Just Tuesdays

Take an eclectic group of artists of all ages and experiences and put them together on Tuesdays at the F Project studios with Glenn Morgan at the helm, encouraging and guiding them, and you have an exhibition of some of the amazing works created over the past year aptly named, ‘JUST TUESDAYS’. Come and see the wonderful variety of artworks… drawings, paintings, prints, assemblage, sculpture and more. We love Just Tuesdays!

artists: Jo Merriman. Robert Emeny. Helen Toop. Lisa Togni. Mark Barling. Erica Smith. Sarah Mazur. Val Wortley. Matthew Clarke. Lisa Firestone. Janette Twycross. Marty Azzopardi. Davin Ockerby. Merran Koren. Danni Morrison. Rob Cosby. Robyn Angarano. Rachael Peters. Jane Curtis. Wendy Toogood. Bernice White. Judith Cutforth. Susie Flynn. Jenny Altmann. Barbara Fulton. Alex Annett. Val Ryan. Des Bunyon. Jenny Bacchetti. Helen Bunyon. Claire Macrae Drylie. Jacinta Skillbeck. Colleen Campbell. Maryann Owen. Zorron Lucas.

Just Tuesdays group exhibition 9 February – 6 March 2022

1. Jo Merriman. Moyjil Goodbye, linocut 3/10, framed                                       $250

2. Robert Emeny , “A-F” lino cut Ed 2/10 u/f                                                        $250

3. Helen Toop ,Peterborough Looking East , acrylic on canvas 2021              $110

4. Helen Toop ,Peterborough Vic Looking West acrylic on canvas 2022        $110

5. Lisa Togni, Peterborough Estuary,acrylic on canvas                                        $250

6. Lisa Togni, Port Campbell, acrylic on canvas                                                  $300

7. Mark Barling, Girl in Darwin, acrylic on canvas                                                $100

8. Erica Smith, Flow of Life - Annya Forest ,hand painted linocut Ed1/4          $200

9. Erica Smith, My Rockpool ,hand painted linocut Ed 2/4                                   $250

10.Sarah Mazur, Sitting Duck, pencil                                                                  NFS

11.Val Wortley,Bulldogs Semi Final  acrylic on canvas                                         NFS

12.Matthew Clarke, Go Dogs acrylic on canvas                                                   $475 

13.Lisa Firestone untitled painting on paper framed                                             $100
14.Lisa Firestone . untitled painting on paper framed                                            $150

15.Janette Twycross,Girl with violin, acrylic on paper, framed                             NFS

16.Marty Azzopardi,Fun at the Marbles,acrylic on paper, framed                       NFS

17. Davin Ockerby, Zanzi,  acrylic on paper,framed                                                 NFS

18.Merran Koren, Cycle of Life, acrylic on canvas                                                $300

19.Danni Morrison, acrylic on board                                                                       NFS

20.Rob Cosby,Time Runs Down,fineliner, watercolour & aquarelle pencil on  $450

300gsm watercolour paper 2022                                                                                         

21.Rob Cosby Once were Forests, fineliner ,watercolour & aquarelle pencil on $450

300gsm watercolour paper 2022

22.Robyn Angarano,Flutterby, acrylic on canvas                                                 $400

23.Rachael Peters, Bottle Brush, acrylic on canvas                                             $195

24.Jane Curtis, Fruit Magnified, acrylic on board , 80 x 100cm                              $490

25.Rachael Peters,Yellow Flowering Gum , acrylic on canvas                               $195

26.Wendy Toogood, Untitled, linocut                                                                      $130

27.Bernice White, Alice Series - Judgement Day , linocut Ed 2/5                          $250

28.Judith Cutforth, Goraf Emmet,/Ant Station, lino cut Ed 2/5                               $150

29.Judith Cutforth, Mouy Pesk & Scubmaw/More Fish &Chips linocut ed 2/6 $  90

30.Susie Flynn, Bill, acrylic paint and pen                                                             NFS

31.Jenny Altmann, Iso Girl, acrylic paint & pastel on paper, framed   $400   

32.Barbara Fulton, Family Reunion , pastel on paper, framed                               $400

33.Alex Annett , (Industry Baby) acrylic on canvas                                               NFS

34.Val Ryan, What’s for Breakfast, coloured linocut ed 8/8 2021                            $275

35.Val Ryan, A Paddle of Pelicans , coloured linocut ed 1/9 2021                         $275

36.Des Bunyon,Landscape I, etching A/P                                                              $185

37.Des Bunyon,Windswept , etching ed 1/5                                                          $295

37A Jenny Bacchetti, Blue Wren, hand coloured linocut                                      $400

38.Wendy Toogood, Callistemon, linocut ed 11/12 2019                                      $100
39.Helen Bunyon, Threads of Time, assemblage                                                  $495

40.Claire Macrae Drylie, Untitled, photo collage                                                    $100

41.Claire Macrae Drylie,Prey, photo collage                                                        $100

42.Helen Bunyon, Untitled,found object sculptures                    $270 43.Merran Koren, Untitled, linocut ed 8/10 2019                                                  $150

44.Jacinta Skillbeck, Untitled l, mixed media on paper                                           $125

45.Jacinta Skillbeck, Untitled ll,mixed media on paper                                          $150

46.Colleen Campbell, Liebig St 1970, acrylic on paper framed print 1/100         $130

47.Jo Merriman, The Balcony, acrylic on canvas                                                  $450

48.Colleen Campbell,Liebig St 2021,acrylic on paper framed print 1/100            $150

48A Mary Ann Owen, Fletcher Jones, oil on board                                               $190

48B Mary Ann Owen,Southern Right Whale, oil on board                                     $190

49.Helen Bunyon, The Odd Couple,found object sculpture                                   $180

50.Bernice White, Yangzi River Dreaming ,Artist Book unique state                     NFS

51.Zorron Lucas,3D figure by table,  mixed media acrylic on wood                       $ 35

52.Zorron Lucas, D Rat Man,mixed media acrylic on wood $ 35

53.Zorron Lucas,3D House & tree, mixed media acrylic on wood $ 35



Rapture


PRICE LIST : All prices include GST  

1. Winter  Vines,  charcoal on paper  Image 107x51cm Framed 128.5 x 71cm 2021         $6,000.

2. Bastikiya 1, charcoal on paper Image 107x63cm Framed  128.5 x 83 cm 2021                      $6,500.

3. Bastikya 2, charcoal on paper Image 107x63cm Framed 128.5 x 83 cm 2021                          $6,500.

4. Lacework, charcoal on paper Image 33x107cm Framed 43.5x117cm 2021                   $2,600.

5.Bougainvillea & Shadow,  charcoal on paper Image 33.7 x 51.5cm Framed 44.2 x 61.5cm 2021 $1,600.

6. Tangle I,  charcoal on paper Image 72.5 x30.4 cm Framed 83x40.5cm 2021                  $2,200.

7. Seaweed Shadows,  charcoal on paper Image 72 x 32cm Framed 82.5 x42cm 2021        $2,200.

8. Tangle II, charcoal on paper Image 72.4x24.5cm Framed 83 x 34.5cm 2021                    $2,100.

 9.Banyena Magic Tree, charcoal on paper  Image 107x72cm Framed 128.5 x 92cm 2021      $6,800. 

10. Embrace, charcoal on paper  Image 107x 67.5cm Framed 128.5 x 87.5 2021                $6,800.

11. Rapture I, charcoal on paper Image 72 x 98cm Framed 93.5 x118cm 2021               $6,800.

12. Rapture II, charcoal on paper  Image 72x107cm Framed 93.5 x127 cm 2021                $6,800.

13. Evolve, charcoal on paper Image 107x57cm Framed 128.5 x77cm 2021                      $6,500.

14.Bougainvillea, charcoal on paper  Image 71x36 cm Framed 81.5x46cm 2021               $2,500.

15. 'Rapture- Detail' charcoal on paper Image 35 x72cm Framed 42.5x82cm 2021            $2,500.


With an art career spanning over 30 years, exhibiting both nationally and internationally, artist Kathryn Ryan has returned to her home town and will be hosting her first Warrnambool solo exhibition at The F Project Gallery in January.

Rapture is a new series of large scale and medium charcoal drawings, created during the past year of lockdowns which allowed more focused studio time in isolation. The drawings depict intimate details from nature, vine wrapped tree trunks, bark covered gums and seaweed, micro views, up close and personal. In Rapture, the intricate and detailed beauty from the natural world are explored in depth with layered, tonal and observational charcoal works.

These drawings allude to the extraordinary beauty in nature, the intimate details invite us to look within and at our surroundings.

Kathryn's artwork focuses on the juxtaposition of strength and fragility, the intimate and the distant, the fleeting and the solid, played out through her treatment of shadow and light, which is simultaneously bold and subtle, precise and ambiguous.

Kathryn has consistently held sell out exhibitions for over 25 years with leading Galleries in Melbourne and Sydney. Her work has been acquired for significant Public Collections including Parliament House, Canberra, RACV Collection, Warrnambool Art Gallery, The Macquarie Group Collection, Artbank, Deakin University and private collections in both Australia and internationally. Kathryn has been a finalist multiple times in major Australian Art Prizes including: The Wynne Prize at AGNSW, Salon des Refuses, Wynne - SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Geelong Contemporary Art Prize- Geelong Gallery, The Paul Guest Prize - Bendigo Art Gallery, The John Leslie Art Prize for Landscape - Gippsland Art Gallery. In 2015, The Warrnambool Art Gallery held a major 20 year Survey Show of her art practice. The exhibition, A Quiet Place, featured Paintings and Drawings from 1995- 2015 loaned from private and public collections.

Kathryn was recently awarded The RACV Visual Arts Grant in response to the impacts of Covid-19 , to create new work and support her art practice with the opportunity to showcase new work at RACV venues in 2022. This exhibition is supported by a Sustaining Creative Workers Grant: The Australian Government's Regional Arts Fund is provided through Regional Arts Australia, administered in Victoria by Regional Arts Victoria.

www.kathrynryanartist.com  0425 716 647 

People, Objects, and Algorithms

An exhibition by Simon Grennan, Katie Lee, and Ilona Jetmar.

6 Dec - 9 Jan

When a computer performs an algorithmic operation, that is one thing; when living human subjects perform an algorithmic operation that is quite another.

Algorithms are simply a set of non-ambiguous rules for completing a task. While we closely associate them with computer coding their origins long predate the digital age. And while there is also a long history of “rule based” art, such practices are usually contained within the realm of pure abstraction.

In this drawing-based project, we investigate algorithmic ideas in the real world, via the much messier interplay between corporeal participants, drawing, physical spaces, and material objects.

The project also contemplates algorithmic processes and systems as a cultural phenomenon, one that exerts an increasingly pervasive influence on all our lives. We aim to use and mis-use algorithms in what will be, for the artists, a new, uncertain, and unfolding experiment in the gallery, one that encourages co-creation, collaboration, creative play, and informal exchange between artist-researchers and the public.

From the Night Garden

Exhibition by Julie Keating and Alison McIntosh

In their second collaborative exhibition, Julie Keating and Alison McIntosh present a selection of works chosen From the Night Garden. 

Created through a time of relative darkness and uncertainty, the artists have continued to develop ideas that reflect their experiences and memories of a strange and difficult year. 

The result is a rather eclectic and sometimes surprising representation of both real life experiences and more dreamlike paintings, reflecting memories of travel and the enforced internalization of dreams for the future.

The Stooges Show

Exhibition by Chris Small and Glenn Morgan

13th Oct - 7th Nov

Chris Small (‘Smally’) and Glenn Morgan have been friends for a good number of years and over that time they have had several exhibitions together.

“The Stooges Show”, which was postponed due to Covid like everybody else’s exhibitions, is a body of work made over the Covid lockdown.

Glenn has decorated a bunch of platters that Smally has made. The platters have been decorated with cobalt and underglazes with artwork depicting social issues over this Covid lockdown time.

Smally has produced paintings and ceramics for the show and he hasn’t taken things too seriously.

“Wall candy” as he calls his paintings. He has said it many times before. As a painter he’s a bloody good potter.

Reflections on Nature: Discovering the Gardens

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15th September – 10th October 

Opening celebration: Saturday 18 September 6pm-8pm

Having recently moved from the wild coastal scenery of Thunder Point in Warrnambool, Rachel Peters has found a new neighbourhood. It’s a different type of beauty here, represented by The Warrnambool Botanical Gardens and its annex, the Swan Reserve. They are a curated oasis, a little known garden with Australian native plants, found near the middle of town.

The Gardens provide inspiration daily as Rachel walks and absorbs the varieties, shapes, forms and colours ever-changing in both these places. She likes to stand back and see the grandeur of trees, which are over a hundred years old, and then get up close and see the intricate design in plants carefully planted in vignettes around the spaces.

In this body of work, Rachel has moved away from more textured multi-media works to use acrylic paint and charcoal in order to create texture in the marks used on canvas.

It’s been an endearing way to get to  know her surroundings and learn to love yet another part of creation.

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18 August -12 September

Opening 6pm-8pm 20 August

This second collaboration of three women, Cherry MacFarlane, Annie Peterson and Anne Murphy, friends, whose friendship has grown through the sharing and making of art, unearths and explores the beauty of natural materials. With timber, vines and sticks, as the primary materials, these three dimensional forms demonstrate a natural synergy reflecting the relationship of the artists.

The exhibition confronts and embraces the cycle of life from inception to death. It is a personal journey of the artists’ responses to the joys and challenges of everyday life.

This is not a ‘pretty’ exhibition, but is honest, raw and heartening.

Makers and Mentors IV

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4 August – 15 August

"Mentors & Makers IV’ brings together dozens of artists with disabilities and their art mentors from Warrnambool and its surrounds. The exhibition features bright and bold works from the Factory Arts collective and Glenn’s Group that will chase away your lockdown winter blues. The exhibition is on show from Wednesday 4 August to Sunday 15th August. The planned launch has been cancelled owing to Covid but maybe we will have a closing celebration! TBC.

An exhibition by Adam Clarke, Alex Anette, Alex Rees, Andrew Clarke, Barry Tate, Chris Small, Cianan Irvine, Davan Ockerby,Diana Kraft, Donna Shaw, Dylan Lau, Ebony Stevens, Ebjornii Jeans, George Kempton, Georgina Sambell, Glenn Morgan, Glen Morrison, Jake Morgan, Jude Stewart, Kim Young, Josh Lee,Leonie Roberts, Marian Tate, Matthew Clarke, Matthew McLaren, Nahanni Kraft, Nekita Triance, Param Ratnam, Peter Worland, Raquelle Lewis, Rhiannon Newman, Rhys Tate, Ricky Taylor, Rowan Drake, Sam Ward, Tanya Quattrocchi, Tim Harris, Tim Mast, and Zorran Lucas.

It's Just How We See It

By Leonie Roberts, Jake Morgan, and Adam Clarke

23 June - 18th July 2021

Opening: Friday 25th June

Leonie Roberts, Jake Morgan and Adam Clarke are a group of artists who have worked together with Glen Morgan on Monday afternoons for several years to create art, primarily through painting, drawing, and print making.

For Jake Morgan, it also includes tutoring from Barry Tate in ceramics on Wednesdays as well.

All three enjoy telling stories through their artwork.

“I do a lot of my artwork using my imagination, and it makes me feel alive.” - Leonie Roberts

“Art makes me feel good. I like drawing characters.” - Adam Clarke

“Doing art makes me happy.” - Jake Morgan

The river flowing through my kitchen seen from the corner of my mind's eye

The river flowing through my kitchen seen from the corner of my mind's eye

Becky Nevin-Berger

29 May - 20th June

The river flowing through my kitchen seen from the corner of my mind's eye incorporates previous creative practice-led research examining the aesthetic connection between body, home, and landscape with new observations informed by the experience of “lockdown”.

This body of work is organised as a mock domestic setting that explores how embodied subjectivity is conditioned by the conventional family Australian home. Undertaken as a PhD at the Australian National University Sculpture Workshop the original research sought to identify aesthetic languages that make visible relationships and processes connecting body and world beyond the surface of the skin. The home provided a lens through which to investigate the connection between body and landscape. Homes are built around our body’s processes, they direct attention inward forming a perceptual boundary between our domestic interiors and the outside world. Repetitive and predictable practices maintaining domestic stasis camouflage the continual flow of resources generating the home’s interior stability. The body of artwork was made using two and three dimensional techniques to examine the interplay between image making and space making in our experience of the world.

Trees

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An exhibition of prints by Des Bunyon, Delia Crabbe, Helen Fitzhardinge, Ben Fennessy, Jean Gleeson, Britt Gow, Jodie Honan, Marion Manifold, Liza McCosh, Andrea Radley and Maree Stewart.

30th April to 23 May

Sea Change : Caroline Healey & Tim Freeman

SEA CHANGE

Thursday 1st to Sunday 25th April 2021

A joint exhibition of new paintings by contemporary landscape painters Tim Freeman and Caroline Healey. This show is a celebration of the ‘sea change’ lifestyle and the coastline of South West Victoria from Port Fairy to Peterborough.

Seachange draws parallels between two artists who each undertook a seachange and moved from capital cities to the shipwreck coast of Victoria. Arriving at similar times and at similar stages in their lives, the two artists separately yet simultaneously became enamoured with their new environment.

Caroline and Tim each began exploring the coastline and documenting it in their own inimitable style - Caroline in bold and detailed organic realism, and Tim in calculated, hard-edged minimalism. The two artists, sharing so much in their lives and observations, portrayed their new home in vastly different ways.

This exhibition celebrates those parallels and diversions equally, juxtaposing the techniques of two distictly different painters as they depict exactly the same landscapes.

A joint exhibition of new paintings by contemporary landscape painters Tim Freeman and Caroline Healey. 224 Timor St, Warrnambool VIC 3280, Australia.

Reconnecting : Liam O'Connor

Liam O’Connor - Reconnecting

5 March -28 March

 

The F Project is delighted to present the inaugural exhibition of Terang based artist, scientist and teacher, Liam O’Connor. For Liam, this body of work has been a personal journey about reconnecting with himself, his photography, and nature.

“As you view each image, consider what you are feeling and responding to.

Imaging taking your shoes off, walking into the frame and let your mind wander.

Leave the business and chaos of the world behind you, forget about work, forget

about the stresses or the jobs that need to be done. Forget about them all, just

for a moment, and take in the feelings that you get when you discover what’s

around you” - Liam O’Connor

Matterport 3D Showcase

Reconnecting: Liam O’Connor Photography Exhibition 5 March-28March

1.   Reconnecting 8          20x30cm (8x12in) image size                       $320 framed                                                          

2.   Reconnecting 14        20x30cm (8x12in) image size                       $320 framed

3.   Reconnecting 13        20x30cm (8x12in) image size                       $320 framed

4.   Reconnecting 19        20x30cm (8x12in) image size                       $320 framed                                                                                                                                                

5.   Reconnecting 5*        20x30cm (8x12in) image size                       $320 framed

6.   Reconnecting 2*        20x30cm (8x12in) image size                       $320 framed

7.   Reconnecting 1*        20x30cm (8x12in) image size                       $320 framed

8.   Reconnecting 12        20x30cm (8x12in) image size                       $320 framed

9.   Reconnecting 18        20x30cm (8x12in) image size                       $320 framed

10. Reconnecting 4          20x30cm (8x12in) image size                       $320 framed

11. Reconnecting 10        20x30cm (8x12in) image size                       $320 framed

12. Reconnecting 16        20x30cm (8x12in) image size                       $320 framed

13. Reconnecting 11        20x30cm (8x12in) image size                       $320 framed

14. Reconnecting 2*       30.5x45.7cm (12x18in) image size             $500 framed

15. Reconnecting 1*       45.72x68.58cm (18x27in) image size        $900 framed

16. Reconnecting 5*       30.5x45.7cm (12x18in) image size             $500 framed

17. Reconnecting 15        20x30cm(8x12in) image size                        $320 framed

18. Reconnecting 9          20x30cm (8x12in) image size                       $320 framed

19. Reconnecting 6          20x30cm (8x12in) image size                       $320 framed

20. Reconnecting 3          20x30cm (8x12in) image size                       $320 framed

21. Reconnecting 17        20x30cm (8x12in) image size                       $320 framed

22. Reconnecting 7          20x30cm (8x12in) image size                       $320 framed

*artworks #5 #6 #7 and #14 #15 #16 are the same images shown in two different sizes

Images printed on the Hahnemule Photo Rag Baryta 315gsm A white, 100% cotton inkjet paper that guarantees archival standards. With its premium high gloss baryta inkjet coating, Photo Rag® Baryta meets the highest industry standards regarding density, colour gamut, colour graduation and image sharpness while preserving the special touch and feel of genuine fine art paper just like the original Photo Rag.

Artist Proofs (AP)Several  artist proofs in the exhibition are indicated by a signed AP. These are printed on a slightly different paper, the Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Pearl 320gsm, 100% Cotton Natural White.

Three different sized prints unframed are available of works in this exhibition ‘Reconecting’:

20x30cm (8x12in) edition of 20                                  $200 each unframed

30.5x45.7cm (12x18in) edition of 15                         $350 each unframed

45.72x68.58cm (18x27in) edition of 10                    $600 each unframed

 

Botanica Extincti Marion Manifold

Marion Manifold : Botanica Extincti

5 February -28 February

 

Botanica extincti highlights Australia’s iconic eucalypts and plants which are endangered by climate change, pest animals and weeds, and even new technology which can initiate re-classifications.

It is inspired by the work of the artist’s botanist aunt SGM (Maisie) Carr (nee Fawcett) who researched eucalypts from 1958 to 2002.

The exhibition includes linocuts and some of Masie’s botanical material which demonstrates the interdependence of science and art in the 1900s, and the aesthetic beauty of the scientific material.
Maisie was renowned for her research for the Soil Conservation Board on the Bogong High Plains which lead to cattle being removed from the plains. Maisie was part of the Her Place Women’s Museum and Women of the Land in 2017.

Botanica extincti highlights Australia's iconic eucalypts and plants which are endangered by climate change, pest animals and weeds, and eve. 224 Timor St, Warrnambool VIC 3280, Australia.

Damon Kowarsky and Hyun Ju Kim : An Excellent Adventure

27 November to January 10

Hyun Ju Kim studied at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India and Dankook University, Korea. Damon Kowarsky studied printmaking at Victorian College of the Arts and Glasgow School of Art, and Advanced Figure Drawing with Godwin Bradbeer at RMIT.

The two artists have studied and exhibited extensively around the globe, including the UK, Egypt, Greece, India, China, Pakistan, France, Nepal and Serbia.

Kowarsky’s current work explores the delicate balance between man made and natural worlds. He interrogates and interprets architectural exteriors and non-private spaces, exploring the relationships individuals and communities have with their built environment.

Kim’s artwork draws from nature, culture, religion and people, composing sketches that weave inks between people, the natural world and places of human habitation. Her knowledge of multiple cultures, languages and religions informs her complex and layered images.

Works by Damon Kowarsky were made with the support of the Creative Victoria Sustaining Creative Workers Initiative

Art exhibition by Damon Kowarsky & Hyun Ju Kim. 224 Timor St, Warrnambool VIC 3280, Australia.

Braided : SW Tafe Diploma of Visual Arts

  1. Heather Barker and Jane Bear (collaboration)

Title: For the love of a lake

Statement: Life began in water. It is our responsibility to care for our waterways and wetlands so that they continue to harbour and nurture the myriad visible and invisible life forms that exist there. This work is recognition of, and a tribute to, our beautiful lakes and the water that is essential for life.

2. Heather Barker

Title: Pandora's Box

Statement: Malcolm Fraser famously said that "life wasn't meant to be easy". This was not a new realisation. The Greek myth of Pandora's Box attempts to explain why there are things like disease, hate and war in the world. When Pandora opened the box and out came disease, poverty, misery, sadness and death. Only hope was left in the box.

3. Chrissy LoRicco

Title: Linton Wings

Statement:There is a tenuous relationship between life and death. During the evening of 2 December 1998 two CFA tankers became trapped by fire. One successfully took survival action. The other was lost, engulfed and destroyed. Five volunteer firefighters died in their fire truck in the Linton bushfire in Victoria 22 years ago, lives were changed forever. The story of these brave angels is weaved into the wings, honoring my brother, one of five Geelong West firefighters who died after becoming entrapped by a wildfire after a change in wind direction on 2 December 1998.

4. Jan Virgo

Title: And the Bat said

Statement: Symbolising and highlighting the role of bats (“the flying-fox; a keystone species, a long distance, nocturnal; high canopy pollinator and seed disperser) their significance within our ecosystem; the relationship between the “koala & bat”

And the bat said….. “NO ME… NO TREE”

And the koala said…. “NO TREE… NO ME”

5. Jan Virgo

Title: The Ironbark Tree

Statement: An interpretation of the connection of a eucalyptus “Ironbark Tree” and its importance in our ecosystem. Because it flowers in winter when not many others do; symbolising and highlighting the significance between “bats & trees”; their vitally important roles; the tree providing food and blossom and the bat providing pollination; co-existing & creating a flow-on affect providing food & habitat “a place day and night” for many other animal species that rely on trees for their survival, now and into the future.. The “ironbark tree” and the “flying-foxes” are both classified as “keystone species”.

6. Chrissy LoRicco

Title: Rock Stars David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Amy Winehouse.

Statement: Music gives me life, my soundtrack is wildly varied. Learning to sew and listening to their music, inspired me to create intuitively and channel my mood into bringing to life a series of Machine Embroidered portraits that documents and celebrates the most famous, flamboyant and larger than life greats of our music history. To this day their iconic status captures their image, style and stage presence, forever unique and instantly recognisable. Their music plays on long into decades and generations to come. Chrissy's first experience using a sewing machine was in September 2019.

7. Jenny Grenfell

Title: Woman

I interrogate the female form and ideas relating to the human condition. Exploring the image surface, I move from exterior to interior forms: the skin and body organs. What interests me is the manner in which the embroidered forms introduce another layer of information, establishing new relationships with the drawn image.

8. Heather Barker

Title: Water Triptych -Water 1, Water 2, Water 3

Statement: 'To see a World in a Grain of Sand' ... or, in this case, three drops of water. Based on microscope slides of water, these drawings are a whimsical look at life in a drop of pond water, river water and sea water. They celebrate my belief that fact is stranger than fiction.

9. Angela Baldwin

Title: The Rocks Between

Statement: Small works on paper are a contemporary representation of the volcanic lava activity and the composition and disposition of the basalt rocks that shaped the landscape of the Western District. Like the origin of cells, the origin of the rocks and life on Earth millions of years ago is unfathomable to imagine and one of life’s enigmas.

10. Janet McGaw

Title: Unstable forces and regulating lines

Artist statement: This piece explores three registers of time that intersect in Victoria’s western plains: the momentary fluctuations of the weather; the regulating lines of two and a half centuries of colonisation of the land; and the deep time of geological forces that have shaped the earth for millennia

11. Angela Baldwin

Title: Cells Celebration

Statement: A microscopic abstract interpretation of a living plant cell - some alive and some in the process of decay. Cells are the story of the birth of life on Earth and are surrounded by complexity and mystery. ‘Cell Celebration’ has been created to remind us of the special magical properties and infinite pleasures cells bring to our lives.

12. Janet McGaw

This series of assemblages explores the intersecting temporalities of human-mineral relations

13. Jenny Grenfell

References our propensity to collect objects that celebrate lived experience and events that have personal meaning. Memories, collected objects and family memorabilia: children’s toys, beads, fragments of porcelain dolls, wallpaper, fabrics and braids construct an assemblage that integrates both 3D and 2D forms. Remove the lid to reveal a memory scroll.

14. Jenny Grenfell

References the concept of body organs and the topology of landscape as the source of Life. I explore ideas of the body as an outer shell, concealing organs linked by arteries and muscular structures. In mother earth, mounds, valleys, caves, rivers and lakes prevail. Body as Landscape explores and integrates these ideas in 3D form

South West Tafe Diploma of Visual Arts Exhibition (Colac Textile Students) 6 November-22 November. 224 Timor St, Warrnambool VIC 3280, Australia.

Views from the West: Kathryn Ryan & Harley Manifold

Views from the West: Kathryn Ryan & Harley Manifold

August 18- September 13

Contact The F Project for private viewings during these dates.

Western Victoria, the traditional lands of the Maar Nation, and the birthplace of colonial Victoria. It’s a complex land, comprised of deep geological and historical layers. To call it home is to acknowledge that you are shaped by these layers and that you are, in some ways, defined by their potential.

For artists growing up in the Western District, it establishes a particular vision, grants them an eye well suited to expansive landscapes. As Kathryn Ryan notes, ‘My  way of seeing, viewpoint, what captures my eye and inspiration has been moulded by this landscape, the space we inhabit, the vast skies and attention to the layout of the land. The quality of light, ever changing with the shifting clouds and weather patterns emitting a glow of light from dark moody skies, reiterates that I am in my home landscape’. Kathryn’s eye searches for honesty in its portrayal of the landscape – misty and vast, crisp and cold, lit softly by a sun that hugs the horizon.

Views From the West finds two Western District artists exploring the relationship that they have with their home, and the relationship that their home has with the City. Harley Manifold recounts ‘the first time traveling to the city, the view of the Melbourne skyline, pointed out by Mum and Dad in the front, framed by them and their seats. A distant great towering set of grey teeth – awe inducing, terrifying, captivating. From that first sighting it was only natural that I had to keep going back, yet the experience was always overwhelming and overstimulating’. For someone from the West, there is a tension within the city that is evident right from the first visit. For Harley, that became an important aspect of his work.

The two artists have created a very special show here. The monolithic forms of Kathryn’s farm trees mirror the towering concrete pillars of Harley’s urban landscapes to great effect. Where we often think of cities as being distinctly separate to the country, this exhibition encourages us to look again.

Exhibition by Artists - Kathryn Ryan & Harley Manifold. 224 Timor St, Warrnambool VIC 3280, Australia.

Jane Downing : Connected

Connected by Jane Downing

July & August 2020

At a time when many of us are feeling new degrees of isolation, Jane Downing is interested in the ways in which we remain connected to each other. Through family, friendships, interactions, or just being on this planet together, Jane is interested in exploring new forms of connection.

Technology can sometimes create barriers between traditional forms of human engagement, yet also provides new forms of interaction. Jane feels that all living things are connected one way or another, “dependent, reliant and loved”.

Jane’s optimistic paintings showcase her love of colour and express her exploration into the essence of connection through art. Jane states that by “painting from within, I harness my emotions and life experiences”.

Her aim is to provoke thought, gratitude, nurture and caring for each other through her paintings in this exhibition.

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New paintings by artist Jane Downing. 224 Timor St, Warrnambool VIC 3280, Australia.

Iso Prints by Bob Emeny

by Bob Emeny

June & July 2020

Iso Prints is a collection of print works undertaken by the artist in his Terang shed studio during the Covid-19 pandemic isolation period.

Bob Emeny’s first solo exhibition was at The F Project Gallery just over two years ago in January 2018. The exhibition ‘Head Lines’ comprised mainly of prints of heads, large woodcuts, carved into scrap wood, smaller  etchings and some figurative sculptures.

Two years on and in the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic, Bob has been working in isolation in his shed continuing exploring his fascination with the medium of printmaking and the human figure with a focus on faces.

Explore Artist Bob Emeny's exhibition at the 'F project Art Gallery'. 224 Timor St, Warrnambool VIC 3280, Australia.