_ISM Graduating students from Brookvale TAFE
Exhibition Dates: 13 - 29 November 2009
Manly Art Gallery & Museum is delighted to present an exhibition by students from Brookvale TAFE. This group exhibition of graduating students from the School of Fine Arts, Digital Arts & Design at the Northern Beaches College of TAFE present their best work in a wide variety of subject matter.
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Ben Thorn, Swans. Image courtesy of Brookvale TAFE
This exhibition celebrates 28 years of partnership between the Manly Art Gallery & Museum and the School of Fine Arts, Digital Arts & Design at the Northern Beaches College, Northern Sydney Institute of TAFE. This annual exhibition gives graduating studebnts the opportunity to showcase some of their creative work, completed during 2009. It also adds 'industry experience' or a 'professional development' aspect to their studies. As well as producing the artworks, each artist experiences what it is like to prepare for an exhibition.
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IMAGE 1: Alex Carlyle, Everybody I Knows Got Fangs, 2009 IMAGE 2: Jami Rose, Complex Code, 2009 IMAGE 3: William Graham, What Expression! 2009. Images courtesy of Brookvale TAFE
Works for the exhibition are selected on the basis of quality and subject matter with an eye on the holistic harmony of the show. Showing a broad selection of creative techniques and media, the exhibition features paintings, drawings, sculpture, design, digital photo media and moving pictures web design.
see Public Programs for further details about accompanying events and programming associated with this show.
TAFE invitation - 298 KB
Media Release - Brookvale TAFE 2009 - 123 KB
ALLAN WAITE : PENINSULA ARTIST
Exhibition Dates: 13 - 29 November 2009
Manly Art Gallery & Museum is delighted to present a focus exhibition of a highly respected regional artist Allan Waite. The exhibition will be launched by Deborah Beck, Artist and Lecturer at the National Art School, Sydney at 3pm on Sundau 15 November 2009 at the Manly Art Gallery & Museum, followed by a meet the artist event at 3.30pm.
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IMAGE 1: Allan Waite, Narrabeen Beach, 2004, watercolour, 27 x 36.5cm IMAGE 2: Allan Waite, Cockatoo Island, 1990, watercolour, 56.8 x 38.3cm IMAGE 3: Allan Waite, Artists, Clareville Beach, 1992.
Allan Waite established the Plein Air Painters group over 25 years ago and was a founding member of teh Peninsula Art Society and is a vibrant and prolific artist in our local community. allan has recently generously donated a large suite of his outstanding watercolour and oil landscapes to the Manly Art Gallery & Museum collection.
Manly Art Gallery & Museum Director, Therese Kenyon stated that the exhibition features ... beautifully fresh watercolours (in which) we see the environment, the weather and waterways of the Northern Beaches with artists depicted painting outdoors in amazingly beautiful surrounds. his generosity in giving some of these watercolours and oils of the Peninsula and Sydney Harbour add to the relevance of the Manly Art Gallery & Museum art collection that celebrates and documents this delightful region of Sydney.
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IMAGE 1: Allan Waite, Morning, Gore Cove, 1987, oil on canvas, 37.5 x 23.5cm IMAGE 2: Allan Waite, Barrenjoey, 2002, watercolour, 38.2 x 28.3cm
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a catalogue accompanies this exhibition and is available at the Manly Art Gallery & Museum for $4.00
see Public Programs for further details about accompanying events and programming associated with this show.
Allan Waite catalogue - 1,399 KB
Allan Waite invitation - 324 KB
Media Release - Allan Waite - 44 KB
MUSEUM EXHIBITION - THE NATURE OF MANLY
Exhibition Dates: 11 September 2009 - 22 August 2010
Manly Council's Art Gallery & Museum is delighted to present a new Museum exhibition exploring the fascinating evolution of holiday houses built on Sydney's Northern Beaches during the last 150years. Summer Days: The Holiday House on the Northern Beaches will officially be opened on friday 11 September 2009 at 6pm by renowned Australian architect richard Leplastrier.
Curated by historian Virginia Macleod, the exhibition focuses on the social as well as architectural aspects of the houses and their relationship to the bush and beach. houses by architects such as Walter Burley Griffin, Alexander Styart Jolly, Harry Seidler, Richard Leplastrier and Peter Stutchbury are documented in the exhibition.
Since the nineteenth century people have been attracted to the coastal region between Manly and Barrenjoey Headland at Palm Beach. as leisure became a factor of urban living, Sydneysiders began to take weekend breaks and holidays. New forms of transport; trams, cars and buses offered the means to get away and brought people to the Northern beaches. Staying away from the city overnight led to the creation of a range of individual accomodation styles; primative and sophisticated tents, caravans, sheds, shacks, cottages and speciofically designed houses. Holiday homes and weekenders provided a different life-style focusing on outdoor entertainment and informality.
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IMAGE 1: Frank Spencer's holiday home 'Coo-ee' at Curl Curl built c1918. Image courtesy Warringah library Services and Arden Macpherson (nee Spencer). IMAGE 2: Margaret, Gregory and Stanley Yewen reading on the veranda at Bungania, Bungan Beach, 1920. Image courtesy Pittwater Local Studies IMAGE 3: Stella James' house designed by Walter Burley Griffin 1934. Image courtesy Claire Stevenson papers. Avalon: Landscape and Harmony. Ruskin Rowe Press 1999
The Mayor of Manly, Jean Hay AM, says the Northern Beaches area was an ideal location for beachside holidays: "The area of Manly and the Northern Beaches in general has a long and proud tradition of welcoming holiday makers to our shores" said Mayor Hay. "From exploring coastal rock platforms, to bush walks or swimming at the beach, there was always something to do for families spending their weekends here and the houses that were built reflect that care-free, easy going attitude we enjoy. Manly Council is proud to be supporting this wonderful exhibition as part of our 2009 Manly Arts Festival".
The holiday style and spirit persists in several homes built recently on the Northern Beaches, a setting which has always attracted architects. notably houses by Peter Muller, Richard Leplastrier, Glen Murcutt, Robert Brown and Peter Stutchbury, aided by advances in engineering, reach out to their surroundings in a spectacular style. More than ever, they embrace the rocks and trees and centre life on platforms or veranda-like spaces, encompassing the view.
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IMAGE 1: Treetops amongst spotted gums, Clareville, 1991. Photographer Patrick Bingham-Hall courtesy Peter Stutchbury Architecture. IMAGE 2: James Robertson House at Mackeral Beach 2003, Photographer Patrick Bingham-Hall courtesy Casey Brown Architecture. IMAGE 3: View through breezeway to the ocean, James Robertson House at Mackeral Beach 2003, Photographer Patrick Bingham-Hall courtesy Casey Brown Architecture
Over the last thirty years Australian's holidays have changed. Increasing affluence had enabled many people to choose luxury resorts often in exotic locations, reached by aeroplane. the caravan park at Palm Beach was dismantled in 1972 but the Narrabeen Lakes Caravan Park still operates today and is visited by families that have been holidaying there for decades. Today on the Northern Beaches many former holiday homes have become permanent residences for commuters or retirees.
Summer Days - invitation - 897 KB
Summer Days - catalogue - 828 KB
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an accompanying exhibition catalogue is available at the Manly Art Gallery & Museum for $4.00
Summer Days - Media release - 141 KB