Eramboo Artist Environment is a contemporary creative place on the edge of a World Heritage National Park, for artists to flourish and grow connections between art, nature and the community.
Saturday 21 April, Sunday 22 April, Saturday 28 April, Sunday 29 April, Saturday May 5, Sunday May 6, 10am-4pm
Constant Craving: Desire. Solitude. Acceptance. Preservation. features new works by artists
Lachlan Chang, Annette Kelsey, Bernadette Meyers, Christine Simpson.
The exhibition showcases four artists responses to Dr Therese Kenyon's curatorial brief where she considers our drive to consume, questions the way we create meaning for ourselves in the world and reflects upon our cravings for something new, but perhaps not that important to our lives.
Simpson’s response to this brief is Desire. Former material possessions have been largely repurposed and reimagined as other ‘Objects of My Desire’, purveying a cycle for craving beauty in the tangible realm. For this exhibition Simpson has worked with textile reassembly and the dyeing, coating, stitching and perforating of paper.
Meyers constantly craves Solitude in nature, noting the things she loves the most cannot be insured or replaced. She is a chronic collector of things that can’t be bought such as feathers and insect wings. Meditative walks and art journaling have resulted in mixed media works including photography, installation, collage, drawing and printmaking. Her works ask us to slow down and take time to appreciate the natural world more fully.
Kelsey observes that our cravings for attention and Acceptance have reached epidemic proportions in a skewed world that informs you immediately if you are ‘liked’ via social media. The current social media obsession is the result of cunning technological engineering that targets the reward centres of the brain. Kelsey has documented her journey craving acceptance through poetry, watercolour and mixed media.
Chang’s artwork for this exhibition is concerned with the need for Preservation. His work is a response to constant consumerism in everyday life, and stresses our need to preserve the natural world. Through his use of found objects, natural materials and sound, Chang’s installation challenges our ‘throw away, single use’ society.
Image: from left, details of works by Christine Simpson, Lachlan Chang, Bernadette Meyers and Annette Kelsey
Special thanks to Christine Simpson and Dr Therese Kenyon for their writing contributions.
The next Constant Craving exhibition commences 26 May-10 June and the final in the series will take place 23 June - 8 July.
Out of the Blue is a group exhibition showcasing painting, printmaking and mixed media artworks by artists Karin Cutler, Annabel Cutler, Tracy Dickason, Marnie Ross, Tricia Trinder, Samantha Mackie, Fiona Barrett-Clark and Ingrid Bowen. The exhibition is open 2 -11 March, Fri/Sat/Sun 10am - 4pm both weekends. Come along and meet the artists.
The exhibition is just one of the highlights of the Pittwater Artists Trail Open Studio weekend 10-11 March. As part of the Pittwater Artist Trail Ingrid Bowen will be opening her studio at Eramboo to the public. Working in traditional watercolour and contemporary mixed media techniques, Ingrid’s practice centres around exploring intrinsic responses to landscape. Described as both nostalgic and whimsical, her work draws details in and out of focus from observations and recollections of places both lost and yearned for. Her narrative examines innate connections to terrain and storylines, largely informed by responses to her surroundings and her own history.
Call out to artists to be part of the 2018/2019 Pittwater Artists Trail http://www.pittwaterartiststrail.com.au/contact.html
UTOPIAN DREAMS: Undone By Nature
4-19 November, 2017, Sat-Sun, 11-3
Catherine Rogers and Suzanne Davey join forces to explore the intersections between the natural world and human behaviour for the fourth exhibition in the ‘Undone by Nature’ series curated by Dr Therese Kenyon.
Catherine Rogers looks at ways in which nature can reclaim itself. ‘Back to Nature 2’ is a series which looks at the processes by which nature destroys man-made objects by overtaking and smothering, by eroding and dissolving form and colour, turning made products into useless bits and, finally, to dust.
Suzanne Davey explores the garden as an exchange zone between us and environmental forces, a space of constant flux and transformation. ‘The Garden of Cruel Delights’ is an ongoing series investigating emotional boundaries between us, plants and spaces we co-inhabit.
The exhibition features photography, mixed media installation and ceramics.
Catherine Rogers photographic practice draws on the many different photographies available now – from nineteenth-century emulsions to twenty-first century digital print making to render imagery about our environment and how we impact on it. Catherine is a distinguished Australian photographer (MFA UNSW, PhD UWS) whose work features in major cultural institutions such as the MCA, AGNSW.
Suzanne Davey's creative practice is focused on mixed media installation and sculpture. By creating spatial ensembles from textiles, ceramic, natural and everyday materials she aims to examine fragility in natural systems, social struggles and inter-relationships between people and spaces they inhabit. Suzanne has exhibited widely in gallery, public and natural spaces.
14-29 October, 2017
In the third of our curated series, ‘Undone by Nature’, Patricia Adams and Therese Kenyon have joined forces to show recent works that deal with extremes of weather. Patricia incorporates actual snow and the crystalline structures of ice with her cyanotypes in ‘The Phaino’ series, Phaino being a Greek word for phenomena.
In her series ‘As Long as there’s Rain’ Therese pours ink or gouache into specially made paper trays. Pouring off and evaporation make a series of sedimentary images about aftermath from flood and drought.
Patricia Wilson-Adams is Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Creative Industries, The University of Newcastle.
Therese Kenyon PhD is an artist, curator and a former Director of Manly Art Gallery & Museum. Currently an Eramboo voluntary Board member.
Opening Sat 14 October 2017, 2pm. Artist’s talks at 3pm.
Part of the Pittwater Artist’s Trail Open Studio 14-15 October featuring Eramboo studio artists Ingrid Bowen and Tric Tinder, 10am-4pm.
Image from left: detail from Patricia Adams, 'The Phaino' series: Snow I, 2017, cyanotype, stamp print and engraving on perspex, Therese Kenyon, ‘As Long as There’s Rain’ series, 2017, ink and gouache on Arches paper trays.
Resident:Artist In
Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 September, 2017
A collection of works and installations created by artists inspired by their time at Eramboo.
Featuring Suzanne Davey, Mary-Anne Barnes, Alyson Bell, Eva Frengstad and Ingrid Bowen.
This exhibition is in conjunction with the Artist in Residence Forum to be held at Eramboo on Sat Sept 9, 3- 4.30pm.
Join us for the opening event Sat 9 Sept. 5pm- 7pm Exhibition Hours: Sat and Sun 10am - 4pm
Image detail: Mary-Anne Barnes