Fledglings opening

Oh my! ...I can't begin to tell you what a lovely night I have had.  The 'Fledglings' exhibition was a tremendous hit...all thanks to the Dynamic Duo of Bundaberg North State High School art teachers Petrina Mc Donald and Megan McFarlane.

We estimated about 120 - 150 people attended the exhibition. 

The exhibition was followed up with a pizza party which took us well into the night.  We sampled the entire range of Sauvignon Blanc!  Not bad!!

There was an interesting conversation about the upcoming  networking meeting  with BRAG. Precursor of things to come!

Good pizza....good wine.. great company...great art!!!

Thank you Bundaberg North State High School Yr10 art students, you did a brilliant job!

Thanks for coming Kerry.!!

Till soon,
c x

PS    The image above is of the group artwork created by ths students for the exhibition.  Great work!!

'Fledglings' 2

The 'fledglings' exhibition has been hung and it looks fabulous! Our 'lighting designer', Brad Marsellos has been on the job and the results are gorgeous.

There is an incredible amount of work on show.  The body of artworks produced is a credit to the dedicated and inspiring art teachers, Petrina McDonald and Megan McFarlane.

The opening will be  at 5pm this Friday.There should be a huge turnout for this one day event.
There will be a  soup kitchen providing soup prepared by Bundaberg North State High School catering students....Great idea in this cold weather.
Buskers will entertain into the evening. Entry is free!  Hope to see you there!  Till soon...c x

                                          
                                         A small part of the 'fledglings' exhibition.

Jiao

A large group of well-wishers joined Brad Marsellos last night to celebrate his birthday.  A 'welcome home' to Clinton Cross was also on the agenda as he had been away on an extended holiday, taking in Egypt, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

We dined out at the Blue Garden, a small chinese restaurant in the central business district of Bundaberg.

I was delighted to meet Jiao there.  She was one of my subjects in the 'Portrait of a Stranger' photographic  project that Brad had been running for ABC Open Wide Bay.
Jiao has been working partime as a waitress at the Blue Garden. She has been really improving her English since I saw her last. Apparently she has been attending a Tafe course of some kind.

Jiao Lee arrived in Australia in February 2011. She had come from Chang Chun, a densely populated city in North Eastern China.

Jiao came to Bundaberg to marry her Australian fiance. She has been helping him on his stall where he sells exotic fish at the Shalom markets.

She is an absolute delight. and has the most captivating smile.  I think I will have to do some more portraits of her.

Brad and Clinton's dinner was a huge success.  I was able to catch up with Petrina re progress with the art students up and coming stencil exhibition.  Apparently there is great excitement over North about this show, and all is going well there. 

The students are very lucky to have such a dedicated and enthusiastic art teacher as Petrina McDonald.  She's also lots of fun!

I am looking forward to meeting the year 10's other art teacher, Megan McFarlane in the near future.


Till soon!   c x