NOVEMBER 24 - DECEMBER 23, 2023
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ECLECTICA ART AWARDS Butter Factory Friends Exhibition Whole Gallery Eclectica is the Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre’s annual Friends exhibition. With over $7000 in prizes provided by local sponsors this exhibition encompasses all visual art mediums and fills the galleries with an incredible diversity of artwork. With over 270 entries this year, the gallery is full to the brim with fantastic work! 2024 Judges: Colin Pennock Rowle Drysdale - Pottery for the Planet Cassandra Lehman - artisan Belinda - Frame Tree The judges viewed the work independently, without knowing the artists' names. There votes were then compiled and those with the most votes were awarded the prizes. |
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2023 Award Winners
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Overall Winner
Amanda Butel, Beautiful Scars Portrait Winner: Katy Bain, Rick the Muse Runner Up: Joanne-Marie Hawkins, Fido Still Life Winner: Pam Walsh, Nature’s Gift 1 Runner Up: Bronwyn Barton, Pears on a Plate Landscape Winner: Kay Wright, Summer Rain Runner Up: Julie Field, Kissed by the Rain 2 |
Abstract
Winner: Charlotte Wensley, River Crossing Runner Up: Wendy Catlin, War Child Animal Winner: Simone Eisler, Outer Animal Runner Up: Wendy Britton, Fish & Chips Sensual Winner: Charmaine Lyons, Self Survey Runner Up: Julia Vail, Vessel 1 3D Winner: Cindy Mills, Lovers Runner Up: Kristina Pearson, Banksia Ovum Runner Up: Julie Field, Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much |
OCTOBER 20 - NOVEMBER 19, 2023
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Mapping the Pathway
Ann White Creamery Gaze on each of the works in Mapping the Pathway and have your curiosity provoked as you see a possibility awaiting or an adventure already had. While the works are everyday realism, each also creates wonder of what is beyond. Whether oils, acrylic or mixed media, the images hint at something else. More possibilities are just out there. Light, depth and perspective are at the heart of Ann White’s art. As each of her pictures tries to express a whimsy or a story, she chooses the medium that is most helpful. Ann has exhibited in solo and group shows in Cooroy, Pomona and Noosa, with her first solo show in 2017. In 2023 Her work “Welcome Home” was the Overall Exhibition Winner in the Eclectica show at the Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre. Ann lives in Pomona and began devoting herself to drawing and painting when she moved to the hinterland 15 years ago. In developing her work she has studied under a number of notable teachers including Dr Robert Preston, Nicholas Wilton, Lyn McCrea, Deb Mostert, Robyn Bauer and Judith Sinnamon. |
Crossing the Line, Morning
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ALT kNOWledge
Noosa District State High School Foyer Artworks, by Senior students, reveal an alternative knowledge of the world through the eyes of young people: themes include environmental concerns, politics, revelations, imaginings, unpalatable truths, personal fears and hopes, and simple pleasures. These artworks are assessment pieces, and they are also a powerful insight into what is going on for Generation Z. |
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EXTENDED
Kym Barrett & Cheryl McGannon Butterbox EXTENDED breaks new ground by implementing the diverse possibilities in the processes of using cold wax medium. Cheryl McGannon and Kym Barrett, both acclaimed local visual artists and educators have been enamoured by this seductive medium for over 10 years. Their works appear in the international publication COLD WAX MEDIUM: TECHNIQUES, CONCEPTS and CONVERSATIONS by Jerry McLaughlin and Rebecca Crowell. They have independently developed, through curiosity and experimentation, unique extended practices including printmaking, collage, ink and charcoal combined with cold wax medium to produce a range of mixed media works. |
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The Faces of Art Brut
Art Brut Artists' Group Mezzanine The Faces of Art Brut exhibition is a collection of Raw Art by a group of artists working under the banner of Art Brut. And like the late 19th and early 20th century Art Brut artists who created art because of, or despite their mental health concerns, and who often worked under impoverished conditions and in remote locations, the group draws inspiration from those early Art Brut pioneers. Art Brut, or Raw Art is a way to bring people with mental health conditions together; a combination of talking about late 19th and early 20th century Art Brut artists and their mental health, and exploring ways of moving towards a more positive mental space through creating art. The group identifies with these earlier artists, and sometimes delves deep within to draw on raw emotion, thoughts, and ideas to arrive at an end result- all facets of The Face.The Faces of Art Brut works have been rendered in line, ink, wash, paint, and mixed media. In the tradition of Art Brut the group also improvised and made use of things and materials at hand to complete their works. |
Maree Coombs
Faces Series no. 1, 2023 |
AUGUST 31 - OCTOBER 15, 2023
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Quietude is a Place
Mandy McGuire Mezzanine A divergent body of work from collage and small assemblages to large sculptural responses, this exhibition has made precious that which most would discard. For Mandy, objects hold sentiment, history and animism, and many of the works in this solo exhibition are assembled from ordinary, even mundane, objects gathered over the years and arranged like individual recollections and imaginings of place. The process is one of persuasive manipulation; the artist has observed and arranged the objects with reflective intuition. Here, individual arrangements have become deeply personal snap shots. Narrative and metaphorical, each of the artworks invite internal meanderings and a particular quietude. |
View with LA Moon, 2023
Mandy McGuire |
September 15 - October 15, 2023
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Creative Generation
Excellence Awards in Visual Arts Whole Gallery This extensive annual exhibition promotes and recognizes excellence in senior visual arts education in our region and is one part of a Queensland wide exhibition and awards program. Award winners from each region are then selected to take part in an exhibition each year at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Brisbane. The exhibition reveals the breadth of the visual arts and includes 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. This award program has raised 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 is proudly delivered in partnership with Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA)
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Like No One is Watching, 2022
Summer Moore |
August 31 - September 10, 2023
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Studios 100
Noosa Open Studios Preview Show Whole Gallery A jam-packed preview of artists taking part in the Noosa Open Studio program. A great preview for visitors taking on the art trail to pinpoint the artists they wish to visit. All works in the exhibition will be available for sale. |
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ART IS SERVED
A fundraiser has been organised by the Noosa Open Studios team at the Cooroy Butter Factory Art Centre on Friday 1st September 2023 from 5pm to 8pm. Canapés will be catered by celebrity Chef Matt Golinski, who is the Noosa Open Studios 2023 patron. The fundraiser is a chance to get a great look at the Studios 100 Art Exhibition which includes artwork from all of the 2023 Noosa Open Studio artists but also to take part in a special auction. 27 artistic-aprons created by the Noosa Open Studio artists will be auctioned as well as 5 Master Artist Experiences, which will give the winners the opportunity to spend a day in the studio of their favourite artist.
A fundraiser has been organised by the Noosa Open Studios team at the Cooroy Butter Factory Art Centre on Friday 1st September 2023 from 5pm to 8pm. Canapés will be catered by celebrity Chef Matt Golinski, who is the Noosa Open Studios 2023 patron. The fundraiser is a chance to get a great look at the Studios 100 Art Exhibition which includes artwork from all of the 2023 Noosa Open Studio artists but also to take part in a special auction. 27 artistic-aprons created by the Noosa Open Studio artists will be auctioned as well as 5 Master Artist Experiences, which will give the winners the opportunity to spend a day in the studio of their favourite artist.
July 28 - August 27, 2023
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Oceanic Apnea
Béatrice Prost Foyer Take a deep breath and immerse yourself into another world. Beatrice’s fascination for coral life is the inspiration for her new series of paintings and carvings. She is painting the process of life creation, building blocks and life accretion. Looking at the organic patterns repetition, recorded as the multiplication of thousands of mark makings, is like listening to music or poetry. You cannot make total sense unless you lose yourself in the artwork and mentally dance between the whole and the details. This show raises the importance of the coral primal deceptively simple life forms as they are the building blocks of our endangered reefs. |
Bommie, 2023
Beatrice Prost Image courtesy of the artist. |
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In-depth
Prudence Coburn Creamery Coburn explores the complexity behind the power and perspective that is intertwined between humans and marine life. The relationship is complex, with fear and wonder battling to be the most prevalent. Coburns exhibition, In-Depth invites you to look past the bigger picture and see the intricate beauty that envelopes her sea creatures. Coburn exaggerates detail by practicing with a variety of brush strokes. She focuses on contrast, line and form to convey a temporary realism to a contemporary practice, while also considering and replicating the animals’ submerged landscapes in this style. |
Shoal
Prudence Coburn Image courtesy of the artist. |
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Another Day, Another Way
Group Exhibition Butterbox A bunch of art elders who continue to challenge themselves and teach each other. Anna Howard continues her investigation into patterns in the landscape. Vit Martinek, Ellen Terrell and Dennis Forshaw showcase new functional and sculptural work using lustre glazes inspired by a recent Master lustre workshop. |
Image courtesy of Vit Martinek, the artist.
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A Life's Journey
Averil McFarlane Mezzanine Averil’s exhibition is a selection of works on paper and canvas from a vast archive of artwork she has made over the last 50 years. Averil’s life was one of hardship. From a very poor family in South Australia, she left home at 14 married at 15, and worked long hours vegetable picking and dairying but still managed to do night classes in art. She then took up Opal mining and in her later years travelling with her dog, barramundi fishing in the Northern rivers and metal detecting for gold. Her works cover a diverse range of subjects from landscapes, rivers, shearing sheds and old Homesteads. This exhibition celebrates her hard life and supports one of our community’s elder stateswomen. |
Lorikeets
Averil McFarlane Image courtesy of the artist |
June 16 - July 23, 2023
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I feel the weight of the minute as I bend my body towards the clock
Amanda Bennetts Foyer I feel the weight of the minute as I bend my body towards the clock is a multimedia installation examining time and the labour of self-care for the disabled and ill body. In a society that centralises wellness as the default mode of existence, sickness is placed as temporary, an abhorrent to the norm. The rationing of energy, due dates, the time taken to perform a specific task, working hours, ideal hours of sleep that a body needs, etc., are largely normative and fixed in nature. With its medical and disability aesthetics the installation disects how time for the non-normative bodies is bent, stretched, slowed, rewound, expanded, fastened and exploded. Rather than society bending the clock to meet ill and disabled bodies, many with detrimental effects bend their bodies to meet the clock. |
Image courtesy of the artist
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Vessels: NAIDOC Exhibition
First Nations Artists Creamery This year’s NAIDOC exhibition features ceramic pieces made by First Nations youth and First Nations women in the Dhakkan/Mundagudda Vessels Workshop Project, a Noosa Council funded series of pottery workshops in the Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre pottery studio. Includes an opening performance co-created with First Nations songwriters and dancers and artist mentors inspired by the December 2022 camp on Country at Lake Cootharaba. 
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This exhibition is proudly supported by Noosa Council, North Coast Aboriginal Corporation for Community Health, Burnside State High School and IFYS.
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NOW
Group Exhibition Butterbox NOW, curated by first time curator Odessa Mahony-de Vries, is a group exhibition featuring, installation, sound, and video. NOW explores the physicality of the body, and the materiality of nature. The augmented scale of the works; their sensory tactility through texture, mark making, scent and sound create a strong physical presence and a familiarity due to their grounding in nature. Simultaneous high-volume sound and hints of mortality and grief disrupt the sense of comfort and invite the audience to be present in both life’s beauty and pain. Together, the artists embody what it means to be present in the here and now, in their effort to return to a nature where the mind and body function as one. Artists include Sharna Barker, Cholena Drew Hughes, Katie Harris-Macleod, Chucho Bruno, Samuel Markovic, Merinda Davies and Simone Eisler.
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Skeleton Trees, Hines Dam, 2021
Katie Harris-MacLeod Image courtesy of the artist The Regional Arts Development Fund is a partnership between the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and Sunshine Coast Council through ArtsCoast to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland. |
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Get Lost
Kevin Wilson Engagement Space This moving image installation explores how landscape and place are infected by memory and trauma. It tells the story of loss, separation and family breakdown that has been buried in the past and which spans two world wars. Also includes 22 short videos of 21 walking conversations with artists, surveyors, geologists, farmers and First Nations artists and others – all with a connection to land. |
Image courtesy of the artist.
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05 MAY - 11 JUNE, 2023
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ART JAM
Mini Studios Project Whole Gallery The Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre (CBFAC) is experimenting with a new exhibition format. In May CBFAC has invited artists, both members and non-members to take up residence in the gallery spaces with their work for periods of a week and for those artists who work during the week, over weekends. It means a visit to the gallery will mean not only seeing an exhibition but also up to 12 artists working away. The project dubbed Art Jam will run over 5 weeks from May 5th to June 11th. There are still some spaces available for this exciting new project. |
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40 / 40 Broken Telephone
Artist Residency Engagement Space Over 4 weeks, 6 artists deciphered messages left behind for them by the previous resident. Each then created an artwork inspired by the ramblings and left an equally cryptic message for the next artist. This exhibition is the finalised work from this project. This project is funded by the Regional Arts Fund (RAF), an Australian Government program designed to benefit regional and remote arts practitioners, arts workers, audiences and communities. The fund is provided through Regional Arts Australia and is administered in Queensland by Flying Arts Alliance.
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31 MARCH - 30 APRIL, 2023
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Seeing the Soul
Hoofbeats Sanctuary Art Prize & Exhibition Foyer & Creamery Seeing the Soul is a major fundraising initiative to support and promote Hoofbeats Sanctuary’s work by celebrating and showcasing equine art and raising awareness of mental health. Cash prizes will be awarded for overall winner, painting/drawing, sculpture/3D and photography categories, as well as people’s choice award. "Located at Doonan, Hoofbeats Sanctuary is a safe, restorative space that brings people, animals and nature together to improve the emotional well-being of some of the most vulnerable members of the community – those living with mental health challenges resulting from trauma." "Proceeds from Seeing the Soul will enable us to train more program facilitators and offer more program places. Equine therapy programs are a key part of the sanctuary’s work." “The Sanctuary is home to a herd of ten horses and ponies, most of which have experienced big life stressors in their own lives, making them the perfect teachers,” Barb Blashki, CEO of Hoofbeats Sanctuary. |
To be Free, Roslyn Nolen
Image courtesy of the artist |
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Botanical Expressions
Naida Ginnane Butterbox Naida Ginnane's solo exhibition Botanical Expressions, offers a rare interpretation of the natural world and its challenges through the use of botanical motifs. Ginnane has an incredibly unique vision for her work and her photographs are a testament to her creativity. Her experimental techniques, such as light painting and long exposure, reflect a distorted environment that is both captivating and mysterious. Her works on paper feature a variety of media; the flamboyant designs combining random markings, splashes and smudges and highly detailed line work, Ginnane creates a sense of movement and urgency. Abstraction and realism co-exist in Ginnane's world, where the plants take centre stage. |
Flow, Naida Ginnane
Image courtesy of the artist |
24 February - March 26
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MIRROR MIRROR
Reflect on the Art of Women Creamery Does a mirror really tell the truth of what you see? Can it catch a glimpse of something you haven’t seen in yourself? What do you see when you look in the mirror, a strong woman, a vulnerable woman, an old woman, a woman who knows who she is, or does she see inside the hidden reflection of herself a side that no one sees but she knows it’s there? This exhibition is a collection of work by local women artists' responses to these questions. Curated by Fiona Groom as a celebration of International Women's Day. OPENING EVENT: Friday February 24th, 5:30pm - 7:30pm There will be a cash bar and Dhom's Kitchen food van for your enjoyment! |
Childs Pose, Casey Hewitt
Image courtesy of the artist |
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Earthly Nuances
Bronwyn Barton, Carol Watkins & Charlotte Wensley Foyer Three local Sunshine Coast artists explore personal connections to place and environment through clay, paint, mixed media and print; presenting a diverse collection of 2D and 3D work that considers themes of resonance, impression and impermanence. ‘Earthly Nuances’ takes you on a journey from the hinterland to the sea capturing both broad landscapes and environmental details. Conveyed through abstract visual language, imbued with colour, texture and form, the artists collectively present works that harness and describe both spontaneity and immediacy, through beautiful raku and saggar fired ceramics, and deeply distilled reflections on canvas and paper. |
Through the Swale, Charlotte Wensley
Image courtesy of the artist OPENING EVENT: Friday February 24th, 5:30pm - 7:30pm There will be a cash bar and Dhom's Kitchen food van for your enjoyment! ARTIST TALK: Tuesday March 7th, 11:00am Register HERE |
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Arboreal Connections
Carte Blanche Butterbox Formed in 2011, Carte Blanche is an alliance of like-minded artists of diverse skills and strengths. They are connected by their mutual interest in artistic development and their personal passions for environmental and social issues. This underpins the excitement and inspiration which impels Carte Blanche to produce evolving and innovative conceptual works. Each artist has a strong working history in their particular area of expertise. As a group, Carte Blanche has demonstrated their ability to craft a response to contemporary issues, constantly pushing boundaries, through extensive successful exhibitions, the themes often reflecting the ambiguity of our times. The group remains committed to expanding their knowledge, expertise and experimentation. ARTIST TALK Saturday March 4th, 1:00pm Register HERE |
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January 20 - February 19, 2023
3 Squared
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New Homes for Old Art
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Sidney Nolan print (detail)
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The Artisan Show
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Bigger Fish by Fiona Groom
Image courtesy of the artist |
December 9 2022 - January 15, 2023
Eclectica Art Awards
BFAC Friends Exhibition
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Whole Gallery
An end of year celebration of the diverse artwork of the Cooroy Butter Factory Art Centre Friends. Enjoy over 200 works by over 100 Friends. Prizes offered by our sponsors for overall winner, 2D, 3D and ceramics works as well as a people’s choice prize. |
Tania Small, Thoughts of an Omelette, (2022)
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