While winter is the time when southern tourists expose themselves to the northern sun, it appears also to be the time for northern artists to expose themselves to southern audiences. This month several artists will take their work well away from its place of origin.
Ron McBurnie will be at Expo, in action with an etching press, and this will coincide with the publication of his book, Suburban Etchings. Gold and silversmith, Kerry Stelling, and fibre artist, Val Stevens, will be demonstrating their craft together with some of their students, also at Expo.
Anne Lord's exhibition of large canvases, tiny wood engravings, lithographs and drawings, will open at the Holdsworth Contemporary Gallery in Sydney in June. This exhibition represents her most recent work and shows her development as a calligraphic mark-maker, and her capacity to express the ephemeral quality of the western plains in an abstracted manner. Judy Watson and Anneke Silver have been invited to exhibit in the "Homage" show at the Centre Gallery in Surfers Paradise; the latter was also invited to participate in the "9x5 panel" exhibition to take place in August.
In June Margaret Wilson had an exhibition of works on paper at Milburn + Arté. Originally from Sydney, she now practices in Townsville and also teaches part-time at the College of Art. Conceptually her work is based on landscape, while stylistically it has strong minimal tendencies. It reflects her longstanding interest in the spatial flow of landscape; the quality that "makes you catch your breath momentarily". She distills this quality, or sensation, into an essentialist/minimal statement of high aesthetic quality, revealing a finely tuned sense for the physicality and meaning of marks and media. Margaret
Margaret Willson, Coda II
