Home Sweet Home
Members of Blue Knob, Roxy & Serpentine galleries - Home Sweet Home
3rd AUGUST 2012: Opening of
Home Sweet Home
on Friday at 6pm.
Home Sweet Home
is a collective exhibition
which explores
the feeling of Home.
Based in the beautiful Northern Rivers,
three galleries have got together
to bring to the public
an exhibition by members of
and the Serpentine.
After twelve months of discussion and planning, they are proud to present Home Sweet Home.
Whether human, bird or animal, home is where the heart/hearth is.
With artists involved from three local but different areas, we look forward to an interesting and
stimulating exhibition with some heartfelt and creative interpretations of the theme.
We live in such a lovely region, a place many of us have chosen to call home,
and this exhibition aims to celebrate that which is 'Home' in all its forms.
A first for the three galleries,
Home Sweet Home
is a show which highlights,
and will strengthen,
the fantastic networks
between our local Northern Rivers galleries,
and the cooperation experienced
in our local arts community.
Here's to continuing to build
a strong and diverse arts community
in our beautiful region.
The exhibition will travel out to Blue Knob,
opening there at 6.30pm
on Friday the 31st August,
and be on view until
the 21st of October 2012.
Family friendly events. Light refreshments will be available.
The art
'Home and Heart Mandala'
Artist Statement:
'The Mandala is an ancient mystical
and sacred symbol of the universe.
Classically in the form of a circle (the cosmos)
enclosed in a square (Earthbound matter).
Mandalas are used for meditation, contemplation,
healing and visual pleasure.
Mandalas are perceived as sacred spaces which,
by their very presence in the world remind us of
the immanence of sanctity in the universe.
The context of the Mandala is to follow the ‘Peaceful Path’.
To gain understanding of things by becoming calm and centred and to discover that divinity resides within your own self.
This is a one only original Mandala.
Designed, created and painted by the artist.
No computer was used.'
'Inheritance Mother 2007'
'Inheritance Father 2007'
by Jenny Kitchener
'Gumnuts and Poppies'
Acrylic on canvas
by Rodney Brown
'Morning Sunlight'
Acrylic on canvas
by Deborah Brown
'Circles of Life'
Oil on canvas
Artist Statement:
'Set on air force beach, Evans Head,
the painting started as an atmosphere landscape with the dark sky and double rainbows.
Later our beloved Boxer passed (tragically)
and was added as a further expression of life’s transience.'
by Ian FitzSimmons
'Home Sweet Flowers'
Oil on canvas
Artist Statement:
'Flowery home of nectar, home of bees,
insects and other things.'
by Kane Bowman
'Welcome Home'
Mixed media
by Lynda Clark
'Christie's House'
Wood and stained glass
by Aldo Zoradelli
'Still Searching for Home'
Artist Statement:
'Past artwork consisted of drawing and sculpture
– current work is exclusively digital/computer created drawings and computer generated figures,
manipulated in various computer applications.
My past concern with the technoMetamorphosis (social impact of technology) has given way to me (re)exploration
of the surreal nature of existence through the archetypal shadows of the Collective Unconcious. One recent critic used the term techno-surrealism to describe my work.
I do not produce multiples – this is a 1 of 1 original
giclee archival quality image.'
by Rob Harle
'Australiana'
Mixed media
Artist Statement:
'Home is where the heart is…
home is a psychological,
spiritual, emotional, physical
interconnectivity with a place, the land
… the Earth.
In Aboriginal, religious belief,
a person’s spirit may return
in human, animal or plant form after death
… since the ‘White Australia Policy’
… we pay respect to the Widjabul people
of the Bunjalung nation.'
'Dreams of Home Sweet Home'
Acrylic on canvas
by Robin Moore
'Almost Home, Meow'
Photography & CGI
by Sue Alford
'Communities'
Oil on canvas
Artist Statement:
'It is our diverse and progressive communities in the Northern Rivers which give me such a feeling of belonging and a place I call Home.'
'Best Milker'
Ceramic, oxides, milking-stool
Artist Statement:
'A memorial udder to ‘Zeppa’
the Jersey house cow
sadly lost last winter.'
Stool not included in sale
by Heron Lee
'My 4 Keys to Happiness'
Monoprint, collage
Artist Statement:
'I don’t need much
to be happy,
a chair, a book,
a bed and a radio.'
'View from My Dining Room'
Watercolour pencil
Artist Statement:
'I love looking out the window from my dining room.
It’s expansive and I can get lost in my thoughts
looking out that window.'
by Shay Collyer
'Home is where the heart is'
Digital image, camera
by Len Martin
'Dreamscape'
Acrylic on timber
Artist Statement:
'A piece of my Canadian home, the red sandy beaches
of Prince Edward Island, that made
my heart ache for my Australian home.'
'Oxygen is Life'
Marbled material
by Fiona Shadwell
Untitled
Lithograph
by Jenny Kitchener
'The Road Home'
Oil
by Janifer Fraser
'What I am – Art Start' - a poem by Ray Parry
I paint what I am, day-to-day,
I draw what I see to be happy.
What I am beyond feeling and beyond the mind,
And the colours become real beyond the mind.
Dance free in the spirit, and the sun will shine,
And you’ll glow, like a fire in the wintertime.
I write what I am and the things around me,
I sing songs about ‘me’, about ‘you’ and ‘I’ and ‘us’.
Well I am, what I am, and the days are all clear,
Because I draw what I am,
Well I am what I am,
I’m happy in ‘it’!
I am happy in ‘it’!
'Purple Dining Set'
'Dolls' House'
'White Dining Set'
Handmade miniatures by Francine Witton
'Souvenirs from the Journey Home'
Mixed media, found objects
by Christine Wynward
'Everyday Shapes'
Acrylic
by Maureen Whittaker
'One Portrait of a Horse'
'Abagale'
'One Portrait of a Cat'
Crayon on paper works by Jeffrey Geerin
'Melon Basket'
Natural fibre
by Cheri Shadwell
'Palm Basket'
Natural fibre
by Cheri Shadwell
'Empty Nest - A Haiku'
Bangalow palm inflorescence, coir, feathers
by Linnie Lambrechtsen
'Quitting the Nest'
Intaglio, mixed media
by Pam Cowgill
'Emoh Ruo'
Oil
by Anthea Moffatt
'Cozy Budding Creche'
Mixed media
by Lynda Clark
'Rats in the media'
Oil paint tubes, Fowler jars, Paint returned as rat faeces, TV stand.
Artist Statement:
'After leaving my studio for 3 months,
I returned to find my oil paint and tubes eaten and returned at rat ‘shit’ faeces
- so ‘rats in the media’ was born.'
'The Pond in Winter'
Acrylic on canvas
by Wendy McGain
'Living in Paradise'
Weaving
by Deb McFarlane
Opening celebration @ the Serpentine
Home Sweet Home
is opened with speeches by
Ruth Tsitimbinis
of Kyogle's Roxy Gallery,
the Serpentine's
Corinne Batt-Rawden
and Heather Kimber
of Blue Knob Hall Gallery.
Outside the gallery, the fireside gathering is
entertained by singer/guitarist Paul Flynn.
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