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Welcome to the old and new members of the Goulburn North East Arts Alliance.
2010-2011 has been a big year for Ganeaa.
Our 7th Across the Arts Forum was a success in the quality of workshops,with significant artists across many art forms and satisfied participants. It was great to see the music workshop and the Freddie Dowling workshop go so well.
The creative processes that artists use go across all mediums. These ways of
working, newly attained knowledge, as well as new techniques will stay in
this community well beyond the weekend.
This year we put our necks out and offered a Saturday concert at The Wangaratta
Performing Arts Centre with Jazzaratta, Pete Denahy, Michelle Meehan and duo Deborah
Conway and Carl Zeiger. It was terrific. Well done Michael.
This Forum would not have happened Without the support of the Rural
City of Wangaratta's community grant program. Thank you so much.
Other sponsors include; , Apra, Regional Arts Victoria,
Melbourne Etching Supplies, and this year we were very fortunate to
have support from some local businesses, Shades of Art, Wangaratta
Motor Group, Fuji Xerox, The Olive Shop, and the great design work of LE Design-Louise Einerson.
Thanks so much to you all. I would encourage you all to support these businesses as they support the arts.
I also need to thank the coordinator Virginia Eckels. She put in many more hours than we could pay her for. She also is a lovely person to work with. I recommend her for your events manager.
And the poor committee that have put in hundreds of hours in applying for grants and organising the Forum. Michael Braendler our secretary, Lynda Hood our treasurer with the Across the Arts committee; myself, Andy Kimbah, and Janet Campbell. Without them it would have never happened.
I would also like to thank Annabelle Morozevitch who helped with marketing the exhibition and got the beer!! And a big thanks to Karen Pirie for picking up the disaster of our website.
How lucky are to have such a good relationship with the Wangaratta Art Gallery. The 'Creating our Tomorrow' exhibition was great with over 40 artists represented. Maree Holland did the curating role again beautifully. Also thanks to Marilyn Gormly and Heather Ellyard for their opening addresses. The quality of the work shows how strong our region is in the arts. Thanks to Jazzaratta and Angus and the Ukelele Band for the Wangaratta songs. Music really sets the mood. Wangaratta should be very proud.
It is with much sadness that we lost a keen supporter of Ganeaa with Trish Gallagher passing away. She was secretary for awhile and always helped us with ideas and press releases. We will all miss her and her poems dearly.
2012 offers us some challenges in finding new executive and committee members. Please consider helping Ganeaa. We are struggling with our website and our quarterly newsletter. It is only with your energy that we can continue to enhance the arts in the region.
As you would be aware, our terrific secretary, Michael Braendler will not be continuing with his role.
Michael is one of the founders of Ganeaa and the Across the Arts Forum. He has always taken the burden of organising the music side of things and doing any thing that needed to be done. He is gracious with his time and his energy- and committed to the arts- as well as being very hard working. I cannot thank him enough.
We are also losing Lynda Hood as treasurer. Lynda has been keen and competant in her role as treasurer and a great asset with her creative and practical ideas. I am hoping that we might keep them as committee members????
Anyway, enough from me - thanks again to all.
Kathy Whelan
On Friday, September 2nd, just before the Ganeaa 'Creating our Tomorrow' Opening at the Exhibitions Gallery (5:30pm)- is a wonderful celebration of TAFE Visual Arts Sculpture students' work of 2 hebel wall murals.
The first one- "The Journey" looks at the history of Wangaratta from the prehistoric up to now. It includes Mary Jane Milawa, the famous Wangaratta possum tree, endangered species and the musica lnotes to the Captain Matchbox song, 'Wangaratta Wahini'. To celebrate the opening Sonny Cooper will begin with a smoking ceremony and the Ukulele Band and Jazzaratta and others will perform the piece. It will be fun.!!!
The 2nd mural- "Celebration of Collaboration"---just completed--- includes the ceramic tile figure made in the 'Across the Arts Forum' workshop with Anne Ferguson in 2007. Anne unfortunately cannot make the opening, but is thrilled to know that the piece will be on public view. It looks fantastic and great to see how well it works on the wall!
Tim and Mel with lecturer Jan Donaldson installing the mural.
Heather Ellyard
Almost from the beginning, Heather Ellyard has combined image and text, to extend meaning and to satisfy her own need for language. Her work is concerned as much with glimpses and overlays as with the paint itself, which she handles consummately, nonetheless.
She was born and educated in Boston, USA, migrating to Australia in 1970,
and spending 3 years in Papua New Guinea, just after its Independence. She currently lives in Melbourne. Ellyard has held 23 solo exhibitions, in Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney, and has been represented in more than 45 group shows, the latest being the Blake Prize 2010.
She was art reviewer on ABC radio for 3 years in the mid 70s, has taught, part-time in art schools in Canberra, Adelaide and Melbourne, was on the board of Artbank , 1984-89, and has written for art publications since 1985.
She has received 2 grants from the Australia Council and one from the South Australian Dept. for the Arts.
Ellyard’s work is held in private collections in Australia, Canada, USA and UK, and in public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Jewish Museum of Australia, Artbank, the Universuity of SA, Canberra College of Advanced Education, and Monash University Medical Centre, Melbourne.
Ellyard also created the wall based artwork for the Jewish Museum’s Permanent Judaic Timeline.
Increasingly, her focus is on what it is like to be human and think about time and place. She is attuned to condensed meanings, which offer a radically different perspective from any quick bite, grabbed on the run.
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