Tamara Sharp- Portrait of a Landscape

11 Jan - 5 Feb
Opens Sat 14 January 6 - 8pm

My heart and photographs are intrinsically linked to the land, the discussion around purpose of land and the forces behind ownership within the community. Throughout the years, I have travelled constantly but am drawn to the familiar, memories of a landscape that reflect hard labour, and embody stories of generational attitudes towards the environment. Within my photographic journey, I find myself in a landscape torn by fragmented conversations and poverty. This exhibition openly reflects my lived experience and the evident fragility of nature.

Small Works- Members’ Show 2022-2023

14 DEC 2022 - 8 JAN 2023
Opening Sat 17 Dec 2 - 4pm

Our members’ show returns in style this year after a three year hiatus. Featuring over 90 works by more than 50 of our members, the Small Works show promises a wide variety of works in a number of different mediums and skill levels from both fresh and familiar local names.

Get in quick to view this show, as works are removed once sold!

Members featured in Small Works are listed below:

Julie Poi
Kate Melican Rollo
Kathryn Ryan
Kayleigh Walmsley-Sims
Kelsy Landwehr
Kirsten McLean
Kristy Roche
Leon Melis
Liz Rodriguez
Mandy O’Neill
Marion Matthews
Maryann Owen
Matthew Stewart
Megan Cullum
Merran Koren
Michelle Caithness
Nathan Stebbins
Oliver Vizon (3 y.o)
Paul Burman
Rebecca Hill
Richard Walter
Ricky Schembri
Rosina Gannon
Shari Nye
Sian Burman
Tamara Sharp

Alexandra Davis
Alison Withers
Ann Krause
Anthea Rafferty
Bob Emeny
Brendan Kelly
Caroline Healey
Clive Murray-White
Colleen Campbell
Damon Kowarsky
David Higgins
Des Bunyon
Ellen Moloney
Harley Manifold
Helen Bunyon
Helen Fitzhardinge
Hyunju Kim
Irene Crusca
Jan Allan
Jane Curtis
Jane Downing
Jeffrey Vizon
Jo Brian
Jo Merriman
Joanne Russell
John Coxon (Jay Cee)

There And Back Again- Damon Kowarsky & Hyunju Kim

After nearly two years apart because of COVID Damon and Hyunju were reunited in Melbourne in December last year. Since then they have got married, taught workshops in printmaking and bookbinding in Sydney, Newcastle, Canberra, and Portland, travelled to the Blue Mountains and Woolongong, and undertaken residencies at Eramboo Artist Environment, Portland Bay Press and Terang Arts Hub.

The works in this show were made during and after the pandemic, and look to more recent travels in Australia as well as memories of previous adventures. For both Damon and Hyunju it has been a huge pleasure to explore closer to home, and to return to The FProject and share their newest works with the community in Warrnambool.



Juxtaposition - Siân & Paul Burman

Juxtaposition brings together the work of long-standing partners and artists Paul and Siân Burman. Working in close proximity in their shared studio, where they regularly bounce ideas off one another, they each bring to their art practice quite contrasting approaches in terms of subject matter, painting style and even medium. And yet both artists share a common passion for the environment in which they live and both revel in using palettes of bright, vibrant colour.

Siân Burman’s work embraces the interaction of water with land in different settings. These paintings highlight the energy, colours and luminosity of water and sky, and the ever-shifting moods of this relationship, as shaped by the seasons, time of day and weather patterns… from stillness and reflection all the way to volatility and turbulence. Siân’s work celebrates the beauty and uniqueness of our coastal and riverine environments. She works mainly, but not exclusively, in oil.

Paul Burman paints primarily in acrylic. Although his paintings often position buildings and other man-made structures – our suburban environment – against a natural backdrop of trees or a vast blue sky, the main focus is something more timeless and elemental: patterns of heightened light and sharpened shadow, when colour and form resonate under a bright, low sun. For the most part, Paul’s work depicts local and familiar sites captured in a sun-baked moment of dreamy and siesta-like stillness. 

Juxtaposition brings together in one exhibition paintings which are compositionally and stylistically very different – from oceans, rivers and estuaries to heritage buildings, a crash repair garage and a laneway; from a surf club observation tower to coastlines and skies. And yet all these works are shaped by a common delight in exploring, engaging with, and coming to better understand the environment we inhabit.

ARTOLESCENCE- Warrnambool & Moyne Secondary School Students

21 Sept - 16 october
Opening 6pm Wed 21 Sept
With live soundscape and electronic music performance by SW MESS.

ARTOLESCENCE captures a selection of artworks and crafted objects across multiple disciplines by Warrnambool and Moyne secondary school students. This exhibition is one of several events that shines a light on our region’s talented young creators as part of the Warrnambool & Moyne Youth Showcase series in the South West Youth Fest Calendar this September.

Id- SWTAFE Art Teachers

id - SWTAFE Art Teachers (24th August - 18th September)

Opening evening Friday 26th August 6-8pm

id - a collection of work from Sue Ferrari, Jean Gleeson and Nathan Pye. Displaying vastly different styles, the three discuss ideation, societal influence, personal experience as it relates to identity.

The three artists share a vocation, educators at South West TAFE, and bring a wealth of experience within their chosen fields. On display will be large scale drawing, sculptural pieces, installation works and digital paintings which promise to be a varied and stimulating take from the trio.

Artist Statements:
Jean Gleeson: "These works tell a story of the genetic inheritance I was born with. Tales bearing the gravity of gender stereotypes, tragic loss, sadness and joy. Into the mix are childhood memories and symbols that tease out the origins of identity, the relationship and pull between East and West.”

Sue Ferrari: “My interest lies in how we identify with commonplace objects and cloth, the shared social histories and our personal association that gives them meaning, each intimately linked with the human experience. This narrative features the highs and lows of life, fortune and misfortune, through the process of adaptation.”

Nathan Pye: “What do we wear as armour, what do we wield as weapons? What will tell our stories and who will tell them? This body of work discusses the formation of identity, via internal and external factors, both willingly and unwillingly, the control and loss of control of our bodies and identity when they are exposed to the other.”

No Rules - Killarney Basket Makers

27 July - 21 August

This group exhibition displays the talents of the Killarney Basket makers, Minda Baxter, Cherree Densley, Isobel Esmore, Sylvia Harbour, Dianna Heeps and Joanne Russell.  The women all hail from Killarney and surrounding towns Port Fairy, Koroit, Casterton, with one contributor, formerly of Penshurst, posting her work from far away desert country in Queensland after relocating there in 2021.

“We create ornamental and functional pieces out of harvested, acquired or scavenged materials. We come together to support and encourage each other in basket making and continue to develop our own unique styles.  The exhibition title ‘No Rules’ reflects the uniqueness of our work.  We all enjoy creating things that are a little unusual, with lots of experimentation out of a strong foundation of traditional basketry skills.  There is so much beauty to be found in our own local environment and you will be amazed how common materials become transformed by imagination and ingenuity.”

View No Rules virtually:

Beneath The Sky's Verandah: Paintings and Ceramics by Georgina Sambell

Beneath The Sky’s Verandah: Paintings and Ceramics by Georgina Sambell

1 June- 26 June

Opening Saturday 4 June 6-8pm

This exhibition is a selection of paintings and ceramics made within Sambell’s studio over the past year. Sambell says that, ‘the works have not been made to suit a theme nor as a series, but come together to be in conversation with one another’.

Sambell’s work deals with verities of time and space, life and death, and aims to address the social and spiritual aspects of human nature.

  1. ‘Overture’, Oil on Canvas, 116 x 96cm, 2022, $1800

  2. ‘Intermission’, Oil on Canvas, 112 x 91cm, 2022, $1800

  3. ‘A Crows Feast’, Oil on Canvas, 81 x 76cm, 2022, $900

  4. ‘A Tears Shadow’, Oil on Canvas, 122 x 96cm, 2022, $3900

  5. ‘The Gun’, Oil on Canvas, 35 x 41cm, 2022, $600

  6. ‘The Dining Table’, Oil on Canvas, 96 x 86cm, 2022, $1800

  7. ‘Frozen Peas’, Stoneware Ceramic, 25 x 12cm, 2022, $650

  8. ‘Bottling Growths’, Stoneware Ceramic, 30 x 12cm, 2022, $500

  9. ‘In other times I was a child’, Pastel on Paper, 81 x 111cm, 2022, $1500

  10. ‘Half Time’ Oil on Linen, 33 x 38cm, 2022 $700

  11. ‘Untitled’, Stoneware Ceramic, 20 x 20cm, 2022, $800

  12. ‘The Never Ending’, Oil on Canvas, 126 x 155cm, 2021, $4400

  13. ‘Triumphant Lingering’, Oil on Linen, 34 x 39cm, 2022, $600

  14. ‘Untitled’, Stoneware Ceramic, 22 x 17cm, 2022, $450

  15.  ‘Awaiting’, Oil on Canvas, 61 x 41cm, 2022, $700

  16. ‘Orchestrated chaos’, Stoneware Ceramic, 24 x 15cm, 2022, $400

  17. ‘In Flight’, Stoneware Ceramic, 22 x 10cm, 2022, $400

  18. ‘Untitled’, Stoneware Ceramic, 24 x 16cm, 2022, $400

  19. ‘The Tunnels’, Stoneware Ceramic, 30 x 18cm, 2022, $450

  20. ‘Rebirthed’, Stoneware Ceramic, 23 x 15cm, 2022, $400

  21. ‘Baggage Claim’, Oil on Canvas, 122 x 152cm, 2022, $4200

  22. ‘Blue Summons’, Stoneware Ceramic, 20 x 14cm, 2022, NFS

  23. ‘The Overpass’, Stoneware Ceramic, 17 x 9cm, 2022, $500

  24. ‘The Crossing’, Stoneware Ceramic, 12.5 x 12cm, 2022, $350

  25. ‘Untitled’, Stoneware Ceramic, 15 x 10cm, 2022, $500

  26. ‘Ready to Travel’, Stoneware Ceramic, 21 x 12cm, 2022, $500

  27. ‘Swing and Lift’, Stoneware Ceramic, 34 x 16cm, 2022, $850

  28. ‘Untitled’, Stoneware Ceramic, 23 x 10cm, 2022, (Chipped Top) $200

Co-existence of Incongruence: Heather Stewart

29 June - 24 July

Opening Saturday 2 July 4pm-6pm

Over the last few years Heather Stewart has increasingly adopted a multidisciplinary practice to find a way forward to understand how we alter and contemporize our idea of normality. The exhibition at F Project is ostensibly eclectic but united in one idea about human diversity or rather a question about how we alter our view of what is normal. The human heads and bodies are not necessarily gender specific although historical references to archetypal female imagery provide the viewer with an element of familiarity. Stewart is trying to explore how much incongruity the mind finds acceptable in order to take on new information and alter its perception of what it means to be human.

In the small sculptures, she has tried to balance the abstraction of anthropomorphic tree forms with mimetic clay heads, shoulders and sometimes feet and hands. In their entirety the visual language of all the sculptures, including the busts exhibit a disparity in colour, materiality and form, the white clay contrasting with the shellacked tree forms; clay against perspex.

The collages comprise a variety of juxtaposed images taken from popular and disparate sources; comics, magazines, tissue box designs etc. Stewart aims to marry the known with the unknown; the random with the familiar, in order to convince the viewer of the validity of the forms. Art historical references and mythological identities such as the figure of Flora, and the Greek Muses provide a stabilizing focus point and hopefully some element of aesthetic beauty.

Stewart says; Initially I wanted to reconcile the evident material disparities. At best I’ve aimed for a serendipitous co-existence of incongruence.

01. Florescence | Collage, drawing graphite and coloured pencil on Saunders Waterford | 72x55cm $900

02. Study of Dancer #2 | Collage, drawing graphite and coloured pencil on Saunders Waterford |72x55cm $700

03. Forwarding | drawing, graphite and coloured pencil on Saunders Waterford | 56x45cm $520

04. Study of Singer | drawing, graphite and coloured pencil on Saunders Waterford | 72x55cm $650

05. Seeking Solace | drawing, graphite and coloured pencil on Saunders Waterford | 56x45cm $520

06. Red and Blue shining Through | mixed mediums | 42x23x23cm $1300

07. Spring | Collage on card | 52x52cm $600

08. The Man in the Boy | Sculpture, ceramic and wire | 29x30x23cm $1400

09. Without Guile | Drawing, graphite and coloured pencil on Saunders Waterford | 72x55cm $650

10. Taking a Turn | Drawing, graphite and coloured pencil on Saunders Waterford | 56x45cm $520

11. Hermaphrodite | Sculpture, eucalyptus and clay on English Oak | $1300

12. Inwardly Deeply | Sculpture, mixed mediums | 36x38x24cm $1600

13. After Boticelli: Flora | Collage, drawing, graphite and coloured pencil on card | 70x70cm $900

14. Transparent | Painting, oil on linen | 152x90cm $1800

15. The Contrarian | Painting, oil on linen | 152x90cm $1800

16. Dear and Troubled | Painting, oil on linen | 152x90cm $1800

17. Luminence | Sculpture, mixed mediums | 30x23x23cm $1200

18. Study of Dancer #1 | Drawing, graphite and coloured pencil on Saunders Waterford | 72x55cm $650

19. Man with Helmet | Sculpture, bisque clay | 25x20x19cm $1200

20. Study of Dear and Troubled | Drawing, graphite and coloured pencil on Saunders Waterford | 72x55cm $650

21. Spiked | Sculpture, bisque clay | 30x23x23 $1300

22. Day Dreaming | Sculpture, eucalyptus and clay on English oak | 66x46x30cm $1200

23. Terpischore | Sculpture, eucalyptus and clay on English oak | 63x34x31cm $1100

24. Euterpe | Sculpture, eucalyptus and clay on Tasmanian oak | 56x56x28cm $1100

25. Flora | Sculpture, eucalyptus and clay on Tasmanian oak | 54x23x28cm $1100

Reminiscing Warrnambool 4 May-29 May

Reminiscing Warrnambool 4 May-29 May

*note: #8 not pictured -it is a small print of Camping Fun; and #14 not pictured -it is a small print of Surfside Caravan Park.

** PLEASE CONTACT gallery@thefproject.org.au if you wish to make an enquiry about one of these artworks or 0428870233.

Colleen Campbell

This is my first solo exhibition.

 I have been casually painting with Glenn Morgans Tuesday night classes for a few years now.

 I paint to remember. Where I’ve been, what I’ve seen. To record time. To bring pleasure to me and anyone who views my work.

My paintings usually start with a photograph, then I add my own colours and style.

Reminiscing Warrnambool, is about buildings, places and experiences that are no longer there or have changed with Warrnambools growing landscape.

I hope my work sparks memories, good memories and puts a smile on peoples faces .

This exhibition will also be able to be viewed online at our Virtual Gallery after the opening launch on Saturday 7 May 2022  www.thefproject.org.au

AWAKE : JEFFREY VIZON 9 MARCH - 3 APRIL

Awake

Solo Exhibition

Jeffrey Vizon

On its surface, the body of works from Jeffrey’s first self-published picture storybook and solo exhibition, Awake, is a tale of a brave, young warrior navigating a journey of self-discovery and renewal with themes of transcendence and hope. The tale is based on the strength and perseverance of a girl’s true journey, which touched the lives of many, including Jeffrey.

Jeffrey’s evocative pencil artworks draw in his own experiences and landscapes from his home region, South West Victoria, to illustrate an alternative universe in which this narrative takes place. Below the surface, Awake captures Jeffrey’s journey of grief, hope, and life’s transitions that took place over the span of the two-year creative process of this collection.

Jeffrey hopes that others can connect with the raw emotion that has been weaved into each piece in this dream-like body of work so that every individual viewer can deep dive into their own emotions and find their own narrative within the melancholy world of Awake.

AWAKE : JEFFREY VIZON

1.Ripples Through Time Pencil on paper H 69 x 88 cm NFS

2.The Crossing Pencil on paper H 69 x W 88 cm $2000

3.Stairway to Heaven Pencil on paper H 57 x W 49 cm $1200

4.The Doors Pencil on paper H 69 x W 88 cm $2000

5.The Guardians Pencil on paper H 88 x W 69 cm $2000

6.Tree Man Pencil on paper H 59 x W 51 cm $ 850

7.Mr. Rabbit Pencil on paper H 43 x W 51 cm $ 950

8.Into the Dark Pencil on paper H 33 x W 40 cm $ 660

9.Into the Void Pencil on paper H 33 x W 40 cm $ 660

10.Into the Light Pencil on paper H 69 x W 88 cm $ 850

11.Legs Eleven Pencil on paper H 69 x W 88 cm $2000

12.Awake Pencil on paper H 69 x W 88 cm $2000

13.Bridging the Gap Pencil on paper H 69 x W 88 cm $2000

14.Nostalgia Pencil on paper H 69 x W 88 cm $2000

15.Melancholy Pencil on paper H 52 x W 66 cm $1600

16.Running Free Pencil on paper H 52 x W 66 cm $1600

17.Into the Woods Pencil on paper H 71 x W 58 cm $2000

18.Jimmy Pencil on paper H 50 x W 56 cm NFS

19.Reflection Pencil on paper H 50 x W 57 cm $1600

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.