Fine Art photography teacher Paola Talbert is exhibiting at Chrissie Cotter Gallery in Marrickville as part of the head-on Photo Festival. Paola is showing with fellow artist Johanna Trainor, who has also taught with TAFE NSW for many years.
Paola's exhibition opens this Friday May 18 from 6-8pm at Chrissie Cotter Gallery in Piddock St Camperdown. All welcome.
'Paola Talbert's captivating translucent assemblages of glass fragments, scavenged at low tide, are arranged in painterly constructions defining a topographic edge. Juxtaposed with underwater scenes that reveal and conceal the body in a diaphanous plastic, her photographic series Gyre exposes the fragile ecology of our oceans and foreshores'.
May 23, 2012
May 16, 2012
Fine Arts graduate wins 'best in show'
'softe', inkjet pigment print 60cmx80cm
May 15, 2012
Drawing Prize Finalist
Congratulations are in order for yet another staff member, this time Catherine O' Donnell who has been selected for the The Rick Amor Drawing Prize 2012
Rick Amor, one of Australia's leading contemporary artists, has sponsored a $10,000 acquisitive prize for small drawings at the Art Gallery of Ballarat. In sponsoring the prize, Amor says "I hope that this prize gives people one more reason to keep drawing on paper… the most direct and intimate expression of an artist's sensibility".
70 finalists were chosen from a field of nearly 600 submissions, all of drawings no larger than 76 x 56cm.
Catherine O' Donnell - Block 253, Charcoal on Paper 70X53cm 2012
Rick Amor, one of Australia's leading contemporary artists, has sponsored a $10,000 acquisitive prize for small drawings at the Art Gallery of Ballarat. In sponsoring the prize, Amor says "I hope that this prize gives people one more reason to keep drawing on paper… the most direct and intimate expression of an artist's sensibility".
70 finalists were chosen from a field of nearly 600 submissions, all of drawings no larger than 76 x 56cm.
Catherine O' Donnell - Block 253, Charcoal on Paper 70X53cm 2012
May 14, 2012
Staff finalists in Painting Prize
Congratulations to our new full time painting and drawing teacher Tim Allen , selected as a finalist in the 2012 NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize. Congratulations also to fellow Fine Arts teacher Stephen Hall who has also been selected.
The term ‘en plein air’ refers to the practice of painting out of doors, in direct engagement with nature. Tim described this practice in relation to his selected entry:
“This work was created over Easter 2012, at a property outside Cooma on the Monaro Plains. The collections of granite boulders and dieback trees that dot the property have the starkness of the European romantic tradition. This was emphasised on the day of this painting when the initially sunny day quickly transformed as a strong southerly front brought an unseasonal snowstorm. The energy and tension imbued into an artwork by the unpredictability of working en plein air is what I love about the process. The day finished with a beer, contemplating the painting on the veranda as snow fell and the other artists started a snowfight'
The term ‘en plein air’ refers to the practice of painting out of doors, in direct engagement with nature. Tim described this practice in relation to his selected entry:
“This work was created over Easter 2012, at a property outside Cooma on the Monaro Plains. The collections of granite boulders and dieback trees that dot the property have the starkness of the European romantic tradition. This was emphasised on the day of this painting when the initially sunny day quickly transformed as a strong southerly front brought an unseasonal snowstorm. The energy and tension imbued into an artwork by the unpredictability of working en plein air is what I love about the process. The day finished with a beer, contemplating the painting on the veranda as snow fell and the other artists started a snowfight'
The finalists are on display at NSW Parliament in the Fountain Court until 31st May. The exhibition is open Monday to Friday, 8.00am – 5.30pm.
Tim Allen - Granite Fields Monaro Plains
May 13, 2012
Head-On exhibitions in Blackheath
A visitor views Wendy Watson's exhibition at the National Parks and Wildlife Centre, Blackheath, as part of the Head-on Photographic Festival.
NADC Fine Arts photography students past and present are engaging with industry in two impressive exhibitions as part of the Head-on Photography Festival. Current student Wendy Watson has an exhibition of silver gelatine landscape images on display at the National Parks and Wildlife Centre, at the end of Govett's Leap Road, Blackheath. The exhibition runs until May 27.
Former students Marcela Vilaplana and Lenore Gee are also showing as part of Head-on, at Gallery Blackheath (see previous post for details).
Former students Marcela Vilaplana and Lenore Gee are also showing as part of Head-on, at Gallery Blackheath (see previous post for details).
Congratulations to all the artists on their inclusion in this important festival.
Artist Lenore Gee, (left) and Marcela Vilaplana (right) with Dr Anne Graham, artist and academic, who was the guest speaker at their exhibition at Gallery Blackheath.
May 11, 2012
Fine Art graduates in Head-on exhibition
'Meditation 2' by Lenore Gee, type C print, 24 cm x 17cm
Congratulations to Lenore and Marcela for their involvement in Australia's largest photography festival!
http://www.galleryblackheath.com/vestiges.htm
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