November

Writer in Residence @ The Grand

Broken Hill Art Exchange

Duncan Stachan

"Duncan Strachan is a current student of RMIT's Professional Writing and Editing program, a freelance editor and an aspiring author. He recently spent a month living as an Artist in Residence at the Broken Hill Art Exchange where he further developed a manuscript, drafted several short stories and wrote an article about his experience in Broken Hill. Duncan works with themes of masculinity, addiction, mental illness and grief, and can be contacted at duncan2056@gmail.com."

Wayne William's Youth Art Prize

BHAE is super proud to announce the "Wayne Williams Prize", a drawing competition for young people with a Primary School age and Secondary School age category. It's open to all young people in and around the region, and runs from now (Wed 11 Oct) until close of entries on Friday 2 November.

Here's what you do: Create a PENCIL drawing on a SHEET OF A4 PAPER using Water or Earth as your inspiration.

On the back, write your name, date of birth, and the name of your school.

Drop it in to us, BHAE @ The Grand, 313 Argent Street, Broken Hill.

THAT'S IT!?

All entries will be laminated by us and included in an exhibition in the Kitchen Gallery (at The Grand). The winners will be announced on Saturday 24 November at the closing of the Water - Earth Desert Equinox.

And here's the good part - Entering this competition DOESN'T exclude you from entering other BHAE competitions (such as the Water-Earth City Art Challenge). So, come on Mums and Dads - get the kids together and see what they can come up with!

HUGE THANKS TO WAYNE WILLIAMS, Broken Hill Artist, for his generous prize endowment.???

Contact us on 08 80884698for details or with any questions and we'd be happy to help. Hope to hear from you all soon!!

Artists in Residence @ The Grand, Broken Hill Art Exchange

Alison Clouston & Boyd

"Musician, composer and sound artist Boyd and visual artist Alison Clouston have collaborated over many years to create immersive sound and sculpture installations, for galleries and alternative sites, both inside and out in the landscape. They bring their close observations of the natural world into a poetically charged relationship with technology to examine our human place within the rest of nature." https://www.burragorang.org/

During their artist residency @ The Grand Alison exhibited a work in progress using goatskin at West Darling Art Art Gallery in Broken Hill. According to Alison Goats are threatening the habitat of the Barrier Range Dragon and by embedding the image of native species into the fur of the goat skin is imagining them reoccupying their habitat.

Alison in collaboration with sound artist Boyd are working on The Art of Threatened Species project an Orana Arts and Office of Environment and Heritage initiative. This initiative is bringing artists and scientists together to make work on 10 threatened species State-wide. Their species is the Barrier Range Dragon, Ctenophorus mirrityana, and while in residence at the Broken Hill Art Exchange the artists explored the environs of Broken Hill for their upcoming project.

"We know that Indigenous people would have been familiar with it, and there are petroglyphs of lizards at Mutawintji. The OEH is also interested in community engagement and will be running a workshop about the species in Broken Hill at some point. It would be great to bring the two disciplines together."

https://youtu.be/J1BR2UxAYl0, https://youtu.be/0EAkmtqnlr8, https://youtu.be/u3KAFclsEqY

Wayne Williams 2018 Youth Art Prize winners

Congratulations to all the entrants for their wonderful artworks! Artist Wayne Williams and the Broken Hill Art Exchange are proud to announce the prize winners of the exhibition as Greg Comey, awarded $100 First prize in the Secondary School age Category and Benjamin Miller awarded $100 First Prize in the Primary age category. A $50 Highly Commended was also awarded to Madison Stewart. Well done to our winners and to all the young budding artists of Broken Hill who participated!

Desert Equinox Water & Earth

The city wide art challenge exhibiting in shops and dwellings across Broken Hill

Saturday 3 November to Saturday 24 November 2018

Each year BHAE develops a Desert Equinox program of events. The subjects from July to December were ‘Water’ and ‘Earth’. At the closing of each Desert Equinox season there is an open art exhibition held at locations throughout the city. The aim is to produce artworks viewed from the street that express or refer to the challenges of human built environments or the beauty of the natural world. We invite you to join us in celebrating the events of the Water & Earth season by visiting all the artworks on display across Broken Hill done by visiting and local artists alike.

At the closing of the exhibition awards will be presented to winners in the exhibition sharing a $2,000 prize pool. The Awards for the city wide art exhibition will be held on 24 November Town Square, Argent Street Broken Hill at 11am.

The Broken Hill Art Exchange wishes to congratulate all the entrants on their work and a wonderful exhibition for the 2018 Desert Equinox Water & Earth Art prize.

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Opening of the City Wide 'Water & Earth' Art Exhibition, Broken Hill 2018.

A brilliant day had by all discovering over 33 artworks displayed in shop windows throughout the main street. Thankfully there was plenty of water on hand for thirsty patrons.

Desert Equinox Water & Earth

$1000 ArtAwards

Ghislaine Barbe on the subject of water and Jenny Cattonar on the subject of earth each won first prize at the awards ceremony held in the Broken Hill Town Square on Saturday 24 November. Highly Commended went to Peter Osborn and Jaddan Bruhn. The awards were a combined event held by Broken Hill Art Exchange and West Darling Arts, Broken Hill.

ABOUT GHISLAINE BARBE

Gigi Barbe was a member of that sad group of people who were told to 'forget it' by their art school teacher. Finally getting over this stigma she is currently exploring different mediums to satisfy her artistic curiosity. It is with gratitude for the encouragement received from the artistic community of Broken Hill that Gigi continues to enter her work in the Desert Equinox Prize Art Exhibitions.

THE AWARD WINNING PAINTING - They Sought no 'Eternal' peace...

Exhibited at PCYC 58 Gypsum Street Broken Hill

"Ghostly figures emerge from the depth of the ocean. These are the men, women and children who, having escaped from war-torn zones, had embarked on a perilous journey across the seas to find shelter and peace at last. Media reports blame treacherous, tempestuous, turbulent waters for their death. But aren't the real culprits on the shores?"

ABOUT JENNY CATTONAR

Jenny is an artist in Broken Hill who has an extensive resume of produced works and exhibitions. Her works have been shown in France, Croatia, Italy, USA, England and Sweden. Many of her paintings have been prize-winning works, and she has been commissioned by Broken Hill City Council and by Australian and International collectors. Jenny's art gallery 'Spirit of the Outback' is located at 662 Argent Street Broken Hill. The galley is open daily from 10 - 5pm and to contact Jenny or make inquires about her art the gallery email address is jenny.cattonar@gmail.com

ABOUT THE AWARD WINNING PAINTING, 'Drought the Last Drop'

Exhibited at Outback Real Estate, Broken Hill

'We are having the worst drought in a decade. The land is parched, there is little feed and water for the suffering farmers who are struggling to keep livestock from perishing. Feed is being transported to the properties in semi-trailers-some from as far as Western Australia. With global warming there is little relief in sight."

'Mother' by Jaddan Bruhn - Highly Commended

Exhibited at Attards Transport, 117 Rakow Street

Jaddan is a visual artist working in photography. 'Mother' is a 3D Photograsphic anaglyph depicting a dry, desolate mother earth, hinting at a capacity to nurture. When it feels like.

'Caloola Creek' by Peter Osborn - Highly Commended

Exhibited at St James Mart, 137 Patton Street, South Broken Hill

Peter has worked extensively in drawing, pastel and water colour. tempera and acrylic painting. He also works in ceramics producing figurative and bas-relief sculptures and has worked with various printmaking media including etching, linocut monoprint and screen printing. This work uses red earth collected at Caloola Creek north of Broken Hill. The earth was sieved and then mixed with gum Arabic to form a paste that was painted across linen water colour paper. The resulting image expresses the coming of rain in the desert and the myriad of small streams that run to the larger creek beds creating random patterns across the country. The water then builds up in the creek washing through the grass and branches that have grown since the last rain and fills the water holes and underground basins to provide for new growth and life.

AGL Cross Cultural Scholarships

Presented in association with the AIM Group Broken Hill

In 2018 eight scholarships were awarded to artists to participate in the Desert Equinox Program. The visiting artists included Katherine Bourne, Jack Poppert, Harry Copas and Cynthia Schwertsik and they were each awarded a Residency@ The Grand at the Broken Hill Art Exchange together with a materials and travel budget. During their residency the artists were informed by the Broken Hill environments to produce artworks for exhibition. As a group they gave an artist talk to students at Willyama High School and met with BHAE members and the general public.

Artists residing in Broken Hill including John 'Jacko' Alty, Len Vodic, Tanya Reeves and Gregory Comey also received scholarships. The artists each painted a door at the residency to continue the city's historical legacy of interior wall mural painting within the the Grand building, a historically significant 1988 building and headquarters of the Broken Hill Art Exchange's International residency, which recognises the talent of artists living in the heritage city of Broken Hill.

Artist in Residence @ The Grand, Broken Hill Art Exchange Exhibition

'The Silver Paddock' by Katherine Bourne

The Silver Paddock is a multimedia installation exploring the concepts of the transportation and storage of water, our most precious natural resource, and most misused. This work explores these themes within the context of Broken Hill. The hand-made sterling silver barbed wire references the presence of mining and Western agricultural and industrial practices. This is questioned through the meticulous hand-made nature of an abstract fence, utilising precious metal to create a thing of confinement around a domestic item.

The video installation features footage of the moon at around 70% illumination from Lake Pameroo, combined with footage taken down a pipeline at Junction Mine. The video installation is concerned with the misuse of water and rising and falling water levels.

Still photo (below) from Katherine Bourne's video 'Rising Falling', produced for the Desert EquinoxBroken Hill 2018

Artist in Residence @ The Grand, Broken Hill Art Exchange

Exhibition by Harry Copas

Copas is an emerging multidisciplinary artist midway through study at UNSW Art & Design. He currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia. Copas produced the video 'Digging Devining' and five other works as part of the Desert Equinox during his Broken Hill Art Exchange Residency@ The Grand.

I love a sunburnt country is video documentation of a water divining performance I undertook on Lake Pameroo. The sticks used are taken from a Sydney Water cyclone fence surrounding a pipeline that runs next to the house I grew up in.

Keep it down is a sound piece installed underneath the floorboards of the gallery. The original track was taken from a continuation of the performance on Lake Pameroo, where I attempted to dig for water where the water divining sticks indicated me to do so.

Kick the bucket uses a bucket found underneath the floor of the gallery with resin casts of birds footprints, taken from the clay bed of Lake Pameroo.

Persistence of memory began with finding a novelty sized watch at the Tip Shop. Melting the plastic with a combination of a heat gun and the sun, the clock was installed out at Sunset Strip one evening to mark the going down of the sun.

B'lieve I’m going down responds to the peculiar site of the disused collapsing chimney in the corner. The video piece installed up in the cavity was created from footage taken by dropping a camera into the disused Brown Shaft at Junction Mine.

Visiting Artist Residency @ The Grand

Broken Hill Art Exchange Exhibition

'Digging, Devining' by Jack Poppert

Jack Poppert is an emerging artist and writer, whose practice explores key notions of and reactions to the modern period, broadly conceived. A range of materials and processes are deployed for these explorations, with written work often a key component. Poppert has been in two exhibitions; the Gaffa Ten Year Anniversary Show at Gaffa Gallery, and Second to None at ADspace, with written work publish in Unsweetened Literary Journal 2016, and Kindling III. Jack Poppert is the founder and editor of the Lyre Literary Journal; the inaugural issue of which is forthcoming.

Digging, Devining, Sculpture/installation

From the outside, Broken Hill is a town that seems to have risen by the process of digging. The valuable resources that created wealth and population, now speak to their absence in the structure of Mullock Heap; itself an object of unexpected value.

In the wake of revelations regarding the misuse of environmental water supplies in the Murray Darling Basin, and the most extensive drought to affect the state of NSW, and beyond, for at least 100 years, the act of digging (the hope for the miraculous) becomes a potent and tragic act.

Digging, divining, connects to a broader series of work (the Futility Series), conducted in Sydney and Athens in 2016/2017. The Futility Series is comment on the absurdists view of labour and toil. Manipulating the common garden spade, into twisted and backward angular contortions, the stalwart tool becomes a comedic object, symbolic of futility.

Visiting Artist Residencies @ The Grand, Broken Hill Art Exchange

Mural & workshop

My Name - Broken Hill 2018 by Cynthia Schwertsik

This Mural has been created using womens first names found on shop fronts, here in the neighbourhood. Schwertsik frequently makes public art and part of the process to engaging with a place and discovering interesting things about the past and the present.

"We all journey through life with a given name and particularly women identify strongly with their first name, as their last name has the tendency to change. The official side of public space is still dominated by male figures through street names and monuments. Where are the women? I find their names above hairdressers, cafes and florists, small business that present their services with a personal touch."

Art on Doors AGL Cross Cultural Scholarships

Residencies@ The Grand, Broken Hill Art Exchange

Cross Cultural Scholarships were awarded to four artists based in Broken Hill to produce artworks on doors at the Broken Hill Art Exchange Residency, The Grand, 313 Argent Street. This iconic building forms an integral part of the city’s Cultural Hub & Heritage zone. The building is becoming a tourism site and the completed doors will be displayed to visitors and artists attending the residency. The scholarships provided by AGL Energy through the AIM Group, Broken Hill were awarded to Len Vodic, Tanya Reeves, John 'Jacko' Alty and Greg Comey.

Image: (left to right) Marina Draper, Manager, Government & Community Relations AGL Energy, artist John Alty, Jason King AIM representative from Screen Broken Hill, and artist Len Vodic pictured next to his painting of'Galahs'.