Noosa Regional Gallery

FEM-aFFINITY
A NETS Victoria and Arts Project Australia touring exhibition

25 July to 12 September 2020

Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize 2020

1 AUGUST TO 4 OCTOBER 2020

Draw Student Drawing Award 2020

1 AUGUST TO 4 OCTOBER 2020

Exhibitions

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Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize 2020

1 August to 4 October 2020

Noosa Regional Gallery invited contemporary Australian artists to submit works for entry into the Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize 2020.

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Draw Student Drawing Award 2020

1 August to 4 October 2020

Draw 2020 is a contemporary Drawing Award open to all Year 9 to 12 students living on the Sunshine Coast and Gympie Region.

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FEM-aFFINITY A Nets Victoria and Arts Project Australia Touring Exhibition

25 July to 12 September 2020

FEM-aFFINITY brings together female artists from Arts Project Australia and wider Australia whose work share an affinity of subject matter, technique and process.

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News Alert

In line with government health advice, Noosa Regional Gallery is open to the public with strict limits on the number of visitors in attendance at any one time. The Gallery will be observing strict social distancing and hygiene measures to protect the health of all visitors and staff and minimise the spread of COVID-19.

Exhibition openings and other public programs will not be taking place until further notice.

Events and Programs

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Floating Land

Floating Land is Australia's premiere art in the environment event, taking in sites across Noosa.

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Art After School

While our popular After School Art Classes art currently on hold, stay tuned for an exciting announcement about a new program we are about to launch.

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Workshops

Noosa Regional Gallery is not currently facilitating any workshops. As conditions improve with regard to COVID-19 we will revisit this decision.

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Masterclass Series

We look forward to announcing the next line up of outstanding artists coming to Noosa to share their knowledge and skills.

Art At Home

Art at Home

Art at Home gives students aged 7 to 17 the opportunity to learn a range of art making techniques via easy to understand instructional videos.

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Aug 10

‘This year we saw an unprecedented number of ent

‘This year we saw an unprecedented number of entries to DRAW Student Drawing Award 2020- no small feat given the interruptions most of these young people have faced this year both in and out of school. The consideration and maturity that so many of these works showed in both their artistic resolve and their subject matter made quite the impression and reaffirms the fact that the arts are integral to both creators and viewers in our efforts to make sense of and find our place in the World’ - Michael Brennan, Gallery Director, Noosa Regional Gallery

We are so excited to announce the winners of this year’s DRAW Student Drawing Award 2020!

YEAR 9
Vienna Mesh, My Wave 2020, pencil and watercolour, 29.7 x 42cm. Caloundra State High School.

YEAR 10
Libby Evans, teaches de rousseur 2020, grey lead, 45.6 x 35.8cm. Immanuel Lutheran College.

YEAR 11
Jemma Dehnen Barnett, Igor 2020, pencil, acrylic paint, paper collage, 29.7 x 21cm. Sunshine Beach State High School.

YEAR 12
Gilliam Kassidy, Mirror Mirror 2020, graphite, 42 x 59.4cm. Siena Catholic College.

This year’s judge, the celebrated artist Michael Zavros commended our finalists for the exceptional quality of their entries, further remarking on the realism of some entries as “particularly impressive”.

Congratulations to our four winners and to all of our talented finalists!

To view the winning entries and to cast your vote in the People’s Choice, please visit our website via the link in our bio.

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Aug 7

Having received a record number of entries, we are

Having received a record number of entries, we are thrilled to announce the winner of this year’s Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize!

Artist Anh Nguyen has won the 2020 Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize for her self portrait titled, Green Coat.

This year’s judge, the celebrated artist, Michael Zavros, made the following remarks about the quality of the entries he reviewed and his process for selecting a winner;

"It's an honour to judge this year's prize and I'm just so impressed by not only the quality of the works entered but by the diversity of the entrants. In an age defined by digital technologies drawing remains as vital to us today as it was to our forefathers making marks on cave walls. I'd like to say that I was particularly impressed by some of the realism entered. There are some truly beautifully rendered works in this exhibition of finalists.

When I judge a prize I try to remove any parameters to my assessment of the work, attempting to put aside my own interests, politics, tastes. The shortlist and finally the winning work emerges because I keep looking at it. It's as simple as that. It asks me to look again and again and then I try to understand why.

The winning drawing by Anh Nguyen is an arresting self portrait. Perhaps drawn from a photograph or a mirror, the subject sits at a table dwarfed by her studio and surrounding apparatus. It's an unusual composition, the figure just left of centre regarding us impassively, one half of her face completely in shadow. There is a joy to the drawing gesture here. Oil pastel, charcoal and watercolour or a wash combine to deliver a rich gestural surface echoing the studio itself and its myriad media. But this isn't careful rendering, Nguyen delivers more with less. It’s a spare and immediate drawing." - Michael Zavros

Congratulations to Anh and to all of our wonderful finalists!

Image: Anh Nguyen, Green Coat, 2020, charcoal, soft pastel and pencil on paper, 56 x 66cm. Image courtesy of the Artist.

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Aug 3

Having received a record number of entries for bot

Having received a record number of entries for both the Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize and the DRAW Student Drawing Award 2020, we are excited to bring you the work of our exceptional finalists!

To be viewed exclusively online, please visit the two exhibitions via our website in our bio.

Be part of the judging process; nominate your favourite works via the People’s Choice Awards! (Also via our website)

We can’t wait to announce the winners selected by this years’ Judge- leading Australian artist Michael Zavros, and you our audience for The People’s Choice Award later this week!

Good luck to all of our talented finalists!

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Image: Natalie Ryan, Octopus Study, pencil on paper, 38 x 29cm. Image: Scanned by Hound and Bone.

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Jul 31

‘Our kids have been working with Jane for many y

‘Our kids have been working with Jane for many years. Her sessions include thoughtful discussions that stretch their imagination, challenge reasoning and inspire them to think beyond the page. You only have one or two teachers in your life who you remember as incredible- for our kids, we know that will be Jane’ - Steph, parent

Artist and QCT-registered teacher Jane Karnowski will be taking the lead for our new, live online art classes- Art After School!

Jane’s teaching centres on drawing as an intuitive and enjoyable expression of creativity. Her unique and highly popular online workshops for children use guided drawing processes and practical demonstrations to motivate children to examine their own creative interests.

Art After School will be available for children aged between 7 and 12years, ONLINE from the comfort of your home for just four sessions- Thursday’s from 3.30-4.45pm throughout August only.

Places are strictly limited in these online face-to-face art classes, so book early to avoid disappointment!

To book from anywhere in Australia (and the World!) please visit: www.noosaregionalgallery.com.au/art-at-home

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Image: Eva Nudds, Moth. Eva was a participant in Jane’s 7-12yrs online art class series.

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Jul 24

‘FEM-aFFINITY is a riot of material and emotiona

‘FEM-aFFINITY is a riot of material and emotional interaction: it sparks moments of unrestrained revelry that threaten to disturb the peace and constitutes a disorderly profusion that is often wildly amusing’ - Excerpt from The Art of Attentive Love; an essay by Associate Professor of Visual Arts at La Trobe University, Jacqueline Millner for FEM-aFFINITY

NOW SHOWING until 12 September 2020

FEM-aFFINITY is a NETS Victoria and Arts Project Australia touring exhibition.

Image: Eden Menta & Janelle Low, Eden and the Gorge 2019, inkjet print, ed. 1/5, 100 x 80cm. Courtesy of the artists; Eden Menta is represented by Arts Project Australia, Melbourne.

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Jul 21

After 18 weeks (which included being closed for lo

After 18 weeks (which included being closed for lockdown) we are very excited to have a new exhibition installed at the Gallery this week!

‘FEM-aFFINITY draws from socially engaged art that encourages shared perspectives, raising awareness of issues that face diverse communities and cultivating relationships within collaborative frameworks’ - Catherine Bell

Curated by contemporary artist and academic Catherine Bell, FEM-aFFINITY is a NETS Victoria and Arts Project Australia touring exhibition which sets a high standard for representing diverse perspectives and empowerment in the arts.

FEM-aFFINITY is COMING SOON! Watch this space! 😃

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