Home Sown
Home Sown – Saturday 19th May, 2012
The inaugural group exhibition at the brand new Lorraine Pilgrim Studio in Southport opens on Saturday 19 May. Home Sown will celebrate the launch of Lorraine’s latest project with an opening event including artist talks and demonstrations by some of the region’s most exciting emerging and mid-career artists.
Lorraine Pilgrim’s forty-year career in private Art Galleries and Studios has seen her mentor some of the highest achieving artists to emerge from the Gold Coast, Northern NSW and Brisbane regions.
2012 sees the establishment of the Lorraine Pilgrim Studio, an exhibition space on the Gold Coast through which she aims to provide new and established audiences, collectors and clients with the benefits of her knowledge and experience while continuing to nurture the careers of young artists.
Opening Program
2.00pm: Artist Talk and Demo: Erica Gray
Erica Gray is a sculptor, textile artist, painter and fashion designer based on the Gold Coast. Co-winner of Townsville’s Strand Ephemera in 2011, Gray will exhibit a series of paintings and soft sculpture in “Pipe Dreams”, a solo show at the Gold Coast City Art gallery in August.
3.00pm : Artist Talk and Demo: Shannon Doyle
Shannon Doyle’s skilled use of traditional egg tempera technique in his oil paintings has seen him working on projects in places as far wide as the Ukraine. His unconventional portraits convey energy and emotion through the saturated use of colour an repetition.
4.00pm : Artist Talk: Deb Mostert
Deb Mostert has been busy since graduating from QCA in 2006. With a stack of art prizes and residencies, and 11 solo exhibitions behind her, Mostert continues to be fascinated by objects and the narratives they contain.
4.30pm: Q and A Session with John Walsh, Virginia Rigney, Kathy Mackey and Shayle Flesser.
Followed by the official opening of Home Sown by John Walsh, Manager, Gold Coast City Art Gallery and Virginia Rigney, Curator, Gold Coast City Art Gallery.