Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Rosie lights up the Range

FROM office-bound IBM word processor in Dusseldorf to stained glass artist in Mapleton, Roswitha Jamison has found a new and more relaxed lifestyle, and a creative outlet for her unique talents in stained glass art. Emigrating from Germany in the mid-80s, Rosie travelled through Europe and India, before arriving finally settling in Broome in Western Australia. [...]

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ARTIST OF THE MONTH – Olga Garner-Morris

A Colourful Life … A TRADITIONAL AUSTRALIAN realist painter, Olga Garner-Morris will be Montville Art Gallery’s feature artist for the month of August Born in Wollongong, New South Wales in 1943, Olga studied at the National Art School for modern art, sculpture and photography. She then embarked on a teaching career with the Adult Education Centre. She became [...]

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Josie in National Gallery

Local Sunshine Coast Grammar School student, Josie Whitburn (above), has been honoured by having her work recognised and selected for exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra as part of a national secondary school art competition. The Headspace10 exhibition showcases portrait art produced by secondary students from Year 7 to Year 12 and this year‟s [...]

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Five SCAP finalists – proving we are a hotbed of creative talent!

The 40 finalists in the national 2010 Sunshine Coast Art Prize have been chosen and the startling revelation is that the Hinterland is a hotbed of creative talent – five of the forty national finalists live and work on the Blackall Range. The winner will be announced on August 26 by this year’s judge, national art critic and writer, John McDonald. The [...]

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Cezary creates the animal within

FIVE REMARKABLE and massive stainless-steel sculptures left Maleny recently for Byron Bay’s Artscape Biennial. The sculptures were created by multi-talented artist, Cezary Stulgis and collectively they are called, Animal Within. Cezary said he won the Artscape commission from drawings for his five bizarre, welded sculptures. He says they are a metaphor for human behaviour. The [...]

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Tom McAulay’s Outback Artistry

WHEN TOM MCAULAY was described as an unlikely artist, twenty-five years ago he wryly commented that this was because he didn’t look like a gypsy! It was really meant as a compliment about his then rising success, and the fact that he had made his livelihood from art since leaving school, and established a reputation based [...]

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ARTIST OF THE MONTH – Ron Cameron

“You don’t need a degree to understand art – the Cave Men did it” RON CAMERON was born in Korumburra in the scenic rolling foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges in the South Gippsland district of Victoria. He was the eldest of six children and showed artistic talent from a very early age. “I was extremely lucky to [...]

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Mary Valley Alive Project

Paintings are flooding the Imbil Post Office for the “Mary Valley Alive” 10/10 collaborative piece which will be unveiled at the Mary Valley Art Festival on July 8. Artistic director Heinke Butt said the project celebrated the elements of the Mary Valley and its country lifestyle. Artists had a colour palette of browns, ochres, blues and purples. [...]

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Scarecrows under scrutiny

Scarecrows from around the Coast have been delivered to the Queensland Home Garden Expo Scarecrow Competition. The 2010 categories are the scariest scarecrow, the most glamorous scarecrow and the statement scarecrow, which is designed to deliver a social or environmental message. The Queensland Home Garden Expo is held from 9-11 July and is a celebration of all [...]

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Arts Retreat Workshops

Drawing Fundamentals with Sonja Georgeson at Maleny Arts Retreat starting on 27 July, is a 9 class term suitable for the absolute beginner as well as those who have done some drawing, but do not fully understand all the fundamentals. Topics covered include: line, space and shape, three dimensions, linear perspective, light and tone and [...]

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