Blog: Living Colour! Celebrating Life Across the Spectrum

Gosford Regional Gallery Update

1 May 2015 Filed Under: Exhibition

Gosford Regional Gallery is fully open following the recent storm. Gallery hours are 10am-4pm daily and admission is free. Due to gallery renovations, the Living Colour! exhibition will now close on Monday afternoon, 25 May (rather than 27 May). Information about the operating hours of the cafe and gardens are set out below.

Curator floor talks are scheduled for 2pm on Saturday 2 May and 16 May 2015. All welcome!

The Gallery restaurant ceased trading on Tuesday 21 April 2015. Renovations of the Gallery restaurant will commence on 1 May and will continue until 12 May. The restaurant will be closed during this period and will reopen for trading on the morning of Wednesday 13 May.

Internal renovations to the Gallery will take place from Monday 4 May until Friday 29 May 2015. The Gallery will remain open for normal trading during the renovations, there will be some temporary changes to access during this time.

Please note that the Garden will be closed from 11 until 22 May inclusive for essential maintenance. The Gallery building, including exhibition space, Gallery shop and cafe, will remain open as normal during this period.

Installation at Gosford Regional Gallery

17 April 2015 Filed Under: Exhibition

Colour can brighten your day. An exhibition space can be transformed with the addition of colour.

Here are some photos from installation at Gosford Regional Gallery in preparation for the official opening and curator floor talk at 2pm on Saturday, 18 April 2015. All welcome!

Invitation: Gosford Regional Gallery 18 April – 27 May 2015

5 April 2015 Filed Under: Exhibition

Living Colour! tours next to Gosford Regional Gallery, Gosford, Australia from 18 April – 27 May 2015. Come along to the opening with floor talk by curator Brenda Gael Smith and local artist Kay Haerland at 2pm on Saturday 18 April. Other curator floor talks at 2pm on Saturday, 2 May and Saturday, 16 May 2015. All welcome!

Gosford Regional Gallery Events Program

31 January 2015 Filed Under: Exhibition

Mark your diaries! Living Colour will be on exhibition at Gosford Regional Gallery, back in Australia, from 18 April – 27 May 2015. (See page 8 of the gallery’s events program.)

Living Colour at Northart Gallery

30 January 2015 Filed Under: Exhibition

The exhibition opened at Northart Gallery, Northcote , New Zealand on Wednesday and continues until 11 February 2015. Gallery hours are 10am-4pm daily (closed for Waitangi Day). Thank you to everyone who joined the festivities. There was a good turnout (not just my family!) including many artists from the Northart Members exhibition that also opened that evening. One artist (painter) remarked to me that the floor talk was a revelation and she has a new appreciation for the textile medium.

Here are some photos from the opening. Thank you to the Northart Gallery team for their care and attention in hanging the exhibition in rainbow sequence. This time the rainbow flows from right t0 left to fit with the configuration of the space in Galleries 4 and 5. As you can see, the gallery has glass frontage so the works can even be viewed after hours.

Thanks also to my friend Horst who took some photos while I was giving my talk. More photos can be viewed on the Living Colour Facebook Page.

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Living Colour! at Northart Gallery

Living Colour at Quilt Symposium Manawatu

17 January 2015 Filed Under: Uncategorized

In conjunction with Quilt Symposium Manawatu, Living Colour! is on exhibition at Te Manawa gallery in Palmerston North until Wednesday afternoon, 21 January. There is an artist/curator floor talk from 12.30-1pm on Tuesday, 20 January. All welcome!

Living Colour! in New Zealand

29 December 2014 Filed Under: Artists, Exhibition

Living Colour! tours to New Zealand in January 2015 to two gallery venues:

Te Manawa, Palmerston North, New Zealand in conjunction with Quilt Symposium Manawatu, 15-21 January 2015; and
Northart Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand: Wednesday 28 January (opening 6pm) – 11 February 2015. Gallery hours: 10am – 4pm daily (closed Friday 6 February).

Come along to the curator floor talks at 12.30-1pm Tuesday, 20 January 2015 (Palmerston North) and 6pm and Wednesday 28 January (Auckland) when some of the local artists will also be in attendance. There are five New Zealand-based artists participating in the exhibition and their work is featured on this invitation:

Left-Right: Charlotte Scott, Anne Jolly, Mathea Daunheimer, Alison Laurence, Annie White

Colour catalogues will be available at the two floor talks and directly from the curator Brenda Gael Smith during Quilt Symposium Manawatu for NZ$22/A$20. Pre-order online today to be assured of a copy!

Living Colour at Grenfell Art Gallery

10 December 2014 Filed Under: Exhibitions

Visitors from far and wide are enjoying the Living Colour exhibition at Grenfell Art Gallery, Grenfell, New South Wales. Here is a report from Charlene of Harden:

I was totally stunned by the quilts, both Living Colour and your own. The photos I’d seen barely did them justice, the subjects just jumped off the wall, the colours are so vibrant, and the different interpretations were interesting as well… Friends tease me because I save tiny pieces of fabric, now I can show them your quilts and demonstrate what magic can be done with them.

Thank you so much for putting these exhibitions together, and if I get a chance to get back to Grenfell while they’re still there I will surely go. I hope they continue to make people happy during the rest of their travels, and when I see the photos I will remember how much better the real quilts were, and see them again in my mind.

The exhibition continues until 20 December 2014. Gallery hours: Tuesday – Friday 10am-4pm and Saturday: 9.30am-12pm.

Grenfell Art Gallery is calling for expressions of interest from individuals and groups of artists for 2015 exhibitions. See Arts OutWest for further information. EoIs closed on 22 December 2015.

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Installation at Grenfell

28 November 2014 Filed Under: Exhibitions

Along with the Living Colour artists, I extend a huge thank you to Carly Brown and the team of other volunteers at Grenfell Art Gallery who looked after installation of the exhibition earlier this week.

As you can see from these work-in-progress photos, the centre of the gallery space is opened up to enable viewers to take in the full rainbow effect of the exhibit.

The exhibition opened on 25 November and has already attracted textile enthusiasts from as far afield as Temora, Ariah Park (just up the road from Quandary!), Tubbul and Bribbaree. (I’d love a position on the Geographic Names Board!)

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Grenfell is in the heart of canola country so viewers will recognise the uplifting yellow landscape in Jenny Bacon’s work Illuminate (detail below).

The exhibition continues until 20 December 2014. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Friday 10am-4pm and Saturday 9.30am-12pm.

Dual exhibition at Grenfell: 25 November – 20 December

19 November 2014 Filed Under: Exhibition

In conjunction with the Living Colour! exhibition, curator Brenda Gael Smith is exhibiting a selection of her vibrant works at Grenfell Art Gallery, New South Wales from 25 November to 20 December 2014.

Gallery hours: Tuesday – Friday 10am-4pm and Saturday: 9.30am-12pm.