At first glance it Sacha Long seems improbable five famous living Abie Loy atglass artists from two generations of the MBANTUA one family.
It is now 7 months that Recent works of the Gordon family will be Mbantua Gallery has come to Mornington.
on show for one week In that time we have highlighted some of the 250 artists from the Utopia Region in Central Australia, more recently works of the late Minnie Pwerle.
We will be featuring have an opportunity to exhibit together, so it was different artist s work on really wonderful to have the Wagga gallery curator a regular basis.
For this only, from Saturday June 18th to 25th, highlights from Glass Shadows an extraordinary exhibition will travel from the National Glass gallery in Wagga Wagga to the gallery at Gordon Studio Glassblowers.
Only rarely do we Michael Scarrone select and display so much of our best current work, so beautifully.
Eileen Gordon went on, so many of our clients, mentioned that they were disappointed at not being able to travel to Wagga Wagga to see the exhibition, so Grant and I decided, why not bring some of the highlight pieces to show on the Mornington Peninsula.
Commitments for some of the work has meant that Highlights will only be on show in Red Hill for one week, but you can see from the images shown here that it will be worth visiting.
Highlights from Glass Shadows Saturday June18 25, 10am-5pm.
Gordon Studio Glassblowers.
290 Red Hill Road Red Hill.
Phone 5989 7073 www.gordonstudio.com.au You ve got two minutes edition we would like to showcase the artists Sacha Long and Abie Loy.
Abie Loy Kemarre, a talented colourist, began painting in 1994 under the guidance of her grandmother who is one of the famous Petyarre sisters and a renowned Utopia artist.
Her grandmother imparted the methodology for creating depth-of-field within her dotwork and taught her the skill and patience needed to develop her work.
One of Abie s most coveted styles is that which depicts her Bush Medicine story, as pictured in our advertisement, capturing the melodious movement of medicinal leaves.
These leaves belong to the antywerleny Acacia tenuissima , a type of wattle.
They are crushed and mixed with animal fat for use as a medicinal ointment or soaked in water to make a medicinal wash.
Abie tells us that this particular bush medicine is still made and used by her people today.
After an absence of a number of years, Abie has returned to Alice Springs to work in our main Gallery.
So we invite you to come along and see a selection of her works that we now have here on Main Street, Mornington.
We also have new works from an artist named Sacha Long Petyarre who is one of our nurtured young artists, her work has become very popular.
Sacha paints the wild flowers and was recently interviewed by a TV program in the US.
You can find the link to this on our website, www.mbantua.com.au It is also our aim to hold information sessions so please contact us if you are interested.
If you ve got something to say, or are just itching to perform, then Frankston Library is the place to be on Wednesday, 15 June.
The Frankston Poetry Slam is a chance for anyone to claim the microphone for two minutes and perform a piece that is creative and original The only rules are two minutes with the microphone and content must be family friendly.
The audience will decide who wins the prizes at the end of the night.
Libraries and Learning Manager Kim Kearsey said Our previous Poetry Slams have been enormous successes with performing slots filling up in no time, so we are pleased to offer another opportunity for our creative residents to show us their poetry skills.
The Frankston Slam is being held on 15 June from 7 00pm to 8 30pm.
Registrations open at 6 30pm and the first 20 people to register are guaranteed a place.
The event is being held at the Frankston Library, 60 Playne Street, Frankston.
For more information about this event or other library events phone 9784 1020 or got to www.frankston.vic.gov.au library THE GUILD ART GALLERY Situated in the Craft Village at the rear of the Tyabb Packing House Mornington Tyabb Rd, Tyabb Mel Ref 148 H10 Ph 5977 4399 Open 10-5 Thurs-Sun Public holidays the first week of January Original paintings by award winning artists in oil, watercolour, pastel acrylicwww.guildartgallery.net www.gdlife.com.au 53 161 Main Street, Mornington VIC 3931 ph.
03 5973 6651 Opening Hours Monday - Saturday 9am to 5pmSunday 10am to 4pmwww.mbantua.com.au