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THE 2012 KENNETH JACK Annual Memorial Watercolour Exhibition
Above left: David Taylor, Whitby, watercolour, winner of Kenneth Jack Memorial Watercolour Award 2011 Above: Julie Goldspink, Morning Mist, 5 Day Creek, watercolour, winner of the Dare to be Different Award 2011
30 October – 3 December Opening night 1 November at 6.30 pm
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ast year at Montsalvat the Kenneth Jack Annual Memorial Exhibition lived up to its promise as the largest and most important annual watercolour exhibition in Australia. A huge crowd of 110 people attended the opening night in the Barn Gallery at Montsalvat. The evening focussed on our guest speakers. Rob Gell was outstanding. In a long entertaining speech he linked geomorphology with art, nature and conservation. President Glyn Clark Lewis of the Watercolour Society, together with the Jack family, congratulated the artists on the high standard of their works. Glyn stressed the need for watercolourists to look beyond realism and impressionism towards contemporary painting if watercolour painting is to achieve its rightful status in the art world. Harold Farey, Past President of the Watercolour Society paid tribute to the vast legacy of the works of the legendary Kenneth Jack (1924-2006). Jane Alexander, Director of the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, judge of the exhibition, entertainingly congratulated all the entrants and announced the award winners. David Taylor won the 2011 Kenneth Jack Annual Memorial Award. Highly commended artists were Jan Martin, Julie Goldspink and Olga Pasedinikova and commended awards went to Pat Winnett, Ron Muller, Tony Weston, Richard Burke, Ross McIntosh, Neil Gude and Bett Collins.
who are financially and socially disadvantaged to obtain a cochlear implant. In addition, the Foundation has assumed a broader responsibility to give hearing generally to those with middle ear disease, and in particular indigenous Australians where ear infections are a major problem. The Watercolour Society of Australia is a proud supporter of the Foundation. Proceeds from a silent auction of Kenneth Jack works went to the Foundation. For more information contact Glyn Clarke Lewis WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA 03 9876 0700 www.watercoloursocietyofaustralia.com.au MONTSALVAT www.montsalvat.com.au GRAEME CLARK FOUNDATION www.graemeclarkfoundation.org
THE GRAEME CLARK AWARD: Dare to be Different Professor Graeme Clark is the inventor of the Bionic Ear. Along with his team they developed the Cochlear Implant that has now given hearing to thousands of people. Graeme, in his inventing phase of the Cochlear Implant had to think outside the square to come up with a way of making hearing possible to deaf patients. He achieved great success, as we all now know. It is this sort of creative thinking he is looking for in an artwork as he, along with his daughter Cecily, select a prize-winning work amongst those presented at the Kenneth Jack Memorial Watercolour Award. Julie Goldspink won the Graeme Clark Foundation’s coveted Dare to be Different Award 2011. The Graeme Clark Foundation aims to ensure that all deaf people can hear and develop their full potential in the world of sound. The Foundation is also assisting those
Professor Graeme Clark
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