INTEREST in the works of our local creative artists continues with over 100 people attending the official opening of the latest offering at the Noosa Regional Gallery, titled Interpretations of Place.
Each artist is a local creative and has found inspiration through their own unique reflections in the locations featured – Lake Cootharaba, Noosa National Park, Noosa Botanic Gardens, Cranks Creek and Noosa River – visually responding with paint on canvas, the camera lens, or prose and poetry.
Councillor Frank Wilkie, on officially opening the exhibition on Friday 28 August said, “the works not only reveal the beauty found in our surroundings, but the complexity and variety of this biologically and geologically diverse area”.
Cr Wilkie made reference to how fortunate Noosa region residents were to live in a place where the value of connection and balance between people and place was internationally recognised in 2007 by the region being declared a Biosphere Reserve.
“I’m always grateful to the artist for sharing a view of the familiar and not so familiar as seen through fresh eyes, and especially to these artists for reminding us of the essentially inexplicable wonders, the processes that science struggles or fails to replicate, the incredible sophistication that underpins the simplicity of nature,” he said.
Referring to how Noosa residents live in such close proximity to the lakes, the river, everglades, beaches, forests, parks and mountains, Cr Wilkie concluded: “This is the connection that is being showcased in this exceptional and unique exhibition.”
“Interpretations of Place’ features the works of artists Rose Barry and Wendy Epp, photographer Rick Sherwin and writers Jan Bentley, Grayham Bickley, Celia Esplin and Sheila Mason.
The exhibition continues through to Sunday 18 October.
There will be a free Photoshop demonstration on Tuesday 8 September, and a breakfast celebration of prose and poems on Saturday 19 September.
For more information phone 5329 6145 or visit www.noosaregionalgallery.com.
