Issue #13 - December 2014
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SUBSCRIBE HERE Contents - Issue #13 3 From the Editor 4 Recognise Comes to Town 6 Keeping Writers Connected 11 Art Galleries are Fun 16 Haiku Meets Art 19 Book Talk 22 Caloundra Gallery
Cover Photo — A gum tree sheds its colourful bark in the Aroona Park, in Aroona. Shot taken by Mary Barber
Articles and photos are by Mary Barber, unless otherwise attributed. Chris Postle’s art photos are contributed. All haiku are contributed and remain the property of the authors. Please seek the editor’s permission to use any material.
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Celebrating art, culture and community in Caloundra From the Editor Hello Readers,
Welcome to our new
Welcome to Issue #13.
subscribers from Australia and around the globe,
This month, I met Annie Holloway. She lives and loves art. As a teenager, when her friends were buy-
including
ing clothes and makeup, she walked into a Paddington gallery in Sydney and put a layby on an artwork. Just last month, Annie opened Holloway Gallery in Moffat Beach. Take a look from page 11. For writers and would-be writers, we’re bringing
Ana Drobot, Bucharest, Romania Gillian Matthews, Aroona, Australia Margaret Welshe, Buderim, Australia Reece Hopkins, Brisbane, Australia
you the scoop on the Sunshine Coast Literary Asso-
ciation. I met with the President Ian Laver and he’s enthusiastic about what the group offers. There’s plenty of opportunities to meet up and skill up in
A warm welcome also goes to those subscribers who opted not to be listed here. Thank you for subscribing.
the year ahead. Check it out from page 6. This month’s social pages tell their own story. See the next two pages. Enjoy. Mary Barber Editor
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Recognise Comes to Town On Thursday 20th November, 2014 about sixty local people gathered at the Caloundra Sharks Rugby Club to welcome the team from Recognise who are on a nationwide journey. Recognise is a people’s movement to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the Australian constitution and remove discriminatory passages from it. Before arriving on the Sunshine Coast, the Journey to Recognition team had travelled almost 28,000 kilometres across Australia, holding 226 community meetings and events. In Caloundra, the visitors were welcomed by Brent Miller who gave the Welcome to Country and by Sunshine Coast Mayor Mark Jamieson. The Journey to Recognition can be followed at the recognise website.
Clockwise from above: Brent Miller gives the Welcome to Country; Sunshine Coast Mayor Mark Jamieson addresses the crowd; Dale Agius, Corey Costello-Czok and Victoria Malliavas. Both Dale and Victoria are Recognise campaigners, volunteering their time to be part of this historic journey. TAMARIND MAGAZINE
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Clockwise from top: Sunshine Coast locals welcome the Journey to Recognition relay team at the Caloundra Sharks Rugby Club; Darsha Borthwick and Vashti Borthwick, members of the Beetson family; Mick Graham and Carmel Powell, standing and Aunty Betty McMahon and Neil Whiteman, seated, all members of the Sunshine Coast Reconciliation group; students from nearby Golden Beach State School.
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Keeping Writers Connected According to Ian Laver, being a writer can be a very lonely life. Ian is the President of the Sunshine Coast Literary Association and he’s keen to help writers link up and make real progress. Ian Laver, President of the Sunshine Coast Literary Association shares what this group is all about.
Ian says, “If you mix with other writers, you have the opportunity to be critiqued and to critique other people’s work and see what other people are doing. It makes you a much better writer.” The Sunshine Coast Literary Association (SCLA) was started in 2005 as an umbrella organi-
sation to help writers on the Sunshine Coast by offering workshops, discussion evenings, and other events. They aim to keep local writers informed about what’s new in the world of writing. Currently there are about 60 members. Membership is only $35 per annum. Here’s a little about what they do: Front Write Up On the first Tuesday evening of each month, writers gather at the Kawana Library for Front Write Up. Here you can read out your work from any genre and get some feedback. Ian ex-
plains that some people want feedback while others don’t, and this is fine. Getting feedback may be daunting but Ian explains, “With critiquing, like editing or proofreading, there’s a certain checklist that you have to go through, of say 10 different things. Critiquing isn’t criticising. It’s just analysing people’s work.” The Writers’ Competition The highlight of the year for the Sunshine Coast Literary Association is their annual Writers’ Competition which is open to writers residing in South East Queensland.
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Joye Dempsey, Peter Quick, Donna Best and Evelyn Green share their writing at Front Write Up.
There are awards for short stories, memoirs and poetry in adult and junior sections. The awards are sponsored by local community clubs and businesses. Ian is proud of the standard of judging and the quality of the submitted works.
Entries for the 2015 Writers’ Competition open in February and close in May. The awards dinner is held in June and features a guest speaker who is usually a well-known author. The Workshop Schedule The Sunshine Coast Literary Association runs workshops throughout the year. As they are not a funded group, they rely on the skills of their local members for this. Ian is full of praise, “Within our membership and with other groups, we have people who we can call on who are highly qualified.” Two workshops on Critiquing will be offered in December by Steve Reilly who is a published author and teacher of creative writing. An evening workshop will be held on Wednesday 3rd December and a morning workshop on Saturday 6th December. Ian explains that these workshops are designed to link in with Flash Fiction, a short story format of 500 words or less. (Contact the SCLA for the workshop details.) Ian explains that Flash Fiction follows the rules of a short story. It needs to have a few characters, a plot and a resolution at the end. TAMARIND MAGAZINE
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Left: Award-wining author Pamela Rushby, on the left, presented Pitch Perfect, a workshop for writers on how
to pitch your writing to publishers earlier in 2014. Photographed here with Alison Quigley, Secretary of the SCLA. Right: Robin Storey, Vice President of the SCLA, Evelyn Green and Pam Hardgrave at Front Write Up.
Ian’s hope is that these workshops lead participants to exchange email addresses and arrange to critique each other’s’ work on an ongoing basis. In late January and February 2015, the group holds its Summer School at Wallace House in Noosa. Here Jan Bentley, one of the judges for the SCLA Writing Competition, will be teaching Perfecting the Short Story. The workshop will take place on two separate days with an intervening week for writers to get writing. Ian suggests that it is an ideal way to get a story into shape for the SCLA’s writing competition. Getting the News Members also receive a monthly e-newsletter that lists the upcoming workshops and some key writers’ competitions. “If we know of any of our members who are doing a book launch we publicise that. We publicise events around the place that we think people might be interested in,” shares Ian. The Sunshine Coast Literary Association is affiliated with the Queensland Writers’ Centre and often organises a bus trip to the Brisbane Writers’ Festival mid-year. So in Ian’s words, “Don’t be a lonely writer. Link up and let’s do it.” For more information, visit the Sunshine Coast Literary Association website.
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Art Galleries Are Fun Holloway Gallery at Moffat Beach opened just a few weeks ago. And gallery owner Annie Holloway wants visitors to know that art is fun.
Gallery owner Annie Holloway with two works by Nick Fedaeff, a New Zealand artist who is originally from Russia.
From the moment you walk in, you sense that the Holloway Gallery is different. You are greeted by a series of classical images running through a gilt frame. The frown, smile and wink at you. Van Gogh even takes your photo with his mobile phone. It’s all very Monty Python. Gallery owner, Annie Holloway, says she wants the visitors to know that art is fun. “You
don’t have to be quiet. You can just relax down and enjoy the experience.” Holloway Gallery opened in early November this year at 1 Roderick Street, Moffat Beach. For Annie Holloway it’s the culmination of years of working with art and collecting art. The gallery promotes the work of a small number of artists and intends staying with these artists as their work develops.
The gallery is set out as a series of mini-rooms where each
artist has their own dedicated space along with a slide show explaining their work. For Annie Holloway, it’s all part of promoting each artist’s name and their art. She has selected artists whose work she has followed and admired. The artists work in a range of media which provides a variety of interest for the visitors and prospective art buyers. La Chica Alegre, Glass sculpture (5/8) by Juan Ripolles TAMARIND MAGAZINE
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Pianista Amarrillo is a three-dimensional glass engraving by Spanish artist Juan Ripolles.
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It has taken Annie Holloway a few years to make contact with all the artists she wanted in the gallery. This patience has paid off.
Holloway Gallery has an exclusive arrangement with most of the artists which means you will not see their work in other galleries in South East Queensland.” Travelling in Europe, Annie came across the work of Juan Ripolles, a Spanish sculptor and artist. “For totally established artists, Juan would be the biggest name that we have. He’s got major works in squares in Barcelona and Madrid,” she shares. Juan Ripolles glass sculptures and glass engravings cannot be seen in any other Queensland gallery. Forming a personal relationship with the artists has given Annie new opportunities. She first met Juan in Venice where he works alongside the glass workers at the Murano glass foundry to create his sculptures. “But when we went to his studio in Valencia, he was doing these glass engravings, resins, bronzes and a lot of other things as well” she recalls. The gallery also has space for short term exhibitions by other artists. Annie is open to being approached by local artists in this regard. Continued... TAMARIND MAGAZINE
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Sea Zen of Tranquillity by Californian surf artist Jan Alders. Photo contributed.
Reg Mombasa’s work has been a big draw card. Although his digital prints are widely
available, Annie says that “you can’t actually get his etchings or lithographs anywhere in Queensland but here.” Another popular artist with the ‘retro-surf crowd’ as Annie terms it, is Jay Alder, a wellknown Californian artist. His work appears in many surfing magazines. Alma Surf Magazine named him as “The Best Surf Artist of the Past Decade.”
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A young local artist, Kyarna is also
featured. “She’s up and coming, with hopefully a bright future,” says Annie enthusiastically. Kyarna calls herself ‘a child of the 60’s born in the 80’s’ and her work has that whimsical look. She produces fine, detailed ink drawings and bronzes. To make the bronzes, Kyarna sits with a model maker who works from her drawings. Then the model is sent to the bronze foundry in Brisbane. Once the bronzes are cast, Kyarna works with the bronze worker, selecting the final patina and adding light and shade to the works. In this way, Annie explains, she maintains artistic control over the whole process. “There will be a series of her bronze surfie kids, along with a children’s book. They are kids from the sixties with peace symbols and flowers,”
Annie says. It’s Annie’s philosophy that art is for everyone and the pricing reflects that. There are works from $100 to $10,000 and everything in between. Holloway Gallery is open six days Top: Squid Ink, ink drawing by Kyarna. Photo contributed. Below: Bean Surfin’ - Jellybean Boy and Girl. Limited edition bronze sculpture by Kyarna. TAMARIND MAGAZINE
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Aspects of Me by De Greer-Yindimincarlie. Photo contributed.
Exhibition Showcases a Creative Spirit Caloundra Regional Gallery hosts the diverse works of De Greer-Yindimincarlie from 17th December 2014 through to the 18th January 2015. De Greer-Yindimincarlie is an artist, a fashion designer, an entrepreneur, a musician, and an educator whose work combines her Aboriginal heritage and western art traditions.
On opening night, De Greer-Yindimincarlie will perform music from I feel small – her latest and sixth album, accompanied by musician Dave Evans.
Official Opening Wednesday 17 December, 5.30pm Cash bar available. All welcome. RSVP at Caloundra Regional Gallery by 15 December.
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Haiku Meets Art Chris Postle created Caught Out, a lively painting of nuns playing cricket for the Cricket Art prize which is held in Australia each year and sponsored by the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust. The painting takes a light view of the game that is loved by so many. Chris has placed a pair of heavenly hands in the bottom left, ready for the catch. Caught out! Thank you to everyone for the humorous haiku you sent in. You can see a selection on the next page. Subscribers -look out for your email, around the middle of the month, letting you know that the next artwork is online.
Caught Out by Chris Postle. Photo contributed.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST Queensland artist Chris Postle has been painting for over 25 years. He has won numerous awards throughout Australia for his seascapes, landscapes and nature studies. Chris exhibits his work privately and in exhibitions across the east coast of Australia. More detail is available on his website chrispostle.com. Renowned Sunshine Coast artist, Chris Postle.
obviously not about to be caught in slips
The Haiku Pages are offered in memory of Australian test cricketer Phillip Hughes who passed away on 27th November, 2014.
Barry Dutton Caloundra, Australia
63 not out.
wimpled heads as the ball flies high someone’s last over engrossed in the match caught out but not found wanting heaven’s approval
Maureen Sudlow Dargaville, New Zealand
Isabelle Marsden Caloundra, Australia
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Come along to a unique local Christmas festival,
Lights on the Lake
WHEN: Sunday 7 December, from 4pm to 8pm WHERE: Crummunda Park, Wurtulla Enjoy free live music and dance, supervised children's activities (4 - 6pm), local arts and crafts stalls, drumming circle and delicious food.
Santa is coming, by boat of course See the colourful parade of decorated and lit kayaks and canoes on the lake after dusk. For more information or to be part of the watercraft parade, visit the Lights on the Lake website page.
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Book Talk The Hotel Albatross by Deborah Adelaide This month, Graeme Bowden reviews a favourite book. It’s one that he often recommends to readers who are looking for something that is funny and uplifting. The Hotel Albatross by Debra Adelaide was first published in 1995 and was out of print for a long time until being reprinted in 2009. If you have not read it yet it is well worth catching up with now. It is not just very funny but also covers the more serious side of running a small country hotel where both the pub and the publican are such integral parts of the fabric of the town in rural Australia. The central characters are the Captain and his wife, the managers of the Hotel Albatross. It has a wide range of supporting characters who flit in and out of the story. I think anyone who has been in a business in hospitality or staff management will identify with parts of this story. Debra has a wonderful sense of humour and one of her other books which has also been around for a long time, The Household Guide to Dying is also worth a read.
It’s Business as Usual The BookShop at Caloundra has moved to
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Shedding Light on the Past Anne Wensley, pictured left, and John and Janice Groves have written Caloundra’s Lighthouses, a very readable pictorial history. There is both an adult’s edition and a children’s edition.
Anne Wensley says that the dalek-shaped lighthouse on Canberra Terrace is the oldest man-made thing in Caloundra . Here she share some insights into the past: “We all know the Dicky was wrecked in 1893, and after that, they realised that they needed something to direct ships into the Port of Brisbane. “In 1896, they built the first lighthouse in Caloundra. You’ve got to remember we weren’t even Australia then. We were still a colony.” The lighthouse is made out of white beech trees which were prolific in the area. Caloundra, in Gubbi Gubbi language means place of the white beech tree. The frame was clad in corrugated iron. There were only three other houses in the area when the lighthouse was set up. Over the years, the lighthouse played a pivotal part in the development of the town. It was the first post office. The first school was started here and the first telephone exchange, along with a public phone, also began here. Electricity did not come to Caloundra and to the lighthouse until the early 1940’s. Anne says that during the Second World War, Caloundra became important as it was the top of the Brisbane Line. But that’s another story. Caloundra’s Lighthouses is available from The BookShop at Caloundra and Comino’s Drapery, both in Bulcock Street, Caloundra.
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Tamarind Book Club News for November 2014 Tamarind Book Club meets in Caloundra on the first Thursday of the month at 10am. WHERE: The Caloundra Powerboat Club In December, we are reading A Suitable Boy by
Vikram Seth. To join us, go to Tamarind Book Club.
Are You Thinking about Joining Us in the New Year? Go to the Tamarind Book Club to register now.
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Caloundra Gallery A Currimundi Dawn
A Currimundi Dawn by Reece Hopkins.
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Dawn Surfers at Currimundi by Reece Hopkins .
This month’s images are contributed by Reece Hopkins. Reece is a keen photographer from Brisbane who has fond memories of childhood holidays on the Sunshine Coast. He now spends much of his time on the coast, and enjoys promoting this natural paradise through his photography. You can see more of Reece Hopkin’s work on Pinterest and on his Facebook site. Reece can be contacted at reece@reecehopkins.com or 0422 028 828
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Celebrating art, culture and community in Caloundra I hope you enjoyed this issue of Tamarind Magazine. To be sure you receive future issues, subscribe now. Already a subscriber? Then how about sharing Tamarind with a friend. As always, you are welcome to send suggestions or story ideas to the editor. Best wishes, Mary Barber Editor
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