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.

Not one but two!

Friday 23rd August saw the opening of not one but two of Centrehouse's Art Prizes. The Eve Vonwiller Youth Art Award for primary and secondary students, and the Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award for emerging artists were opened one after the other in adjacent gallery spaces within Gallery Lane Cove. Whilst the double opening promised for a busy evening, the overwhelming response to calls for entries into the Lloyd Rees Award insured this would be the case, with entries exceeding those of previous years. As a biennial event, this exhibition of the Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award is the first time the award has been held within Centrehouse's relatively new premises of Gallery Lane Cove, previously being presented within the Lane Cove Council Building.

Both openings were a huge success. The diversity of work and high standard of entries overwhelmed visitors to the gallery and made difficult work for the judges.

Artists Ann Cape, Kevin Connor and Guy Warren judged the Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award, naming South Australian artist Loique Allain as the overall award winner for her large scale lino print work Bull Creek Road. Loique traveled all the way from Adelaide to attend the event and accept her award. Highly Commended went to Sydney based artist Edgar Schilter for his work San Miguel De Tacuman 21, Commended to Fiona Ryan for Bridle Track (Hill End), and special mentions went to Georgia Fanning, Oliver Stokes Hughes and Alice Pulvers.

Loique Allain with her winning work Bull Creek Road

Highly Commended Prize winner Edgar Schilter with his work San Miguel De Tacuman 21

Whilst the Lloyd Rees Award drew entrants from across Australia, the Eve Vonwiller remains a local art prize, concentrating on students from schools in the North Shore area. Mayor Scott Bennison opened the festivities and then handed over to the Award's judge, artist Yve Close to present the certificates and prizes.

Angela Zhou was the winner of the High School section and Rosa Wei received a highly commended award, both students from Burwood Girls High School. In the Upper Primary section (Year 3-6) Isabelle Fisher of Currambena School won first prize, Highly Commended went to Inika Sunder of Eastwood Public School and Jessica Procopio of Greenwich Primary School received a Commended Award. In the Lower Primary section (Year K-2) Oscar Roche of Holy Family Catholic Primary won first prize, Olivia Cheng of Ryde Public School received a Highly Commended Award and the Commended Award went to Owen Khamlu of Lane Cove Public School. 

Catching up with Yuria Okamura

Yuria Okamura won the 2011 Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award and we are catching up with her while she is doing a residency in Berlin at the Takt Residency Berlin Friedrichshain

Yuria, you won the Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award Prize back in 2011, how did the prize money help support your art practice?

The prize money has enabled me to undertake an artist residency program in Berlin for three months. It has been very inspiring to be able to work in a different city and meet artists from all over the world.

I noticed that you were part of a number of group shows last year. Can you give us an idea on what you have been working on, how your work has progressed and in particular your installation, Shifting that you made for the exhibition at Langford 120 in July 2012.

Since I received the award in 2011 until now, I have been building on similar ideas and trying out different references, mediums, techniques and presentation to explore how to best communicate my ideas. With Shifting, 2012, I wanted to create something that worked with the space I was given and I wanted to try working outside of the static nature of painting. So, based on a series of drawings of shapes I had made previously, I made larger cutout shapes that hover off the wall, creating shadow, reflection and a sense of movement.

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   Installation view of Shifting at Langford 120

   1. approx 200 x 500cm 

You graduated in 2010, how have you managed to keep making work, after leaving the structure of educational institutions?

For emerging artists, I think it is often hard to find a good balance between paid work, personal/social life and art practice, which includes both research and making. After graduating, I have made an effort to keep working as if I was still at Uni. I got a studio space where I can work amongst other artists and give each other feedback. I also give myself a deadline for each work to be completed so I can manage my time better. 

What’s next for Yuria and do you have any projects planned for the future?

I tend to alternate between experiment and refinement phases. I seem to be going through the experiment phase at the moment and enjoying creating a variety of small studies. So we'll see what comes out of them!

I'm hoping to keep researching  and developing my ideas while exploring different ways to represent them, and I would like to have one solo show per year. Also, I think artist residencies provide wonderful opportunities to meet artists from all over the world and I hope to do it every couple of years.

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   1. Inside is Outside, Outside is Inside, 2012, Acrylic, ink and rice paper on wall.
      Installation view from Seventh exhibition.
      

   Check out more of Yurias' work at her blogsite. Thanks Yuria for letting us know how you are going and I hope your residency in Berlin goes well. What a fabulous opportunity and I am sure alot of fun and hard work. It's great to see that the Award money has helped you continue your journey in art making.