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2021

SUMMER MEMBER MAGIC
06/01/21 - 17/01/21


Let's welcome 2021 with a members show!
Expressions of Interest are still open !
Deadline for EOI is Sunday 20th December, 2020

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PAST EXHIBITIONS
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MEMBER SHOWS


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A Photographic Exhibition of Resilience and Resistance
​#voicesforchange


The Illawarra Women’s Health Centre, in partnership with the Illawarra Mercury, DVNSW and Waples is holding a photographic exhibition of women who have survived family and domestic violence. Taken by Walkley Award winning photographer Sylvia Liber, the powerful and intimate large scale photos cut through the words and statistics of domestic and family violence, bringing to the viewer both the full force of the mental and emotional trauma of violence and abuse - but importantly it showcases the strength, resilience and power of survival. 
EVENT:
Wednesday 25th November

#VOICESFORCHANGE

Acknowledging International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

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​Waves and Particles
Curated by 
​Jacqui Malins

What are we made of? Waves and particles is about our composition and formation as human beings. Ceramic works, video, text and photographs examine the way our geological strata of experience accumulate, the shifting water and weather of our emotional seascape, how we navigate the terrain of our social environment. 
This exhibition includes three bodies of work, made over the past three years.
 
Reverse archaeology explores how the layers of life stick to us. Rejecting the drive to excavate, analyse and dissect, this work embraces messy and imperfect processes of growth. 
 
Wash/Backwash sets the experience of emotion - constantly shifting, sometimes indistinct, sometimes sharp and violent - in conversation with the neuroscience of constructed emotion. 
 
Con/form looks at some ways our social environment acts as a container that moulds us. 

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Two Trees Talking
"I Was Here, I Am Here"

Curated by: Terry Cooper
Two Trees Talking is a unique community art exhibition raising awareness around mental health and well-being.
It is a professionally-curated, contemporary art show telling the stories of more than 30 local artists.

The exhibition is the brainchild of Terry Cooper, an artist with 5 decades experience in making art.
A professional surfboard maker, Terry stopped creating art during a decade of debilitating pain and depression. He returned to art as his weapon of choice against the destructive thoughts brought about by physical and emotional pain, and slowly battled his way back to himself, his family and the world
Terry thought that if art could have such a profoundly positive effect on his mental health and his ability to function in the world, there surely must be others with a similar experience.

And so the Two Trees Talking art exhibition was born
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Terry’s vision is to create a platform for artistic expression of pain, provide a safe experience of healing and growth for all who exhibit, and start a broader conversation about how art can
be used as a weapon against mental distress and illness, and a medicine to keep people healthy.
We are proud to feature a diverse range of emerging and established local artists, many of whom are exhibiting for the first time.

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EMERGENCE
Virginia Settre & Andy Ophee

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Expressions of Interest
Curated by: Greer Harris
Artists:
Alison Brown
Verity Cole
Emily Duncan
Greer Harris
Audrey Jones
Isabella Levis
Renae MacAlpine
Erin Mison
​Merle Stone

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International Women's Day (IWD)
The 2020 International Women's Day is celebrated annually on 8th March and is a global day of celebration to mark a call to action for accelerating women’s equality.This year’s theme is 'An equal world is an enabled world'. #IWD2020#EachforEqual
 
International Women's Day Art Exhibition at Project Contemporary Artspace in Wollongong celebrates the work of 31 local women artists and their creative contribution to the cultural, social, economic and political life of the Illawarra.

The Exhibition runs from Wed 2th March – 22nd March 2020. The Exhibition Opening will take place on Saturday 7th March 2020 at 6pm, and will also include a number of dynamic performative and musical performances by local women

Sensual Nature:
​Refine Your Senses

Curated by: Natty Dipold

​Welcome to a space where you are invited to shift your awareness from the everyday into a space where you can feel, look, taste, hear, smell the nature with in you
Join myself @lizlivesecstaticcreativity @vanessaianni @jodievictoriaoshea @nattydipoldphotography @the_boochbar + more
For a naturally fun way to connect to your body - awareness - heart - connection

2019


MEMBER SHOWS

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 Other Nature:
Money & Fairytales

Curated by: Greer Harris 
Artists
Greer Harris
Alison Brown
Verity Cole 
Merle
Erin Mison
Renae MacAlpine
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Eutick Memorial Still Life Award 
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Competition finalists.
$20,000 Prize Money
EMSLA celebrates excellence in still life painting and welcomes the influences of impressionism, abstraction, realism and hyperrealism in all their permutations.
Fifty-five (55) artists from around the country have been shortlisted as finalists for this year’s prestigious Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (EMSLA). 

EMSLA was founded in 2006 by Dr Mal Eutick and has been based in Wollongong since 2017. 

"Two Trees Talking"  -  Terry Cooper

This exhibition brings together people, creativity and ideas that deal with mental health issues and  how we can use art as a therapy/weapon to combat mental illness and crisis.
A variety of artworks will be exhibited including charcoal, acrylic, photography, sculpture and more. All artworks are available for purchase.

Artists:
Maria Buncic , Margaret Black, Terry Cooper, JeddDimension, Gabi Gibson
Jake Holman, Sam Lang-Saxon, Richard Lee and students
Melissa Overton and artists from South Coast Private Hospital
JingYi Pan, Enuka Paulo, Sam Read, Simone Rose, Scott Whittingham
Wendy Yu

"Practise What You Teach​"

Practise What You Teach (PWYT) is an initiative devoted to motivating and promoting the artistic practices of art teachers through exhibitions. This year's show will be held at Project Contemporary Artspace in Wollongong and will feature artworks from art teachers living and/or working in the Illawarra, Southern Highlands and South Coast regions in NSW.

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Every Artist Was First An Amateur
Illawarra Visual Arts
(Curriculum Networks Illawarra) 

Curated by Samantha Rath - Visual Arts, Photography and Music Teacher, Warrawong HS

This exhibition showcases the work of Year 11 students  from High Schools within the Illawarra. Teachers and students will interact with audiences and run mini workshops for students whilst in the gallery space.

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Queer Arts Festival: Queer & Visible

The Rainbow Underground (TRU), in community partnership with ACON and Wollongong City Council (WCC) Cultural Services, will be hosting the Queer Arts Festival: Queer & Visible, 2nd to 15th of September 2019 at Project Contemporary Artspace, Wollongong. 

The Queer Arts Festival: Queer & Visible aims to provide *LGBTIQ+ creatives in the Illawarra and South Coast an opportunity to participate in various events and activities over the 2 week festival. This includes exhibiting visual art (all mediums including digital/multimedia, photography, drawing, painting, sculpture); performance art (drama, drag, poetry/spoken 

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Outsider Artists Exhibition 2019
Greenacres annual charity fund-raising exhibition.
Artworks include painting, drawing, sculpture, collage and installation. 

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WHSPA - Collective Class Exhibition
Wollongong High School of Performing Arts
Yr 11 Students in the Collective Class Exhibition are showing their body of work from over the past 5 years.
Selected in Year 7 for their creative ability and talent, these students have been guided and inspired to produce some amazing art.
Artworks include painting, drawing, sculpture, collage and installation.

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Aiden Campbell
" A Hint of Circus"


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Natalie Rachlewicz
Fine Art Portraits Exhibition


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REALM
Art Exhibition and CD Launch

The Tender Funerals REALM artists-in-residence project has given families the opportunity to work with our artists and musicians to create a ceremony, an artwork or a personal commemoration of their person. Whether through music and song, stitching or installation, each of these interactions was unique.

As part of REALM, Tender Community Choir was formed under the guidance of renowned local musicians Jodi Phillis and Malika Reese. The choir meet fortnightly and have been singing at events in the Illawarra, recently at Wollongong Memorial Gardens Mother’s Day gathering. The choir will perform and launch their CD of songs on love and remembering.

The Tender Cloths project, coordinated by Michele Elliot, will feature in the exhibition. These ephemeral fabric works have been made with donated funeral flowers from Tender families. After the exhibition, the cloths will go to Tender to be used as part of their mortuary care. In addition, Michele is also exhibiting artworks developed during the time of her Tender residency, on the theme of cloth, memory and loss.


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Daniel Breda
Limitless > Limited

Painting & Virtual Reality

​This exhibition will include traditional painting,
​painting installation and virtual reality installation.




KEIRABALD
Keira High School Annual Exhibition

coordinated by
Karen Mors 


School students of the Illawarra
​showcasing inspirational creativity and talent.



The Keirabald Prize is an annual exhibition that emulates the
Archibald Prize and generally runs about the same time.
Unlike the Archibald, however, the Keirabald has a theme each year.
The broad interpretation of what this could mean
in terms of a portrait is both delightful and inventive. ​​

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DigiTarts

​This exhibition features digital artworks from a diverse group of artists across a range of mediums.

Includes electronic music by Astrophysical Maser and Virus Installer on opening night April 18th
from 6 pm - 9 pm 

A special music night with Hunter Sweeney, Astrophysical Maser and Virus Installer is on April 26th from 6 pm - 9 pm.









​"In The Making"  SCULPTURE


"In the Making" was conceived to connect accomplished artists and to showcase their exceptional talent in working with a variety of materials including glass, paper, wood, found objects and felt. The practices encompassed will include design, assemblage, installation, sculpture, collage, glass and textiles. 
 
The exhibition will draw together creative practitioners who are affiliated with some of the major local institutions, community based cultural organisations and small businesses.  

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 "HAND IN HAND" - SCARF
A celebration of art, community and culture in support of SCARF and the Illawarra's refugee community.
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Art for sale (and auction) by well-known and established artists who donate their work to support our cause. In the past our artists have included Glen Preece, George Gittoes, Blak Douglas, Paul Ryan, Pamela King, Moira Kirkwood, Nikki Main.
OPENING NIGHT Friday 22nd March - ART SALES  - AUCTION -
​ticketed event - contact SCARF for tickets
​SCARF - 
Strategic Community Assistance for Refugee Families 
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IWD International Women's Day Exhibition
Capturing our wonderful world as local female artists exhibit art and sculpture during  International Women's Day celebrations. Range of subject matter and media.

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