Today I went up to Maitland Regional Art Gallery to take some photographs of the Year of the Bird exhibition, curated by Caelli Jo Brooker and myself. All was going well except for two crucial factors: I’m very good at taking blurry action shots, and my little girl decided that the exhibition images would look better with her in all of them. After careful editing, I was left with a much smaller number of shots.
Marian Drew’s large scale photographs on the right hand wall, with Trevor Weekes’ mixed media drawings and paintings on the left.
Tasmanian painter Helen Wright’s imagery (above).
Marian Drew’s work was hung on a long wall, to the right as you entered the exhibition space; in the same gallery, on the end wall, Emma Van Leest’s intricate papercuts had a large yellow wall to themselves.
The exhibition is quite large, so it takes up two adjacent galleries: with the two galleries combined, the floor space is a long rectangle with a partition dividing it in half. The partition has Trevor Weekes’ imagery on the right hand side, and Pamela See’s installation on the other, with exhibition signage on the short side facing the entrance.
These are images from the gallery on the left hand side. Pamela See’s blue acrylic installation is on the partition wall, with David Hampton’s prints on the long wall facing the entrance (next to David’s work you can just see some of Kate Foster and Merle Patchett’s collaborative series).
Kate Foster and Merle Patchett’s collaborative series.
Caelli Jo Brooker’s work on the yellow wall, and in a cabinet, on the short wall of the left hand side gallery.
Vanessa Barbay’s work has a wall to itself, in the left hand gallery, on the long wall facing David Hampton’s prints.
Another shot of Vanessa Barbay’s work, with Caelli Jo Brooker’s drawings in a case in the foreground.
Pamela See’s installation on the partition wall. You can just see Helen Wright’s paintings on a long wall in the right hand side gallery.
David Hampton’s prints and Caelli Jo Brooker’s mixed media work.
My dear daughter pretending to be some kind of French super hero.
Vanessa Barbay’s work on the left, and my wardrobe and painting on the right.
Another shot of Helen Wright’s paintings.
Close up images of Helen Wright’s work.
Marian Drew and Trevor Weekes.
Marian Drew.
Final image of Helen Wright’s paintings on the left, and Trevor Weekes’ images on the right.
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