June 2010 . . Glorious Creators Exhibition, Demos and Workshops
More than fifty artists who live in the tiny community of Mt Glorious will be featured in a joint art exhibition, Glorious Creators, in June.
The show, sponsored by the Moreton Bay Regional Council, will be held in the Pine Rivers Art Gallery in Strathpine.
It will feature portraits of the artists taken by photographer Gerry O’Connor plus work by each artist.
Mt Glorious, just northwest of Brisbane, has only 150 houses and is surrounded by the D’Aguilar National Park.
Pine Rivers Gallery curator, Ms Tracey Wallace, said because of the importance of the Mt Glorious art community, she had decided to devote the whole gallery to the Glorious Creators exhibition.
Artwork featured would range from stone sculpture to glass art to photography to painting to music to architecture, fabric art, writing, pottery, woodwork and metalwork.
She said among the artists were some with national and international reputations.
One of the artworks would be a chopper motorbike built by airbrush artist Dan Farmer with the help of a friend and decorated by Dan Farmer, which had helped him win the Australian Motor Cycle Industry Custom Painter of the Year award in 2006.
Photographer Gerry O’Connor, a retired journalist, is also a Raku potter and shares a studio at Mt Glorious with his wife, ceramist and art jeweller Ann O’Connor.
He said the exhibition was the culmination of a year long project for him.
He had begun recording the artworkers of Mt Glorious because of the vitality and significance of the artistic community of which he was part.
Mr O’Connor said the portraits and the biographies he had written of each artist had been acquired by the State Library of Queensland. They would be preserved in the Queensland Heritage Collection in the Oxley Memorial Library.
The Glorious Creators exhibition was opened to the public in the Pine Rivers Gallery on June 3. It will run until June 26, from 10am to 4pm Monday to Saturday.
The gallery is at 199 Gympie Road, Strathpine, with entry from Mecklem St.
Artist Demonstrations and Workshops at the Gallery
A series of artist demonstrations and workshops, ranging from composing electronic music to stone sculpture, will be part of the Glorious Creators exhibition in June.
The art demonstrations and discussions will be given in the gallery by Mt Glorious artists each Saturday morning and afternoon during June.
Subjects will include how to record natural sounds and incorporate them in digital soundscapes, glass art techniques, writing poetry, making a ceramic box based on organic forms, techniques of stone sculpture, photography, making a box-beaded bracelet, and hook rug making from recycled materials.
The workshops are free, except where materials have to be bought.
It will feature portraits of the artists taken by photographer Gerry O’Connor plus work by each artist.
Mt Glorious, just northwest of Brisbane, has only 150 houses and is surrounded by the D’Aguilar National Park.
Pine Rivers Gallery curator, Ms Tracey Wallace, said because of the importance of the Mt Glorious art community, she had decided to devote the whole gallery to the Glorious Creators exhibition.
Artwork featured would range from stone sculpture to glass art to photography to painting to music to architecture, fabric art, writing, pottery, woodwork and metalwork.
She said among the artists were some with national and international reputations.
One of the artworks would be a chopper motorbike built by airbrush artist Dan Farmer with the help of a friend and decorated by Dan Farmer, which had helped him win the Australian Motor Cycle Industry Custom Painter of the Year award in 2006.
Photographer Gerry O’Connor, a retired journalist, is also a Raku potter and shares a studio at Mt Glorious with his wife, ceramist and art jeweller Ann O’Connor.
He said the exhibition was the culmination of a year long project for him.
He had begun recording the artworkers of Mt Glorious because of the vitality and significance of the artistic community of which he was part.
Mr O’Connor said the portraits and the biographies he had written of each artist had been acquired by the State Library of Queensland. They would be preserved in the Queensland Heritage Collection in the Oxley Memorial Library.
The Glorious Creators exhibition was opened to the public in the Pine Rivers Gallery on June 3. It will run until June 26, from 10am to 4pm Monday to Saturday.
The gallery is at 199 Gympie Road, Strathpine, with entry from Mecklem St.
Artist Demonstrations and Workshops at the Gallery
A series of artist demonstrations and workshops, ranging from composing electronic music to stone sculpture, will be part of the Glorious Creators exhibition in June.
The art demonstrations and discussions will be given in the gallery by Mt Glorious artists each Saturday morning and afternoon during June.
Subjects will include how to record natural sounds and incorporate them in digital soundscapes, glass art techniques, writing poetry, making a ceramic box based on organic forms, techniques of stone sculpture, photography, making a box-beaded bracelet, and hook rug making from recycled materials.
The workshops are free, except where materials have to be bought.
