Summer Fun 2022/2023

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Glasshouse Regional Gallery Explore Excite Ignite Creative Learning Program Initiating, strengthening and growing cultural opportunities within our region and beyond.

SUMMER FUN IN THE GALLERY 2022-2023 Program

"Yamadagai Gimbay Birpai Barray" “Welcome friends to Birpai Country”

GLASSHOUSE PORT MACQUARIE REGIONAL GALLERY Cnr Clarence & Hay Streets, Port Macquarie NSW 2444 Contact call: 02 6581 8888 email: info@glasshouse.org.au web: glasshouse.org.au

Gallery Opening Hours Monday CLOSED Tuesday to Friday: 10am - 4pm Saturday and Sunday: 10am - 2pm Public Holidays: 10am - 2pm

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Hay St Follow Glasshouse Port Macquarie: The Glasshouse Regional Gallery acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands, waters and seas where we work. We pay our respects to Elders, past, present and future.

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Welcome SUMMER FUN is back!

This handy little booklet has everything you need to know about what is on offer this summer.

An exciting program curated for all skill levels, facilitated by local artists, enabling you to explore and ignite creativity throughout this summer.

Be quick these workshop will sell out fast!

On display in the Gallery we have the Dobell Drawing Prize #22, a National Art School touring exhibition featuring 43 of the 64 finalists from the 2021 Prize.

And for the first time the Gallery and Cultural development teams present The Regional Creative Showcase 2022. An exhibition that features a selection of senior high school and TAFE Creative Industry students. This wonderful exhibition celebrates the diversity and vibrancy of local talent within our art, design and creative industries.

The Gallery would like you thank all of our loyal patrons for your support this year.

We look forward to a wonderful summer filled with fun, creativity, learning new skills and making new friends in art.

Warmest, Bridget Purtill Gallery Curator

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5 November, 2022 - 22 January, 2023

On View 10 December, 2022 - 29 January, 2023

$10

per child (parents or carers to attend free of charge)

Grow your creativity at our Glasshouse Sprouts art sessions!

Sprouts children’s art sessions never fail to delight our budding young artists.

Bring your kids to one of our Glasshouse Sprouts art activities these school holidays.

Thursdays 5, 12, & 19 January 10am & 3pm

These fun and inspiring art making sessions are facilitated by local artist Lucy Pascale.

Recommended for ages 4-9

Bookings essential Limited places available

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Friday mornings 6, 13 & 20 January 9.30am to 11.30am

This is a relaxed and creative get together for parents with young children up to the age of 3. Each session is facilitated by local artist Gabriella Domin who has created a fun filled adult focussed art making session.

Kids wanting to get creative can also get involved.

This is a perfect, relaxed and safe environment for the little ones to play and for the parents to have a chance to play as well.

About artist Gabriella Domin: Gabriella Domin is an artist, surface designer and art teacher, living and working in Port Macquarie. Inspired by the local landscape, Gabriella draws on the colours, shapes and patterns of the beaches and coastal flora to create her paintings and fabric designs. www.gabrielladomin.com @gabriella.domin.design

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$25

per class

Friday 6th

PATTERNED HANGING POT Create a colourful, patterned hanging planter pot using a variety of design and painting techniques.

Friday 13th

BLOCK PRINTING Introduction to block printing. Learn how to carve your own stamp to print gift cards and paper wrapping, with a focus on abstract shapes, mark making and patterns.

Friday 20th

COLOURFUL COASTERS Create colourful and patterned ceramic coasters, using a variety of painting and drawing materials, learning different design techniques.

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$35 per class All materials provided

No experience required.

Refreshing cocktail or mocktail on arrival.

If you ever wanted to dip your toe into being creative then this class is for you.

Friday evenings

Craft and Cocktails is a fun filled class featuring some of our local talented artisans. Relaxed and a great place to learn new skills and meet new people.

5.30pm - 7.30pm

6, 13 & 20 January

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COLOURFUL PAINTED WALL PLANTER With artist and designer Gabriella Domin Create a colourful patterned planter pot to hang on your wall, using a variety of design and painting techniques. www.gabrielladomin.com @gabriella.domin.design

“My art and design practice are intertwined and I like to work with many different materials and techniques to create my surface designs, including painting, drawing, collage, block printing and digital design.”

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13 January

HAND PAINTED WATERCOLOUR ABSTRACT FLOWERS With artist Stu Doherty Learn some basic techniques of watercolour with local artist Stu Doherty.

Create vibrant expressive watercolour floral art featuring wetin-wet techniques, stunning metallic watercolour paints and pigment ink pen. Then, turn your masterpiece into a beautiful original card to send to someone special or enjoy your artwork on a wall at home.

“I am currently working on a series of large scale watercolours which combine Australian native flora in graphic hypnotic patterns playing with colour and harmony and reflection.” www.studoherty.com @stu.doherty.artist

20 January

HAND PAINTED DECORATIVE VASE With artist Claire Johnson Inspired by iconography, Greek pottery and mythology.

Learn how to create your own unique vase painted design, using a variety of techniques that Claire uses for her own practice.

“As an artist I think it’s paramount finding joy in the process of making. Embodying an emotion, a passing conversation, a specific interest or even the act of pure mark making in an artwork can be as powerful or as subtle as you’d like it to be.

We all have the capacity to express ourselves creatively, and however we choose to convey it that is important.’ www.clairejohnson.space @clairepony

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with the Glasshouse

$35

per class

Saturday evenings 7, 14 & 21 January 5.30 - 7.30pm

CASUAL DRAW AND SIP Enjoy a casual life drawing experience, stripped back to basics, raw materials and raw skin. This casual class facilitated by Mid North Coast artist Carly Marchment. Enjoy a drink on arrival.

No skill required.

Basic drawing materials provided.

Free drink on arrival

About artist Carly Marchment Carly Marchment is a painter who lives and works in the Macleay Valley region. Predominantly a portraiture and figurative artist, Marchment draws inspiration from her surroundings whether it be colour, imagery or emotion and incorporates these elements into her creative practice. Marchment currently is the owner operator of her Studio Gallery within The Gladstone Hub in Gladstone, where she exhibits her work and facilitates life drawing classes. Marchment has exhibited regionally and has work in private collections. @carlyinart www.carlymarchmentartist.com 10

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$60

per class $55 Glasshouse Members

WET FELTING CLASS with fiber artist Gemma Cross

Sunday 22 January, 10am - 2pm Ever wanted to learn the art of felting? Join Mid North Coast artist Gemma Cross in an all inclusive felt making class and learn how to create a felt bowl.

To create your unique vessel you will learn how to layer fibers using the wet felting technique.

No experience needed (however the process of wet felting is quite physical).

BYO lunch and attire suitable for wet work.

All materials, coffee and tea provided

About artist Gemma Cross Gemma Cross lives and works in the Manning Valley and has been working with the art of felting for over 15 years. With a focus on the unknown and curious, her felted sculptures have varied in subject matter from uncomfortable life study ‘portraits’, to story book characters. Currently she is working on life sized, local endangered and threatened species of flora and fauna. This will be featured in an exhibition with textile artist Freya Moon at the Manning Regional Gallery this year.

A finalist in the Naked and Nude Art Prize 2019 and 2021, and People’s Choice Award atthe Manning Regional Gallery, and a finalist in the 2020 and 2022 Northern Exposure Showcase at the Glasshouse Regional Gallery. Her work is in private collections. @gemma_cross_sculpture GLASSHOUSE REGIONAL GALLERY

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Explore Excite Ignite Creative Learning Program is funded by Port Macquarie-Hastings Council and Create NSW.

The Glasshouse is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW