Wollombi Valley Arts Council
The mission of the Wollombi Valley Arts Council is to encourage and foster all kinds of artistic expression within the Wollombi Valley Communities in order to support and promote artists and our community, through grants, workshops, activities and programs with continual development and annual reviews.
January Artist in Residence at the WCC
The Wollombi Valley Arts Council is happy to announce that
the culminating exhibition of Garry Jones' residency at the Wollombi Cultural Centre has been extended "by popular demand".
Dates to experience this beautiful collection:
Sunday 31st January
Weekend 6th and 7th February
Weekend 13th and 14th February
Opening hours 10am to 4pm
Garry Jones. Retired Art lecturer and art historian.
Garry was the co-ordinator of the informative and very well attended seminar "Heritage of the Wollombi" in February 2009.
"This January residency at the Old Fireshed Gallery sees me continuing a series of experimental works begun in mid 2009. Abstract paintings on weathered board (wood with a history), and small scale studies on paper, concern themselves with highly generalised movement and landscape references via bands and planes, layers and rhythms, steps and passages, transitions and continuities.
Mallarme once wrote of the metaphor being 'the germ cell of poetry', a sentiment close to my own heart and one I try to evoke in my own approach to the creative worlds of materials and surfaces, images and words.
Feel free to call in for a chat whenever you see the front door open and see the culminating exhibition."
With 8 exhibition bookings, already, for 2010, we can look forward to Robert Sing and Peter Williams in March/April, Inside Art opening once again on Easter Friday, Marek Zayler in May, the wonderful Fabric Art Group in June, Janelle McCloy in July, the Emerging Artist Awards in early October and Kaye Lovie and Mary Francis re-applying for November.