Gloucester Arts and Cultural Council Inc

Join us at the official opening on Saturday January 9 from 2pm. Come in and fly a plane - it's all about fun. The Gallery will be filled with paper planes of various designs and sizes with tips and instructions on how to make your own. People are encouraged to fly theirplanes along a designated 'runway' and these will build up over the month to form a colourful display. There are also paper plane mobiles for sale made from recycled picture booksincluding favourites Winnie The Pooh, Noddy and Snugglepot & Cuddlepie. A special feature of the exhibition will be a display of works made by St Joseph's year 5/6students. Inspired by the fantastic book and film "Paper Planes" they have produced fabulous origami, drawings and videos. On Saturday January 16 there will be a special screening of this wonderful Australian movie"Paper Planes" in the Soldiers Club Auditorium at 1pm. "Paper Planes" is an imaginative children's film about a young Australian boy's passion for flight and his challenge to compete in the World Paper Plane Championships in Japan. After the film we will be holding the inaugural Gloucester Paper Plane Championship!! See if you have the skills to make and fly your plane the furthest and become the first Gloucester Champion! All materials will be supplied. Everyone is welcome and entry is by donation.

A multisensory art installation that feels like a forest but is entirely made of stuff that was headed for landfill. Why? Because a forest is a living example of a zero waste system. There's no such thing as a dump. Explore a rainforest , discover the sounds, story and atmosphere in this remarkable exhibition. A multisensory art installation that feels like a forest but is entirely made of stuff that was headed for landfill. Why? Because a forest is a living example of a zero waste system. There's no such thing as a dump. Explore a rainforest , discover the sounds, story and atmosphere in this remarkable exhibition.

Acrylics on paper. Meditation has been a dominant factor in Debra's art. She uses it to produce paintings that are designed to slow down and still the viewer's mind. At first glance, the paintings appear quite busy, but then the interlocking rhythms pull the viewer's eye through the scene. Debra has been exhibiting her work in group shows since 1975 and her first solo exhibition in 1986 at Nidus Gallery in Sydney, was a sellout. Debra has continued to exhibit over the years and also has an impressive list of mural works to her name. Debra will be in the gallery on each Saturday and Sunday of her exhibition and welcomes visitors to come in and talk to her about her art. Debra has her own studio in Raymond Terrace where she also welcomes visitors.

his show will be a combination of installation 'multi media' works and wall hanging works.The installation work will transform the internal structure of the gallery space, creating various threads of narrative thought and observation. The installation work will be an ongoing evolution of transformative work.

The launch of the book 'Bruce the Bush Rat' and the celebration of the exhibition will be held at the Gloucester Gallery on Saturday 30th April 2016 at 6.30pm. All friends, members and guests are very welcome to help us celebrate the exhibition. This exhibition features original illustrations for the new book 'Bruce the Bush Rat' written by Chris Dean and illustrated by Adele Compton. The illustrations will be complemented with a wild array of colour from Adele's wonderful felt beanies. The exhibition will run from from Thursday 28th April to 22nd May 2016. Books, cards,CD's, prints and Adele's signature beanies will all be available for purchase. There will be handmade felt puppets for the children to enact the story with. All this and daily felting demonstrations too. The installation work will be an ongoing evolution of transformative work.

A one weekend opportunity for our volunteers to show their work. Saturday 11th to Monday 13th June. Come and find out what the volunteers do in their spare time!

Entries are now all in for judging. Official opening and presentation of prizes this Friday 17th June at 7pm at the Gloucester Gallery, all welcome. This will be a fun event for photographers and their friends and families and to see the local skill in Black and White photography on display. The exhibition will be on show until Sunday 10th July, as always it will be really worth a look. A peoples choice prize by donation will be awarded to the most popular photo chosen so don't forget to drop your vote in the box! Winner of the peoples choice award will be notified at the close of the exhibition.

"Founded in 1996, the Gloucester Patchwork Group is an active community group of women who as well as creating individual work, collectively create community quilts for charities, hospitals or for victims of bushfires, floods and other disasters. The Group has held a number of Quilt Shows at the Barrington Hall as well as Quilt Showings at Gloucester Garden Rambles. This show follows two previously held in the Gallery in 2010 and 2014. A variety of patchwork quilts using differing techniques are on display. The quilters set themselves a group challenge this year and the resulting quilt is on display.

An opening event for students,teachers,family & friends will be at 6pm on Friday 12th. ALL WELCOME, PLEASE COME AND SUPPORT THE STUDENTS. Gloucester High School students attempting the HSC Visual Art course have created their work over 12 months and developed their material and conceptual practice to create a Body of Work. The students select a media area, referred to as an "expressive form", to work with to complete their artwork. The students are marked on the depth of engagement that they achieve in their body of work. Works are marked out of fifty and receive a school based mark known as an internal mark and then they are marked by a team of markers from the Board of Studies which represents the external mark. Any work that achieves a top 10% mark will be automatically considered for Artexpress 2016 students bring a variety of forms and ideas to the exhibition displaying a range of depth and skill in their final works. These students have worked consistently for the past months to get their work to the high standard that is on display here.

The annual Gloucester Art Society exhibition 'Brushing up on watercolour skills'. Opening night is Friday 9th at 6.30 with everybody welcome to join the artists for nibbles & drinks to celebrate their works. Recently a wonderful opportunity presented itself for members of Gloucester Art Society when central Coast Watercolour Society booked Victorian Master Watercolourist Ev Hales to tutor a workshop for their group. Gloucester Art group jumped at the opportunity, shared the airfare and Ev was available to come two days early to enjoy Gloucester's wonderful scenery. 11 members experienced Plein Air watercolour, some for the first time, which was terrifying. She led us through the process of selecting our scene from the Gloucester railway car park to getting colour onto paper. That afternoon after returning to the studio we learned how to pull it together. Friday we worked from our photographs learning how to control edges & understanding the patterns of light & dark that make exciting paintings. Everyone is stimulated to produce new works for the Art Society's annual exhibition at The Gloucester Gallery

OFFICIAL OPENING - Saturday 15th October 2016 at 2pm Come and meet the artists. Christine Du Fresne uses figuration in her paintings to suggest - through body language - the ways in which we so often misread people and circumstances. She uses humour and theatricality in her creation of tableaus so that the arrangement of figures becomes as a pageant, full of colour and movement, most often represented on a shallow stage. The figures - most in bathing suits - personify our self-conscious states. Some airborne figures express a wiser or more pragmatic state. Louise Young is an art conservator and sculptor but she is just coming back to her art after a long break. Her work currently explores the beauty found within everyday discarded objects. Louise pulls apart obsolete and broken items, and goes on a journey of discovery to what lies within. The various elements found become her raw materials. She then assembles disparate yet harmonious pieces to form something new, giving life to that which was destined for the scrap heap and putting on show the beauty that was hidden from view. This new direction is congruent with her beliefs about conservation and recycling and is her way to honour all that our beautiful, fragile planet offers. OFFICIAL OPENING - Saturday 15th October 2016 at 2pm Come and meet the artists. Christine Du Fresne uses figuration in her paintings to suggest - through body language - the ways in which we so often misread people and circumstances. She uses humour and theatricality in her creation of tableaus so that the arrangement of figures becomes as a pageant, full of colour and movement, most often represented on a shallow stage. The figures - most in bathing suits - personify our self-conscious states. Some airborne figures express a wiser or more pragmatic state. Louise Young is an art conservator and sculptor but she is just coming back to her art after a long break. Her work currently explores the beauty found within everyday discarded objects. Louise pulls apart obsolete and broken items, and goes on a journey of discovery to what lies within. The various elements found become her raw materials. She then assembles disparate yet harmonious pieces to form something new, giving life to that which was destined for the scrap heap and putting on show the beauty that was hidden from view. This new direction is congruent with her beliefs about conservation and recycling and is her way to honour all that our beautiful, fragile planet offers. OFFICIAL OPENING - Saturday 15th October 2016 at 2pm Come and meet the artists. Christine Du Fresne uses figuration in her paintings to suggest - through body language - the ways in which we so often misread people and circumstances. She uses humour and theatricality in her creation of tableaus so that the arrangement of figures becomes as a pageant, full of colour and movement, most often represented on a shallow stage. The figures - most in bathing suits - personify our self-conscious states. Some airborne figures express a wiser or more pragmatic state. Louise Young is an art conservator and sculptor but she is just coming back to her art after a long break. Her work currently explores the beauty found within everyday discarded objects. Louise pulls apart obsolete and broken items, and goes on a journey of discovery to what lies within. The various elements found become her raw materials. She then assembles disparate yet harmonious pieces to form something new, giving life to that which was destined for the scrap heap and putting on show the beauty that was hidden from view. This new direction is congruent with her beliefs about conservation and recycling and is her way to honour all that our beautiful, fragile planet offers.

Local Contemporary Indigenous Artist Neil Thorne presents works in burnt wood and scraper board.From the Yuwaalaraay/Gamilaraay nation, Neil was born in Sydney but grew up in Walgett and will be exhibiting exquisite wood burnings,& scratch board works in his first solo exhibition. Thursday 3 November to Sunday 27 November 2016. Opening event Saturday 5 November at 4.00pm, all welcome

a display of works by Judy Simonson and friends, showcasing a wide array of painted works on canvas,glass and fibre, specialising in super fine merino wool and natural fibres. All their unique works are for sale and showcase their talent in acrylic & watercolour paintings,glass painted backwards pieces & mixed fibre art. This exhibition also includes 'Elfaria' a display area of christmas themed art made from 60% recycled materials where visitors can return to the world of 'believer' and the young and young at heart can take a 'selfie' in the christmas wonderland & leave a note for Santa. Thursday 1st December to Sunday 1st January 2017 CLOSED CHRISTMAS DAY Free entry. All welcome.