The Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery will dim the lights and come alive with the sounds of White Bluff at Night on a special night experience narrated by Ecologist Mark Graham.
White Bluff Project Artists and Scientists discuss the project and talk about their Art/Science practice.
Final artworks from The White Bluff Project will be on display at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery from 30 October 2021 through to 15 January 2022.
Galleries and museums around the world have moved online in these unprecedented times, so too has the PL❤NTS Exhibition, which features more than 150 artworks celebrating people's love of plants including our very own White Bluff artist Julie Nash, and her work: Koala vs Timber Industry, pictured here.
For more information on the PL❤NTS Exhibition, which is available to view online until the end of May, click here. All works are for sale and the exhibition will eventually be on physical, public display at Lion Gate Lodge in the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney from Sunday 19 July - Sunday 2 August 2020.
Julie’s piece is a timely artistic statement, coming at the very moment debate rages about continued logging of koala habitat in NSW and particularly near Nambucca Heads; despite last summer's devastating bushfires and the toll this has had on koala populations and koala habitat statewide.
As the Plants exhibition states - plants give us life. They make our air, our food, our clothes and our homes. Without them life would cease to exist. They are even more important to our iconic and much loved native animals. Can you imagine Australia without koalas? If you want to know what you can do to save currently threatened koala habitat then visit the Nature Conservation Council of NSW or jump on the Kalang River Forest Alliance Facebook page.
Make sure you don’t miss this fabulous exhibition at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery. White Bluff artist Terri Butterworth’s gorgeous paintings will be on display in “Artist’s Garden” a presentation of work by two of the Coffs Coast’s most established and respected painters: one abstract, one figurative.
Terri Butterworth has been painting the people and places of the Orara Valley for decades. Strongly connected to place, Terri will be exhibiting beside fellow artist Guy Gilmour. These two artists interpret the Valley’s landscapes through two distinct lenses. Terri Butterworth’s pure, abstract paintings immerse us in a layered experience of place, including her Glenreagh garden. Guy Gilmour’s sensitive and intimate observations suggest imagined narratives and prompt nostalgic memories.
On February 22, you can also join both artists for a walk through of the exhibition, providing a unique opportunity to learn about their different approaches to landscape and place. Check out that event here: Artists Garden.
Join White Bluff artist Jeremy Sheehan as he talks about one of his long running sculpture projects - Transmigration. Transmigration consists of 22 bird sculptures made from a skeleton of collected ocean plastic, overlaid with materials that slowly break down. These sculptures were sent to individual islands in the Pacific where artists and communities made similar birds that were sent back to Australia and appeared in the Bondi Sculpture by the Sea.
"A friend once introduced me as an artist, educator and environmental activist. I had never thought of myself from that perspective before, it felt a bit uncomfortable, but I kind of like it now." Join Jeremy Sheehan on Saturday 25 January at the Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery as he discusses how his extraordinary bird sculptures, on show at the Gallery, returned home from a long and incredible journey.
Book your ticket to Jeremy's Transmigration talk through Eventbrite-… and find out more about Jeremy and his work at http://www.jeremysheehan.net/.
To hear more about Transmigration listen to this radio interview with Jeremy from back in 2015.
White Bluff artist Terri Butterworth has been named as finalist in the 2019 EMSLA Still Life art prize. Now in its thirteenth year in 2019, the EMSLA prize aims to encourage artists to give the “universal “nature of the still life genre” a large allowance for interpretation.
The Eutick Memorial Still Life Award exhibition of finalists opens at 6pm on Friday the 8th November 2019 at Project Contemporary Art Space, 255 Keira St, Wollongong. In the meantime, you can view all the finalists at www.emsla.com.au. It is a stunning selection of works, and testament to the strength of Terri’s painting and art practice that she has been selected as a finalist for this prestigious award.
“Interior with studio objects”
Two of The White Bluff Project aritsts - ceramicist Phil Greed and sculptor John Van der Kolk - will be part of an exhibition at Tree-o Furniture Gallery south of Coffs Harbour. The exhibition opens Sat, 26th October 2019. The gallery is at 7 Alex Pike Drive, Raleigh, New South Wales and the works will be on display until February next year.
The Still Salon 2019 Exhibition is part of the Still: National Still Life Award 2019 events program. It run for a two-week period from 18 October – 2 November and features a sculpture by White Bluff mixed media artist Mark George.
Following on from the success of Still Salon 2017, this time-honoured tradition of a ‘salon’ exhibition is happening again in 2019. Local artist and former gallerist Nick Kachel along with Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery staff, Jo Besley and Cath Fogarty, made this year’s selection of 36 works from 100 local artists stretching from Byron Bay to Port Macquarie.
Still Salon 2019 focuses on the genre of still life across all art forms including painting, mixed media, ceramics, collage, textile, sculpture, photography, printmaking and drawing.
Another of our fabulous artists has gone and got themselves in the final hanging of a prestigious art prize - the 2019 Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award. Painter Sarah Mufford is one of just 86 finalists chosen this year from a staggering 800 artists from throughout Australia. The Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award is a significant national exhibition that aims to elevate the status of works on paper while supporting and promoting artists working with this medium. The works in the 2019 Award demonstrate the materiality of paper, its versatility and the possibilities of paper as a medium. Paper can be cut, torn, folded, layered, scratched, scrunched, burned, animated, woven, found and re-purposed.
Visitors to the exhibition, can also vote for The People’s Choice Award of $1,000 which will be announced on Monday 8 November.
White Bluff Project artist and printmaker, JP Willis, has been named as a finalist in this year’s National Still Life Award, currently exhibiting at the Coffs Harbour regional gallery. ‘Still’ is a biennial, acquisitive award for artworks in the genre of still life, in all mediums and is one of richest art prizes in Australia with a $30,000 first prize.
A total of 59 artworks were selected as finalists for Still: National Still Life Award 2019, from a total of more than 750 entries that came from across Australia. All are now available to view on the Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery's Pinterest page. They include painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, ceramics, glass, sculpture, video, printmaking and textiles. Alternatively, you can see the finalists, including JP Willis extraordinary work, at the Coffs Regional Gallery. Also, hear Willis discuss his work on NBN TV news.
The Still exhibition opened on Friday 20th September 2019 and runs until Saturday 30th November 2019. Visiting the gallery also gives you the opportunity to vote in the popular People’s Choice Award, giving locals the chance to vote for their favourite artwork. Voting closes on 1st November 2019 and the winner will be announced on November 7.
Photo courtesy of Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery on Facebook @CoffsHarbourRegionalGallery
White Bluff Project artists, Ray Rixon and Phil Greed, are holding an exhibition of new works at the Nexus Community Gallery in Bellingen. Feel free to drop in and find out more about their art, about collaboration and The White Bluff Project.
Experience the creative power of collaboration as you explore your artistic response to ecological and human migrations that are connected by air.
This one-day workshop will include a series of small group sessions where you will be guided by, and collaborate with, a contemporary poet, an indigenous visual artist and an ecologist/ornithologist. You will learn new creative skills, share ideas and understanding, gain a deeper, scientific understanding of natural migrations and explore how to transfer this knowledge into the creative process. Our local coast has been an important seasonal migratory destination for both humans and birds for Millennia - from the migratory muttonbirds to the seasonal migrations of the region’s Aboriginal inhabitants through to modern sea-changers who now flock to the coast.
'Mapping the Air' is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with talented local facilitators in an inspiring location and is part of the Coffs Coast Regional Science Hub Elemental Nature series for 2019, backed by Inspiring Australia - National Networks. This workshop is the Science Hub's major event in Coffs Harbour for Science Week 2019.
'Mapping the Air' is also the first public event for The White Bluff Project, a 3-year multi-disciplinary art and science collaboration exploring and exposing concerns about the effects of climate and urbanization on a coastal ecosystem on the Mid North Coast of NSW. In partnership with Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, the project aims to demonstrate the value of collaboration in developing new art forms, and approaches to creative practice.
Age: 16yrs +
Mobility: This workshop involves both indoor and outdoor activities. If you have mobility issues you may find this event unsuitable.
Limited spaces available. Book Now to secure you spot.
COST: $40 per person
LOCATION: Yarrawarra Aboriginal Cultural Centre
No previous art or science background needed just a sense of adventure.
ABC Coffs Coast radio, produced this feature piece about the White Bluff Project’s first public workshop - Mapping the Air. Hear from our three presenters and discover more about the importance of science and art collaborations. Scroll forward to the 2hr:45min mark on the ABC Coffs Coast podcast.
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/coffscoast/programs/breakfast/breakfast/11410618
