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Opening Hours
Summer – 9am to 5pm, open 7 days a week
Winter – 10am to 4pm, Monday to Friday
10am to 1pm Saturday
1. Art on Imlay is a not-for-profit community gallery managed by Helen Hillier, Diane Swane and Daphne Lister.
2. Artisans wishing to parcipitate must contact Helen or Diane to arrange an interview. Our Managers have the sole discretion to invite an applicant to display their works at the gallery.
3. Art on Imlay aims to provide a community based venue for the sale and appreciation of local, original works of art and craft.
4. Art on Imlay aims to encourage interested volunteers within our community to assist from time to time with the sale of works.
5. The objective of Art on Imlay is to enhance the gentrification of our community by showcasing the creative and cultured soul of our townsfolk.
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TRACEY CREIGHTON – The Artist
From an early age I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was blessed to have grown up within a family who loved to paint, draw and design. My grandmother was a wonderful water-colourist and oil painter, following in the style of the Australian Impressionists, my father was a builder who designed and drew intricate house plans, and my mother created and produced colourful fashion garments. Their positive and creative influence enabled me to see the beauty in life and nature through a spectrum of light, line, colour, pattern and texture.
My art career commenced in my teens when I studied and worked as a graphic designer. Composition, colour, balance and harmony were paramount in every design project and twenty years later when I moved into fine art, I found all those intrinsic elements were vital to all work regardless of the style or period of art.
When painting I draw on my own experiences whether they be spiritual, emotional or physical. I don’t intentionally set out to produce art about any subject or thing in particular but rather allow the painting to lead me. Sometimes my loose initial marks gives me a sense of how the work might develop but I resist the urge to force the painting in any one direction in case the painting becomes contrived and overworked, losing it’s energy and playfulness.
I allow the artwork to direct me as I rejoice in each brush stroke, remaining conscious of the juxtaposition of every element, resulting in a finished painting which evolved naturally. It is only when the painting has clear direction that I intrude on the space and inject my own thoughts and ideas.
My art is infused with strong design, soft linear elements, layers of thin washes or sometimes bold, textural paint, manifesting in a kaleidoscope of colour. Each painting offers me an opportunity to reach into a sacred place within myself, tap into an intangible feeling, then capture and express it in a painterly manner. Each project is a new adventure, each work fashioned to reflect a mood or topic dear to me, whether it be a specific theme, statement of cultural issues or simply a representation of the magnificence of nature.
The past twenty years as a visual artist has seen me develop works which in turn leads to the next body of work. There is a constant and ever flowing dynamism of ideas and techniques which evolve perpetually, allowing me to explore what seems to be the ‘endless possibilities’ of art, and giving the viewer an opportunity to make a connection with my art and discover their own fundamentally curious nature.
Commissioned works are happily undertaken.
TRACEY CREIGHTON – The Tutor
I have been teaching art for nearly 35 years since establishing Queensland’s first private graphic art college (CATC) in Brisbane in 1982. I taught design, typography and finished art to my students who were preparing for a career in the advertising industry.
I ventured into fine art in 1996 after training in America with a young contemporary artist and so began my love of paint and colour. I teach private art lessons and small group workshops here in Merimbula and also interstate.
You can view the painting demonstration video from my episode of ‘Colour in Your Life’ on Youtube or my website.
Lessons and workshops are conducted at intervals right through the year. See my website for more details.
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Bob Georgeson has remained committed to the dada protest and surrealist path since meeting the Czech born Australian surrealist Dusan Marek in Adelaide in 1970. Originally slicing through the eyeball of the intersection of reality and desire with a scalpel in a series of photomontages based on the symbiotic relationship between eroticism and religion, he has more recently turned to the subject of societal collapse and disintegration.
Tired of exhibiting in the white cube he turned to video art in 2012 and began working on collaborative online projects in the Creative Commons. He has since published over 100 experimental films and continues to work with musicians, artists and performers around the world from his home in a remote corner of South Eastern Australia.
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Lisa is a writer, publicist and arts project manager based on the Sapphire Coast of NSW.
Experience encompasses festival and events, concerts, publications, editing and content production.
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CURRI ULUM VITAE FOR LISA HOGBEN
Mob: 0458 727 324
Email: lisa@lisahogben.com http://www.lisahogben.com
http://lisahogben.wordpress.com
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIENCE
2017 – 1990 Freelance Photojournalist, Videographer, Journalist
Clients include TIME Magazine, The New York Times, The Australian, The Sun Herald, The Canberra Times, Fairfax Publications and Australian Consolidated Press based in Sydney, London and New York. Commercial Photographer for Philosophy, Coca Cola Amatil, North Mining, Tourism Snowy Mountains, Snowy Hydro, Remote Area Health Care, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Caritas, CRMC.
Duties include: Developing creative photographic solutions and interpreting briefs, organising and producing photographic shoots of all descriptions on location and in studio and delivering finished artwork on schedule for clients for online and print distribution. Reporting, writing, researching and delivering written articles, press releases and marketing materials for clients ranging from editorial to advertising. Developing multi-media projects utilising video, still photography, text and audio for websites and online distribution. Designing and creating material and photographic content for published self styled monographs. Designing layouts and delivering pre-press pdf documents for print campaigns. Translating all digital content for online and web campaigns. Organising and creating venues for exhibition, producing and participating in photographic exhibitions. Designing and developing online websites for self promotion.
2015-2007 International Photo Editor for Photojournale
Duties include: Reviewing and editing international photography submissions from the world wide photojournalism community. Adhering to journalistic ethical codes and working with contractual obligations. Participating in image selection and contributing images for book publication. Participating as a photographic judge for United Nations photographic competitions. Developing photographic talent in third world countries.
2011 Editor, journalist, photographer and social media co-ordinator at Fairfax Regional Newspapers.
Duties include: Appropriate photography to illustrate news and feature stories, gathering leads and researching for factual evidence, interviewing and gathering information for captioning and creating written stories. Designing and laying out the weekly newspaper The Summit Sun. Contributing to online presence by creating and managing social media updates.
2009-1991 Photographic Trainer Australian Center for Photography, Walpiri Media Yuendumu North Sydney Community College, Mosman Evening College
Duties include: Creating and delivering appropriate curricula for photographic courses and workshops. Developing specific programs for Remote Aboriginal Communities. Adhering to culturally appropriate protocols in remote communities. Implementing the curricula within the boundaries of face to face teaching, setting projects and establishing goals and outcomes for students. Remote mentoring and follow up sessions.
2002 Photographic Trainer at the Australian Centre for Photography
Duties include: Photographic Trainer. Setting up and hanging photographic exhibitions, liaising with photographic artists and clients.
2000 Reporter for the Olympic News Service
Duties include: Gathering leads and researching stories for the Olympic News Service to be distributed to the world media via online portals during the Sydney Olympic Games. Writing articles and reporting on Equestrian competition. Adhering to a strict style guide and immensely tight deadlines.
1998 Artist in Residence North Sydney. Australia.
Duties include: Producing an archival document of the complete operations and activities of the North Sydney Community Centre for marketing and advertising purposes.
1993 Studio based Photographer in Max Logan Studios, Russell Square, London. UK.
Duties include: Creating and photographing food and beverages in a studio setting for packaging products and advertising campaigns across the UK and Europe. Setting and measuring lights and constructing sets.
1992 Darkroom Manager State Library NSW, Australia.
Duties include: Taking orders, printing and distributing photographic prints to clients. Working with rare archival glass plate and nitrate negatives. Managing the print output for various government departments and maintaining the Sam Hood collection.
1989 Photographic Internship at Pace MacGill Photographic Gallery, New York City, NY. USA.
Duties Include: Liaising with the gallery director, clients and artists to ensure print deliveries, invoicing and customer service needs are met. Hanging exhibitions and creating material for mailing lists.
EDUCATION
2007 Professional Development Workshop with James Nachtwey (VII) and David Alan Harvey (MAGNUM)
1991 Associate Diploma of Photography at Sydney TAFE, Australia
1988 Bachelor of Visual Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Australia
SKILLS
Photojournalism specialising in Indigenous, Environmental and Community Issues. Photographic Portraiture. Commercial Fashion Photography. Expert knowledge of flash and studio lighting.
High Cross Platform Proficiency.
Expert knowledge of Adobe Photoshop CS5, Bridge, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and Sound Slides Plus.
AWARDS
2015 Finalist Olive Cotton Photographic Award 2012 Runner Up Kings Cross Photographic Prize 2010 Semi Finalist Moran Photographic Prize
2005 Honourable Mention ‘Caveat Emptor’ Sydney Esquisse
1996 Selected for Who Weekly Magazine’s 25 Best Photographs (of the First Five Years of Publication) for the Fifth Birthday Edition.
1992 Winner of Goodweekend photographic competition.
1990 Winner Bulletin Mumm Cordon Rouge Photographic Awards. Selected by Edmund Capon, David Moore, Robert McFarlane and Lorrie Graham.
BOOKS
“WE” Published by Book Machine 2015. A Collaborative Project with Artspace, Woolloomooloo, Sydney.
“TEN YEARS FROM THE HEART” Self Published 2007.
FILM SCREENINGS
2013 “Beautiful Music The Documentary” Australian Identity and Beyond First Memory THE MUSE GALLERY TAFE ULTIMO
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Solo Exhibition ‘Lost and Found’ at Parramatta Town Hall, Sydney 2015 Solo Exhibition ‘Dishing Up Diversity!’ at Parramatta Town Hall, Sydney
2012 Solo Exhibition ‘At The End Of The Day’ INDEX Gallery, Head On Photo Festival. Sydney
2007 Solo Exhibition ‘Ten Years From the Heart’ The Carriageworks, Netwown. Sydney.
2007 Solo Exhibition ‘Ten Years From the Heart’ Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown. Sydney.
2003 Solo Exhibition ‘Shadowlands 1’ Fresco Designs, Surry Hills. Sydney.
1998 Solo Exhibition ‘Photographs of North Sydney ‘ On Permanent Display. Sydney. 1992 Solo Exhibition ‘Angelus Exeunt et Al’. Bondi Pavilion. Sydney.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Group Exhibition ‘The Olive Cotton Award’ Tweed Regional Gallery, Australia 2015 Group Exhibition ‘Redfern Biennale’ Streets of Redfern, Sydney
2012 Group Exhibition ‘Images Of The Cross’ Mercure Hotel, Potts Point. Australia
2012 Group Exhibition ‘Beautiful Minds’ At The Vanishing Point Gallery, Newtown. Australia 2011 Group Exhibition ‘Head On’ Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington. Australia 2010 Group Exhibtion ‘Head On’ Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington. Australia 2009 Group Exhibition Annenberg Space for Photography Los Angeles, California, USA 2008 Group Exhibition ‘Reportage Photo Festival’ Chauvel Cinema Paddington Australia.
2008 Group Exhibition ‘Timeless’ North Sydney, Australia.
2008 Group Exhibition ‘Hidden in Plain Sight’ River Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.
2008 Group Exhibition ‘My Australia’ Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia.
2008 Group Exhibition ‘My Australia’ Centre Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia.
2007 Group Exhibition ‘Living Tribal’ IndexG Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
2007 Group Exhibition “The Human Condition’ The Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville, Virginia. USA.
2007 Group Exhibition “Head On’ Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington. Australia.
2005 Group Exhibition ‘Caveat Emptor’ for Sydney Esquisse. medium rare gallery, Regent St Redfern, Sydney. Australia.
2004 Group Exhibition ‘City of Sydney Photographic Prize’ Large Format Prints, Hyde Park, Sydney. Australia.
2004 Group Exhibition ‘Head On’ Michael Nagy Fine Art, Jersey Rd, Woollahra, Sydney. Australia.
2003 Group Exhibition ‘The Self Portrait Show’ Artholes, Gertrude Street, Melbourne. Australia.
2002 Group Exhibition ‘Sydney Looking Forward’ Large Format Prints, Hyde Park, Sydney. Australia.
1996 Group Exhibition ‘Elvis Lives’. Toast Gallery, Commonwealth St, Surry Hills, Sydney.
Australia.
1992 Group Exhibition ‘The Bulletin/Mumm Cordon Rouge Photographic Awards’. NSW Art Gallery, Victorian National Gallery and the Brisbane City Art Gallery. Australia.
MEDIA
2015 Interview by ABC Radio on ‘Dishing Up Diversity!’ 702 Sydney Evening Show.
2007 Article ‘A Black and White Perspective on Life on the Block’ Page 7, SMH April 18th. 2002 Interview by ABC Radio for ‘Art and About’ Photographic Exhibition in Hyde Park.
1996 Interview by Foxtel Television for ‘Elvis Lives’ at Toast Gallery 1992 Reviewed by Michael Visconte in SMH for ‘Angelus Exeunt et Al’
1991 Reviewed by North Shore Times ‘The Bulletin Cordon Rouge Photographic Awards’
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A place for local artists from Jindabyne, Berridale and Dalgety to come together & coordinate an effort for a multi-purpose community arts facility.
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DOB 3.9.67
Graduated UWS B.Bus.(Marketing)
Social & Digital Marketing Management and Training
Canva Graphic Designer (since 2014)
iPhone Photography & Digital Photo Editing
Social Media Blogger – For the Love of Jindabyne (+10K followers across 4 platforms)
TV Advertising (script writing and presenting)
Extra / Driver / Runner
Part-time Piano Teacher
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Rae Luckie is an experienced facilitator of community writing workshops and projects in the field of creative writing/lifewriting (memoir, autobiography, biography, family history) and history/historical fiction.
Rae is passionate about preserving life stories for future generations, and has facilitated major projects for the Broken Hill Writers’ Centre; Kiama Municipal Council; Mosman Council Library; the Department of Planning and the Sutherland Shire Council. She has facilitated workshops at community centres, libraries, writers’ centres and writing festivals in Canberra, Sydney and Wollongong as well as country NSW including Young, Orange, Moree, Port Macquarie, Batemans Bay and the far south coast. Rae was a mentor at the 2017 Writers of the Far South Coast Retreat.
Rae has mentored writers including Christine Maher Richard Brooks, From Convict Ship Captain to Pillar of Early Colonial Australia (biography); Deb Hunt Love in the Outback (memoir); Dr Ted Freeman Doctor in Vanuatu (memoir); Carol Preston Suzannah’s Gold (historical fiction); Geraldine Fennell Dandelion in the Wind (autobiography); Alastair Stewart Somersaults in the Sand (memoir); and Cathy Koning Dainty Diva, (a biography of Australian soprano Dorothy Rudder).
Interested in all genres of writing including poetry, her published works include ‘Writing through Grief’ in Stories of Complicated Grief; ‘Among my Souvenirs’ in Best Australian Stories 2004; ‘The Prolapse’ in Illness in the Academy; ‘Love Began…’ in What is Mother Love?; and ‘It Might Come in Handy One Day’ in The Complete Blokes and Sheds.
Notes
Currently my focus is on working with fabric and paper using natural dyes and botanical prints.
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The technique of weaving has been passed along generations, re-discovered, and expanded upon throughout the years. Basket making is one of the oldest known crafts. Gabrielle Powell has been making baskets since 2005 whilst formally trained in ceramics at Canberra School of Art in 1985.
Powell is passionate about up-cycling, reusing and recycling. She is an active scavenger, bringing things home from the tip, holidays or collecting useful treasures to incorporate into her next basket. She enjoys the challenge of making baskets from unconventional materials such as tubing, cabling, plastic, wire – items that would normally be discarded. Recycled materials of lesser quality are up-cycled to create new innovative baskets – if it’s flexible; it can be woven! Powell’s works are colourful and sturdy.
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Director / Producer / Tutor – StageFlight Drama School
Film Maker / Writer / Director / Editor / Producer – StageFlight
Director / Trainer / Website Designer / Social Media – Nullarbor Consulting
Director / Actor / Producer – Footprint Theatre
Actor – Theatre Onset
Director – Spectrum Theatre
Director / Writer / Actor – Short+Sweet Festivals
Dancer – Far South Flamenco
Committee Member – Twyford Hall
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South East Arts is the regional development organisation for arts and culture in the Bega Valley, Bombala, Cooma-Monaro, Eurobodalla and Snowy Monaro Regional Shires.
We actively assist the ongoing development of, and participation in, arts and culture throughout the South East region. We can connect you will screen industry professionals, artists and creatives throughout the region. We can help you find the right people for your production, facilitate introductions and often run industry workshops and networking events. We can also assist you in finding and applying for grants.
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Lee Taylor-Friend is a mother, poet, writer and remedial massage therapist living in the picturesque Snowy Mountains region of Australia with her husband, two sons and a menagerie of animals.
She also creates and presents writing and poetry workshops where she shares her love of the written word and passion for ‘writing as therapy’.
Lee has been widely published, won several awards, has a popular monthly column in the Snowy River Echo and published four diverse books of poetry.
She will be presenting a series of workshops winter 2018 at the Snowy Monaro Regional Library commencing with ‘Therapeutic Writing’ 29th and 30th June, ‘Write your Life!!’ 27th and 28th July and ‘The healing art of Poetry’ 24th and 25th August.
For more information on the ‘Winter Writing Series’ please give Lee a call on 0408166200 or see her website http://www.leetaylorfriend.com
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Writers of the Far South Coast (WFSC) are an inclusive, non-profit writers club that has been around since 1981. Our members are from all walks of life, young and old, men and women, published and unpublished, who meet regularly on the 3rd Saturday of each month to support each other’s writing goals.
Volunteer members on the WFSC committee understand the unique hardships of living in a rural area. Their efforts go above and beyond, on a shoestring budget, to nurture the talents of local authors and provide reasonably priced, professional development opportunities, closer to home, here on the Far South Coast of NSW, in the Bega Valley Shire.
Authors asked to present our workshops are worth every penny and more, yet ofttimes subsidise their fees or choose to billet with one of our friendly members. With their generosity plus the creative budgeting of the WFSC committee, low annual membership fees, invaluable venue hire waivers, assistance from our sister writing organisations, sporadic donations and elusive grants… the Writers of the Far South Coast keep on writing.