{"id":95538,"date":"2015-02-07T03:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=95538"},"modified":"2020-11-20T14:59:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T04:59:37","slug":"council-backs-arts-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2015\/02\/07\/council-backs-arts-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Council Backs Arts Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sherianne Talon’s photograph of last year’s Murgon Christmas Fair took 10 hours of processing to complete; it’s the first work in the Dual Arts project (Photo: Sherianne Talon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Artist Lee Porter produced a decorated gift box to represent the Murgon Christmas Fair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

February 7, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two Murgon artists have won the backing of the South Burnett Regional Council’s RADF committee for an art project of a kind they say has never been undertaken anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n

The “Dual Arts” project by Murgon artist Lee Porter and photographer Sherianne Talon aims to paint and photograph iconic South Burnett scenes – all nominated by the public – to settle a century-old argument about whether photography is really art.<\/p>\n

At a media launch held at the Kingaroy Art Gallery on Wednesday, South Burnett Mayor Wayne Kratzmann announced the RADF Committee has decided to back the project with a $25,000 grant.<\/p>\n

It is the largest single grant the committee has ever given to any individual project.<\/p>\n

He said the committee felt “Dual Arts” had the potential to generate enormous positive publicity for the region, and congratulated the pair on their innovative idea.<\/p>\n

Between now and June the pair intend to photograph and paint 20 South Burnett scenes or activities, then mount a public exhibition of the results in July so everyone can cast a vote.<\/p>\n

Over a dozen locations or activities have already been nominated and the first of these – the Murgon Christmas Fair – was unveiled at the launch.<\/p>\n

Sherianne Talon produced a photograph taken at last year’s Christmas carnival which had undergone 10 hours of processing to produce the final result; and Lee Porter displayed her representation of the same scene in the form of a decorated box.<\/p>\n

Both produced their works independently, and intend to do the same for all the other sites in the project.<\/p>\n

At the conclusion of Dual Arts, the South Burnett Regional Council will acquire the rights to use some of the project’s output for regional promotion activities.<\/p>\n

At present, the following sites or activities have been nominated as potential subjects:<\/strong><\/p>\n