WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

Margaret Cruickshank and Kerrie

Cull and welcome back Betty Tan.

We hope you enjoy and make the

most of all that TAS has to offer.

President’s Report

At our May Committee meeting we decided to provide copies of our monthly Minutes and our 2013-14 Audit for your perusal. These are not for removal and will be kept in the library.

We also appointed a subcommittee comprising Diana Battle, Lee Perinet, Janice Gleeson and myself to organise this year’s Member’s exhibition in September. Stay tuned.

3 months into our financial year we’ve given up trying to remind those who have not renewed their subscriptions. If you’re reading this at home you are a member. Those who complain about not receiving monthly newsletters probably aren’t and should re-join ASAP.

With erratic numbers attending Thursday life drawing classes, paying our models has become an issue and I’ve decided to put the classes on ice from the end of May. Most of the enthusiasts who wanted afternoon classes in early 2005 have since moved on. Fortunately Mike Grice’s Monday evening classes are well patronised and can take extra persons, so life drawing will continue.

In Brisbane recently I visited the Philip Bacon Gallery for his Margaret Olley exhibition. I was particularly intrigued by unfamiliar early work, including marvellous watercolour on monotype drawings of Venice. Across Brunswick St in the new Brisbane Modern Art, Warwick-based Jane Donaldson had a most colourful solo exhibition. And the University of Queensland Art Museum has 2 exhibitions, the newly opened Remembering Brian & Marjorie Johnstone’s Galleries, and a particularly powerful exhibition, Conflict: Contemporary Responses to War in which 50 artists, Australian and international, work in a broad range of media from Afghan carpet weaving to Baden Pailthorpe’s amazing computer-generated films. War is certainly not my thing, but this exhibition is amazing. A good way of getting there is by City Cat to St Lucia, with a stroll up to the Mayne building. A River Cat ticket is valid for 2 hours.

Allan Bruce (30.05.14)

Current Exhibitions

2nd – 29th June Culliford Gallery

Perspectives Peter Fitzpatrick & Paul McCormack

Corridor

Life Around Me Helen Harris

Opening Hours

Monday – Thursday 9am – 12 noon

Saturday & Sunday

10am – 2pm

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TAS Printmaking Group: Brisbane excursion Last month, Saturday printmakers attended a one-day excursion to Brisbane to view two printmaking

galleries. The first, Grahame Galleries is run by Noreen Grahame. A converted home in Milton, the gallery

holds print exhibitions throughout the year. Prints by Queensland-based artist, Mona Ryder were on display

showcasing her diverse skills in dry point, etching and aquatint, wood cuts, and lithography in producing a

series of monochromatic, figurative and fantastical works which were produced in the 1980s. Members were

also shown a number of works not on display by various Australian and international printmakers and book

makers including Jorg Schmeisser, Ed Ruscha, Jennifer Marshall , Judy Watson, Normana Wight and Michael

Schlitz. Works have been obtained by Noreen across at least two decades including a restored piece she

rescued from the front of a second-hand store.

TAS members who completed a wood cut workshop

with Schlitz at TAS last year enjoyed seeing a number

of his works, including an artist’s book which contained

a number of small wood engravings. Although an

artist’s book should do more than just display prints,

the wide range provided members with ideas for

future printmaking series and how these may

complement a book format.

The group then headed to Impress Printmakers

Studio and Gallery which is located in Wooloowin.

The converted substation houses a gallery space on

the top floor, while studio space which can be

accessed by Impress members is available

underneath. The studio houses a range of presses

and has facilities for various printmaking forms

including lithography, etching, monoprinting, dry

point, aquatint, lino, wood block, screen printing

and/or book making etc. The group was given a

guided tour by Kristina Hall (President) and Sue

Pickford who showed the various facilities, and

gave the group insight into the several years of

hard work, passion, commitment and community

support it took for the group to establish a

permanent home after operating under a member’s

house for many years. Members were also

fortunate to observe a screen printing workshop in

the studio. Workshops are delivered by

experienced artists throughout the year and can

be booked online.

One member summed up her experience by stating: "I was almost overwhelmed with what we saw - I

didn't know it was possible to produce such work with a minimum of tools. I was particularly influenced

by some of the lino cuts at Impress Studio". Following both visits, members shared new ideas they had

gained for their own work and discussed the possibility of an Impress printmaking workshop being

organised for the Toowoomba region next year. Thank you to both galleries for providing creative

inspiration and highlighting the important role of printmaking in contributing to both the arts and

broader community.

For further information or gallery times for either Grahame Galleries or Impress please see their

websites. Thank you again to Ute, our fearless leader, for organising the trip. In June, members will meet

for a monoprinting workshop with Sandra Relf. For further information contact Ute at

ubraatz@yahoo.com

New members are always welcome, even if they don’t bring cake.

Jessica Harris

PHOTO GALLERY A very well-attended opening of Peter & Paul’s exhibition “Perspectives” and Helen Harris’s corridor

exhibition last Friday evening. Thank you to those TAS members who came to support the three

artists and to Mike Grice for stepping in at the last minute to open “Perspectives”.

TAS 2014/15 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 Treasurer, Membership Secretary, Librarian & Gardener I joined the TAS Tuesday group in 1995, and have been an active member ever since. 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 the many books donated over the years. 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 Art at Glennie. Now retired after 32 years of teaching, I coordinate exhibitions and produce the monthly newsletter. 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.

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.

CHARLIE BOYLE Exhibition ‘Hangman’

DIANA BATTLE Publicity Officer, Website Coordinator Painting has always been a favourite pastime for me - I find it exhausting but stimulating. Re-joining 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.

ALEX STALLING Since graduating from USQ with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons) in 2009, Alex has held numerous solo exhibitions, curated shows, founded two artist-run initiatives in Toowoomba, facilitated regular arts workshops, sat on various committees, presented and represented at various conferences, and has created public artworks across South East Queensland with a focus on Toowoomba. She currently teaches our after school children’s classes each week, and for the Education Department (USQ) Arts Curriculum and Pedagogy course.

JANICE GLEESON JOANNE WILLIAMS SUE ENGLART Patron

A very warm welcome to our three newest Committee members, Janice Gleeson, Alex Stalling & Joanne Williams

Entry forms are available

at TAS

ENTRY FORMS

PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS

To ensure your work is presented in a professional manner, please abide by the

criteria below:

D rings must be fitted to 2D works with either

cord or wire for hanging. The D rings should be attached within the top ¼ (25%) of the frame to prevent the frame hanging at too large an angle

from the wall. The cord or wire must be stretched taut between the D rings.

Unframed stretched canvases are acceptable but must be clean on the edges if they are left

unpainted.

On delivery of works, artists must wait to sign their works in. Works not signed in will not be

accepted.

A reminder that the 2014 Members’ Exhibition

1st – 28th September

is less than 2½ months away. You are all invited to submit up to 3 artworks for

consideration by the selectors. So, put you thinking caps on! The theme can be

interpreted in numerous ways ……….colours of spring, flora and fauna, children playing,

outdoor fun & games, renewal of life……….. .

The selectors/judges for the exhibition will be practising artists & arts workers who

will be looking for imaginative and original interpretation of the theme, skilful use of

mediums and techniques and adherence to the conditions of entry and presentation

requirements. Awards & prizes are as follows and will presented on the opening night:

1st Prize: Fred Gardiner Award - $750; Runner-up: Nancy Culliford Prize - $350; Patron’s

Choice; Highly Commended & Commended Certificates.

There is no entry fee but exhibitors must be financial members of TAS.

Entry forms must be received by 5pm Friday 15th August 2014. Late entries will not be accepted.

Artists may submit up to three entries.

All entries must have been completed within the past 12 months and not have been exhibited previously.

Works can be either 2D or 3D and may be in any medium from traditional to digital.

Works must be the artist’s original unaided work, not done under tuition, plagiarised or based on someone else’s artwork whether published or not.

The artist must allow images of work to be reproduced in any media promotion.

Works on paper must be framed, but a stretched canvas is considered framed – see presentation requirements.

All works must be professionally prepared for display and sale – see presentation requirements.

Maximum sizes: 2D – 1 sq. metre (variable dimensions) 3D – base: 60cm X 60 cm (variable height)

All works must be for sale and the sale price should include the 10% TAS commission and GST if applicable.

All works must have a label securely attached to the back with name, address, phone no., title of work, medium and price.

Works not selected for exhibition will be stored at TAS and artists will be notified regarding collection times.

Insurance is the responsibility of the artist. Whilst all care will be taken, TAS will not be responsible for any loss or damage, however caused.

Sold and unsold works must be collected between 4pm and 6pm Sunday, 28th September.

If sold work is to be forwarded to the buyer, the cost of postage should be added at the point of sale or borne by the artist. (Average $25 by Australia Post depending on size/weight)

CONDITIONS OF ENTRY

□ 5pm Friday 15th August Entry Forms due (Late entries will not be accepted)

□ 4 – 6pm Friday 29th August & 9am-12 noon Saturday 30th August

Deliver works to Culliford House

□ 6.30pm Friday 5th September

Official Opening and Awards Night at Culliford House

□ 4 – 6pm Sunday 28th September Collect unsold works

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

The Australian Landscape from the Air

Spirit Rider 2014 acrylic on canvas 54 x 64 cm

by Deirdra Drysdale

14 June – 13 July 2014

Cam Robertson Gallery

Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery

Portrayals of the Australian landscape from a perspective of over 30.000ft – an

inspirational perspective laden with surrealism and abstraction.