PERC TUCKER REGIONAL GALLERY PAST EXHIBITIONS: 2009

PERC TUCKER REGIONAL GALLERY PERC TUCKER REGIONAL GALLERY PAST EXHIBITIONS: 2009

FAR NORTH THE NUDE OUT OF THE FOREST FRAME BY FRAME: ASIA WORKS FROM PERC TUCKER REGIONAL CLAUDINE MARZIK GALLERY COLLECTION AND PRIVATE LENDERS IAN HAMILTON PACIFIC ARTISTS ON TOUR A QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY 12 December 2008 to 9 February 2009 19 December 2008 to 15 February 2009 13 February to 22 March 2009 TRAVELLING EXHIBITION Far North underlines Marzik’s commitment In Out of the Forest viewers find 20 February to 19 April 2009 to reflecting this unique region in her art The Nude is more than a description of themselves taken on a journey through the practice. Developed over a long stretch of nakedness; rather it is an artistic genre. field notes, to the drawings and sculptures Photography and moving image were time, the show changes like the seasons, Its name gives title to an exciting local (including Hamilton’s own bowers, built integral to The 5th Asia Pacific Triennial capturing the intense climatic changes that exhibition based on a collection of prints, stick by stick in what is a very lengthy of Contemporary Art (APT5), from Ai Wei are experienced on a yearly basis in the drawings, photographs, painting and process), to finally wonder at the Wei’s iconoclastic Dropping a Han dynasty Far North. The paintings also reflect the sculptures compiled primarily from the complexity of the large prints that result. urn to Rashid Rana’s dissection of the effects - minor and major - these changing Perc Tucker Regional Gallery collection, photographic image through the use of weather patterns have on the diverse but also from private lenders. Out of the Forest is supplemented by a the pixel. Frame by Frame showcases a landscape. broad cross-section of photography and The show is a celebration of the human series of bird drawings, prints, paintings and ceramics from the Perc Tucker the moving image by artists from the form and the concept of the ideal which contemporary Asian, Pacific and Australian artists explore in all its beauty. It allows Regional Gallery Collection. Artists include Tate Adams, Clifton Pugh, Jim Cox, James collections. The exhibition includes many the public to appreciate the varied and acquisitions from APT5. innovative ways in which artists have Meldrum, Robert Burton, Juli Haas, and portrayed the human figure using different Elizabeth Gould. techniques to capture The Nude.

Images: Amongst those exhibited were artists of Claudine Marzik, Far North 41 (detail), acrylic on canvas, 120 x 136cm, 2008; Kevin Connor, Man sitting cross legged (detail), Screenprint, 76 x 55.5 cm, national significance including John Brack, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Collection; Ian Hamilton, Single Tower, 2005/08, wood, 125 x 105 x 70 cm; Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han dynasty urn, 1995, Gelatin silver photograph on paper, A.P. (ed. of 3) Arthur Boyd, Euan Macleod and Anneke Purchased 2006. The Queensland Government’s Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fund Collection: Queensland Art Gallery Silver. MAJOR EXHIBITIONS PERC TUCKER REGIONAL GALLERY PAST EXHIBITIONS: 2009

FOCUS: PHOTOGRAPHY & HALL OF MIRRORS: ANNE TWO SEASONS: RECENT URAPUN KAI BUAI CONTEMPORARY TORRES STRAIT LINOCUTS WAR 1945 - 2006 ZAHALKA PORTRAITS 1987-2007 PAINTINGS BY BILLY MISSI AN AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL A NETS VICTORIA TOURING EXHIBITION TRAVELLING EXHIBITION DEVELOPED BY THE CENTRE FOR MARTIN KIZUR 19 June to 16 August 2009 27 March to 3 May 2009 CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY 8 May to 14 June 2009 24 April to 21 June 2009 The works featured in Urapun Kai Buai The exhibition Focus: photography & Martin Kizur’s first floor exhibition Two (one big kin) play a significant role in war 1945-2006, captures the horror and Hall of Mirrors: Anne Zahalka Portraits Seasons is a vibrant take on life in the providing an insight into the Zenadh- humanity of military and peacekeeping 1987-2007 explores the thread of tropics. His passion and excitement for Kes (Torres Strait) way of life through actions over a turbulent 60-year period, portraiture through the prolific career of the north Queensland environment is contemporary visual representations of via the lenses of 15 official and freelance one of Australia’s pre-eminent photomedia evident in all of the acrylic paintings on traditional stories and culture. photographers. artists. Featuring many iconic images, this show, particularly through the use of an major survey exhibition will also introduce unlimited palette of colours. Missi is rapidly gaining a reputation as an Including the work of Tim Page, Stephen audiences to previously unseen portraits. important guardian and ambassador of Dupont, David Dare Parker and George Curated by Karra Rees, Hall of Mirrors Kizur has responded to the sights, sounds traditional Zenadh-Kes culture. His interest Gittoes, Focus features 80 diverse images examines portraiture, representation and and smells of Townsville, though remains in art was initially stimulated when he including some taken after the atomic identity throughout Zahalka’s celebrated committed to presenting these in a fresh viewed works by contemporary Torres bomb was dropped above the Japanese career, which spans more than 20 years. manner. He takes this fresh approach as Strait Islander artists in 1992. However, it city of Hiroshima in August 1945, and in Zahalka’s portraits reveal more than he believes the viewer should be allowed was not until years later, with the support Korea, Vietnam, the Solomon Islands and just the individual - with an ironic and a more sustained interest in the painting, and encouragement from peer Dennis East Timor. critical voice the images cleverly subvert and remain interested in the work long Nona, that he felt he could dedicate stereotypes while capturing subcultures after the initial viewing. He also believes himself completely to his artistic pursuits. and a spirit of the times with acute that in achieving this the artist should Images: Stephen Dupont, 1999, AWMPO4315.023; Anne Zahalka, Marriage of Convenience (Graham Budgett and Jane Mulfinger/artists), observation. never “put the last stroke”. 1987, from the series Resemblance, cibachrome photo, Courtesy the artist, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (Sydney) and Arc One Gallery (Melbourne); Martin Kizur, Purple Shadow, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 70 x 74 cm.; Billy Missi, Wapil Nathaik (roasting fish), 2007, hand coloured linocut MAJOR EXHIBITIONS PERC TUCKER REGIONAL GALLERY PAST EXHIBITIONS: 2009

METAL AS ANYTHING TWELVE DEGREES OF LATITUDE: REGIONAL GALLERY AND 2009 TOWNSVILLE RON McBURNIE UNIVERSITY ART COLLECTIONS IN QUEENSLAND CERAMIC AWARDS 26 June until 16 August 2009 21 August until 4 October 2009 NQ POTTERS ASSOC. INC. 9 until 25 October 2009 Metal as Anything showcases thirty years of Twelve Degrees of Latitude: Regional Gallery and University Art Collections in the diverse and intricate etchings of Townsville Queensland celebrates Queensland’s public gallery collections in the State’s 150th The 2009 Townsville Ceramic Awards artist Ron McBurnie. A place where misbehaving year. It is the first major exhibition of works curated solely from Queensland’s regional showcases a diverse array of high standard dogs, ducks in box kites, jumping cats and and public gallery collections. Queensland is home to a growing network of about 80 entries from both emerging and well- eccentric toad shooters meet to examine regional and public galleries. From the establishment of Queensland’s first regional known potters from around Australia. Jim their place in the carnival of characters and gallery in Toowoomba in 1938 through to present day, these institutions have and Robison (UK) has judged the exhibition. landscapes that the artist has created. continue to make a vital contribution to our State’s cultural landscape. Many have Robison is well known for his large scale acquired collections of local, state and national significance. ceramic installations which are influenced McBurnie’s etchings are inspired by whatever he by history and the environment. is exposed to at the time, “If I am marvelling at Co-curated by Bettina MacAulay and Brett Adlington, Twelve Degrees of Latitude an old print, then that inspires me. If I hear an showcases more than 130 works drawn from twenty-seven of these Collecting public Congratulations to the 2009 winners: idiotic story about a corrupt politician then that galleries. The exhibition explores, at a state level the cultural, social, geopolitical Rowley Drysdale, Fused feldspar Trough story will inspire me. If I am playing a piece of and other factors involved in the emergence and growth of Queensland’s regional and Anita McIntyre, Limestone Plains Monaro Home Country Series music that takes me to an extraordinary place, public gallery collections. Mollie Bosworth, Nature Trail Anne Mossman, Biodiversity then that is my inspiration. To me, inspiration Shirley Battrick, Then and Now/Show Time for my work comes from a variety of different The exhibition presents works grouped into five sub-themes: Pre-20th century art Chris Guthleben, Seascape vase Emily Hill, Ceremonial PNG 1 sources. Sometimes ideas and inspiration come (Australian and international); Landscape and figures in landscape; other 20th century Geoff Crispin, Platter from the weirdest of sources.” art (1900-1990); Indigenous art (Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander); and Fiona Banner, Mugshot Art post-1990. The largest of these groups is the latter. Within this This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. broad framework is a strong sense of Queensland’s cultural identity and telling of Queensland stories. Images: MAJOR EXHIBITIONS Ron McBurnie, This was Whistler’s mother’s cat’s third attempt to jump onto the table of the Margaret Olley painting, 1997, hard ground etching and aquatint, 39 x 49 cm.; Eliza Allen, Portrait of Robert Towns, c. 1870, pastel on paper, 72.5 x 59.5 cm, Gift of Philip and Ross Higgins in memory of their mother, Marjorie Wentworth Higgins (nee Towns) 2005, City of Townsville Art Collection; Shayne Higson, I sing some little songs to keep my own talk, 1991, silver gelatin photograph on fibre base paper, 10.8 x 10.8 cm, Purchased 1994, City of Townsville Art Collection; Rowley Drysdale, Sake Cellar, 2009, woodfired shino lustre, remnant kiln brick. PERC TUCKER REGIONAL GALLERY PAST EXHIBITIONS: 2009

54TH TOWNSVILLE ART AWARDS TALKING TAPA: IGNITE YOUTH 2009 TOWNSVILLE YOUNG TOWNSVILLE ART SOCIETY PASIFIKA BARK CLOTH IN QUEENSLAND 9 until 18 October 2009 23 October until 3 December 2009 EXHIBITION ARTISTS AWARDS AARON ASHLEY, IMOGEN DONATO, JAMES 28 October until 8 November 2009 ELLIS, JORDAN GRANT & JASON HOSKING The region’s most prestigious showcase for Talking Tapa: Pasifika Bark Cloth in 28 October until 8 November 2009 Queensland showcases the diversity of Townsville City Council’s annual art local, state and national artists. Marian competition, the awards provide an Pacific Islander cultural practices, heritage “What is a page? If it’s just text on one Drew, Senior Lecturer at the Queensland opportunity for budding young artists to and visual iconography through beaten side of a surface, then doesn’t a wall College of Arts was invited to be the judge. display their talent. bark cloth or tapa, which is mainly made become a page? Are what we call pages from the paper mulberry tree inner bark. just containers for memories, then if Congratulations to the 2009 winners: Congratulations to the 2009 winners: so, doesn’t that make a photo a page?” Peter Lawson, Dry in the Bush Tapa is synonymous with the Pacific states Aaron Ashley, Ignite Youth Exhibition Ashlea Egan, A Puffin Bird Donna Beningfield, Atonement Madeleine Lassig, A Surprise Party!Lucy Moore, Crazy Crab Eddie Omelaniuk, Top of the Range Islands. With the increasing number of curator and artist, on the show’s central Lucy Carter, Puppy Play June Pola, The Lagoon II Pacific Islander peoples coming to live in theme - ‘what constitutes a page?’ Hunter Campbell, The Reef Donna Maloney, Curtain of Mystery I Bay Chadwick, The Forgotten World Strikes Back Marie Warnecke, Nature’s Burnishing Queensland it now appears regularly in Flyn Campbell, Gorl Louise Vella-Cox, Chooks meeting halls, at performances, weddings But, he also ensures us, “to keep from Diego Calderon, Parts Caitlin Murphy, My Healthy Fruit Bowl Rosemarie Garutti, Out West and funerals and in the homes of these being too much of a metaphysical jargon- Cassandra Weight, Dazzled Louise Vella-Cox, Rush Hour relatively new migrants to our shores. Rebecca Evans, Bounce Martin Kizur, Abstract Composition with Palm Tree fest (because exhibitions can often have Sean Stringini, Monet’s Garden Tim Strickland, ‘Rainforest’ Mt Tamborine way too much gibberish), there’s plenty of Lauren Stringini, Nature’s Touch Anja Devereaux, Visionaries I Talking Tapa is a national travelling exhibition presented by Brisbane Nicola Goodman, First Step Laura Castell, Family Watch Multicultural Arts Centre, curated by Joan G Winter and toured by Museum good aesthetics and humour.” Josie Kearney, Eyes dark beneath the Path and Gallery Services Queensland. This exhibition is supported by Visions of Barbara Pierce, Sketchbook Four Johanna Beningfield, Cityscape Australia, an Australian Government Program supporting touring exhibitions Elle Graham, In silence they wait Barbara Pierce, Interior 26 by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Neela Curran, Quiet Country Road (Series 1, No 5) Australian cultural material across Australia. This project is also proudly Kari Rae Ludrigsen, Aspire Lavinia Ketchell, Life Jenny Finn, Princess funded by Queensland Government’s Gambling Community Benefit Fund and Brisbane City Council. Kathleen Ketchell, Calm Images: Carole Howlett, Cockatoos, 2009, oil, 76 x 60.5cm; Suluni Vakamau Traditional female wedding attire/set, Three-piece set made by Nainasa Kacimaiwai Nayau village, Lau Province, acquired from the makers at the Melanesian Arts and Culture Festival, Fiji, 2006. Mannequin dressed by Jiowana Dau Miles.On loan from the collection of Dr Susan Cochrane; Jordan Grant, Through the Viewfinder (Digital on Print), 2009, acrylic on paper, 120 x 150 cm; Section H winner - Kari MAJOR EXHIBITIONS Rae Ludvigsen (Townsville Grammar), Aspire, 2009, watercolour pencils. PERC TUCKER REGIONAL GALLERY PAST EXHIBITIONS: 2009

CULTURE IN THE MIX MARK-MAKERS JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BARRIER REEF INSTITUTE OF TAFE VISUAL ARTS CREATIVE ARTS GRADUATE EXHIBITION 27 November until 6 December 2009 12 until 22 November 2009 Mark-Makers, the 2009 Diploma of Visual James Cook University School of Creative Arts Student Exhibition celebrates the Arts presents Culture in the Mix, work work of students studying at Townsville’s from its first graduating year of Bachelor of Barrier Reef Institute of TAFE, covering New Media Arts. a range of mediums including painting, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, A cutting edge display of screen, print illustration, design and digital media. and web based media combining the best of the degree’s five fresh new media disciplines: digital visual arts, digital photography, new media design, digital sound and multimedia performance.

The latest generation of digital arts practitioners challenge the traditions of gallery exposition, and lay the foundation for future North Queensland new media artists.

Images: Tali Dunnage-Burke, Rebels and Tattoos #2, digital image; Artwork by Laura Castell MAJOR EXHIBITIONS PERC TUCKER REGIONAL GALLERY PAST EXHIBITIONS: 2009

WHICH WAY DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND MORNINGTON ISLAND ELEGIES SYLVIA HEWITT AARON RICHARDSON PAINTINGS TATE ADAMS 19 December 2008 to 25 January 2009 28 January to 15 February 2009 21 August until 4 October 2009 21 August until 4 October 2009

This exhibition is an expression of how Mixed media works about social, religious An exhibition of paintings by a selection of “Revisiting Riders to the Sea, Adams has Sylvia views and ponders life’s decisions, and cultural issues in Western Society with Mornington Island artists from Mornington produced a series of gouaches of the final choices and confrontations. a shockingly cynical twist. Island Art & Craft Centre, including Bernice scene in the play. Maurya, who has lost Burke, Dorita Escott, Sally Gabori, Lance five sons to the sea, now loses her last and “When people see my work, I would like Govenor, Paula Paul, Reggie Robertson, youngest son, Bartley. The women hoist them to experience the visual effect of Stephanie Toby, Megan Williams and their red petticoats over their heads and, making a decision. To go towards the Gordon Watt following Bartley’s coffin, they begin to keen. horizon; to walk in the dark; or to aim Adams depicts these figures in black, the for the light. To feel the doubts, fears, edges worked with a large brush achieving an anxieties, apprehensions, as well as the effect of jagged lace. In these works Adams anticipation, optimism, and hope that is has captured a visual representation of the involved in making choices.” “caoine of the Aran Islands – the bitter, song- like lament of the women as they follow the coffin to its burial place. The forms are haunting and unsettling, the heartache and grief are palpable.”

Frances Thomson, excerpt from Elegies catalogue. Images: Sylvia Hewitt, His Way (detail), Pastel, 101 x 136cm, 2008; Aaron Richardson, I’m Capitalism (detail), Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas, 100 x 69 cm; Reggie Robertson, Lightning Headband, synthetic polymer paint on linen, 121 x 137 cm; Tate Adams, Elegies catalogue image, gouache on paper, 2009 ACCESS GALLERY PERC TUCKER REGIONAL GALLERY PAST EXHIBITIONS: 2009

STUDIO - PER CAUSAS FUCIT ILLUSIONS OF INSCAPE VANISHING POINTS GERALD SOWORKA ETERNAL CHANGE CAROLYN DODDS THURSTON CRIMP 19 December 2008 to 18 January 2009 THERESA JOY RICHARDSON 24 April to 17 May 2009 19 May to 7 June 2009 20 January to 15 February 2009 The exhibition re-presents the artist’s “The term ‘inscape’ comes from Gerard A mini-retrospective exhibition of creative space, both internal and external, The indistinct space gives birth to the Manley Hopkins, a poet whose work I love landscapes and portraits by local artist via an expressionistic, mural scale, mixed perfect detail - or is it an illusion? and find fascinating for its vividness and Thurston Crimp. media drawing designed specifically for the Contrasting layers redirect attention, intensity. It is a term which expresses gallery’s Niche space. recreate perception. The four seasons, some of what I am trying to accomplish in symbolises eternal change like no other my work, a point of confluence between Through the visual ephemera and clutter title. But it also reaches out to find a firm the inner and outer worlds... literature of the studio, past work, models and structure of repeating patterns. These was a primal influence upon me. Books other fetishes and source material the paintings have layers and facets like the were the doors and windows to the greater installation chronicles, and invites us human soul, created from a word or a world and the means by which one could into the artist’s process, oeuvre and name, and mathematically transformed educate oneself in a provincial, working inspirations. into a geometric shape, they create the class environment. I have made books, off illusion of something or reveal a truth. and on, since I was a child, and I have kept sketchbooks since I went to art college at the age of sixteen.”

Images: Gerald Soworka at work in his studio; Theresa Richadson, Spring (detail), Acrylic and oil on canvas, 61 x 91 cm, 2004; Artwork by Carolyn Dodds; Thurston Crimp, A Study of Nude Woman, 1995, oil on canvas, 28 x 22 cm NICHE GALLERY PERC TUCKER REGIONAL GALLERY PAST EXHIBITIONS: 2009

A LITHOLOGICAL UNSUFFER ME EXPLORATION – DONNA BENINGFIELD CHROMATIC AND TEXTURAL 21 July until 16 August 2009 NUANCES Unsuffer Me reflects what young people DAN JOHNSON experience when a relationship comes to 10 June until 28 June 2009 an end – they feel totally broken, bruised and lonely. Aspects of broken relationships This small collection of paintings has been will be represented through the images of put together to give an exploratory insight two particular young people, although they into the world of rocks and the potential could be any man or woman suffering in minerals that lie within them. The search love. for minerals necessitates an understanding of rocks, how they form, their general The signature song for this exhibition is characteristics and how they weather. This Lucinda William’s song, Unsuffer Me. is part of an exploration process. This hunt for minerals and rocks (commodities) is driven by our increasingly complex lives and has seen our demand for minerals ever increasing.

Images: Dan Johnson, Man’s Mineral Mood, 2007, oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm; Donna Beningfield, Come Pick Me Up, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 90 x 90 cm NICHE GALLERY PERC TUCKER REGIONAL GALLERY PAST EXHIBITIONS: 2009

PRESENCE MOLTEN MOMENTUM BIG REGION, SMALL FOCUS RIPPLES 16 December 2008 to 18 January 2009 TOWNSVILLE ART SOCIETY ANNUAL DEB GILLETT MINIATURES EXHIBITION MARIE WARNECKE 20 January to 15 February 2009 7 October until 1 November 2009 Creative presents from our local artists: 19 May until 21 June 2009 Katherine Cornwall, Katelyn Aslett, Deb Gillett began sculpting in 1993 as Townsville Art Society present the The spontaneity of Marie’s tiny Geraldine Hermann, Anna Marija Milic, part of her recovery from Chronic Fatigue Townsville region in miniature in their watercolours capture the essence of Cindy Parker, Elizabeth Tillack, Susan syndrome, and pursued fulltime ceramic annual members miniature exhibition. The the region, the ever widening circles Sandeman, Bernadette Boscacci, and Sarah sculpture obsessively with 11 years of exhibition, now in its fourth incarnation, radiating from her beloved Townsville area Funkhouser. dragons and whimsy. Deb declared 2004 was first held in 2006 in response to a – outback, rainforest and islands. She has the end of that, and turned her attention particularly good display of miniature always been inspired by the world around to sculpting in bronze, using the lost wax artworks by Townsville artists at the 2005 her, and the creative process of art itself. process with the support of CWM Galleries, Annual Art Society Awards. Sydney and Chalkos Fine Art Foundry, Brisbane. The limited edition bronzes This year’s exhibition features 85 artworks in this exhibition are the result of that by 23 different artists, and range in media two year period sculpting exclusively in from oil to watercolour, acrylic to pen, wax, and run the gamut between sensual mixed media and lino print. mythological figures like Medusa, savage realism with Gundamen the Frilled Lizard, and expressions of movement in a static medium with Blithe Spirit.

Images: Jewellery by local artist Sarah Funkhouser; Deb Gillett, Blithe Spirit (detail), Limited Edition Bronze, 51 x 32 x 17 cm, 2003; Ruth Heiner, River Gum, 2009, oil on canvas; Marie Warnecke, Love those rocks Arthur Bay (detail), 2009, watercolour, 6 x 12 cm SHOWCASE PERC TUCKER REGIONAL GALLERY PAST EXHIBITIONS: 2009

SMALL WORKS OF ART 3 November until 6 December 2009

A selection of small artworks, including glass work, small sculptures, paintings and photography, all created by local artists and ideal for a creative Christmas gift.

Artists include: Tate Adams, Katelyn Aslett, Donna Beningfield, Jeanette Hutchinson, Jan Hynes, Martin Kizur, Claudine Marzik, Hannah Murray, Victoria Nelson, Barbara Pierce, Clinton Searston, Elizabeth Tillack, Alan Valentine, Denise Vanderlugt, Marie Warnecke.

Images: Works in the showcase by Tate Adams, Claudine Marzik and Barbara Pierce SHOWCASE PERC TUCKER REGIONAL GALLERY PAST EXHIBITIONS: 2009

INNER MANIFESTATIONS A-LIST YOUTH ARTISTS IN SCHOOLS ARTISTS IN SCHOOLS SIMON REID MATT CLARK CALVARY CHRISTIAN COLLEGE NORTHERN BEACHES STATE 26 March to 14 April 2009 23 April to 3 May 2009 WITH AJA AUSMAN HIGH SCHOOL 5 October until 8 November 2009 Inner Manifestations explores Simon Reid’s “My artworks are all about flair, decadence PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY teenage years growing up in Townsville. and the avant-garde, and explore the idea Prints created from the recent Artists in WITH LORI NEILSEN-CARR Now in his early twenties Reid is currently that each and every individual has an inner Schools project, in which local artist Aja 9 November until 6 December 2009 undertaking study of the places he A-List Youth. This inner, self-confident Ausman taught students from Calvary A small group of senior students and discovered during his journeys throughout A-Lister is willing to be who and whatever Christian College how to create and print staff participated in the artist-in-schools Townsville. they want to be, whether you are a Model, their own etchings. Muso, an Artist, Goth or Gossip. A-List program lead by Lori Neilsen-Carr of Inner Manifestations focuses on the Youth showcases the different personalities Lori Neilsen Photography. The program feelings of separation and loneliness and lifestyles of these individuals and focussed on students and staff learning to experienced by young people when they groups, examining the inherent dramas, use SLR digital cameras to take their own finish school and try to find their way in and the connections they make along the professional quality portraits. the world, and in themselves. way. The students involved were Brodie- “I have tried to capture in these works the Artist, Matt Clark Lee Montgomery, Lisa Hammond, Jenna emotions that a young person feels when Hardacre and Elysia Battersby; teachers growing up.” Artist, Simon Reid. included Christina Papadimitriou, Lynda Onton O’Shea and Paula Adams-Thompson.

Images: Simon Reid artwork, 2009; Matt Clark, Tempting Raven, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 50 cm; K Valenti, Trippin, 2009; Student photography from Northern Beaches State High School Artists- in-Schools project STAIRWELL