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GALLERY ONE
G.W. Bot: the long paddock A 30 YEAR SURVEY
28 January - 10 March 2012
image below G.W.Bot Paddock glyphs, from morning to night 2008 linocut on Magnani paper 71 x 100 cm Image courtesy of Goulburn regional Art Gallery
17 March until 5 May
From the Collection: recent additions
Showcasing new works recently acquired through gifts, donations and purchased by the Tamworth Regional Gallery Friends.
Celebrating cultural diversity in our community, and exhibition of traditional costumes and cultural accessories
To celebrate ‘Harmony Day’ and to embrace the message that ‘Everyone Belongs’ an exhibition of locally owned traditional costumes and cultural accessories from different parts of the world will showcase the regions rich cultural heritage.
12 May until 9 June
Legends of League: 100yrs of the Game
Relive the moments, remember the legends and discover the history of the game through a collection of photographs and video documenting 100 years of rugby league in Australia.
16 June until 28 July
angus nivison: a survey
A major survey exhibition that highlights the achievements and contributions Nivison has made in the genre of Australian Landscape painting. This show will bring together for the first time key works from a career that spans more than 20 years.
Robert Baines: metal
This is the 6th exhibition in the ongoing series, Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft, initiated and toured by Object Gallery Sydney. Baines is one of Australia’s most prominent and influential jewellers and goldsmiths with a career spanning more than 30 years.
31 March until 28 April
Ron McBurnie: Metal as Anything
A survey exhibition showcasing 30 years of diverse and intricate etchings. McBurnie highlights the weird and wonderful events that occur in our mundane suburban environment. A place where misbehaving dogs, ducks in kites, jumping cats and eccentric toad shooters meet to examine their place in the carnival of characters and landscapes that the artist has created.
5 May until 9 June
Regional Sports
To coincide with the Legends of League exhibition, a local look back at our own sports stars.
16 June until 14 July
Design TECH 2011
The annual showcase of major design projects by Higher School Certificate Design and Technology students. The Design and Technology course asks students to select and apply design, production and evaluation skills to satisfy an identified need or opportunity. Designs may be a product, system or environment.
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GALLERY ONE & Foyer Space
Women with Clever Hands
Women with Clever Hands: Gapuwiyak Miyalkurruwurr Gong Djambatjmala
3 December 2011 – 21 January 2012
A comprehensive survey of fibre work created over the past fifteen years, the exhibition is curated by Louise Hamby, assisted by Lucy Malirrimurruwuy Wanapuyngu.
image above Helen Djaypila Guyula Pandanus and baskets 2007. Image Lousie Hamby
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GALLERY TWO
Back in the Saddle Again
Back in the Saddle again
the Strutt Sisters
Thursday 5 January 2012 at 6.00pm
Start the New Year off on an artistic note, join us for an evening with Catherine and Jennifer Strutt
Back In The Saddle Again: The Strutt Sisters
As artists and musicians, and like a comfortable old chair, The Strutt Sisters are back in the saddle again. Exploring the themes they love to work with and in conjunction with the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
Not all of the works are literal in their music content, their themes extending to beyond the gig after the stage lights have dimmed.
Twin sisters Catherine and Jennifer Strutt are Australian visual artists working collaboratively and exhibiting professionally since 1995.
They are well known in the art community for their intriguing and often humorous constructions in aluminium, collage and painted wood and have built up a large following for their work in Sydney and Newcastle, N.S.W.
In 2003 their assemblage Who Killed Cock Robin was hung as a finalist at the Art Gallery of NSW in the prestigious Sulman Prize and their work is in many private collections including the director of the Museum of Contemporary art, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor.
The Strutt Sisters have been described by critic John McDonald as “Newcastle’s next big thing waiting to happen” (Daily Telegraph, May 2003), and by Ruth Skilbeck as “Newcastle’s hottest contribution to contemporary art” (Australian Art Review, Feb. 2004),
Taking the knowledge of construction,colour and design from their extensive experience in artmaking, the Strutt Sisters also design accessories for everyday wear born from a frustrating lack of lightweight funky jewellery in the common marketplace.
Starting their designs seven years ago in their home town of Newcastle, N.S.W, their accessories are designed for everyday wear and each individual piece is finished to a very high quality using reproduction fabric with designs from the 1930’s – 1950’s, very thin ply and clear finish. The sisters are strongly inspired by Scandinavia, a land they have traveled extensively and their pieces evoke the colour and pattern of bygone years and the clean, simple shapes prominent in great scandinavian design.
Image above
The Strutt Sisters Pardners 2011 aluminium, wood, paper, fabric and resin.42 x 42 x 5cm
Image The Strutt Sisters.
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COMMUNITY SPACE
at Ray Walsh House
Painting a Song
12 to 31 January 2012
Painting a Song*
Pro Hart and Smoky Dawson
How fitting it is that two of Australia’s most renowned and loved artists, both men with their hearts in the bush, should get together and create a unique collection of work which combines the songs and story telling of one with the vivid imagery of the other.
Smoky and Pro were long time friends. In 1985 Smoky published an autobiography simply entitled A Life and he asked his mate Pro Hart to illustrate it. For each of eleven episodes of Smoky’s eventful and colourful life, Pro painted a picture reflecting the essence of the story Smoky was telling.
These are the pictures you see in this very special collection, which is being exhibited in public, for the very first time.
The pair were “naturals” working together. In Smoky’s word’s in the introduction to his later book Poems and Paintings he said;“ Pro and I have so much in common especially our love for Australia and its people. Communicating in the best way we knew, we have tried to paint the world in the colours we would like it to be. All it took was a phone call to Broken Hill, and Pro’s magic brush set to work translating my words and music into these paintings.”
Smoky Dawson who died in 2008, was a legendary country music figure who had entertained and inspired millions of Australians over some seven decades. Pro Hart who grew up on a sheep station near Menindee, died in his beloved Broken Hill in 2006. By then, the renowned outback painter was an internationally recognised artist with his work represented in collections throughout Australia and around the world.
Together they represented that small band of talented and totally dedicated artists whose creative skills were inspired by our country’s unique landscape and its people and who in turn inspired a whole generation of Australians.
We salute these two great Australians.
This exhibition has been mounted by the Tamworth Regional Council, which gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Judy Lipman of the Dawson Family who has loaned the pictures, The Smoky Dawson Statue Committee and the Australian Country Music Foundation.
* “Painting a Song” is the title of a song by Smoky Dawson.
Image above Pro Hart The Bushfire at the Ranch The fierce red steer.
Image below Installation View Smoky Dawson memorabilia
Images PDB
Ray Walsh House Community Gallery
437 Peel Street Tamworth
Enquiries: Pam Brown, Public Programs Coordinator Tamworth Regional Gallery
ph 6767 5519 Tamworth Regional Gallery 466 Peel Street Tamworth 2340 gallery@tamworth.nsw.gov.au
Ray Walsh House Community Gallery
Open: Monday to Friday 8.30am – 5pm. FREE ADMISSION
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