An enthusiastic crowd turned out last night to meet representatives from Artsupport Australia 's Queensland Manager Fiona Maxwell, Australia Council for the Arts' Chief Executive Officer Kathy Keele and Artslink Queensland Chief Executive Officer Arthur Frame.
They had been on a fact finding tour of regional areas, assessing our needs.
After each of the three guests had made a short informative speech about their organistion, there was time to mingle and to gather up some of the promotional leaflets and books and so on that they had bought with them..
I was especially keen to meet with Kathy Keele of the Australia Council Having had a grant from the AC in 2005/06, I was keen to tell her that I had just finished my third exhibition of the works I had made back then. It is highly likely that the Suburban Goddesses will have a few more airings too!
Kathy was very interested in the work that was going on in the Wide Bay area. She was most encouraging about my work too...(I had given her a photo book and a disc and a few odds and ends).
Kathy may be able to come to my opening at the Brenda May Gallery in Sydney this October. That would be wonderful, so I will keep in touch with her.
Till soon cx
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Friday, April 27, 2012
VIP's
I went out to Catherine McCue's place this morning to pick up some digital prints, one of which will go down for the Moreton Bay Art Awards. I will mail it to a framer and have them deliver it to the Community center on the appropriate day.
It should be a very interesting exhibition. Looking back on previous years exhibitions, they seem to get some very good works. Being so close to Brisbane is helpful too I am sure.
It's rather exciting, because Bundaberg Gallery is to have a visit from Artsupport Australia 's Queensland Manager Fiona Maxwell, Australia Council for the Arts' Chief Executive Officer Kathy Keele and Artslink Queensland Chief Executive Officer Arthur Frame. Creative Regions have arranged this for Monday afternoon.
This will be a good opportunity for us to voice our concerns about the many and varied problems of being regional artists, and to find out what sort of assistance is available to us.
One interstate gallery director years ago called me a 'GI'...Geographically Impossible!!!! He did as much to help me as was possible, but it is very difficult to maintain connections living in the regions.
It is really encouraging to see these 'VIP's making the effort to come into regional communities, something I haven't seen before in the 20 years plus that I have been in Bundaberg.
There are many very good artists in the Wide Bay region working away quietly. It would be wonderful to see this recognised and to see some assistance coming their way.
It should be a very interesting exhibition. Looking back on previous years exhibitions, they seem to get some very good works. Being so close to Brisbane is helpful too I am sure.
It's rather exciting, because Bundaberg Gallery is to have a visit from Artsupport Australia 's Queensland Manager Fiona Maxwell, Australia Council for the Arts' Chief Executive Officer Kathy Keele and Artslink Queensland Chief Executive Officer Arthur Frame. Creative Regions have arranged this for Monday afternoon.
This will be a good opportunity for us to voice our concerns about the many and varied problems of being regional artists, and to find out what sort of assistance is available to us.
One interstate gallery director years ago called me a 'GI'...Geographically Impossible!!!! He did as much to help me as was possible, but it is very difficult to maintain connections living in the regions.
It is really encouraging to see these 'VIP's making the effort to come into regional communities, something I haven't seen before in the 20 years plus that I have been in Bundaberg.
There are many very good artists in the Wide Bay region working away quietly. It would be wonderful to see this recognised and to see some assistance coming their way.
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