current exhibitions annual member’s exhibition
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS Culliford Gallery
22nd July to 17th August
Corridor LINDA HALL
TOOWOOMBA ART SOCIETY INC.
ANNUAL MEMBER’S EXHIBITION 18th September –19th October
Close of entries: 4pm, Friday 30th August
Entry forms with conditions of entry,
presentation requirements and submission
details are available at TAS, in the July
Newsletter and online at
toowoombaartsociety.com.au
REMINDER: If you are not currently a
financial member, you cannot exhibit at TAS.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS 19th August to 14th September
Culliford Gallery
“Fond Memories” Denise Nys & Kevin Burns
Corridor s
“Looking Back” Ros Cranch
IN-HOUSE PRINTING With the recent purchase of a new colour photocopier /
printer, TAS will now be able to produce its own documents such as the annual exhibition calendar and newsletters, as well as all your printing needs for exhibitions – invitations, flyers, posters, catalogue booklets, etc. – in colour and at
competitive prices.
We are therefore proposing a $150 package for exhibitors in Culliford Gallery for which you will receive:
Professional hanging of works
Labels (on card)
Hire of exhibition space
Power costs
Low commission on sales (10%)
Publicity – websites, newspapers, local & regional galleries and businesses
Design help, advice & editing of invitations, flyers, catalogues, etc., to finished art state for printing
Printing of 200 invitations, 60 catalogues & 5 A3 posters
Exhibition guidelines – procedures and time line for holding an exhibition
Use of gallery frames (optional)
Services of Committee Members
For further information or enquiries about printing at TAS, speak to Lee or email her at [email protected] or
TAS 2013/14 Committee – putting a face to a name.
Your committee members are volunteers who have the interests of TAS very much at heart. They spend many hours ensuring things run as effectively and smoothly as possible for members. Each of them has something different to contribute – organisational & public relations skills, techno savvy,
archival knowledge, financial and business acumen or just plain practical skills such as hanging exhibitions, cleaning and gardening.
PEGGY VANDERPLAS Assistant Treasurer, Membership Secretary & Librarian In 1995 I joined the TAS Tuesday group, having never held a paintbrush. Experienced artists took me under their wing and when "mother" Myrtle died in 2006, I took the reins and have actively supported our group ever since. We hold a "Paint & Spatter" exhibition every two years. In 2004 a cleaner was needed so I did that for seven years. When the new building was under construction in 2008, I began sorting and cataloguing all the books donated over the years, an ongoing task as TAS regularly receives donations of wonderful art books. In 2010 I became a committee member and have been assistant treasurer for most of that time. I thoroughly enjoy being part of a wonderful committee at TAS and I continue to enjoy painting the places I have travelled to locally and overseas.
LEE PERINET Gallery Coordinator, Newsletter Editor I have been associated with TAS since 1980 when I moved to Toowoomba to teach Visual Art at Glennie. Now retired after 32 years at Glennie, I am TAS gallery coordinator, produce the monthly Newsletter and help with the new website, all rewarding but full on jobs. IT skills learned at Glennie have come in very handy! Photography and digital art are my current interests, but I have dabbled in many forms of art, both 2D & 3D, and have participated in many group exhibitions as well as a one woman exhibition and as co-feature artist at Grammar. I look forward to being able to contribute my skills to TAS for some years to come.
DIANA BATTLE Publicity Officer Painting has always been a favourite pastime for me - I find it exhausting but stimulating. Rejoining the Art Society a few years ago has enabled me to put faces to the many names I have seen on art works over the years as well as meeting many new like-minded personalities. TAS seems to be growing by the minute and I am enjoying being part of it.
ALLAN BRUCE, President Artist, teacher, art historian, arts worker. Born Dundee, Scotland. Studied Drawing & Painting, Education. Lectured in Art History, Khartoum, Sudan (1968-9); taught Expressive Arts in PNG high schools (1970-3); 1974 came to Australia to lecture in Drawing, Art Education and Asian Art History at DDIAE/USQ. MA Chinese & Islamic Art & Archaeology, London (1993). 7 years as Head, Visual Arts Dept. Retired 2005. TAS member for 25 years, 6 as President. Instigated Junior Art Expo, 1988. Founder member Arts Council Toowoomba Inc. Compulsive traveller. Married to Amahl Gaafar.
RHYL DEARDEN, Vice President and Archivist
I have been a member of TAS since early 1980s and was treasurer for a while back then. I have attended life drawing peripatetic-ally over the years. I am presently compiling a history of TAS which dates from 1925. I am interested in promoting the Art Society and its involvement with the Toowoomba community.
JOCELYN GIRLE, Secretary and Garden Maintenance As I review my life, I can see that it falls into a number of stages – student, mother, primary and secondary teacher and grazier’s wife. Currently I’m in my ‘Grandma Jocey-who-draws-and-is-a-printmaker’ phase. Art has gradually become central to my life since 2001 when my ailing husband and I shifted from Yelarbon to Toowoomba. My artistic life began with the creation of miniature embroidered pictures and pen and wash sketches which then morphed into sepia pen and wash works inspired by the woolshed. Pastel portraits and colourful life drawings followed, and now etchings, watercolour monoprints and reduction lino prints. TAS is an important part of my life – so many good friends.
PRESIDENT’S REPORT 12th August 2013
We’re fast approaching the Annual Members’ Exhibition and require your entry forms by 4pm, Friday 30th August. Let’s concentrate on making this the best such exhibition yet seen in Culliford House.
You will notice our hanging system now extends along the east wall to help cater for the anticipated number of acceptances. As it is a selected exhibition and we cannot guarantee the judges will choose your work, the good news is that Committee member Peter Fitzpatrick has teed up an arrangement with Bank of Queensland whereby non-acceptances will be shown in the BOQ (Margaret & Ruthven Streets) for the duration of the Culliford House exhibition. Unlike recent years at the Flowers Food & Wine Festival when the selected exhibition only received 3 days in the spotlight, this year all works submitted (subject to the Bank’s public decency conditions) will still be exhibited publicly for the same amount of time. How good is that?
Congratulations to current exhibitors at Culliford House, Teresa Mundt and Linda Hall and to those of our members who made sales at last week’s excellent Downlands Art Exhibition.
This month we’re introducing the current TAS Committee, all of whom have already put in an impressive amount of voluntary work for your Society. Any one of us can bring your concerns to a Committee meeting (second Saturday of every month). For some months now we have been working on some important initiatives for the future of TAS, but we also require your input. How would you like to see us develop? What could we do better? Please discuss your ideas with your group members and submit them to a Committee member or via your group “monitor”.
Best wishes for your preparation for the Members’ Exhibition.
Allan Bruce
JOHN NEALE Treasurer It has been my privilege to serve as treasurer for TAS for the last five years. This year will be my last. Unusually, I am not an artist but I was recruited in 2008 when no one volunteered for this essential position on the Committee. My expertise has been that of Company Secretary & Financial Director of international and ASX listed companies.
CHARLIE BOYLE Exhibition ‘Hangman’
PETER FITZPATRICK Business Strategist I have worked in banking in the UK, PNG and throughout Victoria and Eastern Qld. I am self-employed since the early 1990’s, having established 13 new business ventures, most of which are still operational. My forte is business strategising as I consider success is achieved by following a pre-established plan, similar to an art work – blank canvas to a hanging piece. My foray into art was triggered by Mignon Parker in January
2011 after participating in a McGregor Summer School. I hope this journey never ends.
The sale of my last business to RetireInvest meant I could retire and take up art full time. Unfortunately I missed business interaction so much that I’m now working and part-time ‘art-ing’.
If you missed the opening of Teresa Mundt’s Culliford Gallery exhibition and Linda Hall’s Corridor exhibition on the 27th July, then you also
missed out on fabulous mulled wine and champagne and yummy things to eat!
For both artists, it was their first solo exhibition, and very exciting and rewarding to see the red spots appearing. The use of Teresa’s own wireless EFTPOS machine made it easier to make sales on the spot.
(TAS is looking into providing such a facility in the future.)
Well done, girls!