tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46314610654300411212024-03-20T00:11:05.455-07:00Year of the BirdYear of the Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735346682527154308noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631461065430041121.post-41250954643062097882013-05-24T10:00:00.000-07:002013-07-07T08:04:39.276-07:00Year of the Bird CatalogueMaitland Regional Art Gallery was a big winner this year in the Museums Australia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards (the MAPDAs)<br />
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Maitland picked up the Multimedia and Publication Design Awards in the Corporate, Poster (<i>Paperworks | Nine Exhibitions</i>), Website and Exhibition Branding (<i>Versus 2012 / Blue vs Red, Battle of the Pigments</i>) categories. It also managed to be Highly Commended for Exhibition Branding and Exhibition Catalogue (twice).<br />
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The Year of the Bird exhibition was also captured by the award winning team at Maitland Regional Art Gallery, and with particular thanks to designer, Clare Hodgins for her clever fold-out catalogue.<br />
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Please feel free to download a copy below.<br />
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<a href="http://linecollective.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/catalogue_yotb_web.pdf" target="_blank">Download the YOTB Catalogue as a Screen resolution PDF</a><br />
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<br />Year of the Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735346682527154308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631461065430041121.post-56907933810349503592013-04-10T07:54:00.000-07:002013-07-07T07:55:07.509-07:00Heral Review of Year of the BirdAlas the forums for discussion and review of exhibitions are scarce in the Hunter Valley, and most often limited to a few lines at best, but Jill Stowell kindly mentioned the exhibition in the Herald column last week.<br />
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(Apologies to Kate and Merle, we know you are from further away than Tasmania!)<br />
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Just click on the image below for a larger version.<br />
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<br />Year of the Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735346682527154308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631461065430041121.post-76473515167608992872013-03-18T07:05:00.000-07:002013-07-07T07:34:09.150-07:00Year 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. <br />
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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!<br /><br />
Below are some more installation shots from the gallery. <br />
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<br />Year of the Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735346682527154308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631461065430041121.post-19657745275346969382013-02-23T09:20:00.000-08:002013-07-07T07:47:56.295-07:00Maitland Mercury Article YOTBEmma 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!)<br />
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<br />Year of the Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735346682527154308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631461065430041121.post-26959086180943507662013-02-19T05:29:00.001-08:002013-02-19T05:38:17.618-08:00YOTB Install at MRAGIt 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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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!<br />
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Please join us for the opening on Saturday 23rd February at 3:00pm if you can...<br />
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<br />Year of the Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735346682527154308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631461065430041121.post-9542063903813668762013-02-16T23:40:00.002-08:002013-02-16T23:42:36.911-08:00Minding Animals CEO to open exhibition!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We're very pleased to announce that Dr Rod Bennison, CEO of <a href="http://www.mindinganimals.com/">Minding Animals</a> International, will be opening the Year of the Bird exhibition on Saturday 23rd February, 2013, at around 3.30pm.<br />
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Here's some more information about Dr Bennison and his work with Minding Animals, including information about an upcoming conference in India:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">'</span>Dr Rod Bennison is the CEO of Minding Animals International. An environmentalist and animal advocate for over 30 years, he has worked for many organisations in both a paid and voluntary capacity. He has also dabbled in academia, as well as in politics and has worked for several NSW Parliamentarians and Senators. Currently, beyond his international commitments to Minding Animals and other organisations dedicated to animal protection, he is the Environmental Manager for a major engineering and environmental consultancy business based in the Hunter Valley. He also has an ongoing passion for rescuing and adopting greyhounds.<br />
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As an Animal Studies scholar, his main interests lie within the field of compassionate conservation, specifically within an environmentalist framework that he outlined over the years as Ecological Inclusion. Ecological Inclusion, as Rod has outlined, is a concept that seeks to protect as much of the natural environment as possible whilst at the same time protecting all individuals within the environment.<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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The next Minding Animals International Conference will be held in Dehli, India, from 14 to 20 January, 2015. Just like the first conference held in Newcastle in Australia, and the second held in Utrecht in the Netherlands, the third conference promises to be even bigger and more ground-breaking, this time focussing on wildlife. If you love animals or just know that we should afford greater respect and compassion to our fellow Earth citizens, we would like to welcome you to the conference to discuss the human nonhuman animal inter-relationship, animal protection and the future of our planet'.
<!--EndFragment-->Year of the Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735346682527154308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631461065430041121.post-44595570971657048672013-02-08T07:56:00.000-08:002013-07-07T08:02:53.324-07:00Invitation to the opening celebrationEveryone is welcome to the opening celebration for the Year of the Bird exhibition.<br />
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Dr Rod Bennison, the Minding Animals International CEO, will be saying a few words at the opening.<br />
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Several other shows are also opening at the same time so it should be a good afternoon. for further details see the MRAG site.<br />
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<a href="http://mrag.org.au/" target="_blank">www.mrag.org.au</a><br />
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<br />Year of the Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735346682527154308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631461065430041121.post-15178924255220134692013-02-07T17:59:00.000-08:002013-02-07T17:59:03.505-08:00A Man Feeding Swans in the Snow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Posted for no other reason than this is an amazing image, captured by Polish photographer <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MarcinRyczekFotografia">Marcin Ryczek</a>. Apparently it was snapped on a frozen river bank in Krakow. Year of the Bird found it on <a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/01/a-man-feeding-swans-in-the-snow/">Colossal's</a> site.Year of the Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735346682527154308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631461065430041121.post-57562807162408887772013-02-01T21:28:00.000-08:002013-02-03T06:44:15.561-08:00On Looking at the Hummingbird Case<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Kate Foster and Merle Patchett, January 2013</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">Image: The Rotating Hummingbird Display in the Royal
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installed a new display case to showcase the iridescent colouration of eight of
the museum’s hummingbird cabinet skins. Using a rotating mechanism and overhead
lighting the display case generates flashes of the birds’ iridescence,
mimicking what they do in life to attract a mate. This sparked a new piece of
work by Kate Foster, commissioned by curator Merle Patchett to accompany </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://fashioningfeathers.com/">Fashioning Feathers</a></span><span lang="EN-US">
the exhibition the hummingbird cabinet was made for.<o:p></o:p></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">As Merle comments in the exhibition, hummingbirds
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birds. Iridescent colours are by definition highly directional and changes in
viewing angle can dramatically alter their hue and intensity. When alive,
hummingbirds use the directionality of their iridescence to produce rapid
flashes of colour in order to communicate with each other and attract mates.
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unintended human suitors in the form of cabinet collectors and plumage
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to North America and Europe during the international ‘plume boom’. In London in
1888 for example, 12000 hummingbirds were sold in a single month. They were
used to decorate ladies' hats and clothes, and to manufacture feather pictures,
ornaments and artificial flowers. They also became mounted specimens, and the
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">“1600
HUMMINGBIRD SKINS AT 2 CENTS EACH. Part of Lot Purchased by the Zoological
Society at the Regular Quarterly London Millinery Feather Sale, August, 1912.”
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various settings in which she could encounter hummingbirds. Living in Scotland,
the nearest place she could see them was at London Zoo. These live specimens’
need for both sugared water and fruit-flies to survive gave the hothouse an earthy
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hummingbirds were ringed in Ecuador by a biologist from Glasgow University; she
saw pictures of them atop hats; and drew as she watched a video of a live Ruby
Topaz Hummingbird flashing its iridescence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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hummingbirds have been placed historically and contemporarily, how people
marvel at their flight and colour, how we force them to move, and how they
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">Naturally,
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London, which has a well-known array of two-hundred year old birds.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">As
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">"No
sounds emerge from their thousands of beaks, but these birds provide mute
testimony to their collectors' insatiable longings, romantic desires fueled by
the impossibility of fulfillment. The hummingbirds have staved off death with
their arsenic-laden stuffing and survived to epitomize the romantic pursuit of
perfect and permanent beauty." (Judith Pascoe, The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic
Collectors, 2005, p.52.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">When
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person craning her neck to peer into the Hummingbird Cabinet:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">These minute
two-hundred-year-old birds attracted great curiousity, arranged as they are on
display with alert crests and flashes of surviving iridescence. Some of the birds may now be extinct
but here you can see a stilled collection on a ‘tree, complete with tiny nests
with nestlings. I began to take note of other people’s reactions - which
sometimes resonated with my own thoughts and also took me by surprise. The
display case seemed to stop people in their tracks, and their comments ranged from
the very practical “couldn’t make a sandwich from that, couldya?’” to an awed
“superbe”.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Looking
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">In
their respective work on hummingbirds, Merle and Kate reflected that despite
all human attempts to ensnare, collect and contain hummingbirds in the realms
of human culture, they ultimately remain beyond our grasp. Hummingbirds’ d</span><span lang="EN-US">isplay
of iridescence, whether in life or enforced in the museum setting, is not for
us: since we cannot see in ultraviolet we can never fully know what it is that
the courting couple can see.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">Our
thanks to Gary M. Erickson, Assistant Curator o</span><span lang="EN-US">f Ornithology, Royal Alberta Museum.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Text © Kate Foster and Merle
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Image: page from <i>Looking at the Hummingbird Cabinet,</i> Kate Foster ©2012</span></span></td></tr>
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detail of ‘<i>The Iridescence of a Ruby
Topaz Hummingbird’<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></i>Kate
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Year of the Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735346682527154308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631461065430041121.post-91822535361235397032013-01-29T16:01:00.000-08:002013-01-29T16:02:23.388-08:00YOTB welcomes Kahibah BrassThe Year of the Bird exhibition is pleased to announce that Kahiba Brass will be performing at our opening event at Maitland Regional Art Gallery on Saturday February 23 from 3pm.<br />
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Kahibah Brass is a 20 piece band with musician ages ranging from 8 to 80. They rehearse and perform regularly, have instruments you can arrange to borrow, and are always keen to take on new members. If you think you have the chops, then get in touch and let them know...<br />
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Kahibah Brass Band is proudly sponsored by the Kahibah Bowling Club and you can find out more about the band on their website.<br />
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<a href="http://www.kahibahbrass.net/">www.kahibahbrass.net</a><br />
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<br />Year of the Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735346682527154308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631461065430041121.post-10311056529218906012013-01-11T17:20:00.003-08:002013-01-11T17:22:51.976-08:00YOTB Work in Progress... Caelli Jo BrookerSome preliminary sketches for Caelli Jo Brooker's work for Year of the Bird.<br />
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"<i>...Our
relationship with the bird is complex. We have a long cultural history
of using birds decoratively, symbolically, narratively, allegorically
and consuming them literally and metaphorically through advertising,
art, commerce and fashion. <br /><br />My work for Year of the Bird borrows
from mythological, literary and popular culture representations of birds
and re-imagines them in abstracted imaginary ‘field studies’. These
large scale painted drawings are also personal interpretations of the
museological and presentational aspects of natural history traditions,
incorporating abstract note-taking, anatomy and typography. References
to these borrowed traditions are woven with more contemporary mythos,
reflecting the bird’s ongoing place in our collective cultural psyche</i>..."</blockquote>
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watercolour and crayon on paper <br />
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Year of the Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735346682527154308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631461065430041121.post-13360291413344287302013-01-11T16:57:00.002-08:002013-01-16T16:04:00.535-08:00Year of the Bird at MRAG 2013<b>Year of the Bird</b><br />
22 February - 7 April 2013<br />
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW Australia <br />
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‘Year
of the Bird’ (YOTB), is a group exhibition exploring the prevalence of
bird imagery in contemporary art and features the work of Marian Drew, Kate Foster (UK), Emma Van Leest, Pamela See, Vanessa
Barbay, Trevor Weekes, Helen Wright, David Hampton and the curators, Helen Hopcroft
and Caelli Jo Brooker.<br />
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Thematically the exhibition
explores themes of nature versus culture, wildlife as elegy, representations of non-human animals, and birds as potent
signifiers of both human and environmental issues.<br />
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