5 – 22 December Fine Art for Fine Presents – group exhibition promoting local artists and their work – works sold ‘off the wall’.

An exhibition highlighting the diversity and creativity of local artists and an opportunity to select a unique item for that special Christmas gift.

Works include felt items, ceramics, porcelain, paintings, prints, finely crafted silk items, photographs and drawings amongst other media. All works are sold ‘off the wall’.

Everyone is invited to come along to the opening at 6pm on Friday 5 December and help the Gallery celebrate the last exhibition for the year.

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EGAG closed from 24 December 2008 – 6 January 2009

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7 – 27 January 2009 Summer Showcase. This wonderful exhibition of local work is presented to show visitors to the region the excellence of local work. Individual artists and galleries are invited to participate and visitors are encouraged to visit the studios and galleries to see for themselves the enormous diversity of the East Gippsland arts community.

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6 – 24 February 2009 Inland Susan Wright has been painting, printmaking and creating artists books for a number of years in her studio at Mossiface. The walls of Susan’s studio are lined with sketches, photographs and paints in the intense but subtle tones of gouache and there are bowls and boxes of small found objects such as seed pods, pebbles, dried grasses and other items that feature in many of Susan’s works.

Artist's statement: “These images of the inland areas of Australia have been gathered during several camping trips into the drier, quieter and more remote parts of this country.

These landscapes always renew my spirits and I feel a great sense of peace surrounded by the flora and fauna and colour of these ‘desert’ areas.

In the words of Dr Mar Dober, it is “…a kind of resistance to disorientation and cynicism in an increasingly commodified and globalised world. And the picturesque can be viewed as an expression of innocence and hope – though maybe qualified by a sense of uncertainty. It is the seeking of refuge in an experience of nature and the aesthetics of painting …”.

Many of these gouache paintings are done ‘en plein air’ to capture the fleeting colour changes which seduce my eyes. Sometimes painting in our vehicle as it drives bumping and sliding over rough roads; small paintings in my journals take a few minutes to record the passing scenes.

Mirages and shimmering salt lakes are constantly changing and create an endless hunger to capture a feeling of this facinating country. From tiny flowers delictely growing in dry sand to the continuous horizon and overshelming skies, it remains a challenge for artists.”

Wright, Susan

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