 Spirit in turn helps lead us in understanding and applying the truth.
1. How does the Holy Spirit communicate with us today?
2. What role would you say the Holy Spirit plays in your daily life?
Challenge: Spend some time this week looking up references to the Holy Spirit in your Bible. Jot down a few notes on the person and role of the Spirit from your study.This iconic Artist Run gallery was closed in November last year.
This exhibition is the first show in what we hope will be a revitalised gallery.
The future is in the hands of the members - so come and lend your support to the gallery's continued existence.
David Porter, Sadie Chandler, Konrad Winkler, Sophie Xeros -Constantinides, Malcolm Gartside, Sophie Chandler, Ros Winkler, Julie Goodwin, Jane Chandler.
Home And Away, is an expansive theme but curator Jane Chandler has met the challenge with a selection of work by nine artists. At times the exhibition sits us down in quiet domesticity and then, just as we are starting to feel comfortably at home, we are thrown out into the wilds to find our way deep into the unknowns of the imagination.
In conjunction with the Home and Away exhibition, 69 Smith St Gallery will also be exhibiting of the works of a variety of visual artists including Michele Donegan, Bernadette Boundy, Birgit Kreuzkamp, Betty Nicholson and Heather King.
69 Smith St Gallery is pleased to announce our fourth show for the year. We have a varied line-up of exhibiting artists showing a diverse range of media - including painting, photography, sculpture and jewellery.
Please join us for the opening on Saturday 18th April from 4 - 6pm. Or visit the gallery between April 15th and May 3rd to view the show.
Artists: Lieng Lay, Olga Tsara, Leonie Kervin, Frances Monro, Kylie Gerber, Deb Ball, Sally D'Orsogna, Cathy Hayward, Heather King and Ingrid K Brooker.
Opening: Saturday April 18th. 4 - 6 p.m.
Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 11am - 5.00 p.m. Sundays 12 - 5.00 p.m.
69 Smith St Gallery is pleased to announce our fifth show for the year. We have a varied line-up of exhibiting artists showing a diverse range of media - including photography, painting and drawing.
Please join us for the opening on Saturday the 9th of May from 4-6 pm. Or visit the gallery between 6th of May and 24th of May to view the show.
Emma Blee is an artist and photographer whose work is inspired by the places she visits and the people in those places. 'Places and Faces' is a series of photographs of each reflecting experiences over the last three years.
A photographic exhibition by three asylum seekers documenting their new lives in Melbourne, Australia. Bridging is a photovoice project developed by the Brotherhood of St Laurence in partnership with photographer Misho Baranovic. Over three months, Jemal M. Hussien, Mohammad Khazane and Ameen Al Jamali took part in photography workshops that helped them document their daily lives in Melbourne. The resulting photographs provide a unique insight into what it’s like to start their life in Australia.
Pol McMahon is a local artist. These images are part of a series of suburbs including Yarraville, Footscray, Fitzroy and Northcote.
Originally using beer cans and finally plumbers flashing, each picture begins with biro. Multiples are then printed by etching press ("Flashpoint prints") and painted with Rowney drawing inks. The speed of change in habitat is a general theme.
69 Smith St Gallery's sixth exhibition for the year featuring new works by Alexi Kaye, Jullie Millowick and Christine Sayer, Rafael de la Paz, Carol Rowlands.
We are also hosting a group show with a variety of works by Ali Tabbit, Annette McCrae, Bernadette Boundy, Betty Nicholson, Carol Rowlands, Di Cunningham, Eddie Botha, Erich Schipp, Fionna Madigan, Hans Erftermeyer, Jacinta Martin, Jan Dunphy, Jan Herrera, Justine Cromb, Leonie Kervin, Merle Parker, Nick Hand, Prue Clements, Rom Jagielski.
The works in this series explores a sense of within and without – how the simple relates to the complex and the complex to the simple. The largest space eventually becomes the smallest point and vice versa.
Influenced strongly by her birth country, South Africa, Alexi Kaye’s pieces encapsulate a depth of a mystical nature. The organic and highly sophisticated works, drawn with fine-liner and ink pen on black and white paper, create a sense of movement and of dance, within a context of repetition.
Alexi Kaye uses shapes and lines to create vibrancy and depth in pattern whilst engaging in an exploration of what creation is – revealing to herself in the process that creation is the ever becoming of infinite combination.
The images are digital copies of silver gelatin prints captured during the 1970’s, using a Nikon F film camera and one lens - a 50 mm standard.With that camera hanging over my shoulder, I walked around St Kilda [where I lived] and Fitzroy [where I did pro bono work for the Brotherhood of St Laurence]. And.....I talked to people. Sometimes I made a photograph of them, and sometimes I didn’t.
There seems to be a quietness [for want of a better word] about the photographs that reflect the long ago decade of the 1970’s. A time that was definitely pre-digital. A time that was definitely prior to the daily saturation in our lives of the photographic image.
In 2012 my mother was diagnosed with early onset dementia, and at that point she did not want anyone to know. But then, in 2013, much as Hazel Hawke did in the early stages of her Dementia diagnosis, my mother decided to not only speak out about her condition, but she suggested working with me to highlight the difficulties we both faced/would face in our roles as sufferer and carer. My mother initiated the idea of a collaboration between us, and the research project Deconstructing Dementia - a Carer's Perspective commenced.
The journey through life encompasses an ever changing view of places, people and ideas as we pass through time and space. We become voyeurs in landscapes that reflect others’ agendas, interests and dreams. We pass changing colours, textures and geometric shapes. Buildings and countryside are erased and re-built to suit a changing environment and clientele. We can ignore, dislike or enjoy this evolving environment. Industrial developments, multi-storied apartments and gated estates rise where green rural belts were the norm. Life’s boundaries are renegotiated.
I like to paint everyday things and people that interest me particularly people with strong faces. I like to explore new techniques and colours I am also interested in using a limited palette. I keep trying to improve my skills with each painting I do.
Quiet Land is a selection of landscape photography exploring landscape from a metaphoric perspective. The landscapes carry an intensity, a sense of presence. One image "Beyond" - a Finalist in the 2012 Blake Art Prize - is simply the image of a tree, but it is cave-like, like an entry into another world. Is it natural or is it man-made? What lies beyond? A bike path embankment looks like an ancient face, other images speak through their stillness. Quiet Land explores the mystery, and otherness in landscapes. The best photos speak for themselves: a world of secrets far beyond the footsteps of man.
Melton is one of the fastest growing and affordable suburbs in Victoria, located approximately 40Km from Melbourne’s CBD. Many people say we are seeing the end of affordable home ownership and in a way to me Melton represents a sad sort of last stand of the Australian dream. The culture of the place I suspect is a direct result of that. I’m sure nobody really dreams of living there. Objects past loved, worn out, or so devaluated that nobody wants them also end up here where they may have a new life or final ending. These are small paintings as they are commenced as plein air sketches. This is Melton as I experienced it.
Erich's work is based off a style of abstract expressionism which was inspired and heavily influenced by his mentor and father Heinz Helmut. All paintings produced are hand made from recycled timber and canvas sealed using rabbit skin glue.
This group of works was inspired by the landscape of Wilsons Prom a short time after fire burnt through a large area of the park and left a vertical pattern of black and burnt trees against a scarred horizontal background.
The works are a combination of drawing, photos and manipulated handmade paper.
Marianne Little, Justine Cromb, Helen McPherson, Merle Parker, Carol Rowlands and Birgit Kreuzkamp.
studio artist Dr Lionel Theodore Dean exhibits his artwork, created using 3D printing technology.
A “product artist”, Dr Dean, who studied at London’s Royal College of Art before working as an automotive designer, is just one example of how the world of design and engineering are fusing together to create real-world solutions.
Technology Conference being hosted by Deakin University.
More than 40 artists from the 69 Smith St Gallery community will display their works, inspired by their choice of a mystery book in a bag. In May, the artists were given a mystery parcel – a book