Humanities and Social Sciences

Phyllis Palmer Gallery

Current Exhibition

Noela Stratford

Exhibition Dates :  Thursday 28 August  – Thursday 18 September
Opening Night : THURSDAY 28 AUGUST  Artist Talk at 5.30pm  Opening 6.00pm
Exhibition will be opened by :  Lynda Newton, Arts and Cultural Services and former Manager Creative Communities, Australia Council for the Arts.

Live music by Valentine Sawenko.

This exhibition comprises a series of charcoal drawings produced in response to a range of places and experiences over a period of more than ten years. The simplicity of working with charcoal and paper allows for a direct rendering, of translating impressions and experiences simply and directly. As the main focus of Noela’s work is a concern with landscape and its potential for meaning, each district or country in which she worked influenced the result - both physically and spiritually. Additionally, artists’ residencies carried out in several places - both in Australia and overseas, provided her with a rich vein of material from which to work. She found vast contrasts in the rolling flat plains in the Western District of Victoria and the winter floodplains of Bundanon in New South Wales; the damp and misty mountains of Northern Thailand and the dry dusty terrain of Southern Spain.  Working closer to home, contrasts were found in the jagged volcanic forms of Hanging Rock and the sculptured and undulating forms of the rocks on our own Mount Alexander. The exhibition opens on Thursday August 28th and closes on the 18th September.

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'Trunk' 2006

'Noon Shadows and Blind Secrets'

'Presence' 2004