Great Moments in Art

In the Weekend Australian 21/22 Nov 09

Wild Life and Rust at Maleny Artworks

Ginna with The Hunters and the Hunted
Opening this week and running through to 09 December at Maleny Artworks Gallery are two powerful exhibitions by members of COMA ...

Firstly ... A Wild Heart - featuring wild life paintings by Wondai (ex-Maleny) artist Gina Davey and the other is ... Unearthed - a series of contemporary clay vessels and mixed media sculptures by Dulong artist Kim Schoenberger.

Kim's Unearthed clayworks

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Four Artists: four worlds

Opening last weekend in Maleny is a stunning four part exhibition of artworks from four of our leading artists. Patricia Cale, Wendy Nugent, Barry Smith and Fiona Dempster have all worked separately on this exhibition, titled Four Artists: four worlds. It is an intimate look at the world around us reflecting on its many variances. The artists invite us to stop and contemplate the power of all that influences our lives.
Patricia’s bold rural images draw us into a sometimes chaotic yet sometimes serene landscape of our dreams, our waking and our desires. Wendy’s paintings are bright and vibrant reflecting the many phases of the moon over the deep waters of the Baroon Pocket Dam. Barry takes us on a journey into his sculptured world with recycled timber, metal and other found objects, while Fiona creates a stillness so perfect and simple with her wonderful calligraphic works. All four artists have viewed and captured their particular worlds in exciting and creative artworks.
The exhibition runs for three weeks at the Maleny Artworks Gallery – upstairs 50 Maple Street.

Wendy Nugent - The Shape of Water - acrylics on canvas - framed $800.

Fiona Dempster - Landscape 3 - drypoint - framed/glass - $120.

Barry Smith - Meditation Bowls - beaten brass - $35. each

Patricia Cale - Deepwater - mixed media - framed/glass - $1500.

Maleny Youth Art Awards

Last weekend artworks produced by students from across the Range were on show at the Maleny High School Activities Centre. The occasion was the 15th Maleny Apex Young Artists Award.

Maleny High School senior student Freda Davies - winner of the senior painting prize - with her painting Desert Poems.

Organisers this year were delighted with a record number of entries by budding young artists from the hinterland districts, confirming that this annual event is now firmly established as a most important cultural event.
Maleny Apex must again be thanked and congratulated for sponsoring this award and for supplying the man-power needed setting up the exhibition screens.
In opening the show Apex Vice President Steve Skull congratulated the students for such a high standard of work and thanked the Maleny community for supporting Apex fund raising efforts that made possible the sponsorship of events such as the Art Awards.
This year the art teachers and senior students from Maleny High worked together in hanging the artworks and members of COMA manned the information desk over the two day exhibition.
Judges were Patricia Cale, Mieke van Sambeeck and Penny Riddoch, and artworks were judged on the basis of creativity, aesthetic appeal and originality. Thirty five students received prizes for individual artworks and prizes went to four school groups for their installation pieces. The people’s choice prize was awarded to Estelle Molley from Maleny High for her painting Isis.Congratulations to all the students who took part in this exciting exhibition. A collection of artworks from the show are now on exhibition at A Peace of Green Gallery in Maple Street

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Ken chatting with overseas visitors at the YAA Exhibition - now therein lies a story !!!

Happy Vessels

Seen enjoying the vessels at the opening last Saturday ...

Fiona, Barry, Carolyn, Mieke, Ken and Mark ... pic by Gemma.

Vessels at maleny Artworks ...

... well the judging has taken place during the week and at the function on Saturday afternoon we announced the winner of the vessel competition ... the Judge - UK ceramicist Jim Robison - certainly had a tough task in selecting the winner and in fact asked that I include six highly commended awards ... and they are ....

Megan Puls ( Gold Coast - Qld ) - Strata Bottles

Jackie Gasson ( Eudlo - Qld ) - set of 3 Soda Fired Vessesls

Richard Rofe ( Bruny Is - Tasmania ) - Set of 3 Tectonic Vessels

Michael Pugh ( Buderim Qld ) - Ocean Amphora

Norman Dobson ( Maleny - Qld ) - Ancient Vessel

Sandra Rofe ( Bruny Island - Tasmania ) - The Vessels of Life

and the Best in Show Award and the $500. prize went to ...

Ian Reid ( Dulong - Qld ) - Lidded Vessel 2

Ian with award judge Jim Robison ...

Thank you to all the ceramicists who entered the competition and congratulations to Ian and the Highly Commended artists ... and a huge thank you to Jim Robison for taking time out on his busy Australian trip to judge the entries ..
The show runs now until the 28th October ...

A Fantasy of Teapots

Last weekend the Maleny Arts and Crafts group presented the 6th annual Maleny Teapots Exhibition. Held in the RSL Hall over the three days, the show drew a steady stream of visitors and teapot collectors with about one third of the pots being sold. Also on exhibition were paintings and sculptures from the artist members of MACG and of course the second "Warm and Fuzzy" teacosy competition. ... and the winners were ...

Sandra Bernaitis - from South Australia - won the hand painted porcelain teapot with "Imari "....

Maleny clayworker Charlie Moore's "Aunt Edna comes to tea ... "won the creative teapot ...

and Mons artist Carol Forster won the functional teapot section with her "untitled" pot ...

The winning TeaCosy was "Gertea" created by Maleny artist Christine Duelberg ...

The remaining tepots are now on show at Maleny Artworks Gallery until the end of the month.

Charlie Moore and 'Aunt Edna ..."


Christine Duelberg and her cosies ...