Cowwarr Art Space Closed for June

As the leaves turn and the wintry days close in, its time for us to take a break. 

The Cowwarr Art Space will close for the month of June reopening in July. 

Cowwarr Art Space 

Sara Delaney - a head of her time in her new garden setting
 at the Cowwarr Art Space

Looking North from the 'back deck'.

Future Now Workshop

Catherine Evans, sharing her work Bodies of Water 2011 with the Cowwarr Primary students

With the support of the above organisations we were able to host a casting workshop for the Cowwarr Primary School. Exhibiting artist Catherine Evans led students in a hands-on workshop where they scoured the grounds of the Art Space and gathered material to create their own plaster ‘remnant’ of the local environment. 

Prior to the hands-on workshop the students explored the exhibition with the The Substation curator Alice Clanachan.  The children eagerly engaged with the diverse works of installation, sculpture, painting and new media by the Honours graduates from VCA featured in the Future Now. 

Alice Clanachan the Substation curator chatting with the students about Noriko Nakamura, untitled installation 2012

The hands on experience begins

Team work!

Creating their own Remnant Treasures with a little help from Catherine

Just like making a cake

Alice Clanachan  introducing Darren Munce Model Citizens 2011 to the Cowwarr students

Future Now 2012: Exhibition of Victorian College of the Arts Honours Graduates

YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN THE ARTISTS 

AT THE FRIDAY NIGHT OPENING 

19 APRIL 6-8 PM

ZOE CROGGON, GEORGINA CUE, CATHERINE EVANS, INEZ DE VEGA, NORIKO NAKAMURA, DARREN MUNCE, RENUKA RAJIV 

Future Now 2012, an annual exhibition of Victorian College of the Arts honours graduates. The Substation in association with the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) is touring the Future Now exhibition. Curator, Jessica Bridgfoot, Visual Arts Program Manager, The Substation

Originally shown at The Substation gallery in Newport, Melbourne in 2012, we are pleased to be presenting this exhibition as one of the three regional locations. When the tour finishes it will have travelled from Melbourne, Castlemaine to Cowwarr. 

The work presented is diverse in its material and presentation; video, painting, drawings, installation, However, the common element through all of the artist’s works is their site specificity and their activation and questioning of our bodies awareness of space. The artists will install each of their works in response to the different buildings in which the exhibition is shown over the course of the tour thus allowing new connections to the viewers and artists perceptions to be uncovered and taken advantage of. 

FREE PUBLIC PROGRAM

17th/18th of May, during the exhibition artist Catherine Evans will run a workshop for the Cowwarr Primary school on the 17th and on the 18th it is open to the general public under 18 and the Junior Gippsland Art Gallery Members (Geckos). These workshops will include an introduction to the exhibition, and then a session of plaster casting with Artists Catherine Evans. 

RSVP essential - places are limited

For more information on these workshops please go to the Facebook Event or contact: 

Louise Van Kuyk,
Education Coordinator, Gippsland Art Gallery, (03) 5142-3494

louise.vankuyk@wellington.vic.gov.au

Cowwarr Art Space Gallery Hours:
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday 11.00 am - 5.00 pm
Exhibition runs, 19 April - 25 May 2013 

Link to Exhibition images

Image: Zoe Croggon, Arms Outstretched 2012 Paper collage detail

Easter Trading Hours

Our Easter Holiday Gallery Hours: Open Saturday, Sunday, Monday 11-5pm Please note CLOSED Good Friday

Amanda Thompson: recent woodcuts

YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN THE ARTIST AT THE OPENING EVENT

Sunday 3 March 2-5 pm, Exhibition runs, 

1 March - 15 April 2013

Invitation Image: Lemon Tree, woodcut W84 x H1185cm on Rospina Ivory paper

Latrobe Valley artist Amanda Thompson shares a passion for printmaking and a studio with Kate Zizys founder of Greenworks Press. Mandy's large scale woodcut represents the conflicting images of the region known for its picturesque landscape both rural and natural and the abrupt disfigurement of the natural environment that is required for the electricity we are all addicted to. The lines on her rough-hewn wood cuts are more akin to the scrumbling of a dog eared brush.  The texture and the claustrophobic line and hatching  give the work  the appropriate grunge of the industrial landscape.