Desert Equinox: Air
Opening Event
10am - 2pm Saturday 10 December Zinc Lakes, Wentworth Road Broken Hill
Bring your voice, paints, sketchbooks, a picnic or kite for a fun filled family day at Zinc Lakes to celebrate the opening of the Desert Equinox Air Exhibition, Broken Hill
FEATURING ARTISTS WORKING PLEIN AIR
Bob Groves and Clark Barrett will be Artists painting outdoors at Zinc Lakes.
Bob Groves is a prolific painter, cartoonist and muralist and president of the Willyama Art Society. Clark Barrett is an artist with many years teaching experience. He is a prolific local painter and muralist. Artworks will be for sale.
STALLS
Alesco Visual Design Course, Robinson College. In the course Salma Peisto’s students have created hand screen printed products with themes encompassing flight including Flowers, planets, birds and feathered headdresses. All products are for sale and money raised is to support the student’s creative industries activities.
Giant Bubble making table hosted by Georgie Watts, Community Workshops, Broken Hill Art Exchange.
11am WORKSHOP
‘Breathing from Within’
Connecting to the foundation of your life through air and sound. An energising 1-hour interactive session with vocalist and voice teacher, Helen Bub-Connor. Commencing at 11am
2pm TOUR THE EXHIBITION
This exhibition is located at different venues throughout the city. Take the tour that the judge took, visiting all the artworks installed for the Desert Equinox AIR prize Art Exhibition. Limited bus seating is available so please be quick to put your name on the blackboard at the Zinc Lakes.
Featured Artists
Bob Groves
Broken Hill artist Bob Groves is one of the featured artists working Plein Air at the Zinc Lakes celebrating the opening of the 2016 Desert Equinox Air Prelude & Art Prize sponsored by the Broken Hill Community Credit Union, Saturday 10 December 2016, Zinc Lakes, Wentworth Road Broken Hill
Bob Groves is a former miner and a prolific artist and illustrator. He is the President of the Willyama art Society, celebrating the organisations 55th Anniversary in 2016. The groups first informal Art Exhibition was held in Sturt Park on May 6th and due to its outstanding successive exhibitions were held. The Willyama Art Society had its first permanent Exhibition in 1962 at the Newmarket Hotel Lounge, Broken Hill. Exhibitions are held continually at cafes, schools and clubs with profits being channelled back into the Community through donations to charities and the Arts.
Clark Barrett
Broken Hill artist Clark Barrett is one of the featured artists working Plein Air at the Zinc Lakes celebrating the opening of the 2016 Desert Equinox Air Prelude & Art Prize sponsored by the Broken Hill Community Credit Union, Saturday 10 December 2016, Zinc Lakes, Wentworth Road Broken Hill
“I have spent most of the last 40 years exploring the unique beauty of the district around Broken Hill.
It has been my good fortune to be allowed to stay and paint on many amazing remote properties. It has also become my own 'internal landscape' and the main inspiration for most of my art.
Standing on the spot enables me to really 'see' the colours, hear the wind and feel the rhythm of life around me. The laser bright intensity of the sunlight makes the colours sing. The huge empty horizon suggests echoes of ancient histories. A moonlit night or an amazing starfield reminds me to appreciate being alive in that moment.
A desire to expand my visual language to better represent the idiosyncratic and humorous aspects of outback life also led to experimenting with mixed media and 3D constructed images.
I have also taught art on the high school and adult education levels, and painted many of Broken Hill’s public art murals. My work has found its way into private and corporate collections, both in Australia and overseas.”
For more information about Clark Barret visit his website at http://clarkbarrett.com/ or Clark-Barrett-Artist facebook page
Alesco Visual Design
Alesco Visual Design Course, Robinson College. In the course Salma Peisto’s students have created hand screen printed products with themes encompassing flight including Flowers, planets, birds and feathered headdresses. All products are for sale and money raised is to support the student’s creative industries activities.
The prices range from $9 for a hand printed shopping bag, $12 for a cushion and nothing over $30.
Helen Bub-Connor
Helen Bub-Connor is a seasoned musician, whose journey spans some 30 years. Classical, folk, world, and spiritual traditions have all played significant influences in Helen’s vocal exploration and composition.
Footage from Desert Equinox Prelude Sept 2016
Georgie Watts
Georgie Watts is a volunteer at the Broken Hill Art Exchange. For the Past 18 months she has been managing the organisations community art space. Georgie has always been into art of some forms and her focus is on fabric, textiles and sewing.
Sample of Georgies work form the Desert Equinox Water Prelude