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ENCOURAGE
- EDUCATE - EXHIBIT
Newsletter No 49
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WASA
acknowledges the Traditional Indigenous Owners of Country
throughout Australia and recognizes the continuing connection
to lands,
waters and communities.
We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander culture,
and to the elders - past, present and emerging.
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FROM THE PRESIDENT
Dear
Members,
Our
Annual General Meeting is being held on 15th July 2021. Nominations
for all the Committee positions have been received and will be
the subject of a full membership vote. A new committee
will be formed from this AGM.
This year, exceptionally, too, the AGM will be capped off with
the final session on Strategic Planning to cement the key
success drivers WASA needs to go forward in the new Financial
Year.
The Society is secure in financial health and has revised its
approach to many aspects throughout 2020/21, such as changes to
monthly meetings and events; inclusion of painting ‘en plein
air’; forging new links to other societies; a renewed emphasis
on social media and website management; greater use of
publicity; and a much wider reach in WA art as shown by
increased membership.
WASA can look back on an important and transitional year of
change and readjustment in some of the most challenging times
since the members had to sustain their Society through the
period of The Great World Wars 1914-18 and 1939-45. WASA
endured through those tumultuous and confronting challenges.
WASA will do so now through the current challenges posed
by COVID 19 to our Society.
‘Through adversity to success’ is one motto, and the key aims
and achievements of the past year herald the Society's approach
to endure, grow stronger and sustain the future for all members
and artists. A newly revised approach to art in WA is the
key to our success and our future.
The Financial Year ends with a Society stronger and popular.
That is in no small part due to the commitment of WASA
volunteers, sub-committee and committee members, and all those
who help give their time and expertise willingly for the good
of all. A huge thank you to them for their hard work,
dedication and commitment to making Society a success.
Well done, and thank you. Rewards come from hard
work, teamwork and commitment to making WASA successful.
In the year 2021/2022, the challenges will continue, but so too
will the rewards. These will be both creative and
intellectual.
Art activity is always a frustrating yet rewarding experience.
Perhaps these words by Robert Henri in The Art Spirit
apply to WASA right now:
“When the artist is alive in any person,
whatever the kind of work may be, he becomes an inventor,
searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He disturbs,
upsets, enlightens and opens ways for a better understanding.
Where those who are not artists are trying to close the
book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages
possible.”
To all
members, thank you.
We look forward to our next year together as a new
chapter begins.
With my best wishes
Roger Reading
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TREASURERS REPORT
As Carol Murphy is retiring as Treasurer,
the final EOY figures are currently being audited.
A financial statement will be reported at the AGM &
published in the next WASA Newsletter.
Membership for 2020-21 expired on 30 June 2021
If you wish to take part in future WASA activities
e.g. attend
meetings and demonstrations and take part in WASA Exhibitions.
You need to be a financial member.
WASA General Membership - $100 12
months
* Associate membership
*Country Membership - *Disability - *Student
Conditions apply - Disability & Student Cards
need to be sighted.
*Free membership is available to those who have
been members of WASA for over 5 years and over the age of
75.
To be approved by WASA
Committee.
WASA no longer charges a joining fee or a door fee
at meetings.
Our preferred method of payment is through our
website, https://waart.org.au
Those wishing to register and who cannot access
the website can pay at the AGM on the Thursday
15th July,
by cash, credit, EFTPOS or bank transfer
(BSB: 306-035, Acc No: 4196018. Ref: YOUR
NAME).
IMPORTANT
IF YOU
HAVE A CHANGE OF CONTACT DETAILS,
PLEASE
NOTIFY
wasocartinc@outloook.com
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OUR
NEXT MEETING
WASA
ANNUAL GENERAL &
STRATEGIC PLANNING MEETING
THURSDAY 15TH JULY ARRIVE 7.00
P.M
On 15th
July there will be the WASA Annual General Meeting. Members can
nominate for positions on the Committee at this meeting.
The outcome of WASA a Strategic Plan for the future,
emphasising the key elements and objectives we all wish to see
in our Society.
Members are asked to support this work by responding to
requests from this committee.
WASA would like to
express their thanks and gratification to the Strategic
Planning Committee,
Brian Carew Hopkins, Sue Liddicoat & Geraldine Box
The meeting will be followed by a social gathering.
Alcoholic, orange juice and cool drinks supplied by
WASA.
PLEASE BRING A PLATE OF FOOD TO
ENJOY AND SHARE
WITH YOUR ART FRIENDS!
No Monthly
Competition.
https://waart.org.au/wasa-annual-general-meeting-strategic-planning/
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"High Society"
Comes to WASA
Thursday 19th August
2021
WASA MEMBERS FREE
Visitors Welcome! $20.00 PER
PERSON
The "Palms" Community Centre
Cnr Rokeby Road & Nicholson Road Subiaco
Come and join us as we step back in time to the
18th Century.
We will be exploring art with a "Still
Life" event just like the old masters!
There will be fun,
frivolity & ART
Be prepared for an exciting night.
Bring your own drawing or painting supplies or
purchase on the night.
We will have art
and drawing supplies for purchase both before and after the
meeting from Art and Craft World.
No August Monthly
Competition
More details will be
released as they become available!
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OUR
NEXT GOVERNMENT HOUSE 'EN PLEIN AIR
Thursday 26th August 9.30 -
12.00
Thursday 16th September 9.30 - 12.00
REGISTER YOUR NAME WITH WASA SECRETARY SUZANNE LAWSON
ASAP AS WE ARE LIMITED TO 30 ARTISTS ONLY.
suzannemcg@hotmail.com
We
are currently organizing an exhibition which
will be held at
Government House in early 2022.
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Thursday
16th September 2021
Monthly Competition - Miniatures
- Your Pet
Demonstrator CATHERINE
SCARTACCINI
Beautiful things come in small
packages.
CS Illustrator
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WELCOME
TO OUR NEW MEMBERS
Sarah Abbott, Natalie Achino, Meredith
Blais, John Bullock, Bolang Chen, Marina Davidson, Dale Dee,
Karin Duarte, Julie Eaton, Joanne English, Jennifer
Hughes, Bee Khaw, Susan Sheppard, Claudia Woeltjes, Tracey
Wood, Judith Warrick
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WASA MEMBER OF THE
MONTH
BETTY MCLEAN
“Outback Road"
This painting won the
pastel prize and was the Most Outstanding exhibit at the Wagin
Woolorama exhibition in 2021.
I moved from the country in the
early 1980s and a new life began when I enrolled at Carine
T.A.F.E to do a Diploma in Art Studies. I loved, not
just the experience of my own painting, but being involved with the
art community in W.A. Thankfully my involvement continues
today. I’m very honoured to be a life member of the Pastel
Society of W.A and the Trigg Art Group.
I use all mediums but enjoy pastels the most and the painting
pictured here is a pastel. I’m inspired by the love of the
landscape and coast and use sunlight and shadows to express this
love.
Other examples of my art can be seen:
Pastel Society of W.A.
Facebook Betty McLean Artist
Instagram bettymcleanartist
bettymcl@bigpond.net.au
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BRENDON DARBY
FORREST AWARD - PLATINUM - WINNER
I painted this piece ’Self Isolation’ early last year as Covid 19
started to kick in. I was sitting in my studio and heard on the
news that there was a rush on face masks. Jokingly, I thought ‘I
can just paint one on’ and so I did.
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DEREK FITZPATRICK
FORREST AWARD - PLATINUM - SECOND PLACE
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ANDY CONLIN
TEMPLE-POOLE AWARD - GOLD - WINNER
In our first Lockdown, last year, I finally had the time to build
myself an art studio ( ok it was a shed) and start to paint with
some regularity.
The single skylight makes for quite dramatic
lighting. It’s a watercolour - Payne's grey. After
struggling with colour harmonies I decided to go back to the basics
and started painting monochromes, focusing on tone and fluency.
I’ve since spent quite a lot of time painting in the Zorn palette
and highly recommend it for anyone else needing to simplify their
work
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COLYN HENWOOD
GIBBS AWARD - BLUE - WINNER.
The Drawing was done in front of the bathroom
mirror, up-close using a chisel ended thick Calligraphy pen and
watercolour washes.
At 87 years of age, I have to strain to see minor details due to
Macular Degeneration ... I have expressed this ongoing worry by
closing the bad eye to allow me to focus on lines that need to go
in to get an “ expression “ on the face of the subject ... with
portraits, I look at the image dispassionately, warts and all!
However, my rather stern but bemused expression on the subject
shows that I’m quietly pleased that I can still see in a really
good light and close up !!
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ROB
KORNWEIBEL
WILGIE RED AWARD - SECOND PLACE
With my self-portrait, I wanted to explore the
options beyond a study of the face alone.
John Olson explored the concept of Janus with his self-portrait.
Finally, Brett Whitely explored the three faces of himself
depending on the absence or otherwise of drugs.
And Norman Rockwell did a large one of himself looking at his own
reflection from behind.
I took the idea of standing behind myself, the view an observer
would have of me doing a self-portrait. My wife held a mirror
behind me while I did a sketch from the mirror in front, but it
didn’t really work. It was too hard to get the overlay correct, so
I resorted to a photo of the back of my head.
Using the photo and my sketches, I transferred the canvas, bringing
the two images together. Hence, the glasses formed an integrated
element that There was good daylight from the window above, but
reinforced with artificial lighting.
The painting was done in oils on canvas, using
Art Spectrum and Langridge paints and #1 AS medium and gum turps in
a 50/50 blend applied to both.
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PAT
TOMLINSON
WILGIE
RED AWARD - THIRD PLACE
In my self-portrait, I wanted to show my
pleasure while attending my weekly painting group at Art Matters.
It is an acrylic on canvas pad and was painted from a photograph
taken by Heather, a member of the group.
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COLYN HENWOOD
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR 87TH BIRTHDAY
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SUE HIBBERT
CONGRATULATIONS
My painting demonstration editorial "Landscape
Values" is in The Art of Watercolour magazine, Issue 42
June - August 2021. The painting is called "First light
Glow" inspired by a painting trip to York, Western
Australia.
Sue Hibbert Watercolour
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Resonant Light
Solo Exhibition | 26 July - 20 August 2021
Tresillian Arts Centre
“Resonant Light” - transforms the mundane of everyday
spaces into dream-like urban visualisations. The exhibition is
characterised by the multidimensional nature of the spaces we live
in, where light determines our perception of the shapes that
undulate around us each and every day. Resonant Light reacquaints
the viewer with the beauty of the familiar that grows unseen over
time. Sue’s approach to watercolour capitalises on the fluidity and
unpredictability of the medium within the partially defined
boundaries of realism.
Exhibitions | Sue Hibbert Watercolour
Sue Hibbert – WASA (waart.org.au)
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WASA
President, Roger Reading is the Chairman of Army Art (WA)
Incorporated. Each year A.A (WA) Inc. runs a large art
exhibition located at Leeuwin Barracks in Fremantle, at which
the art of all genres is sold for charity. The funds
raised this year will go to Legacy WA, the charity that
supports defence families and their dependents. Last
year COVID prevented the exhibition from taking place but in
2019 a total of $20,000 was raised.
The exhibition this year will; be run over the weekend 20
-22nd August 2021.
Unlike WASA, A.A (WA) Inc., has no members as such, just a
small committee that administers and runs the exhibition with
the help of volunteers. The committee selects artists
from across WA to be invited to exhibit. Selections and
invitations are now being actioned. I would like to
submit your contact details to the A.A(WA) Inc. committee for
consideration if you agree that I may do so. To make
things easy for all of you
IF YOU
DO NOT WISH TO BE INVITED, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE.
By default, to be considered this year, your name and address
will be shared with A.A(WA) Inc. Committee.
Given recent email scams, if you are unsure of an email you
receive in this regard, please contact me by telephone.
Roger Reading, Chair, Army Art (WA} Incorporated
Army Art | Art | Events | Fundraising |
Perth | About Us
Mobile: 0403 628 855.
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MANDORLA ART AWARD 2022
The major prize for the 2022
Mandorla Art Award is a $25,000 acquisitive
prize. The winning work will become part of the permanent
collection of the Mandorla Centre for Inner Peace Inc and is kept
in trust at the New Norcia Museum and Art Gallery, WA. The $25,000
prize money includes Mandorla’s acquisition of the work.
The theme for this year is Metamorphosis - a profound
or radical change. Reference "I am about to do a new thing;
now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?" (Isaiah 43:19)
The Mandorla Art Award is now open for entries:
mandorlaart.com/2022-mandorla-art-award/
Entries close on the 18th March 2022.
Exhibition at Holmes a Court Gallery
21st May - 10th June 2022
Image 2021 Winner by Britt Mikkelsen "8200 Souls"
(sleeping rough in Australia)
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JAMES WALTER ROBERT
LINTON (1869-1947)
He has been called the
‘Patriarch of Western Australian Art’.
WASA
Notable Artist of the Month
Last month I featured George Pitt Morison, a giant of
the arts in W.A.
This month it is a pleasure to acknowledge and celebrate the
contribution of James Linton, a member of WASA for over 30 years.
He filled many roles in WASA in that time. He was a Committee
Member, Vice President (on two Linton was a regular at the
WASA annual exhibitions
James Linton came from a distinguished family of artists in London.
He studied at the Endell and Slade Schools and was an
established exhibitor with the Royal Institute of Painters in Water
Colours, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Society
of British Artists.
In 1896 Linton arrived in Albany to look after the family’s gold
mining interests in Kalgoorlie. Unfortunately, he contracted
typhoid fever which proved near-fatal. By 1898 he was in Perth and
the following year he founded the Linton School of Art in Hay
Street.
Apart from painting and drawing, Linton was an accomplished
craftsman in wood and metal. In 1901 it was his casket that was
presented to the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall on the occasion of
the laying of the foundation stone for the new Museum and Art
Gallery.
In 1902 he married Charlotte Bates Brown and succeeded Frederick
Williams as an art instructor at the Perth Technical College
where he remained active until 1931.
The years 1907-1908 saw Linton back in England studying
silversmithing, enamelling, jewellery and casting. He formed a
partnership with Arthur Cross and they held an exhibition of
craftwork in 1910.
In 1916 a special edition of the Studio ‘Art of the British Empire
Overseas’ featured James Linton’s ‘End of the Day Swan River,
W.A.’.
From 1922 to 1936 he served as a trustee of the Public Library,
Museum and Art Gallery. In 1923 he opened a gallery in Murray
Street West later to become a studio for his students. In 1930 he
founded the Linton Institute of Art. By this time he was working
alongside his son Jamie, an accomplished silversmith. Linton was
included in numerous representative and celebratory exhibitions
including The Colonial Eye (1979) and Western Australian Art and
Artists 1900-1950. In 1955 and in 1977 retrospective exhibitions
were held by AGWA. Examples of his work, paintings and craft, can
be seen at the Art Gallery.
Perhaps his greatest contribution was his role as an educator of
the following generation of artists and arts administrators.
Tim Sewell
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Pippin
Margaria
WASA Newsletter Editor
Our next WASA Newsletter will be published on Sunday
13th August 2021,
Please send all WASA articles for publication by
Sunday 1st August 2021.
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WEST AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF ART
INC
SPONSORS
We would like to acknowledge and thank our sponsors for
their generosity and support.
https://waart.org.au/sponsors/
If you would like to sponsor the West Australian Society of Art
Inc
Contact Roger Reading - reading.roger@gmail.com
We would love to hear from you.
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