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Urlich returns to the stage
Fashion By Tom Doudney IT’S BEEN a quiet 18 years for Margaret Urlich – and that’s just the way she likes it. The New Zealand Music and Aria award-winning singer hasn’t released new music since Second Nature in 1999. Next month, she will perform with her former When The Cat’s Away bandmates Annie Crummer, Debbie Harwood and another longtime collaborator, Sharon O’Neill, at Lincoln’s Selwyn Sounds concert. They will be part of a starstudded line up also featuring Dragon, Mi-Sex, The Jordan Luck Band and Jason Kerrison. These days Urlich lives on a rural property in Australia’s New South Wales southern highlands, halfway between Sydney and Canberra. Although she never made a decision to stop recording, she has been busy over the last two decades raising two children, Ava, 18, and Carlos, 15, with husband George Gorga, and teaching singing in high schools. She often mentors young singers before they
sit their university entrance exams. Urlich said she didn’t miss the limelight. “I quite like being normal. I only ever started singing because I just love it. The whole fame side of it, I didn’t think about that much and it always felt a little bit uncomfortable for me,” she said. “I don’t need to have a high profile to be happy. In fact, I think the opposite is true for me.” Although she has been living across the ditch since the early 1990s, she comes back to play in New Zealand about five or six times a year, usually with Crummer, Harwood, O’Neill and Shona Laing. “It’s always very satisfying going on stage with these women,” Urlich said. “I have known Annie and Debbie for 30 years now and we are still very good friends and we love singing together.” In spite of her long absence from the recording studio, Urlich does not rule out new music in the future, especially now her children are coming
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to the end of their high school years. However, the music would have to meet her own high standards. “I still love singing and performing, but I guess with the recording side of it, I haven’t felt that I have the energy to make it as amazing as I would like to make it,” she said. “I am never saying never but it does take a lot of energy. I just can’t put out anything that I think is mediocre.” •Selwyn Sounds will be held on March 4, from 11.30am-8.30pm. Tickets can be purchased via Ticketek and buyers will be able to prepurchase a return bus ride between pick up points in Christchurch or Rolleston and Lincoln Domain.
OUTSIDE THE SPOTLIGHT: Margaret Urlich says she doesn’t miss fame after her 18 year absence from the recording studio but still enjoys performing on stage.
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My art covers a broad range of mediums, including sculpture, printmaking, mixed media, and furniture and I typically create one off pieces. I’m passionate about sustainability, so where possible I use reclaimed materials. I believe salvaged materials have an inherent beauty that should be showcased. In New Zealand, we’re fortunate to have a rich landscape, that is the envy of many. These artworks draw on our diverse landscape and looks at the burden that society has and High relief sculptures for the continues to have wall by Hamish Southcott. on this beautiful part of the world. Our actions today, have far reaching consequences tomorrow! I sought to reflect these contexts in artworks that convey the present and my hopes for positive change in the future.
My Paintings are Strong, deliberately imperfect, and beautiful. For me painting is emotive, and a great deal of time and thought goes into each creation. I am drawn to texture and contrast, and my process consists of straightening and perfecting, then pushing the paint in a freer, less controlled manner. I find both approaches necessar y, working in multiple layers with each. Tania Bostock has lived in Nelson for ten years. She Textural painting by Tania Bostock. has always had an interest in art, and because of the success of her paintings it was a natural progression to become a fulltime Artist.
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