Lot19

Pretty/Ugly: Mixed Media Exhibition
2024-03-09 11:00 - 2024-03-24 16:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
Pretty/Ugly is a mixed media group show exploring the age old question- what is beauty?

Curated by Suzanne Donisthorpe and featuring works by Eliza-Jane Gilchrist, Jackie Goring, Andy Jackson, Bill Sampson, Les Thornton and Rachael Wenona Guy, Pretty | Ugly will contemplate contemporary aesthetics and our complex relationship to beauty.

Pretty/Ugly will be open 11am-4pm weekends: 9-11 March, 16-17 March and 23-24 March *, with an opening party on Saturday 9 March, 2024 at 11am.

There will also be a panel discussion on Sunday 17 March at 2pm.

This exhibition is taking part during Arts Open 2024. We encourage our art-loving community to explore all that is on offer over that time!

* please note, the gallery will be accessible to Castlemaine Idyll ticket-holders only on Saturday 23 March.

Pretty/Ugly: Opening Party
2024-03-09 11:00 - 13:00
lot19 invite you to attend the Opening Party for Pretty/Ugly on Saturday 9 March, 2024 at 11am.

Pretty/Ugly is a mixed media group show exploring the age old question- what is beauty?

Curated by Suzanne Donisthorpe and featuring works by Eliza-Jane Gilchrist, Jackie Gorring, Andy Jackson, Bill Sampson, Les Thornton and Rachael Wenona Guy, Pretty | Ugly will contemplate contemporary aesthetics and our complex relationship to beauty.

After the opening celebration, Pretty/Ugly will be open 11am-4pm weekends: 9-11 March, 16-17 March and 23-24 March *, with a panel discussion 2pm on Sunday 17th March.

This exhibition is taking part during Arts Open 2024. We encourage our art-loving community to explore all that is on offer over that time!

* please note, the gallery will only be accessible to Castlemaine Idyll ticket-holders on Saturday 23 March.

Arts Open 2024
2024-03-09 10:00 - 2024-03-24 16:00
Arts Open – Meet The Makers is an artist run event designed to celebrate and promote regional visual arts on Jaara Country in historic Castlemaine, Newstead, Maldon, Taradale and district. Offering a rare opportunity to visit studios and galleries and experience a behind the scenes, personal look at artists in their natural habitat, discuss their artwork and techniques, and purchase directly from the artist.

A selection of lot19 artists will be throwing open their studios during Arts Open 2024, alongside a mixed media group show in the lot19 gallery.

lot19 artists participating in Arts Open 2024 include Castlemaine Press, Ella Hughes, Jakob Schmidt, Karin Mainwaring, Liz Telford, Simon Dubbeld and Indija Mahjoeddin.

In the gallery – curated by Suzanne Donisthorpe, Pretty/Ugly will explore the age old question- what is beauty?, with works by Eliza Jane Gilchrist, Jackie Gorring, Andy Jackson, Les Thornton, Rachel Wenona Guy and Bill Sampson.

Arts Open Studios runs March 9/10/11 and 16/17, 10am-4pm.

Inkwareny Artists of Yuelamu
2024-02-23 11:00 - 2024-02-25 16:00, 2024-02-16 11:00 - 2024-02-18 16:00, 2024-02-10 11:00 - 2024-02-11 16:00
Delighted to introduce Inkwareny Artists of Yuelamu. This is the Anmatyerr people of Yuelamu’s new art centre and gallery. We are situated three hours northwest of Alice Springs at Yuelamu in the Tanami desert, Northern Territory, Australia.

We only just formed in October 2023 from a desire to assert Anmatyerre identity through art and this is our very first exhibition. We are presenting paintings from almost all of our artists and four of our most prolific painters including: Alison Ngal Daniels, Shonelle Pwerrerl Stafford, Lisa Mpetyan Cooke and Juliette Napaljarri Morris.

In Anmatyerr Inkwareny means ‘honey ant’ and is from the inkwareny altyerr (songline).This exhibition will express altyerr (songlines) of: inkwareny (honey ant); Irrkwely (women); mwelyar (stone curlew); arnperrk (centipede); ankara (emu); yerrakwerr (bush onion); anek (bush potato); anakety (bush tomato) and kwaty (water).

Inkwareny Artists of Yuelamu is self-funded and governed by the Anmatyerre people and artists of Yuelamu.

You are invited to join us for the opening Friday 9th February at 5-7pm. Where Kathryn Coff from Nalderun will open the exhibition. Three of the artists will be attending the opening and gallery sessions over the first two weekends.

The gallery will be open from 11am-4pm, Friday-Sunday from Friday 9 February until Sunday 25 February.

Inkwareny Artists of Yuelamu: Opening Celebration
2024-02-09 17:00 - 19:00

INTERSECTION (Opening Party)
2023-12-01 17:00 - 19:00
INTERSECTION brings together recent work by Bethia Lord, Fenn, Heather Wallace, Lynette McNaughton, Supina Bytol and Virginia Harkin. Works span a diverse spectrum of artistic practice – including printmaking, painting, sculpture and mix media. The six artists have recently completed the visual art Professional Practice course at Castlemaine Community House. All are on a pathway, exploring and growing their creative selves – this is where their journeys intersect.INTERSECTION is presented by the artists in collaboration with Lucas Maddock, arts educator at Castlemaine Community House. Exhibition open weekends 2-3 & 8-10 December, 11am-4pm.

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