Cairns Art Gallery Members Magazine #82 by CAIRNS ART GALLERY

DEC 2020FEB 2021

members newsletter no. 82

CAIRNS ART GALLERY

DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD

During 2020 we have all had reason to stop and reflect on the extraordinary unfolding of events occasioned by COVID-19. We have learned qualities of resilience, and responsiveness, and how to accept what we cannot change. At the Gallery we were disappointed that our 25th birthday celebrations could not continue as planned, but we were thrilled to be able to extend Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series exhibition upon reopening. We would like to thank the many enthusiastic visitors who expressed their appreciation and support of the Gallery through donations and Gallery memberships. I warmly commend and thank the Gallery Board Directors, staff, volunteers, and Gallery members for their support during the year that has made it possible to plan for an exciting year ahead.

IMAGE FRONT & BACK COVER Buhlebezwe SIWANI Born Johannesburg, South Africa 1987 iSana libuyele kunina (detail) 2015 C-print 74 x 112 cm Courtesy of the artist and WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

IMAGE ABOVE Claudia MOODOONUTHI Burkunda (body marks) 2018 custom-printed linen Commissioned by Cairns Regional Gallery, 2015

Highlights of the 2021 exhibition program begin with focused landscape exhibitions by some of Australia’s most esteemed artists, Ben Quilty, and Albert Namatjira and the Hermannsburg School. The program continues with the coveted and controversial award exhibition, the Archibald Prize. We are thrilled that the Cairns Art Gallery has been selected as the only Australian venue outside New South Wales to present this iconic exhibition.

In May we look forward to presenting the Gallery’s long-awaited Ritual exhibition that will showcase contemporary works by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from the region, including new commissioned works by Brian Robinson, Naomi Hobson, Joel Sam, Grace Lillian Lee, Simone Arnol and Bernard Singleton. Other 2021 highlights include the presentation of the first virtual reality exhibition in Cairns, Jess Johnson And Simon Ward: Terminus, and the highly anticipated flight of Patricia Piccinini’s Skywhale over the skies of Mareeba and Cairns, both on tour from the National Gallery of Australia. The Gallery is also proud to be presenting a major exhibition of William T Cooper that, for the first time, will be bring together his outstanding botanical works from the State Library of New South Wales, the National Library of Australia and private collections from across Australia. On behalf of all of us at the Gallery I wish you a safe and happy new year and we look forward to welcoming you to the exciting events and programs we have planned in 2021. Andrea May Churcher Director 2

CLOSING SOON Cairns Art Gallery Collection exhibitions and International Screen Series exhibition closing soon. www.cairnsartgallery.com.au for more information.

Xapiri Motta & Lima

until 6 Dec 2020

Northern Landscapes six viewpoints

until 6 Dec 2020

Reimagining between tradition and innovation

until 10 Jan 2021

Segar PASSI A young Murray Island man in a mask 1990 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 38.5 x 49.5 cm (image) Gift of David Everist, 2019

11 DEC 2020 14 MAR 2021

BEN QUILTY THE ENTANGLED LANDSCAPE

11 DEC 2020 14 MAR 2021

BEN QUILTY THE ENTANGLED LANDSCAPE

19th century. Quilty’s painting depicts the peaceful landscape, which is then deconstructed to show the dark underbelly of the Australian psyche that is haunted by a colonial history of violence and displacement. Similarly, Kuta Rorschach No. 2 shows the popular Bali holiday destination that has become inextricably linked to the ‘Bali bombings’ of 2002. This terrorist attack claimed the lives of 202 people from 22 countries, including 88 Australians. The duplication and damage of the image echoes the disturbing and violent history this site may have witnessed and offers a commentary on the temptations faced by Australian tourists who frequently fail to see the consequences of their risk taking activities in this seductively exotic tourist destination. The Entangled Landscape is a rare opportunity to experience two major works by one of Australia’s most influential artists of the twenty-first century.

Ben Quilty is a masterful social commentator and narrator of extremes. He is internationally regarded as one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists and has won many of Australia’s most coveted art awards, including the Archibald Prize in 2011 and the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize in 2009.

This exhibition brings together two major works on loan to the Gallery - Fairy Bower Rorschach 2012 from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection, and Kuta Rorschach No. 2 2013 from the collection of the Bendigo Art Gallery.

Through his paintings, Quilty challenges relationships between the personal and the cultural. The tension in his work is accentuated through the choice of subject matter and his use of thickly applied, smeared and smudged impasto paint surfaces using the Rorschach method. The resulting works have a sense of unresolved urgency that leave the viewer with no place for ease or escape. The Rorschach method involves sandwiching one side of a painting onto another to produce an almost-mirror image. The style is based on

the inkblot test that was introduced by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach in the 1920s. Quilty chooses images of popular tourist destinations that have a darker history behind them, and, using the Rorschach method, he reworks them to create more sinister images to explore complex issues of Australian identity and history. Fairy Bower is a New South Wales tourist attraction, which is also thought to be the site of an horrific massacre of scores of Aboriginal people in the early

IMAGE PP 5-6 Ben QUILTY Fairy Bower Rorschach 2012 241 x 520 cm (overall) Purchased with funds provided by the Patrick White Bequest Fund, 2012 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Photographed by Mim Stirling IMAGE ABOVE Ben QUILTY Kuta Rorschach No 2 2013 oil on canvas 220 x 520 cm (overall) Bendigo Art Gallery Collection R H S Abbott Bequest Fund 2014 Courtesy of the artist and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

11 DEC 2020 – 14 MAR 2021

ALBERT NAMATJIRA AND THE HERMANNSBURG SCHOOL FROM THE COLLECTION OF LES FALLICK, SYDNEY

11 DEC 2020 – 14 MAR 2021

ALBERT NAMATJIRA AND THE HERMANNSBURG SCHOOL

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Australia witnessed the rise of an important and unprecedented modern art movement led by Central Australian Aboriginal artist, Albert Namatjira (1902-1959). The Hermannsburg School of Artists included a group of young Western Arrernte (Aranda) men who were inspired by the works of Namatjira and a desire to use watercolour painting to portray the beauty, whimsy and magical luminosity of an ancient landscape in Central Australia, 125 kilometres west of Alice Springs. The story of Namatjira was well documented during his lifetime through publications, the popular press and several films. He was born and raised at the Lutheran Mission of Hermannsburg (Ntaria) and like other Arrernte people he was regularly exposed to representational illustrations in the Bible and other religions icons in the church. When he viewed an exhibition of watercolour landscapes by visiting Victorian painters Rex Battarbee and John Gardner in 1934, he was already a competent figurative illustrator of tourist artefacts. He requested instruction in the watercolour technique from Battarbee when he returned to Hermannsburg in 1936. Namatjira quickly mastered the use of watercolours, and launched his extraordinary career in 1938 with a sell-out solo exhibition in Melbourne.

At the peak of his popularity and success in the 1950s, Namatjira was so well known he was arguably the most famous artist in Australia. His sons and other relatives were inspired to follow his example, founding what is known as the Hermannsburg School of watercolours. His influence extended across generations, and beyond the Ntaria region, to inspire numerous Aboriginal artists from all around Australia. Albert Namatjira and the Hermannsburg School features watercolour paintings by the generations succeeding the original Hermannsburg artists, including Enos Namatjira (the eldest son of Albert Namatjira), and other artists outside of the Arrernte people, including Peter Tjutjatja Taylor, Hilary Wirri, and Hubert Pareroultja, who won this year’s prestigious Art Gallery of NSW Wynne Prize for landscape painting. Together these works capture the ethereal beauty of the remote MacDonnell Ranges region, which is some of the most spectacular country in Australia. In his lifetime, Albert Namatjira enjoyed great success as an artist, but he also faced intractable problems as a celebrity who was limited by the restricted legal status of Aboriginal people during his lifetime. He died in 1959 at Hermannsburg but his legacy endures and continues to shape the history of Australian art. FROM THE COLLECTION OF LES FALLICK, SYDNEY

IMAGE P 9 Walter EBATARINJA Western Arranda (Arrernte) 1915-1968 Twin Gums & Crevice n.d. watercolour 44 x 36.5 cm Collection of Les Fallick, Sydney © Walter Ebataringa/Copyright Agency, 2020

IMAGE PP 11-12 Albert NAMATJIRA Western Arranda (Arrernte) 1902-1959 Haast’s Bluff n.d. watercolour 33 x 47 cm Collection of Les Fallick, Sydney © Namatjira Legacy Trust/Copyright Agency, 2020

IMAGE ABOVE Hubert PAREROULTJA Arrernte, Luritja 1952 Western MacDonnell Ranges, North of Jay Creek 2010 watercolour on board 48 x 65 cm Collection of Les Fallick, Sydney © Hubert Pareroultja/Copyright Agency, 2020

15 JAN – 14 MAR 2021

BUHLEBEZWE SIWANI DEDISA UBUMNYAMA (TURN THE DARKNESS AWAY) 15

BUHLEBEZWE SIWANI

15 JAN – 14 MAR 2021

DEDISA UBUMNYAMA (TURN THE DARKNESS AWAY)

Buhlebezwe Siwani was born in 1987 and lives and works between Amsterdam and Cape Town. Her art practice explores issues around intergenerational trauma experienced in contemporary South Africa. Siwani is also a sangoma (a traditional spiritual healer), which informs much of her art practice. She works predominantly in performance, sculpture and video installation to interrogate historical entanglements between African spirituality and Christian belief systems, and the patriarchal framing of the black female body and black female experience within a South African context. In her photographs iSana libuyele kunina, the artist stands in the middle of a street in Makhaza with a chicken in her hand, and is also seen walking away from a Pentecostal church with the chicken on her head. In this work the road becomes a metaphor for continuity, while the church represents discontinuity. Animals in sangoma practice represent ancestors or spiritual forces, and the chicken in her photographic series is significant. It is a substitute, and as such it would usually face death. However, in this instance, it is a device for thinking about death as a form of continuity. The photographs summarise a complex belief system of South African Indigenous

people, which is the result of introduced Christianity and colonialism. In Umntuntu, Siwani presents a mythology of some clans of the Xhosa (members of a Southern African people traditionally living in the province of Eastern Cape) who believe themselves to be born from natural bodies of water. Some of the film’s protagonists are dressed in traditional Xhosa attire whist others are wearing christian church gowns. The contrast in the clothing implies a shared intergenerational trauma and experience. Siwani’s three-channel video AmaHubo, is the isiZulu name for the Psalms in the Christian Bible. The video features a group of women dressed in white in an arid landscape performing rituals while the artist’s steady voice recites poetry in English and isiZulu that implores the listener to resist against violence and spiritual colonisation. The women are prophetesses who possess knowledge, make sacrifices, and traverse in-between spaces. They also represent a multiplicity of ‘selves’. Various scenes in the video reference rituals of Christianity and traditional faith in order to address the centrality of religion in the configuration of power and to draw attention to what processes of healing are needed in the postcolonial era.

IMAGE PP 15-16 Buhlebezwe SIWANI Born Johannesburg, South Africa 1987 Umntuntu 2018 single channel 4K digital video, sound 2:40 mins Courtesy of the artist and WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

IMAGE RIGHT Buhlebezwe SIWANI Born Johannesburg, South Africa 1987 AmaHubo 2018 three channel 4K digital video, sound 13:1 mins Courtesy of the artist and WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

UNTIL 31 JAN 2021

MADE/WORN AUSTRALIAN CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY

Made / Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery showcases some of the most innovative contemporary jewellery and body adornment being made in Australia today. All the works in the exhibition explore the act of making jewellery, from intimate pieces to largescale objects. The work of the twenty-two jewellers represented in the exhibition are designed to be worn - to adorn and embellish the body and to be a vehicle for personal expression. The works span a wide range of materials, techniques and meanings, and include designs that are playful, intricate, conceptual, personal and political.

GALLERY SHOP An exclusive range of jewellery is available in the Gallery Shop by selected artists from the exhibition.

On display with the exhibition is a film that features a number of artists and gives some deeper insights into what inspires them and explores what contemporary jewellery can be.

Made / Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery is an Australian Design Centre (ADC On Tour) national touring exhibition, presented with assistance from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. LEFT Blanche TILDEN Flow 03 2016 Photo: Grant Hancock. Image: Courtesy the artist and Gallery Funaki.

5 FEB 21 MAR 2021

JENNIFER VALMADRE CONTINUUM

Jennifer Valmadre is a Cairns-based artist who skilfully works across a range of media, including ceramics, sculpture and encaustic painting. Continuum spans seventeen years of her art practice and focuses on three works in the Permanent Collection of the Cairns Art Gallery. Jennifer grew up on the family’s sugar cane farm near Cairns. Land and the cyclical processes of farming informed much of her early work. She explains that the rhythm and predictability of farm life gave her a deep sense of security, even when the landscape around her was utterly transformed after harvesting of the cane, and when the land was laid bare and open to the world. The first of Valmadre’s works was acquired by the Gallery in 2004. Entitled The Source, it is a large-scale wall installation that incorporates different materials including wax, enamel spray paint, bitumen and French polish. In 2010 the Gallery acquired a second work in ceramics entitled Sugar, and this year a third work was acquired from the Gallery’s biennial local contemporary artists’ showcase exhibition, ARTNOW FNQ.

Entitled Ossified Scribbling, Valmadre’s new work references The Source, and her early sugar cane farm life. Now in her 50s, she acknowledges that The Source was informed by an idyllic childhood that allowed for great space and independence and that the passing of the years has, necessarily reshaped her perceptions of the world and her approach to making art. Continuum explores Valmadre’s lifelong fascination with experimentation and using different materials. As she says, ‘I like to control the variables [new materials]…perhaps this is a little like the farming of my youth’.

RIGHT Jennifer VALMADRE Whatnot #3 2016 Encaustic and ceramics on timber 40 x 60 cm Private Collection Cairns

5 FEB 14 MAR 2021

FNQ Lou DERRY

Janet FIELDHOUSE

Mahar GOROSPE-LOCKIE Catherine (Kate) HUNTER Naomi HOBSON

Lenore HOWARD

CONTEMPORARIES AND ARTIST FELLOWSHIP AWARDS This new initiative developed by the Gallery in partnership with the Cairns RSL Club

includes a regionally focused exhibition, FNQ

Contemporaries, and six artists fellowships to be awarded over the next two years. Each of the fellowships is valued at $7,500 and supports the creation of new works for solo exhibitions at the Gallery.

Anastasia KLOSE

Heather KOOWOOTHA Walter R. LUI

Arone MEEKS

Roland NANCARROW Francesa ROSA

Johannes SCHOUTEN Jimmy John THAIDAY Jason WEGGER Philomena YEATMAN

Artist Fellowship proudly sponsored by the Cairns RSL Club

11 DEC 2020 10 JAN 2021

15 JAN 31 JAN 2021

CAIRNS POTTERS CLUB INC

CAIRNS ART SOCIETY

MELTING POT 2020 NATIONAL CERAMICS EXHIBITION

73RD ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION

The Cairns Potters Club Inc has facilitated and staged numerous exhibitions since 1983 in Cairns and is once again facilitating and staging a MELTING POT exhibition at the Cairns Art Gallery.

The Cairns Art Society is one of North Queensland’s oldest and largest community art organisations and was formed in 1931 to ‘promote an interest in art and where possible help individual artists to achieve their aims’. Over the years the Society’s annual exhibition has become an important community event.

This year will be the 14th MELTING POT National Ceramics Exhibition staged at the Cairns Art Gallery, the first of which was in 1999. The exhibition will present current trends, highlighting new developments and directions in the mediums of ceramics and glass. Modern technologies allow a much broader palette of colours and designs than in earlier years in both wheelthrown and handbuilt work, resulting in an exciting exhibition of both functional and decorative work, including glass works which are also catered for at the Club. The Cairns district is home for a number of internationally and nationally well known and respected ceramic artists with a growing number of new talented artists also exhibiting in this Exhibition.

Each year the competitive annual exhibition attracts hundreds of submissions from local artists from which an independent panel of judges select the best entries for exhibition at the Cairns Art Gallery. This year’s art competition offers awards including Best in Show and five Highly Commended awards, with acquisitive and non-acquisitive prizes provided by sponsors such as Australian Art Framers, Marion Ireland, Highscan, Tropical North Framing Gallery, Warren Entsch MP and Sherry Jones.

Various sponsors have kindly donated awards and prizes will be awarded by the guest judge, Len Cook.

19 MARCH 2021 – 2 MAY 2021 25

CAIRNS ART GALLERY THE EXCLUSIVE AUSTRALIAN VENUE OUTSIDE OF NEW SOUTH WALES

CAIRNS ART GALLERY FOUNDATION

ABOVE Rosemary Goodsall stands with Fred Williams’ Gouache Rainforest, Bedarra Island IV 1973 35.5 x 77 cm Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Rosemary Goodsall, 2012.

The Gallery Foundation’s role is to support and strengthen, through gifts, donations and bequests, a legacy collection of artworks that can provide inspiration and enjoyment for future generations. Since 2000 a number of visionary and generous individuals have worked tirelessly to support this vision. I would like to honour and thank Rosemary Goodsall and her late husband Jon who have been extraordinary advocates for the Gallery and Foundation over many years. Since the establishment of the Foundation, Rosemary has donated a number of works to the Gallery Collection, including Ben Trupperbaumer’s sculpture, A Sense of Belonging in 2009; Fred Williams’s gouache Rainforest, Bedarra Island IV in 2012; and Brian Robinson’s Usal - the seven sisters that play amongst the stars in 2016. She has also generously donated to campaigns that

have resulted in the purchase of major acquisitions including works by Tony Albert, Patricia Piccinini, and Danie Mellor. In addition to her role as a philanthropist, Rosemary has worked tirelessly behind the scene as a long-term volunteer at the Gallery. On almost a weekly basis she has worked alongside the marketing team, clipping, sorting and filing media articles and marketing collateral as part of the Gallery’s important archive and media resource library. In 2015 Rosemary was recognised for her volunteering role and was awarded an Honorary Life Membership of the Gallery. Thank you Rosemary. Your passion, dedication, humour and good grace are legendary and valued by us all. Lea Ovaska Chair, Cairns Art Gallery Foundation

GALLERY VOLUNTEERS

The passion and enthusiasm of our Gallery volunteers is wonderful! For several years, Jim Rae, a retired art teacher, has worked alongside Gallery Programs Coordinator Marian Wolfs, to support delivery of the weekly program of creative learning workshops for participants of all ages and levels of ability. Most recently, Jim demonstrated his passion for Ned Kelly by lending his replica suit of armour for the presentation of Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series, and sharing his extensive knowledge of the infamous bushranger through a series of free, weekly guided tours.

ABOVE Holy Cross students taking part in a Zoom® excursion with Gallery Volunteer Jim Rea (pictured right)

Robina Cosser is one or the Gallery’s longest serving volunteers. Recently she was one of many

enthusiastic participants in one of Jim’s guided tours of Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series exhibition and she was keen to share her experiences with others, ‘Jim really did a brilliant job. His experience as a teacher made a huge difference… he projects his voice well [and] is a hugely talented person - I met him a couple of years ago and I was impressed by his work then…We are so fortunate to have him on the Gallery team’. Robina Cosser, 2020

Thank you Robina and Jim for being such wonderful volunteers and Gallery ambassadors.

VALE SAMUEL TAINGA TOA SAVAGE SNR

The Cairns and Torres Strait arts community farewell a respected and all-round arts professional. Samuel Savage, a descendant of the people of Erub (Darnley Island) in the eastern Torres Strait, was a prolific artist, musician, DJ, dancer and choreographer. His impact on the arts community in Cairns spans several decades. He was a distinguished experimental artist, master carver of pearl shell adornments, sculptor and printmaker. In 2018, Samuel featured in an exhibition at the Gallery that was co-curated by Artistic Director of the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Janina Harding, and Cairns Art Gallery curator Teho Ropeyarn. Entitled North by East West: Re-igniting a cultural connection through pearl shell the exhibition showcased works by Samuel, including linocut prints and Dibidibi, a pearl shell disc necklace worn by warriors and prolific amongst men in precontact time.

Traditionally Dibidibi from eastern Torres Strait Islands are distinctive for their incised, radiating and repetitive patterns that are created using geometric shapes.. Dibidibi have a long history based on traditional cultural practices of pearl shell carving, which was especially prevalent during the pearl shell industry in the late 1800s. Today, Dibidibi are worn as a symbol of Torres Strait Islander identity and culture. Two of Samuel’s Dibidibi were acquired for the Cairns Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection. His work is also represented in the collections of the National Museum of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and other private and public collections throughout Australia.

RIGHT Samuel SAVAGE Dibidibi 2018 mother of pearl, raffia Purchased by Cairns Art Gallery, 2018

CREATIVE LEARNING PROGRAMS

CAIRNS ART GALLERY

members special discounts for members December–February Double your discount

Gallery members receive a 10% discount on shop purchases year round. Double your discount during our special member’s shopping days 11, 12, 13 December

Two year discounted renewal offer

Renew for two years and received a 10% discount on your second year.

Gift membership

Buy a gift membership and receive a 5% discount on the cost

Table discount at Perrotta’s at the Gallery

Gallery members receive a 10% table discount when dining at Perrotta’s cafe

Membership card must be shown at the time of purchase to receive your discount

YOGA IN THE GALLERY with Jeany Schall, qualified yoga instructor Mondays (excluding public holidays): 5.30 – 6.30pm Adults 16+ Five-class pass $60 ($75 non-members) Casual class rate $15 Conducted in the peaceful setting of the Gallery, participants will be guided through various yoga techniques. The group will work through learning postures, meditation and breathing techniques to improve core strength, mind and body. Experienced yoga instructor Jeany Schall will offer the highest and latest standards of modern yoga practice. Participants need to bring a yoga mat and it is recommended to bring two yoga blocks.

ART CLASSES FOR ADULTS (16+) JEWELLERY WORKSHOP: SILVER, COPPER, BRASS with Livie Rose, artist Saturday, 5 December 2020 1.00 – 4.00pm $110 ($135 non-members)

JEWELLERY WORKSHOP: COPPER & PEARLS with Hirani Kydd, artist Monday, 7 December 2020 5.30 – 7.30pm $70 ($85 non-members)

Weave copper wire and incorporate freshwater pearls into a pendant in this 2-hour evening workshop suitable for beginners. All materials are provided and class sizes are kept small.

BOTANICAL DRAWING & PAINTING with Julie McEnerny, artist Mondays 8, 15, 22 February, 1 March 2021 5.30 – 7.30pm $130 ($150 non-members)

Concentrating on a different plant specimen each week, artist Julie McEnerny will assist and guide the group in developing botanical drawing and painting skills to create accurate artistic representations of plants using professional grade, watercolour pencils.

Design and create a pair of textured metal earrings or a pendant. Learn basic metalsmithing techniques to cut and shape brass, copper and silver and learn how to add texture to your pieces. A quantity of metal suitable to create one pair of earrings will be supplied, however additional silver, sold by weight is available for purchase from the artist on the day. Class size will be kept small, with only 6 places available. 34

SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS

MONDAY 14 DEC

Anatomical Drawing with Amanda Eales, artist 1.00 – 3.30pm 10 – 15 years $23 ($26 non-members) Learn the tricks and techniques of anatomical drawing with a focus on heads and hands. Increase your drawing skills by drawing the hands in different positions to show a range of gestures.

TUESDAY 15 DEC

Paper Lanterns with Hayley Gillespie, artist 10.00 – 11.30am 5 – 7 years $18 ($21 non-members) Children will make and decorate a festive paper lantern to decorate their room, complete with a LED tea-light candle. Painted Pots and Green Grenades with Hayley Gillespie, artist 1.00 – 3.00pm 7 – 9 years $23 ($28 non-members) Green Grenades or seed bombs are a pleasant surprise created by mixing flower seeds. Children will create their own mixed seed bomb and decorate a terracotta flowerpot to plant their seed bomb. This can be given as a special gift or kept to enjoy at home.

WEDNESDAY 16 DEC

Woven Bracelet with Hirani Kydd, artist 10.00 – 11.30am 8 – 12 years $18 ($21 non-members) Hirani Kydd will teach simple macramé skills and guide the group in the creation of a string bracelet, incorporating beads and small trinkets to personalise each young artists work. The group will tour Made/Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery for creative inspiration. 35

WEDNESDAY 16 DEC

Woven Pendant with Hirani Kydd, artist 1.00 – 3.00pm 11 – 15 years $23 ($26 non-members) Using copper wire and incorporating beads into their design, the class will design and make a pendant with the a Tree-ofLife theme using contemporary weaving techniques.

THURSDAY 17 DEC

Painting with Marnie Awram, artist & teacher 10.00 – 11.30am 6 – 9 years $18 ($21 non-members) or 1.00 – 3.00pm 9 – 13 years $19 ($23 non-members) Ben Quilty is a contemporary artist who is famous for thick layering of paint in his portraits and landscapes. The class will first view and study Ben’s landscape paintings in the exhibition The Entangled Landscape before experimenting with paint on paper to emulate Quilty’s highly expressive style to create their own artwork.

MONDAY 11 JAN

Paper Jewellery with Hayley Gillespie, artist 10.00 – 11.30am 5 – 7 years $18 ($21 non-members) Manon van Kouswijk is a Dutch artist and contemporary jeweller who uses non-traditional materials to create jewellery. Artist Hayley Gillespie will assist the children in creating jewellery from coloured paper.

TUESDAY 12 JAN

Painting without the brush with Hayley Gillespie, artist 10.00 – 11.30am 5 – 8 years $18 ($21 non-members) Leave the paintbrush in the cupboard and experiment with using paddle-pop sticks and fingers to manipulate modelling paste and paint on card to create an artwork inspired by Ben Quilty’s The Entangled Landscape exhibition.

WEDNESDAY 13 JAN

Palette knives and paint with Hayley Gillespie, artist 10.00am – 12.00pm 8 – 12 years $21 ($26 non-members) Get creative with painting and be Inspired by artist Ben Quilty’s The Entangled Landscape exhibition. The class will learn new techniques to create an artwork on canvas board using a palette knife, acrylic paints and paint mediums.

THURSDAY 14 JAN

Life Portrait Drawing with Yixy Ruan, artist 10.00 – 11.30am 7 – 10 years $18 ($21 non-members) or 1.00 – 3.00pm 11 – 14 years $21 ($26 non-members) Practice and develop portrait drawing skills such as studying and critically analysing each feature to better represent facial features and expression. Students will have the opportunity to study a life model and be guided by artist Yixy Ruan.

MONDAY 18 JAN

Finger puppets with Hayley Gillespie, artist 10.00 – 11.30am 5 – 7 years $18 ($21 non-members) Have fun with puppets and create a finger-puppet likeness of a famous artist such as Australian artist Albert Namatjira, or International artists Frida Kahlo, David Hockney or Andy Warhol while learning more about the artist and their achievements. Sculpture with Hayley Gillespie, artist 1.00 – 3.30pm 8 – 12 years $26 ($31 non-members) Be inspired by the sculptures of famous artists such as Joan Miro, Alexander Calder and Henry Moore before getting creative and building a free-standing, abstract sculpture using found objects and wood. Paint your sculpture to add the finishing touches.

TUESDAY 19 JAN

Jewellery: wire, beads and buttons with Adrienne Shaw, artist 10.00 – 11.30am 5 – 7 years $18 ($21 non-members) or 1.00 – 3.00pm 11 – 12 years $21 ($26 non-members) This class will use wire, beads, buttons and other bits and bobs to create a piece of jewellery, such as a necklace, bracelet, ring, brooch, or hair-clip or alternatively, design and make a bag tag or keyring.

GALLERY ART SCHOOL

THURSDAY 21 JAN

Landscape painting with Yixy Ruan, artist 10.00am – 12.00pm 8 – 12 years $21 ($26 non-members) Albert Namatjira was a pioneer of contemporary Indigenous Australian art, and the most famous Indigenous Australian artist of his generation. This class will view the works of Albert Namatjira before drawing and painting a landscape using water-based paints on heavy paper.

ART BOOTCAMP

Annotated Sketching with Yixy Ruan, artist 1.00 – 3.00pm 10 – 14 years $27 ($32 non-members) Yixy Ruan, will take the group on a tour through the Gallery and encourage the group to look at and discuss the artworks with a critical eye. Time will be given to draw quick sketches and take notes of what’s on display before choosing a favourite painting or object to create a more detailed drawing in a visual diary which is included in the booking price.

This 3-day art bootcamp is for students who have a passion for art and wish to work with a professional artist to better their understanding and appreciation of art. Artist Hayley Gillespie will take the group through the fundamental concepts of art and design, from composition, shading and colour to developing an individual style. Students will work toward a mini portfolio that will demonstrate the skills and techniques learned.

PORTRAITURE SHORT COURSE

with Hayley Gillespie, artist Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 11, 12, 13 January 2021 1.00 – 3.00pm 10 – 14 years $60 ($70 non-members)

Outcomes: • Work toward improving traditional drawing skills • An understanding of basic perspective • Study and discuss examples of famous artists’ work.

CREATIVE TODDLERS 3 – 5 YEARS

Tuesdays, 10.00 – 10.45am Cost $75 ($90 non–members) Term 1: 9, 16, 23 February, 2, 9, 16 March 2021 Creative Toddlers is an early introduction to the arts and the Gallery for the very young. Children experience a variety of creative activities relating to the Gallery exhibitions in a social and friendly setting. One-off and trial classes available on request. Cost $15 ($17.50 non-members)

LEVEL 1 | 5 - 7 YEARS

Tuesdays, 3.45 – 4.45pm $80 ($95 non-members) Term 1: 9, 16, 23 February, 2, 9, 16 March 2021 Our Level 1 program is a wonderful introduction to art skills especially designed for children in early primary school. Creating art allows children to learn and practise skills that help not only in creative learning but assists in creative and critical thinking in core subjects such as maths, science and language. Art skills taught are based on the exhibitions on display.

LEVEL TWO | 8 - 11 YEARS

Mondays, 3.30 – 5.00pm Term 1: 8, 15, 22 February, 1, 8, 15 March 2021 Wednesdays, 3.30 – 5.00pm Term 1: 10, 17, 24 February, 3, 10, 17 March 2021 $105 ($125 non-members) Practicing artists share their expertise allowing kids to broaden their visual vocabulary while getting hands-on with a wide variety of media and tools. This class teaches fundamental art skills and encourages free-flowing, creative expression and confidence.

LEVEL THREE | 11 - 14 YEARS

Thursdays, 3.30 – 5.00pm Term 1: 11, 18, 25 February, 4, 11, 18 March 2021 $105 ($125 non-members) Level 3 art classes are designed to explore the world of art and challenge those with a special interest in the visual arts. Practicing artists will be sharing their expertise, allowing creative kids to get hands-on with a wide variety of media and tools while learning fundamental art skills such as composition, line, tone, colour, shape and form through structured projects and activities.

Saturdays 30 January, 6, 13, 20 February 2021 3.30 – 5.00pm 8 - 11 years $105 ($125 non-members) This 4-week portraiture short course will assist students wishing to develop and extend their skills in portraiture. The group will concentrate on drawing the upper torso and face and will discover how to critically asses their sitter and learn how to capture expression and depict poses to create an effective composition of their subject in dry media on paper. 37

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IMAGE BACK COVER Buhlebezwe SIWANI Born Johannesburg, South Africa 1987 iSana libuyele kunina (detail) 2015 C-print 74 x 112 cm Courtesy of the artist and WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

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