City of Burnie TasArt 09 Exhibition

Paul Gundry - TasArt 2008 Winner
Bowen Road (detail), oil on canvas

26 September - 18 October 2009

Curated by the Burnie Coastal Art Group Inc. This exhibition is easily the most popular local exhibition on the North West coast. Established in 1978, this is the 31st exhibition and it continues to gain in stature and attracts many well-known local and interstate artists. The exhibition consists of a diverse range of two and three dimensional works in all mediums.

In the Printmakers Gallery the Burnie Regional Art Gallery will present a special "theme" exhibition in conjunction with the Burnie Coastal Art Group.

Return to Sender

Jacob Leary
Mig Mass (fragment), 2008 mixed media on canvas

24 October - 6 December 2009

Curated by Astrid Joyce.

Artists: Andrew Harper, Jacob Leary, Kevin Leong, Amy Spiers, Philipa Steele and Fred Showell

Contemporary art practice often talks about a "sense of place", however, many art works and exhibitions too often present this notion as a romanticised relationship between artist and the physical landscape. Return to Sender aims to subvert this concept by asking questions relating to why people escape their 'place' of origin and the effect this has on the wider community. This exhibition aims to explore the migration to and from the state of Tasmania and the effect this migration has on Tasmanian communities - do these people ever return and if so, what do they bring with them?

This exhibition is part of the Tasmanian Emerging Curator Fund, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania (CAST).

In Your Garden - Landscapes by Julie Irvin

Julie Irvin
Shelter (detail), 2007, collograph on paper

24 October - 6 December 2009

Julie Irvin has lived at Circular Head, Tasmania for 20 years and the subject of her attractive prints is the landscape - the natural objects that she finds in them and the designs these elements make.

Australia - Julian Thompson

Julian Thompson
Darling River Under Algal Bloom (detail), oil on canvas

24 October - 6 December 2009

This is an exhibition of paintings and drawings based on imagery from internet-based aerial and satellite photography. By combining the traditional Australian landscape idiom with an atypical vertical perspective, pictorial conventions such as the ascent of distance up the picture plane are broken and familiar themes such as 'the bush' are rendered anew. By accessing imagery from the internet, the notion of 'visiting' is rigorously challenged. Plein air painting and the direct study of nature are deeply embedded in our artistic traditions, as is the value of pilgrimage in broader social institutions such as tourism. By generating landscape paintings from imagery available on the internet, this exhibition will pose questions on the nature of place, what it means to visit and the role of technology in our experience of the landscape that are highly pertinent to our time.
Julian Thompson

This exhibition is the starting point of the new body of work by Burnie based artist, Julian Thompson, well-known for his large landscapes in oil. This departure is innovative and exciting as he finds new ways of depicting the land.

Ha! High Art 09 Exhibitions 5 to 8

October to 13 December 2009

The Burnie Regionl Art Gallery will be continuing on throughout the year with the exciting new series of exhibitions from the High Art series, or Ha! for short, showcasing the best talent from six high schools and colleges in Burnie, Ulverstone, Penguin and Yolla.

Art teachers from the schools and colleges have all been enthusiastic in their support of the exhibition series, a part of the gallery's new audience development thrust. The schools are happy for the opportunity to show to a wider public the work of their best students and the gallery is delighed that this will bring more young people into the space.

"We have wonderful spaces," says Greg Leong, the Gallery Director, "including a large gallery, a smaller rear gallery and then two other spaces which we are now going to use more proactively to involve different people and groups from the community."

"These are the Printmakers' Gallery and the foyer space. Almost three years ago, the Court Gallery was re-named the Printmakers' Gallery and was dedicated to the display of prints from our excellent collection of works on paper. While this is a terrific idea, I think we should expand its use again, together with the foyer space, for exhibitions that are collaborations with the community so we can attract greater, and importantly, different audiences."

School exhibitions scheduled for the first six months of the year as as follows:

High Art 09/5	Ulverstone High School 17 July - 9 August
High Art 09/6	Parklands High School 14 August - 6 September
High Art 09/7	Wynyard High School 23 October - 15 November
High Art 09/8	Marist Regional College 20 November - 13 December