October 28 - December 4, 2022

Alt . kNOWledge
Noosa District State High School
Foyer

The art works on show are students’ expression of an alternative knowledge; they reveal surprising and engaging responses to their experience of Lake Cootharaba foreshore and the small township of Boreen Point. These diverse responses communicate both hopes and fears for the future, personal connections and realisations, environmental commentary, and fanciful imaginings.

OPENING EVENTS

Senior Show
FRIDAY OCTOBER 28, 5:30PM-7:30PM

Junior Show
NOVEMBER 18, 5:30PM - 7:30PM

Stephanie Hurst, True Spirits, (2022) 
Image courtesy of the artist 

Take Me Somewhere, Anywhere
Darren White
Creamery

Darren is a contemporary painter, capturing the Australian landscape through his easy-going lens of nostalgia and emotion. 

This collection of works are based around the spontaneous exploration of our surroundings, not limiting ourselves to routine but the practice of finding new things that you didn't necessarily know were there.

​The works follow a pattern of place, proximity and the unexpected, the idea of moving closer to the goal by going deeper into the unknown or unexplored.

This show is a part of Darren's own desire for the past 18 months an opportunity to express and represent my own experience of being somewhere, anywhere. 

First Thunder, acrylic and oil on polycotton canvas
Image courtesy of artist

EXHIBITION CATALOGUE 

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UnMasked _ Hollows and Thorns
Sharka Bosakova
Butterbox

Hollows and Thorns is a unique cross-disciplinary project that involves exhibition and collaborative skill development at the Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre.  It builds on Sharka Bosakova’s UnMasked project which explores the landscape of our own bodies in an immersive environment open to dialogue, collaboration, and interaction through movement, sound, emotional and cultural experience. The artist on site in a performative interactive context constantly develops the exhibition environment and provides local artists and public with a platform and expressive voice. The project aims to strip away the façade of selfhood.

3D / OVA 2022-23 COLLECTION CATALOGUE

Installation work from Project 24 Residency
Image courtesy of artist

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September 16 - October 23, 2022

Creative Generation 2022
Excellence Awards in Visual Arts
​Whole Gallery 

​The Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art (the awards) promote and recognise excellence in senior visual art education and student achievement in visual art throughout Queensland’s state and non-state schools.
Since 1990, the program has helped raise community awareness of the degree of sophistication in concepts, diversity of technical competence, and the high standard of visual art education in Queensland secondary schools.
 
The program comprises:
• the submission of 3 digital photographs of student artwork and supporting information
• the judging of all artworks to determine the excellence award recipients
• regional exhibitions showcasing all eligible, submitted artworks
• an online gallery of all eligible, submitted artworks
• an exhibition of excellence awarded artworks at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Brisbane.
 
In recognition of the breadth of the visual arts, students working in the 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 are encouraged to apply.
 
The awards offer the only collective exhibition of senior student artwork from each region of Queensland. It is an initiative that has led to widespread recognition of the excellent work senior visual art students are producing, as well as enabling students and teachers throughout the state to share and appreciate the diversity of artwork produced in Queensland secondary schools.
 
This program is proudly delivered in partnership with Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA).

Congratulations to the award winners for 2022!

Excellence Awards 

Like No one is Watching, ​Summer Moore

Control, ​Zoe Kamarinos

Regional Encouragement Award

The Decay of the Fabric of Nature ​Jordy Sterling

Commendation Awards

Leaflets by Amy Stanger | The Transience of Place by Jeshua Morgan | Peace in Country by Ella Hitchen | Lest we Forget by Kimberly Priestley | Enlightenment by Isabelle Shannon | Well Behaved Women don't make History by Sasha Durbridge | Lace Henge by Asha Scott | A Flower's Strength by Siddhi Patel | Greed by Jordan Vivian | A Passing Glimpse by Tia Coulter | Wandaaba by Aleksandr Little

You can find the rest of this year's winners and sumbissions on the Creative Generation Website!

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September 2 - September 11, 2022

Studios 100: Noosa Open Studios Preview
Sponsored by Moon Mountain Sanctuary 
Butterbox & Creamery

​As a lead up to Noosa Open Studios 2022 the Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre is presenting Studios 100, a short preview show featuring this year’s Noosa Open Studios Artists.
The exhibition will run for ten days from Friday 2nd Sept to Sunday the 11th  of Sept, and is proudly sponsored by Moon Mountain Sanctuary. For this event the Artists have been asked to showcase one artwork that is highly representative of what they will be presenting during the Noosa Open Studios Art Trail which will run from 1st to the 9th October 2022.
Studios 100 will provide a valuable opportunity to build up Noosa Open Studios artists profiles and give our visitors an opportunity to plan their studio trail itineraries. 

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Hollow Homes: 2022 Competition
Noosa District Highschool Environmental Club
​Foyer

Art is not the only thing that requires a home. The Environmental Club at Noosa District State High School is taking care of the homes for local species under threat, such as the Central Greater Glider, by hosting a collaborative nesting box competition with other local organisations. The Hollow Homes competition encourages community members to get involved by building their own form of a habitat box and their designs will be in the running for prize money. 

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JULY 22 - AUGUST 28, 2022

Mountain Stories
​The Outsiders Art Circle
Foyer & Creamery

The Outsiders Art Circle's latest exhibition, ‘Mountain Stories’ offers the viewer a range of rich and diverse interpretations around a mountain theme. The group felt drawn to this subject after observing the distinctive and enigmatic presence of the ancient mountains of the Sunshine Coast. The mountains appear as constant companions as we go about our lives, grounding us with a strong sense of place.
Each artist explores their link with the environment, creating different visual impressions and emotional responses, inviting the audience to pause and reflect, start conversations and bring together a sense of identity.


The Outsiders Art Circle members are:
Maree Austin, Sine Black, Helen Frances, Mari Gray, Rae Johnston, Nic Purcell, Catherine Sinclair, Ann White, Kerry Wilson and Kay Wright

Mountain Window View by Ann White
​Image courtesy of the artist

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Abstraction: A Textile Exhibition
Liz Clout, Robyn Clout, Rebecca Staunton & Sharon Anderson
Butterbox

Abstraction compromises a series of large scale bold and colourful machined, abstract textile works which appear domestically comfortable but are nevertheless complex and challenging. Each of the four artists featured in this exhibition have studied under seminal US textile artist Nancy Crow.​

Top left to right: Robyn Clout, Liz Clout
​Bottom left to right: Rebecca Staunton, Sharon Anderson
Images courtesy of the artists

17 June - 17 July 2022

​NAIDOC 2022
Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!
First Nations Artists
Butterbox

This year Cooroy Butter Factory presents its annual NAIDOC exhibition featuring work by local aboriginal artists who reside on Gubbi Gubbi land.

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Crocodile by Samantha Wood, Image courtesy of artist.

The Mundagudda Project

The Mundagudda Project is a collaboration between 11 artists, 6 of which are First Nations Peoples, to create a song and performance celebrating the spirit of Mundagudda (Rainbow Serpent). This year Judy Hammond will be performing the second iteration of this song at the opening event for the NAIDOC exhibition on June 18, accompanied by musicians and a contemporary dance by her daughter Araya.

As an extension of this project, Judy Hammond hosted a workshop at the Butter Factory for indigenous primary school students to hear the story of Mundagudda. They then painted their own interpretation of the spirit, or their totem, onto ceramic tiles which will be displayed in the NAIDOC exhibition.

The Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) is a partnership between the Queensland Government and Sunshine Coast Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.
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Araya Hammond, photographed by Luke Barrowcliffe

Mundagudda by Judy Hammond

2022 National NAIDOC logo courtesy of the official NAIDOC website

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Domestic & Family Violence - It's not Black and White
Nambour Community Centre & Natalia Maro
Foyer

This exhibition is a collaboration between the Nambour Community Centre and Ukranian photographer, Natalia Maro. The exhibition features portraits of 20 women between the ages of 11 months and 87 years and from different cultural backgrounds including First Nations, Sri Lankan and Brazilian to name a few. Each woman holds a sign that reads "I have rights'' in their native language, raising awareness that all women have rights and are not alone. The photographs are prompts to get women talking about the different forms of domestic and family violence within their communities and spread awareness of the support available from family and friends.
 
For more information about the exhibition, please contact Linda Dennis. Settlement Engagement and Transition Support Worker, Nambour Community Centre
tel 5441 4660
[email protected] 

Natalia Maro, Photographer.
Image courtesy of Nambour Community Centre

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Mary Valley Alive
Group Exhibition
Creamery

The Mary Valley Alive 20th Anniversary Exhibition tells the story of the Mary Valley through its flora, fauna, and people.  The exhibition, curated by Heinke Butt visually tells the stories of people and place, the hidden valley behind the beach, the emotion of the failed Traveston Dam project and life during the Covid epidemic. A special feature of the exhibition is the commissioning of 20 plinth artworks by local artists. 

Plinth by Ian Gunn, image from Mary Valley Alive 2021 catalogue

 April 29 - June 12 2022

Textures of Nature
Clare Riddington Jones
Creamery

In her exhibition Textures of Nature, Claire Riddington Jones explores her love of nature through Acrylic on canvas.

Jones loves to play with paint!  She has been painting for over 25 years so she is able to relax and enjoy the process after many years of practice.  Jones likes to work intuitively and let the painting take her wherever it will.  She often starts out with a specific subject in mind but after pouring, splashing and manipulating the paint for the background, will often see something completely different and go with the flow, as it were.  
 
Some of the paintings here are abstract and are merely lovely colours put on the canvas in a balanced and harmonious way and do not really have a strong message, other than to show the beauty which can be achieved with a flow of colour, a palette knife and some manipulation of the paint.
 
Many of the paintings in this exhibition have abstract backgrounds with more realistic subjects painted afterwards to blend into the background and to look at home in their surroundings.  The birds, animals, flowers and landscapes are all from her own photographs and she loves to depict them with a slightly impressionistic style and always with more colour than they probably appear in real life.

Clare Riddington Jones, Mandevilla, Sea Dreaming and Stilts, Acrylic, 2022 : Images courtesy of the artist.   

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THE VIBRANT COAST
Dallas Lesley
Foyer

Surrounded by nature on the winding tracks to Tea Tree Bay, Dallas Lesley paints what she sees in the ocean, plant life and birds of the coastal zones. The shoreline and the shapes in nature inform her work as she looks for patterns in each piece. The flow of the ocean’s currents, the bold curves of the rocks, the curling and spiky leaves, the sensual, sculpted tree trunks make a landscape of patterns that these sights create, and the memories and sounds of the ocean beyond the trees and the birds high above, are part of her vibrant coastal expressionism.

In her exhibition, The Vibrant Coast, the viewer can see how Lesley uses the Australian Coast to explore her thoughts and feelings on the canvas. 

Dallas Lesley,  Below The Point : Image Courtesy of Artist

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MENTORS AND MAKERS
All Abilities Art
Group Exhibition
​Butterbox

Mentors and Makers features all-abilities artworks from the Cooroy Butter Factory all-abilities ceramics classes and from Warrnambool’s Factory Arts inclusive mentoring program.
The textured ceramics are grounded heavy objects that are honest in their making and presentation.  The colorful glazes are expressive, playful and lively giving the works an added sense of movement and gesture. The paintings are large format works on unstretched canvas that reveal an array of styles and forms and include portraits, landscapes, street art, impressionism, abstraction and indigenous storytelling.
In the two programs a large number of mentors have guided the participants and sought to develop skills and produce quality artistic outcomes.


​Images : (Paintings) Kids Outside ,Cianan Irvine, Golden Hair Days, Matthew Clarke, (Ceramics)  Spaceman, Zeke Farrington, Camel, Sean Haggerty

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11 Mar. - 24 Apr. 2022.

FLOW 
​Joanne Taylor & Helen Avery
Foyer

In this exhibition, Flow,  poet Helen Avery conveys the emotion and connection between the flow of water, people and place. Artist Joanne Taylor interprets Helen’s poetry through painting, mixed medium, cut art and sculpture.

Both artists have lived and worked in western Queensland for many years. This is a landscape that is both subtly beautiful and fiercely unforgiving. In western Queensland, water more than anything else is the element that makes existence possible. It is the flow of water that continues as a concept throughout this exhibition. 
 
Joanne and Helen make repeated use of domestic objects as motifs –  simple objects caught in the complex flow of life. For both women it is the intensity of the connection between the natural environment and human community that underlies their creative drive.

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House Birds, Joanne Taylor. Artwork photo by Lisa Alexander.

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IMAGINATION 
​Monika Jeungling & Michele Rudder 
Creamery

IMAGINATION is a state of mind, where there are no Laws no Limits .It is the act of bringing the dreamscape into reality. 
This exhibition with acrylic paintings by Michele Rudder and ceramic works by Monika Jeungling invites the viewer to embrace their imagination with extravagance.   

Michele Rudder, The Tumult of Creativity. Acrylic on Canvas

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SWIMMERS WITH FISHES 
WENDY EPP
​Butterbox 

In her exhibition “Swimmers with Fishes” artist Wendy Epp creates an alternative fantasy world where swimmers move freely, as unfettered as the fish, caught in the interwoven patterns and colours of these canvases.

Released from problems presented of breathing underwater, they weave their way among the multicoloured inhabitants of this world. The ocean environment becomes a place of sanctuary, an escape from the realities of dry land. Come, join the swimmers with fishes in these works and escape too, for a short time.

Wendy Epp, Fantasy, Acrylic on Canvas.

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The Bentleys 40 Under 40 Art Exhibition & Art Prize
Whole Gallery

21st of January - 6th of March 

Artist L:R - Jack MacRae, Mitch Cheesman, Lauren Jones , Katie Harris-MacLeod, Foyer view with Kerri Louisa ceramics in foreground. 
 Image credits: Elle Reid 

​The Bentleys 40 Under 40 Exhibition & Art Prize is a group exhibition to be held in January 2022. The aim of the exhibition is to promote and showcase to the community a diverse range of young and emerging artists (between the ages of 18-40) from the Noosa, Sunshine Coast and Gympie regions. 

The Sunshine Coast’s 40 Under 40 is shaking the scene again – Young Artists to the Front!

The 40 Under 40 Closing Party!
It's one heck of a final party, and you're invited.​​ 
Live Music · Bar · Food Vans · Art Demos 

In the same vein as prior years opening events, the 40 Under 40 Closing Party will shake the main street of Cooroy, bringing the atmosphere of a mini arts festival to the hinterland town.

​COVID safe regulations apply

Closing Event Entertainment:
 Bark, Girl and Girl and Orlando Furious
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