May 8, 2014
The Kingaroy Art Gallery will be showcasing the end products of two projects funded by the Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) when it opens its May exhibition this Friday night, May 9.
The main gallery will feature 40 paintings created by 13 artists who took part in a four-day live-in “Bunya Mountains Experience” workshop with art teacher Don Milner earlier this year.
All the artworks were created outdoors, and according to workshop organiser Cherry Carroll this “plein air” method had some drawbacks.
“Working outdoors introduced us to some of the inescapable perils of plein air painting,” she said.
“Several of us experienced the joy of palettes, paintings and easels being blown over in the strong winds – the former always landing ‘butter side down’ – and others discovered that stepping back to better view the work sometimes ended in a less than elegant roll down the hill.
“Fortunately no injuries were incurred except for dented pride.”
The exhibition will also be showing a range of glass and pottery works created by nine members of the Jumping Ant Arts Group, which received RADF funding to support the Wide Bay Burnett Potter’s Convention held in Kingaroy last October.
Members learned the latest pottery and glass-making techniques at the convention.
The group have since held a number of public workshops in the region, which allowed them to share the skills they acquired with the community.
Jumping Ant Arts members N’Relle Armstrong, Diana Bolton, Cherry Coultis, Ros Dalton, Elizabeth Kelly, Margariet Laughton, Tamika Schultz, Fay Stumm and Fran van Vegchel will be exhibiting dichroic glass work, paintings on clay, and clay and BRT earthenware and stoneware.
The Gallery will be featuring a selection of landscapes from the South Burnett Regional Council’s permanent collection in Gallery 2, and a display by the South Burnett Woodcrafters in Gallery 3.
The May exhibition opened at the Kingaroy Art Gallery on May 1 but Friday night’s gathering – which begins at 6:00pm – will be its official opening.
Refreshments will be available and admission is free.
Afterwards, the exhibition will remain on display from 9:00am to 4:30pm weekdays and 10:00am to 4:00pm on weekends until the end of the month.
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