Arts Radar: Winter 2022
A new season brings exciting new exhibitions and Noosa’s galleries, studios and arts centres have something for everyone!
NOOSA REGIONAL GALLERY
FROM 25 JUNE UNTIL 10 JULY
Imaginate
This children’s art festival celebrates creativity through play, artistic activities and exhibitions to ignite the senses and explore the bounds of your imagination!
FROM 16 JULY UNTIL 4 SEPTEMBER
Michael Cook: Natures Mortes
Photographic works with an aesthetic that echoes Dutch Old Master paintings. Cook explores the devastating impact of colonisation on Australia’s First Nations peoples; his narrative broadening to encompass the global repercussions of environmental degradation.
Fiona Foley: Nguthuru-Nur
Photographic works examining a 700-year-old mangrove tree living on Badtjala Country. Named after Magna Carta by a cattle farmer upon whose land the ancient tree sits, the tree bears the same age as the infamous charter that has led much of Western law since its inception in 1215.
Riverside, 9 Pelican Street, Tewantin
Ph: 5329 6145
www.noosaregionalgallery.com.au
COOROY BUTTER FACTORY
FROM 17 JUNE UNTIL 17 JULY
Domestic and Family Violence – It’s Not Black and White
A collaboration between the Nambour Community Centre and Ukrainian photographer, Natalia Maro, this exhibition features portraits of 20 women between the ages of 11 months and 87 years from different cultural backgrounds talking about the different forms of domestic and family violence within their communities.
FROM 17 JUNE UNTIL 17 JULY
Mary Valley Alive, 20th Anniversary
The exhibition of 20 plinth artworks by local artists curated by Heinke Butt, tells the stories of people and place, the hidden valley behind the beach, the emotion of the failed Traveston Dam project and life during Covid.
FROM 17 JUNE UNTIL 17 JULY
NAIDOC WEEK – Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!
Featuring works from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists who reside on Gubbi Gubbi land.
FROM 22 JULY UNTIL 28 AUGUST
Mountain Stories – The Outsiders Art Circle
This group exhibition offers a range of rich and diverse interpretations around a mountain theme, observing the distinctive and enigmatic presence of the ancient mountains of the Sunshine Coast. Each artist explores their link with the environment, creating different visual impressions and emotional responses, inviting the audience to pause and reflect, start conversations and bring together a sense of identity.
FROM 22 JULY UNTIL 28 AUGUST
Abstraction
Large scale textile artworks by Robyn Clout, Liz Clout, Rebecca Staunton, and Sharon Anderson who use fabric to act as paint with an emphasis on figure ground relationship and bold colours.
11A Maple Street, Cooroy
Ph: 5442 6665
www.butterfactoryartscentre.com.au
NOOSA ARTS & CRAFTS
EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY, 9.30AM TO 11.30AM
Learn to Crochet Workshops
Need something warm to wear during the winter months? Learn to knit your crochet creations with Janelle Turley! Bookings required.
UNTIL 28 JUNE
Still Fired Up – Exhibition
Enjoy the display and sale of Ceramics, Porcelain Art, Mosaics, Watercolour, Pastels, Oils and Acrylics.
Wallace House, 1 Wallace Drive, Noosaville
Ph: 5474 1211
POMONA RAILWAY STATION
UNTIL 29 JUNE
Banana Shed: My Doll Muse – Molly Galpin
Fellow artists are the subject of Molly Galpin’s delightfully quirky dolls. “They’re so inspiring, all bringing their own style and it’s nice to put a face to it,” Molly says.
UNTIL 22 JUNE
Carriage Room: In Memory of Yvonne Thompson
Landscapes by the late Yvonne Thompson, a much-loved local artist.
FROM 2 JULY UNTIL 3 AUGUST
Carriage Room: Face to Face – Magali Fuega
A celebration of people, diversity and beauty. Magali’s portraits are like having a conversation with strangers and getting to know them. A stare, a posture, an expression opens the doors to imagination.
23 JULY
Art Market in the Paddock
Coinciding with Pomona’s famous King of the Mountain Festival.
FROM 25 JUNE TO 27 JULY
Banana Shed: Ode to Aubrey – Glen Buckley
Distinctive line drawings from Pomona artist Glen Buckley.
10 Station Street, Pomona
Ph: 5485 2950
FRIED MUDD STUDIO
25 JUNE
Inner Goddess
A goddess of love, hope, or prosperity…you decide. Play in the Mudd with Cathy to create your own Inner Goddess.
2 JULY
Try Your Hand
Two hours of hand-building creativity learning the basic techniques and creating something in a small amount of time. Designed for the time-poor, you will make a dinner set for one or a tea pot.
6 JULY
Mudpies for Children
There is something magical about children when they immerse themselves into creativity. Once a child learns to express and execute their personal visions in clay, they can become empowered in ways that go beyond the walls of the studio or classroom. They’ll have fun stimulating the imagination and learning a range of hand building techniques as they make a cute hen.
17 JULY
MOOlaney Cows
You can take the girl out of Maleny… cows are fun animals with big hearts. Make a MOOlaney cow with your own touch of character – and fall in love with them too!
20 JULY
Hens Day Out
Bring a girlfriend or come along and make new friends. This fun filled workshop will be focused on creating a hen and guinea fowl.
7/33 Gateway Drive, Noosaville
Ph: 0402 333 576
MAX GALLERIA
UNTIL 11 JULY
Rainbow Planet
This exhibition celebrates rainbows as symbols of hope, happiness and the multicultural lives of Australians. Featuring painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, ceramics, prints and aerosol from Noosa and Sunshine Coast artists, including Maxine Stibbe, Jane Parker, Domenique Wood, Angela Davies, Denva Estreich, Mia Hacker, Alison Taylor/ LensArt, Susan Neuvonen, Laurie Brown, Matt Bushell, Kennedy Webb and Tracey Mills.
Shop 11a, 113 Poinciana Avenue, Tewantin
Ph: 0414 725 424
