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GALLERY ONE
From the Collection: Utopia Batiks
2 August to 21 August 2010
The Utopia Collection Bequest is made up of a core group of indigenous textile artworks complemented by works in other media that were designated as important archival pieces in the evolution of art production on the Utopia Homelands.
ARCHIBALD PRIZE 2010
28 August to 26 September 2010
Extended opening hours Mondays & Sunday 11am to 3pm
The Archibald Prize is one of Australia's oldest and most prestigious art awards. JF Archibald's primary aims were to foster portraiture, support artists and perpetuate the memory of great Australians. Since its inception in 1921 the prize has been awarded to some of Australia's most important artists, including George Lambert, William Dobell and Brett Whiteley.
Peter Hooper: one and others
2 October to 6 November 2010
With an eclectic taste and art practice developed from too many years as a secondary school art teacher, Peter Hooper dives into blatant appropriation by constructing a series of assemblages and mini installations utilizing remnants from around the house, the shed and the classroom, paying homage to his particular interest in primitivism and conceptual art.
Gabrielle Collins: new work
2 October to 6 November 2010
Having grown up in Sydney, there are still references to the inner city spaces and Sydney Harbor in her work. This latest body of work continues this theme along with some references to the more mountainous regions of Central Australia following a trip a couple of years ago to the West MacDonnell Ranges.
Major Survey exhibition of the Tamworth Fibre Textile Collection
13 November 2010 to 9 January 2011
The Gallery boasts one of the most comprehensive collections of Fibre Textile art in Australia and includes works by some of Australia’s leading practitioners such as Liz Williamson, Jutta Fedderson, Julie Gough, Patrick Snelling and Jan Irvine Neale to name just a few. This exhibition documents the evolution of the Fibre Textile Collection from 1975 through to 2010.
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Ada Bird Petyarre b.c. 1930 old Utopia Station Northern Territory. Awely (detail) 2000 batik, silk with azoic dyes, handpainted.
4 September to 9 October 2010
Exploring the theme of ‘Art and the Environment’ and inspired by Queensland’s spectacular and natural wonders, this exhibition is a result of 6 residences where artists reflected on their response to the unique habitats of regional Queensland. The exhibition includes photography, mixed media, artist’s books, DVD’s and sculptures.
Maria’s Class: Tamworth Community College Art students
16 October – 6 November 2010
Local artist and teacher Maria Henry has a strong following for her painting and drawing classes she runs through the Tamworth Community College. This exhibition showcases the works by her students.
The Art of TAFE 2010 - Student Exhibition
13 November to 4 December 2010
The Art of TAFE 2010 - Student Exhibition is a celebration of the exceptional quality and the creativity diversity of our local community and showcases selected artworks from students undertaking the Creative Arts and Digital Media program at Tamworth Campus. The New England Institute of TAFE offers training in the visual industries spanning traditional studio practices through to digital web-based design technologies.
Miniatures: Friends of Tamworth Regional Gallery fundraising exhibition
8 December to 24 December 2010
Image below Jill Chism, Marking Time (detail) 2005 digital print in 4 digiglass panels 200 x 240 x 10
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GALLERY ONE & Sculptural Space
Max Dupain on Assignment
Max Dupain - on Assignment
5 June to 24 July 2010
While Dupain is now famous for his artistic photographs, over the years he also used his camera to earn a living, working for Commonwealth government departments and companies such as CSR Limited.
At this time Dupain created some of his most imaginative works. A selection can be seen in Max Dupain on Assignment.
‘Max Dupain was commissioned by various federal departments to take photographs of Australian life in the 1940s, 50s and 60s to promote Australia overseas,’ said Caroline Webber, Exhibitions Manager with the National Archives.
The new exhibition features eye-catching examples of his government images from the National Archives’ collection, along with photographs he took for CSR Limited from the Noel Butlin Archives Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra. They include corporate and advertising shots, as well as images of life on the canefields.
‘This exhibition provides an opportunity to see creative Dupain works, many of which have never been exhibited before,’ said Ms Webber.
She finds Dupain’s industrial images particularly striking. A favourite shows a storage area of stacked metals where his abstract technique has used the contrast of light and shadow to create visual patterns in close-ups.
‘Some of his architectural photographs are quite strong as well,’ says Ms Webber. ‘He worked closely with Jorn Utzon to document the creation of the Sydney Opera House.’
Sculptural Space
Jo Pursehouse
The Forgotten 2010
Dyed hessian with re-cycled found objects
Jo is in her final year of a BA Fine Art at Charles Sturt University as well as a studio based Advanced Diploma in Fine Art at TAFE Tamworth. This year Jo’s practice has been focusing on using a variety of mediums to form different textures from the environment.
‘Forgotten is a symbol of our landscape, culture and society as well as being a narrative for our lives. It may appear lifeless and have no future use but it continues to shelter and support life and can be used to warm a cold home and then returned to the earth where it will fertilise the soil.’ Jo
Image Above Max Dupain Volinist 1971 silver gelatin print. National Archives of Australia.
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GALLERY TWO
Julia Griffin: Last Light
Julia Griffin: Last Light
10 July to 28 August 2010
As I watch the landscape from the road I also watch the sky to warn me when something might start to happen that will need to be
recorded.
Telegraph poles and dead trees give me structure to arrest the eye and hold the landscape in place for closer scrutiny. The fences and roads assert control, fires burn to tidy the paddocks and the tree plots nurse the injuries looking like bandaids taping up the land, holding it
all together.
The weather and the season is reflected in the landscape and as each day draws to a close the mood changes as we witness the last hurrah of the sunset and the eastern sky does one last curtain-call in the last light of the day.
Julia Griffin
Artist Statement
Our place in the world is established through what we experience, and what we observe of our surrounding environment. The process of
creation for an artist is based upon a knowledge and interpretation of what they experience visually and their ability to transform this
information onto a two dimensional surface.
Residing in the hills of Walcha, in the New England tablelands of New South Wales, Griffin has developed an intimate relationship with the surrounding landscape. Although using a camera to assist her in recording what she sees, her works are not photographic renditions but a personal interpretation. The works are beautifully executed in oil on paper. The scale, size and format of the works combined with the familiarity of her subjects draws us in.
Griffin takes what appears to be everyday subjects, such as a roadside petrol station, a truck on the road or a group of trees and transforms them into work that captures a memory; a sense of time and place.
There is a stillness in her works which at times can be quite eerie making the viewer a little uneasy. This is intentional as Griffin’s subjects often reference her concerns with social and
environmental issues. In works such as waiting for rain 2007, Burning off at Neds 2008 and The Darling at Bourke 2010, they make a
casual reference to the way the land is used and our dependence on water.
Sometimes it can be the subjects themselves that evoke this sensory reaction. The silence of places, such as an abandoned shop front in Workshop in Uralla 2008 or petrol station in Mobil roadhouse 2009.
It could also be said that these works are documenting history.
Griffin’s interest in recording the everyday has provided a visual social and environmental history. The inclusion of an old Bankcard symbol in the window of an abandoned shop front and the depiction of road works reminds us of how quickly transformation takes place.
Time and weather conditions are also important elements in Griffin’s depiction of the landscape. Griffin has the technical ability and skill to create wonderful atmospheric works, her ability to render light is luminous and varied. Cloud formations, changing colours of the sky, rainbows or a hill; it is the light viewed at different times of the day that inspires this artist.
Her works have a compelling and meditative quality. Made from the strength of her observations; they make us think.
Sandra McMahon
Director, Tamworth Regional Gallery
Image above Julia Griffin Last Light 111 (detail) 2010 oil on paper Image credit Lou Farnia
Image Below Julia Griffin Near Nemingha 2008 oil on paper 38 x 56cm. Image Julia Griffin.
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COMMUNITY SPACE
at Ray Walsh House
Ray Walsh House Community Gallery
Sunshine Poschinger
Photographs
14 July to 30 July 2010.
Sunshine Poschinger born near Yarrawick Mountain, Bundurra Road via Armidale I grew up on various properties in the local area. A country girl at heart I have always lived in the local area aside from the year I lived and worked in Canada. During the short time I spent in Europe before returning home I purchased my first Camera, a Samsung compact digital. My Camera and I spent our first day together exploring Paris in April 2007. It was a warm spring day with tulips blooming in every direction, there was magic in the air.
Before my travels overseas I had shot my first roll of film in early 2006 with a camera I had borrowed, the photos were for my stepbrother and his wife to be. Developing them was my introduction to the dark room. “Love at first sight”
After my travels I continued where I left off. Late in 2007 I borrowed a film camera to shoot some baby belly shots for a dear friend of mine. The results in the dark room were both exciting and inspiring.
A passion for photography was growing with each click of the shutter. In 2008 I entered a few of my photos in the Gunnedah show, my first time entering my work in a competition…. I received first place black and white child study film for ‘Bebe Je’taime”
This was a big encouragement.
Around mid to late 2008 a friend generously loaned me my Digital SLR Nikon D80, I never gave it back….. Instead I began a part-time business combining my passion for photography and my natural affinity with children, “Sunnypics Photography” I saved all the money I earned from photography plus video camera work and paid for my Nikon in early 2009. I also enrolled in an Arts course at Tamworth TAFE and enjoyed my Fridays either in the TAFE dark room or out taking photos. Later in the course I learned a lot more about Digital Photography. My Nikon and I became good friends.
This year I am studding full time at Tamworth TAFE certificate IV in Photo-imaging. I am looking forward to the second semester and producing some works for the end of year exhibition.
I love working with people and so naturally many of my photos are portraits, I especially love working with children, they are a refreshing reminder of how beautiful and simple life can be if you let it. I have received several prizes at local photographic competitions for my work in child study.
I love photography because it allows me to collect a small glimpse of a life or a space.
A two dimensional projection of a three dimensional memory. A “micro moment” from another time and place. Over the last few years I have been blessed with a small collection of photos that sing to me, these are some of them.
Enjoy!
Images above Sunshine Poschinger Dragon 2010 digital print. Chinese Dragon at Nundle go for Gold Festival April 2010
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Sunshine Poschinger
Sun -kissed 2010 digital print Country Road Niangala
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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