More pics of our exhibition.

Happy New Year everyone!
One of my fellow exhibitors has sent a link to her Facebook photos, they are of Gathering, our group exhibition last month - last year!

The launch itself.

The actual official opening of Gathering was on Thursday evening.  It was very well attended and there was an excited buzz all around.  As I said earlier, the gallery was wonderful, light and with enough space for all our works.

Thanks must go to Gina, Sieglindie, Brianna and Sia for the wonderful work they did in organising such a large group of artists and for the lovely catalogue.  Well done ladies!

I had sent out the invitation via email to a large group of people and it was very pleasing to see so many supportive friends.  I actually caught up with people I had not seen in a couple of years, so it was even more pleasant.

It was so crowded it was hard to get a good look at all the works, so I am glad we had to chance to be there earlier in the day.
The show is on till Sunday afternoon,

Pre-launch lunch

Our exhibition, Gathering, at the Tinning St Gallery, opened last night.  We put on a lunch before-hand to thank the teachers from RMIT for their work in the years that we studied there.  They encouraged, pushed and generally helped us develop our artistic and technical skills. It was great that so many of our teachers were able to come for lunch, it was a pleasure to see them again.

The gallery was beautifully set up.  As you walked in the door, your eye was taken by the swath of red across the room.  An area of black, white and grey drew the eye, as did the areas with colour.  The gallery space was bright and the curating was wonderful.  Thanks to Phill Dogget-Williams for his work in this area.

There were 24 participants in the exhibition and quite a lot of their work was exhibited.  It was great to see such a high standard, in such a variety of mediums.

Two Invitations

I am posting two images of invitations.  One is for the annual RMIT student art work auction, New Collectables.  I have not attended it before but have had work in it.
Students of all courses at RMIT can submit work to the auction and are asked to keep prices low as there is no commission taken and it is a sale to promote student work.  Apparently many people attend and buy Christmas presents.  Not all work makes it to the auction and is sold separately in back room sales.  This event starts on Wednesday, for the backroom sales, with the auction on Thursday evening.  Backroom sales continue till Friday evening.

The other event is an exhibition of students who enrolled for the Studio Textiles and Design course and either graduated this year (its final year) or who did not graduate.  Many of the students were part-time and have not been able to finish the course before it has been discontinued.  There will be a range of techniques on show.
The exhibition will be at the Tinning St Gallery from Thursday December 15th till Sunday December 18th.