Artists Work

OPENING NIGHT

6 - 8 pm Thursday 22 June 21 June - 1 July Monday - Saturday 10 am - 4 pm Cornucopia Community Art Group members Ruth Sariban, Simon Champ & Rosemary Dugan Ewart Gallery Workshop Art Centre 33 Laurel Street Willoughby To be officially opened by Willoughby City Council Mayor Gail Giles Gidney This exhibition offers the community a unqiue opportunity to experience the insight, whimsy and humour which resonates from the artists work. For these artists inclusion in a mainstream art gallery represents significant recognition of thier work. Please come amd join the artists to celebrate their success

Out in the Open Exhibition at the Ewart Gallery, Workshop Arts Centre

The Project: I have been involved with the Cornucopia Art Group for 12 years and am really excited to have project managed this event. Its a collaboration between Ewart Art Gallery, Workshop Art Centre, Willoughby Council and Cornucopia Community Art Group. The project also involved a drawing workshop run by Mike Golding and included members of the Day2Day Living Program at Hercules House Art Group and the Cornucopia Art Group at the Workshop Art Centre.

2016 Annual Exhibition Cornucopia Community Art Group

The Cornucopia Community Art Group are holding their Annual Art Exhibition at the Cornucopia Cafe, Gladesville Hospital Grounds, Victoria Road Gladesville. Opening 11 am Tuesday 6th December. Please join us to celebrate with the artists and light refreshments will be served. The Exhibition will be on view at the Cafe 9 - 3.00 Monday - Friday. All works are for sale.

Simon Champ - Artist

R. Dugan - Local Artist Award, 'Ryde International Women's Day Art Prize' 2015

A member of the Cornucopia Community Art Group Rosemary Dugan has taken out the Local Artist Award at the Ryde International Women's Day

Art Prize 2015 for her Work called 'Vibiance'. Rosemary lives and breathes colour, she paints intuitively using vibrant colours and as she says paints until the colours are in harmony with the voices in her head. Congratulations.

'Chinese Woman' By George Gittoes, Winner of the Sydney Peace Prize 2015

The painting has very generously been donated by Dr Neville Dawson (formally head of the Art Department, Newington College), to the Cornucopia Art Group to raise funds to line and make possum proof, the Art Shed, the aspirational studio for the art group. The Cornucopia Art Group have been painting and exhibiting in this café, on the site of the beautiful old Gladesville Hospital, for the last 15 years. For Sale $11000 Oil on linen. 1998 The ‘Chinese Woman’ was painted while Gittoes was working in China and can be seen, filmed, in the artist’s studio in the ABC documentary ‘I Witness’, (the documentary can be purchased from the ABC bookshop.) Emails by the artist to the current owner are part of its provenance. This painting was part of a major retrospective exhibition in 2012 at Newington College. Gittoes won the Peace Prize this year “for exposing injustice for more than 45 years as a humanist artist, activist and film make; for his courage to witness and confront violence in the war zones of the world; for enlisting the arts to subdue aggression and for enlivening the creative spirit to promote tolerance, respect and peace with justice” Art historian Dr Rod Pattenden says: "His images pry open the door to a conversation about what it means to be human at the very limits, where petty myths, tired illusions and worn-out symbols collapse. This is the dare at the heart of his practice - to activate the imagination rather than fear, and to create hope in the face of chaos." "I feel privileged to have been able to spend much of my life creating beauty in the face of the destruction of war," says Gittoes. "I have been waging a personal war against war with art." Gittoes has twice been awarded ‘The Blake Prize’ for religious art, in 1995 and 2005. The Australian Financial Review recently highlighted him as a sound art investment, stating that his works, which sell for between $10,000 and $120,000 are under-valued. The State Library of NSW recently acquired his diaries for $400,000. Please contact Jan Corbishley Create Team 0410410238 or 02 9816 0329 The Painting will be on display at The Cornucopia Cafe, Gladeville Hospital, Gladesville NSW

Bedlam Bay Card Project Completion

The project has now finished and the Box of Cards are now ready for sale and in fact they are proving to be very popular. The cards are original artworks from the Cornucopia Community Art Group and have been professionally printed. The group also now has a business card and stick on label. The printing of the cards, artwork for business cards and labels and printing have all be donated to the group. This has had a tremendous impact on the group. The artists are delighted that their works have been so well received. If you would like to purchase a set of cards please contact me on margaretwestcott@yahoo.com.au and I will forward on necessary information. The next stage for the group is a an on line shop attached to this blog. So watch this space!

Bedlam Bay Card Project 2014

The Cornucopia Art Group are taking part in a new project this year. We have been the recipient of a Cultural Grant from Ryde Council for which we are very grateful. The card project follows on from a very successful 'Face Look' portrait project and exhibition held at the Inside Out Gallery in 2013. The theme for the card project is based on the historical site of Gladesville Hospital. Artists have been creating artworks based on the buildings and landscape. These artworks will be made into cards and the final product of boxed sets of cards and envelopes which will be available at the end of the year 'Bedlam Bay Card' Exhibition at the Cornucopia Cafe, Gladesville Hospital in December 2014.

FACE LOOK THE CORNUCOPIA ART GROUP PORTRAITURE PROJECT 3 DECEMBER - 7 MARCH 2014 OPENING 2PM INSIDEOUT GALLERY, NORTHERN SYDNEY EDUCATION CONFERENCE CENTRE The Gallery is in the grounds of Macquarie Hospital, Wicks Road. Ryde This project has been supported by a Cultural Grant from the City of Ryde 2012 Community Grants For more information please contact Krisina Tito on 98875698