Oct. 19 - Nov. 27 2018.

Butter Factory Friends' Finest 
Annual Members' Exhibition in the Butterbox

IMAGE:  Artwork details by BFF members (L-R) : ​Dale Leach, Taryn King, Anne Gustavsson, Natalie Barlow, Jennie McDowell, Fiona Groom ,Tarja Ahokas, Dennis Forshaw, Pam Chalker, Kate Lee-Foley, Trevor Purvis. 

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Eclectica is the annual members exhibition for our Butter Factory Friends group. 
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​Painters, potters, jewellers  and ceramicists make up our much valued BFAC community and this annual exhibition offers an insight into the variety and scale of talent in our region.

Free of a particular theme or media requirements, Eclectica is an exhibition of artists
united in their connection to community.
We're excited to show their works in our space, which they support with their
time, energy, skill and membership!

Join us to experience the variety!
​Our Butterbox space will be full of incredible creations.

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Local Heroes Portrait Prize
BFAC Inaugural Portrait Prize 

IMAGES: (from left) Val by Gai Cook, Charles by Lew Brennan and Gai by Anne Davenport

JOIN us as we open our inaugural portrait prize, Local Heroes. 
Over 35 entries present each artist's chosen representative of the theme: a local hero.  Its a broad theme and each artist has run with it! We may even have some animals!
Archibald Prize finalist, Jandamarra Cadd will judge the prize and announce the winner at the Official Opening, from 5pm Saturday October 20.
A prize of $500.00 will be awarded to the work selected as the winner. ​
There is also a $250 peoples choice award.​

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Oct 19- Nov 27

Noosa District State High School 
Junior and Senior Annual Exhibitions-
​OCT 19 - NOV 27

Senior Students 
 Oct. 19 - Nov. 6
Official Opening: 6pm Thursday October 18.

​Join us for the Official Opening of Noosa District State High school's Senior Campus' annual exhibition from 6pm, Thursday, October 18. 

Students present works created throughout the year for a fantastic insight into what inspires and stirs their passions.  

Various media, concepts and styles on show come for a glimpse into the future!

IMAGE: (Left) 'Hidden from Sight', Charli Crosby (2018). 

Junior Students 
 08- 27 Nov. 
Official Opening: 3pm Thursday November 08.

​The second part of this annual partnership sees us open NDSHS Junior campus's annual exhibition from 3pm, Thursday November 08.

Standout works created throughout 2018 reveal another insight into the lives and minds of our region's young creatives.
 
We'd love to share it with you. 

IMAGE: (Left) 'Death by Sugar', TBA(2018). 

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8 Sept- 16 Oct. 2018

 Gumboil Street Artist including:
​Heidi & Kurt Becker, Chantal Desplat, Lily Hass, Monika Juengling,
​Tammy McGarry, Pamela Mitchell, Pauline Ramsay- Murray, Heidi Woodman
Foyer, Creamery & Butter Box

​Nine diverse artists all living in the same street who share a common bond - the love of art – making it and appreciating it. 
With no imposed themes or restraints this exciting exhibition showcases a diverse range covering much of the art spectrum including jewellery, painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture and garden art. 

Sponsors of this event

A Street Shows It’s Art acknowledges the wonderful support of David Berns Real Estate and Noosa Today.

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​27th July - 4th September

Unearth a Secret Realm
Fiona Groom
Creamery

Creamery: Fiona Groom ​UNEARTH a secret realm
Leaf litter may not be very exciting but if you look closer all will be revealed- Unearth explores the hidden world in our bushland, open forests and even in our own backyards, a life that’s all about survival, camouflage and adaptation. Unearth is a snapshot of that life, a reminder of what can be lost if we don’t preserve our gardens and bushland.

Mood and Mind
Wendy Epp 
Foyer

​These paintings result from a long held interest in the mind and perception. For several years Wendy's  work focused on the brain, and produced deep, sometimes gloomy, images. After her last exhibition at  B.F.A.C. her output has blossomed, colour and image-wise, moving to a happier place where mood is influenced by surroundings, adventures, colour and life experience. Perception is forefront in her consideration. Symbolism is used to portray places and experiences, but always emphasizing mood. Join Wendy's visual journey.  

Reflection de la Vie
Michele Rudder
Butterbox

Michele paints not what she “sees”, but more what she “thinks.”
A new style has emerged, like coming from another side of creativity. Having “mirror vision” (like Leonardo Dan Vinci) helped her to be between the “Real” and the “Unreal.” Michele looks at her painting and checks it in a big mirror set in her studio,  like leaving between two worlds and  having different perspectives, transforming her vision.

 This is why Michele signs these latest works backwards.

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22 June –24 July 2018 

Connect 3.
​Denise McMahon, Jennifer Neubecker and Kym Tabulo
                     

​Contemporary abstract artists. Denise McMahon, Jennifer Neubecker and Kym Tabulo draw on the traditions of abstract art as they transform their well explored theories and experiments into three distinct but complementary practices. 

Each drawing or painting represents a universal aim that binds the trio, and their show: that is to value both conscious and intuitive decisions into their their works,
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Sensitive to each other's aesthetics, and the experience of the viewer, the three friends hope to nurture a sense of visual adventure that showcases the wonders of creative abstraction.

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May 11 - June 19. 2018

 As Time Goes By
 Kaya Sulc

Kaya Sulc, Itsme, Copper. Image Courtesy of Artist

Kaya Sulc, The Bathroom.Oil. Image Courtesy of Artist

A 40 Year Retrospective
Cooroy Local since 1987 displays his lifes work
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​"The human figure fascinates me both as a source of complex shapes and forms and as a subject of great evocative power. In my work I use simplification, exaggeration and distortion in order to enhance the expressive quality of my figures. However, they remain firmly based in reality because, although I am well aware of the expressive potential of the underlying abstract forms, I need the emotive content of associations and mystery provided by the human image. I want my figures to look real in an unrealistic way; distorted but ‘possible’, capable of life, and as such, reflecting real life in their ‘un-realness’, their ambiguity, contradiction, even absurdity. To this end I like, for instance, to upset a near-traditional concept of a figure by a sudden gigantic arm, or to disturb a quiet harmony by an unexpected splash of Fauve colour. My large sculptures are constructed over steel armature from beaten and brazed copper sheets, with the joints in the metal accentuated to contradict the realism of the figure. Small sculptures I sometimes cast in bronze."  Kaya Sulc

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 April 06– May 08, 2018

​hARTland
Nicole Harper
Foyer Space

Mango tree hill_Nicole Harper_acrylic on canvas_2017. Image courtesy of the artist.

​Exploring landscape to find a home.
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An exhibition of landscape images by regional artist Nicole Harper exploring the concept of landscape, including its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Using everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point, an image is composed to rouse our imagination and emotions rather than presenting a factual reality in the artists search for a new heartland. ​

Expressions
Marcus Beach Artisans
Creamery Space

​“Expressions” is a visually rich exhibition of painting, ceramics and photography. The genesis for the Expressions Exhibition lies in our personal responses to the environment.  The Marcus Beach Artisans are three visual artists, a sculptor and a photographer.  Each of us brings our own meaning to the word “Expressions”, be it a literal expression in the work, a sense of expanding horizons through form, medium and technique, or a spiritual dimension.

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EveryWoman- Beautiful. _Heather-Lee Murphy_2018. Image courtesy of the artist

Art of the Body 
Community Show
Butter Box 
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BFAC’s first Art of the Body, an exhibition celebrating the beauty of the human form from a variety of perspectives  to coincide with the Australian Body Art Festival. 
This is a community show where ​the artworks will be the human figure, exploring the beauty of our anatomy.

​The classification is PG as there will be some nudity. 

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23 Feb –3 April 2018

Arts Connect.. Untethered
Whole Gallery

An exploration of new and challenging ideas where the artists have the opportunity to open their creative minds freed from restraints, habitual directions, imposed boundaries and conventional artistic limitations.
Our exhibition aims to encourage artists to explore and create artworks that reveal much.
Beauty, strength, vulnerability, power, joy, tenderness, anger, delight, sadness can all expressed in a variety of both actual and perceived ideology and emotion. The aim of the exhibition is to allow both artists and viewers the freedom to interpret these works in ways that may free them from conventional expectations.

Participating artists include: Carol Weir, Annie McIntosh, Chris Blake, Christine Elcoate, Deann Cumner, Dorothy Haig, Jennifer Caseldine, Jacky Lowry, Jo Turner, Judi Parkinson, Robin Yates, Catherine Day, Margie Lipscombe, Miles Allen, Jennifer Harris, Victoria Fitzpatrick, Kaye Leech, Jim Cox,  Nicci Parry- Jones, Olga Garner- Morris.

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19 January –20 February 2018

Eye View- Captured Images
​Ruth Horton
Foyer Space

Eye View- Captured Images takes into account the level on which we see images and objects.  
Work can be seen from above, on the horizon line or below. The role of the artist is to constantly observe and record, to create imaginative responses and to continually experiment and consolidate ideas through a variety of media. This is a collection, a documentation of travels and memories.

Burls of Australia
​John Willis
Butter Box Space

​​A burl develops as a growth on the tree, a virus fasciation causing radical cell distortion & an irregular grain. Each sculpture is unique, first carefully remove from the tree then carved and smoothed. John takes his time allowing the beauty to reveal itself slowly. Its natural shape, colour and grain coming alive in the process. Which can take anywhere from 15-100 hours for each burl.
The connection between artist and burl leaves a lasting energy within each piece. Bringing certain warmth to any given place. Although difficult to part with these extraordinary sculptures deserved to be shared & loved.

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Shapes & Scapes
Carol Watkins, Helen Saint-Smith
Creamery

​Shapes and Scapes brings together two artists passionate about the arts.  Meeting by chance on a Kimberley cruise 2 years ago, Helen Saint-Smith and Carol Watkins discovered their mutual interests.  While Helen considers herself primarily an Urban Landscape Artist, her current work finds her looking at landscape and nature with a geometric eye.  She works mainly in acrylics, enjoying the effect of the solid bold colours and the immediacy of the medium.  Carol’s specialty is alternative and atmospheric firing methods such as raku, smoke and saggar.  She doesn’t produce a lot of functional work, but rather concentrates on textures, glazes, glaze free work, and glaze on glaze work resulting in organic, sculptural and one-off pieces. These two artists have drawn on their different skills to deliver paintings and ceramics which will delight the eye.

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December 2017 –16 January 2018

Five Angles :​
​Degrees of Inclination
Jeanne O’Neill, Katy Drake, John Drake, Angharad Drake & Reuben Drake
Foyer Space

Jeanne O’Neill, Untitled, Acrylic on canvas 2017. Image courtesy of the artist.

Jeanne O’Neill, Katy Drake and John Drake, together with the second-generation Drakes, Angharad and Reuben, present a lively exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, Lino cuts, Etchings, Ceramics, Mosaic and Music.  Jeanne’s work draws on her experience of travels throughout Queensland; Katy’s paintings and ceramics reflect a love of home and garden; John exhibits from his latest series of lino-cuts and etchings; Reuben develops colourful compositions based on still lives, and Angharad, a nationally acclaimed singer-songwriter – performing on opening night - exhibits hand-painted ceramics from her ‘Australian Natives’ collection.

Her Show
Christine Mellor
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Creamery Space

Christine Mellor, 2017, Verdronken, Oil and resin on board. Image courtesy of the artist

The issues surrounding life and death are puzzling, and often complicated. Christine touches on some of these issues via a process beginning with the collection of native flora and fauna from her local area, which are transformed into paintings and small objects.  As the viewer steps a little closer, Christine hopes to create a moment for quiet contemplation.

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