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Category Archives: Exhibitions

Weaving Magic

18 Sunday Sep 2016

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During September, the Newstead Spinners and Weavers are transforming the gallery with colour, movement and activity. Every room in the old railway building is filled with beautiful work, including large shawls, jumpers, skeins of wool and a whole room full of felted hats.

There are items for sale, but mostly the members simply enjoy displaying their talents and techniques, and talking to visitors. The felting displays exquisite forms of natural fibres combined with leaves and bark implants. Spinning wheels show how wool is transformed from raw to finished thread, and a loom allows you to observe a large weaving being created. It is fascinating to see both the raw material and final object.

The air is fun-filled, with members very busy with demonstrations and visitors all day. There is so much local talent on display, and I hope you didn’t miss out on seeing their magic.

‘Fibre to Finished Product’ is open Tuesdays and weekends until 27th September, 10am – 4pm.

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‘Fun with Fibre’ at the Newstead Railway Arts Hub

20 Saturday Aug 2016

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Newstead Spinning Group

‘Fun with Fibre’ at the Newstead Railway Arts Hub

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The Newstead Spinning Group was formed in 1978: yes…we are coming up to our 40th anniversary! That is pretty amazing for a small community group that began with a few keen spinners gathering in their own homes. Over the years people have come and gone and stayed. We now meet at the Newstead Community Centre each fortnight.

Our aim is to bring together and support people who are interested in spinning and related crafts. We work with a variety of fibres including wool, alpaca, mohair, silk, etc.  Bringing together the process from fibre to the finished product includes cleaning and carding the fleece, perhaps dyeing with commercial or natural dyes, spinning or felting. We create coloured yarns, knit, crochet and weave. This is always exciting and the outcomes often surprising and always lovely. We share our diverse skills, our latest projects and good company and are always open to learning new skills and techniques.

 

Saturday 10th to Tuesday 27th September 

Open Tuesdays and weekends, 10am – 4pm

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On show ‘Fibre to Finished Product’: a collection of members’ creations: hanks and carded batts, to scarves, throws, beanies, hats, cushions, mittens, and more.

Demonstrations: carding, spinning, weaving, dyeing and felting (weather permitting). Dyeing and felting demonstrations will be on Tuesday 13th and 27th, our regular gathering days, at the Railway Arts Hub for September.

Further information: please contact either of the following or talk to a current member.

President: Wendy Charles 53484786            Secretary: Karen Baker 0439714665

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Trees of the Mount Alexander Shire Region – upcoming exhibition

17 Tuesday May 2016

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Trees ain’t trees!

Where did the idea get about that our trees all ‘look the same’?

The problem has been around for a long time: in 1770 Captain Cook wrote about the NSW coast: ‘the woods do not produce any variety of trees.’ In 1836 Darwin claimed that ‘the extreme uniformity of the vegetation’ was ‘the most remarkable feature of the vegetation’ he observed in Australia. And in 1939 the poet AD Hope talked of the ‘drab green and desolate grey’ of our vegetation. And he compounded the insult by suggesting that the Australian people were just as monotonous…

Maybe these very worthy experts weren’t looking hard enough?

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Death Throes, Yellow Box , Rise and Shine Bushland Reserve – Photo by Damian Kelly Nov 2015

Our new exhibition of photos is set to have a go at overturning the still widespread notion that our trees are monotonously uniform. Trees of the Mount Alexander Region aims to highlight the amazing variety to be seen in our local indigenous trees: even those of the same genus—for example, eucalypts—can exhibit a wild variety of shape and colour, as well as hosting an extraordinary diversity of wildlife.

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Nankeen Kestrel,  Moolort Plains  – Photo by Patrick Kavanagh Jan 2014

This is FOBIF’s 6th photographic exhibition. The exhibitions all focus on our local environment and aim to highlight the beauty and importance of our bushlands.

In January 2016 we had a ‘call for photos’ for a tree exhibition and photos sent to us were placed on our Flickr page

We selected 23 photos from over 100 sent to us to exhibit in two exhibitions. The first one was at TOGS cafe in Castlemaine in March 2016 and the second one is at the Newstead Railway Arts Hub. All photos are for sale.

The photographers featured in this exhibition are: Janet Barker, Neil Barrett, Frances Cincotta, John Ellis, Patrick Kavanagh, Damian Kelly, Geoff Park, Harley Parker, Mitchell Parker, Ern Perkins, Bronwyn Silver, Bernard Slattery, Jen Thomas, Marion Williams, Chris Worland and Deborah Worland

Exhibition opening  will be at 10.30 am on Saturday 4 June. Everyone is welcome.

The exhibition runs from the 4th-26th of June and will be open at weekends and the Queens Birthday holiday on Monday 13 June. Opening hours are Sat and Sun 10am to 4 pm. If you would like to view the exhibition outside these days/hours contact Bronwyn Silver on 54751089.

Upcoming exhibition: Studio Paradiso printmakers

05 Saturday Mar 2016

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Part of Arts Open 2016 Open Studios
Newstead Railway Arts Hub, Dundas Street, Newstead

Exhibition Opening: 19 March 2016 by Melissa Proposch at 2.00 pm
All Welcome

Open: March 12, 13, 14,
March 19, 20 and
March 26, 27, 2016

10.00 am to 4.00 pm each day

About seven kilometres from Newstead on the Newstead Creswick Rd., tucked in the valley, are a Catholic church, some houses, and a red brick (ex) Primitive Methodist church with blue doors guarded by Italian pencil pines. A building where local communities met for decades to dance, talk about local matters, celebrate births, deaths and marriages, and play tennis on the courts behind the building. A place like many others in rural areas of Australia.

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For the past fourteen years it’s been Diana Orinda Burns’ printmaking studio, Studio Paradiso. During these years Diana has run printmaking classes and courses, and consultancies for printmakers from all over Australia. The participants in these activities range from beginners to professionals preparing for exhibitions.
Diana has printed works for John Olsen, Tommy Watson, Mrs Bennett, Adam Cullen, David Larwill, Julian Meagher, Jasper Knight, Rhys Lee, Sam Leach, and James Drinkwater, among others.

Thus the building that’s home to Studio Paradiso stays true to its original purposes: a place where a community of artists and printmakers meet and practise.

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Artists from Diana’s classes have exhibited as groups or individuals during the Castlemaine Festival over these years, independently in commercial galleries, and in the Arts Open Visual Arts Festival held in years alternate to the Castlemaine Festival: this year in the community Railway Arts Hub in Newstead.

If you’re driving through the Sandon valley to or from Newstead look out for Studio Paradiso. Like many similar buildings in rural areas of Australia it’s associated with many local stories and activities. You might also imagine the artists at work in Studio Paradiso: their conversations and collaborations, including their accounts of problems shared and solved, and their responses to Diana’s guidance and suggestions about directions and possibilities in their work. And, of course, the cakes, cups of tea, eclectic music and roaring winter fires that fuel the artists. One problem yet to be solved is how to get Diana away from her teaching and supervising the presses so that she can enjoy and finish her cup of tea.

– Richard Sullivan

Reiteration Exhibition – Opening

07 Sunday Feb 2016

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Featuring works by Julie Patey, Sally Roadknight, Sandra Tobias, and Georgina Duckett, the Reiteration exhibition had its grand opening yesterday.

Friends, fellow artists and locals gathered to hear Genevieve Barlow officially welcome everyone and open the show.

The exhibition will be open Fri-Sun 11am-4pm, until the 28th Feb.

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Julie’s beautiful landscape-inspired works adorn the main room, as Genevieve celebrates the artists and their creativity

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Sandra’s playful works were displayed in the end room, creating a convivial atmosphere

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The artwork inspires animated conversation…

Images of Sally and Georgina’s work to come…

Reiteration – Seeing Things Anew

17 Sunday Jan 2016

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Reiteration Exhibition, February 2016

An exciting group exhibition of four regional artists in the newly renovated Newstead Railway Station in central Victoria.

‘Seeing things anew – from an odd angle, in an unexpected light, coloured differently, somehow suits my nature better……’

Robert Dessaix ‘And so forth’

This exhibition explores the process of artmaking through the use of pattern, colour, shape and form.  It echoes an important connection to the unique community and landscape of central Victoria.

Artists include Georgina Duckett Julie Patey, Sally Roadknight and Sandra Tobias, living and based in the central Victoria.

These professional artists have all had successful careers in the arts; exhibiting internationally and nationally, teaching, project managing and coordinating community art spaces for community arts and festivals.

The diverse range of work includes mixed media, textiles, prints, bound books, collages and paintings, all with a connection to community and environment.

The Newstead Railway Station, originally built in 1880s, has been recently refurbished by VicTrack and was made available to the community in 2015. Since then the gallery has held exhibitions and workshops and is now known as the Newstead Railway Arts Hub.

It is exciting to see the first exhibition for 2016 kick start with this unique exhibition showcasing mid-career regional artists. The Arts Hub provides a shared space for artists to exhibit their work, and involve the local community in workshops and artists talks.

The exhibition is open from Sat 6th February- 27th February
Open: Fri, Sat, Sun, 11am – 4pm
Address: Dundas St Newstead (directly across from Railway Hotel)
Enquiries: Julie Patey pateymcg@gmail.com
M:  0408528536

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Maritsa and Sally
Maritsa and Sally
Obviously!
Obviously!
Marcus provided music at the opening
Marcus provided music at the opening
An inspiring beginning to this new chapter in the cultural life of Newstead
An inspiring beginning to this new chapter in the cultural life of Newstead
Ron Kerr Jnr performing the Welcome to Country.
Ron Kerr Jnr performing the Welcome to Country.
Karen Pierce image of the station prior to refurbishment
Karen Pierce image of the station prior to refurbishment
Sally Roadknight's piece 'Protection'
Sally Roadknight’s piece ‘Protection’
A huge crowd enjoyed the day
A huge crowd enjoyed the day
...and local labor MP, Maree Edwards
…and local labor MP, Maree Edwards

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