Archive for the ‘Photographic’ Category
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Coorabella Studio-photography in fashion
Coorabella Studio is Nyree Mackenzie – creative director, photographer, stylist and producer. Known for producing high quality fashion editorial work as well as numerous campaigns for Tree of Life fashion label, Nyree has set up in the Byron Hinterland taking on local clients such as Colin Heaney. Nyree’s photography combines pop colour with vintage glamour, artistic flair, a little bit of sass and a bohemian twist. Inspired by poetry, love, desire, art, fashion, innovation, red lipstick and music, artistic Nyree is also a singer/songwriter who has collaborated with producer/programmer Jochen Mueller to create their own […]
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Swell Sculpture Festival-Review in photos
Every year in September, the sandy strip along the foreshore at Currumbin Beach comes alive in a visual spectacular of form, colour and movement. Celebrating its tenth year, the Swell Sculpture Festival showcases sculpture in all shapes and sizes made from a diverse range of materials and entices hundreds of thousands of visitors to attend this popular coastal community event. Swell has become a leading artistic event with artworks from both local and international artists and is now the largest sculpture exhibition in Queensland. Director of the Swell Festival , Natasha Edwards worked closely this […]
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Lismore Regional Gallery
Lismore Regional Gallery is the fifth oldest regional gallery in New South Wales supporting the Lismore City, Byron Bay, Bangalow, Nimbin, Lennox Head, Casino and Kyogle communities. Lismore Regional Gallery began in 1953 as a result of the formation of the Lismore Arts Trust. The Gallery’s program reflects the social, historical, creative and cultural aspects of the region. With a collection featuring significant Australian artists such as Margaret Olley, Lloyd Rees, Albert Namatjira, Thea Proctor, Lindy Lee and Kevin Connor and well-known artists from the Northern Rivers region such as Jan Davis, Bronwyn Bancroft, Angus […]
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Northern Rivers Community Gallery
The Northern Rivers Community Gallery is a community exhibition space created through the refurbishment of the heritage listed former Council Chambers in Ballina. The gallery provides a centre for the arts and crafts in the region, with four gallery spaces that can be rented for exhibitions and cultural activities, and a learning centre. All artists, arts organizations and community cultural groups, particularly those in the Northern Rivers Region of NSW, are invited to submit a proposal to present exhibitions of paintings, sculptures, cultural heritage, fabric and textile art, pottery, ceramics, woodworks, jewellery, photography etc. Contact […]
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Curious Art Gallery
The Dance of Life features work by Dianne Smith with works by other Curious Artists. ‘The exhibition celebrates the journey of life with my father Floyd Lombardi and uncle Ray when I was living at the Navajo Trading Post adobe house on the Four Corners of America Navajo Reservation. The Rio Grande ran behind the Trading Post located just an hour from Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. It was early 1950’s and I was eleven years old. I grew up hearing many stories and gained insights into the Navajo culture and way of life which […]
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Earthlings From Outer Space
By Jeff Dawson Not all that far out from Roswell, deep in the Black Rock Desert of Northern Nevada, tens of thousands of Earthlings slip through a portal. A kind of worm hole portal between the default world and their Home, the Playa. Many of these beings are not reptilian, many are not aliens, most do not look like you or me, well, not like me anyway, they are ‘Burners’. For eight days a year they cluster to recharge, then disperse back to the four corners (?) of the planet. Almost blending in with […]
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Tweed River Art Gallery
Coming exhibition Beauty from Nature showcases art by the Scott sisters. Experience exquisite illustrations of butterflies, moths, caterpillars and plants by two of 19th century Australia’s most prominent natural history artists. Beautiful and intricate, this stunning exhibition features delicate watercolours, which form a fascinating record of the lives of Harriet and Helena Scott. Uncover the captivating story of these two extraordinary women, whose love of nature, and tremendous skill in rendering its beauty, enabled them to distinguish themselves amid the male-dominated world of 19th century science. Exhibited are selected watercolour paintings created between 1846 and […]
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The Adobe Creative Cloud
It started with 3.5 in floppies, then CDs, DVDs, and then the Suites era, now Adobe has gone to the cloud. Aidan Carlan looks at the pros and cons of Cloud entitlement. The Adobe Master Suite can now be purchased through membership of the Adobe Creative Cloud, with a 12 month contract that is $62.99 per month for the general public and just $24.99 for students and teachers. The age of app development, and cloud computing is about entitlement, and with the Creative Cloud you suddenly become very entitled. I received my confirmation email for […]
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Eco exhibition to raise erosion awareness at Kingscliff
Coastal erosion is not a geographically isolated event with many low-lying areas increasingly threatened by rising seas. The massive coastal erosion that has impacted upon the tourist town of Kingscliff on the far north coast of NSW has been chronicled into a body of work by photographers Michael Bryant and Tracy Jay. As a participating venue in the Queensland Festival of Photography 4, Curious Art Gallery at Chinderah will present an exhibition of Bryant and Jay’s photographs titled The Hungry Ocean. The exhibition aims to promote awareness of the local issue as a microcosm of […]