MALENY ART

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Food as Art

Now on show at the Up Front Club in Maple Street MALENY is an exhibition by artists from the Collaboration of Maleny Artists. Artists were asked to have a look around our wonderful Hinterland Food Bowl at all the “real” food producing outlets and work to the theme - art as food - on 12"x12" canvasses. The results can be seen below and on the walls of the Club until 16 October.
Enjoy ...

Rosemary Almberg - Fruit Salad

Jo Murray - Lean on Me

Helen Campbell - Four Pears

Penny Rogan - Voluptuous Paw Paws

Katie Wells - Ice Cream Wafers

Antoinette van Geet - Capsicum Illusion

Janice Scullion - Lemons Yellow

Katie Wells - Poached

Marianne Osborne - Catching Supper

Alex Bridge - 30:1

Gaynor Hardinge - Chillies

Marianne Osborne - Making Marmalade

Helen Almberg - Jenny's Phad Thai

Stephanie McLennan - From Hedgerow to Plate; Real Food

Sonja Georgeson - Buffalo Gal

Annie Atkinson - Garlic

Rosemary Almberg - Fruit Salad #2

Deirdre Tomlins - Winter Citrus

Barry Smith - Adding the Spice of Life

Deirdre Tomlins - Soup of the Day on Maple Street

Helen Campbell - Food as Art

Fiona Dempster - Apple

Lynn Cran - Left Overs

Mieke van Sambeeck - Veggie Garden

Noela Mills - An Apple a Day

Ken Munsie - Art is the Spice of Life

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I hope you find this work interesting ...

all artworks are for sale -

... if you are interested just give me a call on 07 5494 2882 ...

COMA is a register of visual artists residing in the Maleny and beyond districts of the Sunshine Coast. Currently there are over 200 artists on the database. These artists represent a diverse range of genre and arts practices.

COMA organises regular meetings for its members to interact with their peers, holds professional development forums and plans future development of the arts community in Maleny, members are kept up-to-date with arts information through a weekly e-newsletter and are invited to exhibit in twice yearly themed commercial exhibitions.

for all enquiries regarding COMA membership

contact Ken Munsie – t. 5494 2882

malenyarts@bigpond.com

www.malenyarts.com

please drop by again ... cheers - Ken

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Psychological Astrological

Tomorrow I deliver my entry into the Sunshine Coast 3D Art Prize held at the Noosa Regional Gallery... The exhibition opens on 17 August and runs through to 07 October.

Psychological Astrological uses a combination of recycled timber, rusted metal and hand-made paper. All materials have had a previous life, have been discarded, rescued and then re-worked on a theme to create a piece of recycled history.
Inspiration for this piece comes from the twelve signs of the western Zodiac - that claims to predict aspects of an individual's personality or life history based on the positions of the sun, moon, and other planetary objects at the time of their birth.
Psychological Astrological is part of a series of sculptures that reflect an on-going fascination with life, death and rebirth and an interest in the traces of past existences. Starting with a pile of un-related materials and slowly working them into an artwork that can be read like a book. The idea of evolution frequently runs through my work as I explore the craft of assemblage.
The work is 50cm high + 50cm wide and 30cm deep.

I hope you find my work interesting ...

more artworks can be viewed in my studio/gallery in Maleny ...

just give me a call on 07 5494 2882 to arrange a time ...

or you can visit my web page ... http://www.kenmunsie.com ...

please drop by again ... cheers - Ken

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Flags for Peace

FLAGS FOR PEACE

This year the International Day of Peace is on a Friday 21 September and special activities and celebrations will take place all across the globe over the 2012 Peace Day Weekend. Encouraged by Barry Fiona and Noela, I have decided to run our own Maleny Peace Event that will involve our local artists in an exciting and worthwhile project to mark this important day.

This idea is the original dream of our blogger friend Mary Jane Dodd in the US ... http://mairedodd.blogspot.com.au/ ... and her flags for peace project is aimed at uniting people from around the world in a mindful, cooperative and interactive way by sharing images of flags made and flown on 21 September.

So here's the idea - you make a set of prayer flags in whatever way speaks to you - metal, paper, fiber, anything you wish to use... then hang them somewhere on your property on or before 21/09... take a picture of them in situ ... and send that image into me ... the image will then be up-loaded onto http://malenyart.blogspot.com.au/ and also sent to Mary Jane for her to up-load onto her blog. Simple - and a very powerful message.

also ... we will be putting together a blurb.com book featuring all the Maleny flags ... these books are compiled online ... we hope to get some funding to print enough of these books to present a copy to our libraries and to also have them available for purchasing at a pretty reasonable cost.

The main thrust of the project though is of course to get you - and your friends and your friend's friends involved in showing the world that Maleny cares about peace in these troubled times. So I ask you to please consider being part of this exciting project - and please feel free to pass this email onto others whom you think may also be interested ....

Please send me a message if you are interested ...

cheers - Ken

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Signs of the Zodiac

Recently COMA - the Collaboration of Maleny Artists - held an exhibition at Rosetta Books in Maleny ...
the theme was the "the 12 Signs of the Zodiac"
Here are my two pieces from that exhibition ... both are "rescued assemblage" - made from pre-loved materials and hand-made paper.

The fist is titled ... He opened the drawer expecting to find a goat but instead was confronted with a raging bull

The Second is titled ... Gazing up into the trees he hoped to find inspiration but instead procrastination …

I hope you find my work interesting ...

they can be viewed in my studio/gallery in Maleny ...

just give me a call on 07 5494 2882 to arrange a time ...

or you can visit my web page ... http://www.kenmunsie.com/ ...

please drop by my blog again ... cheers - Ken

Thursday, May 31, 2012

The Twelve Signs

Artists from COMA - The Collaboration of Maleny Artists - have put together a small exhibition at Rosetta Books in Maple Street Maleny.

The exhibition is themed on the twelve signs of the western zodiac - each artist has interpreted their chosen sign with great imagination, and each piece carries with it a short story about the subject.
All artworks are offered for sale.
The exhibition runs until 21 June, and the bookshop is open
seven days from 9am to 5pm.