Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

30 year collaboration by three artistic friends

FEW RESIDENTS of the Sunshine Coast realise that the man responsible for Council’s cultural heritage and collections, as well as its library and gallery services, is also an accomplished artist in his own right. John Waldron has often practised his painting in collaboration with close friends, Warwick and Neil Healey for more than 30 years. It is [...]

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ARTIST of the MONTH Montville Art Gallery

Kevin Penny Amongst the Gum trees … RENOWNED rural artist, Kevin Penny is our feature artist for the month of November. Kevin’s great passion is for Australian gum trees or eucalypts as he prefers to call them. “I love the grandeur of the eucalypt. Each knot and lump on their trunks and limbs gives such character [...]

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Rowley Drysdale is … 16 NOT OUT

CERAMICS can present many challenges to an artist – selecting the type of clay, throwing the forms, perfecting the glazes and waiting for the magical moment when the kiln opens and a new work is completed. Rowley Drysdale has been exploring these possibilities for over 20 years and for the past 16 of these has been [...]

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Great Weekend Workshops

Maleny Arts Retreat has two stimulating workshops coming up in November. Reductive Linocut with Sonja Georgeson is on November 19,20. Join Sonja and take the simple linocut method to another level by learning to create a limited edition of multi-coloured prints. This workshop is for all levels including beginners, although a basic understanding of linocut is preferred. Cost: [...]

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Come fly … with Maleny Singers

A trip around the world in song is the next treat for followers of the Maleny Singers. After their sell-out performances of The Merry Widow in July, the Singers are staging a whirlwind tour of the seven continents on Saturday November 26 at the Maleny RSL. Entitled ‘Come Fly with Us’, the audience will join pilot Barry [...]

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MarimbaFest at Crystal Waters

The Sunshine Coast’s annual MarimbaFest is happening again on November 12,13 at Crystal Waters Eco Village, just outside Maleny. The marimba is a delightful sounding wooden xylophone that requires absolutely no musical experience. There will be plenty of marimbas available to play, and aside from the wide variety of marimba playing workshops, MarimbaFest will also host [...]

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African master drummer visits

African master musician Epizo Bangoura comes back to Maleny on November 19-20 to present a weekend of fantastic African drumming and dance classes. To climax the weekend workshops, there will be an evening Africa concert starring Epizo Bangoura on Sunday November 20 at the Maleny Community Centre. Joining him will be a big band of top [...]

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Back of Beyond charity viewing

A classic Australian film, The Back of Beyond will be screened by the Lions Club of Maleny and Blackall Range to raise funds for the Lions Medical Research Foundation. The acclaimed award-winning movie, about Birdsville Track mailman, Tom Kruse, won the Best Film award at the Venice film festival in 1954. More than 750,000 people saw the movie in the 2 years [...]

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THE Window a story by Ian Pollock – Witta

I HAVE retired to the country. Who would have thought? I used to hate the country: all those birds and butterflies fluttering about, animal droppings on your shoes. I was always a city man, loving the action, the hustle, the deals, the dives, the doing. My two sons and daughter run the businesses now. I suspect they [...]

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REX BACKHAUS-SMITH

“An artist with the Australian outback in his very soul” REX BACKHAUS-SMITH has the Australian outback in his very soul. Having grown up in western Queensland and lived all of his life in this state, he has a tremendous knowledge of his country and bush history, which sing throughout his paintings. This personal experience gives depth and [...]

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