THE 22ND REAL REFUSES – ARTISTS’ TALK
ARCHIBALD REAL REFUSES NOW ON 22ND MAY – 3RD JUNE
COME ALONG ON SUNDAY 3RD JUNE AT 3 PM
GIVING THE ARTISTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT THEIR INSPIRING WORKS
HIGH TEA AND DRINKS SUPPLIED
Artists also be prepared to collect your artworks.
Paul Wallace’s 45th Birthday Exhibition – “Restrospective”
Thursday 17th May 6 – 8 pm
Drinks and Food provided
PYRMONT ART PRIZE 20 & 21 MAY @ PIRRIMA PARK
CALLING ARTISTS TO ENTER
SATURDAY 20TH – SUNDAY 21ST MAY, 11 AM – 5 PM
PYRMONT ART, FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL
presents the 7th ANNUAL PYRMONT ART PRIZE – Cash Prizes & Gift Vouchers to be won!
EVEN BIGGER & BETTER THAN EVER
PIRRAMA PARK, PYRMONT
On SATURDAY 20 & SUNDAY 21 MAY, a great day has been planned for the celebration of the tenth annual Pyrmont Art Prize. This year the event will be held in Pirrama Park at the old Police Water site on the panoramic foreshore of Sydney Harbour, at the end of Harris Street, Pyrmont. This exciting venue has recently been converted for public use by the City of Sydney.
The day will feature over 300 new artworks on display for the prestigious PYRMONT ART PRIZE, with thousands of $ in prizes to be won. Official guest speakers and prominent judges have been invited, and a People’s Choice Award will also be presented from the attending public.
Live music and unique performances are always a special feature of the Festival. This year the festival will include street theatre and local talented musicians who will perform all day on stage. This event presented in conjunction with the Pyrmont Festival’s – Mudgee wine & food in Pirrama Park. Tickle your taste buds with unique gourmet cuisine and local produce direct from Mudgee. Bring your picnic rug and choose from a diverse range of cuisines for lunch and try some of the 120 wines from 30 of Mudgee regions top winemakers.
All artists are invited to enter the art prize, whether they are well known or not and artists are invited to create an art piece for public display and sale. This popular art event has been well attended by the community in past years, and many beautiful, original artworks may be purchased on the day.
All artworks must be 12’x12’ in size. Canvases can be picked up from TAP Gallery; 259 Riley St Surry Hills, or you can supply your own canvas. Please not all works must be unframed, on stretched canvas.
Any enquiries call TAP on 0400610440
DAVE ROSS 11 – 17 JUNE.
Dave Ross
Surrealistic Moondance
Dave Ross’ energetic new Body of Work is a poetic reflection on contemplations, emotions and sentiments that are evocative of a bygone era. Here, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism are united in a calamity of visceral brush-strokes that pulsate the energy of a spirit that envelops the canvas and entraps the life-force within. Ross uses wash, splatters, dribbles and splashes as a material extension of his psyche that is unravelled in a stream of consciousness on the canvas that is a reconstruction of his sub-conscious. Fleeting images seem to appear, but at once disappear from view as if in a mirage. His tacit images suggest, rather than define, joyful beings from another world that exist somewhere between the form and the formless – the structural and the ethereal.
Ross’ gestural creations are evocative of a spiritual world of joy and hope that is expressed through the energetic handling of brush and paint that presents us with his distinctive mystical statement of the other world.
His works – with such titles as – “Les Jours Hereaux” (The Happy Days), “Just Dig a Sunburnt Country”, “Just Switchin’ on the Strobes”…. – are a jubilant exclamation of peace, happiness, and goodwill.