Susan Hey: Peace Joy and Stillness

 

Rusten House Art Centre 

Gallery 2 – Petite Gallery
4 – 25 February 2023
Peace, Joy and Stillness
Susan Hey

Susan Hey is a members of Networks Australia 

Sharon Peoples: OPEN STUDIO

 

Open Studio 

10am-4pm

19 November 2022 

46 Miller Street 

O'Connor ACT 

Sharon Peoples Website

Monique Van Nieuwland: OPEN STUDIO

 

Monique van Nieuwland’s Open Studio is open at 10:00am – 4:00pm on Saturday, 19 November at 41 Scrivener Street, O’Connor, ACT.

Monique van Nieuwland learned to weave in the Netherlands and bought her first loom in the late 70s while she was working on a commission weaving fabrics for curtains and tablecloths. Van Nieuwland uses a computerized Jacquard loom, which is the latest state-of-the-art weave technology. She is passionate about weaving, keeping it current as an innovative form of expression. Visitors can expect a range of works available for purchase, and a weaving demonstration on her equipment which ranges from simple band looms, floor loom, computer dobby loom to a high tech computer Jacquard loom.

Monique van Nieuwland

The Juice of a Carrot, The Smile on a Parrot

Sherwood, Rozalie - The blue ‘fleet’ are arriving on our east coast – and you probably haven’t seen some of them before 

The juice of a carrot, the smile on a parrot 

Rozalie Sherwood, Steve Tomlin and Maureen Bartle 

Rozalie Sherwood is a member of the Networks Australia group

M16 Artspace

Friday 30 September - Sunday 16 October 2022

Opening Thursday 29 September 6-8pm 

Family Portrait 2021: Fiona Bowring

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022 Finalist

Family Portrait 2021, Fiona Bowring 

Ruth told me about her life – so far – as part of a palliative care program. Twelve fly-by months, ten roller-coaster sessions and one pandemic later, the book she wants to leave for her kids is done. We finished her story where we started, in her bedroom, on her bed, this time with a camera instead of a voice recorder. Maddi, David and George joined in.

Fiona Bowring is a member of the Networks Australia group

National Portrait Gallery (Australia)

Daily from Saturday 25 June until Sunday 9 October 2022

CONFLUENCE: 2021 Valerie Kirk | Harriet Schwartzrock

 CONFLUENCE: 2021 Artist-in-Residence Exhibition

7 July - 27 August 2022

Valerie Kirk | Harriet Schwartzrock

The annual Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre Artist-in-residence program supports local and national artists to each undertake a residency at Gudgenby Ready-Cut Cottage in the Namadgi National Park, and a two week research component within a national cultural institution in Canberra. The program facilitates access for the artist to national cultural, tertiary and research institutions and their collections, curators and researchers. A group exhibition of new work by each artist is held annually, and a catalogue produced about the program is disseminated internationally.

Presented in partnership with ACT Parks and Conservation Service and Geoscience Australia. 

Craft ACT + Design Center

Valerie Kirk is a Member of Networks Australia group 

ABOVE IMAGE: READY CUT 2021-61 
COVER IMAGE: VALERIE KIRK + HARRIET SCHWARTZROCK, GEOSCIENCE-2021. 5 FOOT PHOTOGRAPHY

A Few Reasons: Rozalie Sherwood and Steve Tomlin

Rozalie Sherwood , The Tale of the Whale 1. Photographer Andrew Sikorski of Art Atelier Photography.

This exhibition celebrates small and simple pleasures, lighter moments, humour and the power of imagination. The artists’ inspiration comes from memory, landscape, news stories and the process of creating and painting. In doing so, they bring a respite from excess and emphasise a more considered relationship with nature and life.

Rozalie Sherwood is a member of the NetworksAustralia group.

2-19 June 2022

Brunswick Street Gallery

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 

Propagate - Sharon Peoples and Nellie Peoples

Sharon Peoples, Gardening Trowels, 2021. Mixed media, machine embroidery, photographer Brenton McGeachie.

Sharon Peoples, Garden Shovel: White Hakea, 2021. Mixed media, machine embroidery, 94 x 22 x 4 cm, photographer Brenton McGeachie.

M16: Gallery 1 a

Nellie Peoples and Sharon Peoples

Friday 6 May - Sunday 22 May 2022

Propagate examines the everydayness, the labour and social relationships of gardens, through small works relating to the body and drawings. Sharon and Nellie Peoples each begin with dialogues between local landscapes and the practices as a maker. There are many complex processes that can be employed to increase the number of plants, as there are in these artists’ individual making practices. Propagate reflects the building of conversations within individual work, as well as each another. The artists exchange ideas as they would cuttings, seeds and root divisions from their gardens, as well as planting ideas into each another’s design thinking.

M16 Website