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

Blue Knob Gallery,

Roxy Gallery

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.'

by Sandra Rix Joran

'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

'The Bay'

Pen and pencil on paper

Artist Statement:

'Home is not

equal to comfort.'

by James Parada

'Welcome Home'

Mixed media

by Lynda Clark

'The Cat & the Canary'

Linocut print

by Christine Cameron

'Homestead'

Oil

by Gareth Lindsay Deakin

'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.'

by Scott Whittingham

'Dreams of Home Sweet Home'

Acrylic on canvas

by Robin Moore

'Almost Home, Meow'

Photography & CGI

by Sue Alford

'Stone, Sky and Tree'

Intaglio, mixed media

by Katie Alleva

'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.'

by Corinne Batt-Rawden

'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.'

by Marie-Lise Laviolett

'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.'

by Jennifer Harnett

'Oxygen is Life'

Marbled material

by Fiona Shadwell

Untitled

Lithograph

by Jenny Kitchener

'The Road Home'

Oil

by Janifer Fraser

'Ray's Box'

Mixed media

by Ray Parry

'Vintage Doily'

Screenprint and emboss on paper

by Katie Alleva

'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.'

by Andrea Gustavsson

'Everything Turns To Earth'

Mixed media

by Chang

'At the Going Down of the Sun'

Photography

by Barry Magnay

'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.

SERPENTINE COMMUNITY GALLERY

17 Bridge St, North Lismore, NSW, 2480.

Contact (02) 6621 6845 or serpentineartsgallery@gmail.com

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