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And what next things for Kylie Jury?

Kylie is continuing to add to her street photography series 'Contemplation,' as well doing local portraiture work and photographing babies! She is also indulging her love of the arts by volunteering at the Logan Art Gallery.
 

Photograph courtesy & copyright Kylie Jury

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Peter Biddulph's guinomi are now stocked by Queensland Art Gallery Store.

And an installation of Peter's 5 porcelain
sculptures entitled 'Biomimesis' has been selected for exhibition by a
panel of judges in the 3D category of the Moreton Bay Region Art Awards.
http://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/discover.aspx?id=26305

The work will be exhibited at the Pine Rivers Art Gallery, 7/199 Gympie
Road, Strathpine. The official opening is at 7pm Friday, 20th May 2011.

The exhibition is open daily from 21-29 May from 10am-4pm.

Hope to see you there! Here are some images of the works:

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In Hobart, artist Catherine Brown has just started a course in primary school teaching so will be very busy with that for a while, but she also says that a friend has located a space with transformative exhibition potential, and she will be involved with that later in the year, if it goes ahead. Her plans for exhibiting are understandably fluid while she is studying full time!

Judith Kentish has new work titled "from ideas of the mute" showing at Level gallery at 11 Stratton Street, Newstead, open May 6 - 28.

Judith has images of this 2011 work on her website http://www.judithkentish.com 

She's used wax and hair.

And you can find Level at  

http://levelari.org/

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The exhibition Drawling closes today. I thought it would be a good idea to let you know what next for the artists who have been involved.

Richard Stride is creating a temporary installation work for the National Youth Week Launch event on Friday 1 April only, located in the mall on Albert Street between Queen Street and King George Square. It will be created throughout the day, being completed by 4pm, with the event finishing at 10pm. fast pace!  

Phoebe McDonald's Salt Lake series is travelling to Gympie Regional Gallery (June 15 - July 2) then Pine Rivers Art Gallery (November 4 - 18). 

Otherwise, she'll just be knuckling down in the studio.  

These two photographs courtesy of Kylie Jury

Slow Art Day

From the Slow Art website: Slow Art Day was started to invite novices - and experts - to experience the art of looking at art slowly.

It's a very simple process. Volunteer hosts (not necessarily experts) invite people to come to a local museum and view a small number of works of art for 5 to 10 minutes each. Then everyone meets for lunch at a nearby cafe to talk about their experience. And all this happens the same day around the world. The date this year is Saturday April 16.

The result? Participants say they get "inspired not tired" and plan to return to that museum or gallery again and again (note: our not-so-secret agenda is to help more people experience the excitement of art and become regular patrons of their local museums).

Check out more at 
http://www.slowartday.com/ 

and maybe become a host for a Slow Art experience!

Mark Pennings' lecture Thursday 24th

The lecture focussed on a fascinating and pivotal time in Australian art, mainly during the 1950s and 1960s. What happened when figurative art and abstraction went head to head?  

Painters such as Arthur Boyd, Charles Blackman and Robert Dickerson were compared to the emerging internationalist aesthetic developed by artists such as David Aspen, Robert Jacks and Syd Ball, and the Australian Field exhibition of 1968. 

 Abstract paintings exhibited in the Field exhibition were discussed in terms of the ways viewers were expected to view them at the time, as an experience, without expectation of any narrative or reference to anything but the painting itself.

Lecture & lunchtime talks - finished for now

Thankyou to the switched-on crowds who came to the talks - it was always a pleasure to see you there!