MEMBER NEWS

 Canvas Exhibition, Theme this year is: "MOTHER"

and is scheduled to open on - February 27th running until April 6th.

My appology's I had this listed as a MEMBER only Exhibition, however it is actually OPEN, so anyone can enter.

Canvases can be purchased at the Gallery as in previous years with a cost of only $10- which also includes your Entry Fee.
Just remember to INCLUDE the word "Mother" in the title to be eligible to enter.

• This is an OPEN  exhibition so if you wish to join in, pop along to the gallery or phone the Shop Coordinator or Secretary for information. To become a member contact the Secretary. All details can be found in our "Page Header" or in the "Committee" page in the selection bar at the top of the page.

A HUGE THANK YOU TO:-

 Ron Brooks, Thelma Kirkwood and the rest of the hanging team for undertaking this monumental task of hanging the "Three Well Known Australians" Exhibition. I understand that these panels are very heavy, so job well done ! and it looks very smart too.

and another  HUGE THANKS TO: Colleen and Sylvia.

Our new Secretary and her assistant have been working tirelesely in the office, archiving the mountain paperwork we have accumulated over the years, and updating all the items which we use on a regular basis.

As volunteers, we should all now find it a whole easier to find all those little things that we need during the coarse of a day at the Gallery. 

Hot Weather Notification & Exhibition Update

HOT WEATHER 

Due to the current heat wave of 40 to 46 degrees the Gallery is CLOSED until Saturday the 18th January.

Our Hot Weather Policy for the protection of our Volunteers and Visitors alike, is that we are closed on days when the forecast is predicted to be over 35 degrees !!!

We hope that you are all keeping Cool & well Hydrated.

JANUARY  EXHIBITION  ALTERATION

Hello ALL,  we have unfortunately had one of our exhibitors pull out at the last minute due to some personal issue.

Brian Cabrera will NOT be exhibiting at this time. Let us hope that we can get him back soon to view his lovely work.

In the mean time: 
 Shirley Phillips beautiful Silk and Embroidery works are now in the "Tea & Sugar" Exhibition Room, with the opening set for this Sunday the 19th January.

2014 first Exhibition

Three Well Known Australians

Grand Opening:  Sunday January 19th 2014 at 2pm.
To be opened by: M.P. Mr Tony Piccolo.
Free Entry,  All welcome.

Who Are: the "Three Well Known Australians", in this painting?    




Time for an update (23/01/14)

Opening Day

All went well, with a lovely crowd in attendance. We thank Tony Picolo for taking time out of his very busy schedule to give the opening speech.

Now for a few photos so you can see what this is all about.

some of the guests at the opening

Hundreds of thousands, of Australians have been trying to guess this since 1983.

This is a special painting, coming to Gawler in January 2014, as part of a unique travelling exhibition that has been to galleries all around Australia over the past 30 years!

     

M.P. Mr Tony Picolo with Joanne Hughes
discussing the painting at the opening.

                                           

Sydney artist, Martin Shaw, asks those who see the picture -“Three Well Known Australians”, to attempt to name the three prominent Australians he has depicted in his painting. 

Some of the Year Books

Some of Australia’s most prominent citizens have responded to the challenge,  including our Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who wrote his response to the painting 20 years ago.

All their responses, comments and letters will be on display as part of the exhibition, and YOU the viewing public are invited to be a part of this, by participating in a special historic and cultural adventure, and making your best guess as to who these Famous Aussies may be. 

A VERY small portion of the letters on display

People’s comments have been compiled into yearbooks since 1983 and these will also be on display  for you to view. 
( No doubt there will be a lot of interesting guesses and comments listed)

You can’t afford to miss seeing this very special and different event in the Art World! 
It is curious, humorous, mysterious and entertaining.                       

• This is not the only new Exhibition holding it's opening on January 19th. We will also have another important artist opening her exciting new Exhibition. 

 Shirley Phillips presents:   Dreams and Gothic Interpretations

Close up of a part of one of Shirley's
lovely embroidery work

Silk Embroidery painting

Shirley works with Silk, creating paintings with her machine embroidery.  


These photos only give a small glimpse of her work.

They don't do justice to the precision which is evident, and required in these stunning works of art. Shirley is a very talented Artist.

This will certainly be an exceptional Exhibition, NOT to be missed!

We look forward to seeing you all during the next 6 weeks.

as above

Forthcoming Exhibitions

"Three Well Know Australians"

Opening On: Thursday January 16th, Closing on Sunday February 23rd.
Grand Opening:  Sunday January 19th 2014 at 2pm.
To be opened by: M.P. Mr Tony Piccollo.
Free Entry,  All welcome.

Who Are: the "Three Well Known Australians", in this painting? 

Hundreds of thousands, of Australians have been trying to guess this since 1983. 
This is a special painting, coming to Gawler in January 2014, as part of a unique travelling exhibition that has been to galleries all around Australia over the past 30 years!

Sydney artist, Martin Shaw, asks those who see the picture -“Three Well Known Australians”, to attempt to name the three prominent Australians he has depicted in his painting. 

Some of Australia’s most prominent citizens have responded to the challenge, including our Prime Minister Tony Abbot, who wrote his response to the painting 20 years ago.

All their responses, comments and letters will be on display as part of the exhibition, and YOU the viewing public are invited to be a part of this, by participating in a special historic and cultural adventure, and making your best guess as to who these Famous Aussies may be. 

People’s comments have been compiled into yearbooks since 1983 and these will also be on display  for you to view. ( No doubt there will be a lot of interesting guesses and comments listed)
You can’t afford to miss seeing this very special & different event in the Art World!  It’s curious, humourous, mysterious and entertaining.                         

• This is not the only new Exhibition holding it's opening on January 19th. We will also have Two other important artists opening their exciting new combined exhibition. 

  
 Shirley Phillips   &   Brian Cabrera  
                       present                               Dreams and Gothic Interpretations

Shirley works with Silk painting and machine embroidery, the samples above of her work are just fascinating.  Brian works with wood and glaze, his work is amazing. His work represents visual interpretations of the past, and unfortunately I only have this one clear picture of his detailed work, however it does show his mastery of woodworking and it is obvious that he will have a range of quality pieces in this exhibition.

This will certainly be an exceptional Exhibition, not to be missed.

The Committee look forward to seeing & meeting visitors to our first & special Exhibitions for 2014. 

CHRISTMAS RAFFLE

Raffle value is approximately $200.00 for, 1st Prize. 2nd Prize around $40.00 & 3rd Prize around $20.00

We rely on our Volunteers to donate goods for our raffles and therefore all Values are aproximate, thank you.

Tickets are $1.00 each, they are available at the Gallery Shop or via any of our Members so if you know one of them ask for tickets.

First Prize - Hamper

2nd Prize: Organiser/Compendium

2013 Christmas Raffle will be drawn on the 15th of December at the Gallery, the Winner will then be notified and I will place the notification on here also a few days later.

3rd Prize: Writing Set & pen plus.

We hold only a few raffles per year which help us to continue in our efforts to bring you a Gallery that has regular FANTASTIC NEW Exhibitions, every 6 weeks, which consist of a WIDE variety of beautiful Art work from VERY TALENTED local Artists.


We are a Community  Art Gallery ENTIRELY run & STAFFED by VOLUNTEERS, without whose efforts there would be no Gallery in Gawler.

We welcome all the support of our volunteers and Visitors alike, and would like to wish Everyone "A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON. 

Update:

WINNER, WINNER, WINNER.......

First Prize goes to: L. Rogers
Second Prize goes to: M. Chenaghn
Third Prize goes to: R. Brook

Congratulations to ALL our Winners, we hope you enjoy your goodies,
from all the Volunteers at The Gawler Community Gallery.

Current Exhibitions & Openings

November 3rd - December 15th  2013

CHRISTMAS  PRESENTS:-  suitable  for  ANYONE  in  your  FAMILY,  from  Children  to  Adult.    

 ALL ART IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT VERY REASONABLE PRICES.

Upstairs:

The Overland  & Ghan  - Exhibition Room 

Title: "Members Exhibition" By: Current Members

             We have a great variety of Art & Artists represented in this exhibition, amongst them are Heather Garfield, Carol Clue, Ron Brook, Lorraine Winchester, Ellen Steyne and many more.                          

There is everything from Abstract & Realism done in Acrylic, Oils, Watercolour & Textiles. There is a fantastic variety of technique & styles and sizes to choose from.

Downstairs:

Red Hen - Exhibition Room

Title: "Pete's Drums & More" By: Peter Thompson

Pete makes the most fantastic drums from pig skins and new & recycled materials, he is also a very good artist painting Abstract in Oils, so come along and see the variety of work that he produses. Again these would make great gifts.

 Downstairs:

Tea & Sugar  - Exhibition Room

Title: "Our Christmas Shop"  By: members who regularly sell their work in our Gallery Shop.

This year we have a great variety of small & medium gift lines available for Children & young Pre-Teens, as we have had a lot of requests for such items.

We have Christmas cards by several of our clever Artisans. Christmas cake covers to keep you lovely cakes fresh, by Laura & other Xmas themed pieces including paintings of lovely Snowmen by Thelma Kirkwood.

 We have also got Childrens paintings, Child Bracelets & Earrings, (also some with Xmas themes), by Dianne Vagg.   Hand Puppets by Colleen, Gorgeous Owl Cushions by Joanne and Key hanging Plaques by RonBrook.

There is a lot of otherTextile work, also by several Artists, gift/greeting cards, other Jewellery for adults includes - regular & modern resin, and much more.

Our Main Shop

has many Paintings, Pottery, Jewellery, wooden beads & much more, ALL suitable as Christmas Gifts.
Look under Shop News for more Fantastic Christmas Information.

Don't forget to come and visit us soon, while there are still lots of choices available

Gallery News

We now have a  comments  section for you so please feel free to leave us a message.  Note: you need to go into the "News Archive" on the left of screen, select the Month, then select a Heading, the comments start as from November 2013. Many thanks for your interest management.

A.G.M

The 2013 A.G.M ran smoothly, with all committee members standing down & the New Committee being chosen, accepted & seconded into the minutes, following the reading of  the 2012 minutes, and reports from the outgoing committee.
I am pleased to convey that the incoming committee members for 2014 are as follows:
President - Mr Ron Brook,  No Email available.
Vice President & Roster Manager - Joanne Hughes, Email: kenjo@internode.on.net
Treasurer - Ellen Steyne, Email; estyne@bigpond.com
Secretary -  Colleen Gates, Email; gordon.gates@hotmail.com
Publicity Officer - Judy Ferguson, Email; dfe44720@bigpond.net.au
Shop Manager  & Blog - Dianne Vagg, Email; djvagg@bigpond.net.au
Exhibition Program Coordinator/Curator & Face Book - Thelma Kirkwood, Email; atkirk@bigpond.comEmail; 
Gawler Health Service (GHS) Coordinator - Sue Olds, Email; crolds@bigpond.com
Extra Committee Member - Mrs Sylvia Bolding, who has kindly agreed to be minute taker & assist the Secretary.

Out going Committee

On behalf of ALL Gallery members I would like to say a BIG thank you to all our retiring Committee members for doing such a great job during 2013, with special thanks to long standing David Arandle who did a wonderful job managing many roles, squeezing them in with his very busy private life.
David was not only our Secretary, but also, managed Hanging of Exhibitions, Membership Renewal, Organising & sending out Exhibition Invitations, was Editor of our Newsletter & also implemented & ran both Web site & Blog pages which were linked. Now that he has stood down David has reorganised these pages to make it easier for us all to follow.
We now just have the Blog which he has also given a face lift with a fresh new look which is much more inviting to the public and easier to read.

Shrouded in Blue

For All on the outgoing Committee, it has been very busy all year, making improvements to our lovely Gallery. Early in the year the whole building received a face lift both inside & out, with a few hiccups along the way. With the building maintenance program we were shrouded in blue for around 4 weeks while the Roof was replaced & the Walls pressure washed.

small section of Shop

All has since been sorted and we moved on to creating an office upstairs which meant that we have been able to make the Shop much less crowded & a much nicer place for the public to come into.
With a lot of hard work from a lot of people we have been able to ensure that the Gallery's sales in all areas is up from last year. This is despite the fact that initially exhibition sales were down and both shop sales and visitor entry numbers into the shop had been well down early in the year.

set up of Stall

With all the new improvements our visitor numbers into the shop increased substantially again. We also ran a stall, more or less a last minute thing which we were invited to do by "The Heritage Cafe" as part of their opening activities.
  We placed one of our sandwich board signs down near the Lions Markets entry, which brought a lot of people up to the Gallery, having a good look around. There was a lot of great feed back that day & most people had still not realised that there was a Gallery here.

PUBLICITY

There have been a number of people making an extra effort to spread the word about our beautiful Gallery,  as well as our appointed Publicity Officer, Joanne Hughes, who did a Brilliant job of getting us into the local papers no less than 52 times this year.

M.P. Tony Picollo's Window

These include: the Bunyip, Messenger & Tony Picollos's own Newsletter, & on the Council Web site. Two Radio Stations at both Kapunda & Salisbury every 6 weeks.  Kerry Barret sent the photos in to the Art &  Social pages for us too.
Joanne also organised mini exhibitions set up in M.P Tony Picollo's Office window, we had good mention in the SALA magazine & were involved in the Gawler Art Trail with 8 other venues, which was a first for the town and I believe very successful.
Thelma has been looking after the Gallery's Face Book page, and with increasing posts & information throughout the year has managed to build our "Likers" ( which are people who are following what we do) up from the low 40's to now 107 with interest on the up & up. Well done Thelma and good luck with next years continued successes. https://www.facebook.com/GawlerCommunityGallery?fref=ts   
Myself (Dianne) have been writing up the Blog, then "sharing" it to Face Book & Google pages, also on my Art page. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Priity-Bits-Jewellery-Life-Style-Art/363149350478723?ref=hl  and our Amity page,  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Amity-6-Friends-Art-Adelaide/532249873498617?ref=hl    I have also managed to get information on another Face Book page called "Gawler Happenings" which promotes all things going on around Gawler, they have been most supportive.  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gawler-Happenings/348637148483781?fref=ts
The last page I found is one called "Around You.com" this is an Australia wide web page which promotes all sorts of things, you simply select the State & the town you want and choose a subject you wish to see or visit, to find out what is on in that area on any given wee, having first put in your post code.  (It is great for both locals & tourists alike.) I recommend you go and have a look at this one.  http://www.aroundyou.com.au/adelaide/north-adelaide/
We also periodically share information with Clare Rotary,  https://www.facebook.com/ClareRotaryArtExhibition?fref=ts   Kapunda Gallery, via Maxine Donald, who has been involved with our Gallery in the past.                Port Community Art centre at Port Adelaide,               https://www.facebook.com/pages/Port-Community-Arts-Centre/104390476293802?fref=ts   &  The General store Community Art Group at MtBarker.    https://www.facebook.com/GeneralStoreCommunityArtGroupInc?hc_location=timeline

So you see we are spreading the word far and wide to promote your Gallery and wonderful Art works.

Happy Reading, good night I will see you all soon, cheers Dianne.