70 burringbar st. mullumbimby nsw 2482

 

Congratulations to the following artists, represented at Art Piece Gallery

David Kas, who has won this year's Countryscape Prize for Landscape

and

Rowen Matthews who was highly commended for the prize.

David receiving his prize from overall judge Ian Grant at Bathurst Regional Gallery

 

Congratulations to the following artists, represented at Art Piece Gallery

Robyn Sweaney

The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 

The Wynne Landscape Prize AGNSW

Cornelia Burless

Cate Maddy

for their selection in The Prometheus Art Prize

Amanda Van Gills

for her selection and Merit Award by Phillip Bacon in the Moreton Bay Regional Art Award

 

Welcome to Inge Buschmann

29th January 

Inge is an artist who spends half of her time in Hamburg and half in Mullumbimby. Inge draws on the experiences such a bi - locality offers.Her Kindheit(childhood) series is especially endearing and well worth a look.
Look out for Inge's exhibition in March 2011 - date to be confirmed.

New Year

1st January

Wishing everyone a creative and artistic new year. 

more about mullum ...
18 November 2010

Thank you to The Echo for their article on Tuesday (see below) and to the Byron Shire News for this story:

what secrets lie at the foot of the small round hill?
find out in MULLUMBIMBY
16 November 2010

It's been a while, I know, but we've been rather busy! We've held two further exhibitions - Grounded, our landscape show, and Between Knowing and Not Knowing, an exhibition of the works of Michael John Taylor, Rene Bolten and Robyn Sweaney - and we have initiated a campaign to let visitors know more about our favourite town - mullum. And already we're getting noticed - by the local media at least:

The Byron Shire Echo 16 Nov 2010

our poster below - pick up a leaflet at any of the participating businesses

Congratulations to Michael Muir and to PoTTs
23 August 2010

Congratulations to Michael Muir, whose landscape paintings are to feature in the up-coming landscape painting exhibition "GROUNDED" at art piece gallery (courtesy of Eva Breuer Gallery, Sydney), as he has been shortlisted as one of 40 finalists in the $15,000 Sunshine Coast Art Prize. The winner of SCAP will be announced on Thursday 26 August, the evening before GROUNDED opens at art piece gallery - we will be raising a toast to Michael if he wins.

Michael Muir                           PoTTs

Congratulations also go to Mullum based artist PoTTs, who has been selected as one of the 43 finalists for this years Country Energy Art Prize. We won't know the winner of this prize until guest judge, artist Janet Laurence, makes her selection on 30 September at the Glasshouse Regional Gallery in Port Macquarie. Last year one of art piece gallery's other artists, Clare Hopkins, received a highly commended from the Country Energy judges for her piece Seventeen. Fingers crossed for PoTTs for this year.

Paper
6 August 2010

To paraphrase American literary critic Alfred Kazin, “One [creates] to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others’ minds.”

You’d think that with the web and the internet, the kindle, the iphone and the ipad, with the threat of deforestation, there would be little justification for the use of paper. But ask the artists in this exhibition and you get a different story.

Apart from drawing on it, printing and painting, artists use paper as sculptural medium – folded, cut, woven and collaged. Old books, maps, milk cartons, bus tickets are recycled, re-used and re-shaped - “re-purposed” as one Lismore based artist puts it.

Paper is handmade and rustic at one extreme or intricately lasercut and contemporary at the other. “I love the physicality of paper, its texture, density, the way it moves….I find it provocative to breathe new life into it” says participating artist Lizzie Buckmaster Dove.

Lizzie, from the NSW south coast and represented by NG Art, is one of the featured guest artists in this exhibition along with Mandy Gunn from Victoria, Helen Malone of Queensland and Jennie Nayton from South Australia. Local artists continue to feature strongly in art piece gallery with paper artworks from Michael Cusack, Leonie Lane, Robyn Sweaney, Christine Willcocks, Kat Shapiro Wood, Kate Maurice and others.

It seems appropriate, at the time of the Byron Bay Writers Festival, that we explore the vulnerable medium of paper through which we communicate our histories and our deepest secrets, marking moments in time, embedding and deciphering memories both with images and with words. There are all sorts of narratives, personal as well as political, nestled in the marvellous assemblages of this show.

"Weep" farewell
4 August 2010

Sadly we have had to say "farewell" to the beautiful tree that had graced our walls for the duration of Fragile, our textile and fibre art exhibition. Despite so much interest, compliments and wonderment at the piece, we have taken it down, carefully wrapped it up and returned it to artist, Louise Saxton, with our graditude.

We hope to be seeing more of Louise's artwork in the future.

"Colonise" by Linelle Steptoe has been acquired by The Tweed River Art Gallery
Congratulations to Linelle!
12 July 2010

Colonise is a really unusual piece made from tanned cane toad skins which has everyone ooing and ahing - amazed that what looks like a dried flower arrangement is actually a botanical installation of native flora made out of that bugbear of the Australian landscape, the much derided cane toad. Talk about making a silk purse out of a sow's ear! The Common Heath, Kangaroo Paw, Sturt's Desert Rose, Royal Bluebell, Cooktown Orchid, Tasmanian Bluegum, Sturt's Desert Pea and the Warratah - one for each state and territory, look incredibly life-like and pinned to the wall, they throw shadows which become a part of the artwork. The brass plates under each, complete the botanical illusion. 

 

Bronwyn Berman winner of the art piece gallery sculpture prize at artsCape Biennial 2010
28 June 2010

The clouds cleared, the sun came out and Sunday welcomed the artists and hoards of visitors to the artsCape Sculpture Exhibition at Clarkes Beach Reserve in Byron Bay. At the official opening at The Beach Hotel, there was a buzz of anticipation before the winners were announced including the winner of the art piece gallery sculpture prize.

Winner of the artsCape Biennial Sculpture Prize is Melt by Dominique Sutton and Sasha Reid
Winner of the art piece gallery Sculpture Prize is Spindrift by Bronwyn Berman

Winner of the artsCape Biennial Local Artist Prize is Diving Bell by Virginia Reid
Winner of the Linnaeus Sculpture Prize is Murray Cod by Wendy Mills

Nadine Abensur, the director of art piece gallery, was delighted to present Bronwyn with the winner's cheque for $1000 and to invite her to exhibit at art piece gallery. Having found her task of selecting one winner exceptionally difficult with the exceptionally high standard and variety of work on show at artsCape, Nadine has also invited her four other shortlisted artists to join Bronwyn in the show which will most likely take place in April 2011. The five exhibiting sculptors will therefore be:

Bronwyn Berman
Dominique Sutton
Emma Davies
Lucy Vader, and
Barbara Licha

Congratulations to all the winners and to the artsCape team for a wonderful event.

artist Hilary Herrmann in joint exhibition at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
11 June 2010

Opening today and running until 7 August is an exhibition of the work of Hilary Herrmann and Kendal Murray. If you're visitng Coffs, do take some time to drop in to the Gallery located in Rigby House on the corner of Coff and Duke Streets, Coffs Harbour. The Gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday between 10am and 4pm, and on Sunday afternoons and entry is free.
If you can't make it to Coffs Harbour, then drop in to art piece gallery and have a look at some of Hilary's work that is on exhibtion here.
Congratulations to Hilary on her exhibition from all at art piece gallery.

Mirra Winni Gaze wins first prize in NPWS Aboriginal Art Awards at Lismore Regional Gallery
5 June 2010

 

Bruce McLean, Associate Curator of Indigenous Australian Art, at the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, chose local artist Mirra Winni Gaze as winner of the 2010 NPSW Aboriginal Art Award  for her work The Fish Trap and the Pot, made from woven grasses and a clay pot. Mirra-Winni said the work is 'Dedicated to the stolen generations. To all the little children taken from their parents. To the mothers and fathers. The pot represents strength and purity. The fish trap represents an ancient way of life living close to nature'.

Mirra Winni will have a new woven sculptural piece in the upcoming Fragile exhibition at art piece gallery from 2 July.

art piece gallery sponsors a sculpture prize at artsCape Biennial 2010
1 June 2010

Nadine Abensur, the director of art piece gallery, is pleased to announce that she is sponsoring the art piece gallery prize at artsCape this year. The winner of the prize will receive $1000 and an invitation to exhibit in the new gallery space at 70 Burringbar Street Mullumbimby.

art piece gallery re-opens to huge acclaim
15 May 2010

The re-opening of art piece gallery in its new location drew a crowd of more than 400 people to pack the gallery and the street outside. Officially opened by Brett Adlington, Director Lismore Regional Gallery, and with a welcome speech by gallery owner Nadine Abensur, the evening was a huge success.

A New Lease of life for art piece gallery
1 April 2010

After much to-ing and fro-ing, uncertainty and heartache, Artpiece Gallery is in the midst of changing location. We will soon be in a beautiful new shop at 70 Burringbar Street, Mullumbimby. It's bigger, brighter, smarter and we're going to celebrate by having a re-opening show:

"New Lease...." on Friday 14th May at 6.00 pm.

Featuring work by James Guppy, Michael Taylor, Emma Walker, Robyn Sweaney, Hilary Herrmann, Nell Pearson, Donna Malone, Nikky Morgan - Smith and many more of your favourite local artists.

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