Sounds, Sights and Textures: connecting the Hunter Wetlands to music and fibres.
Sounds, Sights and Textures:
Connecting the Hunter Wetlands to music and fibres
This exhibition explores the relationship between the natural world, music, visual, fibre and textile art forms. In particular, Sounds, Sights and Textures: connecting the Hunter Wetlands to music, and fibre art explores the relationships between hearing and observing in a specific site and artists’ creative responses to them.
The natural world has long been a source of inspiration for a diverse range of artists and expressive forms including visual, textile and fibre arts and music. Local musician, singer and community choir co-ordinator, Maureen O’Brien, was inspired by the beauty of the sounds, sights and rhythms of the Hunter’s very own wetlands to compose 6 musical pieces that evoke different aspects of the locale and its inhabitants. Up to 20 artists were invited to select one of Maureen’s musical compositions and respond to it in their preferred art medium/s.
The exhibition will have two iterations. Firstly, Sounds, Sights and Textures of the Wetlands will be mounted from January to February 2024 at Timeless Textiles Gallery, Newcastle, and then will be displayed at the site of inspiration in the Hunter Wetlands at its own Art Gallery later in 2024. At the exhibitions visitors will be able to not only view the art works, but also listen through headphones to the musical compositions that inspired them.
In Love With a Magpie Goose
So sang the thrush – Anne Kempton
Black Swan – Janet Clouston
Fleeting – Sylvia Watt
Life Comes Forth – Glenese Keavney
Riffing on the Nest of the Magpie Goose – Glenese Keavney
The Wetlands Rhapsody
Singing trees – Stephanie Redfern
Sunset pool – Stephanie Redfern
Sunset Rhapsody – Judy Hooworth
Dancing on the Wind – Robyn Cuthbertson
Sunrise Rhapsody – Judy Hooworth
Feathered Promenade
Chatterbox – Catherine Lee
Lullaby Trees – Anne Kelly
Little Egret – Abigail Brown
Banksia Bird – Anne Kelly
Great Crested Grebe – Abigail Brown
Three Tenors – Catherine Lee
Cycles and circles – Lissa de Sailles
Getting Along
Amongst the Trees I – Bronwyn Greive
Swamphen Saunter – Caroline Hawkins
Ode to the Freckled Duck – Zora Verona
Getting Along – Kerr Grabowski
Amongst the Trees II – Bronwyn Greive
Waders in Bloom – Susan Doherty
Amongst the Trees III – Bronwyn Greive
Amongst the Trees IV – Bronwyn Greive
Nature's Waltz
Egrets, Misty Morning – Nicola Henley
Spring Song – Jette Clover
1-2-3 Sky-Shore-Submarine – Sarah Louise Ricketts
Wetlands Waltz – Jan Clark
Egrets, Moon Shadows. – Nicola Henley
Wetlands Rhapsody – Sharon Peoples
The Creature Chorus
Heron 2 – Janet Clouston
The call of the birds far away – Anne Kempton
No sound check needed – Wilma Simmons
Heron 1 – Janet Clouston
Black Bird in the apple tree – Anne Kempton
Hark, hark the lark – Anne Kempton
we see you – Anne Kempton
Cygnet – Janet Clouston
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