Arts in the Region alive and blooming
March 12th, 2010
Rockhampton Art Gallery is proud to announce a double exhibition launch of Art in Bloom and In the Wake of Flinders and Westall on Friday 19 March at 6pm.
Officially launched by the Hon Kirsten Livermore MP, Member for Capricornia, the exhibitions feature works from the Region’s local artists.
Art in Bloom represents contemporary approaches to floral art by local female artists Lyn Diefenbach, Holly Grech, Betty Jamieson, Michele Kershaw and Brigitta Yabsley, who use painting, photography, printmaking and embroidered textile to explore their themes.
The Gallery’s other feature exhibition, In the Wake of Flinders and Westall presents works by a small band of artists – Bill Gannon, Dieter Irving, Andrew Peacock, Luke Gannon and Sarah Irving, who retraced a path of Matthew Flinders’ famous voyage of discovery on the HMS Investigator to Terra Australis from Gladstone to the Percy Isles through Shoalwater Bay. This exhibition creates a modern visual counterpart to William Westall’s original work and features a cross medium of designs.
The display will include pencil field sketches, pen and ink drawings, paintings, photographs and film, in addition to an earlier painting by Doug Hartfield, a descendant of the Darumbal people, the Fitzroy region’s traditional Aboriginal owners.
For further information on the launch, exhibitions or presentations and workshops please contact
Rockhampton Art Gallery on (07) 4936 8248 or visit the Arts CQ website.
