Year of the Bird flown by...

Year of the Bird has indeed flown by quickly so we just wanted to thank the artists who generously agreed to loan work to the exhibition. Much appreciation extended to Emma van Leest, Pamela See, Kate Foster & Merle Patchett, Trevor Weekes, Helen Wright, Vanessa Barbay, Marian Drew, and David Hampton.

Enormous thanks also to the Maitland Regional Art Gallery team, particularly Jo Eisenberg and Kim Blunt for their faith in the show, and also Lisa Kirkpatrick, Braddon Snape, and the MRAG volunteers for their work in installing the exhibition - Thank you from Caelli and Helen!

Below are some more installation shots from the gallery.

 

 

Maitland Mercury Article YOTB

Emma Swain from the Maitland Mercury popped by as we were installing to interview Helen and myself about the exhibition. We were still curating, so we roped Lisa Kirkpatrick in for the photo as we pretended to decide on our favorite David Hamptons (which is of course, all of them!)

Please click on the image below for a more readable version.

Maitland Mercury article 21 February 2013

YOTB Install at MRAG

It felt like painting two giant lounge rooms more than anything (up until today), but work for Year of the Bird has finally made it to the walls at Maitland Regional Art Gallery.

So much paint and preparation, just to get back to the gallery's usual white cube, but it is now looking like more of an exhibition.

Lisa Kirkpatrick, Braddon Snape, the installation team and MRAG volunteers have been fantastic in materialising the show so far. Clare Hodgins has designed a fantastic catalogue to accompany the exhibition. Enormous thanks to them!

Please join us for the opening on Saturday 23rd February at 3:00pm if you can...

David Hampton's work in progress at the YOTB install @ MRAG 19/02/2013