MAIN and FOYER GALLERIES
Interconnection
Warwick Artist Group
3 September to 24 October 2020
In February 2019, The Warwick Artists Group was pleased to be invited to play a part in the Warwick Art Gallery’s thirtieth anniversary celebrations. It goes without saying that the Gallery’s program to mark this special milestone was overtaken somewhat by world events.
Over the past years, our community has faced many setbacks and struggled, with courage, to combat the devastating effects of prolonged drought and lately, bushfires. Now the year 2020 has brought new challenges, ones we would never have imagined. This exhibition and its important theme of gathering, meeting, and coming together has increased in significance over the past months. Once this crisis is over, the ties that help bind our little community together will be more crucial and we regroup and refocus our efforts towards healing.
Participation in creative pursuits, particularly when we meet with friends to share common interests and learn from each other, helps focus our minds in a positive way that can help us take a break from more serious issues. Our regional gallery plays an integral part in the creative life of our community and provides us with a meeting place that connects artists, visitors, and local groups. It invites us to engage with the visual arts, and sometimes challenges our perceptions.
The theme agreed by our participants is COMMUNITY and the title of the work is INTERCONNECTION.
For rural communities like ours, INTERCONNECTION suggests linkages, networks, interdependence and relationships, the essence of community, it also describes a connection to place and to the natural environment.
Apart from individual works to be hung in the main gallery, the Warwick Artists Group made plans to produce a larger work that would be a collaboration of interested members and friends. After some discussion we chose to make an installation that could be displayed on the long wall of the Gallery foyer, the design of which would allow for individual contribution, but at the same time form its own narrative.
The structure consists of several interconnected boxes of varying sizes. Each contain an individual work that tells its own story. Our theme provided our artists with enough scope for individual interpretation using any medium, either pictorial or abstract. Contributors used mixed media, incorporating their own painted, printed, or three-dimensional work, and included collage, ephemera and found objects. These became assemblages, or dioramas within the box frame.
The Warwick Artists Group acknowledge the help of community and would like to thank:
• The Warwick Art Gallery for their support, and…
• The Warwick Men’s Shed for their expertise in construction of the boxes…we could not have done it without them, and…
• Highways and Byways: (A Community of Service in the Spirit of the Missionary Sisters of Service and Fr John Wallis) for their contribution towards the funding of the materials used in our installation, and…
Images:
Recovery - Maryvale Queensland Helen Robinson Photograph on metalic paper
Granite Beauty Judy Currie Watercolour on Arches hot press 300gsm
ORANGE WALL GALLERY
In Sight 3
Visual Art Students from Warwick State High School
27 August to 3 October 2020
Insight provokes a deeper reflection on what it means to be creative. Warwick High School students share what is meaningful to them through their artworks.
Official Opening: Friday 28 August at 5.30pm
Public Programs: to be advised
Image: Subjective Perspective Madison Rowan Mixed Media on Canvas
"Today’s generation has a tendency where they unintentionally attempt to dodge ugly truths while subconsciously seeking out something that helps distract them from this truth. This was demonstrated to me through an experience at Glengallan homestead where my peers saw and acknowledged the history within the cracks and holes in the walls, yet they concentrated on the beautiful, renovated areas. I attempted to capture this in a much larger scale, bringing in modern, societal problems, reflecting this in my artwork, Subjective Perspective."
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| Dates | Main Gallery | Foyer Gallery | Dates | Orange Wall Gallery |
| 2 Jul - 29 Aug 2020 |
Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory board, as well as |
18 Jun - 22 Aug 2020 |
Tom Benkendorff Reflections |
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| 3 Sep - 24 Oct 2020 |
Warwick Artists Group Interconnection Curated by Gallery Director Karina Devine to commemorate the 30 year anniversary of the opening of Warwick Art Gallery |
27 Aug - 3 Oct 2020 |
Warwick State High School In Sight 3 |
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| 8 Oct - 14 Nov 2020 |
Jayde Clacy The Cherry on Top |
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| 29 Oct - 5 Dec 2020 |
Nikki Wood On my Way |
19 Nov - 24 Dec 2020 |
Country Miniatures |
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| 10 Dec 2020 - 23 Jan 2021 |
Artel Artists Reasonable & Necessary: prints and artist books Artel, the creative studio of CPL – Choice, Passion, Life, located in Redcliffe, south-east Queensland, provides the necessary tools, space and instruction to support its artists to creatively express themselves as a dynamic artistic movement. Works in the exhibition captivate on many levels – they have been grouped by the exhibition Curator, Lynne Seear, into eight themes: Places, People, Family, Voices, Sailing, Driving, Mark Making and Artist Books. Reasonable & Necessary: prints and artist books by Artel Artists is an initiative of Museums & Galleries Queensland in partnership with CPL and curated by Lynne Seear. This project has been supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland; the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory governments; and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. The project is proudly sponsored by Hutchinson Builders and Moreton Bay Regional Council. |
7 Jan - 27 Feb 2021 | The Baltic Mini Textile exhibition on tour from Gdynia Museum, Poland | |
| 28 Jan - 6 Mar 2021 |
Borderline Art Group From Here to There |
5 Mar - 10 Apr 2021 |
Julie Purcell Beebo Blues |
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| 11 Mar - 17 Apr 2021 |
Nymphaea at the Melbourne Botanical Gardens (working title) Mark Dober |
15 Apr - 22 May |
Sue Hamlet The Story of Hope (Working Title) |
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MAIN and FOYER GALLERIES
You Are Here 2
(The Incredible Lightness of Being) by Susan Lincoln
9 January to 15 February 2020
Crystal, high-gloss reflective surfaces, video, works on paper and performance come together to create a uniquely immersive installation-based exhibition, by Brisbane-based artist Susan Lincoln.
Warwick Art Gallery is excited to host Susan Lincoln’s YOU ARE HERE 2 (The Incredible Lightness of Being), the artist’s first ever survey exhibition.
Through her use of light, reflection, refraction and repetition, Susan’s meticulously crafted works create ethereal spaces for mindfulness and meditation.
Susan has a rich connection to regional and rural Australia, and it is the nostalgia and familial connection to these places that has left a signature mark on her artworks over the last decade.
Susan Lincoln says, “All of my oeuvre is a testament to childhood memories as a girl, completely spellbound by the light refractions around the room from my mother’s crystal bracelet in the unique light of outback Queensland”.
A key work in the exhibition is TRR (Light Vehicle). Standing at just under three metres tall, this immersive space gently draws audiences in to sit and explore what mindfulness has to offer without any stigmatisation. It allows participants to quietly pause and reflect, and to momentarily escape today’s fast-paced society and life pressures. In this space, light is reflected through lead crystals, acting as prisms, to scatter rainbow colours over the work and its participants.
Official Opening: Saturday 11 January at 1.00pm
Public Programs: Workshop, Artist Talk and Performance Saturday 1 February
Image: Susan Lincoln, TRR (Light Vehicle), detail, 2014-2019, moulded fibreglass, polycarbonate, acrylic, lead crystals, paint, timber offcuts, laser cut acrylic, monofilament, rug, 360 x 420 x 420 x 270 cm. Photo credit: L. Grosmann.
ORANGE WALL GALLERY
Reflections
Thomas Benkendorff
18 June to 22 August 2020
Thomas went to the National Gallery School (Victoria University) and studied Painting under John Brack, Drawing and Printmaking under Fred Williams. He completed a Diploma of Fine Art in 1963. He graduated from RMIT University in Art in 1965 and post graduate Industrial Design in 1967. The same year he went to Montsalvat and continued his art career assisting Matcham Skipper with some large sculpture and silversmithing commissions.
His art career lead him to teaching vocational Art at La Trobe University (Bendigo), Barrier Reef Institute of TAFE (Townsville) - School of Art and Design where he became the Head of the School in 1988. He was appointed foundation Head of the School of Visual Art and Design at James Cook University in 1991 - 1996. Whilst at James Cook University he undertook research and studies and was awarded a Master of Creative Arts Degree in 1994. He opened Artyfacs Studio in Aratula in 1997 and moved to Warwick in 2003.
In this exhibition ,Reflections, Thomas will present a suite of acrylic paintings that explore and revisit places that have had an impact on his life.
Image: Redcliff Mildura Thomas Benkendorff
Official Opening: No official opening due to COVID19 safety restrictions
Public Programs: to be advised
Image: Along the Birdsville Tracknear Birdsville, Queensland photo by Colin Beard
MAIN and FOYER GALLERIES
Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms.
A Shepparton Art Museum curated exhibition, touring nationally by NETS Victoria
2 July to 29 August 2020
Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms is a collaborative, playful and immersive exhibition featuring craft-based materialities with a political intent, by contemporary Australian artists and artist collectives.
Craft, activism and social change have long been interlinked; they have crossed boundaries and borders, genders and generations. Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms evidences this moment in contemporary art, embracing craft techniques in order to explore and articulate the ideas and issues of our times.
Artists featured in the exhibition include: Catherine Bell, Karen Black, Penny Byrne, Erub Arts, Debris Facility, Starlie Geikie, Michelle Hamer, Kate Just, Deborah Kelly, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Raquel Ormella, Slow Art Collective, Tai Snaith, Hiromi Tango, James Tylor, Jemima Wyman and Paul Yore.
Claire Watson, NETS Victoria Director said, “We are excited with work with Warwick Art Gallery, to showcase this amazing exhibition, curated regionally specifically for our regional audiences.”
“Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms reveals the myriad ways that these artists challenge our perceptions of craft materials and approaches within a contemporary context, inviting viewers to rethink craft in a new light,” said Dr Rebecca Coates, exhibition Co-Curator and SAM Director.
Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms is a SAM curated exhibition, touring nationally by NETS Victoria. Exhibition Curators: Anna Briers and Rebecca Coates
Image: Paul Yore, Map, 2012, wool needlepoint, 90 x 101 cm, Wangaratta Art Gallery Collection, © the artist
TOURING
A travelling exhibition of work by Loani Prior and Mark Crocker 
Warwick Art Gallery was the producing gallery for the exhibition Portraits of a Tea Cosy.
Work on this exhibition started in 2012 when Queen of Tea Cosies Loani Prior and photographer Mark Crocker travelled to six towns in three states meeting tea cosy guardians and recording their stories. From these meetings Mark has produced 40 black and white portraits of the interviewees with their tea cosies in colour. Their stories have been turned into an audio presentation and delightful quotes about family, friendship and the joy of owning something handcrafted.
This exhibition also stars 20 exuberant TEA COSIES created by Loani Prior, author of three best selling books, Wild Tea Cosies, Really Wild Tea Cosies and How Tea Cosies Change the World. They are knitted objets d’art, woolly sculptures; clever and funny, like nothing you will have seen before.
The exhibition was displayed first in Warwick during Jumpers and Jazz in July 2013. The tour includes the following locations: Mittagong, Northern Territory, Hervey Bay, Miles, Longreach, Bundaberg, Ballina and Canberra. The tour was completed in 2015. Mark Crocker's prtraits are now part of the Warwick Art Gallery collection.
This project is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian state and territory governments and by Arts Queensland in the Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts.
This project has also been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
From time to time we participate in exciting one off projects. Click on one of the links below to find out more.
