Newsletter
Well, the winter chill is upon us, but we're enjoying some beautiful clear days!
Here are some highlights from local Blenheim Gallery artists, what we have been up to, and some new and exciting things we still have to come during these winter months.
Exhibition Save the Dates
Saturday 1 September
An afternoon opening for Chee Yong, paintings Wayne Hudson and Gene McLaren sculptures.
Friday 22 September
An evening opening and exhibition for Lucy McEachern with her bronze sculptures and Sarah Gabriel paintings and prints.
Saturday 14 October
David Hamilton in person opening of his exhibition of recent sculptures - is not to be missed.
Saturday 4 November
An afternoon opening for David Marsden paintings which then are on display for three weeks.
Saturday 25 November
Afternoon opening of Blenheim Gallery's Shapes in Spaces Sculpture Prize 2023 and Exhibition including exterior and interior pieces.
Our winner will be announced on Saturday 25 November and the exhibition will continue for four weeks.
MASON | MARSDEN
@QVMAG Royal Park Wellington Street Launceston
A wonderful exhibition of Penny Mason and David Marsden’s work covering four decades. The show has just closed at QVMAG but the work into the future will be released as an online catalogue of the fabulous exhibition that was held at QVMAG Royal Park, Launceston. It is a major survey exhibition and is full of colour and energy with fantastic works over their artistic careers.
David Marsden is holding a painting exhibition of new works at Blenheim Gallery in November 2023. Penny Mason held her fabulous exhibition in February this year.
If you would like to view more of Penny and David’s recent works,
Blenheim Gallery has these in stock.
Anita Denholm News
A magnificent large stone sculpture, “Looking Across the Tracks of Time and Tides”, by Anita Denholm was unveiled on the St. Helens' Shoreline Trail as part of the Bay of Fires Art Festival.
“I’m so thrilled to know your impressions as a viewer"
"...I have noticed everyone who looks at it smiles"
"...and we need more smiles in the world.”
My personal name for ‘her’ (or whatever gender people perceive) is Liena Nire’ (li eena ni ree) which comes from a written list of words or an early Tasmanian indigenous dictionary collated in the 1850s. 'Liena' meaning 'water', and 'Nire’ meaning 'heal'.
It is my hope that this sculpture will imbue people viewing or walking, journeyed by with a sense of calm, taking time to breathe, slow down, reflect, and refresh. To look out at the Bay and ponder on the times and people's past, present, and future...It is everyone, anyone, and nobody. Watching over someone returning across the bay or dreaming of being out there enjoying life.
A sense of calm or reflection.
The aesthetics of the sculpture speaks of the story behind the stone itself, from being liberated from bedrock, to transport, to the stone yard. The stone is in some parts carved to represent the blast, natural to symbolise the natural edge of the quarry, and drilled.
As a sculpture, it has taken a lifetime of planning until opportunity met preparation. Created from a combination of selecting the ‘right’ block, and carving long hours to liberate the forms inside. Now in its final resting place, it begins a ‘life’ of quiet, serene contemplation, gazing over the water.
“Looking out across the Tracks of Time and Tides”, says Anita Denholm.
Anita has now moved straight into a new commission. Good things are happening, and we keep you updated of how everything comes along.
Carlton Cox
We have some wonderful news!
Carlton Cox has been selected as a finalist for the Burnie Print Award a $20,000 prize for printmaking.
Carlton had a very successful exhibition late last year at Blenheim Gallery and his remarkable industrial work “Glasgow Engineering” is a contender for the award.
Carlton is working away for a 2024 exhibition at Blenheim Gallery towards the end of the year.
East Coast Installation
“The Horizon is Defeated” sculpture by Gene McLaren is a multi-faceted work of large scale, acquired from Gene's 2022 exhibition of large-scale and maquette works. Made of corten and stainless steel, this stunning piece catches the light with the changes of the day and the setting sun.
“The Horizon is Defeated” has recently been installed on the grounds at Freycinet Resort.
Gene is a very loyal artist of Blenheim Gallery and will have a work in our Shapes in Spaces Sculpture Prize 2023 later in November. In 2024 he will be holding an exhibition.
Bay of Fires Art Award
Penny Mason and Pamela Horsley participated in the Bay of Fires Art Award this year and their works were very well received. The June exhibition was a buzz, with people enjoying the exhibition over the long weekend, admiring the new sculpture by Anita Denholm on the foreshore.
Pamela Horsley will hold another exhibition at Blenheim Gallery in 2024.
New Artists to Blenheim Gallery
Craig Ashton, Lorna Quinn, and Gabrielle Falconer will be exhibiting works in the gallery in 2024 and we look forward to presenting them to you.
Lorna Quinn
Lorna Quinn, a new artist to Blenheim Gallery and Garden, will be showing in February with Gabriel Falconer. Her work is currently on view at RISE QVMAG Royal Park in Wellington St Launceston.
“I take inspiration from whatever my immediate surroundings are – my context – and I often go for exploratory walks to find objects and places to paint. My artworks usually revolve around the vision of a ‘safe-cave’, a context for dwelling, a kind of material ‘lair’. I often return to when I was a child playing alone in my garden, where I would use what was around me to form nests and coves. In my child’s mind the earth and twigs and stones formed a little universe, a complete vision. "
"My work now is similarly something of a self-fashioned escape from the realities and anxieties of everyday life, where I can live in an artificial and eclectic kingdom, self-designed so as to allow for my own boundless inclusion, a personal utopia, you could say.”
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