Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Pine Lime Splice wins top Coast Art Prize

BRISBANE-BASED artist, Miles Hall is the winner of the fifth annual Sunshine Coast Art Prize. Miles is the son of Maleny residents Les and Rae Hall. Miles has won a $15,000 cash prize and four weeks workshop residency at Arley Farm in Maleny. The winning painting is an abstract called Splice (Pine Lime). This year’s judge, [...]

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Artists on the Green … more often!

Artists come back to Montville Village MONTVILLE-BASED creative group, Arts Connect Inc. have received Council approval to stage monthly art events on the Montville Village Green. Having been trialled over the last year Artists on the Green will now be held on the second Saturday of each month from 8.30 am to 3pm. A diverse range [...]

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Art 4 the Street

Art4place is an exciting new community-based arts enterprise that wants to see more art in public places on the Hinterland. The concept not only brightens our built environment but helps give people a sense of belonging to the community. Art4place is working with artists, community groups, businesses and all levels of government to highlight art that [...]

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Kevin Oxley has “ways of seeing”

ONE OF THE advantages of growth is being able to appreciate different aspects of a subject and for an artist, life experience is invaluable. This is apparent in the works of Kevin Oxley who has the enviable combination of honed artistic abilities, plenty to express and a genuinely different way of looking at the world. A [...]

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ARTIST OF THE MONTH – Ken Wenzel

Still painting at 80! KEN WENZEL was born in Brisbane in September 1930. He has called Maleny home for well over thirty years and has been a major exhibitor at the Montville Art Gallery for nearly as long. “They’ll have to carry me away in a box,” Ken told us. “I find constant inspiration from the magnificent scenery surrounding my home and studio on the crest of the Conondale Range, [...]

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Oxley finalist in Grafton

Hinterland’s multi-media artist Kevin Oxley is a finalist in the prestigious Grafton Acquisitive Drawing Award. The prize is $15,000. His drawing – Eclipse of Survival is in charcoal, ink and pastels on paper. Kevin says, “my entry continues to be about the healing power of art. The warrior within is drawn on to battle against the odds”. Kevin has fought successfully over [...]

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Maleny Arts Retreat workshops

Linocut Workshop with Sonja Georgeson (above) onSaturday and Sunday Septmber 4-5. Learn the basics of linocut – an easy and highly satisfyingform of printmaking, and produce your own original prints.Suitable for beginners. $280 – includes all materials and morning and afternoonteas and lunches. A Weekend of Life Drawing with Lynn Cran on Saturdayand Sunday September 25-26. Over 2 days [...]

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Rosemary Paints to Music

AN INTRIGUING exhibition called Music in Paint runs through October at Main Street Gallery in Montville. Like many painters, international abstract artist, Rosemary Almberg listens to music while working. Realising there is a link between the two art forms, Rosemary has devised an exhibition where the viewer shares this symbiotic relationship. “There will be a CD at the gallery with the music [...]

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Johanna’s secrets from China – Ceramicist Johanna DeMaine goes in search of ancient Chinese skills to give new direction to her ceramic art.

Johanna DeMaine has an international reputation as a ceramic artist and, for almost thirty years, has created luminous works of lasting creative quality from her modest studio gallery in Landsborough, at the foot of the Blackall Range. Ever the student of old and new ceramic skills, Johanna has just returned from a four week workshop at [...]

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Backyard Conversation wins Zonta Art Comp

MCU WERE the major sponsor of the annual Zonta Club of Blackall Range Women In Art Exhibition. This three day event showcased the creative talents of women of all ages from the local area. CEO Greg Stevens said MCU were delighted to support the Woman In Art Exhibition as the major sponsor for another three [...]

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