This was another joint exhibition at the Pepper St Art Gallery, Magill. It was one of many exhibitions put on by SALA – South Australian Living Artists – for this year’s SALA festival. If you are interested in learning more about SALA, you can do so through their website, accessed by clicking here.

With over 30 artists contributing to this exhibition, there was a huge crowd at the opening of the exhibition on July 31st. Of the members of my INSPACE group, only Helen Sidoryn and myself submitted paintings to this exhibition. But we were well supported by the other members of the group, Sue Colyer and Hannah Bushaway.

You can view the three pieces I submitted to the exhibition in my Gallery section, and by clicking here.

Sue Colyer, Helen Sidoryn, and I.

A special feature of this exhibition was the entry by long-time friend, Dennis Obst, of his sculpturing of a garden seat and table made from recycled steel and timber.

Dennis Obst – with me on the garden seat. The corner of Dennis’ garden table can be seen in the bottom left corner of the picture.

Toasting Dennis – and his seat. The picture behind me is one of Helen’s.

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On August 20th I will be giving a demonstration at the Pepper St Gallery, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. For this I will be working on large canvas with Oil Stick.

Despite the wintry evening, a wonderful crowd of around 130 people came along to the Pepper St Gallery, Magill, for the opening of our Inside, Outside exhibition on June 12th.

This time only four of us from Ingroup exhibited. This meant we had to work very hard in a short space of time to ensure the exhibition was varied, challenging, and well presented. We were delighted with the result and public response.

Helen, Rae, Hannah, and Sue.

The exhibition was opened by well-known SA artist and dancer, Anni Luur Fox. Anni’s presence was especially meaningful for me because Anni and I attended art school and teachers’ college together. A delightful surprise on opening night was that two other of my friends and colleagues from art school (Joan and Iolee) also came along.

Rae, Anni, Joan and Iolee.

I was also invited to submit material for the local press in The Messenger.

Rae getting shot!

The photo shoot

The photo and article in The Messenger, the week before the exhibition opening.

And here are a few photos of parts of the exhibition, taken before opening night.

To view pictures of the works I exhibited this time, Click here.

Around 120 attended the opening, and enjoyed plenty of chatting, nibbles and drinks. The gallery also looked great!

The exhibition was opened by Michelle Davis-Waznek, former curator at Juxtapose gallery, and a guide at the Art Gallery of SA.

You can view my entries in the Multiplicity exhibition by clicking here.

INGROUP: (l-r) – Rae, Maggie, Hannah, Helen, Sue. At the opening of Multiplicity.

Street corner bordering Hughes Gallery, with Rae’s name almost in lights!

Friday, November 22, 2013.

The entrance to the gallery.

The Hughes Gallery at Fullarton Community Centre was an ideal space for my work and venue for the opening night.

Opening night was a lot of fun. It was delightful to see so many family, friends and colleagues there (120+ in all), and so fulfilling for me that people enjoyed the exhibition.

We had lots of ‘German’ food which disappeared during the course of the evening, people chatted happily, and were impressed with the beautiful speeches given by Bob, Laetitia and Dharma. Thank you especially to Laetitia and Dharma for the time given to thorough preparation and thoughts expressed in their opening speeches.

Laetitia DeBraconier-Harders and and Dharma Moerman opening the exhibition. Both former art students at Cornerstone with Rae, and now art and design teachers themselves.

I was somewhat overwhelmed by the event, but in retrospect thoroughly enjoyed it.

You can see all the works on display at the exhibition in the Gallery on BACK TO WHERE I CAME FROM, and can also access that gallery by clicking here.

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Grace in the dress, all set for the opening

Grace and Emilie. both now ready for the night

Some of the crowd.

Karen and Min

Josie, Grace, Emilie and some more of the crowd.

Dharma and Lisa

Rae and Laetitia

Foyer display

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The invitation to the exhibition.

This exhibition was a joint undertaking with a group of fellow artists who have been meeting each week for the past few years in my studio.

We call ourselves INGROUP; and the title for the exhibition was Inspace.

The exhibition was held at the Pepper Street Arts Centre, 558 Magill Rd, Magill (cnr of Pepper St and Magill Rd), opened on May 3rd, and continued until May 31st.

We had a very successful opening night, exhibiting over 60 pieces of art, each having our own space within the gallery.

During May we also ran workshops. I was involved in the pastel and oil stick presentations.

You can view the 11 paintings I entered in my INSPACE Gallery (click here).

Rae’s corner

I have just completed a portrait of my friend Norm. (See details in my Portraits gallery.)

At the grand age of eighty years Norm has just completed his latest book. It is titled Rainbow of Mysteries, and you can read something about it online at http://essential-spirituality.com/2012/07/26/new-fall-title-rainbow-of-mysteries-by-norman-habel/