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Come to our next Committee Meeting
Committee meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month. All members are welcome to attend. If you have any ideas or suggestions on how to improve the BMCAC please come along and bring your creativity!
Our next meeting is on 6 June at 7:30pm.
Members’
Exhibition
Our much anticipated annual members’ exhibition will be held on 26, 27 and
28 July and is a fantastic opportunity to mix and mingle, exchange ideas and
interact with people interested in art. (the photo right shows Louise
Markus and Stewart Ayers
with our President Richard Cutler)
President’s Report:
Once
alive our really big problem is what to do about death and what comes after it,
so we have religion, it basically tells us how to get to Heaven. But the rest
of life is lived, I believe, artistically. Thinking of the full gamut of the
Arts of Man, communication, the art of understanding and controlling aspects of
Nature, the art of motherhood (intuiting what the child needs next) etc. On the
other hand we are extremely dependent beings for our air, water, food, culture
etc. When we put our inner psychology and place the position of freedom and
love into the mix, we see what complicated beings we are. This is where I
believe self-expression comes to the fore as glue or grease between these
blocks. It gives comfort to make, as we and all things we see around us, have
been made. I have said in our life drawing class – if God had made a flat woman
in paint, is that what she would have looked like?
So, as president of this centre I congratulate Cody for
taking over our Gallery and paying rent in order to make, and let’s all produce
abundantly for our annual Exhibitions and more.
Richard
Gallery:
There
was unanimous agreement that Cody Phitzner be permitted to hire gallery space.
Potters will work out a contract. He has permission to use the furniture in the
gallery.
Life Drawing Monthly Report
Our
group is beginning to focus on plans for the “Annual Life Drawing Exhibition”
which is at the Community Hall, Glenbrook, next to the picture theatre on 20-22
Sept.
We plan
to work with one another encouraging and enabling each other to reach toward
their potential. Hopefully each drawer will gain insight into how others see
their work progressing. This process could help each of us articulate and focus
on our direction or aim. This will only work if individuals present samples of
their work. With this concept in mind we will stay back after life drawing
finishes (perhaps bring your lunch) beginning on the 17th May and discuss how often thereafter.
This is
purely voluntary and no one ought to feel pressured to participate.
Please
feel free to give me your thoughts about this.
Joy 0247392413
Class Co-ordinator’s Report:
Helen,
Vicki and I interviewed prospective children’s class teachers and would like to
welcome Abby Howells and Cathie Cox to the centre. Abbey Howells is offering classes in Art Fun and Craft fun
for the younger children, and Cathie Cox is offering Mixed Media and Drawing
for the older children. Hopefully we can run all our newly-offered children’s
classes. Details of the classes
are on a new page on the website called “Class and Teacher Information”. All the class outlines sound really
exciting.
Also, hopefully,
Paul Sargeant’s photography class will find the students to get it going as
well. Enrolment day is Saturday 4
May.
Ingrid
Exploring Majolica Technique - Mary Greig
I’ve recently been experimenting with
translating my drawings onto ceramic tiles using the majolica technique. The
direct nature of applying colour
through this brush technique has a nice appeal because the fired result looks
pretty close to way it was applied.
In an effort to make ceramic tiles that can be used in
a garden wall project I’ve
been experimenting with majolica
as a way to explore what the character and colour palette of this technique has to offer.
For the type of imagery I’m trying to
achieve, I’ve found that simple, refined forms with smooth surfaces are best. But
thinking outside of the box might lead you beyond the conventional
interpretation of this technique.
Consider the variety of textures you
can create, combined with alternatives to applying stains using non-traditional
techniques. Spattering with a toothbrush, spraying with a squirt bottle, or
dabbing with a crumpled rag might be just the beginning.
The example shown on the previous
page is of a figure drawing that was transferred to majolica. Icarus from the Ovid collection of Greek
myths - Metamorphoses.
The majolica technique begins with
applying an opaque white glaze over your bisque-fired clay.
I would enjoy conducting a workshop
in this interesting and colourful technique and would like to hear from anyone
interested in participating.
Mary
Publicity Report:
Liz submitted an article to the paper on Paul
Sargeant’s photography class.
She is intending to submit an article to advertise the
new teachers and the new art classes. She will also write an article and submit
it before our members’ exhibition.
Liz Bryden
Joy Myers-Creed, Ingrid Russell
and Liz Bryden attended a Solar Etching Workshop at Springwood High School over
the weekend 13/14 April
2013, organised by the Australian Forum for Textile Arts (TAFTA). Seraphina Martin who you may know
through her printmaker activities in the Blue Mountains and beyond was a
wonderful tutor, offering her expertise and encouragement throughout.
For those of you who don’t know what solar
etching is, it is a non-
toxic and relatively easy method of print making which involves exposing the
metal plate to the sun to achieve a print. As it was a very sunny weekend this was no problem and we
had a wonderful time exploring the effects that can be achieved using original drawings,
photos and found objects as the basis for the etchings.
Solar etching is only one of the
workshops offered by TAFTA and if you are interested please refer to their
website http://tafta.org.au/ for more
information.
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bmcac.mail@gmail.com or ring Joy on
47392413
Pottery Workshop
A workshop for basic wheel throwing
is proposed to be conducted in the near future. This workshop would assume some
knowledge of pottery and for interested parties, any questions can be directed
to Wendy Field
Ph: 4739 2243.
Upcoming Events of Interest:
Woodfire
2013
In memory of Janet Mansfield
21 June – 19 July
kerrie
lowe gallery
49
– 51 King Street, Newtown 2042 Phone
9550 4433
Glenbrook
Market Stall
On 3rd Saturday of each month.
