And the winners are..

This Wednesday we opened the "Into the Future" Eve Vonwiller Youth Art Awards exhibition. The Mayor of Lane Cove, Cr. David Brooks Horn and this years judge Jane Blundell were here to announce the winner of the three sections.   

Mayor of Lane Cove, Cr David Brooks Horn with Galaxy Girl

 Judge Jane Blundell handing out the awards on Wednesday night at Gallery Lane Cove

Daniel Doyle winner of the High School Section with his works"Limitless and Colouphant"

 Mia Solomon winner of the Upper Primary Section with her creation "Man into the Future"

Oscar Roche Winner of the Lower Primary Section with his winning entry

 "Robots Taking over Year 10 Trillion"

We had a fun night with Galaxy Girl entertaining everyone as people took in the variety,energy and imagination of the artworks on display. Thanks to all the amazing artist who submitted work for this years competition, it has created a fantastic exhibition looking at this futuristic theme. Please come and visit us at the gallery to see these wonderful works on display until the 6th September.

Lastly a big thank you to our esteemed judge, Jane Blundell and The Mayor of Lane Cove, Cr.David Brooks Horn. Our sponsors, The Art Scene and The Lane Cove Art Society who were generous this year,  providing vouchers and art materials to help inspire the winning artists.

HOLIDAY FUN

We have just wrapped up another Kids Holiday Session at Centrehouse, we had two weeks with lots of new faces and interesting ideas!

Picasso inspired chalk portraits

Victorian inspired costume portraits

We are so excited that we had artist Laura Jade Hindes taking some brand new over 11's workshops for us this term. They were such a huge success with some fantastic fashion and portrait drawing, we will definitely have to do some more over 11's classes next time.

Fashion Sketching in action

We were happy to welcome a few new teachers to the Centrehouse team this holidays. Along with Laura Jade Hindes, sculptor and teacher Mark Swartz brought a new three dimensional edge to our program running some wire sculpture and jewellery classes along with some of our every popular pottery workshops. Finally we also welcome artist and teacher Szilvia Gyorgy who came on board to do some fantastical pottery and painting with us. 

Some Winter Trees and Charcoal Owls

As always, all our classes were bursting with fun and creativity coming up with some fantastic artworks. Now we wanted to remind you all that all these new creations can be entered into the Eve Vonwiller Youth Art Awards 2014 coming up at Gallery Lane Cove or even make something new!

This year's theme is INTO THE FUTURE entries are due by the 6th August.

Get your entry form here.

Collagraph Printing with Bernhardine Mueller

Last month, artist Bernhardine Mueller ran her yearly print workshop in the Centrehouse Print Studio, with some amazing results. There were seven students, a mix of seasoned print makers and absolute beginners who made their collagraph plates from mount board off cuts (a much cheaper option than copper and metal plates). Once the design is scratched, cut and/or collaged on, the whole plate is covered with shellac to ensure the ink does not seep into the plate.

Collagraphs are unique in their ability to create textures from fabrics, ephemera, paper, bark etc, as long as the textures are thin and will not damage the press when the plate goes through the rollers.

Centrehouse has two presses available for students and you can see the great results below.

 



Bernhardine Mueller working her magic with student



Finished prints

Inking up the plates

Inking up with multiple colours

Working the press

Finished print

Inked up plate

Thanks again to Bernhardine for taking the class. We are very fortunate to have such a skilled and passionate print maker and artist to inspire other artists and students.

If you are interested in joining print making workshops or classes, please contact Centrehouse or Gallery Lane Cove on 9428 4898 and put your name on our wait list.

Artist in Residence Program / Rent the Print Studio