Ceramic Break Sculpture Park has the pleasure to announce our next exhibition, Four Fabulous Females, opening June 8^th from 12 to 5pm.  The show follows the Myall Creek Memorial Day on Saturday June 7^th and features Kamilaroi artists Laurel and Vicky Duncan.  The two sisters grew up in Texas, Qld and then moved to Inverell where they create their art.

Vicky has painted many murals over the years and has exhibited her paintings frequently in the Inverell area; winning the Inverell Shire annual acquisition award in 2002.  She taught herself to paint at an early age, but refined her technique through many TAFE art courses.  Vicky says, “My art work revolves around my life and what mood I’m in.  It helps me focus and gives peace to my spirit.”

Laurel, the older sister, obtained her Bachelor of Visual Art from Deakin University in 2007.  She teaches visual arts classes at TAFE in Inverell and has shown her art locally and in Melbourne.  Laurel says, “My work is my own dreaming of legends which could have been told eons ago...I am experimenting with all kinds of mediums and different art techniques.  I am now taken into the realms of confidence where I believe divine intervention led me here to the present when life was a bit unbearable.”

Laurel and Vicky have named their show “due yinarr”.  Due means two in Italian and yinarr means women in the Kamilaroi language.  They didn’t give an explanation for the multicultural nature of the title except to say that “we like it.”

The third fabulous female is Margie Makim originally from Northstar, now living in Toowoomba.  Margie has been involved in arts and crafts for years and has participated in many workshops from the Oakey Art Group in Queensland.  This is her first solo exhibition and she is very excited about it.

Margie has worked hard to put together a coherent collection of water colour, mixed media and acrylic paintings that she calls, “Go with the Flow”.  The show includes figurative and landscape paintings that are colourful and cheerful. Margie says, “Go with the flow” is about movement and imagining life and the landscape are connected by an umbilical cord of ebbing and flowing colours and form.

The fourth fabulous female is Flute Cannon and her show, “oil paintings”.  Flute’s first solo show was last year in Launceston, Tasmania.  That exhibition was very well received and was a Herculean effort as she was extremely ill at the time.  Unfortunately, “oil paintings” will be Flute’s last show as she died earlier this year on the day after Australia Day.

Flute was a brilliant colourist and enjoyed painting surrealistic compositions and landscapes.  She lived many lifetimes in her 55 years including stints on a commercial fishing boat, a sheep station manager, a physics student and a fiction writer to name a few.  Her free spirit and strong feminist bent are very prominent in her painted worlds.