AUTUMN IN THE GALLERY 2018
GLASSHOUSE REGIONAL GALLERY
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AUTUMN PROGRAM
"Yamadagai Gimbay Birpai Barray"
March, April, May 2018
“Welcome friends to Birpai Country”
GLASSHOUSE PORT MACQUARIE REGIONAL GALLERY Cnr Clarence & Hay Streets, Port Macquarie NSW 2444 Contact call:
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GALLERY CLOSED 28 April - 12 May 2018
COMING SOON 2
25 August - 7 October
Annual maintenance program and Ironman 2018
Welcome Wow what a Summer! I would like to thank everyone who participated in our Neon Summer Festival program. It was a splendid summer full of creative events, workshops and activities that enjoyed record numbers. Neon Summer launched our newly formed digital content partnership with Percival Property. For those of you who missed the action, check out the Glasshouse Youtube channel for a snapshot of everything Neon Summer. Autumn brings change to the Gallery with a wonderful selection of new and inspiring exhibitions. Heatfelt: Modern Homage to an
Ancient landscape by Jill Cairns , Trish Clarke, Kim Madden and Jan Wilson and What a life:
Rock Photography By Tony Mott are not to be missed. March brings the powerful and confronting exhibition BETWEEN NATURE AND SIN by Archibald artist David Griggs. This exhibition is Grigg’s first major Australian survey. Whatever
keeps you warm at night by Michaela Swan explores how textile objects have a connection to memory. This exhibition was developed during her residency at the Glasshouse in October 2017. After a brief interlude to allow the for the superhuman event that is Ironman, the Gallery re-opens with three marvellous exhibitions,
The Great Sea is an exhibition of recent work by Melbourne-based artist Dr Wilma Tabbaco which explores the Mediterranean Sea, its
filmmaker and installation artist explores a meditation on time and life-lines, with dancers aged 3-102 years, traversing abandoned railway lines of NSW; and Gaolhouse to Glasshouse by the Hastings Valley Fine Art Association reflects on how 200 years have changed the way we view our local area. Autumn continues our creative start to the year with regular programs including Craft Spot adult workshops, Holiday Sprouts for families and the Sprout Road Shows at local libraries bring the creativity to our community. Wendy Stokes will be back with the Experimental Printmaking:
the next step workshop, we anticipate this workshop to be popular so book early. I look forward to seeing you soon at the Gallery. Niomi Sands
Gallery Curator
history, civilisations and islands; En Route by Sue Healey, a Sydney-based choreographer,
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Heartfelt: Modern Homage
to an Ancient Landscape
Jill Cairns, Trish Clarke, Kim Madden and Jan Wilson Four local artists Jill Cairns, Trish Clarke, Kim Madden and Jan Wilson spread their wings and travelled to Alice Springs to paint en plein air in the MacDonnell Ranges. Exploring the region together they painted and sketched in stunning locations across the East and West MacDonnells and Finke Gorge National Park. In the evenings they discussed the day’s work and shared a meal. Each artist was inspired not only by the powerful and ancient desert landscape with its changing light, mesmerising colour and muscular physicality but somewhat to their surprise, the resonating spiritualty of a place which had existed since time began. This exhibition is very much an illustration of artists exploring, painting and being inspired together but seeing and responding altogether differently.
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ON VIEW Until 18 March Entry to the Gallery is free. Jill Carins, Spirits Calling, 2017 pastel and charcoal. Courtesy of the artist. Jan Wilson, Ochre Pit, 2017-2018 oil on board (detail). Courtesy of the artist. Kim Madden, Chasing the Caterpillar, 2017, watercolour & crayon. Courtesy of the artist. Trish Clarke, Passing Parade of Rock Formations, 2017, watercolour. Courtesy of the artist.
WHAT A LIFE!
E PULAR D O P Y B K BAC
The State Library of NSW’s major retrospective on premier
ARTIST TALK Tony ON Mott VIEW
ROCK PHOTOGRAPHY BY TONY MOTT
Australian rock photographer Tony Mott is on view until 1 April – don’t miss it! Over 30 amazing years, the British‐born chef established himself as the rock photographer of choice by the biggest names in the business. It all began in the early 1980s when he sold his first picture featuring Chrissy Amphlett of Sydney rock band Divinyls. The exhibition collectively tells the story rock n’ roll life in Australia over the last 30 years, including the enormous changes to the live music scene from the 1990s and the impact of digital on the art of rock photography.
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Until 2 April Saturday 17 March, 11am Entry to the Gallery is free. Join Rock photographer Tony Mott as he shares of the rock’n’roll lifestyle through his camera lens. Free. Bookings Essential Call: 6581 8888 or
www.glasshouse.org.au Entry to the Gallery is free.
Tony is a film set photographer these days but still shoots band covers. The exhibition features two films made for the exhibition including a ‘behind the scenes’ film on Tony’s recent shoot with Kasey Chambers at the State Library. Tony Mott, Tony Mott & Mick Jagger, 1984
A touring exhibition from the State Library of NSW
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SIX-TIME ARCHIBALD PRIZE FINALIST
David Griggs explores the darker undercurrents of human existence. His work, predominately portraiture, focuses on the human condition; drawing on political imagery, underground media, local histories and personal experience. Famous for his bold anarchistic approach, Griggs takes the everyday and flips it to expose the cracks, exhuming the raw undercurrent of a society. He documents intimate chance moments and the deliberate actions of his friends, and strangers, within an unidentifiable Manila. His work is often collaborative, engaging directly with communities while remaining sensitive to the ethical and moral obligations this demands. For the last 10 years Griggs has resided in the Philippines and has created a significant body of work traversing painting, photography and film that reveals the social hierarchies and underground culture of his adopted home. BETWEEN NATURE AND SIN features a decade of past paintings, photographs and videos. The exhibition brings together key works and is the first major Australian survey of this leading artist’s practice.
“about something and through this he has very humbly
”
captured everyday life and the life of people around him.
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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.
Entry is free.
EXHIBITION OPENING Friday 23 March, 6pm Free. Bookings essential.
ARTIST TALK – DAVID GRIGGS
Saturday 24 March, 11am Join artist David Griggs as he talks about his arts practice and
the
development
of
the Between Nature & Sin exhibition.
He’s not afraid to paint something or to have an opinion
Megan Monte, Curator
ON VIEW* 10 March - 22 April
Free. Bookings essential. Call: 6581 8888 or
www.glasshouse.org.au * adult content
David Griggs, Zoloft Nation (self portrait), 2009, acrylic on canvas, 282 x 232cm. Germanos Collection, Sydney. Image courtesy of the artist.
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Michaela Swan:
Whatever keeps you warm at night Whatever keeps you warm at night is a new exhibition by Newcastle based fibre artist Michaela Swan. The exhibition was developed during her residency at the Glasshouse in October
ON VIEW
24 March - 22 April
2017.
Entry to the Gallery is free.
Swan was raised in Laurieton on the Mid North Coast. During
OPENING
the residency Swan reconnected with childhood memories of her father’s business in earth moving machinery. In this exhibition Swan creates a conversation between the found textile and the tradition of printmaking through the creation of large scale mono prints of a variety of mass-produced and
Friday 23 March, 6pm Free. Bookings essential
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handmade blankets. The prints were produce collaboratively with Swan’s father utilising road roller as the printing press. Each work embraces the inherited properties of the textile article and relies upon the association made with items of comfort to acknowledge the shared relationship we all have with textiles. This is also referenced in the textile installation, a reinterpretation of her large arm-knitted site-specific installations – made from torn second-hand quilt covers.
Michaela Swan Woven Blanket Impression, 2017. Textile relief road roller print on Hahnemuhle paper, assisted by Bill Swan. 106 x 78cm. All works courtesy of the artist.
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Workshop:
Arm Knitting with Michaela Swan Saturday 7 April, 10am – 3pm
Join artist Michaela Swan for an arm knitting workshop with recycled fabric. In this workshop, Swan will take you through the arm knitting technique and participants will create a scarf. Cost: Adult: $45, Member $40 Bookings essential. Limited places available.
Call: 6581 8888 or www.glasshouse.org.au Michaela Swan, Untitled (knitted installation), 2018, knitted torn quilt covers, variable.
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WILMA Tabacco:
The Great Sea The Great Sea is an exhibition of recent work by Melbourne based artist Dr Wilma Tabbaco. The exhibition explores the Mediterranean Sea and aspects of towns – Herculaneum, history, civilisations and islands around the area – Cycladic. Tabacco’s painting explore echoes of her cultural past through the reading, experiencing ancient, modern and contemporary art. The artefacts produced by
ON VIEW 12 May - 10 June
civilisations now long gone and marvelling at the
Entry to the Gallery is free.
propensity of art to retain its ‘voice’ – a distant past
OPENING
echo provide inspiration for Tabacco.
Saturday 12 May, 6pm
Free. Bookings essential Call: 6581 8888 or
www.glasshouse.org.au
Hatchepsut, 2015, oil on linen, 183 x 152 cm
All works courtesy of the artist and Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra.
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ABOUT DR WILMA Tabacco Tabacco has an extensive exhibiting history, both in Australia and internationally. She strives to create a world without ordinariness, encouraging students and artists to step out of their comfort zone, to leave the familiar for the unfamiliar and to swap the easy for the difficult. Born in Italy, Tabacco continues to maintain cultural, historical and family links with her ancestral origins but she values and enjoys the opportunities and life style provided by Australia, her home since childhood. Wilma has exhibited extensively in Australia and overseas. Her work has been acquired by major museums including National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria and Museum of Modern Art (Heide) and by Gilt Edge, metal leaf and oil on linen, 183 x 153 cm
private collectors in Australia, Italy, France and USA.
Cycladic No. 2, 2014, acrylic on paper, 56 x 76 cm
Herculaneum, 2012, acrylic on linen, 2 panels, 198 x 336 cm
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Sue Healey: En Route En Route by Sydney-based choreographer, filmmaker and installation artist Sue Healey is a meditation on time and life-lines, dancers aged 3-102 years, traverse abandoned railway lines of NSW. Originally commissioned by Transport for NSW – for the Wynscreen project at Wynyard Train Station Sydney – this work has been re-configured for gallery spaces.
ON VIEW 12 May – 9 June Entry to the Gallery is free.
OPENING Saturday 12 May, 6pm
Her work draws its inspiration from dance as a transformative
Free. Bookings essential
and poetic language yet transcends the boundaries of the form,
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revealing the universality of movement and its significance to the human species.
www.glasshouse.org.au
ABOUT SUE HEALEY With extensive experience in choreographic practice and cross-artform installation. Her work investigates the potential that lies at the shifting
Sue Healey, EN ROUTE, 2016, duration 30 mins, looped. Courtesy of the artist. Commissioned by Transport for NSW.
boundaries between disciplines, and the revelations that are sparked
Cinematographer: Judd Overton
investigation, Healey moves seamlessly between dance, film and
at those intersections. Critically, movement is at the heart of each of the works. Her work is aesthetically unique and relevant to a wide demographic, across age and interest. It is witnessed in a diversity of contexts and spaces; galleries, public spaces, television, cinema screen and theatres. It aims to innovate in both content and form. 12
Gaolhouse to Glasshouse Hastings Valley Fine Arts Association
Gaolhouse to Glasshouse is a celebration of the John Oxley Bicentenary by members of the Hastings Valley Fine Art Association (HVFAA).
ON VIEW 12 May – 8 July Entry to the Gallery is free.
This exciting exhibition illustrates how artists from HVFAA interpret the last 200 years in our region while linking their work to some historical aspect of our past. Works range from the traditional to
OPENING Saturday 12 May, 6pm
the modern in a variety of media and styles; reflecting as they do,
Free. Bookings essential
an eclectic mix of individual artists.
Call: 6581 8888 or
www.glasshouse.org.au
ABOUT HVFAA Hastings Valley Fine Art Association is an active and inclusive association which recently celebrated 30 years of practice. Its membership is drawn from Port Macquarie, Camden Haven and Wauchope areas.
Artists’ Forum
FREE
Saturday 19 May, 11am Join artists from Hastings Valley Fine Art Association as they share how they interpreted the brief to illustrate some aspect of life over the last 200 years in the Hastings Valley. Bookings essential. Call: 6581 8888 or www.glasshouse.org.au Sunday Drawing Sessions in the Gallery See page 15 for details.
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POPULAR Y B K C A B
DEMAND
meet the artist Artist Talk – Tony Mott Saturday 17 March, 11am Join Rock photographer Tony Mott as he shares of the rock’n’roll lifestyle through his camera lens.
FREE. Bookings essential Call: 6581 8888 or
www.glasshouse.org.au Graham Jepson, Tony Mott.
meet the artist Artist Talk – David Griggs Saturday 24 March, 11am Join artist David Griggs as he talks about his arts practice and the development of the BETWEEN NATURE AND SIN exhibition.
FREE. Bookings essential Call: 6581 8888 or
www.glasshouse.org.au
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Sunday Drawing Sessions Sundays, 1pm to 3pm: 20 May, 27 May, 3 June, 10 June, 17 June, 24 June, 1 July Free. Bookings essential, numbers are limited. Call: 6581 8888 or
www.glasshouse.org.au Sunday Drawing Sessions are held on the top floor of
Drop in and join Hastings Valley Fine Arts members for an afternoon drawing session in the Gallery.
Paper and basic drawing materials are provided, however feel free to bring some of your own favourite materials to play with. All abilities welcome.
the Gallery.
ART CHAT in the Gallery Friday 6 April, 11am
Come and enjoy a fun, informal and friendly morning in the Gallery. Spend some time hearing about the current exhibitions and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee and a chat afterwards. $7.50 single $5 Member
Bookings essential. Call: 6581 8888 or
www.glasshouse.org.au
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Experimental Printmaking: the next step - evening classes with Wendy Stokes In this class students will learn a combination of traditional and alternative printmaking techniques to develop a body of work. The workshops will focus on the development and refinement of image and subject matter that will lead the students to create a series of experimental prints.
Wednesdays, 6pm to 8.30pm 16, 23, 31 May, 6, 13, 20, 27 June and 4 July 8 week package
Cost: $280 Adult*, $240 Glasshouse Member Call: 6581 8888 or www.glasshouse.org.au *transaction fees may apply
Craft Spot
WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS Saturdays 1.30pm - 3.30pm 7 April, 5 May and 2 June
Are you inspired by craft and design? Is quirky craft your thing? Have you ever wondered how artists create their work? This workshop is for you!
Craft Spots are hands on creative workshops
inspired by the current Gallery exhibitions. Each workshop will feature a technique, process or
material that will inspire you to create your own creative projects.
$
12ber
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Workshops are designed for all skill levels and can
be a great way to learn something new or brush up on your favourite craft or art technique. For bookings: call 6581 8888 or www.glasshouse.org.au 16
*transaction fees may apply
15
$
adult*
Thursday 19 April, 6-9pm
Venture out after dark and try something a little bit different! Art Walk is back and bigger than before! Last year over 3,000 people enjoyed Art Walk. This multivenue cultural event is when local museums, galleries and businesses open their doors ‘after dark’ bringing art out of the gallery and onto the street at night! This is a free, family-friendly community event designed to encourage you to explore, experience and participate in our local arts and cultural life in the heart of Port Macquarie’s CBD. Expect digitally projected artworks, visit unconventional spaces, enjoy live music & entertainment and perhaps even indulge in some food & beverages. Visit www.pmhc.nsw.gov.au to find out more
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School Holiday Fun @ the Library
Monday 16 April EARLY BIRD EARLY LITERACY Session One @ Port Macquarie Library
Tuesday 17 April INTRODUCTION TO RECORDING MUSIC Session One @ Port Macquarie Library
ONE BOOK ONE COMMUNITY EVENT
6.30pm @ Port Macquarie Library
Wednesday 18 April ROLLANDS PLAINS FAMILY FUN DAY
11am to 1pm @ Rollands Plains Upper Public School
Thursday 19 April BABY BOUNCE
10.30am @ Laurieton Library
GLASSHOUSE SPROUTS 12 noon @ Laurieton Library
Friday 20 April INTRODUCTION TO RECORDING MUSIC Session Two @ Port Macquarie Library 18
Sunday 22 April COSPLAY
12 noon to 3pm @ Port Macquarie Library
Monday 23rd April EARLY BIRD EARLY LITERACY @ Port Macquarie Library
Tuesday 24 April BEE WORKSHOP @ Wauchope Library
INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC MUSIC Session One @ Port Macquarie Library
Thursday 26 April GLASSHOUSE SPROUTS 11am @ Wauchope Library
Friday 27 April INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC MUSIC Session Two @ Port Macquarie Library
POP UP IT
2pm to 4pm @ Port Macquarie Library
BABY BOUNCE
10.30am @ Wauchope Library For more information, session times and bookings, please call the library 6581 8755 or visit mnclibrary.org.au
Get creative in the school holidays with the ever-popular Glasshouse Sprouts – art activities for children! Glasshouse Sprouts provides art activities in the Regional Gallery for our Glasshouse ‘sprouts’ - helping them grow their creativity, learn new skills and have lots of fun! The activities are just $5 per child* places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment. Suitable for children 4 to 9 years of age Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Wednesday 18 April, 11am Bookings essential, Call 6581 8888 or www.glasshouse.org.au
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SHOW!
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Saturday 21 April, 11am Tuesday 24 April, 11am
*Please note – Sprouts is now only happening in School Holidays!
THE GLASSHOUSE SPROUTS PROGRAM IS ON THE MOVE! Kids and their grownups will have fun creating art together! The artworks are inspired by Glasshouse Regional Gallery exhibitions and are a great way to learn creatively. Bring your kids and come along to one of our Glasshouse Sprouts Road Show activities these school holidays. Glasshouse ‘sprouts’ - helping them grow their creativity, learn new skills and make new friends! The activities are just $5 per child - places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Suitable for children aged 4 to 9 years old.
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Bookings available at the Library on the day.
Thursday 19 April, 11am
WAUCHOPE LIBRARY
Thursday 26 April, 11am
$5
Bookings essential
Call 6581 8888 or www.glasshouse.org.au
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$ .50 * per person
BEHIND THE SCENES TOURS Explore the stage, dressing rooms and back-of-house areas and find out more about the magic of theatre! Delivered at a relaxed pace by specially trained guides, tours take approximately 1 hour.
20 * transaction fees may apply
Wednesday 18 April, 2pm
Tuesday 24 April, 2pm BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL Maximum 20 people per tour. Please wear enclosed shoes.
Volunteers Michael & Monica Atkinson John Babich Colin Bennett Ann Broomby Barbara Brown Joan Burley Maureen Cooke
The Glasshouse Regional Gallery gratefully
acknowledges its dedicated and active volunteers. Jackie Deane
Gwen Norris
Steve Stevens
Jean Earl
Joe & Maddalena Piola
Anne Thomas
Ruth Edwards Noel Giles Pauline Gowing Fred Husken
Susan Thompson
Sue Poole
Jenny Wardrop
Ken Reynolds
Lindy Williams
Jennifer Rowan
Patricia Woodhead
Eleanore Russell
Tony Martin
Ray Cooper
Michael & Janice Matthews
Vicki Dawson
Chris McDonnell
Glennis Slack-Smith Jenny Soerensen Bill Skane
Sponsors Government Sponsors
Founding Sponsors
A facility of Port Macquarie-Hastings Council
THE ROSS FAMILY
The Glasshouse is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW
Digital Marketing Partner
The Glasshouse Regional Gallery acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands, waters and seas where we work. We pay our respects to Elders, past, present and future.
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Collection work of the month Wilma Tabacco Cascade, 2007
ABOUT THE WORK The arrangement of flat, aubergine shapes against a depthless blue ground is ambiguous. The painting is suggestive of a moment in time, capturing the moment when something breaks apart or charting the moments as particles drift through space. The jagged forms might be shattered glass bursting from a broken windowpane; they could be premature storm clouds against a sunny sky or dead leaves floating on a still pond. Whatever they might be they are fractured things, lacking in wholeness, unstable and indeterminate. The paintings of Wilma Tabacco continually explore territory like this; her abstract compositions are reminiscent of life’s unexpected incidents, the chaotic effects of a world in perpetual motion. Cascade in particular recalls the chance collages of Jean Arp, art that was made by randomly dropping paper squares onto a paper support. Like Arp, Tabacco is fascinated with the human desire for control and the tension that arises from being in world that is largely uncontrollable.
Cascade was originally exhibited with other works, one of which Epicentre, Reconstructing L’Aquila, Tabacca
asks
the
viewers
to
imagine the scene of her native province which had been recently destroyed
by
a
devastating
earthquake. This direct reference to shards, fragments and fractures may give suggestions for viewing
Cascade.
Wilma Tabacco Cascade, 2007, oil on linen, 152 x 122 cm. Port MacquarieHastings Council, donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by the artist, 2012. © Image courtesy and copyright of the artist.
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EXHIBITIONS Works from the Collection
on view until 4 March
Heartfelt: Modern Homage to an Ancient Landscape
on view until 18 March
What A Life: Rock Photography by Tony Mott
on view until 2 April
BETWEEN NATURE AND SIN: David Griggs
10 March – 22 April
Whatever keeps you warm at night: Michaela Swan
24 March – 22 April
The Great Sea: Wilma Tabacco
12 May – 10 June
Sue Healey: En Route
12 May – 9 June
Gaolhouse to Glasshouse: Hastings Valley Fine Arts Assoc
12 May – 8 July
OPENINGS David Griggs & Michaela Swan
Friday 23 March, 6pm
Wilma Tabacco, Sue Healey & Hastings Valley Fine Art Assoc
Saturday 12 May, 6pm
ARTIST TALKS Tony Mott
Saturday 17 March, 11am
David Griggs
Saturday 24 March, 11am
CREATIVE WORKSHOPS Craft Spot
Saturday 7 April 1.30pm - 3.30pm Saturday 5 May 1.30pm - 3.30pm Saturday 2 June 1.30pm - 3.30pm
Arm Knitting with Michaela Swan
Saturday 7 April, 10am – 3pm
Experimental Printmaking the next step evening classes with Wendy Stokes
From Wednesday 16 May for 8 weeks, 6pm - 8.30pm
Sunday drawing sessions,
20 May, 27 May, 3 June, 10 June, 17 June, 24 June, 1 July, 1pm - 3pm
FAMILY FUN
Sprouts Holiday Fun
Wednesday 18 April, 11am Thursday 19 April, 11am (Laurieton Library) Saturday 21 April, 11am Tuesday 24 April, 11am Thursday 28 April, 11am (Wauchope Library)
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Sue Healey, EN ROUTE, 2016, duration 30 mins, looped. Courtesy of the artist. Commissioned by Transport for NSW. Cinematographer: Judd Overton