'Those were the days, my friend'
A collection of images used in a Facebook Banner series during the first months of the COVID-19 hiatus!
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1, ''A Grandmother Chair'
Joel McKerrow , October 2019 Award winning Australian writer and performance poet Joel Mckerrow wrote '...a grandmother chair' during 'The Foreboding Emptiness of an Empty Page' , a workshop to show others 'how to push past creative blocks and begin to create with a renewed sense of freedom'. It is a wonderful example of the creative process meeting self-reflection.
There is a lonely chair here.
Sitting in the corner. Silent. Watching. Observing the simple pleasures. The light that shines through window. Now fallen upon her. She is a her. She is a grandmother chair. Speckled sun. Soaking in the warmth. She is frayed and slightly beaten. Thumb tack pins that still hold her together and I wonder what pins shall be holding this skin together in the years to come. When the sun has faded my face. When I am worn and beaten and bruised. Will I sit lonely in a corner. Yet still. Yet silent. Yet observing the soft pleasures of the day. The pigeons that coo and fly and rustle their wings outside. Too often I am like them. Too fluttered. Too hyper. Too much flight. Not enough stillness. Not enough like this grandmother. Wooden legs held to carpet. Creaking knees. Thread come loose. Old and decayed. Yet so content. That was has been has always been. That what shall come shall not be a bother. Whoever sits. Whoever stands. This chair is, holds herself. Like she always has. Like I wish that I could. Joel Mckerrow Benalla October 3 2019 Photograph..
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2. 'A Grandmother's Chair' - ready for it's next Gallery Gig incumbent'..
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3. 'A Grandmother's Chair' - 'The Weaving Workshop'
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4. 'Blue Chair Study#1'
Irina Korotkow and Mervyn Beamish with Nitro, late 2018. Sculpture Michael Laubli
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5. . 'Blue Chair Study #.2'
Detail from a painting by Tim Bowtell, featuring Jake Bowtell in the 'Blue Chair' strumming a cigar box guitar (Poster - Cornelia Selover) |
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5.. 'Blue Chair Study #3
Annie Longmuir and Bev Lee "... When Bev finished piecing together squares for a quilt her 100 yr old mother had been making for her during one of Annie's workshops, Annie spread it on the blue chair sitting in the corner of the room"
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6. Blue Chair Study #4
'Loz in the Blue Chair', Gallery Gig, late 2017 . |
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7. 'Ruth & Daisy Out on the Footpath'
Janet Leith "Red & orange, a blend of shapes & patterns,
inner excitement for the future ahead, dark swirls of what has been overcome, but more still underneath, potential, strength, incomplete, a late spring afternoon. Gaze staring down the road, sightless, lost in thought, everything muted, pensive, personal, hidden, unknown. The rise & fall of gentle breathing, comfort, warmth & love, out on the footpath with a cherished special friend." Oil on canvas 92 x 76cm $1650 M 0431 890 158
People's Choice Winner, 'Our Backyard' Exhibition, Benalla Festival, North East Artisans, November 2018 |
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8. Red Chairs Study #1 - 'Catching Up'
featuring Ruth Mollison and friend " almost closing time, December 2018 - Ruth was working in the Red Road Cafe when a musician friend called by on his way to a gig somewhere... they were so pleased to catch up with one another and share news of friends and music'
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9 & 10. 'Red Chair Studies #2 and #3 - Winter Solstice Poetry 2018 '
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