Upcoming Events this weekend
This weekend starting Saturday Sept 18 we have the Latrobe Regional Gallery Emerging Artist 2021 exhibition commencing in Gallery Arc. The recipient of the Latrobe Regional Gallery Emerging Artist Award, 2021 is Christine Bourchier. The award is a partnership project between the LRG, the Arts Academy Gippsland, Fed Uni and Gallery arc, in Yinnar. Christine completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Churchill campus in 2020 with an impressive folio of artworks, some of which are now on display alongside newly created works.
“Tenuous Perceptions” is an exhibition of photographs, printmaking and drawing that explores Christine’s experience with and reaction to natural objects and the use of plastic wrappings. Shrink-wrapped plants, leaves and gumnuts are presented as colour photographs, where the viewer may identify the objects compressed into strange shapes. These are images where the man-made and the organic meet.
Christine explores the progression of time and the various stages of life cycles in nature, with a series of photographs of wrinkled and decaying pears. The artist and her husband are farmers at Flynn near Traralgon, with plenty to inspire her creative work. During the 2020 Covid restrictions, Christine focused her attention on things close at hand “I gave myself time to revel in the detail of anything that caught my eye. Whilst walking, I often encountered discarded and degrading plastic, sometimes intrigued by how organic it appeared. There can be something quite seductive about plastic, yet also something decidedly sinister”. In the exhibition at Gallery arc she has included old pieces and brand-new lengths of silage plastic to create floating structures which punctuate the display and lead the visitor around the exhibition. This exhibition will run until October 18 with a closing/finissage on Oct 16 from 2 to 4pm.
WHATS ON IN GALLERY SParc?
The Owls of Nebraska is a collective of Gippsland based artists with founding members Kate Zizys, Pezaloom and Anthony Brandon who invite other artists to work with them collaboratively on projects. The current Owls formation includes artists Kim McDonald and Anthea Williams on the Project Dark Horse Inferno. This project was funded by the Regional Arts Victoria 2020 grant initiative Sustaining Creative Workers to enable the Gippsland art collective to research and test a range of digital platforms to produce works together while physically apart. The Owls encourage people to come and visit on September Sunday 19th & Friday 24th, Sat 25th, and Sun 26th -when they will be playing their new record and printing the sleeves in-situ at the Sparc gallery space. Their record is for sale and includes a poster and custom-made cover art. They will also be showcasing the original drawings, collages, photographs, and prints that were made as part of the Inferno e-book research in 2020, which was screened as part of the Owls of Nebraska Checkmate live performance and screening at the Latrobe Regional Gallery in May 2021. The Owls are also inviting fellow artists to come and visit in the days they inhabit the SParc Gallery to play and experiment with projections of their art onto the wall of the Space.
