19 November 2011 – 26 February 2012
Burrinja Gallery
Mary Tonkin: Home 2000-2010
Mary Tonkin paints and draws the lush forest near Kalorama in the Dandenong Ranges, where she was born and raised. Her work, colourfully exploring what it is to be present and pay attention in place, is produced through a plein-air process in the forest, and sings with vibrant colour and sensuous gestural paint. Mary Tonkin, born 1973, won the prestigious Dobell Drawing Prize in 2002. This exhibition will bring together a body of paintings produced since 2000.

16 February – 11 March 2012
Jarmbi Gallery
VCE Creative Showcase
The VCE Creative Showcase was established to exhibit and celebrate outstanding work from top graduating visual art students across the Yarra Ranges Shire.
Now in its fifth year the 2012 exhibition promises a challenging and rewarding visual art experience and a unique opportunity to see the world interpreted by the emerging artists of our community.
Yarra Ranges Mayor Graham Warren said the VCE Creative Showcase helped celebrate the outstanding work of local young people; “Not only do visitors get to see high quality work on display, the students have the chance to have their work professionally presented. We have some wonderfully talented young people in the Yarra Ranges and I encourage as many people to support it as possible.”

16 February – 11 March 2012
Cafe Gallery
Sasha Mutch: Multifaceted
"As my style, medium, and form are not entirely set and I enjoy a variety of approaches towards my art, Multifaceted works on the notion that I myself am not simply one personality, that in a way each style and form is representative of my own dual identity."
Sasha Mutch is eighteen years old and fresh out of high school. She attended Ringwood Secondary College but lives in Upper Ferntree Gully where she was born and raised. She pursued her arts and media vigorously in year 12 and has proudly been accepted into Top Arts, Top Screen, and Top Design of the VCE Season of Excellence 2012 program. Sasha now studies Animation and Interactive Media at RMIT University.



