Gallery News

EASTER RAFFLE

FIRST  PRIZE

   A BIG Easter Bunny Nest

  has LOADS of goodies 

   for the WHOLE Family.

                               Tickets are only $1.00 each.  

SECOND  PRIZE

Pop into the Gallery and get your ticket this week or next.

   Our Raffle will be drawn 2pm on Thursday 13th April. 

Just so you can pick it up and enjoy all that Yumminess over Easter.

THIRD PRIZE                                      

And a HUGE Thank You to all the Volunteers who donated Items for this Raffle.

All our efforts in raising funds is to support the Gallerys ongoing costs.

Planning Ahead for 2014

So you can get a head start here are some dates to keep in mind.
HISTORY WEEK in South Australia is from: 1st to 31st May.  http://abouttime.sa.gov.au

April 10th will see the opening for the next round of Exhibitions at the Gawler Community Gallery which is going to incorporate HISTORY WEEK, so I hope you have your drawings done and are in full swing getting ready for this one. Enrties Close on 27th March. NOT LONG!!

Our appologies however we will be closed 2 Friday's in a row this year due to the following Public Holiays.

COMING CLOSURES:  GOOD FRIDAY 18th April,  and ANZAC DAY 25th April
I must apologise , we WILL be OPEN on ANZAC day 25th April!!!

FRAMER DAVE: Due visits are: the 2nd Saturday each Month from 11am -12noon

SALA 2014 is running from: Ausust 1st to 24th.    http://www.salainc.com.au

GAWLER SHOW: August 30th and 31st.  Enter the Art Section. It is a little early yet for entry information to be available but keep it in mind.

Openings

Three Openings Today 9th March

Joanne giving Opening Speeches,
to her left is Glenys Leske.

This afternoon saw us Celebrate Colleen Gates First SOLO Exhibition Opening, "Across The Years", as well as Glenys Leske's Textiles and the Members "Mother" themed 'Within The Square' Exhbitions.

It was a hot 35 degree afternoon which kept numbers down a little, however we still had a good turnout and everyone enjoyed their wine, nibbles, and the social event.

Our esteemed Committee member Mrs Joanne Hughes gave the opening speech and introductions for all of the exhibitions and providing a little history relating to the "Within The Square" exhibitions over the lst three years, and telling us that Glenys is from the Berri region. She has come a long distance to share he wonderful work with us.

Some of our guests today

Glenys with her Textile work
 and some visitors to the Gallery

 Glenys then gave us a little insight into how she came to be making such beautiful pieces of very detailed and realistic textile work, which everyone is admiring so much.


There have already been several comments in our visitor book stating just how Stunning and creative her work is.

Colleen with Some of her Elephants

Colleen, A long time valued Member of the Gawler Community Gallery just soaked up the occasion, she has been painting in several medium for 15 years or more, telling us that her preference these days is for Watercolour.
Colleen has a special connection to Elephants and her paintings are a must see. She loves her African wildlife in particular, but seems to be able to turn a hand to pretty much any subject. We all enjoyed discussing with her  how much our work changes and grows over time.

A small selection of our "Mother" Themed Art,
and a few Opening guests

The "Mother" exhibition is also attracting a lot of attention and as a members exhibition it is so very bright and cheery. It is exciting to see the variety of subject matter in this room, it is quite astounding given that the title of each work's requirement was to include the word Mother in the title.

Current Exhibitions

Openings: 

for this months round of Exhibitions will be held on Sunday the 9th of March.
I hope you enjoy the small sample of artwork I have selected here.

Upstairs: 

Overland and Ghan Exhibition Rooms: Glenys Leske. 
No title as such: Landscapes, Art Quilts and Portraits

Glenys is a well known Textile Artist from Berri. She is a foundation member of the "Riverland Textile Artists" and a member of the Embroiderers Guild of SA as well as the SA Lace Guild. She has produced the most exquisite Australian landscapes in machine embroidery textiles, as well as quilts, traditional lace, felting and lead lighting.

 A very talented and eclectic artist, it will be a rewarding experience to see her beautiful work.  

The Photo on the right above is a close up showing you the imense amount of detail that Glenys needs to provide a look of realism in her Art work.

  Below,showing two different method of Textile work.

Downstairs:

Red Hen Exhibition Room:

Title: Within the Square- theme is "Mother" 
Each canvas is 30cms square and the Title MUST contain the word 'Mother'. 
This has not proven to be such a challenge as we initially thought. 

 As Colleen said; "People have wonderful ways of expressing the word Mother".

This year there is a prize for the People's Choice winner. Come along and vote for your favourite piece.

We have also been lucky enough  to have the "Adelaide Plains Poets" group come in, as they did last year to write a poem about one of the "Mother" Themed Canvases. These poems will be placed under the paintings which they were written about. You are invited to read them and we hope that you enjoy them also.  

  Downstairs:

Tea and Sugar Exhibition Room: Colleen Gates- an original member of our Gallery.
Title: "Across the Years".  A retro exhibition. 
This is Colleen's First Solo Exhibition. She has held many shared ones over the years and is a very accomplished artist.
Her range of ability covers, Watercolour, Oil and Acrylic, with a definite preference for Watercolour currently.

Colleen has the ability to work "Abstract" as well as "Realism", not everyone can do this and I am amongst them.

She is displaying a variety of her older works this time and you will be treated to a wonderful range of topic in her artwork which is always beautiful in its own right as well as beautifully presented.

Her most popularly purchased pieces in recent years have been her elephants, but I am given to understand there will not be many of those this time.

Definitely a must see 

as are all our Exhibitions this time.

The Gawler Community Gallery Inc.: ENTRY Forms

The Gawler Community Gallery Inc.: ENTRY Forms: Entry forms are now available here.    You will be able to download and enter exhibitions of your choice at  The Gawler Community G...

Shop & Gallery Events

EASTER:

is going to be here before we know it, as usual the year is starting to fly by.

We would like to have an Easter Raffle and would appreciate any appropriate donations to start coming in now.
It would be good to have our prizes sorted well beforehand this year. Once packed they will not be added to.
Depending on donations we may have more than one prize.
Please don't hesitate to contact the Shop Coordinator Dianne Vagg on 82588562 with any queries or donations.

GALLERY COOK BOOK.

Colleen is accepting Members Favourite Recipe's for this along with a good quality jpeg photo, of one of your favourite individual art pieces to be diplayed in a cook book.
We will be producing this for sale for Mother's Day. (Price to be announced once everything is finalized)
It would be lovely if you can all get on board with this as it will be a good promotion for the Gallery, and make a lovely gift.
 I would like to thank those who have already sent theirs in, Colleen is very pleased with the response so far.

The Gawler Community Gallery is 7 years old this year,

and we are constantly looking at ways to improve the Gallery and our Profile in the Community.
The more we can get word out across the State, the more visitors we will have dropping in.

If you have any great ideas;  

jot them down, bring them in to the gallery, attend one of our monthly meetings, (members are more than welcome to attend) phone a committee member, email or post.
We always appreciate input from you our members, for without you and your enthusiasm where would we be!!!

Our next Newsletter will be out shortly and I will have more updates then.

Exhibition Updates

Due to unforseen circumstances;

Krysia Potaczek has had to cancel her exhibition scheduled for Feb 27th - April 6th.  We wish you and your family well Krysia and hope that you can join us a little later in the year.
In the mean time we have been lucky enough to have oure very own talented "Colleen Gates" step up and take over the Tea and Sugar room for Feb27th to April 6th with;
"Across The Years".
I have no doubt that we will be treated to a beautiful variety of Colleen's lovely Elephants and other favourite African animals along with some of her lovely landscapes from works she has produced over the years.

Our "Mother" themed Canvas exhibition:
will be in the "Red Hen" room downstairs and is looking like it is  one not to be missed. It is amazing how people have come up with such a variety of subject given that your writer thought this would be a difficult one for our members, however I am proved incorrect and thankfully so.

Glenys Leske is Exhibiting in both our upstairs rooms - The "Overlander "and the "Ghan", as yet I have no information regarding this one, however will add updates as soon as they are available.

GALLERY NEWS

FEBRUARY 2014- Book your Exhibition Now

It is still early in the year and yet we already have several bookings for 2015, so if you are planning or considering either a SOLO or a GROUP exhibition for next year, now is the time to lock it in so that you can choose the Exhibition Room that you would prefer to use.

There are several "Open" exhibitions throughout this year, so take advantage of this and encourage any artists you know to enter, our fees are VERY reasonable.

There are prizes for the following: "175th Gawler History exhibition" in April/May, the "Photographic exhibition" in May/June, and the "Gawler Art Award", in August/September.
As is usual, Non-members will attract a 33.3% commission on any sales they have and members the usual 25% commission.

"The Gawler Art Award" prize money has been increased this year to a total prize pool of $2,500.  so I hope you all have great ideas for your entries in this one.

Exhibitions with a TWIST !

We are hoping to have the "Adelaide Plains" writing group come in during "The Mother" exhibition (27th Feb to April 6th) and write a poem on the piece of Art which moves/appeals to each of their members. This has been done before with some lovely poems written, and was very popular. We hope  to display some of them with the Art piece they are about also.

It is also proposed that the "Transitions" group stop over at the gallery during their "Bike Ride Tresure Hunt", and whilst there select a painting and do a critique on it.  Just another way to add interest to our activities and help with the promotion and awareness of our gallery's existence in the community and beyond. This one is yet to be confirmed and the date selected, so will keep you posted.

Also yet to be confirmed is the possibility of holding a "Re-use, Reduce and Recycle" Exhibition later in the year.

These will all present some very intersting results, so get amongst it and start producing some fantastic work for them.

Other News

Our Treasurer Ellen has taken on the role of co-ordinator for the Art section at The Gawler Show this year, there will be prize money involved, however I do not have the exact details of this as yet.

Whilst our forever active Secretary and her helpers were sorting, collating and filing all our many, many papers, they came across some gift vouchers with the gallery logo on them.  It has been agreed to re-instate these and they will soon be available for our customers to purchase.

What industrious and clever people we have amongst our members and committee.
A HUGE thanks go out to Colleen, Sylvia and Joanne for the above efforts this last month.

Thanks also to Carol, Judy and her partner Dave for their clean up at the gallery both inside and outside in the garden.