28 May 2019
Gunnedah Bicentennial Creative Arts Gallery is proud to present ‘Rose Coloured Glasses’; an exhibition featuring the artworks of Terri-Ann Crothers and Kate Owen.
Kate and Terri-Ann’s artworks are bold, gestural and expressive. Inspired by the beauty of the everyday, their surroundings, their memories and their desire to explore and express the beauty and vibrancy of regional life.
‘Rose Coloured Glasses’ shows glimmers of impressionism through the artist’s purposeful and joyful use of colour palettes. Their liberated use of acrylics, oil pastel, graphite, collage and pencil create densely layered and vibrant works.
“I paint to capture the life we have on our property but with an infusion of colour to add my personality and outlook on life. The often harsh environment I live in is a subdued, muted landscape, so I often need to interpret the subject matter with an intensity of colour and try to create something aesthetically pleasing to the viewer” said Artist Terri- Ann Crothers.
“I also create to put a smile on people’s faces. It is so rewarding to produce paintings that people from both the city and country can relate to and enjoy” she said.
Terri- Ann Crothers is from Yelarbon, Queensland (east of Goondiwindi) and studied Visual Arts in Melbourne, completed a Communications Degree to work in public relations and marketing communications and boasts an extensive CV with exhibitions at Goondiwindi Regional Council Gallery, Texas Regional Art Gallery, Aspects Art Show, Glennie School Art Show, Inverell Gallery, St George Brushstrokes exhibition and the Gateway To Training (GTT) centre and has received several art prizes and commissions. She also initiated an annual Pop Up shop bringing together artists from her region and recently began conducting creative wellness workshops.
Kate Owen is from North Star, Gwydir Shire in Northern NSW. Kate has an extensive history of creativity in many disciplines starting as a student of Fashion design at college in Sydney, and then becoming a small business entrepreneur running various retail operations in fashion, food and home-wares. Kate now works solely as an independent artist and has exhibited works in her first solo show at The Makers Shed Glen Innes in March this year. Also entering numerous art shows and competitions such as Toowoomba Grammar Art Show, Inverell Art Prize, Nundle Art Show and Aspects Art Show for which she also operates in the role of curator. As part of the Landscape project in Goondiwindi last year Kate designed and painted a mural on a shipping container in Bowen Lane.
“A few years ago I made a promise to myself that I would get back to painting when my youngest son went away to boarding school and I no longer had children at home.
That was at the start of 2017, and I have spent the time since making as much art as possible in order to improve and evolve my work” Artist Kate Owen said.
“I use acrylics on canvas and paper because I love the way they allow me to work quickly. I can achieve a variety of different finishes by diluting or adding mediums to the paint to create textural effects and contrasts in opacity. I mostly start with experimentation of colour palettes on paper sometimes these are works of art in themselves other times I apply paint directly onto the canvas and just mix colours to see where it leads. I love contrasts of thick vivid and luscious colours with pale and transparent layers.
Mixing colours directly on the canvas gives me a new and unexpected result each time.”
“The outcome is never apparent from the start, the work takes on a life of its own as I go and dictates a certain path” concluded Kate.
‘Rose Coloured Glasses’ will be officially open at 6:00pm Friday, 7 June 2019 at the Gunnedah Bicentennial Creative Arts Gallery, 81 Chandos Street, Gunnedah NSW with light refreshments provided on the night.
The exhibition will continue until 5 July, 2019. For more information contact Gunnedah Shire Council’s Cultural Precinct Team Leader, Lauren Mackley on 6740 2100.
Photo Caption: Image 1: Terri-Ann Crothers, Image 2: Kate Owen in studio
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Media Contact: Eliza Gallen 6740 2100.
