Arctic Winds Workshop in July

During the last holiday program in July, Centrehouse Arts Centre, in partnership with Lane Cove Council hosted two Free Grandparents and Grandkids printing workshops. The theme was Arctic Winds, which was very suitable for our wintery holiday days. Tutor and artist Margaret Vickers shared her experiences from her latest trip to the Arctic, where she was fascinated by the wildlife and landscape, in particular the black and white puffins with their red beaks, the icebergs with freezing windy conditions.

The participants were shown how to create marks and lay down watery washes to create the many layered communal artworks. Margaret Vickers used a hairdryer to conjure up the blowy windy conditions, creating wispy and whirly marks.

Here are some pictures of the final prints with some in progress shots as well. As you can see, there were some amazing outcomes with new skills in art making conveyed.
 

 

A New Year of Wishes

The Sustainable Wishing Tree, community sculpture that was created by members of the public at the Lane Cove Men’s Shed, led and designed by sculptor Mark Swartz was completed late last year before we closed for the holidays. Now with the tree on display Centrehouse & Gallery Lane Cove started the new year with some great kids and grandparents workshops to create the beautiful paper wishes to complete the community project.

We had french paper artist Marine Coutroutsios here to help the groups create special paper wishes on seed paper to hang on the wishing tree. These  papers are filled seeds from native Australian flowers so we will wait & watch to see if any of these wishes fall and turn into new flowers.

One of our wonderful groups hard at work

                                        some of the lovely wishes.....

Please stop and read these very sweet wishes if you are passing by !

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

New Impressions

Currently at Gallery Lane Cove we have a group of artists showcasing their new impressions of some of the famous spots many of the great Impressionist have painted.

Impressions and Connections - Journeying and Art

 An Exhibition of Participants Works from the ‘Art Impressions’ France Tour  Nov 2012.

Members of the Impressions Art Tour 2012:       

Anne Davidson, Vanessa Collins, Diana Garth, Dorothy Gosby, Pamela Fairburn, Christine Johnston, Susan Lucena, Jennifer Palmer, Nerryl Roper, Annie and Mike Richards, Lesley Richman, Linda Simonis, Virginia Ware, Adrienne Witteman.

 Adrienne Whitteman, MD of Trendsetters Travel and Cruise Centre, who organised and led the tour spoke at the Opening on Wednesday Night , giving an insight into the groups experience on this art journey to the sights of the Impressionist around France.   

Exhibiting Artists Dorothy Grosby, Pamela Fairburn & Friend

 Adrienne Whitteman and Friends

 The group are exhibiting a collection of work created on or inspired by the the tour 

Exhibiting Artist Susan Lucena & Robin Dillon

Saturday 5th Oct at 11am, saw the artist attend the gallery for an artist talk & tea session with a Q & A  led by Tour leader artist Pamela Fairburn. We had a great group where all the artist discussed their work, inspiration and travel. 

The exhibition continues until the 12th October so don't miss out. 

FLOWING

Wednesday Night saw the opening of the latest exhibition from printmaking group Open Bite, now in their twenty-second year, with their exhibition of printmaking Flow.

Linda Galbraith open bite member speaks at the opening night

 The exhibition was officially opened by artist and master printmaker Bernhardine Mueller and the celebration continued as guests mingled with the artists and enjoyed the new works.

Maragret Vickers, Laura Carey & Bernhairdine Muller

The many and varied Open Bite printmakers have been delighted to dive right in and paddle about in this year’s exhibition theme. They have applied their individual approaches and wide ranging printmaking techniques to produce a pool of works depicting watery worlds, creatures of the deep, figures in motion and the steady ebb and flow of a lifespan.

With a collection on the theme of Flow, this fresh exhibition exploring the medium from etching, lino and woodcut to en-caustic wax tiles and installations aims to make a splash. 

Jo Morris Return to Waitahanui Paper Sculpture Installation.

Dont miss the free artist’s talks and Japanese Woodblock demonstration at the Gallery, 21st September Saturday 11am which will provide an insight into the printmaking processes from conception to completion.

Exhibition continues until the 27th September.