CAIRNS ART GALLERY DECEMBER 2017 - FEBRUARY 2018 MEMBERS NEWSLETTER / 71
DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD
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IMAGE COVER AND ABOVE Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose (detail) Dirs. Del Kathryn Barton and Brendan Fletcher Prod. Aquarius Films, 2015
It is wonderful to look back on the Gallery’s many achievements over the year, especially the acquisition of a number of important works for the Permanent Collection. Amongst these are a commissioned portrait of his father by Vernon Ah Kee, a commissioned painting by Danie Mellor that will be included in his exhibition at the Gallery in May 2018, and fourteen works gifted by artist Greg Semu, from his iconic BLOODRED exhibition at the Gallery during the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair this year. The Gallery’s Collection is a an enduring legacy for future generations and throughout the year we regularly display themed works that respond to or are informed by our special place in the world’s tropic zone and Asia Pacific region. As a public gallery we have a duty to care for, maintain and preserve works in the Permanent Collection for future generations. A major undertaking in October this year was the relocation of the Collection to a new off-site storage facility that offers museum standard
climate controls and space for continued growth over the coming years. We are thrilled that, with free entry since 1 September this year, Gallery visitation has increased by 30% and visitor feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. The Gallery is committed to presenting exhibitions that engage, inform and excite audiences, and in the coming year we look forward to presenting a major community engagement project with acclaimed Philippine artists, Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, and an important survey exhibition of Fred Williams Wieipa series, on loan from public and private collections around Australia. I would like to wish you all a very special and happy festive season and I hope that you will enjoy all that the Gallery has to offer over the coming year. Andrea May Churcher Director
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ARTNOW FNQ ARTNOW FNQ is the Gallery’s premier showcase of exciting new works by established and emerging contemporary artists from the region. Every two years the Gallery collaborates with a leading arts industry professional to select artists for the exhibition and works with these artists on the creation and selection of final works for the exhibition. This year we are delighted that Alexie GlassKantor, Executive Director of Artspace, Sydney, has accepted the Gallery’s invitation to select artists for inclusion in ARTNOW FNQ, and to identify works for possible acquisition by the Gallery for the Permanent Collection.
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In 2017, the Gallery has worked with twenty-eight artists who are represented in the exhibition: Vernon Ah Kee Vincent Babia Andrew Bonneau Gertrude Davis Andrea Huelin Heather Koowootha Grace Lillian Lee Michael Marzik Danie Mellor Rosella Namok Julie Poulsen Francesca Rosa Bernard Lee Singleton Ian Waldron
Michael Anning Paul Bong Shannon Brett Jeanie Holroyd Elizabeth Hunter Serena Kuring Glen Mackie Arone Meeks Mark Misic Daniel O’Shane Rose Rigley Yixuan Ruan Kristin Tennyson Delissa Walker
IMAGE Gertrude Davis Ngaliinh wawu nguthangutha diigal - Arnya I (old ways will free our soul - spirit) 2017 digital photography 151 x 112 cm Courtesty of the artist
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VERNON AH KEE PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER Vernon Ah Kee is a nationally and internationally renowned artist who was born in Innisfail, south of Cairns, in 1967. This year he returned to Cairns to complete a commissioned portrait for the Gallery’s Permanent Collection, Merv Ah Kee (my father).
The commissioned portrait depicts his father gazing out of the drawing, directly at the viewer. Working from photographs of his father, it was a sometimes painful “labour of love” which Ah Kee shared with his mother who often sat with him in the studio, observing her son at work.
Ah Kee is a member of the Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Yidinji and Gugu Yimithirr peoples and is a passionate advocate for First Nations’ peoples and issues relating to race, colour and politics.
The commissioned work is now on display for the first time, together with two portraits of the artist’s son.
Ah Kee spent his childhood in Innisfail and teenage years in Cairns, before moving to Brisbane to complete his Bachelor of Visual Arts and then Doctorate in Visual Arts at the Queensland College of Art. His father Merv, who tragically died in a car accident in 2014, and his mother Margaret, were both passionate advocates for Indigenous rights and education. In 2004 Ah Kee became a founding member of proppaNOW, a collective of Aboriginal artists in Brisbane to give urban-based Aboriginal artists a voice.
IMAGE Vernon Ah Kee Merv Ah kee (my father) 2017 charcoal, pastel, acrylic on linen 180 x 240 cm Cairns Art Gallery Collection Commissioned by Cairns Art Gallery 2017
While in Cairns, Ah Kee worked from a studio space provided by the TAFE Queensland North and gave a free public talk about his work in August that was recorded by James Cook University and is now available on the Gallery’s web site.
» EXHIBITION OPENING EVENT with Vernon Ah Kee, artist Friday 9 February 2018, 6.00pm
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VERA SCARTH-JOHNSON WILD FLOWER
Wild Flower is a delightful exhibition that brings together more than fifty of Vera Scarth-Johnson’s exquisitely detailed paintings and sketches of the plants and flowers found in the area surrounding Cooktown in Cape York, Far North Queensland. This is the first time that many of these works, together with personal photographs and fascinating correspondence with leading botanists and herbariums across the globe, have been seen outside Nature’s Powerhouse Gallery, Cooktown. Scarth-Johnson (1912 – 1999) was an avid adventurer who combined her shared love of art and the environment to produce beautiful botanical illustrations that are remarkable for their design, composition, use of colour, technical accuracy and attention to detail. Leaving her home in Morley, England, Scarth-Johnson studied horticulture at Hertfordshire Institute of Agriculture, and drawing at the Leeds College of Art in the UK. Shortly after World War II, Scarth-Johnson undertook extensive travels to Paris, Africa and India before migrating to Australia, where she was one of the first women in Queensland to be granted a licence to grow sugarcane in Queensland and for the next twenty or more years she extended her agricultural prowess to the successful farming of tobacco and tomatoes in the Wide Bay district. During this time, Scarth-
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Johnson continued her passion for art and flora, collecting and documenting plants locally and during travels to the Pacific Islands. She also established enduring connections with overseas herbariums and botanical gardens including the Royal Botanic Garden in Kew. In 1972 she moved to Cooktown and it was here that she began her life’s work, collecting and painting more than one hundred and fifty native plant species. During her expeditions, local Indigenous Elders helped her record plant names in the local Guugu Yimithirr language and explained the properties, uses and related stories about the plants that had so fascinated early botanists, including Joseph Banks and Sidney Parkinson. In 1990 Scarth-Johnson gifted her extensive collection of botanical illustrations of the Endeavour River region to the people of Cooktown, and in 1996 she was awarded an Order of Australia.
Wild Flower traces the journey of passion and dedication of a remarkable woman whose enduring legacy comes to life through her boldly coloured paintings of the remarkable flora of the Endeavour River and Cooktown environs. A Cairns Art Gallery exhibition, supported by Vera Scarth-Johnson Gallery Association Inc.
IMAGE Vera Scarth-Johnson Passiflora aurantia n.d. watercolour on paper Vera Scarth-Johnson Collection Nature’s Powerhouse, Cooktown
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22 DECEMBER 2017 - 11 FEBRUARY 2018
STORY WATERS Story Waters brings together more than sixty works from the Gallery’s Permanent Collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art that have been acquired since the Gallery opened in 1995. One of the strengths of the Collection is its holding of Indigenous art and craft from Far North Queensland. Each of the works selected for this exhibition explores different themes and narratives about the ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples holistically value the historical, mythological and cultural significance of the ocean. They tell stories of survival and spiritual connection with the land, sea and sky. Water is a life force that is implicitly embedded in their culture, society, sense of place and identity, well being and economy. More than twenty artists are represented in the exhibition, including Billy Missi (dec.), Justin Majid, Laurie Nona, Dennis Nona, Alick Tipoti, Brian Robinson, Rosella Namok, Ken Thaiday Snr, Silas Hobson, and Segar Passi.
From artists now famous for their early printmaking in the 1990s, through to more recent ghost net sculptures, masks, headdresses and paintings, the works explore ways in which water informs traditional legends, spirit stories, totems and cultural lore, as well as the cyclic importance of seasons for hunting and gathering sea life and timing for journeying and travel. A number of works in the Collection and now included in Story Waters have been loaned to major exhibitions around Australia, including Ken Thaiday’s remarkable sculpture Beizam that was included in the 2016 Biennale of Sydney.
Story Waters is a remarkable testament to the breadth and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists of Far North Queensland.
» CURATOR’S TALK with Teho Ropeyarn, Cairns Art Gallery Curator Saturday 3 February, 2.00pm
IMAGE Rosella Namok Talipata 1997 woodblock print 47 x 30 cm Cairns Art Gallery Collection
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16 FEBRUARY - 22 APRIL 2018
DEL KATHRYN BARTON THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE Del Kathryn Barton is a nationally recognised artist who won the coveted Archibald Prize for portraiture in 2008 and 2013, and her world of art is filled with fantasy, movement and light, deep colour and rich texture.
Del Kathryn Barton: The Nightingale and the Rose brings together a hauntingly beautiful collaboration between Del Kathryn Barton, celebrated director Brendan Fletcher, and awardwinning visual effects house Method Studios. The exhibition traces the interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s 19th century classic, The Nightingale and the Rose, through a sophisticated artistic lens. An extraordinary example of multidisciplinary partnerships across the creative arts, Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose has its genesis in a commission by Art And Foundation (formerly Art & Australia), who asked Del Kathryn Barton in 2010 to reimagine a timeless fairy tale. Layered with a stirring musical score by Sarah Blasko, and voiced by some of Australia’s most celebrated actors, including Mia Wasikowska, Geoffrey Rush and David Wenham, the film is an intense but remarkably ethereal gesture to the tragic earnestness of Oscar Wild’s tale.
IMAGE Del Kathryn Barton And the tears were not yet dry in his beautiful eyes (detaIl) 2011-12 acrylic, gouache, watercolour and ink on polyester canvas Courtesy of Michael W. 11
The animated film Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose, premiered at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in 2015 and was shown at the 2015 Melbourne International Film Festival. The movie won the Film Victoria Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film. This nationally touring exhibition includes a selection of Del Kathryn Barton’s evocative artworks, including never-before-seen handmade props, alongside material from the production archives and a screening of the short film, Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose. Together, works in the exhibition curated by ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), Melbourne, reveal the extraordinary workings behind this captivating animated picture. An ACMI touring exhibition. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program.
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IMAGE Fred Williams Weipa I gouache on paper 57.6 x 76.4 cm Collection: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Purchased from Gallery admission charges 1983 Š Estate of Fred Williams
2 MARCH - 1 JULY 2018
FRED WILLIAMS WEIPA SERIES
A highlight of the Gallery’s 2018 program is an exhibition of gouache paintings by Fred Williams drawn from major Australian private and public collections. This exhibition brings together the famous Weipa series and includes five gouache paintings in the Gallery’s own Collection. Fred Williams (1927-82) is one of Australia’s most respected and influential twentieth-century artists. He is best known for his distinctive depictions of the Australian landscape, where the horizon line is removed to create a seamless melding of the sky and land, and elements of the countryside are reduced to simple image markings on a flat plane of striated colour. Williams travelled to Queensland in mid-1971 and 1973. The experience expanded his colour palette to include the rich purples and greens of the exotic rain forests and tropical vegetation of the region. In 1977 Williams made his first light plane flight, travelling to Weipa on the west coast of Cape York, Queensland. For the first time he saw the vastness of the Australian landscape from an aerial perspective. This experience had a profound effect on Williams and led to the creation of what many still consider his finest works – the Weipa series.
The Weipa works fall into two main categories, those of the landscape, where the tropical vegetation meets the shoreline, and closer, more intimate studies of specific types of vegetation. In the same year that Williams flew to Weipa he became the first Australian artist to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1980 works from the Weipa series were exhibited in Paris, captivating audiences and taking Australian landscape painting by late 19th-century impressionist artists to a new level of modernity and abstraction.
» EXHIBITION OPENING EVENT with Dr Deborah Hart, Senior Curator Australian Painting and Sculpture post-1920, National Gallery of Austalia, Canberra Friday 9 March 2018, 6.30pm
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3 MARCH - 29 APRIL 2018
ISABEL AND ALFREDO AQUILIZAN PROJECT ANOTHER COUNTRY:PASSAGE Dynamic husband and wife team, Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, emigrated from the Philippines to Australia in 2006. Over many years they have created complex installations, working with communities around the world to create works that explore narratives of displacement, change, memory and community. These large-scale installations often reflect their own migratory experiences, while conveying points of exchange and communication that extend beyond borders. Over the past year, the Aquilizans have been engaged by the Cairns Art Gallery to work with local community groups to create an installation of handmade boats from recycled cardboard boxes to explore concepts of journeying to a new home and issues surrounding migration and resettlement. The project has involved more than eight hundred participants from local community groups, including the PNG, Samoan, Philippine, Chinese and Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal communities of Cairns who have participated in a series of workshops run by Kylie Burke in collaboration with the artists. Once complete, the installation will comprise more than three hundred handmade boats and handwritten stories to explain memories of travel, migration, displacement and sense of place.
IMAGE Project Another Country installation works in process image: Michael Marzik
The visually stunning installation takes the viewer on an underwater voyage of discovery, where periscopes, lights and reflections bring the flotilla of tiny craft to life and inspire viewers to make their own boats during the exhibition using materials supplied by the Gallery. On the first weekend of March families and friends are invited to participate in a weekend of free activities and workshops that relate to the Aquilizan’s extraordinarily detailed and compelling installation at the Gallery.
» ARTIST WORKSHOPS Saturday 3 March 2018 Sunday 4 March 2018
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IMAGE Emily Murray, Theresa Beeron, Ninney Murray Group of 3 Bagu ceramic and Lawyer cane various sizes Courtesy of Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre
2 MARCH - 15 APRIL 2018
MANGGAN
GATHER, GATHERS, GATHERING Manggan – gather, gathers, gathering is a captivating exhibition of works by artists from the Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre, which is located in Cardwell, Far North Queensland. The Centre represents artists from nine Traditional Owner groups - the Nywaigi, Gugu Badhun, Warrgamay, Warungnu, Bandjin, Girramay, Gulnay, Jirrbal and Djiru people. Their traditional country covers more than twenty-five thousand square kilometres, from north of Townsville, south-west to Clarke River, north to the Mission Beach area, west to Ravenshoe and east to include Hinchinbrook and the Family Group Islands. Emerging from the rainforest canopy and a culture spanning countless generations, Girringun artists are transforming traditional stories into visual images and designs using a variety of media including weaving, painting, ceramics, textiles and carving. A continuing close connection to place, law and culture provides inspiration for their work, which embraces traditional and contemporary concepts and techniques.
The exhibition includes ceramics, weaving, photographs and film, alongside cultural material loaned from the South Australian Museum. Girringun artists are renowned weavers and are recognised for their skill in creating bicornual baskets (Jawun) – a style of basket weaving that is unique to the Aboriginal rainforest groups in the wet tropics area of Far North Queensland. As white settlement and agricultural practices began to encroach on traditional country from the latter part of the 19th century, access to raw materials such as Lawyer cane used for weaving the Jawun, and timber for the Bigin (rainforest shield), became increasingly difficult to access and is now a real issue. Nevertheless, Traditional Owners have managed to maintain their weaving and tool-making practices so far, but contemporary living has significantly impacted the interest and usage. That is why exhibitions of this nature are so important and provide an opportunity for locals and visitors alike to learn about the diversity and ingenuity of this amazing culture in our own backyard.
Manggan – gather, gathers, gathering is a travelling exhibition in partnership between Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre, the South Australian Museum, and toured by Museums & Galleries Queensland. This exhibition is supported by the Visions regional touring program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to cultural material for all Australians. It is supported through the Australian Government’s Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support program and the Queensland Government; and proudly sponsored by Conrad Gargett, Urban Art Projects and TED.
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» CAIRNS ART SOCIETY 70TH ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION 2017 This a very special milestone in theinhistory of the Cairns This year yearmarks marks a very special milestone the history of Art as it is celebrating anniversary. Over theSociety Cairns(CAS) Art Society (CAS) as itits is seventieth celebrating its seventieth the years, CASOver has provided support opportunities anniversary. the years, CAS and has development provided support and to individual practising artists across the North Queensland region. development opportunities to individual practising artists across Each year CAS presents a region. selected exhibition of Members Members’ works works at at the the the North Queensland Cairns Art Gallery. This year the opening of the exhibition will be a gala Each year CAS presents a selected exhibition of Members’ works event, with a number of special artists’ awards announced on the night.
at the Cairns Art Gallery. This year the special artists’ awards announced on the night included The Mayoral Council Award, The Warren Entsch Leichhardt award, The Keys Real Estate award, The Cairns Create It award and Cairns Art Society awards.
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GALLERY FOUNDATION On 20 October we were delighted to host an exclusive Foundation meet and greet with internationally acclaimed artist, Danie Mellor. Danie has been commissioned by the Gallery to create a major work for the Collection that is informed by his cultural connection to the Atherton Tablelands on his mother’s side. The event brought together many new and existing Foundation Members who have supported and continue to support the Annual Giving Campaign to raise funds for the commisioned Danie Mellor work that will be exhibited with related works at the Gallery in May 2018. Also in May, the Foundation will hold its annual gala fundraising dinner at the Hilton Hotel. As in previous years, there will be a very special visiting guest speaker (or two) and we look forward to sharing details of the dinner with you over the coming months.
In the meantime, our target for the Annual Giving Campaign is still to be reached, and I would like to encourage everyone to consider making a taxdeductible donation towards Danie Mellor’s work, which can be made on line www.cairnsartgallery. com.au/support/foundation/donate On behalf of the Board of the Foundation, thank you everyone for your support this year and I wish you a very happy and joyous festive season and New Year. Lea Ovaska Chair, Cairns Art Gallery Foundation
» FOUNDATION MEMBER EVENT Exclusive Foundation event walk through of the Fred Williams exhibition with Lyn Williams Friday 9 March 5.30pm for 6pm
GALLERY MEMBERSHIP We are thrilled to announce a new Cairns Art Gallery Membership Program partner – Mantra Hotels. As an exclusive offer to Members, Mantra is offering a 10% discount on all Mantra properties between Cairns and Port Douglas, which includes:
Complimentary parking is provided as part of this special offer, including at the Mantra Esplanade, which is located next to the Gallery. To make your online booking please contact the Gallery Shop for your exclusive reference code.
Mantra Esplanade Mantra Trilogy Mantra Amphora Mantra on the Inlet Mantra in the Village Mantra Heritage Mantra Portsea Mantra Aqueous
In the lead-up to Christmas, be sure to take advantage of your Member’s discount on all purchases from the Gallery Shop. Now is the time to discover the wonderful range of new and exclusive gifts including home wares, jewellery, ceramics, books, postcards, and children’s toys that have just arrived in time for Christmas.
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DICK ROUGHSEY
RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION Can you help?
The Gallery, in partnership with the Queensland Art Gallery|Gallery of Modern Art, is curating a major survey exhibition of the work of Dick Roughsey (Goobalathaldin) that will be exhibited in Cairns in late 2018, before touring to Brisbane in 2019. The Gallery is now asking for anyone with works by Dick or Lindsay Roughsey, or information about them, to contact us during the research phase of the exhibition. Dick Roughsey (c.1920-1985) had a strong connection with Cairns over many years and played a seminal role in transitioning traditional Aboriginal art from Mornington Island into a contemporary art practice. Dick and his brother Lindsay were from the Lardil tribe of Mornington Island and were brought up in the cultural traditions of ceremonial dance
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and body painting. His early paintings were on bark and depicted ceremonial body markings used in dance. In the 1960s he began working in acrylic on bark – a development that became known as Lardil bark painting. However, it was the subsequent transition of Dick’s paintings onto canvas that enabled him to establish his own unique approach to story telling and connection to place. If you can help with information or can assist in locating works by Dick or his brother Lindsay please contact Gallery Curator, Teho Ropeyarn: 4046 4800 or teho.r@cairnsartgallery.com.au
IMAGE Dick Roughsey Kennedy and Jacky midday rest 1983 acrylic on canvas 39 x 45 cm Cairns Art Gallery Collection 2014.03
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DIARY DATES
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SUPPORTED ART CLASS with Meiyin Ahnsuz
DROP IN WORKSHOP Project Another Country
13-20 SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS details page 25 - 26
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FINAL DAY CAIRNS ART SOCIETY 70TH ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION
25/26 GALLERY CLOSED Public Holidays
JANUARY 1
GALLERY CLOSED Public Holiday
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KIDS ART CLUB WITH HAYLEY GILLESPIE Aquarium excursion
8-18 SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS details page 25 - 26
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GALLERY CLOSED Public Holiday
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CREATIVE TODDLERS PROGRAM art class for ages 2 - 5 classes start SUPPORTED ART CLASS with Meiyin Ahnsuz
CURATOR’S TALK with Teho Ropeyarn, Cairns Art Gallery Curator YOUNG ARCHIES details page 28
BOTANICAL DRAWING with Julie McEnerny details page 28
ADULT ART CLASS MONDAYS with Craig Hoy details page 28 LEVEL 2 ART CLASS art class for ages 8 - 11 Saturday classes start FINAL DAY STORY WATERS
LEVEL 3 ART CLASS art class for ages 11 - 16 Monday classes start
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LEVEL 3 ART CLASS art class for ages 11 - 16 Thursday classes start
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LEVEL 2 ART CLASS art class for ages 8 - 11 Friday classes start
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KEWARRA BEACH ART CLASS art class for ages 6 - 12 Thursday classes start
SUPPORTED ART CLASS with Meiyin Ahnsuz FINAL DAY ARTNOW FNQ
FINAL DAY VERNON AH KEE: PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER
FINAL DAY VERA SCARTH-JOHNSON: WILD FLOWER
ADULT ART CLASS SUNDAYS with Adrienne Shaw details page 28
LEVEL 1 ART CLASS art class for ages 5 - 7 Tuesday classes start
LEVEL 2 ART CLASS art class for ages 8 - 11 Wednesday classes start
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»SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL WWW.CAIRNSARTGALLERY.COM.AU
* CHILDREN UNDER 6 YEARS OF AGE MUST BE WITH AN ADULT GUARDIAN
WEDNESDAY 13 DECEMBER
PRINTMAKING WITH BRITTANY SCOTNEY, ART TEACHER
Ages 5 – 8 years* | 10.00 – 11.30am Cost $14 ($18 non-members) This workshop will teach children to sketch and carve a printmaking plate or ‘stamp’ using special, easy-to-use foam to depict a favourite aspect of their holiday. CREATING PICTURES WITH WOOL Ages 8 – 12 years | 1.00 – 3.00pm Cost $16 ($19 non-members) This workshop will provide children with the opportunity to create an image of their idea of a great holiday, working with wool on canvas board to explore ways of creating shapes, patterns, textures and tones.
THURSDAY 14 DECEMBER
REINDEER SCULPTURE WITH ADRIENNE SHAW, ARTIST
Ages 4 – 7 years | 10.00 – 11.30am Cost $14 ($18 non-members) OR Ages 8 - 12 years | 1.00 - 3.00 Cost $ 17 ($21 non-members) Designed for children to have some serious Christmas fun as they create their own reindeer wall sculpture. All that is required is an unlimited imagination. Warning! This activity comes with a serious cute factor.
FRIDAY 15 DECEMBER
METAL EMBOSSING WITH MEIYIN AHNSUZ, ARTIST Ages 4 – 7 years* | 10.00 – 11.30am Cost $14 ($18 non-members) Embossing is fun! Working with safe tools children will emboss cut-out shapes, or design their own to create a Christmas decoration or room hanging. Ages 8 – 12 years | 1.00 – 3.00pm Cost $17 ($21 non-members) Older children will learn how to create 3-dimensional embossed objects such as a sphere, and then apply these techniques and their imagination to make more complex forms such as a beetle, bird or butterfly.
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MONDAY 18 DECEMBER
BOTANICAL SCULPTURE WITH HEDY VERHULST, ARTIST Ages 5 – 7 years* | 10.00 – 11.30am Cost $14 ($18 non-members) OR Ages 8 – 12 years | 1.00 – 3.00pm Cost $17 ($21 non-members) Vera Scarth-Johnson’s exhibition Wild Flower will provide the inspiration for children to create their own imaginary wild flower or plant, and give it a unique botanical name. Children will use paper, cardboard and tape to build up a sculptural structure on a solid plaster base and finish it off using vibrant, colourful paints to give it a magical touch.
TUESDAY 19 DECEMBER
PRINTMAKING WITH GLEN MACKIE, ARTIST Ages 8 – 12 years | 9.30am -2.00pm Cost $25 ($28 non-members) Glen will take children into the ARTNOW FNQ exhibition to talk about his work in the exhibition, before teaching basic printmaking techniques. This is a great opportunity for children to learn the basics of printmaking and the story behind an artwork from a successful and accomplished Indigenous printmaker.
WEDNESDAY 20 DECEMBER
ORGANIC SCULPTURAL PAPER LANTERNS WITH KYLIE BURKE, ARTIST Ages 5 – 8 years | 10.00 – 11.30am Cost $14 ($18 non-members) OR Ages 9 – 13 years | 1.00 – 3.00pm Cost $17 ($21 non-members) In this class participants will design and construct a free-standing skeletal form using sticks and twigs. Using tissue paper to cover the form, dried flowers and natural materials can be incorporated and the structure further decorated using paper collage techniques. A small LED light can be used to illuminate each work.
MONDAY 8 JANUARY
ARTICULATED 2D UNDERWATER CREATURES WITH KYLIE BURKE, ARTIST Ages 5 – 8 years | 10.00 – 11.30am Cost $14 ($18 non-members) OR Ages 9 – 13 years | 1.00 – 3.00pm Cost $17 ($21 non-members) Inspired by the deep, dark depths of the ocean, participants will design and create their own imaginary two-dimensional sea creature, complete with movable appendages.
TUESDAY 9 JANUARY
LEARN FROM OLD MASTER DRAWINGS WITH ANDREW BONNEAU, ARTIST Ages 9 – 16 years 10.00am – 3.00pm (30 minute lunch break) Cost $25 ($28 non-members) Copying the works of master artists has long been a method of teaching art. In this class, students will use pencil drawing to make accurate copies of Old Master works and learn about human anatomy, scale and proportion, and the use of light and shade. Students should bring lunch and a drink to this workshop.
WEDNESDAY 10 JANUARY
DRAWN FROM MEMORY WITH YIXUAN RUAN, ARTIST Ages 5 – 8 years* | 10.00 – 12.00am Cost $14 ($18 non-members) OR Ages 8 – 12 years | 1.00 – 3.30pm Cost $17 ($21 non-members) Observing buttress tree roots on the Esplanade, together with inspiration drawn from Gallery exhibitions (including Yixy’s own artwork), participants will draw and paint a “Tree of Souls” from memory.
THURSDAY 11 JANUARY
SEA MONSTERS WITH ADRIENNE SHAW, ARTIST Ages 5 – 8 years* | 10.00 – 11.30am Cost $14 ($18 non-members) OR Ages 8 – 12 years | 1.00 – 3.00pm Cost $17 ($21 non-members) Using recycled materials, children have the opportunity to dive into the depths of their imagination to design and construct wacky, freaky or downright scary sea monsters from scratch.
FRIDAY 12 JANUARY
WOOD BLOCK PRINTMAKING WITH MEIYIN AHNSUZ, ARTIST & DISABILITY ARTS’ FACILITATOR Ages 6 – 9 years | 10.00am – 12.00pm Cost $20 ($23 non-members) Discover a fun and safe way to prepare a wood block using images from the Storywaters exhibition. Children will then print their favourite design on special paper to create an artwork that is suitable for framing. OR Ages 10 - 15 years | 1.00 – 3.30pm Cost $25 ($28 non-members) Participants will use traditional and experimental techniques to carve a wood block with images. The Gallery’s exhibitions can inspire images or participants can create their own designs before choosing a design to be printed to take home.
MONDAY 15 JANUARY
RAINFOREST PAINTING WITH JIM REA, ART TEACHER Cost $25 ($28 non-members) | Ages 9-15 years* 10.00am – 3.00pm (with 30 minute lunch break) This workshop will teach students how to develop a painting from a simple sketch. Basic techniques of under-painting and layering, along with the more refined skills of scumbling, glazing and detailing, will be used to create a painting. Students should bring lunch and a drink to this workshop.
TUESDAY 16 JANUARY
ORIGAMI WITH ADRIENNE SHAW, ARTIST & TEACHER Ages 4 – 7 years* | 10.00 – 11.30am Cost $14 ($17 non-members) OR Ages 8 – 15 years | 1.00 – 3.00pm Cost $17 ($21 non-members) This workshop offers children the fun and magic of transforming a flat piece of paper into a threedimensional object. The workshop will be structured for beginners and for those who have some basic origami knowledge. Not only will the children get a real sense of satisfaction out of making these fun origami models, but they will be getting practice at following instructions, increasing their manual dexterity, and producing a fun and decorative end-product.
WEDNESDAY 17 JANUARY
CHINESE MASK PAINTING WITH YIXUAN RUAN, ARTIST Ages 5 – 8 years* | 10.00 – 11.30am Cost $14 ($18 non-members) OR Ages 8 – 12 years | 1.00 – 3.00pm Cost $17 ($21 non-members) Chinese New Year is coming!!! Children will paint their own Beijing Opera Mask and Yixy will explain the characters behind the masks, and the secret meaning of the colours used in them.
THURSDAY 18 JANUARY
FLYING BIRD SCULPTURE WITH HEDY VERHULST, ARTIST Ages 5 – 7 years* | 10.00 – 11.30am Cost $14 ($18 non-members) OR Ages 8 – 12 years | 1.00 – 3.00pm Cost $17 ($21 non-members) Children will create a large three-dimensional birdhanging using cardboard and interesting bits and pieces that could have been collected by a Magpie. Each flying bird sculpture will be decorated with bright paint, textured paper and colourful feathers. 26
»CLASSES & WORKSHOPS CREATIVE TODDLERS PROGRAM WITH AUNTY SUE
2 – 5 years with parent or carer Thursdays 10.30 – 11.15am 1, 8, 15, 22 February, 1, 8, 15, 22 March Cost per term $75 ($85 non-members) This program is an early introduction to art and the Gallery for the very young. Children will experience a variety of activities relating to the exhibitions, including creative art making, or self-expression through dance and music. Aunty Sue Mudge, retired primary school teacher and Gallery volunteer, will be a familiar face for the children during each class.
GALLERY ART SCHOOL VISUAL ARTS ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS
The GALLERY ART SCHOOL offers visual arts enrichment programs that are designed for school-aged children, from early primary school right through to college.
LEVEL 1
5 - 7 years (parent/carer optional) Cost $60 ($70 non-members) Tuesdays 3.45 - 4.45pm 13, 20, 27 February, 6, 13, 20 March Level 1 Class is a six-week program 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 to complement what they study at school.
LEVEL 2
8 - 11 years | Cost $200 ($230 non-members) Wednesdays 3.30 – 5.00pm Term 1: 14, 21, 28 February, 7, 14, 21 March Term 2: 16, 23, 30 May, 6, 13, 20 June Fridays 3.30 – 5.00pm Term 1: 16, 23 February, 2, 9, 16, 23 March Term 2: 18, 25 May, 1, 8, 15, 22 June Saturdays 10.00 - 11.30am Term 1: 10, 17, 24 February, 10, 17, 24 March Term 2: 19, 26 May, 2, 9, 16, 23 June Level 2 Class is designed to challenge children with an interest in visual arts. Practicing artists will share their core areas of expertise with the children, while teaching fundamental art skills such as composition, line, tone, colour, shape and form through structured activities. The level 2 focus is on extending abilities while retaining free-flowing creative expression.
LEVEL 3
11 - 16 years | Cost $220 ($240 non-members) Mondays 3.30 – 5.00pm Term 1: 12, 19, 26 February, 5, 12, 19 March Term 2: 14, 21, 28 May, 4, 11, 18 June Thursdays 3.30 – 5.00pm Term 1: 15, 22 February, 1, 8, 15, 22 March Term 2: 17, 24, 31 May, 7, 14, 21 June Level 3 Class is for students who take creating artwork and art classes seriously. This program may assist students who require a folio of work for application to high school art excellence programs. Participants will further their skills in drawing and painting as well as working in other media.
KIDS FINE ART CLASSES @ KEWARRA BEACH WITH ADRIENNE SHAW, ARTIST
6 - 12 years | Cost $200 ($230 non-members) Thursdays 3.30 – 5.00pm Term 1: 15, 22 February, 1, 8, 15, 22 March Term 2: 17, 24, 31 May, 7, 14, 21 June This outreach program is specifically designed to guide participants through a range of formal art techniques and media, including drawing, painting and sculpture to build up their skills. Each child will be encouraged to work at their own level of ability.
GALLERY KIDS ART CLUB WITH HAYLEY GILLESPIE
HOLIDAY EXCURSION TO CAIRNS AQUARIUM 8 – 12 YEARS Friday 19 January, 10.00am – 12.00pm Cost: $22 ($25 non-member) This special Kids Art Club session promises to be a real highlight of the school holidays. The excursion to the Cairns Aquarium with Hayley Gillespie combines learning about sea creatures and looking at them through the eyes of an artist.
GALLERY KIDS ART CLUB WITH HAYLEY GILLESPIE Saturdays 10.00am – 12.00pm Block 1: 3 March, 7 April, 5 May Cost per three-month block $24 ($30 non-members) Our special club for children aged 8 – 12 years is all about creative experiences and activities with ART as the focus, with a fun program designed by artist Hayley Gillespie. Kids are introduced to new ways of looking at, talking and thinking about art, craft and design. Some sessions involve individual or collective art making, in which case materials will be provided. Art Club sessions are held at the Gallery or other inner city locations and parents are asked to take kids to and from pre-arranged locations if required.
GALLERY YOUNG CREATIVES CLUB WITH HAYLEY GILLESPIE
AGES 13 - 17 YEARS Saturdays 3.30 – 5.30pm 3 March, 7 April, 5 May, 2 June, 7 July, 4 August, 1 September, 6 October, 3 November Cost for 2018 membership $90 ($115 non-members) The Young Creatives is a new club with meetings held once a month, each for two-hours. Art related activities and discussions will be facilitated by artist Hayley Gillespie and the club is a great way to work on and share artistic projects and hang out with like-minded students while learning about contemporary art, design, multi-media, photography and music. Basic art materials are provided however a small contribution may be required for specific projects and activities. Sessions are held at the Gallery or locations in the city, in which case parents are asked to facilitate transport for their teens.
PREPARING FOR THE YOUNG ARCHIES COMPETITION WITH ADRIENNE SHAW, ARTIST AND TEACHER
7 – 14 YEARS Saturdays: 3, 10, 17, 24 February, 1.00 – 3.00pm Cost $100 ($120 non-members) The Young Archies competition, organised by the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), invites budding artists from around Australia aged between 5 and 18 years to submit a portrait on paper to this annual prize exhibition. Launched in 2013, The Young Archies is judged by the Gallery’s community engagement manager and a guest judge. All finalists are displayed online and at the AGNSW during the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize exhibitions. The Cairns Art Gallery is offering a series of four two-hour sessions for children who want to enter the competition. In these sessions Adrienne will give a brief overview of the history of the Archibald Prize followed by a structured program in which each participant will receive individual guidance and technical support as they complete their entry work. Participants may submit one work that the Gallery will send to the AGNSW before entries close on 11 March 2018. Class numbers will be limited to a maximum of 10 participants aged between 7 and 14 years. All art materials and the cost of postage are included.
ADULT SUPPORTED ART WORKSHOPS
Meiyin Ahnsuz is an experienced arts facilitator in the disabilities sector. Her workshops for adults with specific needs explore creativity through making art. Meiyin will offer encouragement and support to help each participant reach their creative goal. These workshops also suit participants who want to enjoy creative activities in a relaxed environment and a
social gathering with people of all abilities. Morning tea and materials are provided.
FESTIVE DECORATIONS Friday 8 December, 9.30am – 12.00pm Cost $25
TACTILE TEXTILE Fridays: 2 February, 2 March, Thursday 29 March CERAMICS Fridays: 16 February, 16 March, 20 April Cost $25 per session ($65 for three sessions)
ADULT DRAWING & PAINTING ART CLASS SUNDAYS WITH ADRIENNE SHAW, ARTIST
SUNDAYS 10.30am - 12.30pm (10 WEEK ART COURSE) Term 1: 25 February, 4, 11, 18, 25 March Term 2: 22, 29 April, 6, 13, 20 May Cost $220 ($240 non-members) This popular program is suitable for beginners and those with some experience who wish to revisit their knowledge of the fundamental principles in drawing, painting and colour theory. Students will be guided tto develop drawing skills and confidence in painting, and will learn about materials and techniques while being encouraged to explore and work with paint in new and different ways.
ADULT BOTANICAL DRAWING & PAINTING WITH JULIE MCENERNY, ARTIST MONDAYS: 5.30 – 7.30pm (4-WEEK ART COURSE) 5, 12, 19, 26 February Cost $120 ($140 non-members)
Be inspired by the exquisite botanical drawings and paintings in the Vera Scarth-Johnson exhibition Wild Flower. Participants will sketch works in the exhibition space before developing one of their drawings into a painting using watercolour pencils. All skill levels are welcome and this is a great opportunity for Julie’s regular students to further develop their botanical painting skills by working from a different source.
ADULT ART CLASS MONDAYS WITH CRAIG HOY, ARTIST/TEACHER
TERM 1: INTERPRETING THE LANDSCAPE MONDAYS 5.15 - 7.15pm (4-WEEK ART COURSE) 5, 12, 19, 26 March Cost $120 ($140 members) In 2018 Craig Hoy will deliver a number of short courses with a different focus. During the first course participants will study works by Fred Williams in the Gallery. Williams is renowned for his unique way of depicting Australian landscapes. Working in a supportive atmosphere, participants will be encouraged by Craig to explore creative interpretations of the landscape, while developing new skills and exploring practical techniques of working with mixed media. 28
In December, a new initiative of the Galley is to expand the Shop range to include original paintings, prints and drawings on paper by local artists from Far North Queensland. These focussed displays will feature individual artists and will regularly change throughout the year. The Gallery is committed to working with local artists to extend their art practice in new directions. The new works on paper initiative encourages artists to explore new subject matter and materials that can be exhibited and purchased as exclusive items through the Gallery shop. The first focussed display will present paintings on paper by Maljah Cathy Snow who is of Gkuthaarn descent and grew up on Magowra Station in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Snow was raised in the traditional ways by her mother, and her works celebrate the flora and fauna of her country. Snow’s beautiful works portray the various types of lilies found in the wetlands on her country, the potato lily bulbs, seed lilies, bush bananas and cucumbers, all of which were gathered for food and medicinal purposes. Snow’s works recently featured in the Going Out: Native Food, Plants and Flowers exhibition at the Gallery. Joyful, colourful, and affordably priced, Snow’s original paintings on paper will be on display throughout Christmas and the New Year and can be purchased through the Gallery Shop.
Cathy Snow Wild Cucumbers 2017 acrylic on 300gsm paper 76 x 56 cm Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Michael Marzik
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