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Zonta Artist profile ……Elizabeth Corfe

2. July 2009

Elizabeth Corfe has been a regular exhibitor in Zonta’s annual Women in Art show on the Blackall Range since retiring to the hinterland in Dulong from western Queensland several years ago. She was very happily surprised to be one of last year’s prize-winners, and another year she sold a painting to a visitor from Dubai, [...]

Walks Festival inspires Photo Book

2. July 2009

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Montville photographer Andrew Goodall has something very special planned for the Festival Of The Walks in September. Andrew has been teaching and sharing his skills for several years, through two books on the art of nature photography, and more recently, photography workshops for beginners. Now he has focused his attention on one of his true specialties [...]

Biolytix Inventor In Line For Global Award

2. July 2009

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The World Technology Network has nominated Dean Cameron, the inventor of the Biolytix Sewage System, to be eligible to win the 2009 World Technology Award for The Environment. The award is sponsored by Time Magazine and is for “doing the work of greatest likely long-term significance.” Dean will attend the award night on July 16 in the historic Time & Life [...]

Colin Beard in your passport…

2. July 2009

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Range photographer Colin Beard has one of his outback images in thousands of new Australian passports. The image is of a stockman from the Victorian high plains bringing cattle down to the Kiewa valley for the winter. Colin says he took the image from horseback in 1980. It seems the designer of the Australian passport saw [...]

Colin Beard - “How I stood up the Rolling Stones”

2. July 2009

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Colin Beard - “How I stood up the Rolling Stones”

Photographer Colin Beard was the founding photographer of Australia’s iconic pop music magazine, Go-Set in 1966. He travelled the world and filmed many of the major rock ‘n’ rollers in the eye of the youth pop scene of the swinging sixties. Colin, a Mt Mellum resident, recently displayed 168 of his remarkable images at an exhibition at the [...]

Grand old lady still ‘tickles the ivories’

2. July 2009

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Grand old lady still ‘tickles the ivories’

For Hilda Keeler, the most senior resident at Maleny’s Erowal Retirement Village, music still plays an important part in her daily life. Hilda turns 99 on August 13, and she is a classically trained pianist who has been a very gifted teacher. Today Hilda’s musical talents still bring hours of pleasure to the residents who [...]

Artist of the Month

3. June 2009

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Judith Da Lozzo - Born to Paint Born in Adelaide in 1971, Judy’s childhood consisted of bohemian treks around Australia with her parents, Louis and Lucette, both accomplished artists. Before finishing high school, Judy was offered three major art scholarships, an enormous privilege for an Australian art student. “I chose to study at Ecole Des Beaux Arts in [...]

Rex Backhaus-Smith “an artist’s journey”

3. June 2009

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Rex Backhaus-Smith has rightly gained respect and admiration from the art world and is recognized as a leading Australian painter. Rex has recently launched a new book which outlines his life as well as his art. “an artist’s journey” is obviously richly illustrated with his captivating paintings, enticing the reader to turn every page, but then [...]

Quilter teaches in Port Moresby

3. June 2009

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Ann Ferguson is a Range quilt maker with national and international plaudits to her name. Ann recently returned from Port Moresby where she conducted two large workshops over three days. She also had an exhibition, called “Feelings of Place”, of her ethnic-inspired quilts. Ann sold several of the quilts which raised funds for WeCare! (PNG charity [...]

Artist of the Month

2. April 2009

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Julie Hutchings Montville Art Gallery’s feature artist for the month of April is Julie Hutchings. Grafton has been Julie’s home since her birth in 1959. Her ambition on leaving school was to become a jockey but she wasn’t small enough. Instead, she married John Hutchings, a top jockey in the Northern Rivers district until he retired in [...]

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