Transcend - ART EXHIBITION

Changeable Art Exhibition – Giving a voice to Artists

‘Transcend’
10am-3pm Saturday April 9

The upcoming Free Changeable Art Exhibition features four artists exhibiting a range of paintings that invite you to go beyond the ordinary. The paintings speak to you from the artists inspiration captured from memory, nature, culture and life experience.

Barry Lester Johnson lives in Newcastle and held his first solo exhibition in Newcastle Art space in 2007. In 2010 Barry’s paintings were selected at Art Unlimited Dunedoo for exhibition at Fairview Art space in Mudgee. Barry uses colour-mixing techniques to intensify colours and to create lively greys. This exhibition includes abstract landscapes from memory or imagination.

Laxmi Duble’ was born in Goa, India and blends inspiration, imagination and creativity on canvas. At an early age Laxmi was inspired by nature and whitewashed Portuguese chapels. Having spent 5 years in Paris, Laxmi continues to be inspired by a range of impressionists with abstraction being a great driving force in her work.

Lisa Woolfe exhibits paintings from a series of paintings, drawings and prints based on photographs snapped from her car window during road trips around country NSW and places familiar to her. Lisa captures flashes of the landscape to create paintings constructed from visual and reference memory prompting the viewer to consider what lies ahead or beyond, preferring the location to be anywhere the viewer wants to imagine.
Lisa has been a finalist in numerous group exhibitions from 2001-2011, winning the 2008 Works on Paper Award Waverly Art Prize. Lisa has a Bachelor in Fine Arts and is an experienced educator and gallery assistant.

Mary Rafter from an early age loved expressing her creativity through painting. Mary creates abstract paintings drawing inspiration from the world around her, living by the sea and aerial photography of the earth. Using many colours and textures Mary encourages the viewer to explore visually and kinesthetically enticing viewers to touch the painting in order to further understand it.

This exhibition will be an uplifting experience not to be missed.

Held on Saturday, April 9, 10am - 3pm along with the well-loved North Sydney Market and live music at 220 Miller St. North Sydney, Civic Park.
Come and enjoy free live entertainment, gourmet food and a wonderful vibrant atmosphere!

Colour Me

Colour me

10am – 3pm Saturday March 12

Colour is what inspires the work of 5 contemporary artists in the upcoming exhibition at Changeable Art. Each artist uses bold uninhibited brushstrokes to creative vibrant expressions.

 


Sally was a scientist in her first career working in medical research to find a cure for childhood cancer; exploring nature in an effort to reduce harm. Now Sally is continuing to look at nature using art.  ‘ How far can form and colour be altered and still be recognized as landscape.’

 

Christine works mainly with lines keeping her work uncluttered but directional. 

Antonio explores abstraction through varying forms and styles, subtle textures and colour to achieve a harmonised effect.

 
Heathers work is mainly about colour and the emotions that colour brings

Susan - works are derived from a wide range of subjects, both abstract and objective. She has a sense of experimental play, which is reflected, in her art

Influences range from Asian styles, French Fauve painters to back yard gardens. The key is the imagination and the artist’s ability to create warmth and emotion in their work.

This exhibition creates a zestful atmosphere through the lively tones.  An uplifting experience not to be missed.

Held on Saturday, March 12, 10am - 3pm along with the well-loved North Sydney Markets and live music at 220 Miller St. North Sydney, Civic Park.

Come and enjoy free live entertainment, gourmet food and a wonderful vibrant atmosphere!

Telling A Story

Changeable Art 

Saturday February 12

10am - 3pm

Four artists explore story telling with watercolours, drawing and paint.

'The need to tell a story', to make people feel something, remember something, to touch someone in a way that makes them think and appreciate things in a new light.  Lesley

Artists have the ability to tell a story through creating characters and impressions of moments in time.

Siani captures the movement of waves. The waves threaten to demolish, yet they break into a beautiful cascade of light, colour & movement.

Jai’s bright colourful works explore his Indian heritage, representing deities and subconscious thought patterns reached through meditation. 

Leanne’s realistic depictions use a pastel palette to create soft atmospheric works. She is influenced by her extensive studies of the Japanese traditional art forms Nihonga and Suiboku.

Lesley’s works use animation to tell a story though naïve images that appeal to all ages.

Come and enjoy these artist stories without needing to turn a page.

Held on Saturday, February 12, 10am - 3pm along with the well-loved North Sydney Markets and live music at 220 Miller St. North Sydney, Civic Park.

Come and enjoy free live entertainment, gourmet food and a wonderful vibrant atmosphere! 

The Melting Pot 

Saturday, December 11
10 - 3pm
220 Miller Street North Sydney

‘The Melting Pot’ is a display of the richness of culture and artistic flare.

The exhibition includes the works of five Turkish artists, a tribal jewellery designer, a wood sculptor and three abstract artists.

Award winning Turkish miniature artist Gulay Pelin is recognised as one of Australia’s distinct miniature artists. Her unique and contemporary art charmingly bridges Turkish miniature from past to present. She is sharing her space with four Turkish artists capturing a rich cultural essence in their paintings. Their display includes Turkish food and music providing an authentic experience.


The Jeweller - Tribal beads, semi precious stones, rare ancient faenza Mummy Beads, antique trade beads and hand crafted pieces. All sourced from Europe, the Middle East and India, from Afghani and West African traders in black Harlem and Soho New York, they find their way into the necklaces of local artist Ellie Picone.

The Sculptor –In two years, Italian Maurizio Nannetti, has gone from a high-powered career running his IT company to a full-time, exhibiting artist, crafting wood into exquisite art pieces.

The Painters - Sandy, Toni and Daphne are three friends, their art is inspired by the landscapes they visit.  Turkey and Greece influenced Sandy this year and next year it will be India. All three artists express the form of urban and country landscapes in colour, taking the object beyond illustration to an expression of abstraction.



December exhibition The Melting Pot is an extravaganza of colour and culture. The perfect place to find an original Christmas gift.

Held on Saturday, 11th December, 10am - 3pm along with the well-loved North Sydney Markets and live music at 220 Miller St. North Sydney, Civic Park.

Come and enjoy free live entertainment, gourmet food and a wonderful vibrant atmosphere!

Brushstrokes Exhibition

 Brushstrokes Exhibition

Saturday 13 November 

10am - 3pm

 From impressionism to contemporary expressions,  4 women communicate their artistic talent with their paintbrushes.

Colour plays an important role in this exhibition. Colour is used to change the mood and perspective of the paintings appealing to our deepest emotions

 “Strong colour scheme and texture are as important as the actual composition of the painting" exhibiting artist Yuliya Yakovenko

Kobie Bosch  - paints to music, from classical Baroque right through to African drums. Music helps her focus on her work.

Yuliya Yakovenko - is inspired by the great masters around the world.  She experiments with colours, textures and styles in order to bring her painting alive.

 Pamela Morrison  - Seeks to immerse herself in each painting to capture her emotional response – the spiritual dimension. 

Samantha Van Stralendorff  -paintings are distinguished by their physicality, vibrant colours and often storybook-like imagery.

Artist foundations come from Ukraine, South Africa to the rich Australia countryside.

Don’t miss this opportunity to see the talent of these four women all with very different artistic and cultural backgrounds but all with a common artistic flare for painting.

Held on Saturday, 13th November, 10am - 3pm along with the well-loved North Sydney Markets and live music at 220 Miller St. North Sydney, Civic Park.

Come and enjoy free live entertainment, gourmet food and a wonderful vibrant atmosphere !

Open Day  - Express Yourself Student Exhibition

Saturday 9 October

10am - 3pm

The North Sydney Community Centre is opening its doors once again for our biannual Open Day & Student Exhibition.

 Express Yourself, displays a collection of over 60 student works featuring photography, life drawing, acrylics, pastels and pottery.

A huge selection of free activities are on offer:  learn to draw with our outdoor sketching teacher, paint a canvas or be part of creating a ceramic city, learn the Ukulele, have a go at Furoshiki  – Japanese paper wrapping, or sit in the park and play a game of Mahjong.

Held on Saturday, 9th of October 10am - 3pm along with the well-loved North Sydney Markets and live music at 220 Miller St. North Sydney, Civic Park.

Come and enjoy free live entertainment, gourmet food and a wonderful vibrant atmosphere !

Call 9922 2299 to book a place in our free activities or drop in on the day. 

Art as Memory

Art is used to freeze moments in time so we can appreciate them forever. This may be through a realistic image or an interpretation capturing the ambience of the moment.

‘Art As Memory’ is an exhibition where 4 artists explore their creativity though painting, drawing and photographs capturing different memories.

The exhibition showcases Chinese brush painting and calligraphy exploring the spiritual through an integration of Eastern forms and  western sensibility.

Photos are inspired by flowers, warm Summer days, water, sand and landscapes capturing these single frame moments, which throw us, back to warm days in the sun.

Energetic paintings capture burlesque dancers, drawing inspiration from the genre of retro pin up art

Moody, captivating, sensual, dreamy this exhibition is not to be missed.

A FREE event held on Saturday, September 11, 10am - 3pm along with live music, free entertainment and the well loved North Sydney Markets