Table of contents for Creative Artist Annual 2017 in Creative Artist

Every year we look forward to bringing you our annual edition of Creative Artist. This issue we showcase some remarkable artists including oil and acrylic painters, as well as a skilful photographer whose beautiful images left us in awe of her talent. Our regular Shooting for Art feature looks at animal behaviour and how this can best be captured on camera. We also introduce the International Society of Scratchboard Artists and detail their journey on how the society came to be. A feature we are especially thrilled about, we take a look into the life of Norman Lindsay, whose talent in multiple disciplines of art has undoubtedly made him one of the greatest. In Exhibit A, the spotlight is on TarraWarra Museum of Art, located in the picturesque Yarra Valley,…

Contemporising the modern showcases 50 photographic works that speak of Australia in the 20th and early 21st centuries, collected by Russell Mills and donated to the Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) in 2015. The collection explores the development of Australian photography and its coming of age in a period when photographers were investigating and pushing the boundaries of the acceptance of photography as a pure art form. The collection brings together iconic artists and artworks of the period including Max Dupain, Olive Cotton, Jeff Carter, Roger Scott and Trent Parke. Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre Exhibition dates: 8 July – 27 August 2017 Corner Bridge & Williams Streets, Muswellbrook NSW 2333 Ph: 02 6549 3800 Web: www.muswellbrook.nsw.gov.au/mrac-home NOW SHOWING 8 July – 27 August 2017…

Materials List • Canvas: Jasart Clean Edge Canvas or Winsor & Newton canvases • Winsor & Newton Professional Acrylic: – Titanium White – Mars Black • Brushes: – Jasart Flat Superior Hog Bristle No4 – Jasart Filbert Superior Hog Bristle No 2 – Jasart Taklon Flat No 2 • Faber Castell Natural Charcoal • Liquitex Professional Matte Medium • National Art Materials Acrylic Varnish spray Step One I use charcoal to draw in the shapes of petals using full lines to indicate the shape of the petal and a dotted line to help me identify the lighter areas. Step Two Begin by painting the background. Using the number 4 brush, dip the brush into water and dry off the excess. Pick up a small amount of Liquitex medium and black…

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) painted almost 200 portraits during his career, including 26 of himself and 29 of his wife, Hortense Fiquet. The exhibition will explore the special pictorial and thematic characteristics of Cézanne’s portraiture, including his creation of complementary pairs and multiple versions of the same subject. The chronological development of Cézanne’s portraiture will be considered, with an examination of the changes that occurred with respect to his style and method, and his understanding of resemblance and identity. The exhibition will also discuss the extent to which particular sitters inflected the characteristics and development of his practise. Works included in the exhibition will range from Cezanne’s remarkable portraits of his Uncle Dominique, dating from the 1860s, through to his final portraits of Vallier, who helped Cézanne in his garden and…

The story of photography and photographic processes owes as much to entrepreneurial endeavours and artistic expression as it does to technological development. Precursor technologies included the principles of optics, the camera obscura and the chemistry with light sensitive substances. For example, Thomas Wedgewood showed in 1800 that silver nitrate was light sensitive but there was an issue with sensitivity and permanency, as others such as Niepce had discovered decades later. Niepce’s collaborator, Louis Daguerre shifted his efforts to silver halides, resulting in the Daguerreotype process which he presented to the French Academe de Sciences in Paris in January 1839. This is considered to be the birth of “photography” that changed the nature of visual representation forever. Credit for coining the word “photography” has traditionally gone to Sir John Herschel in…

Matthias Mansen is a contemporary Berlin-based artist (1958) whose work advances the long tradition of woodblock printing. Mansen masterfully layers printings from multiple blocks, sometimes employing “ghost prints” to achieve delicate modulations of tonal intensity and texture. Concerned with process nearly as much as final product, Mansen works on numerous prints simultaneously and progressively carves and recarves his blocks. His projects are best exhibited in an ensemble, which allows the grammar and rhythms of his repeated cognate arrangements and consonant forms to become tangible. The installation is curated by John A. Tyson, Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral curatorial fellow in modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art. 23 July – 13 December 2017 National Gallery of Art Washington USA www.nga.gov EXHIBITION 23 July to 13 December 2017…

Scratchboard already is a fine art medium but in the past it hasn’t been recognised as such by everyone so we created the society to rectify this. We also created it to give scratchboard artists their own “place to belong”. In the following words and pictures we will meet the movers and shakers behind the society with their achievements and art. Patrick Hedges, MSA, SSA, founding member of International Society of Scratchboard Artists (ISSA) Obviously there’s me (not that I consider myself extraordinary – but the others are). I’ve been involved right from the inception, making certain the society got off the ground and worked, to the point where it keeps working with momentum. I am recognised by the Society as a Master Scratchboard Artist (MSA), which is a huge…

Language defines a culture; it gives expression to the experiences of those who speak it. Preserving and growing languages is an important step in preserving and growing a culture. Orana Arts Inc, The State Library of NSW and acclaimed photographer Mervyn Bishop worked with community to create Portraits of Language, a photographic and oral documentation exhibition highlighting the Local Elders of Dubbo and their relationship to traditional language. The exhibition celebrates the significant commitment and achievements of Aboriginal Elders living in Dubbo today. Western Plains Cultural Centre This exhibition will run until 3 September 2017 76 Wingewarra Street Dubbo NSW 2830 Ph: 02 6801 4444 Web: www.westernplainsculturalcentre.org NOW SHOWING Until 3 September 2017…

The 12th Annual ‘A Feast of Art’ art show will be held in the beautiful Historic Oxley Hall, Snow Road, Oxley this September. The art show will begin with a Gala Opening Night at 7pm on Friday 1st September and winning artists will be presented with their prizes on the night. Prizes of $700 will be awarded to the winning artist in each of the three sections: • Visual Art; • Photographic Art; and • Textiles With additional awards for Highly Commended in each section. This local art show is conducted by the Milawa Gourmet Region Association. It provides artists with a wonderful opportunity to display and sell their art works over a period of 10 days, gaining maximum exposure of their work. An opportunity to purchase an original piece…

Visitors to the National Gallery of London can discover Giovanni da Rimini’s exquisite late Medieval painting, Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and Other Saints.. Giovanni’s panel, which is more than seven hundred years old, beautifully unites the tradition of late Byzantine icons with a new, more sophisticated style of painting, rich in narrative detail. The exhibition brings together, for the first time in the UK, the three easel paintings unanimously attributed to Giovanni da Rimini: ‘Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and Other Saints’ with the very closely related ‘Scenes from the Life of Christ’ from the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome; and ‘The Virgin and Child with Five Saints’ from the Pinacoteca Comunale, Faenza, Italy. The exhibition consists of 10 objects in total: seven…

Conceived by the National Gallery of Ireland, this revelatory exhibition celebrates the work of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) and will give new insights into the relationships the artist maintained with other great painters of the Dutch Golden Age. It will bring together some 60 paintings from major public and private collections around the world. Ten masterpieces by Vermeer will be included, representing nearly a third of the artist’s surviving works and the third highest number of works by Vermeer ever assembled. The National Gallery of Ireland’s own Vermeer, Woman Writing a Letter, with her Maid c.1670, which is regarded as one of the artist’s finest works, will be shown alongside other exquisite compositions including Woman with a Balance, c.1663–4 (National Gallery of Art, Washington); Woman with a Pearl Necklace, 1663–4 (Staatliche…