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MEETING DATES
TRG Friends meet at TRG Meeting Room - 5:30 pm on the second Monday
of the month.
11 February, 10 March , 7 April, 12 May, Tuesday 10 June, 14 July, 11 August, 8 Setember, 13 October, 10 November.
First Thursday Threads
The current workshops involve design exercises using a selection of still life objects collected by the participants. The next session will be on Thursday 6 December 2007. This will be a continuation of the November activity. Materials list is the same and you are most welcome to join in. It’s not necessary to have been to the November workshop.
First Thursday Threads meet in the TRG Esther Halliday Studio between 10.00 am and 3.00 pm on the first Thursday of each month. No fees or charges involved!
The group will have a break for Christmas and January.
Thursday 7 February 2008 will be the first meeting for next year.
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FROM THE FRIENDS
An important role of the Friends is the provision of funds for the acquisition of works for the gallery collections.
Friends acquisitions 2000 to 2007
1999-2000 Lena Pwerie Awely and Bush Tucker Utopia batik
Nora Petyarre Gum Flower Utopia batik
Joy Petyarre Pencil Yam Flower Utopia batik
2000-01 M Cornwell Pawnbroker Olympic City Cartoon
Kat Campbell-Pope Guitar mixed media Ada Bird Petyarre Awely Utopia batik silks
2002-03 Jean Isherwood Storm Clouds Over Hill
George Gittoes The Preacher
Abigail Howell Pacific Hair Dress, Vulcanite Combs,
Hait Gown, Wave miniature tapestries
Patrick Snelling Garden Wear fibre
2004-05 Greg Leong Bagua Ying Yang quilt
Nine artworks (screenprints) from Maningrida
2006-07 Liz Williamson Dark D’oyley Jacquard weaving
Julie Gough Navigator blankets, shells, wire,
plastic, string
Irmina van Niele Carrying Loss found plastic
shopping bags cut and knitted
Glenys Mann Horizon Series #19 Sweat of the Land
Michelle Hungerford Tracks charcoal and pigment
on paper
Gabrielle Collins Landscape XIV oil on canvas
Landscape XV oil on board
Total value of above artworks purchased: approx $23,000
Over many years the Friends Acquisition Fund has made a significant contribution to the Gallery’s collection of works. A special Friends Acquisitions Exhibition has been programmed for 2009 to provide the opportunity for our local and regional audience to appreciate what has been achieved.
Jan Hurcum President
Peter Hooper Vice President
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BA
Hosted by art critic John McPhee (an Australian Country Style
writer) this art education day examines the close relationship
between art, architecture and the decorative arts, including
interior design, furniture, silver, and ceramics in Australian art.
The disturbing art of the Second World War and the particularly
Australian imagery of Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, Russell
Drysdale and Frances Burke will be considered in relation the
architecture of the period, including work by Roy Grounds and
Guilford Bell. The 1960s and ‘70s abstraction of artists such
as Ralph Balson, Tony Tuckson and Robert Klippel, and the
international modernism of a younger generation in the late
1960s, including Gunter Christman, Dick Watkins and Peter
Booth, and the emergence of contemporary Aboriginal art, will
be considered as a background to the complexity of Australian
art of the late 20th century.
When
Saturday, 29th September 2007, 10am till 4pm
Venue
Michael Reid at Murrurundi
Boyd Street, Murrurundi, the Upper Hunter, NSW
Cost
$100 including lunch and morning and afternoon tea & coffee
Limited seating, so please book early
Lecturer
John McPhee worked in Australian art museums for 25 years.
He was the founding Curator of Australian Decorative Arts and
later Senior Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of
Australia, and Deputy Director at the National Gallery of
Victoria. He is the author of books on the colonial artists John
Glover and Joseph Lycett, and Australian decorative arts.
Bookings
Book on line at www.michaelreid.com.au
For those unable to access the web, and please only telephone
as a last resort, call the Sydney office on 02 8353 3500 and
we will take all your details and send out an invoice.
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