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previous exhibitions 2012
14 April - 6 May 2012
The Red House Group has had many exhibitions over the years, often based upon a specific theme or another unifying element that some artists find challenging, and others relish. The result is always rewarding.
This new exhibition, titled ‘Nourish’ is all about food. The title has been interpreted in many ways, but food, and our passion for it, shines through. This delectable array of traditional and contemporary artwork will tempt and satisfy the fussiest of appetites.
Over 70 Red House Group members responded to the invitation to submit work. The result is a colourful and diverse mix of art in various media, including paintings, drawings, photography, textiles, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, leatherwork, handmade books, jewellery, collage, porcelain, and glass.
The Red House Group Inc formed in 1994, and is an artist managed non-profit organisation that acts as a focus for art and cultural activities for all individuals and groups in the City of Marion council area and its surrounding region. Over 1250 artists have joined the Red House Group since its inception, so there is a wealth of skills and experience amongst those involved. New members are always welcome. The Red House Group manages Gallery M on behalf of the City of Marion.
This exhibition coincides with the ‘Tasting Australia’ food and wine festival (26 April – 3 May), which puts a focus onto the fabulous tradition of food and wine in SA.
‘Nourish’ was officially launched at by well-known celebrity chef Dorinda Hafner, who has much more to her list of credits than cooking and food anthropology. She is an international TV celebrity, actor, businesswoman and best-selling author with 5 TV series and 7 books to her credit. Her shows have reached over 40 countries and her books have been translated into Dutch & Portuguese.
Reminiscence A retrospective exhibition of artwork in various media by Shirley Ginsberg Many underlying threads inform, influence and shape Shirley Ginsberg’s artwork. She has a great love of combining the textures of different and contrasting materials that symbolise the Australian landscape, usually working in the abstract but sometimes digressing to realism. This retrospective exhibition showcases the diverse range of artwork that Shirley has produced in her very artistic and creative life. Shirley was born in Canada, grew up in South Africa, and made South Australia her home in 1962. After a 32 year career in nursing, she turned to her first love....art. Weaving, spinning and potting were major early interests, but her love of organic form, colour and texture led through craft to sculpture, thus to Art School. She graduated with an Associate Diploma from the North Adelaide School of Art in 1986, followed by further studies in various media including silk painting and Chinese brush work. Shirley loves to put together different materials, both sympathetic to the colours of the other, as well as providing textural contrast – rough against the smooth. Her favourite materials will always be natural – silk, timber, paper bark, talc and leather. “Combining materials in felicitous juxtapositions sets each material off to advantage” Shirley says, “and frequently satisfies my creative urge.” The title of the exhibition is ‘Reminiscence’, and it is just that – a carefully selected display of paintings, sculptures, works in silk and early design, representative of her art life since 1986. Shirley loves to work in the abstract, and is influenced by sculptors such as Hepworth, Henry Moore and Brancusi. She prefers the reductive technique, although assemblage and construction play their parts too. Shirley has been a valued and dedicated member of the Red House Group Inc. since 1994, volunteering in various capacities until she retired (due to injury) from the Board of Management in 2010. She is a Fellow of the Royal South Australian Society of Arts, and more recently has embarked upon a post-graduate Diploma of Arts (History) through Tabor College. Her works are represented in many private collections in Australia, South Africa and the United States.
9 March - 1 April 2012 
Being Summer, this is the season when public awareness of our delicate coastal environment is at its highest. Our oceans are an integral component of our ecosystem. Their health is essential for the stabilization of the effects of climate change. This exhibition, organised by the Save Our Gulf Coalition (SOGC), involves the arts community in creating a forum for illustrative and informed comment against the environmental damage occurring in South Australia’s gulfs. Over ninety artists are participating, working in all types of media including paintings, sculpture, prints, textiles, photography, jewellery and more. The artwork reflects the artists’ interpretation of the beauty, the loss of beauty and wild life, and possible future effects on our fragile coastal and Gulf waters. These effects could be positive or negative, dependant on present Governmental decisions, actions or inaction. Artists from a diverse gender, age and cultural demographic were encouraged to create works specifically for this exhibition; and a number of high profile artists are showing their work. The Save Our Gulf Coalition is a group of concerned citizens that came together in 2008 to protest against the desalination plant at Port Stanvac. SOGC is not affiliated with any political party, and does not receive funding from business or Government. Their objectives are to stop the desalination plants in either St Vincent or Spencer Gulf or any other environmentally inappropriate location on South Australia’s coastline; reduce gulf pollution and to promote storm water harvesting and waste water recycling. The SOGC believe that our gulf is a delicate environment, and is being used as a giant garbage disposal dump for industrial waste, chemicals, surface runoff (storm water) and treated sewage. Added to this (against scientific recommendations and community concerns) is the dumping of enormous volumes of hyper-saline brine as a result of the operations of expensive and unnecessary desalination plants. They believe that this will push our fragile marine ecosystem beyond its limits. “Humans don’t choose to live in homes where chemicals leaking from disused oil refineries and mining operations leach into their fishponds, sewage fills their swimming pools, a chemical cocktail is standard drinking water and mountains of salt overlay their parks, gardens and nurseries” the SOGC says. “Is this acceptable for the marine life in our gulfs?” The artwork in this exhibition not only highlights some of the negative factors affecting SA’s gulfs, but shows some of the unique beauty of our coastal landscape and aquatic life. It is a stunning exhibition that will inspire and inform, and visually reward the most discerning viewer. Representatives from SOGC will be in Gallery M for ‘Gulf Talks’ from 2pm, Sunday 18 March & Sunday 25 March. Free entry, all welcome. Information provided by SOGC does not necessarily reflect views of Gallery M An opportunity to meet and chat to the SOGC organising committee in a relaxed and informal atmosphere. Free entry, all welcome LINKS TO MEDIA INTERVIEWS Interview on 'The Wire' Thursday 15 March Georgia Kelly-Bakker went along to the Save Our Gulf Coalition art exhibition at Gallery M in Adelaide and asked how we can save our waterways. Featured in story Mary-Anne Chenn, Corrie Vanderhoek & Maxine Jones
Denva graduated with a Fine Art Degree from Underdale College in 1986, and further studies have included Graphic Design and Advertising. Her paintings are executed in an ‘Abstract Expressionist’ style, experimenting with bold colour and strong paint application. Her subject matter is taken from life and personal experience. Raw is a collection of paintings that try to define some of the emotions or feelings associated with overcoming depression. Explored in a positive light, using bright colour, abstracted forms and symbols and thick splashes of acrylic paint, Denva hopes to take the viewer on a journey of understanding and awareness.
The word “Raw” can be defined as ‘painfully exposed or sensitive: raw nerves’; or ‘brutally or grossly frank: a raw portrayal of human passions’. It can also be used to describe a particularly sensitive place, point, topic or the like.
Denva’s work portrays energy and utilizes abstractions to explore the different aspects of depression, reflecting the various ‘highs & lows’ of dealing with this condition. “My work has always been highly personal” Denva says. “Raw is an exhibition for the senses. I wanted a strong stylized painterly look to express my experiences and feelings regarding depression.”
The titles of Denva’s paintings help tell a story, and by displaying her work in such a creative public arena, she hopes to help promote awareness through her abstract interpretations.
Denva has been exhibiting her paintings in Adelaide, and Australia for over 10 years and has sold work to private collectors in both Tokyo and London.
Hololujah David Warren has been working in the area of holography for the past twenty-five years. In David’s work light converts the flat surface of the hologram into a three dimension parade of imagery in the theme of virtual worlds, communication and social networking. The main spearhead of his body of art is a nine metre hologram produced in New York, and others made in Vermont USA. This exhibition features examples of his recent work, including full colour digital holograms. David’s holograms were exhibited while living in the ACT from 2006-09, including at the Canberra Museum and Gallery, and as part of the inaugural Vivid Festival. In 2009 he was awarded an artist’s grant to attend the 8th International Symposium on Display Holography at Shenzhen, China where he displayed the nine metre hologram “I Dreamt…” This exhibition will display, for the first time, the world’s longest hologram at one kilometre x 3.5cm, titled “Hololujah”. This hologram explores the theme of Twitter and similar social networking sites and the endless time people spend chatting on them; hence the length. This will be exhibited as unrolled film and viewers will be invited to pick up sections and place in the white light to view the 3D text. David’s work reflects on the way technology has quickly ‘progressed’ to the point where we know and accept that obsolescence is built into every product, and where shelf life is now measured in months rather than years. ‘Hololujah and other holograms’ are some of his observations on all that happens in our personal e-zones of mobile phones, mp3 players, blog sites, on-line social sites and entertainment. “Hololujah” was supported with a visual arts grant from the artsACT Department. MEET THE ARTIST: Sunday 19 FebruaryDavid Warren will be in Gallery M from 2pm, Sunday 19 February A chance to talk to David in a relaxed and informal atmosphere. Free entry, all welcome 13 January - 5 February 2012
Malaysian born photographers Marianne Lim and Dylan Toh see light as the defining element in their nature photography. Without it, there would be no ambience, no emotional connection and certainly no images to make. 'Transient Light' sales price catalogue 
Margo is a South Australian artist and a visual art teacher, who is inspired and intrigued by light and colour and how it can be tonally formed to enhance shapes to create vibrancy and luminosity. |
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