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​18 Oct - 26 Nov 

Journey of Discovery
​Cliff Bauer & Sylvia Free
​Creamery

Sylvia Free_Celestial Void_ Glass

Cliff Bauer_Forest Floor_ Oil on Canvas

​"The real journey of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having fresh vision." (Marcel Proust)

​This exhibition showcases the meeting of two very different mediums in the art world. On one hand Cliff’s oil paintings capture the beauty and fragility of nature while Sylvia’s visually spectacular work utilises manipulated natural elements frozen in time within prisms of glass. The explosive need to express a concept and vision in the medium of their choosing is a marvel of both artists. The creative journey for both Cliff and Sylvia has developed over several years. This exhibition is part of that evolving narrative.   

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​From Within
​Vit Martinek & Anna Howard
Butterbox

Anna Howard_Breath (detail) _Oil on Canvas

Vit Martinek _RosaKorrale_ Stoneware Paperclay

As the title , “From Within”,  implies, the works are aspects of the continuing struggle to express a multitude of facets of our daily lives; the good, the bad, the joyful, the sad….

​​Our exhibition of paintings and ceramic sculptures are the culmination of this couples work in the last two years.
It reflects not just these moments lived of the last two years, but also the memories of decades past.

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A Plethora of Flux
Noosa District State High School 
Foyer

Senior Art Exhibition Years 10-12
 18th Oct - 5th November

 Images by  :Evan Ryan, Jasmin Smith, Kate Cordwell

Junior high school art years 7-9 
7th - 26th November 

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7th Sep - 15th Oct

Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art
North Coast Regional Exhibition

Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art  Regional Exhibition showcases the outstanding visual artworks by senior high school students.

The awards focus on the outstanding achievements of senior visual art students.
Selected student works demonstrate:

•  highly developed imagery and or iconography with effective and deliberate communication of meaning
• expressive and or innovative aesthetic choices through the control of visual language
• purposeful and considered manipulation and exploitation of media, techniques and processes
• application of knowledge and critical understanding of media, techniques and processes that allows a

          thorough degree of visual and expressive resolution

• sustained engagement, which invites further inquiry from the onlooker.

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In recognition of the breadth of the visual arts, the awards include mediums of video, film and electronic imaging as well
as ceramics, costume and stage design, drawing, environmental design, fibre arts, graphic design, installation, painting,
performance art, photography, printmaking, product design and sculpture.
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The awards offer the only collective exhibition of senior student work from each region of the state. It is an initiative that
has led to widespread recognition of the excellent work senior art students are producing.

Rebecca Ryan_ Diagnosis_2019

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26 July - 3 Sept.

Joy of the Journey
The BRAG Trade

The BRAG Trade is a collective of early career artists with common links through volunteering at the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) featuring 5 artists - Kevin Aldcroft, Gabrielle McDonald, Paul Perry, Patricia Sheppard and Raymond Singleton.

This exhibition is the largest body of work the artists have presented in one place... examining the Joy of the Journey:

• the joy of creating
• the joy of each artistic journey
• the joy of travel expressed visually &
• the joy of where the resulting artwork may take the viewer.

The exhibition will explore the artists’ diverse relationships with forms, themes and techniques. Many of the works are visually inspired pieces with unconventional painting techniques, dimensional drawings and multi-patterned pieces. 

This exhibition sees the individual journeys of the artists momentarily converge and hopefully, creates a destination that evokes joy, raises possibilities and challenges others. 

Work Details by Kevin Aldcroft, Paul Perry, Raymond Singleton, Gabrielle McDonald and Patricia Sheppard.

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June 21- July 23

Hear my Voice
First Nations Artists
Foyer

With ambassador and exhibiting artist Jandamarra Cadd alongside Paul Calcott  this exhibition is about showcasing our established and emerging  First Nation artists residing here on Gubbi Gubbi, Kabi Kabi Country. To give these artists a place and platform to share their work. While offering an opportunity to show their artworks to a greater audience and gaining more exposure.. Also giving them a visual voice to share their creative expression.. Whether it be derived from their traditional stories or individual based pieces or something they feel passionate about, this exhibition will hopefully instill confidence and validation for what they do .. And having it coincide with NAIDOC week will be even more special as this time and the theme for this year is very pertinent to this exhibition.
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The National NAIDOC Committee invites all Australians to walk with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in a movement of the nation for a better future, this year at BFAC we would like to honour our traditional custodians of the land on which we gather by holding this exhibition during NAIDOC. 

“It’s time for our knowledge to be heard through our voice. – an Indigenous voice of this country that is over 65,000 plus years old.”
NAIDOC Co Chair John Paul Janke
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This project is  proudly supported by Queensland  Regional Arts Fund with a quick response grant through Flying Arts.

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Shaped by Nature
Alan Pirie & Fiona Cuthbert O'Meara
​Creamery 

An interplay between polarity and perspective, microcosm and macrocosm, nature versus nurture which creates the pull for us to reach our highest potential.

'Shaped by Nature' is a dual exhibition of oil paintings by Alan Pirie (Lyn McRae finalist) & ceramic works by Fiona Cuthbert O'Meara (Taste of Art, Noosa's 3D prize winner).

Embracing the relationship between what it is to be "skilled"  at one's craft and what it is that the materials we work with show the urgency to become.
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​These forms that emerge from our hands or paintbrush are the expressions and stories of our own relationship to the earth and ultimately ourselves. 

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A Class Act
Students of Artist/Teacher Michael Winters
Butterbox

This exhibition showcases the work of 9 of Michael Winters students who have attended the McGregor Summer School. Michael noted over the past few years that the work produced was of such high quality it deserved to be exhibited. All Michael's classes are “Theme Driven,” in this case the classes had the titles "Inviting Picasso; Bonnard to Your Home.; Still Life ; and Life Stilled."
Michael uses a range of highly creative, famous artists as “Creative Role Models” and the students produce work inspired by these artists. This exhibition showcases the best of the class work. 

 Images by  :Jessica Malousis, Janna Pameijer, Philippa Friend,
  (left- right) Helen Saint-Smith, Jane Clark, Marianne Reardon,
 (top - bottom)  Noni Metler,Susan Mears, Robyn Wight.

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10 May - 18th June

Conversations between Internal Landscapes
Margaret Builder 

Creamery
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Labeling shapes stops you from seeing, my abstract work is the whole collection of shapes, it is a whole being, living.
The idea is for it to evoke a feeling of whatever it is that is evoked in you, not what I was trying to tell you to feel, or what a small label might have you feel, but an overall feeling, a reflection of your own internal world.
Lets say the work is in a language you don’t know and it is somehow expressing to you an experience that is new and that is your own, from inside you.

Margaret Builder: Abstract I

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Life Above and Below the Water
Rod McArter

 Foyer

The concept for this exhibition is around the peace and tranquility that the ocean and rivers provide. 
It’s both exciting and calming, at the same time. This attracts the sense of independence and the satisfaction of being cut off from the outside dramas of a wider-world creating, through the sometimes abstract composition, the illusion and sense of being in one’s own world ensuring a sense of tranquility.
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These paintings continue to appeal to both the high number of both fisherman and naturalists and those who like to be at one with the environment.

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Behind BFAC
Butter Factory Arts Centre Staff

​Butterbox
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As the Butterbox hosts 'A Real Taste of Noosa' Food and Wine event and Cooroys Fusion festivals' art activites, BFAC’s staff are invited to exhibit to demonstrate BFAC’s behind the scene talents from the peeps who keep the place humming.  All with a commitment to their art practice and inspiring the creative community, Behind BFAC showcases a diverse range of works by Alison Mooney, Zoe Martin, Alicia Sharples, Fiona Groom, Micheal Ciaverella, Bron Lawson and Alicia Adams. 

Images (L-R): Alicia Sharples, Bron Lawson, Fiona Groom, Alison Mooney, Zoe Martin, Micheal Ciaverella and Alicia Adams.

Kindly supported by CreateArt

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5 April - 7 May 2019

Evocation 
Karma Victoria Bains

​This connection between different cultural representations of the sacred are captured in my work through a fusion of skills ranging from embroidery, painting, printmaking and bookmaking among others
Inspired by the goddess, the universal woman, ancient symbols of life, light and power – the magic of which continues to resonate in the modern world.

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Reluctant Vessels and the Thoughts we Carry
Katrin Terton

Experience multisensory works by Katrin Terton as she ponders ‘the vessel’ and the infinite ways in which we fill them. From the literal or poetic to metaphysical container for our emotions and ideas. 

Katrin Terton

Katrin Terton

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.Art of the Body
The 2nd annual Figurative Art Exhibition exploring the human form during the Australian Body Art Festival 2019. The Noosa Hinterland town of Cooroy, home to BFAC and ABAF welcomes around 7000 people to town, this exhibition celebrates the love of the human form. The subject matter for artworks is the human figure and 2D, 3D and multimedia, last year the exhibition housed 50 works from 27 artists. 

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01 March - 02 April 2019

Illuminate
Presented in collaboration with W.I.N.D.O

IMAGE (L - R): Work details by Lizzie Connor; Ann Gustavsson; Margaret Builder; Yanni van Zijl; Rosie Lloyd-Gilbert. 

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A handpicked exhibition showcasing the works of female artists based in the Noosa, Sunshine Coast and Gympie Regions. 

Over 12 months in the making, 'Illuminate' is a first collaboration for BFAC and W.I.N.D.O ( Women Initiating New Directions* ), platforming our region's female creatives and in sync with International Women's Day & Queensland Women's Week.

Each piece is presented in response to the broader subject: 
 Contemporary Landscapes of Women Imagined

 'Illuminate' features paintings, sculpture, new media installation and film chosen for their conceptual connection to theme. 
The subject invites commentary on the social, cultural or political landscapes that inform the artists' lives as women.


*Women Initiating New Directions Organization (WINDO) Inc. is a volunteer-run not for profit group based on the Sunshine Coast. WINDO aims to create positive social and cultural change through a powerful, inspiring and educational combination of thought leadership and the arts.  Find out more, here
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This project is supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund.  The Regional Arts Development Fund is a partnership between the Queensland Government and Noosa Shire Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland."
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XX Factor
Sunshine Coast Potters go BIG! 

SIXTEEN Sunshine Coast ceramicists go large for this invitational exhibition run in conjunction with International Women's Day and WINDO and co-curated by Nicci Parry Jones. 

Artists include Belinda Stanton, Carol Watkins, Nicci Parry-Jones, Jackie Gasson, Rebecca Lindemann, Fiona Cuthbert O’Meara, Kaye Leach, Julie Wall,  Valerie Willy, Merrie Tomkins, Margie Gibson, Domi Cohen, Sandra Robertson, Cathy Lawley, Paula Bowie, Lee Berryman and Tania Edwards
 
'XX factor' removes typical constraints placed on Hinterland ceramicists by inviting these artists to create works of scale and gusto - each piece measures at least 50cm - 60cm in either direction.

This exhibition shines a light on the extraordinary talent of our region’s women ceramic artists. 

We're excited to reveal an insight into their unique passion and creativity.

IMAGE:  'Vessels' (2018) by Nicci Parry jones

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18 Jan - 26 Feb. 2019

Master of the Light
Wolfgang Lämmle

Foyer

This Internationally acclaimed ‘Master of Light’ with a colourful history in the arts, Wolfgang Lammle gives us a peak into his masterful collection …  perhaps for the last time. 

Born in Germany in 1941, Lämmle has spent nearly his entire life as an artist.  Encouraged at a young age, he trained and worked as a printer, until opening his own gallery and furthering his education in France.

A leading Impressionist, Lämmle has been sought after ​ as a teacher and master of light internationally.  Now living his final years residing in the picturesque Cooroy hinterland, it is a pleasure to be able to showcase this unique collection of his works here at the Butter Factory Arts Centre.

Wolfgang Lämmle Sunbathing Nude

The Interior Series
​Emma Nancarrow

Creamery

Contemporary painter and online entrepreneur brings her vibrant paintings to BFAC for the first time. 
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" I love to see the spaces that people are creating - all of them unique. These designs reflect the individuals, families and groups that inhabit them. 

"It’s these homes, work spaces, sanctuaries - that constantly inspire me to produce individual and special artworks that can either complete a room or be the starting statement piece of their creation, " Emma Nancarrow. 

Emma Nancarrow "From a Friend"

Muet
Barbara Ziolek and Catherine Reason Macauley

Butterbox

Both Barbara and Catherine as artists focus on the essence of women as their subject with imaginings that perhaps take many weeks to produce, a lifetime of observation, and a devotion to the arts to capture a moment in time.  In respect to the title of “Muet”, what can we really say, when the title tells you not to say anything at all.  Which brings us to “The Importance of Ironing Pom Poms”.

 Catherine Reason Macauley  Joan of Art                                                     Barbara Ziolek Eyes

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30 Nov 2018- 15 Jan 2019

​[SQUEEZE]

[SQUEEZE] 2018 is a catalyst for visual art educators from a diverse range of working environments to share the common aim of allocating time to maintain or re-fresh their art making. This collaborative exhibition opportunity provides valuable Professional Development for Visual Arts educators on the Sunshine Coast.
The [SQUEEZE] exhibition is held on a biennial basis with [SQUEEZE] 2018 set to be the 8th exhibition in this series. 

With over 30 local educators who are artists dedicating themselves to their practice for this biennial exhibition in its first carnation at BFAC 

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Twisted Tales
​Dale Leach

​Reciting Nursery Rhymes to our children is one of the most rewarding first steps to  developing children’s  language skills and extending their vocabulary. Nursery Rhymes are usually short and easy to remember and in times when many people were unable to read and write Nursery Rhymes were passed from one generation to the next and their secret histories were forgotten. Twisted Tales unearths some of  these secret histories and brings other Rhymes into the naughties. 

Mary Mary by Dale Leach

Early to Bed by Dale Leach