Events

RECENT EVENT: Mount Tamborine Studio Visits Weekend: 19 - 20 May
This is an annual event organised by the Scenic Rim Regional Council. Artists with Studios on the Mountain play host to visitors over the weekend. Tamborine also is a place of galleries, book shops, markets, coffee shops and beautiful scenery. Members of the Half Dozen Group arranged among themselves to pool cars or free-wheel on their own. Richard Roper, Director of Gallery Works at Mt Tamborine, was an HDG member until starting up the Gallery and was exhibiting the work of Mike Taylor, a member of HDG, along with drawings by Monique Quarantine who draws at HDG workshops on occasions. Photos below show Wendy, the HDG President, and Tim, the HDG Treasurer, at Richard's gallery and the outdoor sculpture displays at Marks and Gardner Gallery.

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RECENT EVENT: The 'Gathering of the Groups'
This event took place at the Montrose Studio, Corinda, in the afternoon of Wednesday 9 May. The Half Dozen Group of Artists invited other Brisbane art groups that are a part of BVAC, Brisbane Visual Arts Community, to a social get-together and sharing of artworks. This important newly-formed group comprises art societies such as ATASDA (Textile and Surface Design), Watercolour Society of Qld, Pastel Society of Australia, Qld Quilters, Sculptors Qld, Access Arts, Embroiderers Guild, Scattered Arts, Fusions ... It was a very happy occasion spent inside the Studio followed by taking our coffee out under the jacaranda tree and listening to Lyn from ATASDA tell us about her magnificent textile work some of which was passed around for closer viewing. See photographs below.

SOME LAST YEAR EVENTS

The first Annual Lilian Pedersen Lecture was held on 9 December 2011 at the Montrose Studio. Our distinguished guest speaker was Emeritus Professor Bob Milns AM, erstwhile professor of Classics and Ancient History at the Queensland University. The Antiquities Museum at the Queensland University, his special interest, is now named after him. He continues at the University as Honorary Research Consultant, lecturing and supervising students of Classical history - between times of being official guide on tours to historical sites of ancient civilizations. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1997, and received a Centenary Medal and Niki award in 2003. The subject of the lecture was - 'The Importance of Place'

At left, Professor Milns, brings alive images and stories from the Classics, passages relating to the importance that place held in the hearts of mythical and literary figures such as Ulysses, who, like the Half Dozen Group, had longed for the end of wandering and a return to a place called 'home'. We thank Professor Milns for launching this event with such erudite panache!

Members and guests enjoyed refreshments and conversation after the lecture. It was rewarding to see members of other Brisbane Art groups - Sculptors Queensland and Australian Textile Art and Surface Design Association - attending. Lilian Pedersen and the others of the original Half Dozen Group would have been well pleased.

THE SLIDE SHOW BELOW IS FROM THE 'PAINT-OUT AT NUMINBAH VALLEY

The slide show and short video above were taken at the annual 'Paint-Out', this year at the Numinbah Valley Environmental Education Centre. The video was taken when the evening meal was being prepared by Dixie, the chef, with Nereda and Dell as assistants. (If images are too large for easy viewing, try reducing the size percentage. See bottom right corner of your screen.)
'PAINT OUT'' WEEKEND - 29 & 30 OCTOBER 2011 at Numbinbah Environmental Education Centre.
This venue is recommended for other art groups.
We drove there on Saturday morning, meeting at the Centre at 10 am. There was a "studio room" at the Centre where we could set up and leave our art gear. Our time was our own - to wander off in the immediate surrounding bushland with its creek and pond in the small valley just below, or to drive through the Numinbah Valley finding places to stop and draw, paint or photograph. There are two cafes along the road on the way to Natural Bridge, one having a comfortable verandah from which to paint (as long as you buy a coffee there, is the deal.)
Accommodation was in six cabins set in the bushland with three double decker beds in each, with ramp access to two of these cabins. Matresses were supplied but we needed our own pillows and sleeping bags/blankets . A large kitchen was for our sole use. We needed our own plates, cutlery, etc. The cost was only $40 per person plus our own food. It was be a wonderful opportunity to soak in the natural surroundings - the farms, hills, bushland, rainforest and the well-known Natural Bridge (famous for its glow-worms) not far away.
The Centre is marked on the Gold Coast section of the UBD -   Map 46, C17.
Going from Brisbane, the Pacific Highway exit is number 69 - Map 27, L17.
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ARTIST'S STUDIO LIBRARY WEEKEND -   8 & 9 OCTOBER 2011
STUDIO: of Wendy Allen at Manly
Members browsed through the extensive collection of Art books in the Studio, meeting new and old friends, chatting over cups of coffee. It is hoped more artists will open up their libraries for the enjoyment of other members - no matter how many or few the number of books. Every book will have a value for someone - and sometimes one book, one page, one quote or one reproduction can give a new perspective to one's outlook.   Below are some photos from the weekend.