Arts Radar: Spring 2022
A new season brings exciting new exhibitions and Noosa’s galleries, studios and arts centres have something for everyone!
NOOSA REGIONAL GALLERY
UNTIL 30 OCTOBER
One + One = Three: Natalie Ryan, Pip Ryan And The Ryan Sisters
While Natalie and Pip Ryan maintain celebrated solo art practices that span drawing, watercolour, sculpture and installation, together they collaborate on projects that delve into the surreal, the kooky and the macabre.
UNTIL 30 OCTOBER
Jordyn Burnett: A Glow From Below
Jordyn Burnett peers through a feminist lens, using solid colours and illustrative characters to explore socio-political themes, her own experiences with mental health and the mundane.
Her work expresses a vulnerability shown through a vomit of colour.
Riverside, 9 Pelican Street, Tewantin
Ph: 5329 6145
www.noosaregionalgallery.com.au
COOROY BUTTER FACTORY ARTS CENTRE
UNTIL 23 OCTOBER
Creative Generation 2022 Excellence Awards in Visual Arts
The Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art promote and recognise excellence in senior visual art education and student achievement in visual art throughout Queensland’s state and non-state schools.
The awards offer the only collective exhibition of senior student artwork from each region of Queensland, recognising the talent and diversity of work in Queensland secondary schools.
FROM 28 OCTOBER UNTIL 4 DECEMBER
Alt.kNOWLedge
This exhibition showcases the excellence and diversity of student art from Noosa District High School.
These artworks are assessment pieces, and are a powerful insight into what is going on for Generation Z.
FROM 28 OCTOBER UNTIL 4 DECEMBER
Darren White: Let’s Go Somewhere, Anywhere
Abstract Landscapes based around a spontaneous exploration of our surroundings, not limited to routine but of finding new things, that you didn’t necessarily know were there.
FROM 28 OCTOBER UNTIL 4 DECEMBER
Sharka Bosakova: unmasked
This large-scale interactive installation explores the body as a shifting landscape and has developed in response to place.
11A Maple Street, Cooroy
Ph: 5442 6665
www.butterfactoryartscentre.com.au
NOOSA ARTS & CRAFTS ASSOCIATION
WEDNESDAYS & SATURDAYS
Learn to Crochet Workshops
Learn to crochet with Janelle Turley every Saturday from 9.30am to 11.30am. Discover traditional hook and yarn techniques and stitching to create a Granny Square.
25 SEPTEMBER, 12.30PM – 4PM
High Tea & Art
Put the last Sunday of each month in your calendar for High Tea and Art. You will be treated to a sumptuous High Tea. The materials are all supplied, and artist Pam Taylor will tutor you through a creative afternoon of fun with your own masterpiece to take home.
FROM 4 to 25 OCTOBER
Marine Art
Spend four weeks learning the techniques for painting seascapes with artist Lizzie Connor. Investigate the way wind, water, tide and light play a big part in making a natural-looking waterscape. Classes run on Tuesdays 4, 11, 18 and 25 October from 9am to 12pm.
FROM 29 TO 30 OCTOBER
Abstract Botanica Workshop
A weekend workshop learning the techniques of using botanica in abstract artworks with artist Bronwyn Barton. From 10am to 4pm, use botanical references to explore the idea of painting negatively to build composition, before composing a larger painting.
FROM 1 to 22 NOVEMBER
Charcoal Drawing
Learn how to create dynamic black and white images using the beautiful and flexible medium of charcoal during this four-week workshop with Lizzie Connor. Classes run on Tuesdays 1, 8, 15 and 22 November from 9am to 12pm.
19 NOVEMBER
Create a Journal Cover
Jo Cook shares the rituals and tips to create a journal cover that reflects freedom and joy. From 9am to 4pm, she will demonstrate techniques such as rust transfers, acrylic skins, image transfers, sewn ‘vestments’, embellishing ideas and examples of journals including her published creative and writing journal.
Bookings required for members and non-members for all workshops.
Wallace House, 1 Wallace Drive, Noosaville
Ph: 5474 1211
POMONA RAILWAY STATION GALLERY
24 SEPTEMBER
Art Market in the Paddock
Meet local artists, buy original art and discover local handmade products from artisans located around Noosa hinterland and coast.
UNTIL 28 SEPTEMBER
Clare Riddington Jones: Look Outside
Carriage Room
This solo exhibition is a celebration of nature, its scenery, birds and animals. Clare’s colourful, textured and harmonious paintings capture nature at its best. Her images range from realism to abstraction and are all inspired by her own photographs.
FROM 24 SEPTEMBER UNTIL 26 OCTOBER
Lee Birch
Banana Shed
Lee Birch is an intuitive artist and the creator of joy-filled art workshops in Cooroy. Her art journey is one of a love of vibrant colour and the healing that this can bring to both the artist and the viewer. She uses art to express emotion and to tap into her own intuition and body sensations, allowing them freedom through choice of and the stimulation of colour.
FROM 1 OCTOBER UNTIL 2 NOVEMBER
Diane McInerney
Carriage Room
Dianne McInerney has a passion for colour, country, sea and sky. She has an expansive array of subject matter expressed in kiln formed slumped glass, glass painting and glass sculpture. She also captures her joy of life in portraiture, animals, landscapes and abstracts in charcoal, acrylic and oil.
FROM 29 OCTOBER UNTIL 13 NOVEMBER
The Great Upcycle Challenge
Banana Shed
The Great Upcycling Challenge is an annual event in Noosa Shire that focuses on creative ideas on how to upcycle and diminish local waste. Festivities include talks, workshops, competitions, markets and more, taking place during National Recycling Week. Competition entries are displayed in the Banana Shed.
FROM 5 NOVEMBER UNTIL 30 NOVEMBER
Beatrice Post: Aluminiums
Carriage Room
This show is Beatrice’s first retrospective of her works on aluminium. Beatrice has worked with aluminium since 2017. Working in series, she has created more than 70 one-of-a-kind original wall pieces. Many have been selected for curated exhibitions, bought by private collectors and some have won prizes over the years.
10 Station Street, Pomona
Ph: 5485 2950
SUN CITY GALLERY + STUDIO
9 DECEMBER, 5PM – 7PM
Driven to Abstraction
In the new exhibition space at the Sun City Gallery and Studio (formerly Arcadia Street Gallery), emerging yet high-profile female artists Ash Holmes, Ondine Seabrook, Amalia Keefer and Sara Maria Darling present dreamy, abstract and nature-based artwork. For one night only, peruse the gallery walls while enjoying live music and natural wines. Kids are welcome, and their bikes too!
22 Project Avenue, Noosaville
Ph: 0422 268 089
https://www.arcadiastreetgallery.com.au/
BENDIGO BANK ART SPACE
COMMUNITY BANK COOROY
26 SEPTEMBER TO 21 OCTOBER
James Dobson
Connect with James’ highly individualised depictions of people’s names, all hand-drawn on pre-stamped envelopes.
24 OCTOBER TO 18 NOVEMBER
Wendy Caitlin
Witness Wendy’s abstract explorations of the natural environment.
21 NOVEMBER TO 16 DECEMBER
Jackie Hillegers
Encounter wildlife through Jackie’s nature-based photography.
36a Maple Street, Cooroy
Ph: 5447 7131
www.bendigobank.com.au/branch/qld/community-bank-cooroy
COMMUNITY BANK TEWANTIN-NOOSA
UNTIL 7 OCTOBER
JENNIE SMITH
Experience Jennie’s love of nature shining through in her vibrant, abstract, floral paintings..
10 OCTOBER TO 4 NOVEMBER
TIM NOLES
Explore Tim’s abstract and impressionist depictions of Australia’s diverse landscapes, people and emotions.
7 NOVEMBER TO 9 DECEMBER
Peter ‘Muraay’ Mulcahy
Discover how Peter’s contemporary Aboriginal art reflects ancient cultures and dreaming stories in the now.
114 Poinciana Avenue, Tewantin
Ph: 5440 5289
www.bendigobank.com.au/branch/qld/community-bank-tewantin-noosa
