ART
Central Coast based international artist Maree Azzopardi will open her new exhibition of recent works in solo, Fireworks, at Gosford Regional Gallery on October 29.
The new body of artwork has been created over the past 18 months with ink, works on paper, paintings, and embellishments of gold and charcoal scavenged post bushfire and flood from Central Coast beaches.
In her works, Azzopardi questions the human condition in contexts of war, grief, loss and regeneration and where we stand in the bigger picture of the challenging world.
The exhibition will be on show until December 13.
Two more exhibitions will open on November 4 and be on show until January 29, 2023 – Lionel’s Place: Lionel Lindsay from the Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection and Underscoring the Commons: James Hazel.
Lionel’s Place showcases more than 140 artworks created by Lionel Lindsay, an artist who honed his skills in etching and wood engraving so finely that by 1927 he was hailed as the most internationally successful Australian printmaker of all time.
The exhibition showcases the artist’s etchings, wood engravings and watercolours, works on paper rich in visual texture.
They depict scenes from abroad and closer to home, exotic and domestic animals and birds, and the lushness of gardens, floral abundance and portraiture.
Lionel’s Place is a Maitland Regional Art Gallery Touring Exhibition.
Underscoring the Commons is a project by James Hazel, who uses sound to explore the idea of the shared “commons” – the relationship between communities and the social/physical environments that are integral for sustaining lives and livelihoods.
Through each iteration of Underscoring the Commons, Hazel works with communities to construct a musical-score of the geographic and social ecologies of sites with complex working-class histories.
In the creation of UTC: 33.4267° S, 151.3417° E (the coordinates of Gosford), Hazel will conduct recordings of soundscapes, community music ensembles, and interviews with residents.
This ever-expanding, living, and breathing archive will form a listening experience available on looped broadcast in Gosford Regional The gallery, where Hazel will invite community input through QR codes, to be woven into the tapestry of the score.
James Hazel is an artist, writer, and researcher who works across video, text and extended score practices.
Source: Media release, Oct 24, 2022 Central Coast Council