News and views of the local art scene, artists, exhibitions and galleries.
Florence for the budding artist
Ateliers in Florence: Benefits for Budding Artists Florence, Italy, is renowned for its rich history of art, culture, and architecture. From Michelangelo's David to the Uffizi Gallery, the city is a mecca for art lovers and artists alike. One of the city's best-kept...
Mollie Bosworth contributes a flag for World Cyanotype Day.
Exhibition at The Maud Street Photo Gallery, Newstead Brisbane, August 2 – 11, 2019 In the USA, the A Smith Gallery Flag Installation for World Cyanotype Day USA, 29th Sept - October 21. Third exhibition: the Healing Arts Center, New Orleans in Dec for PhotoNOLA until...
Toni Rogers at Strand Ephemera
Kuranda Arts Co-op member Toni Rogers has been selected for Strand Ephemera 2019 in Townsville. This week Toni assembled her beach installation "The Language, the Wind and the Tides" consisting of 230 painted coconuts. “Coconuts are reportedly not indigenous to...
Re-Imagined Recycled Reef
Arts Co-op artist Marcia Bird has joined with Cairns fibre artist Pam Kusabs to showcase the creations of the young participants of the monthly Kid’s Tank in 2018 in Cairns. The children at this year’s Children’s Festival will add their own creations to the ‘Reef’...
Artwork at the pub revisited
One of Hobart’s most historic pubs, The Whaler at Salamanca, Hobart, was established in the early 1800’s. In 1993, Art Co-op member and master glass artist, Klaus Brucksch, was commissioned to undertake the installation of 8 glass windows and three painted portraits....
1st and 2nd Prize Won by Toni Rogers at the Tanks
Toni Rogers received two major awards at the recent Cairns Art Society exhibition at the Tanks. Toni was awarded 1st prize in the Fibre section with her hand stitched 'Tiger Grass' basket, and she was awarded 2nd prize in the same section with her 'Pake Cloak for...
Wheelthrown Award won by Mollie Bosworth
Time Traveller - a porcelain bowl with ceramic decal decoration was the winner of the Open Wheelwork section, Port Hacking Potters Group 50th Anniversary Competition. This competition was judged by a distinguished panel of 3 of Australias' leading ceramic artists.This...
Sculpture Botanica
Marcia Bird Kuranda Arts Co-op artist, has a fibre piece "Understory" in the exhibition Sculpture Botanica Cairns 2018, and a collaborative, piece together with Pam Kusabs, called "Netherworld". There are also two community pieces which Pam and Marcia facilitated,...
Kuranda Arts Coop Member Susan Doherty Is Exhibiting In The Purple Noon Gallery
Please join us for the opening reception of Woolgathering at Purple Noon Gallery, 6:00pm on Saturday 8th September 2018. Very excited and happy to welcome North Queensland artist Susan Doherty to the Hawkesbury. And also, Australian Film Producer Penny Chapman, who...
In Anna’s Garden : Australian practitioners celebrating World Cyanotype Day 2018
This is an excerpt of Kuranda Arts Coop member Mollie Bosworth edited by Klaus Brucksch. In Anna’s Garden : Australian practitioners celebrating World Cyanotype Day 2018 This exhibition aims to provide a glimpse into the rich community in Australia that exists around...