Recent paintings and works on paper

Photography

Photography

Opening Saturday 12th April from 2pm

OVERALL WINNER and PHOTOMEDIA WINNER was Rae Threnoworth for her photograph 'The Sea and Me' • WORKS ON PAPER WINNER was David Collins for 'Happiness' • SCULPTURE (3D) WINNER was Kaaren Vane for 'Glory Box' • PAINTING WINNER was Rebecca Hooper's untitled work • The PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD is open for voting until the end of the exhibition.

contemplation, elsewhere and imagination...

26 June - 13 July 2008 Jane Gilchrist has collaged tin fragments with painted surfaces in Gallery 2, interspersed with photography by Deborah Hally in a group show entitled Nana’s purse and the sow’s ear.

26 June - 13 July 2008 Anne McLaughlin shows Another Country, a series of eight paintings, adjoining Ahn Wells’ fibres installation using crocheted fishing line entitled Chain.

17 July- 03 August 2008 Recent works by Lyn Fabian

17 July - 03 August 2008 Recent paintings by Trudy Pawlik

07 August - 24 August 2008

07 August - 24 August 2008 Photographs by Simone Sheridan

28 August - 14 September A painting exhibition by Colleen Hoad

28 August - 14 September Current work by Artist and Educator Gregory Bell

18 September - 5 October An exhibition celebrating 150 years of Mayfield East Primary School and the recent triumph in the junior section of the National Trust Awards.

works by Tom Ireland, Andrew Finnie, and Patricia Williamsz from 09 October to 26 October

The emotionally charged industrial landscape paintings and prints of Andy Devine chart a voyage, not only of physical displacement and resettlement in a foreign land but also a voyage of self discovery and the establishment of personal identity. Having grown up in the industrial heartland of North-East England, Devine has transposed the imagery, memories and emotions of his youth to the industrial environment of his adopted city of Newcastle, Australia. Devine secures his boldly expressive visions of industrial foreboding to a classicist frame through highly developed drafting skills. These are not the romantic outpourings from encountering the natural sublime, as with Turner but are more disturbing and unsettling as they confront us with the prospect of our own humanly constructed demise. These works are full of social and political content as well as being deeply personal explorations of the nature of dislocation and belonging. The use of familiar industrial imagery, along with his use of text serve as the links between the formative past and the active present through which he has been able to explore his identity and his mark. This self-reflection conveys memory, nostalgia, melancholy, and the enduring sense of loss. (John Barnes)

This carefully distilled body of paintings show very clearly John Barnes' deep attachment to the land that sustains us all, in all its fragility and vulnerability. The earth colours that make up his palette amplify the increasingly arid nature of our continent while also exposing the primal energies contained within it.