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GALLERY 1 WORKS FROM THE BURRINJA COLLECTION
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GALLERY 2 |
VIVID VISIONS Six schools from across the Dandenong Ranges will be represented by their best Year 11 art students in Vivid Visions 2010, which will include artwork across a range of mediums from Monbulk Secondary College, Mater Christi College, Billanook College, Emerald Secondary College, Mountain District Christian School, and Upwey High School.
Heading into its sixth year, the Vivid Visions exhibition continues to provide an important forum for Year 11 students to express themselves creatively and be represented publicly in the community. This exhibition also creates a space for young people from different schools to network with each other, connect with other young artists, and share ideas and techniques.
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DANDENONG RANGES OPEN STUDIOS
EXHIBITION
Annually on the last weekend of May the Open Studios weekend provides an avenue for Ranges artists to showcase their work in their home studios, where their art truly comes to life in its natural environment! The Open Studios weekend, featuring around 30 local hills artists, is one of the most anticipated events for the region’s cultural calendar, attracting art minded visitors and tourists since 2004. Dandenong Ranges Open Studios recently celebrated its 6th year with one big open weekend on 23 and 24 May 2009. Nearly 4000 visitors from all over Victoria journeyed through the hills, following the guidebook and map to visit hidden studios nestled amongst the tall trees of the Dandenong’s.
Featuring artists working across a range of mediums – as varied as painters, potters, wood carvers, painters, digital artists and didgeridoo makers – Open Studios is an eclectic art event set against the backdrop of this gorgeous tourism destination. In the lead up to the Dandenong Ranges Open Studios weekend artists work can be previewed in the annual Open Studios Exhibition at Burrinja Gallery. This exhibition will be officially opened at 7pm Friday 21 May in a carnival atmosphere including roving performers, wandering minstrels, music, and colorful costumes. The exhibition will run from 21 May - 13 June 2010, with the artists opening their studios to the public on 29-30 May. This exhibition makes Burrinja a great place to collect your Open Studios guide book, check out the artists' work, and start your journey through the range of art in the hills.
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more information check out the website e: openstudios@burrinja.org.au |
Bill Henson: early works
from the MGA collection Bill Henson: early works from the MGA collection provides audiences with the opportunity to view some of the most powerful and beautiful photographs made by one of Australia’s best-known contemporary photographers. This exhibition features twenty-nine exquisitely printed examples from many of Henson’s major series from the 1970s through to the early 1990s, all drawn from Monash Gallery of Art’s (MGA) collection. Passionate discussions in Australia, especially the media, about Henson’s work and what it says about the nature of art are ongoing. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity for local audiences to experience the diversity and complex materiality of Henson’s work first hand, unhindered by the distortions of reproduction. Henson prints his own work by hand, using chemicals and carefully chosen paper stock. The uneven surfaces of his early black-and-white works are a result of this wet process, and give the photographs a mysterious, almost alchemic quality. These material properties are not evident in reproductions of Henson’s images. The other aspect that is lost in reproduction is the physical difficulty of seeing Henson’s pictures clearly. The darkness appeals to Henson’s romantic sensibility, and he tends to let shadows obscure visual detail so that enigmas lurk at the threshold of perception. Publishers like to override this quality of Henson’s work by adjusting the contrast and brightness of the images for print. But viewers of this exhibition will find themselves drawn into an inscrutable visual space of shadows and deep, reflective blacks.
According to Dr Shaune Lakin, Director of MGA: "The exhibition includes some of Henson's most iconic works from the 1980s and 1990s and I'm delighted that visitors to Burrinja have the opportunity to see the works of this major Australian photographer from the MGA Collection". Monash Gallery of Art holds one of the largest collections of photographs by Bill Henson in the country. With its concentration on work made between 1977 and 1992, the collection provides a significant survey of his early career. The 29 works in this exhibition are drawn from this collection, and Burrinja is looking forward to bringing this important exhibition to the Dandenong Ranges region in 2010.
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The Melbourne Satellite
Reef 8 October - 21 November 2010 A Satellite of the worldwide Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project created by Margaret and Christine Wertheim of the Institute For Figuring in Los Angeles. The Crochet Reef is a woolly celebration of the intersection of higher geometry and feminine handicraft, and a testimony to the disappearing wonders of the marine world. The Reef has spawned an international community of crafters, through whom this ecology continues to evolve. "Satellite Reefs" are now developing across the globe, including right here in Melbourne. For
more information on the project see the Institute For Figuring website
Come along to one of the Melbourne Reef workshops in the Burrinja Cafe. Discover what a hyperbolic plane is and how to crochet one. Learn how to use colour, shape, texture and size to full effect, and swap patterns and ideas. BYO crochet hook and yarn. Regular workshops are held in the Burrinja Cafe on 2nd Saturday of each month from 1-4pm. Check out the blog at melbournesatellitereef.blogspot.com For more information contact the Victorian Co-Ordinator Tracy Hayllar: |
