as Paula grew up, his photographs were increasingly inspired by great Dutch master painters of the 17th century, with Paula as his muse.
The portraits of both Olaf and Kerstens are inspired by the careful manipulation of light and shadow, a device that characterises the paintings of Dutch masters, such as Rembrandt and Vermeer. Through this use of light and shadow, both artists’ portraits convey the transitory condition of contemporary life while capturing the essence of the person that is both compelling and captivating.
Erwin OLAF Keyhole 6, 2012 from the Keyhole series Chromogenic print 66 x 54 cm photographer: Erwin Olaf
Olaf and Kerstens is presented at the Cairns Art Gallery with the support of the Dutch diplomatic missions in Australia.
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21 SEPT - 18 NOV ’18
MOLLIE BOSWORTH THE NATURE OF BLUE Mollie Bosworth is a nationally recognised ceramicist who, for the past two decades, has been producing work from her home studio in the rainforest setting of Kuranda.
In recent years Bosworth has earned international attention for her fine porcelain forms. The Nature of Blue is her first major solo exhibition and demonstrates her unique ability to manipulate the absorption and reflection of light, playing with layering and creating translucency in the clay body. The exhibition explores three key areas of her practice materiality, surface and light. For this exhibition, Bosworth has created new wheel-thrown vessels to further explore the spectrum of the colour blue. She has transformed imagery from her tropical garden into delicate botanical designs, which are then layered on the surface of the clay, applied as laser decals or as water-etched patterns.
Given her fascination with light, it is natural that Bosworth has also been drawn to experiment with cyanotype printing, a process whereby she exposes freshly-harvested rainforest leaves
Mollie BOSWORTH wheel-thrown vessels from The Nature of Blue 2018 series photograph: Michael Marzik 13
on fabric and paper substrates to develop an original design through the reaction of photosensitive chemicals in sunlight.
In addition to surface-applied botanical designs, Bosworth’s new body of work includes an exploration of water-soluble metallic salts and forms created through the fusion of colouredclay bodies. Her limited series of Blue Spotted Rocking Bowls (2018) and Blue Agate Vessels (2018) demonstrate her proficiency with these innovative ceramic techniques. The Nature of Blue celebrates Mollie Bosworth’s sensitive approach to ceramics and surface design and reveals her expertise in working with light on paper, silk and porcelain.
» EXHIBITION OPENING EVENT with Simon Elliott Deputy Director QAGOMA Friday 28 September, 6.00pm RSVP: 4046 4800
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DAVID GRIGGS
BETWEEN NATURE AND SIN BETWEEN NATURE AND SIN is the first major survey exhibition of works by leading Australian artist David Griggs. Griggs was born in Sydney in 1975, but moved to the Philippines more than ten years ago. Through painting, photography and film, his works document the everyday, intimate, chance moments of his friends and strangers in order to expose and explore the human condition. Through portraiture, Griggs explores the darker undercurrents of human existence, drawing on political imagery, subversive media, local histories and personal experiences. He is noted for his bold approach to revealing social hierarchies and underground culture, particularly the raw underbelly of society in the Philippines.
community. Set in a fishing village on a remote island of the Philippines, the film features leading Filipino actors Soliman Cruz, the late Dante Perez and Melanie Tejano. Megan Monte, curator of the exhibition, notes that: Manila has challenged, broken and rebuilt Griggs in countless ways, as have his collaborations. This is encapsulated in the series of work presented in BETWEEN NATURE AND SIN, Griggs’ most ambitious and challenging project to date.
While his work is often collaborative, involving close engagement with local communities, Griggs remains sensitive to the ethical and moral obligations that this process demands.
This is particularly evident in his major feature film COWBOY COUNTRY, which is presented for the first time in this exhibition. The film follows the story of a kidnapped American Filipino teenager held captive for ransom and was produced collaboratively with the
» EXHIBITION OPENING EVENT with Simon Elliott, Deputy Director QAGOMA Friday 28 September, 6.00pm RSVP: 4046 4800
A Campbelltown Arts Centre exhibition presented nationally by Museums & Galleries of NSW. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
David GRIGGS ZOMBIE KISS 2009 acrylic on canvas 263 x 187.5 cm Courtesy Hayman Collection, Melbourne 16
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A WORLD VIEW THE TIM FAIRFAX GIFT A World View is a unique opportunity for Cairns audiences to experience key works from the international collection of the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). A World View was first shown at GOMA as part of its tenth anniversary celebrations and honoured the far-reaching contribution of Tim Fairfax ac, one of Australia’s most generous philanthropists. Over the years, Tim Fairfax has supported the acquisition of more than seventy of the most remarkable works to enter QAGOMA’s Collection, including installation, sculpture, video and photographic works from around the world, with a particular focus on Africa, South America and the Pacific.
QAGOMA Director Chris Saines explains that the human body and human experience of the world inform many of the works in the exhibition.
Highlights of the exhibition include Michael Parekowhai’s larger-than-life sculpture of a security guard Kapa Haka (Whero) 2003, Yvonne Todd’s uncanny tapestry portrait Alice Bayke 2008, Chinese Australian artist Ah Xian’s
Yvonne TODD New Zealand b.1973 Victorian Tapestry Workshop Australia est.1976 Sue BATTEN (WEAVER) Australia b.1958 Amy CORNALL (WEAVER) Australia b.1982 Alice Bayke 2008 Cotton warp with wool and cotton weft Commissioned 2006 with funds from Tim Fairfax, AM, and Gina Fairfax through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Collection: Queensland Art Gallery 17
intricately worked bust Human human – Bust no. 5 2002, and Iranian/Swiss artist Shirana Shahbazi’s beautifully detailed photographs on aluminium from her Flowers, fruits & portraits series. Colourful drawings by Nigerian-born artist Otobong Nkanga reflect on the fast-paced development in Lagos, Nigeria, while Siva in Motion 2012, a dramatic video by Shigeyuki Kihara, features the artist performing a ballet of very precise, traditional hand gestures reflecting the ancestors, politics and cultural life of Samoa.
» EXHIBITION OPENING EVENT with Simon Elliott, Deputy Director QAGOMA Friday 28 September, 6.00pm RSVP: 4046 4800
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HANK WILLIS THOMAS OVERTIME
Born in 1976 in Plainfield, New Jersey, and raised in New York, Hank Willis Thomas is a conceptual photographer whose work addresses issues of identity, politics, popular culture, and mass media pertaining to American race relations. He has been described as “a tough and thoughtful young artist whose images confront our sense of memory and history”. Overtime 2011 is a video work that was first shown as part of a major exhibition Strange Fruit at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut and Corcoron Gallery, Washington, in 2012. Works in the exhibition explored how the concepts of spectacle and display connect to notions of African American identity.
representations of athletes with historic images of lynching victims, the exhibition asked viewers to consider, remember, and question the transformation of black bodies into souvenirs and commercial objects, and showed how identity can be created through both historic and contemporary images. Overtime 2011 depicts a lone basketball player who appears to be eerily suspended, frozen in mid-motion, with the ball hoop above him resembling a hangman’s noose. It is a powerful image that evokes an immediate response from the viewer.
Strange Fruit (from the powerful protest song popularised by singer Billie Holiday) examined two forms of spectacle—the culture of lynching and the commodification that surrounds professional sports—and analysed their impact on the presentation and the perception of the black body. By juxtaposing contemporary
HANK WILLIS THOMAS Overtime 2011 5:00 minutes, music by Ditto Courtesy of the artist © Hank Willis Thomas. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York 20
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GOOBALATHALDIN DICK ROUGHSEY STORIES OF THIS LAND The Gallery is partnering with the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) to present the first retrospective of works by one of Australia’s leading twentieth century Aboriginal artists, Dick Roughsey (1920-1985).
Bruce Johnson McLean, Curator of Indigenous Australian Art at QAGOMA, and Teho Ropeyarn, Cairns Art Gallery Assistant Curator, have cocurated the exhibition that explores a number of narratives. They include the artist’s early years on Mornington Island; the social and cultural effects of missionary activity in north Queensland Indigenous communities; Lardil dance, song men and cultural practices; and the Rainbow Serpent story and other children’s books for which he received the Children’s Book of the Year Award in 1976 and 1979.
From the Lardil tribe of Mornington Island, Dick Roughsey (Goobalathaldin) and his brother Lindsay (Burrud), were brought up in the cultural traditions of ceremonial dance and body painting. Their early paintings on bark depicted ceremonial body markings and their unique style was adopted by a number of other Lardil, Yangkaal and other mainland artists living at the Mornington Mission.
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In 1962 Dick Roughsey met amateur artist Percy Trezise and together they travelled extensively in Cape York. It was on one of these expeditions that Roughsey met another influential artist, Ray Crooke. These two artists encouraged Roughsey to explore new modes of representation and new materials such as acrylic paints on canvas, a transition that positioned him as a leading Aboriginal artist of his time. In 1978 Dick received an OBE for his role as an historian and artist who paved the way for many contemporary Indigenous artists today.
» EXHIBITION OPENING EVENT Friday 16 November, 6.00pm RSVP: 4046 4800
GOOBALATHALDIN DICK ROUGHSEY STORIES OF THIS LAND is a collaboration between Cairns Art Gallery and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Goobalathaldin Dick ROUGHSEY Lardil people Australia 1920 - 85 The Birth of Goobalathaldin 1984 Synthetic polymer paint on board 132 x 100 cm Private collection © Estate of Dick Roughsey/Licensed by Copyright Agency Photograph: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA 22
» COMING SOON 23 NOV ‘18 - 13 JAN ‘19
DESTINATION NORTH CONTEMPORARY ILLUSTRATION
Olivia Azzopardi • Harry Bate • Mark Daniel • Jonathan McBurnie Caroline Mudge • Brontë Naylor • Yixuan Ruan
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SEAN RAFFERTY
CARTONOGRAPHY; FRUIT CARTONS OF FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND Exhibition Opening Event: Saturday 1 December, 2.00pm
30 NOV ‘18 - 6 JAN ‘19 CAIRNS POTTERS CLUB: MELTING POT 2018 THE CAIRNS POTTERS CLUB’S NATIONAL CERAMIC EXHIBITION Exhibition Opening Event: Friday 30 November, 6.00pm
30 NOV ‘18 - 3 FEB ‘19
PHYSICAL VIDEO
A QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY | GALLERY OF MODERN ART TOURING EXHIBITION Performance and theatricality in video art from the 1970s to the present day
IMAGE LEFT Sean RAFFERTY Cartonography installation image, Bondi Pavillion Gallery, 2014 24
IMAGE ABOVE Tony ALBERT Eyes in the Sky 2018 vintage playing cards, coasters and matchboxes on board Cairns Art Gallery Collection. Commissioned and donated through the Cairns Art Gallery Foundation, 2018 25
IMAGE RIGHT Special guest Tony Albert at the Cairns Art Gallery Foundation Dinner, May 2018 Photograph: Pine Creek Images
» CAIRNS ART GALLERY FOUNDATION We are delighted that this year’s Annual Giving Campaign has raised almost $18,000 in donations towards the purchase of a commissioned work by Tony Albert for the Gallery’s Permanent Collection. Many of these donations were received on the night of the Gallery’s annual gala fundraising dinner in May at which Tony Albert was a special guest. The commissioned work by Tony Albert is now on display in the Gallery’s Continental Drift exhibition.
I would like to extend my sincere appreciation to my fellow Board Directors who have worked so hard to ensure the success of this year’s Foundation dinner and Annual Giving Campaign - Lizanne Smith, Sarah Coll, Caroline de Costa, and Georgina Twomey. Lea Ovaska Chair, Cairns Art Gallery Foundation
I would like to warmly thank all the following donors whose support has helped secure a major Tony Albert work for the Gallery’s Collection:
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Rosemary Goodsall Caroline de Costa Leigh Heidenreich Ports North
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Cairns Orthopaedic Clinic Doug McKinstry Lizanne Smith
$500 - $1,000
Elmarie Gebler Ken Chapman Margaret Maunsell & Mark Stallman Mark Kamsler Paul Kamsler
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Belinda Griffin Chris Boland Roy Payne Harris Bros Peter O’Connor Robert Spencer Trent Twomey Trish Rimmer & David Barnard Sky Stafford Sean & Susan Walsh
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Warren & Yolande Entsch Cathy Shepherd Curtis Pitt Danella Culloty
David Marsden Eileene & Peter Phillips Ian Griffiths Jackie Coppy Janet Parfenovics John Hayward Joy Mclaughlin Lisa Holland Margaret & Warwick Hutchins Matt Holland Meglin Rathnasamy Pam Rathnasamy Sabina Trevor Tony Constance Ritchie Bates 26
IMAGE ABOVE Joy STEWART Monument to the Dead and a Dying City n.d. acrylic on canvas 91.2 x 121.5 x 2.0 cm Cairns Art Gallery Collection. Gift of the artist, 1999 27
Âť CAIRNS ART GALLERY MEMBERS In June this year we were saddened by the death of one of the Galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most passionate members, Joy Stewart. Joy was a Gallery donor, artist and skilled teacher and her contribution to the life of the Gallery will be greatly missed. Joy was one of six children and was born in Geelong, Victoria, in 1925. From a very early age art became her passion, and later in life she studied at the National Gallery Art School under Murray Griffin. Her contemporaries were well known Australian artists such as Clifton Pugh, Fred Williams, John Brack and Ray Crooke.
Joy moved to Cairns in 1981 and continued to develop her art practice, responding to the distinctive light, shadows and atmosphere in Far North Queensland. In 1982 she began teaching art and later volunteered her time to teaching art classes at the Gallery, which she continued to do until only a few years ago. Like many of the active members of the Gallery, Joy understood and enjoyed participating in the everyday life of the Gallery.
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DIARY DATES SEPTEMBER
9 FINAL DAY MARA INDIGENOUS DESIGN, POLITICS AND FOOD CULTURE 23
FINAL DAY CONTINENTAL DRIFT BLACK / BLAK ART FROM SOUTH AFRICA AND NORTH AUSTRALIA
24-28 SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
28 EXHIBITION OPENING EVENT 6.00PM
MOLLIE BOSWORTH THE NATURE OF BLUE
A WORLD VIEW THE TIM FAIRFAX GIFT
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DAVID GRIGGS BETWEEN NATURE AND SIN
OCTOBER
1-5 SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
3 CURATORS TALK 5.30PM WITH ELLIE BUTTROSE A WORLD VIEW THE TIM FAIRFAX GIFT 6
GALLERY KIDS ART CLUB WITH HAYLEY GILLESPIE
YOUNG CREATIVES CLUB WITH HAYLEY GILLESPIE
7 INTRODUCTION TO CYANOTYPE PRINTMAKING ADULT ART CLASS WITH MOLLIE BOSWORTH
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FINAL DAY OLAF & KERSTENS
CHINESE BRUSH PAINTING ADULT ART CLASS WITH YIXUAN RUAN
ADULT ART CLASSES START BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL LEVEL 3 CLASSES START BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL LEVEL 1 CLASSES START BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
LEVEL 2 CLASSES START BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
KIDS FINE ART CLASSES AT KEWARRA BEACH START BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
20 COMMUNITY CHILDRENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S WORKSHOP FREE ART WORKSHOP 1.00 - 3.00PM
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GALLERY KIDS ART CLUB WITH HAYLEY GILLESPIE
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FINAL DAY A WORLD VIEW THE TIM FAIRFAX GIFT
YOUNG CREATIVES CLUB WITH HAYLEY GILLESPIE
16 EXHIBITION OPENING EVENT 6.00PM
GOOBALATHALDIN DICK ROUGHSEY STORIES OF THIS LAND
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FINAL DAY DAVID GRIGGS BETWEEN NATURE AND SIN
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FINAL DAY MOLLIE BOSWORTH THE NATURE OF BLUE
FINAL DAY HANK WILLIS THOMAS OVERTIME
30 EXHIBITION OPENING EVENT 6.00PM
CAIRNS POTTERS CLUB MELTING POT 2018
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»CREATIVE WORKSHOPS BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL WWW.CAIRNSARTGALLERY.COM.AU
* CHILDREN UNDER 6 YEARS OF AGE MUST BE WITH AN ADULT GUARDIAN ARTISTS AND TECHNIQUES ARE CORRECT AT TIME OF PRINTING. CAIRNS ART GALLERY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO VARY PROGRAM CONTENT WHERE NECESSARY.
»SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS MONDAY 24 SEPTEMBER PUPPET MAKING WITH HAYLEY GILLESPIE, ARTIST Ages 6 - 9 years | 10.00 - 11.30am Cost $14 ($17 non-members) Join artist Hayley Gillespie to create a puppet with moving parts using materials supplied by the Gallery. DIORAMA WITH HANNAH PARKER, ARTIST Ages 9 - 14 years | 1.00 - 3.30pm Cost $16 ($19 non-members) Use recycled cardboard, paper, glue, and paint, to construct a landscape scene in a box.
TUESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER PAINTING ARCHETYPES WITH HANNAH PARKER, ARTIST Ages 6 - 9 years | 10.00am - 12.00pm Cost $15 ($18 non-members) Hannah will share two traditional stories and encourage children to imagine the good and bad characters from the stories before drawing and painting the characters. ARCHETYPES IN 3D WITH HANNAH PARKER, ARTIST Ages 9 - 14 years | 1.00 - 3.30pm Cost $18 ($21 non-members) Hannah will discuss characters from traditional stories. Using Plasticine, children will imagine what different characters look like and will give them a 3-dimensional form. 31
WEDNESDAY 26 SEPTEMBER INSPIRATION FROM THE MASTERS WITH YIXUAN RUAN, ARTIST Ages 8 - 11 years | 10.00 - 11.30am Cost $14 ($17 non-members) or Ages 11 - 15 years | 1.00 - 3.00pm Cost $16 ($19 non-members) Participants will be given one half of a portrait photo as a device to learn how to develop a complete new portrait using paper, pencil and a dose of imagination.
THURSDAY 27 SEPTEMBER NATURAL COMPOSITIONS WITH ADRIENNE SHAW, ARTIST / TEACHER Ages 4 - 6 years | 10.30 - 11.30am Cost $14 ($17 non-members) Young participants will build compositional skills by combining natural materials to create an image on paper that will be laminated and can be hung as an artwork. An accompanying adult is required for children under 6 years
THURSDAY 27 SEPTEMBER ASSEMBLAGE WORKSHOP WITH ADRIENNE SHAW, ARTIST / TEACHER Ages 7 - 11 | 1.00 - 3.30pm Cost $17 ($19 non-members) This is a hands-on workshop using materials such as wood, cardboard and other recycled materials. Using basic tools, materials and imagination children can choose to create an animal, a figure, a building or their own creation.
FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER TAPESTRY WORKSHOP WITH MEIYIN AHNSUZ, ARTIST & DISABILITY ARTS WORKER Ages 6 - 9 years | 10.00am - 12.00pm Cost $15 ($18 non-members) or Ages 10 - 15 years | 1.00 - 3.30pm Cost $18 ($21 non-members) Children will learn about conventional and contemporary tapestry tools and techniques in order to design and create their own tapestry to take home.
MONDAY 1 OCTOBER PUPPET MAKING WITH HAYLEY GILLESPIE Ages 9 - 12 years | 10.00am - 12.00pm Cost $16 ($19 non-members) Join artist Hayley Gillespie to create a puppet with moving parts using materials supplied by the Gallery.
TUESDAY 2 OCTOBER PORTRAIT DRAWING ON TONED PAPER WITH ANDREW BONNEAU Ages 9 - 16 years | 10.00am - 2.30pm Cost $28 ($33 non-members) Based on portraits in the Olaf & Kerstens exhibition, participants will use pencil and chalk on paper to explore tonality in their drawings. This is a workshop for students who are serious about developing their drawing skills.
Please bring lunch and a drink to this workshop.
WEDNESDAY 3 OCTOBER MASK MAKING WORKSHOP WITH JOHN EATON, ARTIST & EDUCATOR Ages 8 - 10 years | 10.00am - 12.00pm Cost $15 ($18 non-members) Inspired by works in David Griggs’ exhibition, children will create their own interpretation of what is beautiful, absurd, tragic, fake or real.
MASK MAKING WORKSHOP WITH JOHN EATON, ARTIST & EDUCATOR Ages 11 - 15 years | 1.00pm - 3.00pm Cost $16 ($19 non-members) David Griggs’ exhibition Between Nature & Sin will be the inspiration for designing a large mask that can change the way people see or think about each other.
THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER INSPIRATION FROM NATURE WITH YIXUAN RUAN, ARTIST Ages 8 - 11 years | 10.00am - 12.00pm Cost $15 ($18 non-members) Children will collect leaves and look at patterns in nature before returning to the Education Room to use them as stencils, while also incorporating an image of a favourite little critter to celebrate World Animal Day. or Ages 11 - 15 years | 1.00 - 3.30pm Cost $16 ($19 non-members) Participants will view Mollie Bosworth’s exhibition before creating a nature-inspired image using environment and health-friendly Sugar® spray paint on paper to create an effect similar to the cyanotype print technique used by Mollie. Protective masks are provided. Please wear footwear and older clothes.
FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER PAINT YOUR PET’S PORTRAIT WITH ADRIENNE SHAW, ARTIST / TEACHER Ages 5 - 8 years | 10.00 - 11.30am Cost $14 ($17 non-members) or Ages 8 - 12 years | 1.00 - 3.00pm Cost $16 ($19 non-members) Bring in an A4 sized photo of your pet or favourite animal, and inspired by Hendrik Kerstens exhibition works, learn how to paint in a traditional portrait style but with a contemporary twist. 32
»GALLERY ART SCHOOL VISUAL ARTS ENRICHMENT PROGRAM LEVEL 1
5-7 years with parent/carer optional Cost $60 ($70 non-members) Tuesdays 3.45 - 4.45 pm Term 4: 16, 23, 30 October, 6, 13, 20 November
A six-week program designed for early primary school-aged children. Adrienne Shaw will teach a range of introductory art skills based on Gallery exhibitions to complement school study.
LEVEL 2
8 - 11 years Price on application Some places are available to start in Term 4 on: Wednesdays 3.30 – 5.00pm Term 4: 17, 24, 31 October, 7, 14, 21 November Fridays 3.30 – 5.00pm Term 4: 19, 26 October, 2, 9, 16, 23 November Saturdays 10.00 – 11.30am Term 4: 20, 27 October, 3, 10, 17, 24 November
LEVEL 3
11-16 years Price on application Some places are available to start in Term 4 on: Mondays 3.30 – 5.00pm Term 4: 15, 22, 29 October, 5, 12, 19 November Thursdays 3.30 – 5.00pm Term 4: 18, 25 October, 1, 8, 15, 22 November
KIDS FINE ART CLASSES @ KEWARRA BEACH HALL WITH ADRIENNE SHAW, ARTIST/TEACHER 6 - 12 years | Price on application Thursdays 3.30 – 5.00pm Term 4: 18, 25 October, 1, 8, 15, 22 November
This outreach program runs over twelve weeks - six classes in Term 3 and six classes in Term 4. Some places may still be available to start in Term 4. Please contact us for further information and pricing. 33
»GALLERY KIDS ART CLUB WITH HAYLEY GILLESPIE AGES 8 – 12 YEARS Saturdays 10.00am – 12.00pm Block 3: 6 October, 3 November, 1 December Cost per three-month block $24 ($30 non-members)
Our special club for children aged 8 – 12 is all about creative experiences and activities with ART as the focus. Kids enjoy a program designed by artist Hayley Gillespie that will be full of fun and a way for kids to make new creative friends.
Art Club sessions are held at the Gallery or other inner city locations. Kids are 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 pre-arranged locations if required.
»YOUNG CREATIVES CLUB WITH HAYLEY GILLESPIE AGES 13 - 17 YEARS Saturdays 3.00 – 5.00pm 1 September, 6 October, 3 November, 1 December Price on application
The Young Creatives is a club for participants of high school age who meet once a month for a two-hour session. Art related activities and discussions will be facilitated by Hayley Gillespie. This is a great way to work on and share artistic projects, collaborate and hang out with like-minded students, while learning about contemporary art, design, multi-media, photography and music. Basic art materials are included however a small contribution may be required for specific projects and activities. Sessions are held at the Gallery but may occasionally be at a different location in Cairns, in which case parents are asked to facilitate transport for their teens. Please contact us for further information and pricing.
ADULT DRAWING & PAINTING ART CLASS WITH ADRIENNE SHAW, ARTIST/TEACHER
SUNDAYS 10.30am – 12.30pm (10-WEEK ART COURSE) Term 3: 19, 26 August, 2, 9, 16 September Term 4: 14, 21, 28 October, 4, 11 November
This popular ten-week program is designed for beginners and those who have some experience and who want to improve or revisit their knowledge of the fundamental principles of drawing, painting and colour theory. From an introduction to drawing skills, such as observing, drawing shapes, perspective and tone, and using a range of drawing techniques and mediums, students will develop skills and confidence in painting, and learn about different painting materials and techniques. Some places may still be available. Please contact us for further information and pricing.
ADULT DRAWING & PAINTING ART CLASS WITH CRAIG HOY, ARTIST/TEACHER MONDAYS 5.15 - 7.15pm (4-WEEK ART COURSE) 27 August, 3, 10, 17 September Cost $100 ($120 non-members)
During Term 3 participants will learn how to make an artist book. Working in a supportive atmosphere and in small groups, participants can work at their own level while learning new skills and practical mixed media techniques.
CHINESE BRUSH PAINTING WITH YIXUAN RUAN, ARTIST
MONDAYS 5.30 - 7.30pm (5-WEEK ART COURSE) 8, 15, 22, 29 October, 5 November Cost $120 ($140 non-members)
This course focuses on painting landscapes and includes learning about the aesthetics of Chinese landscape painting, including the use of empty spaces. Chinese artist Yixuan Ruan, will teach participants how to visually express elements such as trees, rocks and waterfalls, using brush, ink and water. Participants will complete a different Chinese brush painting during each lesson. Beginners are welcome.
»ADULT WEEKEND WORKSHOPS INTRODUCTION TO CYANOTYPE PRINTMAKING WITH MOLLIE BOSWORTH, CERAMICIST Sunday 7 October | 10.00am – 1.00pm Cost $70 ($85 non-members)
Cyanotype is a photographic printing process using chemistry and light to produce a cyanblue print. Mollie Bosworth is renowned for her cyanotype prints on fabric, paper or ceramic tiles. Participants will be introduced to the cyanotype printmaking process and develop their own image on paper.
YOGA IN THE GALLERY
Mondays 5.30 – 6.30pm 3, 10, 17 September, 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November Twelve-class pass $100 ($125 non-members) Five-class pass $56 ($70 non-members)
Conducted in the peaceful setting of the Gallery, participants will be guided through various yoga techniques, including learning postures, meditation and breathing techniques to improve core strength, the mind and the body. Experienced yoga instructors are Jaye Harris or Rebecca Edwards.
»COMMUNITY CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP
Saturday 20 October | 1.00 – 3.00pm Ages 7 – 16 years Cost FREE
Learn how to weave using a cardboard loom, plastic needle, cotton warp, wool and cotton yarns provided in a special Kids Weaving Kit from the Australian Tapestry Workshop. This workshop is presented in conjunction with the exhibition A WORLD VIEW. The workshop is free but must be booked in advance as places are limited.
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Mollie BOSWORTH wheel-thrown vessels available in the Gallery Shop during The Nature of Blue 2018 exhibition 36
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