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Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Tree Whispers Exhibition

Tree Whispers

Networks Australia

Christine Appleby, Lorri Blackwell, Angela Coleman, Josie Cosgrove, Rachel Develin, Wendy Dodd, Linda Elliott, Deb Faeryglenn, Susan Hey, Belinda Jessup, Cheryl Jobsz, Valerie Kirk, Dotti Le Sage, Janet Long, Jenny Manning, Ann McMahon, Bev Moxon, Sandra Obst, Sharon Peoples, Liz Perry, Ola Robertson, Rozalie Sherwood, Nancy Tingey and Monique van Nieuwland

Pivot Gallery, Belconnen Arts Centre

Opening 6pm Friday 14 October 2022
14 October – 27 November 2022

Can trees talk? Can you hear their whispers?

Tree Whispers, an exhibition by members of Networks Australia, shares fresh insights into the world of trees. Providing audiences with thought-provoking exhibitions since 2010, this group of artists from ACT and regional NSW present unique works in a diversity of mediums that will share secrets from the mysterious lives of our leafy companions.

Trees feature in our mythologies and are embedded in our psyche. When we think of family trees or branches of science, we are invoking the forms and growth habits of our arboreal companions. We see them as allegories and use them as metaphors for aspects of our own existence. Throughout the exhibition, the underlying message from the artists is a poetic call to action. A plea to join the conversation, to recognise the importance trees have in the ecosystem of our planet and to value their existence as being vital to our own.

Join our upcoming Exhibitions Live workshops for Tree Whispers

Branching Out Poetry with Lizz Murphy | 10:30am-4pm Saturday, 15 October

Sun Printing and Embroidery with Josie Cosgrove | 10am-3pm Saturdays, 5 & 12 November

Image: Wendy Dodd, Magic Mycelium, image courtesy of the artist

Saturday, October 8, 2022

Tree Whispers Exhibition Opening

A Networks Australia members group exhibition.

Pivot Gallery, Belconnen Arts Centre

Opening 6pm Friday 14 October 2022

More information can be found on the Belconnen Arts Centre website

Image: Rozalie Sherwood, Bark Stories- image courtesy of the artist

Sunday, October 2, 2022

Tree Whispers Networks Australia exhibition

Tree Whispers

Networks Australia

Pivot Gallery, Belconnen Arts Centre

Opening 6pm Friday 14 October 2022
14 October – 27 November 2022

Can trees talk? Can you hear their whispers?

Join our upcoming Exhibitions Live workshops for Tree Whispers

Branching Out Poetry with Lizz Murphy | 10:30am-4pm Saturday, 15 October

Sun Printing and Embroidery with Josie Cosgrove | 10am-3pm Saturdays, 5 & 12 November

Image: Linda Elliott

Monday, May 2, 2022

Entwined Jenny Manning and Vivian Lightfoot

Entwined

Vivien Lightfoot and Jenny Manning

West Gallery, Belconnen Arts Centre

Opening 6pm Friday 20 May 2022

20 May – 3 July 2022

Artist talks from 5 pm on 20 May 2022

Jenny’s drawings and prints, and Vivien’s ceramics address our joint concerns about the viability of the unique Australian flora that once astonished Joseph Banks, Daniel Solander, and artist Sydney Parkinson when they arrived on the east coast of Australia in 1770. Sadly, many of our wilderness areas are now colonised with weeds or fast-growing native species that find their footing following such disturbances as land clearing or bushfires.
Our work develops a language of plant interactions. The strong forms of Australian flora are mingled with stems, flowers, and seeds of introduced plants. Banksia cones are strangled by honeysuckle and kurrajong pods are contained within a tangle of bristly oxtongue.
Weeds are now endemic to the Australian landscape so that, to the untrained eye, they are often accepted as normal. Native plants are dangerously outcompeted by many rambling species that have been carelessly introduced. Biodiversity suffers as the native plants are subsumed.

Belconnen Artrs Centre Website

Monday, July 26, 2021

Jenny Manning InterWoven 5

Belconnen arts Centre

9 July - 15 August 2021

Jenny Manning, Lidded Basket, 2018
410mm height x 420mm width x 410mm depth
Inspired by African/Islamic and Pre Columbian basket patterns And Pre Columbian basket patterns and Pre Columbian basket patterns

Jenny Manning, Open Basket, 2019
160mm height x 350mm width x 350mm depth
Inspired by African/Islamic and Pre Columbian basket patterns And Pre Columbian basket patterns and Pre Columbian basket patterns

Jenny Manning Beaded Basket 2020
300mm height x 450mm width x 450mm depth
Inspired by African/Islamic and Pre Columbian basket patterns And Pre Columbian basket patterns and Pre Columbian basket patterns