Eve Vonwiller Youth Art Awards

Congratulations to all the artists who exhibited in this year's Eve Vonwiller Youth Art Awards. The opening ceremony and awards were held on Monday night and we were packed to the rafters in the new Gallery Lane Cove. Councillor and Mayor of Lane Cove, Win Gaffney, officially opened the awards for us and the Willoughby Girls String Ensemble entertained everyone as people were amazed by the variety and exuberance of the artworks on display.

There were over 60 entries, coming from almost 15 different schools across the region. Chatswood Primary, Eastwood Public, Greenwich Public, Glenhaven Public, Lane Cove Public & Lane Cove West Primary, Lindfield Public, Marist Sisters Woowich, North Sydney Girls High, Our Lady Help of Christians, Our Lady of Dolours, Pymble Public, Ravenswood School for Girls and Roseville College.

Nicole Vonwiller, daughter of Eve Vonwiller, the generous artist and teacher who the awards are named in honour, attended the exhibition and said they were the 'best awards ever'.

A big thank you to our esteemed judges, Chrissie Lloyd, president of the Lane Cove Art Society and local awarding winning artist John Perkins. Our sponsors, Eckersleys Art  were very generous again this year,  providing vouchers and art materials to help inspire the winning artists.

The Awards are for artists aged 5 - 17 years and this years awards went to:

Section 1: Kindy - Year 2
Winner: Jennie Wang for Birthday Celebration

Judges notes: Jennie's artwork showed a fun celebration of family life with friends, centred around a birthday. Excellent use of colour, quirky, with a strong composition.

Very Highly Commended: Isabelle Aiken
Highly Commended: Hannah Fisher
Commended: Roseca Peng

Section 2: Year 3 - Year 6
Winner: Gautirya Muralietharan for The Glowing Balloon Wonder

Judges notes: Gautiryas' painting in oil, showed good handling of a difficult medium. The colour relationships of the figures and balloons was well thought out. Attention to detail around the edges of the canvas shows a developed approach to this work.

Highly Commended: Mia Solomon
Commended: Stephanie Dunn
Commended: Diaz Frost

High School:
Winner: Catherine Zhang for her sculpture, Love. Catherine won a $300 cash prize from Centrehouse Arts Centre, a $100 gift voucher and art materials from Eckersleys Art.

Judges notes: The concept of the hooks representing people was very creative and the sculpture was skilfully made using flour clay/dough.

Commended: Olivia Akopian

images:

1. group of award winners

top left: Felicity Martin, Manager Gallery Lane Cove, Clr Win Gaffney, Mayor of Lane Cove,Diaz Frost, Mia Solomon, Laura Carey, Gallery Assistant Gallery Lane Cove, Marie James, Centrehouse teacher and Committee Member, Award winners: Stephanie Dunn, Olivia Akpoian, Gautirya Muralietharan, Catherine Zhang. photo by Bronwyn Clarke, Lane Cove Alive

Front Row, left: Isabelle Aitken, Hanna Fisher, Roseca Peng.

2. Jackie, Mila and Silvio Piccardi in front of display case showing Mila and Silvio's books. photo by Bronwyn Clarke, Lane Cove Alive

3. View of the exhibition and the showcase of pottery from Centrehouse kids holiday program

4. Artwork by Jennie Wang, winner of Section 1

5. Gautirya Muralietharan with her winning artwork, The Glowing Balloon Wonder. photo by Laura Carey

6. Winning artwork by winner of the high school section, Love, sculpture by Catherine Zhang

7. The grown ups: from left, Bruce Fraser, from Recreation Rendevouz, Craig Wrightson incoming General Manager and Peter Brown outgoing General Manager, Lane Cove Council, Kay Freedman, Vice President Centrehouse Committee.

8. Mia Solomon with her Highly Commended sculpture of air-dry clay, Party Animals.

UPCOMING.....

From the Studio paintings by Annie Pavlovic & Panchali Sheth have gone... 

 

From the Studio exhibition by Annie Pavlovic and Panchali Sheth was a very successful exhibition and Gallery Lane Cove would like to congratulate them both for such an amazing effort. The opening night was on Wednesday 18th July and they also gave a wonderful artist talk in the Gallery on Saturday 21st July, chatting about their individual creative techniques and processes.

New Art Workshops

We also have some great new workshopscoming up at Centrehouse. First up is an Introduction to Screen printing run by print artist Laura Carey. 

Intro to Screen printing Workshop $165

For two morning workshops
PRICE INCLUDES ALL MATERIALS

FRIDAY, 31st Aug/ 7th Sept 10am-1pm

SUNDAY 2nd/ 9th September 12pm – 3pm

Would you love to learn to screen printing and make your own hand printed goodies?We will allow you to explore the technique of silkscreen printmaking for both fabric and paper. You will find out how to make both stencils and photo silk screens to create your own artwork  over this two day workshop. Our exciting classes are totally hands on and interactive, which is the best way to learn. 

Day 1 - You will learn to create and cut stencils and print your own artwork to make a set of cards and a fabric pillowcase

Day 2 - Choose your own mini project ! We will take you through the  photographic silk screen process, expose a screen with your own artwork and finally you can pick paper of fabric to print your project on . 

Centrehouse Clean up

Also we need to take this opportunity to say a big THANK YOU  to Marie James, Rita King and Janette Williams who helped us spruce up Centrehouse over the holiday break from classes. We are luck to have such great volunteers who were happy to get down and dirty with our clean up at the centre. We  are not quite finished and we will be continuing our  re- vamp so you will have to stay tuned to see the final result soon.

Opportunities for Artists, Bookmakers, Zinesters & Photographers

Gallery Lane Cove has some new opportunities for artist coming up.  We are opening up some public submissions so please read and think about submitting if your interested.

1. Call to Artists and Bookmakers

Submissions Deadline 31^st July 2012

PRINT STITCH STAPLE is an exhibition of artist’s books and zines that examines the relationship between art and the book, to be held at Gallery Lane Cove September 17^th – 5^th October.

We are looking for interesting DIY fanzines to sophisticated experimental image based artist books and zines that showcase and overview of all kinds of book and paper art, currently being made. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of an exhibition that is promoting the latest ideas to an new audience.You can find more information about the exhibition here.

We would like to invite all Zine/Artist Bookmaker and Artists to submit work to be included. Artist can submit up to 3 different works. Please send us:

            -  3-5 images of examples of your work

-  CV (with contact details) and a brief description about your art practice

Please email all submissions to centrehouse@bigpond.com.au by 31^st July 2012. All artists selected will be notified by the 13th August, via email.  Please send submissions to centrehouse@bigpond.com.au. All Artwork from selected artists must be delivered by 3^rd September. 

2. Call to Emerging Photographers

Gallery Lane Cove would like to invite you to submit work for a Public Art Commission in Lane Cove. This is an opportunity for emerging photographers to get exposure for their work in the public domain. In collaboration with the VOCE-N-ALE event, we ask photographers to respond to the theme “THE WORD IS OUT”. VOCE-N-ALE is an all inclusive cultural and social event with a broad scope of expression being held as a final salute to the The Year of Reading 2012 that captures our collective voices by Lane Cove Alive and the Lane Cove Library. The photographer selected will be offered an exhibition, which will hang in the outdoor forecourt, outside Gallery Lane Cove, which will engage the local community in the visual language of photography and reflect on the above theme.

The winning photographer will have their body of work printed on 12 outdoor canvas panels to, and includes approximately 12 -13 images. A fee of $2000 will be paid to the photographer for their images

              - 3-5 images of your work

              - CV (with contact details) A brief statement about your art practice

                           -  Outline of your proposed body of work for exhibition

Please note that the images will be blown up on canvas in the dimension 750mm wide x 1150mm high, so portrait shaped images are recommended. See below images of previous exhibitions.

    Please email all submissions to centrehouse@bigpond.com.au by the 31^st July 2012.      

     We look forward to hearing form you !

Studio's & Sculptures

Pamela Fairburn's exhibition Waterstories has just come down and I know that everyone will be sad to see it go. We had many busy days with lots of visitors during the three week exhibition and a packed house at her artist talk on Saturday 2nd June. 

We now have Laura Jade showing her small sculptures "White Parazoa"  in the Library Square Sculpture Plinth. It is a series of small sculptures initially inspired by the Victorian era. The geometric forms reference the designs of neck ruffles and lace of the period, whilst also referencing the appearance of cabinets of curios and the rise in scientific discoveries in the 17th- 19th centuries. The work also draws upon the ideas in the illustrations of biologist Ernst Haeckel in Art Forms in Nature focusing on sea creatures and the array of symmetrical and geometrical patterns found in living organisms.

Laura Jade is an artist currently living in Lane Cove, Sydney. Laura completed her BFA at the National Art School in 2007 and has since been involved in Australian group shows, was an awarded finalist in the prestigious Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize and had a solo exhibition of her paintings at Lane Cove music & cultural center last year. Laura’s art practice is inspired by Science and Natural History. Laura's sculptures are on exhibit in the Plinth until the 20th June when they will be heading to Adelaide where they have been shortlisted for the Waterhouse Natural History Prize. Find out more about Laura Jade.

Felicity has just arrived back from visiting Panchali Sheth and Annie Pavlovic at Artarmon Artist Studios where they are working on their  upcoming exhibition " From the Studio" at Gallery Lane Cove 17 - 28  July . Don't miss their Opening night on Wednesday 18th July at 6pm. Click here for more information.

Art News from the Gallery

Our current exhibition Beauty In the Beast, photographs by Gary Steer, opened on Wednesday 9th May. The keynote address was given by Stephanie Hart of the Taronga Foundation, who gave a wonderful talk about Gary Steers, particularly his work with the animals from the Zoo. The exhibition of animal portraiture and landscapes is part of the Head on Photo Festival currently running throughout Sydney and continues until Friday 18th May so if you haven't seen it yet make sure to come down and visit. 

Felicity Martin, Ruth Law, Gary Steer, Stephanie Hart

                                                                     Max & Linda Jones, Jenny Piper

Gary also gave an artist talk on Saturday 12th, taking everyone through his photography practice and guiding them around  his exhibition piece by piece. We had a great crowd and it was a wonderful way to see the exhibition and get an insight into all the intriguing places Gary has visited.

 Next Exhibition will be Pamela Fairburn's show, Water Stories, from the Shores of Lane Cove. Opening Night Drinks will be on the Friday 25th May from 6pm.Pamela is a Sydney Watercolour and Mixed Media Artist with over 30 years experience in Art and Art Education. She has a Bachelor of Education (Art), Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts and has taught Art in high schools, Special Education, Painting Workshops at Combined Art Societies Meroo Kurrajong, Bathurst Mitchell Art School. She formed the local art group “Woodford Bay Art Group” in 1986 and tutors in her studio at Longueville Sydney.

She has won many art awards and has been shown in many group and solo exhibitions. She is a Member of Lane Cove Art Society and is an Exhibiting Member of Royal Art Society. Pamela organises and leads art tours and workshops here in Australia and overseas. Pamela Fairburn’s recent mixed media paintings showing here explore the concept of Time and Tide, History, Place and Relationships. She is a “water person”, loves the beaches, surf, sailing and living close to the harbour, and water has always fascinated her. It is a recurring theme over her many years painting. In these new works her subject is based on the watery environments of harbour bays. The symbolism of floating leaves and harbour waters relates to the human condition, stories of past inhabitants and Impermanence, Fragility and Continuity of Life. Experimental watercolour combined with hot wax, encaustic, wax pastels, dry pigments and collage are used on handmade papers. These unite to form floating images and layered textures. Bush, mudflats, rockpools, flora and fauna of the Northern shores of Sydney are explored and celebrated. Her trip to Japan last year influenced her art work. She travelled there just after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. There was shock, sadness and disbelief there but the people still celebrated the beauty of the “Sakura”….cherry blossoms! The meditative atmosphere and Zen’s “being in the moment”, capturing the “Essence” and “Meaning” has become all important. It is also seen in her materials; the fine fragile handmade “washi” papers… rice, mulberry, wood fibres and bamboo. The compositions and formats are similar to scrolls and Japanese screens and much of her brushwork, monoprinting techniques, and use of gold and silver have close links to Asian Art. Her interest in textiles and hot wax Batik printing is also displayed in these paintings. Pamela loves exploring the foreshores of Lane Cove, Northwood, Greenwich, Longueville, Woodford Bay and Tambourine Bay. She finds sheltered rockpools, washed up treasures, flotam and jetsam, angophora gums dipping into the ripples on the water’s edge, light changing on the water and watches the wading birds on the mangrove flats so close to the city. The role of the story teller is an old one. Through her paintings Pamela paints the stories of her imaginary watery world, looking back through time to where others have been before, and where we are now. Nature and Life continues to flourish around our foreshores, quietly but celebratory…..the story continues.


The exhibition continues until 8 June, make sure you see the amazing talent of this local artist.

Gallery News

We have been very busy in Gallery Lane Cove. Teaching Art a curated exhibition of work by our teachers and artists from Centrehouse Arts Centre has just finished after a three week show along with some great free artist talks by David Pavich, Jane Blundell and Marie James. 

Coming up we have a packed schedule! First up is artXtra the annual show by the Lane Cove Art Society, it will be showing over the weekend of the 4-6th May for 3 days only so you will have to be quick. We will have the opening night with drinks on Friday 4th May at 6pm.

2011 Winner of the Lyod Rees Prize

Next up is a collection of photographic by Gary Steer Beauty In The Beast, which is part of the Head on Photo Festival which will be held throughout Sydney from May to early June and includes 200 events in 100 venues. The emphasis of the festival is on the genre of portraiture and Gary challenges the traditional idea of the portrait, using non-humans as the model or muse. 

Gary finds animals are excellent models as ‘there is no need to dress them for the shoot as they have their own fashion colours and some of them, particularly birds, have their own millinery’.  He wanted to show their intrinsic beauty, to capture their character, even the personality of some of them, and to present them with dignity.Working particularly at Taronga's Sydney and Western Plains Zoos and visiting the National Zoo Canberra, Adelaide Zoo and Mogo Zoo, Gary has captured the exotic and the fierce, from the baboon, gorilla chimpanzee, gibbon, zebra, giraffe, meerkat and lion.

Portrait of the King, Gary Steer

The exhibition opens on Tuesday 8 May, with the Drinks on Wednesday, 9 May from 6pm. The exhibition runs through to Friday 18 May and Gary will be available for a free artists talk on Saturday 12 May from
11am, where you can get the inside story to his art practice. 

We have just launched the new Lane Cove Library Sculpture Plinth which is part of the Lane Cove Council Public Art Strategy. We are currently displaying "Little Boxes" a mixed media sculpture by Laura Carey an artist and teacher at Centrehouse Arts Centre. If your interested in displaying work you can email us at: centrehouse@bigpond.com

We look forward to seeing you in the gallery over the next couple of weeks.