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21 August - 27 september | the main gallery
The Tulip Project
Ruth Ellington
Ruth Ellington is a multi-disciplinary artist whose creative expression spans painting, printing, soft sculpture, and digital imagery. Her work explores themes of love, loss, and life's journey, often using personal symbolism and transformation as a focal point. The exhibition titled The Tulip Project delves deeply into these themes, with Ruth’s alter ego, ‘Tulip’, guiding the exploration of healing and growth.
With over 30 years of experience, Ruth's body of work includes pieces from her 2022 residency at Caboolture Regional Art Gallery and key works from her extensive creative practice. Her use of flowers and bees as symbols serves to illustrate the ongoing process of transformation, as well as the delicate balance between beauty and vulnerability. Through The Tulip Project, Ruth invites viewers to reflect on their own life journeys, offering a space for connection, introspection, and the possibility of healing.
17 July - 13 september | the grove gallery
Dangles
Prudence Mapstone
Prudence Mapstone is a celebrated Australian textile artist internationally renowned for her innovative work in Freeform knitting and crochet. With a lifelong passion for colour, texture, and creative exploration, Mapstone uses traditional craft techniques in bold, unconventional ways to create intricate, tactile textile artworks that defy categorisation.
Over the years, her work has been exhibited worldwide and featured in numerous books, magazines and international textile arts publications. Her distinctive style and fearless creativity have positioned her as a key figure in the evolution of contemporary fibre art.
Her latest installation, Dangles, is a stunning showcase of Freeform expression. The immersive work features hundreds of suspended, mixed-media textile pieces, transforming the Gallery space into a vibrant, dreamlike environment of colour, movement, and texture.
Yellow Lemonade
Angela Van Boxtel and
Fraser the Razor
Yellow Lemonade is a vibrant sculpture entirely knitted from discarded lemon netting. Transforming industrial waste into art, the work playfully challenges our habits around single use plastics and invites us to rethink what we throw away. Both thought provoking and fun, it is a creative take on the old saying: if you've got lemons, make lemonade.
