Renata Wright – Winner of JCAA Members Art Award 2019
Renata Wright is the winner of the 2019 Joondalup Community Arts Association (JCAA) Members Art Award. This award follows from last year’s “JCAA Members Selection Exhibition” where artists competed in five categories: Painting, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Photographic & Digital Media and Technical Excellence. The winner of each category then went on to produce 3 more works to present in this exhibition. The judging for the overall winner of the JCAA Members Art Award 2019 was done by three external judges.Read More
Adorn – exhibition and workshops – 18 Mar – 12 Apr 2019 / The Adorn exhibition will showcase the work of the Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia, WA (JMGA WA Inc). Come along and celebrate a display of unique contemporary jewellery and objects by JMGA WA members, whose use of skills and materials take adornment to new levels. Explore mankind’s desire for individuality through the concept of adornment at a series of creative workshops. Maker&Smith will host masterclasses and a forum ‘to stimulate the contemporary jewellers and makers community’. / Register for the Driven to Adorn Forum / Register for the Claire Townsend: Introduction to Enamelling on Copper workshop / Register for the Sarah Elson: Cuttlebone casting continued workshop
Manic Mobile Popup Exhibition 26 Feb to 15 Mar 2019 – Artist Call Out / Challenge yourself to inspire, entertain, push boundaries, experiment, explore and make something unique, different, curious, tactile and challenging. Use wire, plastic bottle tops, yogurt tubs, fabric, beads, paper. metal, found objects, sticks, natural objects, wool – anything and everything is a possibility. Bind, weave, collage, hang, stick, create, pile, stack, join, integrate, create, make, innovate!
CoJ Exhibition: New Acquisitions – 22 Jan to 1 Feb 2019: Each year, the City of Joondalup collects exemplars of Western Australian contemporary art through its visual arts program including the staging of the City of Joondalup Community Invitation Art Award as well as directly commissioning artists to produce works in response to their experiences in the City’s environments. New Acquisitions presents five artworks acquired for the City of Joondalup Art Collection in 2018, including Susan Roux’s Wives, which won the acquisitive prize and the People’s Choice Award in the CIAA, and Place of Glistening, a three-panel artwork commissioned from Nien Schwarz that was inspired by the City’s physical geography.
JCAA AGM: The Joondalup Community Arts Association is holding its Annual General Meeting at 6.15pm on 14 February 2019. All JCAA Members are invited to attend and to either nominate or vote for all positions on the JCAA Steering Committee including Chairperson.
JCAA Members Art Awards Exhibition: The Joondalup Community Arts Association is holding its annual Members Art Awards exhibition from 5 to 15 February. This stems from last year’s JCAA Selection Exhibition held in August where five winners were selected in the following categories: * Painting – Renata Wright * Sculpture – Sheila Ayling * Mixed media – Colin Drummond * Technical Excellence – Jane Armstrong * Photo and digital media – Dita Hagedorn / These five artists will now present three new artworks as well as the pieces exhibited in the Selection Exhibition. An overall winner of $500 will be selected by three external judges.
Would you like to learn how to paint with watercolours? Do you have a favourite subject you’d like to paint, like landscapes, seascapes, flowers, animals, abstracts? Renata can teach you all of this and more. Her classes are suitable for painters of all levels and are fun, easy-to-follow, and value-for-money. Choose from One Day Workshop in January or 8 classes in February and March on Wednesday evenings, Friday mornings, Saturday mornings, or Saturday afternoons. One Day Workshop $105 pp. 8 Weeks of Classes $250 (or $230 for ongoing students) plus equipment. Enrolment is essential.
The City of Joondalup is proud to announce that it has been selected by national arts organisation Artbank to be their Western Australian co-presenting partner for the Artbank Roadshow. Artbank is a Federal government initiative that supports Australian contemporary visual artists by collecting their work and loaning it to individuals, companies and governments, including diplomatic locations in seventy countries. The Artbank Roadshow team will visit the Joondalup Art Gallery in May 2019 to meet unrepresented artists and consider their work for acquisition.