CreativExchange @ Lismore Show '12
Members, volunteers & friends - Creative Exchange @ Lismore Show
18th to 20th OCTOBER 2012: Serpentine Community Gallery
CreativExchange and Arts Cafe @ Lismore Show
daily, Thursday to Saturday, from 9am until midnight.
The North Coast National Agricultural and Industrial Society has invited the Serpentine
Community Gallery to host our 3rd creative arts space and cafe at the Lismore Trade Show.
Serpentine artists, members, volunteers and friends have had lots of fun at the last two shows,
and some great works have been created in our open and inviting public arts space.
We aim to represent the arts community of the region, and to offer a relaxing hands-on experience
to members of our broader community who might not usually have access to the arts.
This year to share with and enrich our community,
Serpentine's CreativExchange @ Lismore Show will offer:
* In the Arts Space *
-Â skill sharing sessions
- demonstrations
- arts workshops
- artists on hand to provide
assistance to people
interested in creating art
* In the Cafe *
- tea, coffee
- water, cold drinks
- yummy cakes and sweets
- delicious fruit
- a peaceful place to relax
and regroup
In celebration of 2012 Australian Year of the Farmer the good people at the Lismore Show
have asked us to run a Scarecrow Making workshop,
and one of our artists has kindly donated the idea and materials for
a Paper Pot Making & Flower Seeding workshop.
Other free arts activities provided by Serpentine members will include
group mandala and mural painting, clay creations, screen printing and a Kids Art Club.
We'll also set up a temporary gallery at the show, with paintings, ceramics, installations,
sculptures and a great selection of other styles of creative works by local artists, to inspire,
and to be admired, discussed and maybe find a new home.
Try this link to view a program of the free arts workshops Serpentine will hold at the show
CreativExchange @ Lismore Show 2012
Gallery director Corinne Batt-Rawden serves delighted artist Ray Parry the cafe's
first cuppa for the 2012 Lismore Show
Potters Ray Moller and Heron Lee
turn their hands to sign-writing,
creating a great new banner (top) for the
Serpentine Arts Cafe
Visitors to the CreativExchange enjoy the chance to kick back and experiment with art.
All hands in as Dawn Thirlaway leads a Clay Creations workshop,
which soon has participants lost in worlds of their own imagining
as they concentrate on bringing the clay to life.
Look what we made - Chris Bell (centre) displays his first bead
Free-form sculpture under-way,
after neighbours Ashton's Circus changed the big-top's ropes
Judith Light (centre) and representatives of
"FAYCING-UP" Baha'i Junior Youth Group join us to present
a paper flower making demonstration and workshop
Neighbour Daryl from (the) stage right, shares a 'menshed' moment with Kane Bowman (L) and Ray (R)
Seen through the CreativExchange, sunshine filters
through the rope sculpture, now with additions of
netting and other mixed media materials
Janelle Buckley and friend Nigel demonstrate the innovative use of monstereo delicio leaves
(Monstera deliciosa), with other found objects and wire to conjure up a selection of bugs.
They, joined by Jess (below), also used plastic piping, wire, paper and paste
to shape an extra-large, articulated ladybug.
The finishing touches and a coat of red paint find some more willing bug-makers.
Anyone for a scarecrow? Materials ready and waiting for the
Scarecrow Making Workshop
A mural celebrating '2012 Australian Year of the Farmer' by Chang (below centre) and show-goers.
Chang murals under construction: A colourful spot out of the sun,
a place to test your colour mixing skills and share with a friend,
and a place to lose yourself in painting
Brightening our area: Ray Parry artworks - 'Make an Offer', and a Chang mural
Once again Lismore Show provided much inspiration for artist Ray Parry.
Ray is pictured here hard at work: with Anthony Eden the new owner
of a Ray Parry artwork, and with his twin brother Alan Parry.
His poetry also found an appreciative and increasing audience, with
2NCR DJ Margy Alexander recording Ray's poem "Bullshit" to play on air.
"That wall needs a mural," thinks
Corinne (top L), her evolving wall
mural gets a little 'supervised' creative addition... many welcome contributions were added unobserved!
From right: Dawn Thirlaway takes a break, Kerrie Divett
checks out the art supplies and Heron Lee busy making
a Serpentine Community Gallery banner
(inset: First used at the Serpentine Masquerade Ball)
Back in the cafe, smiles fill faces both behind the counter, Chris Bell
and Alice Flynn (left), and, just as widely, on the customers' side.
Serpentine Arts Cafe - the perfect shady place on a hot show day.
Kane Bowman and Ray Moller on cafe duty, and taking in the stage show.
Fluffy toys and their winners:
The Roses and their devils
Helping out with Arts Raffle ticket sales, Emma Burrows take a turn behind the counter.
Getting in the mood for The Serpentine Masquerade Ball,
photographer Rachael Windress hosts a
Mask Making Workshop.Â
Feathers and a selection of sparkly 'sequins' prove popular with mask-makers.
Camera in hand, it's time for a pic of that happy 'elephant'
Paper-Pot Making and Flower-Seeding Workshop
Rolling newspaper strips around small tins to shape pots, adding potting mix
and then sunflower seeds, was the simple gardening technique shared with show-goers.
  Sue Alford demonstrated the technique and then assisted eager 'gardeners'
as they made pots and seeded themselves boxes of sunflowers to take home.
Each participant also received some seedling samples for their garden.
'The thing I enjoy most about the Serpentine's CreativExchange @ Lismore Show
is seeing the smiles appear on people's faces,' - Sue Alford, October 2012
Coconut pots and Ray Moller's ceramic sculptures
Daytime sights: Stilt-walkers and acrobats,
and some show-goers trying to work out just where to look!
After dark coloured lights illuminate the CreativeExchange & Arts Cafe,
(top L) Ray Moller and (bottom L) Chris Bell staff the cafe, inspiration keeps
artists (top L) Ray Parry and (bottom L) Heron Lee going, while stall patrons
take time to enjoy a cuppa, and the stage and/or circus action next door.
A 'showgirl in the making' stops by
Art is complete, dry and homeward bound
Who could resist some fun with this colourful glowing butterfly?
Certainly not Remy, nor her dad Anthony Eden.
Outside it's different sorts of glows that draw the attention:
Light shows accompany the performers onstage to the right...
... fire-sticks bedazzle under the big-top to the left ...
...and all eyes are drawn to the heavens in front of the stall nightly
as fireworks fill the sky...
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The lead-up to the show
14 October 2012: Freshly painted by Serpentine volunteers, the pavilion prior to becoming our
CreativExchange @ Lismore Show 2012,
the first load of supplies arrives, and screen-printed Serpentine flags go up.
16th October 2012: With our stalls' cardboard walls in
place, more materials on site, and the workshop & cafe spaces taking shape, members of the bump-in crew take
a break - L to R: Anthony Eden, Corinne Batt-Rawden,
Shay Collyer, Emma Burrows and Ray Moller.
The only pic of James Smythe from this year's show!
Having already created the walls off-site, mastermind of our
cardboard structure, James was the first to arrive
to set-up our stall and on bump-out day the last to leave!
Many thanks to James for sharing his time, his ingenuity
and his hard work with our local Northern Rivers community.
17 October 2012: The day before the show, and Serpentine's arts-hub-cum-cafe has 'magically' appeared,
providing a peaceful spot to view the opening and award ceremony for the annual Tursa Art Competition,
taking place next door under The Ashton Circus 'big-top'.
SERPENTINE COMMUNITY GALLERY
17 Bridge St, North Lismore, NSW, 2480.
Contact (02) 6621 6845 or serpentineartsgallery@gmail.com