Bobbie Cox

East Gallery

4 April–3 May

Bobbie Cox

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Recent Works–Jochen Kruse

West Gallery

4 April–3 May

In addition to oil paintings, new watercolour paintings and pen & ink drawings again demonstrate Jochen’s confidence and skill to not only fully describe his subjects with simple, eloquent lines and bold colours but to also imbue them with life and humour. The literal and the absurd, the realistic and the surreal with goats, boats and all sorts of people make this a great exhibition.

Jochen Kruse

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Fabrications

Rosemary Hepworth & Daphne Mihan

1 March–26 March East Gallery

Rosemary and Daphne use fabric and yarns like other artists use paint. Their work is naively expressed but rich in motif, decoration and narrative. Birds, dogs, cats and boats are just some of the subjects that come to life through strong composition and vibrant colours.Rosemary Hepworth – artist statement

“A continuing theme for this exhibition is ‘birds’. Portraying birds in various ways on each piece of work is a way of drawing people into the image.

My work is overtly decorative, rich in colour, texture and still echoing my painting and printmaking roots as well as my love of naively expressed subjects.

I use a variety of silk, yarns and fabrics; hand dyed, natural or synthetic and recycled materials such as beads.”

Daphne Mihan – artist statement

“The sewn images in Fabrications are mainly in the appliqué technique. I have used wool felting in a couple of works as well as the appliqué. Materials include new fabric, old saris, bags and fabrics given to me, some I embellish with sequins and beads.

My subject matter is similar to my paintings, etchings and pen and ink drawings but doing the appliqué pieces is a recent exploration and has been a challenge.

My inspirations have been East Gippsland, especially boats and boat stories, life in general, animals and other artists.”

Fabrications
Rosemary Hepworth & Daphne Mihan

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A (f)route-based exhibition

Josephine Jakobi

1 March–26 March West Gallery

Fruit Futures
Josephine Jakobi

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Cut with the kitchen knife

A NETS Victoria touring exhibition curated by Emily Jones

8–26 February

Cut with the kitchen knife surveys the current manifestations of collage in contemporary art; a movement which takes as its starting point the absurdist collages arising from the highly influential Dadaist movement of the early twentieth century.

Less concerned with addressing the problems of the picture plane and more those of an existential nature, works on paper have been selected from contemporary Australian and international artists who traverse the surface, relay absurdisms and reorganise obsessive collections.

Collage is defined by the action of physical cutting and pasting, a term that has now been redefined for the digital age. This action of cutting and pasting is an act of destruction of the old and the re-construction of the new. For this reason collage presents itself as the perfect tool to question the established order of the world; the cultural assumptions that we make about life, women, different races, consumer choices, and political systems.

Featuring works by artists including Christian Capurro, Simon Evans, Elizabeth Gower, Mandy Gunn, Deborah Kelly, Nicholas Mangan, Stuart Ringholt, Joan Ross and Heather Shimmen, Cut with the kitchen knife explores the use of collected material; arranging and reordering as a means of interacting with, and thus shaping, the physical world.

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Collage workshop with Jenny Toye

Date: Saturday 16 February 2013

1 day workshop

Venue: Advance TAFE, Princes Highway, Bairnsdale

Art Room

Time: 9.30am for 10am start until 4pm

Cost: $85 per participant

Morning & afternoon refreshments supplied but bring your own lunch.

This collage workshop is being run as part of the program for Cut with the kitchen knife a NETS Victoria touring exhibition curated by Emily Jones and as a fundraising event for Books …beyond words - revolution.

Cut with the kitchen knife opens on Friday, 8 February, and surveys the current manifestations of collage in contemporary art; the arranging and reordering of collected material as a means of interacting with, and thus shaping, the physical world.

Participants will design and assemble a collage in a square, rectangle or circular format. There are 3 themes to choose from – participants to choose 1 theme:

1. Cut with the kitchen knife
   • Collect images of soldiers heads, officers uniforms, popular French postcards/posters and flotsam and jetsam
   • Collect images of your choice, sculpture/paintings/drawings etc as well as flotsam and jetsam
   • Collect images of human beings in all guises, animals, birds, reptiles and flotsam and jetsam
2. Appropriation of art both contemporary & historic
3. Create a hybrid – part animal, part human

Spaces for this workshop are limited to 15 (first in basis) and payment is required by 31 January. A materials list will be sent to participants on receipt of payment.

Floor talk with Mandy Gunn

Date: Saturday, 23 February at 11am

Mandy Gunn, a well-known Gippsland artist, is one of eight Australian artists represented in Cut with the kitchen knife showing at EGAG until 23 February.

Mandy will talk about her art practice, her influences and methods and about her involvement in this exhibition.

After the talk join the Friends of EGAG and Mandy for further conversation over coffee & cake.

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Summer Showcase

East and West Galleries

8 January - 29 January

Summer Showcase highlights the quality and range of artwork made by East Gippsland artists to visitors to the region over summer. It is also an excellent opportunity to provide visitors with more information about local studios and galleries and to promote those artists that offer to do work on commission.

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Fine Art for Fine Presents

East and West Galleries

30 November - 21 December

East Gippsland artists produce an amazing diversity of artwork and just some of that can be seen in the annual Christmas exhibition Fine Art for Fine Presents.

The exhibition has become extremely popular with both artists and visitors. Fine Art for Fine Presents includes decorative and functional items. As well as paintings, textile art and felt, glass, jewelry, small sculptures in various materials, wooden items and ceramics amongst other things are all on display.

There are also handmade Christmas tree decorations, again in a range of materials, that would give character to any tree.

Fine Art for Fine Presents is the last exhibition before the summer holiday break and it is an ideal opportunity to publicly acknowledge the work of the Management Committee, Friends and Volunteers and to thank them for their generous contribution to EGAG. Volunteers support EGAG in many ways and new members who would like to become involved in the arts are always welcome.

Fine Art FFP 2012

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TAFE Bairnsdale Diploma of Visual Art

Final Year Exhibiton - Redefining Reality

2 November - 27 November
Opening Friday 2 November 6pm

Tafe Dip. Visual Art 2012

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Heritage Network East Gippsland

Eat, Drink and be Merry

28 September - 16 November

A snapshot of food and drink in East Gippsland from settlement to the 1980's

EatDrinkbeMerry

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The Sun is Shining and the Weather is Sweet

31 August - 25 September

Samo

When local artist Linden Dean participated in the 43^rd International Naïve Artists’ workshop in Trebnje, Slovenia in June 2010, she met another artist, Samo Jurecic and on showing images of his work to EGAG it was decided to bring Samo and his work, to Bairnsdale.

Samo’s style is categorized as orthodox infantilism, a new trend in Slovenian art and described by Sarival Sosič as “a mixture sparkling with childlike ingenuity and subtly attuned to the tragicomedy of everyday life”.

The images Samo creates to comment on the central issues of birth, life, love and death, are filled with recurring symbols, among other things, of a bird, a heart, a tear, a man, a woman, a bottle, an arrow, the Euro and the question mark. In many works, the image area is energized with lines, motifs and a multitude of characters or fragments that invoke the confusion of everyday life and its complex situations. The lack of support within the composition for these motifs gives the impression that they are hurtling around the picture space and it intensifies the sensation of life erupting around the artist.

In an overview of Samo’s last exhibition, Sarival Sosič wrote

“(the exhibition) presents a complete picture of the artist’s view of life, his insightful awareness of the shifts in the world of today ……

According to the artist, the sense of beauty is disappearing in Europe, love is becoming superficial, compassion is being engulfed by the all-pervasive greed, everyone is in a hurry, rushing with unrestrained abandon along familiar ways, increasingly hemmed in by machines.”

Initially Samo’s works can seem amusing, they are bright and vibrant and the motifs are often whimsical but on closer inspection the viewer becomes aware of his deadly serious, but subtle, humour that is his expressive response to everyday life.

To quote Sarival Sosič again, “Finding one’s way about the variety of motifs and subjects in Samo’s works is a unique pleasure.”

Samo

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Contemporary Art Naïve

31 August - 25 September

Naïve Five

In 1992 a number of students joined naïve artist Gwen Clark for painting lessons at the then BACE (now Community College East Gippsland). Over the years, some have gone on to establish classes in their own communities and a core group persisted and is still painting in Bairnsdale today under the name Contemporary Art Naïve.

The Contemporary Art Naïve group has built a reputation for well-received local exhibitions. As well, many individuals successfully sell their works in various outlets, locally, in metropolitan venues and interstate.

Strong, bold colours are often a signature of works by the Contemporary Art Naïve group and pattern is a common dominant device. But underlying these obvious distinctive features the artists can show a keen sense of observation and a wry way of expressing their view of the mundane.

Pam Barrass, Linden Dean, Julie Hollingsworth, Yvonne Maddern and Lyndell Mahlook are all established artists who have been painting for many years. Their work is confident and the variety of subjects and situations depicted in their works will provide an enjoyable and entertaining visit.

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Fusion Fibre Arts Network Inc Contemporary Textiles

29 June -24 July

West & East Galleries

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Ephemeral sculpture EG Rail Trail & installation at EGAG
Trail & exhibition open 4 May

To be asked to ‘work with only what can be found on site’ is extremely challenging for any artist but that’s exactly what the artists involved with slow-e-motion have been asked to do.

slow-e-motion is an EGAG project in partnership with East Gippsland Rail Trail and will result in a series of ephemeral sculptures in situ along certain sections of the rail trail as well as artworks inspired by these sites in the West Gallery at EGAG. Documentation of the project will be shown in the East Gallery.

Three different locations along the trail were identified with the help of EG Rail Trail and 7 local artists were then invited to participate in the project;
• Ian Keegan and Kath Ellison worked in the cutting along Stephenson’s Road near Mossiface,
• Joyce Nowrungsah and Cheri O’Donnell were quite inspired by the area around the Stony Creek trestle bridge near Nowa Nowa and the history of the rail line,
• Gwenneth Poore, Marion Dawson and Val Jones chose sections at the far end of the rail trail near Preston’s Road at Newmerella.

During the project artists heard from Michael Oxer, Chair, EG Rail Trail committee about the development of the rail trail and from Tim Gibson who spoke about the history of the railway and read extracts from letters written by those working on its construction. The artists also gained a great deal by a visit from Pat Dale, an artist from Leongatha who has worked for many years with plant fibres and from Michael Shiell, an established Melbourne-based ephemeral environmental artist. Officers from the Department of Sustainability and Environment also spoke about the various issues confronting the trail from their perspective.

EG Rail Trail is a recreational trail and conservation reserve, constructed on the alignment of the former railway that ran between Bairnsdale and Orbost from 1913 to 1987. The trail is 97km long and traverses undulating grazing country, through forests and across broad rivers.

The trail can be done in sections, as much or as little as you like and can be used by walkers, cyclists and horse riders. Vehicles and trail or motor bikes are prohibited. The three sections selected for the project are all within walking distance of parking areas to make it easy for people to visit.

slow-e-motion offers visitors a different interpretation of the environments found along the trail and encourages them to begin to look at the nuances within nature. Many of the works reference the history of the development of both East Gippsland and the railway and may influence visitors to reflect on the challenges that faced the early settlers, especially the distances between towns and the services that these days are taken for granted.

The ephemeral sculptures will be in place ready for the opening of slow-e-motion on the 4 May at 6pm at EGAG and continue throughout May as EGAG’s contribution to Creative Gippsland’s month-long activities.

slow-e-motion is supported with an East Gippsland Shire Council Arts and Heritage Alliance grant.

For more information about EG Rail Trail visit www.eastgippslandrailtrail.com

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a passage thru place

16 March-3 April

West & East Galleries

Wendy Dellow Wow! Didn’t know I would have so much fun and enjoyment from play with twigs and leaves – so much so I have chosen plant textile as my medium for the passage thru place exhibition.

Yvonne Renfree Working with a group of like minded textile enthusiasts, learning new skills and with Michael Shiell mentoring us, has been a highly enjoyable and mind stretching experience for me on the journey to this exhibition.

Margaret Fox A stepping-stone to a more artistic approach to textiles: challenging, daunting, exciting.

Fusion Fibre Arts Network Inc (fusionFAN) offers 13 members a unique opportunity to work with an established artist, Michael Shiell in this major project Landscape to ARTscape. Over a series of 10 workshops participants will be exposed to contemporary issues and concerns that will challenge their concept of fibre as purely a form of craft.

Rhonda Albrecht; Helen Banks; Kay Cotter; Margaret Crocker; Wendy Dellow; Vikki Eldridge; Margaret Fox; Janet Howard; Debbie Kennedy; Sandy Mattingley; Val Quirk; Yvonne Renfree; Robbie deZwart, all members of fusionFAN, were selected through a rigorous and demanding application process.

Landscape to ARTscape will take participants on a journey through which they will explore and interpret their personal landscape – whether that landscape be internal or external. Although all those participating are skilled craftspeople with many years experience, with the guidance of Michale Shiell they will extend their ideas into more contemporary and conceptual artistic expression.

Michael Shiell (formerly from Horsham and now based in Melbourne) specialises in the field of ephemeral environmental art with his work ranging from personal, intimate interactions with space through to extremely large-scale commissioned works. Michael has also had extensive experience in community projects such as Fresh and Salty.

FusionFAN is an incorcorated group committed to furthering and fostering local craft practitioners and initiated this project to present its members with an opportunity for both personal and professional development. Landscape to ARTscape is supported through the Australian Government Regional Arts fund administered by Regional Arts Victoria.

Landscape to ARTscape commenced in October 2011 and will culminate in an exhibition at East Gippsland Art Gallery in 2012. From there, the exhibition will tour to Meeniyan, Maffra and Orbost.

East Gippsland regional Textile Art Network project - landscape to ARTSCAPE

The East Gippsland's 'landscape to ARTscape' project commenced on Saturday 15 October 2011 at EGTAFE Forestech campus and culminate in an exhibition at East Gippsland Art Gallery in 2012. There are ten workshops planned including the installing and preparation for the exhibition opening. An exhibition trail to Meeniyan, Maffra and Orbost will follow the official exhibition.

The project is made possible by the Australian Government regional arts program, the Regional Arts Fund, which gives all Australians wherever they live, better access to opportunities to practise and experience the arts. The Regional Arts Fund is administered in Victoria by Regional Arts Victoria.

‘landscape to ARTscape’ will engage skilled regional craft practitioners to facilitate the emergence of the creative individual, moving from making skilled craft to creating conceptually based works of art.

The theme will explore the sense of isolation or remoteness experienced by the practitioners and how to interpret their personal landscape (whether external or internal) artistically.

The landscape provides a wealth of materials with which to work. The program will challenge practitioners working with textile and fibre to take their practice into the field of contemporary art; exposing them to contemporary issues and concerns in art-making and introducing new ideas which challenge the concept of fibre as purely a form of craft.

Fusion Fibre Arts Network Inc. is committed to furthering and fostering local craft practitioners and has initiated this project to provide its members with the opportunity to explore and introduce them to more contemporary, conceptual artistic expression in their work.

Thirteen members of fusionFAN Inc were successful after applying through a rigorous and demanding application process overseen by the former project Artistic Director, Meg Viney and the Director East Gippsland Art Gallery, Eileen Thurgood.

The participants are Rhonda Albrecht; Helen Banks; Kay Cotter; Margaret Crocker; Wendy Dellow; Vikki Eldridge; Margaret Fox; Janet Howard; Debbie Kennedy; Sandy Mattingley; Val Quirk; Yvonne Renfree; Robbie deZwart and all participants are members of fusion Fibre Arts Network Inc.

Hand craft and artistic mediums include: textile art, mixed media, painting and illustrating, wool and silk felting, bead embellishment and all forms of embroidery, quilting, and freeform knitting and crochet. Several members have exhibited their work at textile and art exhibitions across the Gippsland region.

Lead Artist Michael Shiell [formerly from Horsham] is now a Melbourne based artist-researcher specialising in the field of Ephemeral Environmental Art. Although he creates works of this type in many locations he has a strong connection with the Wimmera environment as it was there that he was first inspired to work in this manner. Initial inspiration has continued to be integral in guiding Michael's consideration of site, materiality and the necessity, or lack thereof, of audience. His ephemeral works range from personal, intimate interactions with space through to extremely large-scale commissioned work.

Michael has worked extensively with RAV on community projects and as the lead artist of a state wide project 'Fresh and Salty', his work 'geoglyph' was created on the dry lakebed of Lake Wendouree in Ballarat. [click here for link to project information] http://www.rav.net.au/projects/past-projects/detail/2

Michael has completed his PHD in Fine Arts and his research, fed by practical works, relates to the documentation of ephemeral environmental art.

Beyond the standard processing of using photography as the sole documentary tool, Michael uses a range of artistic techniques to create lasting documentary records of his fleeting environmental interactions. These longer lasting artworks are held in private and corporate collections throughout Australia and overseas. He has presented his research outcomes at national and international conferences and is published online, in periodicals and books.

Contact: Rhonda Albrecht 03 5156 0222
email: info.fusion.fibreartsnetwork@gmail.com

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Don Dickie, Gay Evans, Rhonda Gray - Escapism - the only way to runaway without leaving home

24 February-13 March
Opens 6pm Friday, 24 February West Gallery

Don Dickie, Gay Evans and Rhonda Gray present a shared exhibition. These three friends have seen their individual arts practices grow and develop over the years.

All are extremely competent in their chosen media and the works show maturity and confidence.

Gay’s strong, bright images contrast beautifully with Don’s crisp prints and both are complimented by Rhonda’s unique perspective on her subjects.

Escapism - Don Dickie, Gay Evans, Rhonda Gray

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Cynthia Boyle - Two birds with one stone (and other stories)

February 4th - February 21st 2012
Opens 1pm Saturday 4 February West Gallery

Well-known Marlo artist Cynthia Boyle’s first love is drawing but she is also interested in colour. Lately, Cynthia has begun exploring the simplification of a subject and the application of colour to shape.

Cynthia has a background in illustration and design, has worked as a freelance artist and has taught illustration, drawing and design at University of Newcastle.

Images in this exhibition reflect Cynthia’s interests. Her keen sense of observation and skill ensures an exhibition of lively works, often whimsical, each engaging the visitor with their story.

Cynthia has won several prizes at Gippsland art exhibitions. She exhibits regularly at Feastonart Gallery in Orbost where she is a member of 136 Guild and a director. She also teaches drawing and watercolour classes and is a member of Wilderness Coast Artists and Emerald Arts Society.

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Summer showcase

January 4th - January 30th 2012

Group exhibition showcasing artworks by EG artists. This exhibition provides a ‘taste’ of the range of artworks available in East Gippsland and to encourage visitors to purchase East Gippsland artwork, works will be sold ‘off the wall’. Information about regional artists, studios and galleries is also available.

Summer Showcase 2011

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Fine Art for Fine Presents

2 December–22 December 2011

Opens 6pm Friday 2 December

An exhibition by local artists highlighting the diversity of artworks created in the region.

This is a wonderful opportunity to select and purchase ‘off the wall’ a piece of fine art for that very special Christmas gift.

Artworks include paintings, textiles, ceramics and prints as well as small items on the Christmas Tree.

Showing in the East Gallery windows are reindeers decorated by Ellen Burton and Claire Marston.

SAMO – coming in September 2012

Slovenian artist, Samo, has been invited to show at EGAG during September 2012.

One of the activities to raise the funds was a raffle of an original work by Samo, whose style is described as orthodox infantilism – a new trend in Slovenian art. The raffle was drawn at the opening of Fine Art for Fine Presents end of year exhibition and Jill Ellis was the lucky winner.

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EG Institute of TAFE Diploma of Visual Art Second Year Students

11 November–29 November

An exhibition that has all the excitement of students’ work as they investigate various media and concepts in their pursuit of establishing their artistic practice.

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TAFE Art Students 2011

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Fabulous Felt Group Details in Nature

21 October–8 November

Fabo Felters - Details in Nature

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Di Deppeler

30 September–18 October

West Gallery. 3 Rooms Reclaimed – Wood as warmth, Furniture as fun, Past as present.

Local artist, Di Deppeler’s signature sculptural furniture will transform the West Gallery at the East Gippsland Art Gallery (EGAG), Bairnsdale, into “Three rooms reclaimed” when her exhibition opens on Friday evening, 30 September.

The concept and inspiration for “Three rooms reclaimed” developed during Di’s travels in Western Australia, including her visits to restored mining towns from the last century. On her return to Clifton Creek, work began on the furniture and also the paintings that capture the colours and forms of the outback landscape and the simple interiors of the dwellings.

The exhibition showcases Di’s unusual, colourful and quirky furniture made from recycled wood gathered from many sources including opp shops and second-hand shops, the tip, friends and neighbours and wood found on travels. The recycled wood dictates the form and function of the piece of furniture and any marks of age or usage are retained to acknowledge the history and identity of its original life.

Di is passionate about recycling wood and believes that this diminishing resource should be accorded much more value. Her workshop is full of discarded timber that she collects and stores and where very little is wasted as she transforms the mundane into something new and exciting. Bedends become lounge suites, doors become bookcases, fenceposts become sculptures or tables, plates become clocks and off-cuts or unusual shapes become decorative attachments.

“Three rooms reclaimed“ is a unique and engaging installation that provides an alternative view of how three rooms could look using a little imagination and salvaged timber.

“Three rooms reclaimed” opens on Friday, 30 September at 6pm and continues until 18 October.

Di Deppler–Three Rooms Reclaimed

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Briagolong Artists Seeking the Light

9 September 27 September

Opens 1pm Saturday 10 September

The Briagolong Artists are an independent group of artists who meet regularly in a studio environment and who exhibit both independently and as a group. The exhibition highlights the diversity of media, including oil and acrylic paint, ink, pencil, charcoal and experimental print making, techniques and styles practiced by the artists.

Briagolong Artists

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Books...beyond words - evolution

Saturday 6th August - Tuesday 2nd September 2011

Opening Saturday 6th August 6pm

A collection of artist books.

This year’s Books …beyond words has again attracted entries from all over Australia as well as an increased number from overseas including USA, France, Switzerland, UK and Germany.

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  Sharon Armstead 
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  Lyn Ashby 
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  Rhonda Ayliffe 
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  Laura Carthew 
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  Angela Cavalieri 
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  Angela Cullip 
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  Fiona Dempster 
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  Di Deppler 
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  Suellen Entwisle 
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  Kathy Fahey 
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  Kathy Fahey 
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  Marie–Noelle Fontan 
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  Susan Frakes 
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  Lisa Giles 
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  Susan Goddard 
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  Sonia Grieve 
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  Mandy Gunn 
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  Janette Hanrahan 
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  Nicci Haynes 
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  Gerlinde Hofmann 
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  Gerlinde Hofmann 
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  Paola Horevicz Hurtado 
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  Paola Horevicz Hurtado 
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  Janet Kay Howard 
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  Keira Hudson 
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  Keira Hudson 
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  Stephanie Karavasilis 
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  Beryl King 
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  Odine Lang 
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  Odine Lang 
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  Odine Lang 
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  Marianne Little 
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  Helen Malone 
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  Helen Malone 
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  Helen Malone 
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  Margaret Mason 
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  Heather Matthew 
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  Deborah McArdle 
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  Kim McKechnie 
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  Jan Melville 
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  Maryann Mussared 
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  Janis Nedela 
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  Janis Nedela 
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  Lesley O' Gorman 
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  Amanda O'Sullivan 
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  Amanda O'Sullivan 
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  Nada Poljksi 
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  Sarah Ritchie 
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  MedaVeda RivesRives 
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  MedaVeda RivesRives 
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  Wilma Ellen Ross 
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  Marie Schirrmacher- Meitz  
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  Barbara Schmelzer 
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  Barry Smith 
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  Tricia Smout 
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  Wendy Sonnenburg 
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  Wendy Sonnenburg 
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  Laura Stekovic 
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  Gail Stiffe 
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  Ingrid Tufts 
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  Liz Walker 
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  Carmel Wallace 
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  Amanda Watson- Will 
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  Elise Wiener 
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  Elise Wiener 
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  Patricia Wilson 
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  Lindy Yeates 

Major Award $5,000
East Gippsland Art Gallery
Marie-Noelle Fontan, France, Melaleuca’s Book

Artist of East Gippsland Award $1000
East Gippsland Institue of TAFE
Janet K. Howard, Lakes Entrance, Bird Collector’s House

Innovation Award $1,000
Tantaro Design, Bairnsdale
Gerlinde Hofmann, Germany, Flotenrolle – Pipes Roll

• Certificate of Merit Sharon Armstead, NSW, Aust, Pages from a Landscape
• Certificate of Merit Lyn Ashby, Victoria, Aus, Twenty Minutes
• Certificate of Merit Kathy Fahey, Victoria, Aus, Modern World, A Trilogy
• Certificate of Merit Janis Nedela, WA, Aus Typo No. 30.

People’s Choice Award $500
Riviera Properties
Kim McKechnie, Melbourne, The Great Australian Dream

Pre-selection for Books…beyond words–evolution is via CD with Judges receiving all entries from which they choose those to be accepted for exhibition at EGAG. Selecting the award winners from 70 books was a very difficult task.

Judges for Books…beyond words–evolution are:

• Professor Lesley Duxbury
  Deputy Head Research & Innovation
  School of Art
  RMIT
• Victor Griss
  Art Collection Officer & Curator
  Deakin University Art Collection & Galleries
• Hilary Peterson
  Master of Arts (Visual & Performing) Charles Sturt University
  Tutor & Practicing Artist

Major Sponsors

• East Gippsland Shire Council
• East Gippsland Institute of TAFE
• Tantaro Design
• Riviera Properties Pty Ltd

Supporting Sponsors

• Community College East Gippsland
• Eager & Partners
• First National King & Heath
• Paper Arts East Gippsland
• National Australia Bank
• Riversleigh Country

Donations received from

• The Esplanade Resort & Spa Lakes Entrance
• Nicholson River Winery
• Gascoignes of Gippsland
• Bairnsdale Antiques Gifts & Homewares
• Bulmers Gift Salon
• Crave Café & Chocolate
• Dahlsens Building Centre Bairnsdale
• Ella Bache Bairnsdale
• Male Domain
• Office National
• What’s in Beds/BedsRus of Bairnsdale
• Whispers Lingerie

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East Gippsland Specialist School Art Exhibition

Friday 1 July–Tuesday 19 July

Opens 6pm Friday 1 July

Showcasing work from East Gippsland Specialist School, this exhibition is a vehicle for self-expression, team-building and confidence boosting. See how students from 5 – 15 years old with varying intellectual, physical and social challenges use visual art to express and explore their feelings and individuality.

East Gippsland Specialist School Art Exhibition is an exhibition bursting with all the colour, vibrancy and excitement that is only found in artworks created by enthusiastic students.

East Gippsland Specialist School Art Exhibition

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10 June–28 June

West Gallery

Chasing Hasui Bob Munro Photographs

Opens 6pm Friday 10 June

With Japan being in the news recently Bob Munro’s exhibition of photographs Chasing Hasui should be of general interest to the public when it opens at the East Gippsland Art Gallery (EGAG) Bairnsdale on Friday, 10 June.

Admiration of wood block artist Kawasi Hasui’s work led Bob to travel to Japan and seek out the locations Hasui depicted and then photograph them.

This original plan soon altered as had some of the locations Hasui was familiar with because World War 2, nature, and modernity had made many changes to these scenes both during and after his life-time (1883-1957).

Bob’s travels followed Hasui throughout Central and Western Honshu, Kansai and Shikoku, which gave him a good overview of the traditional Japan Hasui was criticised for romanticising while his nation moved forward. However, it is this exotic view of Japan which is perhaps most attractive and intriguing to us as ‘out-siders’.

Certainly, the Japan Hasui portrayed is still present albeit with an overlay of modern-day uniformity. It is this contrast Bob has tried to capture without entirely losing the nostalgia Hasui so obviously felt for the ancient culture of his country.

Bob Munro Chasing Haui

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Reflections on Fracture Lisa Shanahan

Opens 6pm Friday 10 June

Life often throws us into circumstances which shatter our perception of who we are and seems to eliminate all sense of control and direction. Lisa Shanahan presents a moving exhibition, Reflecting on Fracture, opening on 10 June at the East Gippsland Art Gallery, Bairnsdale.

This exhibition takes the form of a three chapter narrative describing Lisa’s personal experience of such a traumatic situation, in this case potentially life threatening illness.

Her works are powerful, honest and at times confronting. They express a very personal journey which will resonate on a deep level with the viewer. Indeed, the work called Monkey Me was chosen to be exhibited in the Cancer Council Art Awards and was described by the judge as expressing ‘unbridled raw emotion’.

Nevertheless, as gallery visitors move through this exhibition they will find works full of dynamism, colour and strength as the artist moves away from her interior personal world into the last ‘chapter’ of fractured city images.

Lisa is a highly skilled and experienced painter who works in gouache and oils for this exhibition. She grew up and was educated in Bairnsdale and now resides in Port Douglas.

Lisa Shanahan Reflections on Fracture

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Kevin Parker

20 May – 7 June 2011

Recent Works – Landscapes in pastel, pencil & gouache

Kevin Parker’s life-long passion for the bush is evident in his exhibition “Recent Works” opening at the East Gippsland Art Gallery, Bairnsdale, at 6pm on Friday, 20 May.

A passion for the bush led Kevin to finally moving in 1991 to a farm at Deddick. Since then, the breathtaking scenery of the upper Snowy area and the Monaro have continued to provide the inspiration for his images both for the grand landscapes and the very intense micro landscapes revealed on the surfaces of stones and leaves.

“Recent Works” demonstrate Kevin’s maturity as an artist. His confident use of gouache, pastels and colour pencils in various combinations is used to express the subtle changes to the landscape created by changing seasons and different times of day.

As well as describing the physical landscape, from the gently undulating land forms, big skies and vast spaces of the Monaro to the rugged terrain of the Snowy River and its gorges, many of the images capture the elusive, atmospheric effects of rainbows, storms and cloud shadows. These images will cause the viewer to immediately recall similar fleeting but memorable experiences.

Kevin studied architecture and his background as a freelance architectural illustrator can be seen in the construction of his works. Kevin’s landscapes are strong and vigorous, with a sense of the underlying structure of the mountains and his compositions have a solid foundation. “Recent Works” also includes four graphite perspective renderings indicative of Kevin’s continued fascination with the medium and architectural form.

Kevin Parker has had many successful solo exhibitions and “Recent Works – Landscapes in pastel, pencil and gouache” will delight visitors, especially those who appreciate the beauty of Far East Gippsland’s wilderness. “Recent Works” opens at 6pm on Friday, 20 May and continues until Tuesday 7 June.

Kevin Parker - Recent Works

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two part project as part East Gippsland's contribution to Creative Gippsland's month of May celebrations 'be inspired'

Seen in the Light – light graffiti

Senior secondary students and the Community are invited to capture images, drawn by light, on their camera. Images to be posted on the website and a selection of digital prints in East Gallery.

Click here to see Light Graffiti

Seen in the Light – light in a box

View a world unseen until illuminated by light. The gallery-based exhibition of 30 small black boxes filled with the imagination of East Gippsland artists. All is revealed as the viewer peers through the eyepiece and switches on the light. West Gallery

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Visual Phantasms

Joyce Nowrungsah, Jenny Toye, Cheri O’Donnell

1–19 April

Visual Phantasms is a group exhibition by the artists Joyce Nowrungsah, Jenny Toye and Cheri O’Donnell that explores alternative realities of the everyday through the aesthetics of the uncanny and the sublime. This show is an aesthetic exploration of themes that are major issues of contemporary art practice, Identity, the Hybrid, Memory, Art history, Nature, Ideology, Technology (with emphasis on biotechnology), Design, Space, and Environment. Mixed media used in the show, sculpture, painting, drawing, and traditional printmaking reflect a state of phantasmagorical wonder and awe.

Joyce Nowrungsah’s work explores the human body as receptacle, the sublime and the uncanny due to the advancement of science in particular the biotechnology. Joyce uses the human form life-size scale in sculpture and drawings to confront the viewer with the question with each advancement in biotechnology; Is the material form of the human flesh becoming a Phantasm?

Jenny Toye's paintings visually enchants the viewer into her surreal world where personal memories, experiences and artistic historical influences such as Hieronymus Bosch, Caravaggio and Mark Ryde, play an important role. Jenny feels the process of painting is a “felt experience”. So the materiality of painting offers a surreal encounter with lived, personal as well as artistic history.

Cheri O’Donnell's paintings of non-figurative alpine landscapes dominated by the architecture of ski resorts, show that despite designing and preserving the alpine environment, nature reasserts itself via the weather and seasonal changes. In the paintings on show, the viewer will encounter the material presence of weather that haunts our time with the climate change debate.

Visual Phantasms

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Prince of Hearts

Josephine Jakobi

4–29 March West Gallery

The subject of the work is the well-known phenomenon of pubescent girls’ obsession with horses. A glass saddle and leather chaps form part of this visually stunning installation and the use of repetitive ceramic horse motifs in waffle cones express the notion of obsession. Identical object placed in central Australia in May 2010, not only link EGAG with the desert environment but also reflect the universal voice of this exhibition.

Josephine Jakobi

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Metamorphosis - Christen Jo Stone

coiled wire jewellery

4–23 March East Gallery

Christen Jo Stone is an award winning artist, recently returned to Victoria. Metamorphosis has a fun ‘bug’ theme and demonstrates Jo’s exciting, very sculptural and organic style of working. The copper & silver wire wrapped jewellery, adorned with gemstones, includes earrings, pendants and brooches and are fascinating, unique pieces.

Christen Jo Stone

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Restrospective - Joe Driscoll

11 February - 1 March, 2011

Joe Driscoll, 90, has been painting for over 70 years. In 1959, Joe and his family built a holiday house on Raymond Island and since then Joe has produced 100s of paintings in his figurative style capturing the day-to-day life around the Island. Joe’s pallet, the fashions and vehicles capture an era long gone in a fascinating exhibition of paintings.

Joe Driscoll

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Summer Showcase

5 – 27 January 2011

Summer Showcase is an exhibition that highlights the creative and diverse range of artwork produced in East Gippsland by a group of established artists. This is also an opportunity to promote EG artists to a broader audience of visitors.

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Fine Art for Fine Presents

3–22 December

EGAG has established a tradition of presenting an annual Christmas exhibition of fine art works created by local artists.

East Gippsland is recognized for the diverse art works produced by local artists and “Fine Art for Fine Presents” celebrates this diversity. Ceramics, paintings, drawings, jewellery, felting, textiles and prints are just a sample of the art works featured in this exhibition.

Deirdre Jack, Di Deppeler, Marion Dawson, Yvonne Renfree, Iris Bain and Malcolm Boyd are some of the established artists in “Fine Art for Fine Presents”. Marine artist, Paul Garling, Mary Sowa’s images of sled-dogs and Alan Ramadge’s beautifully crafted wooden boxes add to this wonderful eclectic mix of fine art.

A very traditional part of many homes is the Christmas tree and this year “Fine Art for Fine Presents” has a very interesting collection of Christmas tree decorations for sale. The decorations have been made by local artists specifically for this exhibition.

Art works must generally stay on show for the duration of the exhibition but works sold during “Fine Art for Fine Presents” will be sold ‘off the wall’. This means that works can be taken home immediately, ready for Christmas.

“Fine Art for Fine Presents” opens at 6pm on Friday, 3 December with an invitation to come along, listen to the wonderful sounds of Christmas carols sung by Chanticleer and enjoy the exhibition.

Because of requests from artists for inclusion in this exhibition EGAG has opened an ‘expression of interest’ list for the 2011 exhibition.

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Diploma of Visual Art EG TAFE Institute 2nd yr students

12-30 November

TAFE 2nd year 2010

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PAGE One

works with paper

22 October–9 November

Paper is an extremely versatile material and the artworks in PAGE one – works with paper by members of the Paper Arts Group, Gippsland East, demonstrate just how versatile paper can be.

PAGE one – works with paper is this group’s first exhibition. PAGE members meet on the 5th Saturday of the month and at each meeting they explore some new technique or method of working with paper.

Interests within the group vary and workshops held over the year reflect this diversity. Various book bindings are demonstrated as are the myriad of techniques to make book covers and small books. Paper making classes using either recycled paper or plant fibre are always well attended and with Margaret Mason as the tutor the paper produced is of fine quality. Members have also investigated cyanotype printing, embossing, wax resist techniques, different ways of using paints or dyes to create designs, various methods to change the surface of the paper, free form ‘drawing’ with paper pulp and using armature and tissue to make sculptural forms.

PAGE one – works with paper has a little bit of everything. Beautiful artist books with incredible handmade paper or marbled paper by Pat Wilson and Janet Howard. John Wilson’s books are slightly different with covers made of paper clay. John Haylock has ‘discovered’ origami architecture and Susan Wright’s fan made from one of her gouache landscape paintings sits elegantly within its own handmade box.

The fragile, organic shapes made by Gwenneth Poore sitting alongside Maree Haylock’s bold and sturdy boxes containing a range of plant fibre paper highlight the flexibility of this amazingly adaptable material.

There are many more artworks in this exhibition, including more traditional works on paper such as collage, painting and drawing. PAGE is also pleased to welcome participation in the exhibition by Southern Papermakers, Sydney.

PAGE one – works with paper will be opened by Marianne Little, an established papermaker and tutor, at 6pm on Friday, 22 October.

PAGE has received funding through the EGSC Arts and Heritage Alliance grants to promote the art of papermaking and paper arts within the local community and has received support and encouragement from Community College East Gippsland.

PAGE one – works with paper

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FLOOR TALK & DEMONSTRATION

PAGE one – works with paper floor talk by participating artists and demonstrations on papermaking Coptic binding 10am – 12 md on Saturday, 6 November, followed by coffee with the artists.

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The Four of Us

1 – 19 October

The Four of Us

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Pat Waters

Landscape Graffiti - works on paper

West Gallery 10 – 28 September
Opens 6pm Friday 10 September

Mark making is important to Pat Waters whether working figuratively or with abstraction. Working with paint on canvas, drawing, printmaking or with mixed media as in this exhibition, gestures, lines and dynamic shapes have been the artistic language Pat uses to make her strongly felt statements about the world and her environment.

For many years personal dream imagery and ancient mythology were the subject matter of this Briagolong artist but in recent times landscape has become the focus of her work. Once again it is the more elemental aspects of the subject matter which attract and excite her. The love of mark making is combined with individual elements of the red gum forest close to home and the 500 year old trees on her own property. For Pat twigs are represented as scribbles against the night sky, branches become sensuous floating line, the spaces between trees are filled with crisscrossing patterns of the landscape behind and patches of colour are extracted from the trunks and bark of the trees.

Mixed media characterizes the works in Landscape Graffiti, charcoal, watercolour and oil paint are used and layers of transparent colour allow imagery to emerge from layers beneath the surface. The artist often scratches into top layers to allow vibrant lines and shapes to form. Some of the mark making will remind viewers of graffiti seen in urban environments but the artist assures us that nearly every mark reflects what she sees in the natural world.

Pat Waters has been exhibiting in Gippsland and Melbourne for thirty years. Her exhibition at EGAG opens at 6pm on Friday, 10 September and continues until Tuesday, 28 September.

Pat Waters will give a floor talk at 6.30pm at the opening of Landscape Graffiti.

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Linden Dean

Watercolour and Washi

East Gallery 10 – 28 September
Opens 11am Saturday 11 September

Bairnsdale-based artist, Linden Dean, creates naïve-style paintings which are the result of artistic efforts that began in 1992 with naïve artist, Gwen Clarke.

Over the years Linden has developed her own style and experimented with mixed media in her signature contemporary naïve style.

Linden has been involved in many exhibitions with the Art Naïve Gippsland group, from Lakes Entrance and Bairnsdale, to Cowwarr and Melbourne, and has had three solo exhibitions in Bairnsdale. Linden’s artworks take on a narrative style and often depict images focusing on social issues.

Her artworks have been represented on cards, book and magazine covers and international calendars, and have received awards in the high commendations and outstanding categories in the annual Daffodil Day Art Awards. She has sold locally, nationally and internationally, with work currently in collections in Italy, Slovenia, India, Japan and the USA.

Painting & Washi Paper Workshop

Washi is a type of paper made in Japan. Washi is commonly made using fibers from the bark of the gampi tree, the mitsumata shrub or mulberry bark, kozo, but also can be made using bamboo, hemp, rice and wheat. Washi comes from wa meaning Japanese and shi meaning paper, and the term is used to describe paper made by hand in the traditional manner.

Linden has been incorporating washi paper into her art ever since she discovered it on a trip to Japan in 2009. This workshop is for those artists who already have drawing/painting skills who may want to use this traditional paper in their own art works.

Painting & Washi Paper Workshop

Venue:	Room 202 EG TAFE, Main Street, Bairnsdale
Date:	Monday, 20 & Wednesday 22 September
Time:	10am – 12 noon on both days
Fee:	$20 includes washi paper

Materials: Bring to the workshop
• Pair of paper scissors
• Drawing/painting equipment
• And idea or drawing approximately A4 – A3 in size

Bookings are essential. Contact EGAG by 14 September to book a place and pay the $20 fee.

This workshop has been funded through the East Gippsland Shire, Arts and Heritage Alliance Grants.

Artist Floor Talk 10.30am Saturday 25 September

Linden will talk about her exhibition and her recent trip to the Gallery of Naïve Artists, Trebnje, Slovenia as an invited participant.

Join Linden and the Friends of EGAG after the talk for light refreshments.

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Focus on East Gippsland

East Gippsland Photographic Society

20 August – 7 September
Opens 6pm Friday 20 August

A photographic collective showing the achievements of members of the EG Photographic Society.

The EGPS is an active group that meets every month as well as holding monthly competitions, conducting field trips, arranging guest speakers and presenting a range of workshops.

Images reflect the variety of interests within the group and range from portraits, landscapes and seascapes to other more challenging subjects.

Focus on East Gippsland
East Gippsland Photographic Society

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Winter Wood 'n' Things

23 July – 17 August
Opens 6pm Friday 23 July

An exhibition for all who enjoy the beauty of wood.

Winter Wood ‘n’ Things is a group show by local artists and craftspeople. Works in the exhibition highlight the versatility of wood as a material and diversity of it application.

wwnt

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Janet Craik

Nature into Art

West Gallery 2 – 20 July
Opens 1pm Saturday 3 July

Janet Craik’s oil paintings bring the West Gallery space to life with their bold, bright colours and heavily textured surfaces. Janet has been painting landscapes, seascapes and gardenscapes for many years and it is reflected in the confident way in which she handles both subject and paint.

Nature into Art is a vibrant collection of works inspired by the technique and style of the Impressionists.

Janet Craik

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Pages or Not - It's a Book!

East Gallery 2 – 17 July
Opens 1pm Saturday 3 July

As part of its program each year EGAG tours a small exhibition to various venues around the East Gippsland region. Pages or Not – It’s a Book! is an exhibition of artist books by local artists and to date has visited Lakes Entrance, Orbost Exhibition Centre and Lakeside Gallery, Mallacoota but has not been seen in Bairnsdale.

The artist books in Pages range from Susan Wright’s traditional, beautifully printed lino cuts of flowers contained in a flower press to the more challenging Ghost Letters of Kate Shone enclosed in old metal post boxes. Adding to the diversity is Iris Bain’s whimsical illustrated story of the Lyre Bird Stomp and the exquisitely crafted textile books by Margaret Fox and Jeni Irwin. Just to mention a few of the 32 books in the exhibition.

Pages or Not – It’s a Book!

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East Gippsland Heritage Network

10 June - 29 June

Opening Thursday 10 June 6pm.

A photographic reminiscence.

East Gippsland Heritage Network

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Bairnsdale and District Arts Society

21 May - 8 June

BaDAS

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Around the Edge with FoGL

1 - 18 May . Opening 1 May 1pm-3pm

The iconic Gippsland Lakes are a popular subject for visitors to East Gippsland to photograph or paint but eleven local artists have been keenly observing what happens at the ‘edge’ of the Lakes and the result is a stunning exhibition Around the Edge with FoGL.

Around the Edge with FoGL was initiated by EGAG with the support of the Friends of the Gippsland Lakes Parks and Reserves (FoGL). As part of the project the participating artists made a number of visits to sites around the Lakes including the rainforests at Kalimna, the Silt Jetties, Macleod Morass and Boole Poole. These are areas of specific concern to FoGL and the artists heard from experts Bill Peel and Andrea Brumley and others including FoGL members about the ecology, history and challenges facing the Lakes today.

From these visits, the artists began to explore their individual response to the environment and over the next few months their works for inclusion in the exhibition evolved. Around the Edge with FoGL has a gallery based exhibition showing the works of eight artists and complimenting this, four site installations by another three artists. These site sculptures will be installed in various locations around the Lakes, Silt Jetties and Macleod Morass just before the exhibition opens.

The exhibition at the EGAG includes large paintings by Annie Marshall; artist books by Patricia and John Wilson; linocuts and monoprints by Susan Wright; intriguing photographs by Lisa Roberts; an assemblage of various sized painted canvases and other found materials by Lee Nickless; gossamer-like textiles by Jeni Irwin and delicate yet stronLS