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BACCI CELEBRATES 20 YEARS
THE CRAFTY ARTIST
Newsletter of the Ballina Arts & Crafts Centre Inc.
December 2018
PRESIDENTS REPORT It’s nearly here! We wish all our members and friends a wonderful festive season and hope you all keep safe and well till we resume our meetings on 4th February 2019.
But first enjoy your last Newsletter for 2018. (A giant thankyou to our Editor Deb McFarlane who has taken our monthly epistle on to bigger and better reads). Love the stories, news and cartoons.
Then lets have a happy, social time at our BACCI Christmas Party this Sunday. Thanks in advance to our ‘hosts with the most’ Maria & John Heaton.
Looking forward to a very special 2019.
Cheers
Mary Richards
Presidents
LENNOX NEWS
Last newsletter for the year and time to wish everyone a very happy festive season.
The year might be coming to a close, but I seem to be very busy.
Fiery Exhibition at Ignite Studios
8th to 9th December 9.30am to 2.30pm
Ryan + Wright
Reminisce
Lesley Ryan and Melissa Wright continue their tradition of exhibiting works in a one
off exhibition “Fire Sale” After a year of creating, exhibiting and working out of
Ignite studios we are finishing off the year with a bang. Drawings, etchings,
sculptures, watercolours and cards will available for sale. Join us for a cuppa on
Saturday 8th from 10am to 11.30 to celebrate and reminisce about our
creative year.
It has been extremely invigorating working at Ignite. Meeting wonderful artists from all over Australia and the world, has been a fantastic highlight and they have been a truly talented group.
It has been incredible to make friends with some of these artists and to look at art from an international perspective. Something we get very little exposure at a regional level. A few highlights have been working with Wendy from Hong Kong:]
Wendy Lau
Founding Designer & Artist
Wendy specializes in design, fashion products and illustration, themed around nature and animals. Wendy was fascinated with our resident Eastern Water Dragon. She arrived in whale season and fashioned incredible moving sculptures of whale tails.
and
Andrew Christie
from Sydney, who has managed to create miniature cameos of the local “All Girl Surfers Club, using his 3D Printers, and he is now working with: -
Sprung!! Integrated Dance Theatre (Northern Rivers NSW) for dancers with and without disability. Creativity, Quality, Integration, and Collaboration.
His jewellery is to die for…
I will be going to Sydney to see the Masters of modern art from the Hermitage at the NSW Art Gallery Monet ● Cézanne ● Matisse ● Picasso ● Gauguin ● Kandinsky ● Pissarro ● Malevich ● Denis ● Bonnard
And I’ll be in heaven ...
this exhibition is on till 3rd March 2019 so plenty of time to get along to see it.
Hint: if you soak some your charcoal sticks in a jar of baby oil for a week, the sticks absorb the oil and become harder and less messy, you can draw nice fine lines. Wrap the ends in a bit of aluminium foil and this will stop you getting an oily hand
Your roving reporter
Lesley Ryan…
MEMBERS PROFILE
DI BELL
I’ve always been interested in the arts so in 1998, while still living in central Queensland , I joined the Rolleston Painting Group. We had wonderful times together learning to draw and paint in the Carnarvon Gorge area. Thanks to the Flying Arts organization in Queensland, we got to participate in twice yearly workshops with some marvellous tutors who were flown out from Brisbane or Sydney.
I really enjoyed my time as a regional rep for Flying Arts and their fabulous workshops like the one on Magnetic Island in 2005.
In 2000, I went to McGregor Summer School at Toowoomba to do Drawing and Painting for Beginners with fabulous tutor Sharon Muir. This gave me the kick start I needed and haven’t looked back since. I also joined Maranoa Artists Inc. in Roma and just loved being involved in their workshops and annual Easter Art Competitions. In 2006, I went to Italy with Gold Coast teacher Lucja Ray and that was an experience of a life time.
We moved to Ballina in 2005 and I am still passionate about becoming an artist. I’ve had tuition from lots of wonderful art teachers in this region; Lesley Ryan, Maria Heaton, Greg Masters, Michelle Dawson , Ron Curran, and Kellie O’Dempsey to name a few!
I’m sure being an art student is for life and I’m still devoted to celebrating life through creative fine art. Being able to share this passion for art with others is a privilege and I hope you enjoy artistic expression as much as I do.
There are a number of
great exhibitions on
in the next few weeks.
Make sure you don’t miss them.
Details follow:
CREATIVE ARTISANS GALLERY in the Wigmore Arcade, have a
fantastic range of unique handmade and affordable Christmas Decorations, plus some great ideas for Christmas
gifts.
David Lane's 2018
Painting Exhibition and Studio Sale
David Lane’s 2018 painting exhibition and studio sale opens at his studio gallery at 31 Fernleigh Road, Tintenbar NSW on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th November from 11.00am to 5.00pm (DST). The exhibition will then be open each Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11.00am to 5.00pm (DST) until Sunday 16th December. Admission is free and all are welcome. A Preview can be arranged by appointment.
For more information you can contact David on: p: 0428 878 139 e: [email protected]
Pandanus at Wategos by David Lane
EDITORS REPORT I must firstly apologise if I have offended anyone with my choice of cartoons etc, that I have used in the newletters….but I think some are hilarious and others interesting, and worth sharing. Great work from Mary Richards (President), Di Bell (our past president) and Lesley Ryan, who have all done a wonderful job with their reports in the newsletters during the year. I am also very pleased that our BACCI members have contributed some wonderful stories on travel and inspiration, and some very heartfelt artists profiles. Thank you, and remember if you are travelling over the Xmas break, or have an exhibition coming up, I would love you to send in some photos and stories so I can share in the next newsletter. It is your special contributions that make the newsletters interesting. Behave over the Christmas break!! Deb McFarlane
NEXT BACCI MEETING Monday 4TH February at 5.30 pm
CHERRY STREET SPORTS 5.00 pm for pre-meeting drinks
EXHIBITION CO-ORDINATORS REPORT Just a quick thank you for everyone’s support, and I hope we can all jump on board with our 2019 exhibitions and make it a fun and rewarding year. Cheers Deb McFarlane WE WOULD LOVE MEMBERS TO SUBMIT STORIES AND SMALL PHOTOS TO SUPPORT OUR NEWSLETTER Anyone interested please contact Deb McFarlane on 0432105540 [email protected] or
The Secretary, BACCI PO Box 111, Ballina, NSW. 2478
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