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EVENTS AND NEWS FROM OUR REGION
AlternateViewsexploresPenelope
Oates’ ongoing fascination with
aspects of the landscape both
physically and emotionally close
to the artist in the Hawkesbury
and Lower Blue Mountains
regions of NSW. The landscape
is the platform from which the
artist moves into a subjectively
visual world of suggestions and
feelings about places experienced
and remembered. Oates’ work
is quintessentially romantic, as
she selectively edits from her
observations to heighten the
drama of the landscapes which
aredeliberatelydevoidofeventhe
slightesthintofhumanpresence.
Venue:HawkesburyRegionalGallery,
Date: until September 8.26 Blue MountainslifeWHAT WE HAVE TO SAY
‘What We Have to Say’, explores the work of contemporary Australian
artists, whose creative practice questions and disrupts a traditional and
conservative art discourse. The exhibition, featuring artists such as Cigdem
Aydemir, Kieran Butler, Cybele Cox, Rachel Haynes and Jumaadi more
broadly asks the viewer to question the impact of these disruptions to the
centre, from the margins. How they shape the ways in which we understand
and navigate the increasingly dynamic and complex spaces we occupy.
As Diana Robson, exhibition curator, says: “It is always at the back of my
mind that the art I love, the experiences I seek out, the art that stops me in
my tracks and holds me captive, may be very different to the audiences for
whom I am curating an exhibition.”
The exhibition asks you to question/consider the ways in which you see,
understand and experience contemporary art and why to situate the artists
in this exhibition and the creative narratives they articulate in the centre
rather than the margins reflects and celebrates the richer, more complex,
truer picture of an Australian cultural landscape.
Venue: Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Deerubbin Centre, Windsor.
Date: until September 8.RHONDA
CAMPBELL
Australian artist and printmaker will be
displaying her latest exhibition: ”Notes from
the Wetlands”. Venue: The Peisley Street
Gallery, Orange. Exhibition Dates: October 7
until November 3. Open Public Holiday. Official
opening: 6pm, October 10.PENELOPE OATES:
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Cybele Cox, La Lune
Sphinx, 2014 – 2017.Into the wild, no 2, 90 x 60cm ,Acrylic,
ink and soldering iron on timber panel.