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3 November –5 December 2017

The Tesserae Forest
Sue Hoskin, Gwen Smithers

Take a walk through a forest of tiles, glass, ceramics and paintings with Sue Hoskin and Gwen Smithers.  The two artists met through a local pottery club and share a common love of ceramics and mosaic.  Gwen, a garden lover, creates quirky pieces for the garden while Sue, an accomplished mosaic teacher, is not afraid to explore unique approaches to this ancient art.  The Cooroy Butter Factory welcomes Sue back as this is where she taught her very first mosaic class in 1999.

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DNA: Dad’n’Daughter
Peter Strickland & Kari

Dad and Daughter team up once again for a joint show; his paintings, her ceramics.  Inspired by the Australian landscape, and in particular the scarcity of water, Peter and Kari respond to their Queensland locality in homage to ecosystems. The lineage of landscape depicted in writhing riverbed, dwindling waterholes, patterns and footprints in stone or sand, plant and soil, colour or form.

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Butter Box II
Butter Factory Friends

Another eclectic exhibition from the Butter Factory Friends..

​Once again the Butter Factory Friends have come together to showcase their talents with a diverse collection of work that explores many aspects of life. The painters will be presenting a variety of subjects including, landscape, still life, animal life and also figurative imagery whilst the potters are exploring form and texture by handcrafting structures that combine beauty and functionality.

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22 September –31 October 2017

Gold Lotus
Michelle Mann
Creamery 

Michelle Mann is inspired daily by all that is around her, real and imaginary.  She expresses energy and emotion through her paintings giving the viewer an opportunity to enter her fantasy world.  The intuitive artworks in the Gold Lotus series are rich in colour and contain powerful messages.  Michelle hopes to inspire those who see her work, to step out of their daily life, take a few minutes and see the world from a different view.

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Making Light of the Dark
Ian Richter
Butter Box 

Making Light of the Dark is a collection of photographic images that speak to those people who have Depression, for within the images’ reversed state, all darkness becomes light, and colour is reversed.  It is hoped by ‘turning it around’, people who suffer from depression and related mental illness can be helped through an awareness and greater understanding of mental illness; people will know there is help out there and that they don’t have to go through it alone.  This exhibition provides a unique way for many people to view the world in a new light.  Making Light of the Dark is held in conjunction with Queensland Mental Health Week 2017.

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A Plethora of Flux 
Noosa District State High School
Foyer space

Wednesday 27 September - Tuesday 10 October 2017
An exhibition of student artworks from Noosa District State High School Junior Campus (Pomona).

Thursday 19 - Tuesday 31 October 2017
An exhibition of student artworks from Noosa District State High School Senior Campus (Cooroy).


Noosa District State High School Students present a diverse range of artworks, which reflect the plethora of thoughts, concerns, and emotions they experience daily in their world; a world characterised by constant flux.

Artwork by Kiah Jardine

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11 August –19 September 2017

Partners in Textile
Helen McIntosh, Cathy Moon, Sybil Orr
Foyer, Creamery & Butter Box

Sybil Orr, Cathy Moon and Helen McIntosh have been working in isolation for years, in exile if you like, developing their own unique style without much outside influence.  
Recently the three artists discovered they were all at the same point in their practice and thinking along similar lines.
This exhibition brings together disparate personalities, methods, skills, and knowledge bases to create a showcase full of excitement, colour, originality and ideas.
The common thread of fibre binds them together.

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Friday 7 July – Tuesday 8 August 2017

Activ8... create
Foyer, Creamery & Butter Box

Activ8 is a group of eight local experienced artists who actively engage in their chosen medium and forms of expression. The exhibition showcases an eclectic range of works from representational and abstract paintings in oil and acrylic, functional and abstract ceramics and glass slumped and fired.

Participating artists include: Anna Howard, Sam Vatovey, Rick Gruin, Helen Lawson, Vit Martinek, Annie McDonald, Yeats Gruin, Rowley Drysdale.

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Friday 19 May – Sunday 25 June 2017

Here & Then
Trevor Purvis

​Foyer and Creamery 

Here in my Cooroy studio , I stand every day, confronting my inspiration.
The majestic river gums of the Darling River, the vast Kalahari salt flats, the disappearing horizons of the Gibson and Simpson deserts, all come flooding in.

Then, in 2003, I realised, as I drove past the dense suburbs of nine to five life into the open arms of the Australian outback, that life would never be the same again.  I had discovered a new reality. Every lonely gidgee tree, every dry riverbed was an exciting new experience just waiting to be captured on canvas.
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Then, I realised that this subject matter would forever be my inspiration.
Here is an exhibition of that inspiration.

trevorpurvis.me

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Circle of Life
Noosa Life Art Circle
​Butter Box 

​An exhibition of life-drawing and works inspired by, or evolved from, the weekly gatherings of the Noosa Life Art Circle group.

Thank you to Noosa Arts Theatre for the generous loan of stage props on display in the Circle of Life exhibition.

​Also to Anne Grant, 3B Creative, for the loan of soft furnishings.

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​7 April –16 May 2017

Bound, Bundled &Boxed 
Dam Dames

Foyer and Butterbox

​Exploring the ideas and associations that arise from the words “bound”, “bundled” and “boxed” has led the artists to some very subjective responses: especially when one considers the English language allows for different meanings for the same word within different contexts.
 By choosing to work alone within an agreed brief and regular consultations, they have presented a broad interpretation of words that are common in our everyday lives.
Robyn Gill is an internationally known ceramicist, Jean Cameron is a sculptor and painter, and Ann Brown works with textiles and printmaking.

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Exploring the Unknown
Ute Grigull

Creamery

​What happens to the self in a new land, a different continent, a totally unknown landscape, foreign culture and everything familiar is left behind?

Ute Grigull embraced the challenge and opened herself to the new. Through her paintings she searches for connection to the new land.  The forms and structures of nature, of earth, water, clouds and vegetation are all simultaneously the artist's source of inspiration.  Ute's collection of paintings describe the tale of her journey.

Ute Grigull, New Pathways, 2015, acrylic on canvas. Image courtesy of the artist.

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3 May -16 May 2017

Wonderland
Australian Body Art Festival 2017

Butterbox

Coral Goddess, Rosemary Beard. Photo of winning airbrush body art by Kelli McAlpine in 2014.

An exhibition of images by up to 20 photographers, professional and amateur, who documented the 2017 Australian Body Art Festival. The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to enjoy the colour, fun and frivolity of the Australian Body Art Festival and experience behind the scenes over the two days of the competition. The theme for 2017 is “Wonderland”.

Organised by Cooroy Chamber of Commerce Inc.

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3 March -5 April 2017

Cluster
McCotter & Co

Foyer and Butterbox

A group exhibition featuring paintings, textiles and furniture by McCotter, Goodman, McCarthy, Mitchell, Musk, Pullen, Sedgman, Vo’ia Design and GPAI Creative.

​This Very Egypt
Tarja Ahokas

Creamery

Tarja AHOKAS, Transient, 2013. Mixed Media on Canvas. Image: Courtesy of the artist.

​This exhibition embraces the wonder of Ancient Egypt. That the culture of Ancient Egypt still resonates thousands of years later and is globally recognised is especially relevant to Ahokas and her work. Expressing the culture, magic and mysteries of life in Ancient Egypt is the focus for her paintings and a constant source of fascination. The symbolism, particularly of animals, often portrayed in hybrid form is of specific interest to the artist. Concepts of animals as sacred deities and the Egyptian gods are explored in visual images. Scarab beetles, have especially caught Ahokas’ imagination and reoccur throughout the work. 

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13 January -19 February 2017

The Great Beauty and Other Stories
Diane Green
​Creamery

Diane Green, Ramona 2016, Oil on canvas. Image courtesy of the artist.

Some fictional characters cannot be forgotten. Threads of their sensibility stay with us forever, embedded in our psyches, changing our own sensibilities in ways that are often only barely perceived.
The Great Beauty and Other Stories is an investigation into the absolute giving over of ourselves to some film characters, their power to seduce and our willingness to follow. We travel with them on journeys of love, hate, hope and fear, building impassioned connections that leave us satiated and replete. The paintings are an attempt to pin down and hold onto these profoundly satisfying but fleeting journeys of surrender and love.

Blue
Ronzo
​Butterbox

Ronzo, Palm Beach, 2016. Oil on canvas. Image courtesy of the artist.

Blue is a celebration of the great Australian beach and the old 'cruisey' surf culture. 
A tale about losing oneself to the sunshine, swimming in the sea, drinking in the wild air, the encounter and in the feeling of being changed.
Someone once said, paintings are meant to get your blood racing and anything that gets your blood racing is probably a good thing.

Under Pressure - Significance in Surface
Yvonne Moloney-Law

Foyer

Yvonne Moloney-Law, Gawula, Cycle of Creation, Intaglio print. Image courtesy of the artist.

Under Pressure - Significance in Surface is a pictorial journey of experimental mark-making that exploits media and surfaces that form the contemporary printmaking practice of Yvonne Moloney-Law.

Mixed media works and large scale intaglio prints reference the geography of Capricornia, the Tarkine and Arthur River regions of Tasmania as well as the water catchment areas of the Glasshouse Mountains of the Sunshine Coast.  Each resembles a cartographic map superimposed with layers of meaning influenced by the traditional custodians and scientific research associated with each landscape.

Link to write up on Regional Print.

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December 2016 –11 January 2017

AZURE
Kym Angelique Wavés

Angelique Wavés, Bold Spirit, (manipulated image), 2016, Acrylic on canvas. Image courtesy of the artist.

AZURE reveals her Kym Angelique Wavés’ latest ode to the ocean.  Her contemporary abstractions of the coastal landscape allow the viewer to experience the ocean from an alternate perspective.
From interpretations of eroding sand lines, salt laced water marks to vigorous expressions of deep sea and curling breaks, this exhibition captures the many shades of blue of our local coastline.

PlaceD
Robert Natoli

Robert Natoli, Landscape Study #4, 2016, Oil on Canvas. Photographer Robert Natoli

How does place influence the artist? The exhibition PlaceD represents a selection of work from 2008 to 2016 whilst artist Robert Natoli travelled and lived in NSW, Queensland, the Kimberley, South East Asia, Tasmania, Victoria and finally returning to the Sunshine Coast.
The exhibition explores how the characteristics of a place influence not only the style, marks and palette of the artist but the very approach to artmaking.
Place is more than just a geographical location and viewers are invited to ponder and explore broader themes and concepts raised in the works.

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