2016 Western Downs Regional Artists' Exhibition Catalogue

BETWEEN THE LINES 2016 WESTERN DOWNS REGIONAL ARTISTS’ EXHIBITION

11 September – 25 October 2016

Cover image: Christopher Rigg Quadrant (detail) 2016 Colour pencil on paper | 109cm x 88cm

Message from Councillor Kaye Maguire

On behalf of the Western Downs Regional Council, I am pleased to

I congratulate all the artists who submitted their artwork, and

officially open the third instalment of the Western Downs Regional

welcome Dr Kyle Jenkins, Senior Lecturer (Painting) at University

Artists’ Exhibition.

of Southern Queensland, as this exhibition’s curator. I also

This year’s exhibition theme is ‘Between the Lines’ in which artists were asked to create an artwork in response to a few lines of poetry, prose or song. I’m sure that viewers will enjoy the artworks themselves, as well as re-living their personal connection to the poems, stories, tunes, writings or plays that the artists have selected as their creative stimulus.

The exhibition includes a breadth of artwork mediums, from paintings, drawings, photographs, mosaic, sculpture and woodcarving, which together show the connection we have to our memories and the landscapes and communities in which we work, live and play, be it next-door or abroad.

It’s wonderful to see the vision the region’s three main art gallery

acknowledge the support of prize sponsors: Foodworks Miles, Australia Pacific LNG, and Sandy Pottinger; without whom we wouldn’t be able to provide such extra encouragement that winning a fiscal prize brings to artists.

I heartily congratulate the Exhibition Organising Committee on staging a wonderful showcase of our local artistic talent and am confident that there’s something for everybody amongst the 28 artworks featured.

We look forward to seeing you during the 2016 Western Downs Regional Artists’ Exhibition at John Mullins Memorial Art Gallery* at Dogwood Crossing, Miles and I look forward to the 2017 exhibition, to be hosted at Gallery 107 @ Dalby.

committees — Dogwood Crossing, Miles; Lapunyah Art Gallery, Chinchilla; and Gallery 107 @ Dalby — have demonstrated in coming together to jointly develop the exhibition each year and to rotate hosting the resulting exhibition between them. It’s even more pleasing to see the leadership this group has taken by forming the

Councillor Kaye Maguire

Western Downs Art Gallery Network.

Spokesperson for Community and Cultural Development

John Mullins Memorial Art Gallery is proudly sponsored by Murilla Hardware Supplies

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Foreword by the Exhibition Organising Committee

As leaders of the region’s three main art gallery committees — Dogwood Crossing, Miles; Lapunyah Art Gallery, Chinchilla; and Gallery 107 @ Dalby — it gives us great pleasure to present the 2016 Regional Artists’ Exhibition on behalf of the entire Exhibition Organising Committee (‘the Committee’).

This year’s exhibition is the third in the new format that truly represents a regional approach to developing and hosting an exhibition that is the premier showcase for our talented local artists. The Committee is made-up of several representatives from across our art gallery committees, and the gallery which hosts the exhibition rotates each year: in 2014, Dalby was the inaugural host, last year Chinchilla hosted, and this year we experience the exhibition in the John Mullins Memorial Art Gallery in Miles.

When the Committee meets each year to agree on the next theme for the exhibition, we have the challenge of coming up with an idea that will encourage artists to create amazing and varied artworks: in concept, subject and/or medium. When we met almost a year ago to work out this year’s creative stimulus, quite a few ideas were discussed. But we kept circling back to our understanding that one of the roadblocks for a visual artist when submitting their work to ‘competitions’ like this one, is that they have to write an accompanying statement which outlines the concept behind their piece. The visual artist’s strength is communicating through imagery rather than words. So, if visual artists and wordsmithing make for uncomfortable bedfellows, then why not allow artists to choose someone else’s words to interpret their imagery.

And so ‘Between the Lines’ became this year’s theme.

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There are all sorts of words out there, and the diverse range of written material that has stimulated the artists in this exhibition illustrates this perfectly. There’s well-known Nursery Rhymes, iconic Australian poetry, Bible verses, hymns, proverbs, rap music, popular music, stories, writings, and plays; ‘the Bard’ and the ever-reliable Anonymous even make appearances. It’s also very heartening to see that an artist has used their own poem as the motivation for their artwork.

We’re thrilled again to see the array of artistic mediums represented in this exhibition as it puts the spotlight on the high degree of skill and talent of our regional artists. It also emphasises why this showcase is so important, and how it brings our communities together in creative and inspired ways, for the experience and enjoyment of all.

The Committee has now taken our regional coordinating role a step further, and has established the Western Downs Art Gallery Network.

The Network’s aim is to increase collaboration and cooperation between the galleries so that we can work together to leverage exciting artistic projects which occur in each of our own towns, outside of this collaborative exhibition, for the enrichment of our region’s cultural fabric.

We congratulate all of those involved in bringing this year’s exhibition together, and thank our exhibition prize sponsors for supporting our communities to be participative, learned and culturally-connected.

We’re confident that there’s something for everybody in this exhibition that features 24 of our talented regional artists and we also look forward to seeing you at the 2017 exhibition to be hosted at Gallery 107 @ Dalby.

Gail Taylor President Lapunyah Art Gallery Inc.

Carolyn Tillman President Gallery 107 @ Dalby Inc.

Corinne Reynolds Red Bay (detail) 2012 | Acrylic on canvas | 100cm x 100cm

Curatorial Essay

by Dr Kyle Jenkins

The 2016 Western Downs Regional Artists' Exhibition Between the Lines presents a diverse and exciting array of visual responses from the regional area by a varied group of emerging and established artists. Collectively these artists demonstrate a vast array of artistic responses to the world we live in.

This annual exhibition allows each participant to have an opportunity to not only interact with each other professionally (through the process of exhibiting) but to also present their individual works to a wide ranging audience for viewing, ultimately creating a creative / visual dialogue between each artist, the gallery and the wider, eclectic and dynamic community of the Western Downs. In this way the exhibition title can be seen as a parallel connection that every artwork holds; on one side you have the artist and on the other you have the audience, and between these lines you have the work acting as a visual bridge to make connections between people on multiple levels, whether conceptually, emotionally or visually.

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Art expresses itself as a grace of the imagination that sweeps over us visually and emotionally.

The exhibition encapsulates symbolic, representative and abstract subject matter expressing the individual approaches and concerns each participating artist explores within his or her practice. To truly understand what is represented in each work, we have to ponder upon the events being memorialised within the surface, not only by the subject matter, but the way in which the brushstrokes or pencil marks reveal the artist’s hand or the way in which colour and texture impact the mood of the work and ultimately the way it permeates into our consciousness. This is what art does. It has the power to pause time as we stand in front of a work and observe, imagining how it came to be, interpret what it’s trying to say and acknowledging the way in which this encounter impacts upon our own understanding of the world. Regardless of the subject matter, style or medium, the art in this exhibition acts as a wave of expression where peoples’ feelings, inspirations and creativity are brought together within the exhibition space of the John Mullins Memorial Art Gallery, Dogwood Crossing, Miles.

Art expresses itself as a grace of the imagination that sweeps over us visually and emotionally. It affords us ‘as artists’ an opportunity to construct things we may not be able to see or say, but ‘as an audience’ it offers us alternative suggestions of what the world is,

Helen Dennis When I Walk (detail) 2016 Acrylic on canvas | 60cm x 45cm BETWEEN THE LINES | 5

Rosanne Steele Pink Rose (detail) 2016 Acrylic on canvas | 51cm x 61cm

what it could be. It is a mode of communication that conveys a form of personal understanding, transcending language yet at the same time acknowledging the cultural, societal, personal and collective experiences that shape the way we exist. The frames, canvases and objects within this exhibition each present what it means to live life and the challenges, joy, triumphs and transitional experiences we encounter.

Participating artists in Between the Lines were asked to respond to a few lines of poetry, prose or a song of their choosing to act as a conceptual vehicle to drive the visual direction of his or her artwork. It is between the lines from one art form (lingual) to another (visual) that slippages of meaning occur allowing interpretation and imagination to thrive. If art is a mode of understanding then for these artists their individual associations, memories and experiences activated by their choice of poetry, prose or song has permitted an extension of themselves beyond the place, space and time they inhabit. In doing so they share a new understanding and interpretation of the world they inhabit through their divergent responses.

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However, when viewed as a whole, the exhibition premise highlights the similarities that emerge between the different approaches to art-making by participating artists. While each artwork maps a personalised response to the interests of the artist; universal themes of beauty, identity and place permeated the entries. This context has allowed all the works in the exhibition to teach us that art reflects not only subjectivity but also inter-connectedness. The visual connectivity that any art form allows is to bring people from varying backgrounds, experiences, and places of the world to interact and be challenged by the artwork created. The greatest strength art has is to empower a person to create something that gives them a way of opening a new window into the world and in doing so allows us as the audience to rethink the spaces, places and objects we see and interact with daily. Just because something is familiar doesn’t mean that we fully know what it is and thus art and the works in this exhibition represent a wider range of ideas and emotions as a collective dialogue between artist, artwork, gallery space, audience, region and beyond.

Between the Lines represents the enormous energy and commitment to the arts in the Western Downs region and is a

The greatest strength art has is to empower a person to create something that gives them a way of opening a new window into the world and in doing so allows us as the audience to rethink the spaces, places and objects we see and interact with daily.

testament to the positivity that art can bring as a vehicle for contemplation, recognition and change. Overall this exhibition asks us to interact with art as a way of finding common ground and celebrate the experiences of the artists through the shared values of the community. It is precisely this ‘shared value’ that makes this exhibition so exciting because it has demonstrated the artistic breadth of artists in the area. In an age where the Internet allows us to leave our bodies and travel visually throughout the world as we click from one page to the next, what art does is bring us back to reality and what is real. It is through such a process that our bodies, mind, memories, emotions and dreams are bound and held within every drawing, painting, print, sculpture, photograph and mixed media work contained within this exhibition. It forces us to not keep clicking and moving quickly from one digital place to the next, but escorts us back to the world of each artist and the artistic responses they create as a way to make sense of the world and in turn, through viewing and being present with the work in the gallery space, to make sense of our own worlds.

Dr Kyle Jenkins

Kristen Flynn Conversation (detail) 2016 Acrylic and pen on canvas | 78.2cm x 63.2cm BETWEEN THE LINES | 7

Prize Winners FIRST PRIZE – $1000 Kylie Drury Morning Tea

SECOND PRIZE – $500 Roseanne Steele Pink Rose

THIRD PRIZE – $300 Kristen Flynn Conversation

PEOPLE’S CHOICE – $200 Please place your vote at the gallery

VOLLIE’S AWARD – $50 Voted for by the volunteer exhibition installers

HIGHLY COMMENDED Roz Brownlie Molten 2 Dion Cross Over the Moon Helen Dennis Watchers at the Gates of Dawn Ian Ferguson Mulberry Carol McCormack Wattle burst, Pilbara Tegan Mehta Bottle Tree Priscilla Mundell Chasm Corinne Reynolds Red Bay Christopher Rigg Quadrant

Kylie Drury Morning Tea (detail) 2016 Acrylics on canvas | 51cm x 40.5cm

Participating Artists Kylie Bourne

Di McIntyre

Carol Bowie

Anna Moeba

Roz Brownlie

Tegan Mehta

Dion Cross

Priscilla Mundell

Helen Dennis

Kim Osburn

Kylie Drury

Erica Paynter

Ian Ferguson

Corinne Reynolds

Kristen Flynn

Christopher Rigg

Trina Hartwig

Rosanne Steele

Patricia Hinz

Kardia Stokes

Barbara Lee

Mary Tierney

Carol McCormack

Catherine Turner

Dion Cross Over the Moon 2016 | Sculpture | 1.8m x 1m x 1m

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KYLIE BOURNE Bourne is an artist driven by a love of colour, nature and the environment, family and friends. She enjoys working with glass predominately and creates artworks that reflect her personality. Largely self-taught, her artistic journey began when she devised a grand plan to blend her septic tank into her garden by mosaicking it with hand cut glass. Over the past eight years, Bourne’s mosaics have progressed from simplistic designs to larger scale works that enable her to create more intricate detail.

CREATIVE STIMULUS From Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree, a song by Marion Sinclair: Kings of the Bush 2016 | Glass mosaic | 67cm x 96cm

‘Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree, Merry, merry king of the bush is he.

Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra gay your life must be!’

CAROL BOWIE Bowie is an emerging artist fascinated with printmaking and working with a range of conceptual ideas relating to the community (people, place and space) and communion, through connections and interactions on a physical, emotional and spiritual level.

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Proverb: ‘The greatest power for good is the power of example’ — Anonymous

Tall Poppie 2016 | Mixed media and collage on paper | 70cm x 50cm

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ROZ BROWNLIE Brownlie has a passion for documenting her life in pictures – these days often via Instagram – and she totes her camera around the paddock every day, and on her travels further afield. She is a touch obsessed with patterns, textures, the un-obvious, and the big skies of her life.

CREATIVE STIMULUS From Digging, a poem by Edward Thomas: ‘Flowing from where a bonfire burns, The dead, the waste, the dangerous, And to all sweetness turns.’

Molten 2 2016 | Digital image on photographic paper | 45cm x 35cm

HELEN DENNIS Through the medium of painting, Dennis’ artworks seek to represent and interpret her interaction with the environs in which she lives. The narratives communicated by her works are designed to be more observational than judgemental. It is the experiences that the viewer brings to the ‘viewing’ that makes the final decision.

CREATIVE STIMULUS From The Watcher at the Gates of Dawn, a poem by Dick Richardson: ‘I am the watcher at the gates of dawn, where there is no eve, no noon, or morn.

I do not think, but float and stare; And of all things I am aware.’

The Watcher at the Gates of Dawn 2016 | Acrylic on canvas | 60cm x 75cm

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Over the Moon 2016 | Sculpture | 1.8m x 1m x 1m

Morning Tea 2016 | Acrylics on canvas | 51cm x 40.5cm

DION CROSS

KYLIE DRURY

Cross likes to create works of art that attempt to bridge people’s imagination with the real world. His interest is in working with robust and nostalgic materials such as recycled metals and timbers. On most occasions, the basis of the sculpture is inspired by one particular piece of material, and then he just lets his imagination run wild!

From Hey Diddle Diddle, a traditional Nursery Rhyme:

Drury has drawn and painted since childhood and after graduating from the Queensland College of Art she continued to educate herself in her favourite mediums of watercolour, pastel, oils and acrylics.

Throughout her life she has lived on the land, raising her family on a mixed farming and feed-lotting property in the Miles District. She draws inspiration from her rural surroundings. As an avid gardener, Drury loves painting the flowers she grows in her garden, often combining them with other objects that hold special appeal or significance for her.

‘The Cow Jumped over the Moon.’

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From Hebrews 13:1-2: ‘Let love continue among you. Don’t forget to extend your hospitality to all - even to strangers - for as you know, some have unknowingly shown kindness to heavenly messengers in this way.’

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IAN FERGUSON Ferguson is a retired painter, decorator and ex-stockman. He enjoys woodturning as a hobby.

CREATIVE STIMULUS From Here we go round the mulberry bush, a traditional Nursery Rhyme: ‘Here we go round the mulberry bush, So early in the morning.’

Mulberry 2016 | Mulberry Wood | 17.5cm x 20cm x 17.5cm

KRISTEN FLYNN Flynn finds inspiration out of self-reflection and trying to fully understand her own identity. She experiments, develops and resolves works through the language of colour, line, shape, space and movement; almost always twodimensionally. Created with her own intention, Flynn always leaves room for the audience’s own interpretation, narratives and interactions.

CREATIVE STIMULUS From Lose Yourself, a song by Eminem: ‘The souls escaping, through this hole that is gaping This world is mine for the taking Make me king, as we move toward a new world order.’

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Judgement Day 2016 | Mixed media on canvas | 106cm x 75cm

On Eagle’s Wings 2016 | Mixed media on board | 62cm x 53cm

TRINA HARTWIG

PATRICIA HINZ

Hartwig has a lifelong passion with art that has been an exciting journey. As a drawer and painter, she uses a variety of mediums including ink, pastel, collage and acrylics. She is interested in representing contentious social issues as it generates discussion and conversation. The ideas of trace, movement and layering are evident in her work, where she responds to the influences of nature and organic patterns. As a style, surrealism also piques her interest.

Hinz has lived on properties on the Western Downs for over 40 years and has painted on her verandah and in the company of friends made through art for much of that time. Through her art, she reflects on life and looks to the future. She is strongly influenced by the landscape she lives in and enjoy the pleasures and surprises that dabbling with mixed media brings. Hinz prefers working with water-based mediums and experimenting with pigments found in the environment.

CREATIVE STIMULUS From Take Me to Church, a song by Hozier: ‘”We were born sick”, you heard them say it My church offers no absolutes She tells me ‘worship in the bedroom’ The only heaven I’ll be sent to Is when I’m alone with you I was born sick, but I love it Command me to be well Amen. Amen. Amen.’

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CREATIVE STIMULUS From On Eagles Wings, a song by Michael Joncas: ‘And he will raise you up on eagle’s wings, bear you on the breath of dawn, make you to shine – like the sun, and hold you in the palm of his hand.’

Numb 2016 | Mixed media on canvas | 91cm x 60.5cm

Wattle burst, Pilbara 2015 | Acrylic on canvas | 45cm x 40cm

BARBARA LEE

CAROL MCCORMACK

Lee was born and bred in Dalby and has always been interested in art,

Over many years of treks, travels and expeditions with her husband, McCormack has explored the Australian landscape. She has continued this exploration of landscape through her art, expressing its many moods and seasons, from desert to coast and from drought to plenty. McCormack seeks to create the ‘feel’ of our unique land’s features and inhabitants – birds, plants, rivers and rocks – using mostly acrylics which travel well and dry quickly.

but has only pursued it in the last ten years. Her preferred medium is acrylic and she is particularly interested in portraiture. She loves being able to capture an expression or feeling or perhaps a mannerism in a subject’s face. Street Art often inspires her. Lee also loves the social aspect of art and enjoys workshops and being inspired by friends.

CREATIVE STIMULUS From The Great Escape, a song by Pink: ‘Everyone you know is tryin’ to smooth it over Find a way to make the heart go away Everyone you know is tryin’ to smooth it over Like you’re trying to scream under water.

But I won’t let you make the great escape,

CREATIVE STIMULUS From A Wattle Poem, by Veronica Mason: ‘The bush was grey a week today (Olive- green and brown and grey); But now it’s sunny all the way, For, oh! the spring has come to stay, With blossom for the wattle!’

I’m never gonna watch you checkin’ out of this place.

I’m not gonna lose you cause the passion and the pain Are gonna keep you alive someday.’

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Broken 2016 | Mixed media on canvas | 50cm x 40cm

Bottle Tree 2016 | Charcoal on canvas | 123cm x 92cm

ANNA MOEBA

TEGAN MEHTA

As an acrophobic, art is a medium for Moeba to express her inner feelings. She loves to work with mixed media; what’s hidden beneath the paint is what is hidden with-in.

For the last six years, Mehta has been the Visual Art Teacher at Miles State High School. She particularly enjoys drawing, painting and printmaking. Artworks appear to Mehta when she is inspired by an image, thought or music, and if she is lucky enough, she may get some time to create these images!

CREATIVE STIMULUS From The Apartment, a screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond: CC Baxter: The mirror…, it’s broken.

Fran Kubelik: Yes I know. I like it that way.

Makes me look the way I feel.

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CREATIVE STIMULUS From Sonnet 18, a poem by William Shakespeare: ‘Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.’

Chasm 2016 | Mixed media on canvas | 80cm x 55cm

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush 2016 | Watercolour and watercolour pencil on paper | 59cm x 44cm

PRISCILLA MUNDELL

KIM OSBURN

Mundell is a mixed media artist living and working on the Western Downs. She lives in a rural setting and is strongly influenced by her surroundings. The colour patterns she observes when walking in the bush often appear in her paintings.

Mundell strives for texture with different media.

Osburn has spent many years in rural environments and takes her inspiration from nature. Her works are created from photos and sketches. Predominately an ink and pencil artist, Osburn is currently exploring new effects using unpredictable watercolour washes and combining them with detailed watercolour pencil drawings.

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From Kubla Khan, a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

From the Life of St Katherine, a book by J. Capgrave:

‘In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the scared river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.’

‘A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.’

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DI MCINTRYE McIntyre draws inspiration from the colour of the land to create contemporary representations of the rural environment. It is when she is ‘at one’ with the environment that she feels the strongest connection to our land and aims to reflect this in the body of work she creates. Watercolours, inks, pastel, and gauche are used to represent the rich colours of the outback. For McIntyre, painting provides a therapeutic escape from everyday life.

CREATIVE STIMULUS From My Country, a poem

by Dorothea Mackellar: ‘I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains.’

Lake Argyle 2016 | Mixed media on paper | 50cm x 60cm

ERICA PAYNTER Through her paintings and photography, Paynter wants to not only draw the viewer to the beauty and diversity of our Australian landscape, but to also remind them of the Creator’s love for this nation and its people, especially in tough times.

CREATIVE STIMULUS From My Country, a poem

by Dorothea Mackellar: ‘I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding plains.’

Ragged Mountain Ranges 2016 | Acrylic on canvas | 65cm x 50cm 18 | BETWEEN THE LINES

CORINNE REYNOLDS Painting is the medium where Reynolds gives herself permission to be free. She began painting in 2002, taking weekly lessons with a local art teacher at Strathalbyn, a small farming town in South Australia. Reynolds gained exposure to many art media, settling on acrylic for its versatility and ease of application.

CREATIVE STIMULUS From Fire Tide, a poem by Corinne Reynolds: ‘Fiercely driven, endless heat, breathless air now stilled, Twilight blends red gold light enveloping day.’

Red Bay 2012 | Acrylic on canvas | 100cm x 100cm

It [art] has the power to pause time as we stand in front of a work and observe, imagining how it came to be, interpret what it’s trying to say and acknowledging the way in which this encounter impacts upon our own understanding of the world.

Dr Kyle Jenkins

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Quadrant 2016 | Colour pencil on paper | 109cm x 88cm

CHRISTOPHER RIGG A coastal childhood and half a life at sea in the Royal Australian Navy has instilled the ocean as a major source of inspiration in Riggs’art. The forces of nature, often abstracted and opposing other elements, are evident in his latest works on paper. With an emphasis on colour, his works are bright and colourful explorations of this theme, using coloured pencil to build up multiple layers to provide texture. Riggs’ has now moved away from the coast with his family and lives and work in Chinchilla.

CREATIVE STIMULUS From Table-Talk, a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: ‘A great sorrow, like a mariner’s quadrant, brings the sun down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.’

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Pink Rose 2016 | Acrylic on canvas | 51cm x 61cm

The Image 2016 | Digital image on photographic paper | 42cm x 32cm

ROSEANNE STEELE

KARDIA STOKES

Steele took up art seriously from 25 years of age and has explored and taught many mediums of art. She likes to paint landscapes, and especially portraits because of the challenge of capturing the human character. Recently, she have been focusing on flowers and enjoying painting in acrylic which enables her to capture the complexity, subtle tones, and shadows of flowers with their never-ending diversity of shapes and colours.

Photography has been a lifelong project for Stokes, practised on-and-off as time would allow. Often her inspiration comes from themes which then provide occasions to practise the art, searching out subject matter and style, but it is not always so clean cut.

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‘… the symbolic matrix in which the ‘I’ is precipitated in a primordial form. It is this image that becomes fixed, the Ideal Ego, from the point at which the subject stops as Ego Ideal.’

From A Pink Rose, a poem by Yanalte De Haro:

CREATIVE STIMULUS From Ecrits: The Mirror Stage, writings by Jacques Lacan:

‘There’s a beautiful, pink flower in my garden.

A beautiful, pink rose that blooms every year.

It’s petals are as pink as the colour of strawberry ice-cream.

As soft as a baby bird’s feather.

It’s smells of sweet perfume, And the scent of clean clothes.’

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MARY TIERNEY Tierney is inspired by the Australian bush in all its moods and seasons. A shaft of sunlight between trees, the glint of light on puddles in a muddy road, peaceful rural scenes of farming life – all suit her realist style. Art has been a lifelong joy and now nearing her eighties, she hopes to continue working in a variety of mediums, according to what the subject demands.

CREATIVE STIMULUS From My Country, a poem

by Dorothea Mackellar:

The Grey Clouds Gather 2016 | Watercolour and gouache on paper | 47.8cm x 68cm

‘But then the grey clouds gather, And we can bless again The drumming of an army, The steady soaking rain.’

CATHERINE C. TURNER Turner is an emerging author, amateur musician, and hobby photographer … as she has no skill with a pencil or brush, she figured photography would be the way to express her creativity visually. As such, she has taught herself some basic composition techniques and has a long way to go. But candid images that capture the world offguard are what truly inspires her, rather than over-edited images in this digital age.

CREATIVE STIMULUS From Empire State of Mind, a song by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys: ‘Concrete jungle where dreams are made of, There’s nothing you can’t do, Now you’re in New York, New York, New York.’

Is it a plane or a shooting star? 2015 | Digital image on photographic paper | 32.2cm x 41cm

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Priscilla Mundell Chasm (detail) 2016 Mixed media on canvas | 80cm x 55cm

Acknowledgements Between the Lines Hosted by John Mullins Memorial Art Gallery @ Dogwood Crossing, Miles 11 September - 25 October 2016 John Mullins Memorial Art Gallery is proudly sponsored

by Murilla Hardware Supplies An initiative of the Western Downs Regional Council through Dogwood Crossing, Miles in partnership with representatives from Lapunyah Art Gallery, Chinchilla and Gallery 107 @ Dalby committees.

Kindly supported by Foodworks Miles, Australia Pacific LNG, and Sandy Pottinger.

Photography and file optimisation by Photographers of the Great Divide (Spowart + Cooper) Many thanks to the planning committee, staff, volunteers and artists involved in the delivery of this exhibition.

Copyright is retained by the artists for their artworks and statements and by Dr Kyle Jenkins for the curatorial essay.

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Di McIntyre Lake Argyle 2016 Mixed media on paper | 50cm x 60cm 24 | BETWEEN THE LINES

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