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Reimagine Art Prize

January 15, 2021 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

Hornsby Shire Council’s Remagine Art Prize is calling for entries, with $11,000 in total prize money. The three categories include Digital Art – Stills, Mixed Media 3D/Mixed Media 2D and Painting/Drawing/Printmaking.

Remagine Art Prize has a focus on sustainability and the environment. Artists are invited to submit works that can relate to this year’s theme ‘Fast fashion, fast food, fast running out of natural resources’. Held in partnership with the Hornsby Art Society since 2009, Remagine Art Prize promotes the concept of reduce, reuse and recycle.

Entries close on the 17 May 2021

The winners will be announced on 4 June 2021. Remagine Art Prize will be on exhibition at Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby, from 4 – 27 June 2021.

For more information go to www.hornsby.nsw.gov.au/remagine

Image: Rick Bull, Taste the Consumer, Digital Art-Still, 2019

Filed Under: Call for Entries Tagged With: environment, Hornsby Art Society, Hornsby Shire Council, Reimagine Art Prize, Sustainability, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre

Danielle Creenaune, Fragile States, Australian Galleries

November 8, 2020 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

‘Fragile States describes a parallel notion of fragility with respect to the state of our current natural environment and my own personal experience during a period of relocating to Australia after almost two decades abroad.

These works address the duality experienced both in a cultural and linguistic sense, and also within the landscape I inhabit. In this time of displacement and dislocation, my experiences were charged with sentiment, vulnerability, and a sensitivity to change. It was a period of introspection, weighing up what would be lost and gained and bearing witness to the closure of a chapter in my life. Now, in Australia I am challenged by new places of personal significance in my local area such as wide coastal perspectives and waterfalls. My work is concerned with the rhythms in nature and the importance of treading lightly on this borrowed land.

In this exhibition, I work in the techniques of stone lithography and mokulito, because there is a flow between the process, materials and image making. Lithography offers me a very direct way of making painterly marks within printmaking and carries with it a rich gamut of tones and textures such as reticulated washes and wood textures which mirror forms also present in nature. I walk and observe places while making quick sketches that later serve to situate myself back there with the movement, sounds and sensibilities. Back in the studio, I work on the matrix of stone or wood in a visceral manner creating a new landscape which taps into the feeling of being in that place.’

– Danielle Creenaune, November 2020

Image: Crystal  2020 lithograph and mokulito 42 x 60 cm edition 6 E.V.

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Collingwood, Victoria

Filed Under: Exhibitions Tagged With: Australian Galleries., Collingwood, Danielle Creenaune, environment, Fragile States, Mokulito, stone lithography, Victoria

Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger: This Ain’t No Mirage

January 24, 2019 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

This Ain’t No Mirage

Artist, Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger has created an environmental narrative of four islands from around the globe; Lord Howe Island (NSW) the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador), Faroe Islands(the North Sea) and Deception Island (Antarctica). Through their remoteness, the plight of these islands, surrounding waters and wildlife, remains virtually invisible to our world. Having spent the past four years involved in onsite research, the artist works to reveal how human encroachment is affecting these islands.

Curator, Jan Guy presents Kannar-Lichtenberger’s multidisciplinary approach to her subjects. The artist’s considerations of these environments through her research and artistic practice has created an eco-critical vision sitting at the intersection between the sciences and humanities.

This Ain’t No Mirage is an exhibition which addresses the discourse surounding the role of contemporary society, increasing tourism and how remote places are being affected by our consumerist culture.  

 

 

QCA Project Gallery, ground floor (level 2) of the Webb Centre (SO2)

QCA South Bank campus

226 Grey Street

South Bank

Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger will be onsite to talk about her work and research each Fri and Sat at Noon and 2pm

 

Filed Under: Exhibitions Tagged With: consumerism, environment, Griffith University, Human encroachment, Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger, multidisciplinary, Project Gallery, Queensland College of Art, This Ain’t No Mirage

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