Wild/flower Women III: Women Walking Country Media
Gympie Regional Council Media Release 1
Gympie Regional Council Media Release 2 (focus on Maree Prior, art and activism)
Gympie Regional Council Media Release 2 (focus on Maree Prior, art and activism)
Wildflowers and Cooloola Campaign inspire latest gallery exhibition
The work of women artists and environmentalists who led the campaign to establish Cooloola National Park fifty years ago and new works created by artists today will be on show at the Gympie Regional Gallery from October 8. ‘Wild/flower Women III: Women Walking Country ‘will celebrate the work of Kathleen McArthur, once known as ‘Cooloola Kate’ for the national postcard campaign she ran in 1969-1970 to put pressure on then Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen to declare Cooloola a national park. The exhibition features new work by 11 other Gympie and Sunshine Coast artists and is curated by Dr Susan Davis and Nina Shadforth.
Kathleen McArthur (1915-2000) was an artist and conservationist who specialised in painting Queensland wildflowers and is also well-known as being one of the founding members of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland along with her friend, poet Judith Wright. Together they began the campaign to establish Cooloola National Park (now part of the Great Sandy), working with conservationist Arthur Harrold, the Cooloola Committee, the Noosa Parks Association, and many other allies.
To profile the living legacy of women, art and the wildflowers, contemporary Gympie, Noosa and Sunshine Coast based artists created new work ranging from paintings to works using natural dyes, recycled textiles, and wall vinyl. The artists included are:
Judy Barrass, Zela Bissett, Joolie Gibbs, Nicole Harper, Anne Harris, Barbara Hart, Sandra Ross, Meaghan Shelton, Melissa Stannard and Ulrike Sturm.
The work of the late Maree Edmiston Prior will also be featured, acknowledging Maree’s decades of work and art that promoted the wallum, the Cooloola region and its natural beauty.
The exhibition opens on Saturday October 8 and will close on Saturday, November 28.
For further information about exhibition and public programs see the gallery website www.gympie.qld.gov.au/gallery or www.wildflowerwomen.net for more information.
The ‘Wild/flower Women III’ exhibition is supported by Cooloola Coastcare and the Regional Arts Development Fund, a partnership between the Queensland Government and Gympie Regional Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.
Photo: Wild/flower Women III artists and curators. Photo credit: Jazmyn Bowman.
Back from left: Nicole Harper, Joolie Gibbs, Barbara Hart, Zela Bissett, Nina
Shadforth, Sandra Ross, Susan Davis, Melissa Stannard.
Front: Anne Harris, Ulrike Sturm. (Absent: Judy Barrass, Meaghan Shelton).
For media inquiries contact Susan Davis E: suedavis565 (at) gmail.com or P: 0418763428
The work of women artists and environmentalists who led the campaign to establish Cooloola National Park fifty years ago and new works created by artists today will be on show at the Gympie Regional Gallery from October 8. ‘Wild/flower Women III: Women Walking Country ‘will celebrate the work of Kathleen McArthur, once known as ‘Cooloola Kate’ for the national postcard campaign she ran in 1969-1970 to put pressure on then Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen to declare Cooloola a national park. The exhibition features new work by 11 other Gympie and Sunshine Coast artists and is curated by Dr Susan Davis and Nina Shadforth.
Kathleen McArthur (1915-2000) was an artist and conservationist who specialised in painting Queensland wildflowers and is also well-known as being one of the founding members of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland along with her friend, poet Judith Wright. Together they began the campaign to establish Cooloola National Park (now part of the Great Sandy), working with conservationist Arthur Harrold, the Cooloola Committee, the Noosa Parks Association, and many other allies.
To profile the living legacy of women, art and the wildflowers, contemporary Gympie, Noosa and Sunshine Coast based artists created new work ranging from paintings to works using natural dyes, recycled textiles, and wall vinyl. The artists included are:
Judy Barrass, Zela Bissett, Joolie Gibbs, Nicole Harper, Anne Harris, Barbara Hart, Sandra Ross, Meaghan Shelton, Melissa Stannard and Ulrike Sturm.
The work of the late Maree Edmiston Prior will also be featured, acknowledging Maree’s decades of work and art that promoted the wallum, the Cooloola region and its natural beauty.
The exhibition opens on Saturday October 8 and will close on Saturday, November 28.
For further information about exhibition and public programs see the gallery website www.gympie.qld.gov.au/gallery or www.wildflowerwomen.net for more information.
The ‘Wild/flower Women III’ exhibition is supported by Cooloola Coastcare and the Regional Arts Development Fund, a partnership between the Queensland Government and Gympie Regional Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.
Photo: Wild/flower Women III artists and curators. Photo credit: Jazmyn Bowman.
Back from left: Nicole Harper, Joolie Gibbs, Barbara Hart, Zela Bissett, Nina
Shadforth, Sandra Ross, Susan Davis, Melissa Stannard.
Front: Anne Harris, Ulrike Sturm. (Absent: Judy Barrass, Meaghan Shelton).
For media inquiries contact Susan Davis E: suedavis565 (at) gmail.com or P: 0418763428
In the media
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Gympie Living - October 2020
Wonderful Wildflowers - Curators interview pp 1-2, and 'Wildflower Women III and Wildflowering at Cooloola', p 3 Bay Bulletin - October 2020 Widflowers and Cooloola Campaign inspire latest gallery exhibition p. 7 Artists gather at Rainbow Beach to honour wildflower conservationists pp 27-28 Rainbow Beach Community News - October 2020 Wildflowers inspire latest exhibition |
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