January Artist in Residence at the WCC
This is an archived exhibition
Date: Weekends to 14 February 2010
Garry Jones - Retired Art lecturer and art historian
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 was the co-ordinator of the informative and very well attended seminar "Heritage of the Wollombi" in February 2009, which sought to explain and understand the significance of the 1000's of aboriginal art sites of the Wollombi.
"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 (Thursdays to Sundays) and, if you're around on Sat 23rd, Sun 24th or Australia Day, Tues 26th, join me for a glass of wine and see the culminating exhibition. On each of those days, I'll give a poetry reading, starting at 3pm, with selected poems of mine reflecting aspects of the visual works on display."