Winner of the SCAP 2011

The winner of the Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2011 was announced tonight at the Caloundra Regional Gallery ...

Anatye (Bush Potato)Artist: Margaret Loy Pula 2009
Medium: Acrylic on linen
Size: 120 x 120cm
Date completed: 2010

Artist Statement:-

“This painting is about my culture. That’s my father’s dreaming. This is from my father’s country, that country is called “Unjangola”. That is north of Utopia, not too far but really desert country”

Margaret has been exposed to art for most her life and lived for some time at Utopia where the Utopian art movement began with batik works. She paints her fathers dreaming and the stories that she depicts include country, bush food and ceremonial designs. Her main story is the “Anatye” or bush potato dreaming which is portrayed using a series of fine, microscopic dots.

The bush potato vine grows after the rains. The women go out to collect the potato using crowbars to dig up the ground. The potatoes can grow quite large, depending on the amount of rain. Once collected they are cooked in the hot coals of the fire. They are an important source of bush food for the Anmatyerre people.

Congratulations to Margaret ...

The Sunshine Coast Art Prize (SCAP) is a national acquisitive painting and 2D art prize valued at $26,000 and includes an artist residency in Maleny on the Sunshine Coast hinterland. The exhibition of forty finalists is a showcase of contemporary 2D practice by leading local and national artists. www.scap.org.auPlease call again ...

During SCAP 2011 the Caloundra Regional Gallery will be open daily from 6 July to 24 July, 10.00am– 4.00pm.



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ChainMail heads to Noosa

Well it is delivery time ...
for my entry in the Noosa Regional Gallery Travelling Scholarship ...  ChainMail3 ...
The piece ( and the artist ...) was selected as a finalist in this year's competition ... along with 40 other finalists from around Australia ...
ChainMail3 is one of a series I have put together over the past few months ... 17 in all ... and it is constructed with found timber, metal and hand-made paper - "rescued assemblage" as I call the process !!! ...
Judging is on 04 August - so please send some positive vibes out there into the universe for me ...

Thanks for dropping by - please call again -

cheers - Ken

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Signs of Winter Down Under

It must be mid-winter here in Australia - because my miniature Magnolia tree is now covered in the most spectacular flowers ...

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cheers - Ken

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Fungi on the Walk

On a recent early morning walk along the Obi Obi creek in Maleny, I cited works by our leading local artist "nature" in the leaf rubble along the track.
I wonder how many people walk past this amazing artwork every day and never notice it.  

How can we compete ...?

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cheers - Ken

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Sculpture on the Edge

Recently 10 artists from Arts Connect inc. were invited to exhibit works of sculpture in the garden of Judy and Ron van Hoff in Witta ... their garden was open to the public over the weekend as part of the Maleny Garden Club’s "Gardening on the Edge 2011". It is a beautiful garden of some five acres and opens onto a huge man-made lake - complete with 7 wild black swans ...

I was keen to be part of the event, but as my artworks are primarily "indoor", I elected to do ephemeral works ... I just wanted to play in the forest with the leaves !!!!
The day we set up was beautiful and sunny - but alas - it poured with cold rain over the weekend - howver the miserable weather didn't stop the crowds, and we estimated about 1500 people would have visited the garden over the two days ...

 Barry Smith and I worked on a set of encyclopaedia laying a Path of Knowledge through the leaves.



The books are now resident in the little courtyard at my studio.

My other piece was a set of paper-mache Bubbles on the lake's edge.



It's always fun to break-out of the studio occasionally and play !

Thanks for your visit - please call again ... cheers - Ken

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Art in Motion

This past week-end Maleny went on exhibition with the Annual Agricultural Show. The first day of winter gave us brilliant sunshine and the bluest-of-blue skies with just the hint of the cold weather to come.
The show is a real treat - bringing the country into the town - and attracting big crowds of urban-ites - as well as local farmers and cowboys - to look at the cattle, horses, chooks, alpacas and of course all the home-made produce and art and crafts.
On Saturday afternoon the crowds were delighted with a display of sky diving ... and the last one out of the plane was this bloke with our Australian flag. The divers circled the township several times slowly drifting down and then landing in the middle of the oval - to hoots of applause and cheering.
Not only was the event visually exciting, but the sound of the huge flag crackling in the wind as it slowly circled downwards was awesome, stirring all my patriotic emotions .
These images were taken from my front garden that looks down towards the showgrounds.   

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Seven Green Circles

My two entries in the COMA exhibition - Maleny Image 8 : between the lines - are Seven Green Circles and There aren't enough Red Hours ... 

The first work is themed on the book - The Circles by Kerry Armstrong ...  
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhGs6a7f8Yc )

 “ …the circles are a practical exercise to help you sort out your feelings.

There are seven circles inside one main circle and all seven represent you.

Your life.

They are a bird’s eye view of who you are and how you feel.

Each of the seven circles represents where people are in your life and your relationship with them. … “

and the second work is themed on the book - I’d Rather be in the Studio by Alyson B. Stanfield ... ( http://www.idratherbeinthestudio.com/  and  www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=195015873862081 )

" ... It’s a tight juggling act – being an artist and being a business person.

Most of us prefer staying in the studio and creating our artworks, rather than putting ourselves out there promoting our art and running our business.

In this book Alyson takes us through the process of successfully doing both ..."

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
To check out all the artworks in the exhibition go to ...
 www.kenmunsie.com/exhibitions/coma_8