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Exhibition Program 2019

Art Spaces Program

Cover image: Di Lockwood, Landscape of my right eye (detail)

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Images that have no date are (n.d.). All works of art © the artists. All photographic material is held in the collection of the artists and is reproduced with the permission of the photographers.

Exhibition Program 2019City of Casey Art Spaces Program presents a diverse group of talented artists in thirty exhibitions across four Casey Cardinia Library Network Art Spaces. We are proud to host a thriving community of inspirational visual artists and crafters sharing their creativity through these exhibitions. Across the annual program you will find a vast representation of artwork, ideas, concepts and visual techniques.

New this year, you will have the opportunity to Meet the Artist as some of the Art Space artists give talks about their exhibition at the libraries.

In 2019 we invite you to enter the world of an artist by making sure that every library visit includes an Art Space exhibition experience.

Image: Lee Clements, Cereal box books

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Bunjil PlaceBunjil Place

28 February – 3 aprilFamous Faces Andrea Hopgood

Andrea Hopgood is a multidisciplinary artist who creates works in a range of mediums. Her series Famous Faces, has been created to pay homage to the many faces we know from popular culture and in the Arts. Using repurposed paint brushes, clay fabric and embellishments each bespoke piece can take many hours to sculpt, embellish and paint. Keep your eye out for Iris Apfel, Frida Khalo and Lee Lin Chin.

8 april – 13 MayBrumbies and Blacksmiths – A High Country Adventure Robynne O’Halloran

Robynne O’Halloran is a local photographer and keen traveller. Robynne finds that travel and photography easily go hand in hand and are now a major part of her life. Whether photographing local areas and people or trekking through the desert she carries her camera to get that perfect shot.

17 May – 18 JuNeClose to Nature Jose Rojas

Jose Rojas is a talented local photographer with an eye for capturing high quality images of nature and landscapes. Jose has a passion for using his photography to tell unique stories, whilst unlocking memories, sensations and experiences.

Images L-R: Andrea Hopgood, Iris, Frida

Image: Jose Rojas, Torres del Paine

Image: Robynne O’Halloran, Shooting sparks

17 May – 18 JuNeArt Reimagined Lee Clements

Lee Clements reimagines the discarded and leftover elements from previous creative sessions, recycling them into new and beautiful art journals, handmade books and collaged artworks.

22 JuNe – 12 auGuSTLife in Limbo Curated by Shanice Fernandez

Life in Limbo is a group exhibition that presents the work of young artists raised in Australia by families who were brought up elsewhere, emphasising the clashes between home-life and Western culture. This narrative realises opposing cultures, old-fashioned traditions, boundary pushing, and exposes what life is like as an individual profoundly influenced by both Western values and their ethnic background.

Image: Felix Lennon, Charlie 2018

16 auGuST – 28 OCTOberBerwick and Surroundings Mandi Potgieter

Mandi Potgieter is inspired by Berwick’s beautiful sky, trees and bird life. Her landscapes are atmospheric, expressive and an intuitive response to her environment. Mandi’s work is experimental and makes use of a diverse range of mediums to achieve texture, energy and movement.

Image: Lee Clements, Art journal page with recycled wet ones

Image: Mandi Potgieter, We may dream

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16 auGuST – 28 OCTOberPop of Colour Carolyn Christian

Carolyn Christian makes Murano glass beads using a technique called lampwork. Pop of Colour features the artist’s use of vibrant single coloured beads, strung with sterling silver and Swarovski crystals to create matching jewellery pieces. The single colour beads evoke feelings, memories, and meanings for the individual.

4 NOveMber – 9 DeCeMberDrawn to Botanicals Janet Matthews

Janet Matthews’ botanical art style has been described as “weaving magic” with pencil. The driving forces in this exhibition are flowers and the birds and bees that live within them, created in exquisite detail with colour pencil and graphite.

16 DeCeMber 2019 – 17 February 2020 The World of Mizuhiki Anna Konecny

In this exhibition Anna Konecny expresses her style from traditional to modern using decorative cord tied in various knots. The technique of Mizuhiki is born from the old Japanese tradition of gift-giving. It is a way to ‘wrap’ your sentiment for formal occasions, tied to thinking about the person receiving the gift.

Image: Carolyn Christian, Pop of colour-red 2018

Image: Janet Matthews, Blue, my favourite colour! (Grape Hyacinth and Eastern Spinebill)

Image: Anna Konecny, Butterfly

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Bunjil PlaceCranbourne Library

25 February – 3 aprilThe Art of Motorsport 2 Darren Argaet

Inspired by the speed of motorsport and created with the use of an airbrush, Darren’s paintings have featured at international events. His subjects are the greats of motorsport including Sir Jack Brabham, Michael Schumacher, Mark Webber, Daniel Ricciardo and Casey Stoner.

Image: Darren Argaet, Sebastian Vettel – 2013 F1 World Champion

Image: Darren Argaet, Casey Stoner – 2007 Moto GP World Champion (detail)

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8 april – 13 May Time and Tide Paintings and Drawings of Warneet and Surrounds 1990 – 2018 John Barcham

Time and Tide is John Barcham’s response as an artist to the wonderful area of Warneet and the immediate Western Port area – a special and unique part of the City of Casey. His connection to the place runs deep and he has continued to paint and draw its many fascinating aspects for nearly thirty years.

17 May – 9 JulyGo with the Flow Kate Rowe

Kate Rowe’s paintings are abstract and fluid. While design is suggested, the paints react with each other to make their own composition. The artist has some control but because the paints are thinner than usual, their movements take over with surprising results.

Image: John Barcham, Low tide, Warneet

Image: Kate Rowe, Starburst

Image: John Barcham, Self portrait with flathead

Image: (Untitled) by a project participant

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15 July – 26 auGuST Knotting the Sun Anke MacLean

These works are Anke MacLean’s attempt to hold close the time she spent in the Solomon Islands and to celebrate its people and stories through narrative, words and sketches. These artworks focus on what Anke witnessed being created and crafted by hands in that time - especially warm relationships and open generosity.

2 SepTeMber – 28 OCTOberThe Clothesline Project Project coordinator Ellen Wachter

The Clothesline Project is a global initiative bringing awareness to the community about family violence. The project gives a voice to victim survivors and their allies to express their contempt for family violence, whilst expressing their support and hope for those affected to seek help and safety.

Image: Anke MacLean,Tying a knot around the sun

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4 NOveMber – 9 DeCeMber Laced up Australia Jennie-Maree Tempest

Australia’s native animals are unique, and Jennie-Maree Tempest’s textile work captures them in new and vintage fabrics, lots of lace, doilies and even the odd bit of clothing. They are stitched together on the sewing machine and detailed with freestyle machine embroidery, producing unique artworks.

No Pressure Artists Collaborative and Guests No Pressure Artists Collaborative

In this exhibition No Pressure Artists Collaborative expand their philosophy of creating art from more than one artist. They continue with their small sculptural pieces which are adorned with a variety of mixed media and different artistic practices, inviting other artists to contribute to the exhibition. The pieces can take on unexpected and surprising results, to their audience and particularly to the artists themselves.

16 DeCeMber 2019 – 17 February 2020

Image: Jennie-Maree Tempest, Seal

Image: No Pressure Artists Collaborative, (Untitled)

(Collaboration with Elma Young)

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13 February – 25 MarCHSpeak Life and Love Grace Foo-Barton

Quite often we pay no attention to what we are saying, let alone think about the impact of our words. In her exhibition Speak Life and Love, Grace Foo-Barton encourages us to reconsider how we can use the power of our words to declare good things over our life circumstances.

1 april – 6 May A Journey of Discovery Christine Buckingham

Christine Buckingham explores both self and the prophetic experience through various art mediums, often using gold leaf. Finding this a wonderful release, she embraces the calmness and contemplation that refreshes and re-energises the soul as she journeys the road to discovery. She hopes to also encourage others to bravely explore their creative inner self.

Bunjil PlaceDoveton Library

Image: Grace Foo-Barton, Revive 2018 (detail)

Image: Christine Buckingham, The Lifegiving (detail)

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13 May – 24 JuNe A Way of Seeing Di Lockwood

Di Lockwood is a contemporary printmaker and mixed media artist, so when the retina specialist diagnosed macular degeneration in her right eye she was slightly worried. Six months later her second eye crashed.

It was life changing and art changing. Carving fine lines for printmaking became too difficult, but painting remained a joy. Texture, colour and contrast became even more important in her work. She began to paint portraits because it was facial recognition that became the biggest challenge to Di in her new way of seeing.

28 JuNe – 5 auGuSTInspired by Nature – Part 1 Students of Andrea Hopgood

A group exhibition by the Paperworks Gallery artists who meet weekly for art classes, cups of tea and inspiration. Inspired by Nature – Part 1 is a selection of wonderful and diverse pieces created in clay, fibre, paint and pencil, luscious and rich, raw and earthy, each piece is “inspired by nature”.

Di Lockwood, Landscape of my right eye (detail)

Andrea Hopgood, (Untitled) (detail)

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23 OCTOber – 2 DeCeMberNature Elnaz Bahrami

Elnaz Bahrami explores her subject largely through still life. Her detailed watercolour paintings of figures and flowers are expressions of innocent spirit and love.

9 DeCeMber 2019 – 10 February 2020 Joy and Bliss Aloka Weerasinghe

Aloka Weerasinghe is a contemporary artist and has enjoyed painting since her childhood. She developed a unique style of painting acrylic abstracts and loves mixing vibrant and pastel colours to induce light, joy and happiness.

Image: Elnaz Bahrami, Bird of winter

Image: Aloka Weerasinghe, Fall

16 auGuST – 14 OCTOberSpring Gardens Dale Key

Dale Key’s exhibition of flowers growing in the City of Casey is described through his verse. Frost crackles beneath my feet, a breath of fog with hands jammed deep into cosy pockets. A brilliant blue is pierced by golden beams of warming sun as the gardens of our city burst open wide with newly formed blossoms that seem to trumpet “spring is here, spring is here”.

Image: Dale Key, Irises at Lyndhurst

Bunjil PlaceEndeavour Hills Library

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21 February – 28 MarCHWalking the Red Carpet Cally Van Der Schyff

A collection of beautiful gown illustrations, which has been heavily influenced by the stunning dresses Cally Van Der Schyff has seen on the Oscars and Emmy Award’s red carpets, with a little bit of ‘Old Hollywood Glamour’ thrown in!

Image: Cally Van Der Schyff, Juliette

1 april – 6 May Beautiful People and Nature Bernadette Coquet Nature at its Best Regis Coquet

Bernadette Coquet and Regis Coquet present two exhibitions. Bernadette paints the people she has met expressing a dream like feeling. Regis paints about his experiences of travel and connecting with nature.

Image: Regis Coquet, Puffing Billy over bridge

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28 JuNe – 5 auGuSTAntarctica Daniel Stuart

This exhibition presents photographs Daniel Stuart took on a trip to Antarctica, capturing one of the most beautiful natural landscapes that he has ever seen. The 24 hour light provided many amazing photographic opportunities.

Image: Daniel Stuart, Camping sunset

Image: Daniel Stuart, Palmer Station

13 May – 24 JuNe Zine World Group exhibition

Explore the world of local zine makers and comic artists in this exhibition of original artworks from small press publications.

Image: Josh Joseph, (Untitled)

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16 auGuST – 14 OCTOberThe Internal Chaotic Dialogue of our Horizons Francisco Burgos

Francisco Burgos’ paintings are of colourful paint strokes that clash together in a random but precise manner, creating their own pattern of beauty and flow. His work reflects the radiating rhythm of energy where each cell in our bodies emits positive and negative forces.

23 OCTOber – 2 DeCeMberNature Studies Leanne Moss

In Nature Studies Leanne Moss explores new techniques with watercolour and her favourite colour pencils to capture snippets of beautiful animals that roam our earth. Through her illustrations Leanne captures the souls of the animals she recreates on paper.

9 DeCeMber 2019 – 10 February 2020 Inspired by Nature – Part 2 Students of Andrea Hopgood

A group exhibition by the young Paperworks Gallery artists that meet weekly for art classes. An exhibition in many different mediums, Inspired by Nature – Part 2 celebrates the connection to place in Casey, but also connection fostered with other members of the collective at Paperworks Gallery and the work that is nurtured in the studio.

Image: Francisco Burgos, Chaotic horizons (detail)

Image: Leanne Moss, (Untitled)

Image: Lachlan, (Untitled)

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Cranbourne LibraryCasey Complex, Berwick-Cranbourne Road, Cranbourne 3977Monday to Wednesday 9.00 am to 8.00 pm, Thursday 9.00 am to 9.00 pm, Friday 9.00 am to 6.00 pm, Saturday 10.00 am to 4.00 pm

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Applications to exhibit in the City of Casey’s Art Spaces Program in 2020 open in September 2019. Artists working in a range of mediums are welcome to apply.

For more information, please contact the City of Casey Customer Service on 9705 5200.