"Diverse" Delaney and Friends

Thursday, April 29, 2021 10:30 PM 22:30
Sunday, May 9, 2021 4:00 PM 16:00

Macleay Valley Community Art Gallery 5 Kinchela Street Gladstone, NSW, 2440 Australia (map)

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DIVERSE

Denise Delaney

Sara Wade

Lesley Rae

Robyn Porter

Christine Campbell

Denise McFadden

Denise Delaney is a painter, potter and maker of collages. “In 2019 I was inspired by the screaming and roaring of the songs of the bush fires, demanding that I run, fast, NOW, followed by the haze of ash falling, carpeting the ground and the Sun and the Moon glowing red in forbidding sky.

Sara Wade’s work plays with collage/mixed media, recomposing and recycling materials. Some pieces relate to landscape and others to abstract urban elements.

Lesley Rae’s works are inspired by the birds that visit her garden “They make nests and feed on the garden and the surrounding bush.” The works make reference to the nests as a circle and the layers and textures of the bush. They are a combination of mono prints, collagraphs, lino cuts, gouache and pastels.

Robyn Porter makes works of art which focus on the beautiful and the ordinary, reflecting her love of colour and light. She draws and paints still life, nudes and portraits in acrylics and oils using traditional „Old Masters‟ oil painting techniques. Robyn also creates bespoke jewellery made from recycled, up cycled and repurposed materials.

Chris Campbell has trained in Visual Arts and Ceramics at Coffs Harbour Tafe and studied Fine Arts at Charles Sturt University. Her landscape paintings feature various viewpoints combined in one image. She creates humorous ceramic sculptures featuring people and animals in vehicles and boats.

Denise McFadden “This year was to be my dream trip to Japan, like many others my dreams were dashed so I took on the challenge to produce works to pay homage to the Japanese people. My love of clay stems from my childhood, working with materials is a reasonably new found love. Like the women in villages all over Japan I find the building, layering and the re-use of materials is something that strikes a chord with me. The uniqueness of their work inspires me to explore the endless possibilities available”.